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I'm not okay. Took a mental health day to do my part and make some art about it. No matter the opposition, we won't be erased. A world without trans people has never existed, and it never will! đłď¸ââ§ď¸
May this piece be a small light in the darkness for those in need of comfort and hope. Feel free to share/re-post elsewhere if this resonates with you. Just please make sure you include the alt text!
We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.
Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky
Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*
You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.
*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.
One of the guys I worked with told us a story about how, when they were doing archaeology surveys in the woods they ran into a bigfoot hunter. Bigfoot guy asked if they had seen signs of bigfoot, and he was like "Sorry, nothing like that. We're archaeologists, so we're looking for human stuff." and the bigfoot guy was like "Oh! I saw some Native American cairns on my way out here. I can give you a general location." and when he was like "Yeah dude, that'd be sick. We're actually looking to document those." the bigfoot guy was like "Yeah, they looked pretty cool. I didn't touch them though, because Native Americans built them, not bigfoot."
I apologize in advance for the "haha I misread this and thought..." but in all seriousness for two readthroughs I legit thought this was a story about an archeology survey team in the woods who ran into bigfoot and had a nice chat with him about his day and didn't bother to take pictures or document anything because they're only interested in human stuff, not in cryptids, but bigfoot was also nice enough to direct them to some native american cairns, which he did not build.
People don't like to admit it bcs cringe or w/e but Homestuck really did revolutionize the webcomic as a storytelling medium and I am endlessly frustrated that before webcomic artists could really stretch our legs fucking webtoonz swooped in, set a new, more restrictive standard, and then monetized and monopolized the ever living fuck out of the concept of The Webcomic until it drove away anyone who couldn't be a professional quality manga artist for free, and now the only webcomics that actually feel like spiritual successors to Homestuck are so obscure they're basically cult classics that you have to beg people to read.
Like it's just so wild to be in high school and see Homestuck be like "we're using like fifteen different artistic mediums to tell this story bcs we can" and be really fucking inspired by that, only to grow up and see basically every webcomic ever have to conform to One Single Standard or fucking perish.
Actually, I realized my real point here: we all need to make our art weirder. Please make weird art. I want more stuff like Prequel Adventure and 17776 and MyHouse.wad and I want it now. Capitalism thrives on conformity. We must be weird at all costs.
do you guys remember when it came out that there was targeted sexual abuse & forced labor of transmasc & other queer perceived-female people at an ICE facility, and like it was very specifically "transmascs getting both sexually harassed, told to wear makeup, actively assaulted to make them act more feminine, while also being forced to do grueling manual labor & being directly told this was a result of them "wanting to be a man""? do you remember when that came out and then it was crickets from the community it feels like.
you know what you are right. im sorry. it wasn't crickets, it was one post that got a little traction & people in the notes were actively preemptively saying anyone who suggests this could perhaps be an example of transmasc oppression should die.
erasure is an action (to quote @transfemme-turtlebug's tags on this post!) and its something everyone internalizes by virtue of being part of an anti-transmasculine society. but because of the backlash to transandrophobia theory (which tries to describe this), tumblr users now have developed an even more intense internalized erasure, where their first thought when it comes to transmascs being targeted is not, "oh shit, transmascs are vulnerable!" it is "fuck, we NEED to make sure the transandrobros can't use this!"
also since a number of people in the notes have mentioned not having heard of this at all, here's an article and a link to the complaint filed. here's a quote too:
"(Reyes) was using this program to intentionally punish people on the basis of their gender identity." Decker said. "The people who were involved in this were all either trans men or masculine-presenting LGBTQ people."Â
all transmascs & friends of transmascs need to be 10x more annoying about transandrophobia in 2026
"dog residue" post means so much to my ocd
Blackout poetry exists on a dual axis from "banal" to "insightful" on the input side and "kind of deep" to "incredibly fucking dumb" on the output side, and while taking something banal and producing something kind of deep is well and fine, for my money taking something insightful and rendering it incredibly fucking dumb is where the real art is.
#i stuck the word 'banal' in there twice specifically so that 'anal' would be low hanging fruit#but i genuinely did not anticipate 'banana' --@prokopetz
gxrl i do not care if being fat âmakes you hotâ or not. i do not care. you need to eat so you can experience life as a full fucking person. you are a whole ass person bitch, not an entity that can solely be reduced to being desirable as an object!!! you have other concerns or fulfillment in life besides ensuring how fuckable you are!!! eat your damn food!!!!
reading this deposition that just got dropped where someone sued musk and ohhhh my god it is this funniest thing ever . i can see why his lawyer tried to keep this confidential . theyâre both maybe the biggest idiots . this is like ace attorney
Musk is being sued for falsely suggesting a 22-year-old Jewish man was part of a neo-Nazi brawl.
