If it's not intersectional then it's bullshit

[weevil-mastermind]

Imagine if we did the “public libraries are punk” thing for other subcultures. Imagine if people made shirts that said “Soup kitchens are grunge” or “Mixed Use Urbanism is Juggalo”.

[vintar]

[costumeloverz71]

Maternity or Laying-in Dress, 1888

[redhairandpronouns]

was thinking about infighting and like. they all see us the same. from the wildest queerest fagdyke to a cis gay guy. we are the same to them. the weird queers are not like. ruining your precious community. we're a part of it

[redhairandpronouns]

@ exclusionists:

[pillarsalt]

Force-teaming gay and bi people with furries and straight kinksters is so stunningly homophobic of you, holy shit lmao!

[theresagooseinthemainframe]

Punk???????

[niiwa-angel]

Why are furries in there? A thing for fucking in a fursuit does not make you same sex attracted.

[broken-obsidian-deactivated2025]

This post is about y'all 😭🤣

Also ever heard of queer kink? Ever seen how the punk aesthetic plays with queerness, social outlying and androgyny? Do you know how many furries are gay or pupgender?

And the point isn't that they're all the same. The point is that CONSERVATIVES SEE THEM AS THE SAME.

Conservatives see them as the same.

They don't see our rich and varied subcultures and our diversity. They don't care about the difference between a high femme lesbian, a furry, a neopronoun individual, a genderqueer pansexual or really anyone who doesn't look like a boring ass 2.5 kids picket white fence. They see us all as degenerate scum that needs to be exterminated to protect their vulnerable Strong Aryan Children from entertaining the outrageous notion that guys who like to fuck other guys shouldn't be stoned to death on the public square.

You are doing the groundwork for exterminationist violence FOR THEM.

[tuulikki]

I have deep compassion for people who are so sheltered that they don’t actually understand who their community is. They’re isolated, mislead, too damn young, or fresh out of some conservative upbringing—they’re cut off, with only the narrowest experience of who their people are.

But they have got to learn.

And at least kids can grow out of this kind of shit. In adults, it’s a bitter thing to see someone sell their soul for the illusion of being accepted as “one of the good ones” by people who will never truly celebrate them for who they are.

[c4bl3fl4m3]

I was just having to talk about this with a bunch of cishet kinksters the other day who were asking the question of whether we thought there would be repercussions against kinksters if conservatives were elected in 2025. This is absolutely 110% true. Throw in the polyamorous folks, too.

They think we're all immoral degenerate perverted sickos, the whole lot of us. They don't CARE about the differences.

The only difference to them is "how VISIBLY are you a 'sicko'?" because that'll determine the order they try to get rid of us. Literally, if necessary. (Read about Project 2025 if you haven't already.)

And as others said, when we throw some of these folks under the bus, WE'RE HELPING THE BAD GUYS. Not only are we helping them, we're making it happen FASTER. Yeah, you may be 3rd up against the wall if the time came with them, but if you join with them throwing the 1st and 2nd folks up against the wall, they'll only exterminate those folks FASTER and get to YOU QUICKER.

I just... does no one remember the "First they came for the communists" quote?

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me

What some folks don't know is the author was initially an antisemitic Nazi supporter and only changed his mind when HE was brought to a concentration camp for speaking out against Nazi control of churches.

You need to understand; If you actively help them get rid of the people you also don't agree with, they WILL NOT SPARE YOU for "good behavior." For "hating the right people." They still see YOU as a degenerate and will get you too (and by get, I mean KILL), AND GET TO YOU FASTER because you helped it happen faster.

It doesn't matter WHAT you are in the end, it just matters what they THINK you are, and who they lump you in with.

[luckynein]

“You want to be a man so bad? Take it like one”

-said by cis folk and trans folk to trans men

[luckynein]

This is antitransmasculinity through and through btw.

[luckynein]

“If I hate men that means it is gender affirming for me to hate you and use that hatred to mentally harm and isolate you from your own community ♥️”

This is antitransmasculine.

[pocket-deer-belly]

Everyone wanted to be thicc but nobody wanted to be fat. Everyone wanted the dad bod but nobody wanted to be fat. Everyone wants fat mommy milkers but nobody wants mommy to be fat. Everyone wants to be a bear but not like, an actual fat bear. You get what i’m saying

[pocket-deer-belly]

Everyone wants the mistique of fatness or use the language of fatness to denote hotness without actually being fat or acknowledging that fat people or fatness can just be hot.

[anshelsgendercrisis]

when na tive news reblogs a post abt u and goyim go absolutely feral in the notes.

[spacelazarwolf]

actually i’m reblogging this to my main bc i need y’all to see how laughably bigoted these ppl are.

[spacelazarwolf]

also i wanna pick these apart a bit.

