☽ ψ 汐 ψ ☾

20s | Opossum | She/It/They | ψchotic | Minors DNI

[mooniebellepossum]

hey! I'm belle or triquetra. pick your vibe. I love art and make my own occasionally. i also really like plants. send me an ask or message should you feel inclined im always down for new friends :3

汐/belle - (she/they/it)

[centipearls]

you're drawing blanks

[389]

Jana Euler, In it, 2015. Invitation card.

[firem4ge]

Trying to attend anything in public just has me butting against the fact that being tma sucks. Yeah, that hema thing looks cool, how do they feel about trans women? Yeah, the trivia at the lesbian bar looks cool, so like their thoughts on trans women? Oh, that lesbian rave looks awesome, so about the trans women? Just, fundamentally unsure if I will even be allowed to exist in this space, and if I am will I be interacted with? Will I be the pariah desperate for attention but relegated to standing awkwardly in the corner or alone at the bar?

[sexboobomb]

“You can’t let other people’s opinions dictate your life” and the “opinions” in question are people saying I should be stabbed in a city where a woman was stabbed 40 times for being like me.

Like we all WISH this was a “be yourself” issue but its not. It’s a “I don’t want to be hate crimed” issue.

[mousidy]

love getting a queer clothing ad and they're selling booty shorts that say "this pussy's nonbinary too" and a jockstrap that says "faggot" all over it. so like. can a penis be nonbinary or.......

[mousidy]

out of curiosity I looked through their entire (very large) collection of booty shorts and there was a lot of "faggot" and "alpha male" and "he him hole" and a lot of pussy puns... but don't worry! they didn't forget trans women transgirls! 😃

[mousidy]

a trans woman cannot embody or own her desirability. it can only be granted to her by others

[jareckiworld]

Remedios Varo (1908-1963) — El Otro Reloj (The Other Clock) [gouache on cardboard, 1957]

[evenlyevi]

Home is in the ribcage.

[easily-evi]

Have I mentioned this was inspired by an animal crossing quote

[mousidy]

a lot of my disillusionment with the trans "community" comes down to the fact that too many of you take "gender is different from sex" and go "ah ok, so instead of saying women are fragile and men are strong, I should say afabs are fragile and amabs are strong. to be Inclusive"

then you just treat gender like a surface level aesthetic draped over what someone "actually" is. really is indistinguishable from terf rhetoric

[mousidy]

you all need to unpack your bioessentialism, but we also need a better theory of gender than "it's just dressup." I will pick my words carefully here, but the word "gender" itself refers to so many different phenomena that have been lumped together, and we need to un-lump them

[mousidy]

in a feminist context, "gender" has historically referred to externally imposed categorization and the internalization and performance of said categories. in a paper I wrote on this subject, I called this sense of the word "extrinsic gender"

"intrinsic gender," on the other hand, is what I used to refer to the sense of the word "gender" that a lot of trans people are talking about when they discuss social gender dysphoria and euphoria. it's the internal sense of category that's resistant to external impositions

but then we also use the word "gender" to refer to subconscious sex, which is the term Julia Serano coins in Whipping Girl to name the phenomenon we're talking about when we talk about bodily dysphoria. it is the "gender" being "affirmed" by gender affirming healthcare like HRT and bottom surgery

so, "gender" is: a social classing system, a performance, and at least two internal phenomena as well. and I really don't know if it's doing us a service to conflate all of these things!

[mousidy]

a lot of people lately seem to be going heavy on the "performance" use of the word, ignoring (intentionally or otherwise) social classing, intrinsic gender, and subconscious sex. this seems to have led to a lot of "progressive" people treating trans women like men "amabs" who wear womanhood as a costume, and nobody understands why that's wrong because they also think gender is just a performance

[mousidy]

see also "why can't you just be a femboy/feminine man/etc"

[rainbowppl]

[metamorphosisofthespirit]

That’s the same guy what the actual fuck.

[aquatixwitch]

Whoa what the fuck.

Reblogging to save a brother. Jfc.D:

[thisblogded-deactivated20220319]

stay safe

[safitheartist]

REPORT THIS PIECE OF SHIT AND GET HIS MEDICAL LICENSE REVOCED!

[naaaaaaaaaah-deactivated2020112]

when they think we’re mutilating ourselves to the point that they pose as SRS doctors and literally mutilate us for their agenda. cis ppl don’t forget this

topsurgery.net is a site with lots of before + after pics categorised by surgeon. I encourage everyone with other resources on srs surgeons and their results to share them here, for mtf/mtx surgeries too please

[kayla-denker]

"Love" that it has somehow become controversial even among trans men to say that trans men are men. And not in some metaphorical sense or whatever, not in a "gender isn't real" sense, not in a "but they're still female" sense, but in the sense that trans men are real, actual, MEN. And in addition: trans men that medically transition are MALE. That's what medical transition does: it changes your fucking sex! That's the whole point of it! And no, not just when you get grs, HRT alone does that too!

But no, so fucking many of them hate trans women so goddamn much that they've committed to misgendering themselves and spreading TERF ideology about how "they'll always be female" just so they can insist that the inverse is also true: that trans women are actually, and always will be, men and male.

[redlipstickresurrected]

A ceramic bowl depicting a swarm of mice. From Peru, Nazca culture, 180 BCE-500 CE, now housed at the Art Institute of Chicago. Twitter

[scrupulosity-comics]

sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom

[scrupulosity-comics]

[maudit]

[profeminist]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, author of the amazing graphic novels Persepolis about living during the fundamentalist revolution in Iran in the 70’s and 80’s. She also created the animated movie based on the graphic novels, which is where these gifs come from.

Gifset source

[missbliss12]

Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.

[keiitopop]

really cute decoration i saw at the hairdresser's today

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Unknown artist (signature and 1st seal: "Hiro"; 2nd seal: "Shofutsushi"), "Crows & Persimmon" (details ver. 2), Taisho era, ca. 1930

[depsidase]

[mousidy]

insane how many of you will just assume that a trans woman has a penis, and that it wouldn't be something she might have any dysphoria about

[mousidy]