Elon Musk was deposed in a recent lawsuit for falsely linking a 22-year-old Jewish man to a neo-Nazi brawl. Musk, who attempted to keep the
PLEASE read this
bankston is my HERO heâs tearing these people apart
damn
HE LEFT
????
oh my god
KILL HIM
he is DONE.
HELP ME .
wow. ok.
genuinely first two pages he says that he thinks benâs lawyer is the one who is actually suing him and admits he has no clue what the lawsuit is about .
doing a reread now this is so cunty
goddamn .
fun fact: the Mr. Bankston here is Mark Bankston, the same lawyer who absolutely ruined Alex Jones during the Sandy Hook trial.
how in the fuck did the muskrat's attorney pass the bar
Mark Bankston is gonna make me fucking SWOON.
I don't think Mark can ever top "INDEED, MR. JONES, INDEED" and "AND THAT IS HOW I KNOW YOU LIED TO ME" from the first Sandy Hook trial in Texas (not to be confused with Chris Mattei, the attorney in the Connecticut trial), but this part
MR. SPIRO: Do you give these lectures at all of your depositions? MR. BANKSTON: I do, and you can watch them.
is ESPECIALLY hilarious to me having listened to multiple depositions Mark has had to take in the Sandy Hook case, where he has needed to lecture EVERY. SINGLE. ATTORNEY. at some point in the case about how they're violating Texas Rule XYZ, because they all, to a one, did something seriously ethically questionable during the deposition.
like, YOU CAN WATCH/LISTEN TO HIS DEPOS. HE DOES HAVE TO GIVE THOSE LECTURES EVERY TIME. IT'S NOT EVEN A JOKE.
Iâm not sure if itâs because im tired (itâs 5:37 am as I type this) but I find this post to be really weird https://www.tumblr.com/qcharlie/822116519659159552/i-do-think-the-world-punishes-those-outside-the?source=share
(Feel free to ignore if Iâm just reading too much into it or if Iâm off my mark)
as always, disclaimer, do not harass anybody on my behalf or for any reason!
it is also late here! & no you are not reading too much into this. although i do find this post fascinating! certainly exorsexism is finally getting discussed more, and i'd like to imagine i've helped with that in some ways.
i do think the world punishes those outside the gender binary deeply and there is very little societal respect to be found as an out and proud nonbinary person, from everyday interactions to a consistently under researched (yet existent) wage gap. why are the only ones that talk about exorsexism those that believe in men being oppressed for being men?
yeah i wonder, what is it about people who are willing to talk about transmasculine oppression even its extremely unpopular and gets a lot of backlash by people with cissexist understandings of feminism and patriarchy, that makes us the most willing to also talk about nonbinary oppression even when it's extremely unpopular gets a lot of backlash by people with cissexist understandings of feminism and patriarchy?
why do we believe in misandry? or androphobia? why haven't we shifted with the terms to adopt transemasculating, something that functions much better as a term describing the punishment and denial of transition towards masculinity, WITHOUT implying that men are an oppressed minority? i just want to talk about the real world impacts of exorsexism without having to platform someone who understands nothing of the core principles of feminism
here's one definition of transemasculation (post linked goes into a MUCH more extensive critique of the term, especially as it relates to the implicit racism in the term and how it overlooks the experiences of trans people of color, and the erasure of the intellectual contributions of Saint, a trans man of color):
It's a term created within transfeminist circles to try and better theorise around transmasculine oppression as from a theoretical perspective the terms "transmisandryâ and "transandrophobia" kind of miss the point, the roots of anti-transmasculinity aren't rooted in being-man, but in "doing man wrong" solely by virtue of having not been born into the category, and as such transmascs face attempts to capture and regender them as women, as reproductive assets to be exploited by those that society considers and recognises as men.
which, on its own, i do not think it is terrible. but i would argue its pedantic; for trans men, being-man is doing-man-wrong. i would also disagree that it is "solely by virtue of not having been born into the category"; this overlooks how the term "misandry" in a transunitist context is understood as affecting all trans people, because "misandry" (to mean) simply means how the patriarchy uses negative stereotypes of men and masculinity as a tool of control and a way to demonize perceived-male/masculine people who are a threat to hegemonic power. relatedly, also how the concept of anti-masculinity also shapes discussion of racialized sexism towards men of color. the point being that the misandry in "transmisandry" has always meant more than "men are oppressed for being men" in the shallow, malgendering way people describe it. i will also continue pointing out that feminists like Sophie Lewis, Sophia Giovannitti, and F.D Signifier ave also used the term "misandry" in a feminist context to describe harmful anti-male sentiment, so this is not unprecedented in feminism and using the word misandry is not the cardinal sin of feminism people make it out to be.