1. y’all do not know what holocaust inversion means so you’re making up an incorrect definition then getting mad abt the definition you made up.

like this is stupid. u r stupid.

holocaust inversion is the rhetoric of comparing jews and/or israel to nazis or hitler or claiming jews are or israel is “committing another holocaust.” the holocaust wiped out 1/2 of the total global jewish population and 2/3 of jews who lived in europe. that is a staggering loss of jewish life. and not only that but the way they were killed was incredibly industrial. the nazis put effort into finding ways to kill as many jews as possible as quickly as possible — so quickly that bodies would pile up in the middle of camps, and so many ashes were removed from a crematorium that they just dumped them in a huge mound. you can still see that mound and the memorial built around it in lublin.

that is all burned bodies. sit with that.

and then think about how evil it is to take that pain and horror and intentionally weaponize it specifically because you know it will cause distress.

that is why holocaust inversion is wrong.

also the comparison to “reverse racism” just makes you look like an absolute fucking idiot, sorry.

2. the “goyim is literally a slur!!!!!!!” tags — y’all know they’re using nazi rhetoric, right? y’all know that saying that “goyim” is a slur that means non jews are subhumans bc jews aka “the chosen people” think we’re better than everyone else is nazi rhetoric, right? and to immediately segue right into holocaust inversion makes it about a thousand times worse. y’all do not know what nazis are or what they believe and that is why you keep “accidentally” agreeing with them and echoing their rhetoric.

anyway when i first saw these tags i had to laugh bc otherwise i think i would have screamed, but genuinely i hope you all understand why this rhetoric is so horrifically dangerous and why it’s so important to call it out, bc it is becoming incredibly prominent in progressive spaces.

[ftmtftm]

Really frustrated because at the moment I can't quite fully articulate a thought that I'm having about the ways in which White Feminism/Radical Feminism work to actually reaffirm the Patriarchal standards they're attempting to critique because they treat Patriarchal standards as a universal social truth rather than as contextual social divisions of power related to various classes of identity.

It's something to do with the fact that despite slowly beginning to integrate a simplistic understanding of the ways in which womanhood interacts with other marginalized identity because womanhood is used as a tool of subjugation - they can't quite conceptualize the fact that marginalized identity also interacts with manhood in ways that create forms of Patriarchal subjugation as well.

The fact of the matter is though, that Patriarchy relies on gender as a whole as a tool of oppressive power - not just womanhood, because Patriarchy only truly values certain types of manhood on a sliding contextual scale because gender isn't a universal experience and it never has been.

Frankly, I think it's in part because some people really truly refuse to understand that the modern form of Patriarchal gendered control (particularly in the US) is a direct relative of White Supremacy, Colonialism, and racist, xenophobic cultural domination.

[being-kindrad]

This seems like a pretty radical feminist take to me.

One of the core tenets that form the radical feminist framework is biological sex (sex) and sex-based stereotypes (gender) as the fundamental inequality in the world's overwhelmingly patriarchal societies.

Radical feminism is intersectional.

I think the issue is the equivocation of white feminism with radical feminism. See "Is radical feminism "white feminism?""

[ftmtftm]

Quick response because I don't have time or space for anything more, but this is blatant Feminist Ahistoricalism.

It's well documented that Intersectional Feminism was born out of a response to the Whiteness of the Radical Feminism of the 60's and 70's, which was just a continuation of the Whiteness of the First Wave and the Suffragettes. Radical Feminism is not intersectional no matter how hard you try to melt the ideas of Intersectionals into your ideology.

Kimberlé Crenshaw, Audre Lorde, and bell hooks' works are all direct primary examples of this critique. I'm begging you to read The Master's Tools Will Not Dismantle The Master's House and truly understand the racial and class critique of early Radical Feminism that it is.

My post is also absolutely not Radical Feminist because sex is just as much of a social construction as gender is and to reduce gender down to sex based stereotypes is - well - reductive, as well as anti-trans and anti-intersex.

[being-kindrad]

How is sex a social construct? Female and male humans would still exist even if humans refused to name or acknowledge what distinguishes the two sexes. Gender is stereotypes derived from sex. Gender exists because humans collectively agree to uphold their culture's sex-based stereotypes. That is also why gender stereotypes can vary across cultures, because gender is socially constructed. The root of gender in societies comes back to the distinction between female and male humans, because gender is sex-based stereotypes.

Intersex people have DSDs (differences of sex development), intersex people's medical conditions are still based on a sex-binary system. I don't think it is appropriate to use people with medical conditions involving their sex organs as pawns to promote transgender ideology.

How is radical feminism not intersectional? Radical feminism recognizes that each woman's life experience is affected by other societal factors such as race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, culture, education, and wealth. The Red Stockings Manifesto explicitly states the goal to achieve solidarity with all women.

