Rusty Flo

That's that shit I do like.

[psych-facts]

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

— Paulo Coelho, Alchemist

[purplebuddhaproject]

“Love someone who is kinder to you than you are to yourself.”

—

Nikita Gill

(via purplebuddhaquotes)

[opana]

if your trauma made it hard for you to figure out your true sexuality absolutely smash that reblog button

[genderspatial]

Just saw this post on my dash and because the person who made it blocked me. I’ll answer here.  Their post: “Literally never gonna forgot the trans man that gave a speech at a women’s college about how he doesn’t yet have male privilege while he was the student body president. So you know a man so happened to rise politically to president had nothing to do with gender.” In American, 4 trans people have been elected into office. 4/4 of them were trans women or non-binary DMAB people.  In the rest of the world, 19 trans people have been elected. 19/19 of them were DMAB.  Trans women elected to office: 23 Trans men: 0 No trans men have been elected. None. 

[atropos-moth]

Update, as of March 2017:

Globally, there have been 4 trans men elected to public office

There have been 10x more trans women elected than trans men

[ophelias-revenge]

Male privilege in action. Identity politics needs to stop denying this shit

[cecaeliawitch]

“listen to trans people! unless they’re biologically female, then fuck those oppressive shitlords”

[radfemarchive-deactivated202304]

Everything I see about trans men is either about them getting pregnant or looking hot, not a single name immediately pops in my head when I see “trans men”, contrary to trans women that I can name at least 3.I’m pretty sure there’ll be more results leading to pornography than to trans men’s accomplishments when you google about it, no female has or will ever have male privilege, trans men’s “privilege” only last until people know their sex.

[thedarkperidot]

Signs you grew up lonely

- Chasing people who don’t want you

-Making up lots of stories and worlds

-Overtalking whenever there’s someone to talk to

-Excessive reading

-Daydreaming

-Clinging emotionally to others

-Being the ‘disposable’ friend in the group

-Excessive baths

-Talking to oneself

-Obsessive friendships

-Excessive helpfulness

[ninjamelissajulien]

[idramaaddict]

AMEEN

[catscenter]

[stele3]

The witches have come to lay their claim.

[familiarfalling]

It drives me kind of nuts that people insist you talk about Detransition in a way that’s neutral and constantly reassuring that transition is good for some people. Especially when a lot of that is coming from people who have not experienced as much of transition as I have. I, and other detransitioned women, need room to grieve and voice our feelings experiences even when - arguably ESPECIALLY WHEN - they don’t fit the popular narrative.

[arterialtrees]

Cool for You: A Novel by Eileen Myles

[destroyyourbinder]

“I’ve often thought of a female Christ. David told me there’s one in a church in Montreal. Mostly the world can’t take it. Because of people’s feelings about the delicacy of women and also because of what a meaningless display female suffering simply is. If you belittle us in school, treat us like slaves at home and finally, if you get a woman alone in bed just tell her she’s all wrong, no matter what sex you are… of maybe you just grab one on the street and fuck her real fast– in an alley, or in her own bed. I mean if that’s the way it usually goes for this girl what would be the point in seeing her half nude and nailed up? Where’s the contradiction? Could that drive the culture for 2000 years? No way. Female suffering must be hidden, or nothing can work. It’s a man’s world and a girl on a cross would be like seeing a dead animal in a trap. We like to eat them, or see them stuffed, we even like to wear them, but watch them suffer? Hear them wail? The complaining lines were expunged from Florence Nightingale’s book.”

[franciscanmedia]

#synagogueshooting https://ift.tt/2PYJKOD

[abstractgeniusultd]

[lexiiiixxx]

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[diversed]

[radical-pharah]

An excerpt from the Second Sex (pages 332-33)

It is here that little girls first appear privileged. A second weaning, slower and less brutal than the first one, withdraws the mother’s body from the child’s embraces; but little by little boys are the ones who are denied kisses and caresses; the little girl continues to be doted upon, she is allowed to hide behind her mother’s skirts, her father takes her on his knees and pats her hair; she is dressed in dresses as lovely as kisses, her tears and whims are treated indulgently, her hair is done carefully, her expressions and affectations amuse: physical contact and complaisant looks protect her against the anxiety of solitude. For the little boy, on the other hand, even affectations are forbidden; his attempts at seduction, his games irritate. “A man doesn’t ask for kisses … A man doesn’t look at himself in the mirror … A man doesn’t cry,” he is told. He has to be “a little man”; he obtains adults’ approbation by freeing himself from them. He will please by not seeming to seek to please. Many boys, frightened by the harsh independence they are condemned to, thus desire to be girls; in times when they were first dressed as girls, they cried when they had to give dresses up for long pants and had to have their curls cut. Some obstinately would choose femininity, which is one of the ways of gravitating toward homosexuality: “I wanted passionately to be a girl, and I was unconscious of the grandeur of being a man to the point of trying to urinate sitting down,” Maurice Sachs recounts.  However, if the boy at first seems less favored than his sisters, it is because there are greater designs for him.  The requirements he is subjected to immediately imply a higher estimation

[kiefbowl]

You should be safe to ask questions. You should be safe to provide alternative ideas. You should be safe to correct your own ignorance without brutal retaliation. You should be safe to leave. You should be safe to ask for more time for consideration. You should be safe to listen to an opposing view point. You should be safe to engage in debate. You should be safe to change an aspect of a belief. You should be safe to try a new system into practice. You should be safe to read. You should be safe to say hello to people. You should be safe to contact loved ones of your own volition. You should be safe for taking some space and time alone. You should be safe for taking some time for frivolity, without a cause. You should be safe from endless work to a cause. You should be safe to seek refuge in many different allies and leaders.

Your community is not a community if they value your allegiance and obedience over your personhood and mind.

[iamfinallybreakingfree]

My home will be a home with no loud anger, no explosive rage, no slamming doors or breaking glass, no name calling, shaming or blackmail. My home will be gentle, it will be warm. It will keep my loved ones safe. No fear, no hurt and no worries. I may come from a broken and twisted place but I will build something whole and safe. I’ll sing in the shower again, cook with a smile and dance in all the rooms. I will heal.

[spiroandthelacktones]

mike’s hard look at yourself

[realitytvshow]