Its Gonna Be Ok

Early 30s | F | White | Reader | Poet

[lovingfem]

About me

You may call me Juniper, an alias.

I'm enjoying my early 30s.

I love writing and reading.

I’m happily, lovingly married.

I live in a southern, red state. Send help.

I'm formerly non-binary, but have reidentified with womanhood after 10ish years.

I cycle between two videogames: Minecraft and Crusader Kings 3.

I adore dress-up games and have played them for over twenty years now.

I’m fairly shy but also like people – feel free to initiate chats!

This is a side blog. If you see a goat following you, that may be me.

I’ll write up my political stances later. In short, there’s no space for bigotry, women’s liberation is essential, and we all have learning and unlearning to do.

[radfemme-rage]

[violet-lavender-fem]

the actual pride month rundown

- marsha p. johnson repeatedly identified as a gay man and drag queen and survived into an era where the language did already exist if he chose to identify as transsexual. he explicitly stated that he was not transsexual and claimed that all transsexual people were also homosexual.

- sylvia rivera did identify as a transsexual woman (and made disparaging speeches about lesbians). she was not an ally to lesbians. lesbians and transwomen have not always been allies.

- neither of them were there when the stonewall riots began, according to marsha’s own testimony. sylvia was sleeping off a drug trip on a park bench, and by the time marsha arrived at stonewall, the riots were already in full swing.

- storme delarverie, a mixed black gender-nonconforming lesbian and drag king, may have been the one who incited the stonewall riots. she never identified as a transman despite surviving into an an era where the language was made accessible to do so. accounts differ as to who started the riots.

- stonewall was not a special haven for trans people and drag artists, it was just some bar where gay people met up. by all accounts, it wasn’t even a good bar.

- pride as a festival and parade was invented by gay men, lesbians, and bisexual people. fred sergeant is one of those gay men, and he has been beaten (in recent years, as an elderly man) by trans people and their allies due to his views on medical transition. non-homosexual trans people were unheard of in this era.

- this is just united states history, and not even the beginning of gay rights activism in the united states alone. the rest of the world didn’t necessarily base its gay rights activism on stonewall.

[honeyapplebutterfly]

It’s interesting how the “rapists can be redeemed” crowd never says anything similar about radfems. I guess raping women is just a character flaw but being able to define what a woman is makes you an irredeemable monster. Ahhh feminism

[a-book-dragon]

You don't have a male or female brain – the more brains scientists study, the weaker the evidence for sex differences

Rather than distinctly male or female, the human brain is much more like the heart, kidneys and lungs – basically the same no matter the sex of the body it's in.

rb to make a biological essentialist mad <3

[liminalweirdo]

“This collapse is a telltale sign of a problem known as publication bias. Small, early studies which found a significant sex difference were likelier to get published than research finding no male-female brain difference.”

[mckitterick]

the notes on this are toxic - to help clear up any misunderstanding, here’s the actual science paper:

Dump the “dimorphism”: Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size

With the explosion of neuroimaging, differences between male and female brains have been exhaustively analyzed. Here we synthesize three dec

in short: brains are brains

[kittyit]

this account has been suspended (the porn collective in this info is still up - link is full of very upsetting porn) but i don’t know what to say. it was disturbing when tobi hill-meyer announced the desire to make a “non-con” porn about a terf sexually assaulting tobi to “process trauma around transmisogyny”, but this is on a whole new level

[kittyit]

man. Things have not improved

[radfae]

not a fan of how the words cunt and foid have been becoming more commonplace lately

[majchic]

not a fan of how red pill and manospere terms have become more common place lately

[capricorn-season]

[my-dailydreams]

[goth-queen]

[thehairiestfeminist]

Let me describe to you what kind of world gender abolitionists actually dream about:

When a child would be born it’s biological sex, being an actual physical reality, would be noticed but not a single assumption regarding the child’s personality would be made based on it.

Growing up, children would be free to chose what toys and clothes they prefer. If they want to play with toy trucks or dolls, it would be fine either way. If they want to dress comfortably or in frilly colorful dresses, it would be fine.

Certain personality traits would not be encouraged in members of one sex and discouraged in the other. Females would be free to be strong, brave and assertive and males would not be shamed for being shy and soft spoken.

No female child would be called a tomboy and no male child would be called a sissy. No kid would ever be bullied for what we in our gendered world call “gender expression”.

When children would reach puberty they would still be free to dress how they want. Females would not be pressured to wear clothes that reveal their bodies and males would not be shamed if they chose to. Everybody would have a free choice of accessories, which would not be categorized as “men’s” or “women’s” but people could should whichever they liked. Or chose to not wear accessories at all if that’s what they are more comfortable with.

Females would not be pressured to keep their bodies slim, soft and hairless. Males would not be pressured to be athletic and muscular. Expectations of femininity and masculinity upon the body would not exist and affect negatively people’s relationship with their own body.

Everyone could choose a career without fearing stigmatization within that particular field because of their biological sex. The most important thing would be competence and not what someone has between their legs.

Domestic work would not be considered “women’s work” and would be shared equally between the sexes.

Biological sex would only be thought about when relevant. And everyone would be free to be themselves without ever having to worry about gender expectations. Nobody would feel the need to repress certain parts of their personality and exaggerate others in order to fit into some gender role that is being forced on them.

Gender abolitionism is not about restricting people’s choices but about giving them greater freedom.

- http://burningax.wordpress.com/2014/10/06/a-gender-free-world-boring/

[average-tim-post]

So tims should get a free pass to shoot his parents over the annoyance of cancelling an appointment for which he can reschedule. But if I call an adult human male a man then EYE am the social murderer? Make it make sense

[its-terf-or-nothin]

[eve-was-framed-pt2]

absolutely losing my mind that they’ll post about getting sexually aroused by wearing “girls/women’s clothing” (i’m assuming they mean girl children’s clothing when they say that) and we simply aren’t allowed to acknowledge this at all. it’s a forbidden topic to everyone but them

[bitchandahalff]

from @samarium on tiktok

[farsizaban-deactivated20180323]

picture of Iranian women protesting in Tehran against the compulsory hijab: International Women’s Day 1979

[faxxmachine]

these women have been imprisoned in forced covering for 42 years

[truthscicle]

half of the people arguing against the uk online safety act haven’t been in a Highschool in years. Sure, you’re 40 and watch porn and don’t want to give your id up, fine whatever. But teenage boys with porn addictions is a genuine issue.

I’m going to be a junior in high school this year, I still have two years left, and by this point I’ve already seen three different boys jerking off in the back of classrooms. Earlier during my sophomore year, around march or April, a guy got caught ai generating videos of his female classmates and jerking off to them in class.

If this isn’t porn addiction, I’m not sure what else to call it. Teenage boys have literally nothing on their minds besides porn by this point. Even the way I see them talking to my female classmates is weird and shows signs of degeneracy. And it’s every single one of them.

Teenage boys with access to porn always end up with terrible porn addictions that they make everyone else’s problem. Just because you want to watch porn without identification shouldn’t mean that I have to go to school with people that jerk off while staring at my friends, their phones open to hentai.

I know there are issues with the ban, and things like Wikipedia are also being censored, which I don’t think is a great thing, but as long as porn is being taken away from teenage boys I’m grateful.

[animentality]