We identify with all women. We define our best interest as that of the poorest, most brutally exploited woman. We repudiate all economic, racial, educational or status privileges that divide us from other women. We are determined to recognize and eliminate any prejudices we may hold against other women. We are committed to achieving internal democracy. We will do whatever is necessary to ensure that every woman in our movement has an equal chance to participate, assume responsibility, and develop her political potential.

I am familiar with racism in older waves of feminism. Black radical feminist Claire Heuchan has written about it explicitly. It is important for radical feminists to hold each other accountable for any prejudice and seek to understand the unique multifaceted experiences of all women.

[ftmtftm]

So, first and foremost - Humans are one of the least sexually dimorphic hominids to exist on the planet [ source ]. We have very little variation or distinction between our "two" sexes beyond reproductive organs and secondary sex characteristics influenced by hormones, meaning "male" and "female" are a lot closer to each other as physical experiences than most people really want to acknowledge. This lack of strong dimorphism causes a lot of natural "in between" variances within our physiology because well, it's not very hard for "two" things that are so close to each other to blend.

Being intersex is only considered a medical condition or "DDS" because that natural variance is treated as unnatural by medical institutions and often forcibly "corrected". An institution of power has decided on an arbitrary division between the "right" way for a "female" to be and the "right" way for a "male" to be based on a divide that hardly exists in our species when compared to other animals, even when compared to our closest mammalian relatives. It's seen as a disorder or "differential" because people in positions of power decided that different means disordered and incorrect based on their understanding of the world/society. That is the textbook example of a social construct. An idea of what is "correct" based on a social understanding put in place by an institution of power.

Also, just a side note: You know absolutely nothing about my status as an intersex individual. Very disgusting of you, just on a personal level, to just assume I'm using a community as a prop when intersex is an identity I very much fall under myself.

As for Radical Feminism not being intersectional: It's not because Intersectionality is it's own theory that was formed as a response to Radical Feminism. Intersectional theory is founded on the idea that there is no central force of oppression in the world. Not even Patriarchy. Rather, several different institutions interact in tandem with one another to enact several different levels and forma of violence against the oppressed in complex and multifaceted manners.

Intersectionality is not just recognizing that other forms of oppression exist and then placing one above the rest. Kimberlé Crenshaw, the woman who created the theory, very kindly but very strongly, disagrees with that kind of interpretation of her work [ source ]. Intersectionality is a response to, critique of, and rejection of the exact universalization of womanhood you are describing via the Redstocking Manifesto. "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House" by Audre Lorde is a direct critique of that universalization.

Claire Heuchan's blog title directly rips from Lorde's work, Sister Outsider. Audre Lorde herself explicitly disagrees with the idea of hierarchy of oppression [ source (audio) source (pdf) ]. It's such a kick of dirt in the face of her legacy as an Intersectional Feminist who was a vocal critic of Radical Feminism to claim a variation on the title of her most prolific piece of writing for a Radical Feminist blog.

Racism in feminism isn't a thing of the past. The current wave of feminism is riddled with it as well, because Racism and White Supremacy never left Radical Feminism. There's a reason why Posie Parker - the popularizer of "#AdultHumanFemale" - lets Neo-Nazis speak, and guard her, at her "Women First" events [ source with its own sources ]. There's a reason why JRK is friends with a whole bunch of conservatives [ source ]. There's a reason why The Women's Liberation Front has done panels for one of the most well known, conservative, right wing Reagan-era organizations of all time [ source ] and taken money from right wing Christian organizations [ source ].

The Redstockings saying "We repudiate all economic, racial, educational or status privileges that divide us from other women" is just a fancy, academic way of saying "I can't be racist, I don't see color" and that's exactly the shit Intersectional ideology exists as a criticism of.

[pelicanhypeman]

‘You are not here for a doping test. You are here for a gender test’: athlete Caster Semenya on how her life changed for ever

In this extract from her autobiography, the South African runner reveals what went on behind the scenes at the 2009 world championships in B

The day I returned home from the championships, the blood report was leaked to the press, alongside the results of a second test conducted while I was in Berlin. There it was. The things I did not know about my body. I found out, along with the rest of the world, that I did not have a uterus or fallopian tubes. The newspapers reported I had undescended testicles that were the source of my higher than normal levels of testosterone. They went on to call me a hermaphrodite. In my culture, this term does not apply to people like me, but the world media forced that label on me and that is what I am called to this day.