and the motivation of the term is clearly, in my eyes, that people do not want to engage with pre-existing discussion of anti-transmasculinity, and most of all they do not want to confront just how much of the backlash to these terms is blatantly bad-faith and refuses to engage with the actual theory. notice how people never acknowledge Black feminist concepts of misandronoir/andronoir/racialized sexism and how that has influenced discussion of transandrophobia. because they use these terms entirely because they recognize we are talking about serious issues but fundamentally you are not allowed to give the term transandrophobia, or any concepts coined by those who use it, any respect. see also how people only ever acknowledge malgendering when they can ignore that the concept was defined and popularized by trans men discussing transandrophobia, and that just fucking perhaps, being willing to talk about how trans men's oppression relates heavily to the "man" part leads to some interesting and important contributions to transfeminism.
like it or not, they owe the concept of "transemasculation" existing at all to Saint and transandrophobia theorists, who spoke on these subjects despite it being unpopular and getting harassed over it, who decided that this was a subject worth discussing whether or not we got permission from the community at large. y'all owe us! and if you are someone who is glad to see more discussion of exorsexism at long last, y'all owe us too!
"without implying men are an oppressed minority" 1. trans men are 2. marginalized cis men's gender is not irrelevant to how they experience marginalization, and that is what we have been saying about the transfeminist use of "misandry" / androphobia for years at this point.
i just want to talk about the real world impacts of exorsexism without having to platform someone who understands nothing of the core principles of feminism
the core principles of feminism for its entire history have been exorsexist, and many people discussing transandrophobia do, in fact, read a feminist book every now and again, and yet we still have the opinions we do. if you want to discuss exorsexism more, you also need to discuss exorsexism in feminism, and to do that you must challenge the "core principle" of cisfeminism which is that the patriarchy is fundamentally a binary and all forms of gender oppression are reducible to the m > f equation, and in doing that you must understand how deeply tied the history of exorsexism and anti-transmasculinity are and how they both tie back to a resistance to understanding gender oppression on a level that directly challenges cis women's limited perspective on patriarchy and the desire for many trans people to pursue acceptance by (white) cis feminists over contributing to a truly anti-cissexist transfeminism.
tl;dr the erasure of exorsexism and the erasure of anti-transmasculinity are fundamentally interwound, and you cannot confront one without the other, because both challenge the idea that gender oppression is at its core a binary of "men/males/masculinity privileged over females/women/femininity." the reason so many people who discuss exorsexism also discuss transandrophobia, is because once you are willing to discuss transmasculine oppression without waiting for permission or approval, you become far more willing to challenge exorsexism, intersexism, and other frequently erased forms of lateral violence within the community without waiting for permission or approval. also see this post.
Nothing is going to change. Americans love their guns more than they love people and after Sandy Hook we decided that killing over 20 children was acceptable and not outrageous enough to make reasonable restrictions on guns. This is America, a country that has been around for 200 years, a superpower, a 1st world nation, and one of the wealthiest countries on the planet and we refuse to protect our own people. We respect guns more than we respect the lives of people.Â
What specific gun control measures would you propose and how would they directly and effectively make society safer?
Absolutely get rid of all AR-15â˛s and the like.
Intense background and criminal background checks and anything violent automatically disqualifies you.
Make getting a gun/gun permit more like getting a driverâs license:
permit to learn
includes an exam with 18 or more questions on the policies, laws, and etc of guns and gun ownership
if you get more than 8 questions incorrect you must retake it.
30 hours of practical experience at a gun range with a licensed teacher
Must take a 5 hour class on the dangers of guns and how to use them safely which will then yield you a certificate that grants you to take the practical exam and lasts for one year. If you donât gain the license within the allotted year you must retake the class.
A practical exam with a licensed instructor who will grade you on various skills. If you pass you may be granted a permit on the weapon of your choice, the exams may differ on the type of firearm you want.
Follow the Japanese model where you must have two gun safes in different areas of the house, one to store the gun and one to store the bullets and you must provide the police with information on where those safes are.
No concealed carry and only handguns may be allowed to be out in public.
If transporting a weapon, it must be in the trunk of the vehicle, in a bag or some other case, safety on and unloaded and may not leave the vehicle until you are at the destination.
If youâre a hunter or some other gun hobbyist that requires a functional weapon other than a handgun then the gun must stay on the premises, whether that is a gun range or the Fish and Wildlife facility.
If you live in a rural area where police (and people, for that matter) are few and far between, something akin to a deer hunting rifle should provide plenty of protection from predators and poachers, you still have to follow the aforementioned steps.
This doesnât cover everything but I think itâs a good place to start.
Can you show me evidence that this would directly and effectively create a safer society?
I have never laughed so hard at a gun law post. Like seriously, the evidence is in fucking reality. The proposed restrictions are just fucking logic.
I would like to provide an addition: bullet limits. There should be maximum allotment of ammo you're allowed to purchase within a certain time frame, for any reason. And bullets should never be made with lead, especially for hunting rifles (lead bullets poison wildlife that eats food that has been contaminated with lead).
asexual pie chart, by me
