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Cat Person Council discord server :3

Check out the Cat Person Council community on Discord - hang out with 5 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

+here's the art I made for it

@agayanglerfish fear the council we have a server now

#cat person council #discord server #my art #cat person screams_art.png

applerums

that alligator you drw with tom zane is crazy good, you got more of that reptile?

i don't often draw reptiles, but i like gators. so. sure

ftmtftm

One of the things that's really getting to me about the current state of trans discourse is the constant comparison to race.

Take for example, the ridiculous number of non-Black trans people validating the idea that, "a trans woman saying "kill all tme people" to vent her frustration is the same as a Black person saying "kill all non-Black people" to vent their frustration" because it's actually fundamentally not the same on multiple levels.

First and foremost trans women are not "the Black people of the trans community". Black trans people of all gender identities are the Black people of the trans community. The fact that that comparison has been normalized by primarily non-Black people as an "okay" comparison for other non-Black people to make is racist and anti-Black.

Secondly, let's remind ourselves of the contexts here. In context, most people do use "tme" as a shorthand for trans men, trans masculine people, and nonbinary people who had an F written on their birth certificates. You can try to claim that "um actually it includes cis people" but this is hyper niche borderline chronically online trans discourse. It means other trans people. It means other people who are also marginalized on the basis of their gender identity.

So, if we're actually going to make an accurate comparison to a racialized situation here, follow me for a moment.

If a Black person said "kill all non-Black people" after weeks and months of primarily talking about how much they can't stand and don't trust other racial minorities, encouraging other Black people to cut everyone who isn't Black out of their lives while specifically focusing on how Black people should cut ties with other PoC, how solidarity and unity between racial minorities is impossible because other PoC (especially any specific demographic of non-Black PoC) can't be trusted, and constantly went on and on not about their hatred of white people but about their hatred of other racial minorities — I think it would be very fair to claim that Black person is racist towards other non-Black PoC.

Just like it's very fair to claim that a trans woman who says "kill all tme people" after weeks and months of primarily talking about how much she can't stand and doesn't trust other trans people who aren't like her, encourages other trans women to cut everyone who isn't a trans woman out of their lives while specifically focusing on how trans women should cut ties with other trans people, talks about how solidarity and unity between trans people is impossible because non-trans woman trans people (especially trans men) can't be trusted, and constantly goes on and on not about her hatred of cis people but about her hatred of other trans people is transphobic towards other trans people.

Trans discourse and racial discourse are not the same. There are absolutely aspects of Black political theory that non-Black trans people can draw upon and take notes from. Black activists and theorists have been working for over a century both outside and inside the trans community on amazing work and have laid a solid groundwork for sociopolitical change that we can and should be following.

But like I said, trans women aren't "the Black people of the trans community". Black trans people of all gender identities are the Black people of the trans community.

I think it would benefit a lot of people to just sit down and really internalize that before speaking again, lest they start sounding like John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

ftmtftm

Expanding on this because many people who talk about transandrophobia as a concept do also make comparisons and analogies to race, particularly Blackness, and I want to highlight the difference.

Often when people are discussing transandrophobia as a concept positively, Black men and other non-Black MoC are brought up as examples of how racial bigotry can overlap with gendered bigotry outside of womanhood and misogyny. That experience is then often compared to the way that transphobic bigotry can overlap with gendered bigotry outside of womanhood and misogyny.

The reason why that comparison works is because there is already foundation laid in Critical Race Theory, Black Feminist Theory, and Intersectional Theory to support and validate the lived, racialized-gendered experiences of Black men and other non-Black MoC and this form of trans sociopolitical theorizing is expanding on those pre-existing concepts and theories on the intersection of gender based biases/bigotry and other marginalizations outside of womanhood.

Transfeminism as a movement on the ground and in written theory is closely tied to Black Feminist and Intersectional Feminist action and writings. Even if your only or earliest written exposure to transfeminist theory is Whipping Girl — Julia Serano intentionally opened the book with a quote from Audre Lorde. My personal feelings about Serano's white feminist bastardization of the work of Black women, explicit erasure of transfeminist action before the turn of the century, and explicit exorsexism and bias against nonbinary people aside, Serano herself still took inspiration from a political movement that explicitly, intentionally, and thoughtfully examines marginalized manhood in good faith in its own rights, in tandem with the examination of marginalized womanhood.

There is absolutely no good reason why transfeminism and transfeminist theory should not do the same for trans men, trans masculine people, and all nonbinary people regardless of what a doctor wrote on a piece of paper when they were born.

sosaysdean

hello

rabbitkinglune777

get to know my ocs aesthetics!

rabbitkinglune777

wanted to flesh out Hitch and Hitomi a bit with their aesthetics plus alt outfits different from their main ones!

kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields

kineticpenguin

At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely

yourunderwaterskies

technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.

Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.

Free courses on Coursera.

Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison

For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.

When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.

aloeverawrites

@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changingly helpful to me-

And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.

Learn more about the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Program to train policy professionals, government officials, academics,

Kaya is a free humanitarian learning platform which offers hundreds of training opportunities across a range of key topics, including the hu

spookberry

My personal headcanon for Ash Ketchum has always been that regardless of if his dream ever came true he'd never truly stop traveling and learning. Because despite "becoming a pokemon master" being his goal if you actually sit down and watch like Any episode of Pokemon the thing that always holds true is his curiosity and desire to learn everything he possibly can related to pokemon. And he'll try anything to! He did contests and the battle frontier. He'd do those silly little shows with Serena if they'd let him.

So I like to imagine him continuing on in life as this nomad who people don't automatically recognize as anyone important ya know? Just this goofy guy going from place to place always lending a helping hand and hes got a cute lil pikachu on him. And hes often lost somewhere with a friend just exploring the woods to see if he'll find anything cool. Ya know, as hes always been, but older now. And its only once hes drifted once more do you maybe stumble into an article on the pokeweb about him and are like... that guy??

curvedroygbiv

there’s a dedicated ashandpikachuspotter account somewhere on some social media. You tag a photo or search for a term and boom, there’s pics of this guy. this dude. this man. with his pikachu. and it’s thousands of strangers from across the globe coming on line to talk about some stranger that they met briefly and then never saw again. they’ve compiled their stories and their approximate locations and mapped his journey from continent to continent, a long snaking pathway that spans decades and thousands of miles. He’s apparently one of those Kanto kids that the government let just drop out of school. Its working out very well for him.

spookberry

Thats so funny, to imagine him as a pokeweb criptid type character a la the florida man

spookberry

the one thing about him is he's also not gonna think he's famous or ever mention it himself

pokemonheritageposts

Pokemon Heritage Post

crabussy

let's capitalise the first letter of random words.... Forever

cinnamon-mutt

it is not Random its to put Emphasis. you noodle

crabussy

(obediently) me noodle

nematodeneedles

Buneary Comic

naamahdarling

That has to be the most humiliating way to describe one of Earth's most terrifyingly effective predators.

sapphic-and-stupid

Picture of her from the USA Today

teaboot

I would let her kill me for sport

vaelus-malewife

shower-thoughts-last-responder

wolfythewitch

On my tenth cup of coffee getting dead wife flashbacks that never happened

hundgallery

when i was born, you were produced.

[image description: a digital drawing of my oc, graiden douley. he's staring at the viewer with a neutral expression. overlaid over his face are red sketches of hands fingerspelling "mama boy" in asl, as well as bright red text that reads "mama's boy," twice. end id]

literallyaflame

i have a secret third opinion about self dx discourse which is “why are you guys treating the DSM like it’s the fucking bible”

literallyaflame

the amount of leftists who uncritically support the DSM-5—wielding it online in battles against random individuals who might be “faking” a disorder—boggles my fucking mind. you guys realize that the DSM-5 isn’t the only diagnostic manual on the planet, right? you realize that we place it at the top of the global hierarchy because it’s american, right? has it occurred to you that the APA shouldn’t have so much authority over what counts as a “real” mental illness? has it occurred to you that perhaps there are other diagnostic manuals? in fact, there are dimensional models that don’t rely on sorting individuals into “disorder/no disorder” boxes in the first place. food for thought, lmao

annieisyourfavourite

when i got my assessment for borderline personality disorder, my psychiatrist told me that even though i had all the relevant symptoms and experiences, he didn't want to initially diagnose me because. and i'm not fucking with you. he said part of the diagnostic criteria for bpd is the inability to improve.

i said sorry?? pardon?? and he said that while everything was pointing to bpd, the fact that i had been slowly improving my symptoms through therapy twice a week meant that i couldn't have bpd. because people with bpd are incapable of change, growth, or bettering their circumstances.

i was aghast. i told him that didn't make any sense, that every mental illness can be improved with treatment and care, but he said the fact that i wanted to improve was a mark AGAINST my diagnosis.

that day changed the way i thought about psychiatric health forever. there are ableist prejudices baked in to every part of it

gaybichon

community notes are so brutal. tumblr needs to add that feature to escalate our pvp capabilities

treecitysessions

No the person who tweeted this made me laugh so hard the other day bc people were trying to correct them and they edited their shadow on picsart to keep the bit going