It was as if some kind of bomb had exploded … and the fallout just kept getting bigger and bigger. I couldn’t escape it. My face and story was plastered across television screens and newspapers all over the world. It was as if the entirety of humanity had discovered some kind of alien that had been living amongst them. I remember thinking: “Now what? Am I going to run again? OK, so this explains why I haven’t gotten a period. All right. If these people are saying I don’t have a womb, then this means I will never be able to carry a child. I want a family.”

[…]

I kept thinking: “This thing can never be undone.” The girl I had been before I got on that plane to Berlin – happy, joking, innocent, eager, hopeful – she’d been disappeared on the way back. And in these early days of my exile, there was nothing to put in that empty space. Imagine you are told one day that because of some medical this or that, you are actually not a woman. Think about it. In the eyes of the entire world, you are now something other than what you know yourself to be. And the entire world will not stop talking about you. Ever. Until the day you die, you will be the punchline of a joke about genitals or gender or sex or whatever.

Caster Semenya found out she was being gender tested when she showed up for the test, she thought it was a doping test. She found out the results - that she’s intersex - on the news with everyone else. She was 18 years old.

What they did to this woman is evil. She’s handled it with so much grace but she shouldn’t have to. It’s so awful. I’m never going to stop being mad about this.

[fatliberation]

they have a point though. you wouldn't need everyone to accommodate you if you just lost weight, but you're too lazy to stick to a healthy diet and exercise. it's that simple. I'd like to see you back up your claims, but you have no proof. you have got to stop lying to yourselves and face the facts

Must I go through this again? Fine. FINE. You guys are working my nerves today. You want to talk about facing the facts? Let's face the fucking facts.

In 2022, the US market cap of the weight loss industry was $75 billion [1, 3]. In 2021, the global market cap of the weight loss industry was estimated at $224.27 billion [2]. 

In 2020, the market shrunk by about 25%, but rebounded and then some since then [1, 3] By 2030, the global weight loss industry is expected to be valued at $405.4 billion [2]. If diets really worked, this industry would fall overnight. 

1. LaRosa, J. March 10, 2022. "U.S. Weight Loss Market Shrinks by 25% in 2020 with Pandemic, but Rebounds in 2021." Market Research Blog. 2. Staff. February 09, 2023. "[Latest] Global Weight Loss and Weight Management Market Size/Share Worth." Facts and Factors Research. 3. LaRosa, J. March 27, 2023. "U.S. Weight Loss Market Partially Recovers from the Pandemic." Market Research Blog.

Over 50 years of research conclusively demonstrates that virtually everyone who intentionally loses weight by manipulating their eating and exercise habits will regain the weight they lost within 3-5 years. And 75% will actually regain more weight than they lost [4].

4. Mann, T., Tomiyama, A.J., Westling, E., Lew, A.M., Samuels, B., Chatman, J. (2007). "Medicare’s Search For Effective Obesity Treatments: Diets Are Not The Answer." The American Psychologist, 62, 220-233. U.S. National Library of Medicine, Apr. 2007.

The annual odds of a fat person attaining a so-called “normal” weight and maintaining that for 5 years is approximately 1 in 1000 [5].

5. Fildes, A., Charlton, J., Rudisill, C., Littlejohns, P., Prevost, A.T., & Gulliford, M.C. (2015). “Probability of an Obese Person Attaining Normal Body Weight: Cohort Study Using Electronic Health Records.” American Journal of Public Health, July 16, 2015: e1–e6.

Doctors became so desperate that they resorted to amputating parts of the digestive tract (bariatric surgery) in the hopes that it might finally result in long-term weight-loss. Except that doesn’t work either. [6] And it turns out it causes death [7],  addiction [8], malnutrition [9], and suicide [7].

6. Magro, Daniéla Oliviera, et al. “Long-Term Weight Regain after Gastric Bypass: A 5-Year Prospective Study - Obesity Surgery.” SpringerLink, 8 Apr. 2008. 7. Omalu, Bennet I, et al. “Death Rates and Causes of Death After Bariatric Surgery for Pennsylvania Residents, 1995 to 2004.” Jama Network, 1 Oct. 2007.  8. King, Wendy C., et al. “Prevalence of Alcohol Use Disorders Before and After Bariatric Surgery.” Jama Network, 20 June 2012.  9. Gletsu-Miller, Nana, and Breanne N. Wright. “Mineral Malnutrition Following Bariatric Surgery.” Advances In Nutrition: An International Review Journal, Sept. 2013.

Evidence suggests that repeatedly losing and gaining weight is linked to cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and altered immune function [10].

10. Tomiyama, A Janet, et al. “Long‐term Effects of Dieting: Is Weight Loss Related to Health?” Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6 July 2017.

Prescribed weight loss is the leading predictor of eating disorders [11].

11. Patton, GC, et al. “Onset of Adolescent Eating Disorders: Population Based Cohort Study over 3 Years.” BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.), 20 Mar. 1999.

