The Knoughts and The Fox

I am a Christian who finds beauty in everything, a published artist and poet. who seeks to edify and share my individual convictions. I am not a perfect christian, I struggle with addictions like anyone else.

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Cross Design. Stephen Beam, July 2020

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Recent sunsets and cloudscapes here in Southwest Colorado.

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more of my artwork. Stephen Beam, copyright 2018.

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quick drawing from Intober 2019

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What’s the best revenge? To improve yourself.

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26 Things Adults Do Who Have Experienced Childhood Emotional Abuse

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There’s a lot of compelling research being done lately about how the way we grew up affects our behavior as adults. Studies have linked childhood trauma, for example, to increased levels of alcoholism and depression in adults.

Keep reading

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Why do these middle school kids have like 6,000 Instagram followers? Like, I dont think I’ve ever had 6,000 people look at me in my entire life, let alone subscribe to photos capturing my staged happiness.

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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

Virginia Woolf, Selected Essays. (via wordsnquotes)

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Me and myself (a confession)

I was born and raised a male, but since I was little I’ve always felt trapped in my own body. I’ve been raised a christian (Adventist) and have dealt with backlash, condemnation and ridicule, because I have voiced my thoughts (and heart) and support for LGBTQ friends and family. I’ve always identified myself as a male, but have kept my true identity to myself and select friends and family. I am Trans, but I will not destroy the body I’ve been gifted with. It’s God’s temple. if this sounds confusing, think about what it’s like for those that go for the full transformation. I’ve heard and read about them for years. I do deal with my identity in my own way, to keep from losing myself to the machine of society and it’s trends. 

I feel like if we don’t talk about our problems, that we’ll just keep repeating the same mistakes. In the end, I know I’ll be judged by what I say and do. i’m at peace with knowing i’m honest in my walk with God and his son Jesus and guidance from his Holy Spirit. i’m at peace with who I am as a human.      

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Watch as I defeat your countermeasures. [video]

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just about describes me when i’m doing my cheat meal.

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Vixen (courtesy of DC Comics) 

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Chanel Santini.

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Debunking a Ridiculous Myth

According to some, the girl on the left (me) belongs in the men’s room, while the man on the right belongs in the ladies room.

Ridiculous right?

Now, while the image is meant to shock and illustrate the problem, that isn’t even the crux of the issue. Assume I was forced into the men’s room and Buck here (man on the right) was forced into the ladies room. Guess who is more vulnerable and at risk? It isn’t your little daughter, it’s me. For me to enter a men’s room that tells everyone in there I’m transgender. Transgender women are ridiculed, assaulted, beaten and murdered for simply having the audacity to walk down the street in broad daylight.

Your daughter, sister, wife or mother is safer in the bathroom with a transgender woman than you’d like to believe. There is no other group of people more sensitive to the harsh realities of violence against woman than transgender women. We were once treated as men. We got to talk over other people in meetings, we got raises and promotions for being one of the guys, we got to walk the street at night relatively free from fear, we never had to measure the length of our clothes to make sure they met a dress code, and we never had to carry pepper spray or attend a self defense class just because of who we were. If I saw a cis man assaulting your child in the women’s room, you would have to pull me off of trying to smash his face in.

Lastly this talk of creepy cis men using the cloak of transgender rights as a basis for entering the women’s room to assault or creep on women?

1. Rapists, pedophiles and creepy men don’t need an excuse. 2. You really think stopping people who look like me from going into the women’s room but allowing people who look like Buck on the right to go in there doesn’t give men an excuse? Trust me, a creepy guy has a LOT harder a task looking like me than they do like him. You really think “I’m a transgender woman” is a better excuse than “I’m a transgender man?”

Stop the hate. Let us pee.