The idea that “obesity” is unhealthy and can cause or exacerbate illnesses is a biased misrepresentation of the scientific literature that is informed more by bigotry than credible science [12]. 

12. Medvedyuk, Stella, et al. “Ideology, Obesity and the Social Determinants of Health: A Critical Analysis of the Obesity and Health Relationship” Taylor & Francis Online, 7 June 2017.

“Obesity” has no proven causative role in the onset of any chronic condition [13, 14] and its appearance may be a protective response to the onset of numerous chronic conditions generated from currently unknown causes [15, 16, 17, 18].

13. Kahn, BB, and JS Flier. “Obesity and Insulin Resistance.” The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Aug. 2000. 14. Cofield, Stacey S, et al. “Use of Causal Language in Observational Studies of Obesity and Nutrition.” Obesity Facts, 3 Dec. 2010.  15. Lavie, Carl J, et al. “Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Risk Factor, Paradox, and Impact of Weight Loss.” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 26 May 2009.  16. Uretsky, Seth, et al. “Obesity Paradox in Patients with Hypertension and Coronary Artery Disease.” The American Journal of Medicine, Oct. 2007.  17. Mullen, John T, et al. “The Obesity Paradox: Body Mass Index and Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Nonbariatric General Surgery.” Annals of Surgery, July 2005. 18. Tseng, Chin-Hsiao. “Obesity Paradox: Differential Effects on Cancer and Noncancer Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.” Atherosclerosis, Jan. 2013.

Fatness was associated with only 1/3 the associated deaths that previous research estimated and being “overweight” conferred no increased risk at all, and may even be a protective factor against all-causes mortality relative to lower weight categories [19].

19. Flegal, Katherine M. “The Obesity Wars and the Education of a Researcher: A Personal Account.” Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, 15 June 2021.

Studies have observed that about 30% of so-called “normal weight” people are “unhealthy” whereas about 50% of so-called “overweight” people are “healthy”. Thus, using the BMI as an indicator of health results in the misclassification of some 75 million people in the United States alone [20]. 

20. Rey-López, JP, et al. “The Prevalence of Metabolically Healthy Obesity: A Systematic Review and Critical Evaluation of the Definitions Used.” Obesity Reviews : An Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 15 Oct. 2014.

While epidemiologists use BMI to calculate national obesity rates (nearly 35% for adults and 18% for kids), the distinctions can be arbitrary. In 1998, the National Institutes of Health lowered the overweight threshold from 27.8 to 25—branding roughly 29 million Americans as fat overnight—to match international guidelines. But critics noted that those guidelines were drafted in part by the International Obesity Task Force, whose two principal funders were companies making weight loss drugs [21].

21. Butler, Kiera. “Why BMI Is a Big Fat Scam.” Mother Jones, 25 Aug. 2014. 

Body size is largely determined by genetics [22].

22. Wardle, J. Carnell, C. Haworth, R. Plomin. “Evidence for a strong genetic influence on childhood adiposity despite the force of the obesogenic environment” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Vol. 87, No. 2, Pages 398-404, February 2008.

Healthy lifestyle habits are associated with a significant decrease in mortality regardless of baseline body mass index [23].  

23. Matheson, Eric M, et al. “Healthy Lifestyle Habits and Mortality in Overweight and Obese Individuals.” Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 25 Feb. 2012.

Weight stigma itself is deadly. Research shows that weight-based discrimination increases risk of death by 60% [24].

24. Sutin, Angela R., et al. “Weight Discrimination and Risk of Mortality .” Association for Psychological Science, 25 Sept. 2015.

Fat stigma in the medical establishment [25] and society at large arguably [26] kills more fat people than fat does [27, 28, 29].

25. Puhl, Rebecca, and Kelly D. Bronwell. “Bias, Discrimination, and Obesity.” Obesity Research, 6 Sept. 2012. 26. Engber, Daniel. “Glutton Intolerance: What If a War on Obesity Only Makes the Problem Worse?” Slate, 5 Oct. 2009.  27. Teachman, B. A., Gapinski, K. D., Brownell, K. D., Rawlins, M., & Jeyaram, S. (2003). Demonstrations of implicit anti-fat bias: The impact of providing causal information and evoking empathy. Health Psychology, 22(1), 68–78. 28. Chastain, Ragen. “So My Doctor Tried to Kill Me.” Dances With Fat, 15 Dec. 2009. 29. Sutin, Angelina R, Yannick Stephan, and Antonio Terraciano. “Weight Discrimination and Risk of Mortality.” Psychological Science, 26 Nov. 2015.

There's my "proof." Where is yours?

[vaspider]

I have told this story over and over again, but it bears repeating:

In 2011 or so, I started having intense pain in my legs and feet. I was sent to an orthopedic surgeon. He said, "This pain is because you are fat. Go on this diet and lose weight."

I went on the diet. I ate 1300 calories a day. I exercised until I literally couldn't stand up.

1300 calories a day is what a healthy toddler should eat. I was 34 years old. I was starving, in excruciating pain. I was angry and hungry and hurting. I really don't envy anyone who had to deal with me.

Oh yeah: and I didn't lose any real weight, no matter how hard I worked and how scrupulously I followed the diet.

By 2013, when - shockingly - I had ruined my muscle tone and was still in incredible pain, I got to a point where I couldn't walk to the bathroom at work without help. I missed my kid's chorus concerts bc I couldn't sit in uncomfortable chairs after suffering all day. And I still hadn't lost any real weight.

"Isn't there anything else this could be?" I asked.

He refused to run other tests. "You just need to lose the weight."

Two years this had gone on, and I was still in pain. Still missing out on my life. Still missing out on Cat's life, on moments I couldn't ever get back.

My partner finally got fed up and dragged me to another doctor. Dragged me back to our family doctor and told her what was going on.

She took one look at me - literally, she touched my feet once - and said, "This guy is an idiot."

Two days later, an MRI found a 2.5 cm mass adhered to the sheath of my spinal cord, compressing my spinal cord against the inside of my spine. Three days after that, I was told it was most likely malignant.

It wasn't. I was lucky. It was a benign mass, removed May 9th, 2013.

Since then, I've been diagnosed with diabetes and celiac disease, both of which my doctors think come from the bodily trauma that this all put me through - that genetic predisposition got kicked into overdrive by either the trauma of starving myself for two years or surgery. We can't be sure if it's the starvation or the surgery that did it.

We can, however, be very, very sure that the disordered eating that I have struggled with for the last 12 years comes directly from a doctor who looked at me and said, "You should starve yourself," and only saw fat, not a person.

I'm very, very lucky that it wasn't actually cancer. I know more than one person who wasn't that lucky. Some of them (z''l) have died.

Medical fatphobia fucking kills.

[femcassidy]

white people please just purchase native artwork and jewelry from native people i keep seeing idiot white people be like “waaah i wish i could support native creators but its cultural appropriation” girl why would beaders sell you their earrings then. just dont get a medicine wheel or a thunderbird then like damn it is that easy

[idkinsertfanreferencehere]

http://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html?m=1

[anexperimentallife]

If Native folks are making it to sell to white people with the approval of their tribe, it’s not “appropriation”–its support and appreciation! So yes, buy that native-made dream catcher, but not the mass produced fakes made by white people. Like, you can go to a pow wow and buy native crafts there, too.

[sch-uwu-lchen]

here are some places to get native/indigenous goods and merch online if you can’t find something local or if physical access is an obstacle:

https://sweetgrasstradingco.com/ https://nativeharvest.com/ https://byellowtail.com/ https://www.salishstyle.com/ https://trickstercompany.com/ https://hutxh.com/ https://www.thentvs.com/ https://urbannativeera.com/ https://www.oxdxclothing.com/ https://kotahbear.com/ https://www.totemdesignhouse.com/ https://ginewusa.com/ https://eighthgeneration.com/

and the only native-owned comic shop in the world: https://redplanetbooksncomics.com/

[saywhat-politics]

NE State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan (R) complains filibusters of anti-trans bills made her miss her grandson's preschool graduation.

Sen. Megan Hunt (I): “You won't come off this bill that hurts my [trans] son. You hate him more than you love your own family. That's why you're here."

[sic-semper-hominibus]

btw that (I) by her name is bc she ditched the dems for not supporting her in this

[queeranarchism]

Another reminder that the Dems absolutely do not have trans people’s backs in the slightest. They’re not even pretending to care about us at this point.

[thisisnotapublicforum]

HOWEVER. Do NOT stop voting for democrats, if your two options are republicans and them. Democrats don’t support you, but they don’t want you dead.

[kobolds-in-space]

Damn, it kinda just sounds like they’re neutral and roll over the second someone suggests murdering trans people, huh? And with that in mind, are not actually neutral, but are simply complicit in this awful shit, and actually benefit from it in a Lot of ways Though I can’t exactly be surprised, given they ran on the platform of “don’t worry! nothing will fundamentally change!”

[thisisnotapublicforum]

Very much so, yes, but I need to emphasize that that is still better than actively being fascists who want us dead.

You’ve got two people. One wants to stab you and the other doesn’t care if you get stabbed. Who will you hand the knife to?

Both are bad! But one is far, far worse.

[queeranarchism]

I made you some buttons:

For real though:

I hope one day you stop thinking that ‘Hey, remember to vote for the people who don’t care if you die!’ is an acceptable thing to comment under posts about the fight against trans genocide. That would make you a more compassionate person.

Like, please sit with yourself for a bit, try to imagine how it feels to know that a significant part of the country wants you dead and a significant other chunk of the country wouldn’t lift a finger to help you and is actively pushing their own side to also not lift a finger to help you. Imagine what it is like to sit with that terror and then have people comment  ‘Hey, remember to vote for the people who don’t care if you die!’ under posts about your imminent death. 

I am serious. Do not do this. It is cruel.

[queeranarchism]

Final warning: anyone starting a debate about voting under this specific comment is absolutely getting blocked. I have just told you how it emotionally effects trans people when you do this fucking shit under a post like this. If you choose to ignore that to keep focusing on winning a debate, you did not understand my post or you do not care about being kind to people who are experiencing this shit. Either way, you are showing your whole ass.

I don’t give a shit whether you vote. I don’t give a shit about the debate about voting. I care about fucking listening to each others struggles and saying “yeah, that really sucks” and “I’m so sorry this is happening to you” and “what can I do to help?” and NOT “Ok, but remember that you still have to vote for those people who wouldn’t lift a finger to safe your life.” because that is a cruel heartless way to respond to this situation.

You wanna talk about voting? Make a new fucking post. Let us talk about how isolated and betrayed and scared we feel and make a new fucking post.

If you honestly think that the off chance that these kinds of replies might convince one more person to vote is worth derailing conversations about trans struggle and how betrayed we feel by the people who claimed to be on our side when it was convenient for them, if you think it is worth making us feel ignored and talked over, if you think it is worth making us feel even more isolated, then you are no better than the democrats who wouldn’t life a finger to save us.

This isn’t about the voting debate. This is about YOU. Your behavior. Your impact on the people around you. Be a better fucking comrade to people who are suffering or jump off a fucking cliff.

[gehe-lihiyot-androgynos-varda-d]

CW: antisemitism, pale of settlement, pogroms, genocide, cultural erasure

I don't think goyim can really conceive of how much Jews actually hold back in our criticism of antisemitism in media, and when you hear us it is often because we see a dangerous message that you don't... Yet.

I have a complicated relationship with Tim Burton's rendition of The Corpse Bride. I love it as a beautiful piece of stop motion art, but it isn't what it should have been, he took a Jewish story from the Pale and with intention stripped it of its Jewish origins. This alone is incredibly antisemitic. The criticism you will hear has probably been "this is a Jewish story, it should have retained its Jewish elements" but have you heard why we feel strongly about this story?

The story of the corpse bride is incredibly important to me and was born from Jewish trauma and Christian violence. Mobs would routinely attack Jewish weddings, they would murder brides and they would bury them in unmarked graves by the roadside still in their wedding clothes, they reasoned that without Jewish wives there are no Jewish mother's. Jews are intrinsic to the story.

It is antisemitism to take our story, about our pain, at the hands of non-jews and strip it for "useful" parts, in fact it is heartbreaking every time.

We are often forced to pick our battles and fighting a battle over a movie that has already been released by a director with a cult following is not worth it, you only hear us speak up in numbers when the antisemitism may lead to another century of violence, because raising our voice means picking a fight, because so many of you already see our pain as inconvenient and it is exhausting to never be heard.

-anyone can reblog

[intersexelphie]

when “gendercrit” parents say “2/3rds if the girl at my child’s school identify as trans or nonbinary” I genuinely don’t know whether they’re knowingly making that up or they think a young girl wearing trousers and/or having short hair means they don’t identify as a girl. either way, it’s utter bullshit.

you could probably count the number of trans and nonbinary kids at that school on one hand yet they think it’s 2/3rds 😭

[queerasaurus-rexx]

terfs: what happened to tomboys?

also terfs: these girls at my child's school wear masculine clothing/hairstyles. they must think they're boys.

[intersexelphie]

It’s like when Emma Watson, who is openly anti-JKR, cut her hair short again and TERFs thought it would be funny to make “when’s the nonbinary announcement?” comments.

Totally fighting gender roles! /s

[dykecentric-deactivated20220911]

I think online queer spaces would benefit from a little more feminism. Some of y'all are a little too comfortable using trans women as your shields to justify your claim that sex based oppression isn't real. Afabs are systemically oppressed and if you genuinely don't believe that you're a fool also trans women are not your tools to justify your shitty opinions and bring up in debates when your anti-feminist rhetoric is actively harming them too.

Your bullshit about "sex based oppression isn't real and it's transmisogynistic to say it is" is harming trans women too, bozo. Everyone who is perceived as a woman in this cisnormative society is affected by misogyny. Also you can't seriously make those claims while the USA are over there banning abortions!

So the first step to banning misogyny from online queer spaces is to stop your "theyfab" bullshit. Stop telling trans women they're only valid if they "pass". Stop talking about "afab transtrenders". Listen to trans men when they speak about the misogyny they experience. And stop being cisnormative in general. Realize that seeing all trans men as big evil testosterone monsters isn't progressive. Stop seeing testosterone as an evil hormone that corrupts people. Trans women aren't your damsels in distress waiting for a white knight (you love infantilizing them but you hate it when they speak up). Nonbinary people aren't a game for you to guess our assigned gender. Liberate yourself from gender norms. You're not helping.

[guerrillatech]

[yekkes]

Pride month reminder: Making fun of the Shatnez laws (the Jewish biblical prohibition of mixing wool and linen in the same garment) and using them as an example of why biblical homophobia is stupid is antisemitic. Many Jews still practice this and it's not a "crazy weird thing!" It's something Jews actually practice in real life and your ignorance is actively harmful when you're punching down on Jewish practice lol please fuck off

[yekkes]

I would encourage LGBT gentiles to reblog this

[yekkes]

@masterd1mwitt No, I don't want people doing this either. First of all, Xtians don't follow shatnez laws so it makes no sense in the first place, they would easily counter that their theology does not believe it necessary so it's not hypocritical in the framework of their theological beliefs. Secondly, I am still uncomfortable with you doing that because if you're not Jewish you largely will not understand the purpose of the shatnez laws and there is often an undercurrent of "these are ridiculous" even if it's not said. Please just don't use it in the first place.

[hazel2468]

So, something I see (and say) a lot is that fat/plus size folks should be able to go to the doctor to get medical treatment and not have everything be made about their weight. And I hear a lot of pushback to that- “Shouldn’t doctors bring that up? A doctor is SUPPOSED to care about your health!”

So I figured I would give y’all an example of what I mean when I say “I want to be able to get medical treatment and have it not be made about my weight.”

I’ve been to the doctor for breast pain twice in my life. Once when I was in my first year of college, and once during my last year of grad school. The two experiences were vastly different.

First time around, I go in because I’m having pain in my left breast. I don’t feel anything, but something hurts. I sit down in the doctor’s office, in she comes. I tell her what’s going on. And right away she hits me with “Well, maybe losing some weight would help.” Didn’t examine my breast. Didn’t ask me much else. Just spent the next ten minutes telling me that it probably had something to do with me being fat and then sent me on my way. I learned basically nothing, just that I “probably” didn’t have fucking breast cancer.

Second time. I’m in grad school, and this time I actually feel a lump, so of course I panic. I go to the doctor. She has me take off my shirt and all that, and then asks me some questions. When did it start? Is the pain worse or better than when I called about it? Can I still feel the lump? Has this happened before? I answer, she gives my boob a few good pokes and all that. Checks the other for good measure. And then gives me answers.

She tells me I have fiberous breasts, which is normal. Tells me it was probably a cyst, since that happens sometimes and, given my symptoms and the exam, it seems to be gone now. I tell her I get those in other places a lot and she nods and says “Yeah, probably a cyst.” She tells me to keep an eye out and call her if I feel any more lumps- even if it is just another cyst, she wants to make sure. She says I could go for a mammogram but because I’m only 24 and the symptoms are subsiding it isn’t needed, in her opinion, but she would be happy to set one up for me to put my mind at ease. Then she shakes my hand and leaves. We spent about 30 minutes together.

This is what I mean when I say “I want medical treatment without it being made about my weight.” The first doctor assumed, right away, that the problem was because I am fat. And because she assumed that, she didn’t check me, didn’t ask me questions she should have. There are horror stories out there about people who had treatable illnesses that later killed them because they weren’t caught in time.

“Shouldn’t doctors care about your health?” well, only one of these doctors actually seemed to. The one who did her job, who checked me out, who gave me answers and not only made sure I didn’t have something serious going on, but who put my mind at ease about my health. Who gave me signs to look out for and things to DO if this ever happens again. The other... The other lectured me about my body size and then shooed me out of her office without saying the words “lump” or “exam”. That, to me at least, doesn’t sound like caring about my health. The words “health” and “body size” are not synonomous and, in this case, my size didn’t have anything to do with it. There was no reason to bring it up because it wasn’t part of my medical concern.

I want to be able to walk into a doctor’s office and say “I have a problem” and have the doctor go “Okay, let me take a look at your problem”. I’m lucky and privileged that I have managed to find doctors who do that- who address my issues and history and ME as a whole person. But I’ve also had a lot of experiences with doctors who respond to “I have a problem” with “Well try losing weight”, no matter what the problem is. And that’s not okay. That KILLS people. And that’s why quality medical care for fat/plus size people is such an issue.