Play With Me In The Stars One Day

Boo. 27. They/them.

[omegaversereloaded]

[whompthatsucker1981]

[our-queer-experience]

we DO grow old and happy. btw.

[imconfusedallthetimehelp]

And you find love and it stays with you.

[irisbleufic]

Older women are so, so beautiful, and older trans women are no exception. Celebrate the beauty of our elders! Celebrate trans beauty!

[our-queer-experience]

^^^

[stayingmachine]

I wanted to share some more of these, specifically trans women of color. The images I'm posting are from a project called To Survive On This Shore and it's an interview project. I am only posting a handful so it's so worth checking out!

This is Linda, 60

Alexis, 64

Helena, 63

Kendrah, 72 (!!)

Tasha, 65

It was deeply healing to me to discover this project. The site has selected photos and attached interviews and it's definitely worth your time. I didn't include any because the focus of this post imo is transfems but there are a lot of beautiful interviews with transmasc people too if you're interested! But that'll have to be another post 💖

[houndmother]

for those interested, the photographer is Jess T. Dugan. The link to this particular project is as follows:

To Survive on This Shore — JESS T. DUGAN

[toskarin]

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[kaylmao]

[huaqinger]

6/4 🌹

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[dark-spirit-tamamoland]

they're still terming random transfems as i type this i see which does make quite a statement doing this today specifically

[puppetstuffing]

watched three girls who reblogged its new blog mutual aidpost (made literally 15 minutes ago) already disappear from its notifs. transfems are not included in their pride :/

[puppetedlove]

:)

[puppetvictim]

:)

[tamamowand]

QUITE the statement to be nuking transfems at the current accelerated pace right at the start of pride month like this, isn't it

[admiralclover]

It wouldn't surprise me if this all came down to just one manager who's a transphobe and everyone else just cowardly following along because they like having an income

[gremlingirlsmell]

instead of "manager" try CEO. matt mullenweg had been openly participating in a harassment campaign against a transfem user and after terminating her tumblr, even chased her over to twitter to harass her a bit more there. that was 2 years ago.

since then mass termination and nuking* of transfems' blogs have picked up a lot, and haven't ever stopped. every week there is a mass-banwave, usually hitting transfems for being victims of mass harassment campaigns. some transfems get terminated even more frequently, like every few days to even down to every few hours on some days. the blogs up there in the reblog chain from puppet were all made and terminated within hours of each other.

the transmisogyny comes from the top down AND from the userbase

*nuking here refers to the "higher tier" of termination that retroactively deletes all images and reblogs from that blog off of other people's accounts. amd this one cannot be appealed either

[lucyleviathantv]

pjackk's corpse has washed up upon the shore rusted and covered in seaweed

[lucyleviathantv]

they pushed his corpse back out to sea

[mtf-the-gathering]

getting banned over a glitched report that was never actually filed, only to be unbanned out if nowhere 3 months later and then immediately banned again within a matter of hours, is honestly the most pjackk thing to ever happen to someone on this site

[b0nkcreat]

i'm your only friend (realizes that's statistically unlikely) i'm not your only friend (considers my positive qualities) but i'm a little glowing friend (suddenly gets cold feet) but really i'm not actually your friend (remembers to be confident in relationships) but i am

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

It's just weird living in a world that was at one point fully on-board with rehabilitating George W Bush, a man who famously invaded a country and started a war over absolutely nothing and resulted in instability in Iraq that still exists to this day, and yet we are going to marches called "No Kings?". girl where have you been?

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

America was so susceptible to fascist capture because we brazenly let presidents perform actual war crimes and didn't hold them accountable for it. Bush is a felon, Obama is a felon, they just will never be tried for their crimes. Almost every President commits harm and wrongdoing on a level so absolutely absurd that it dwarfs whatever they've done before.

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

Also just to be clear, "fascist capture" is a phrase that's loaded with connotations and it's not even one I subscribe to (I think America has been in a state of proto-fascism for at least four decades) but it's like. I'm so sick of the way people act like this isn't America. "There's a felon in the White House" girl there is ALWAYS a felon in the White House. A very, very bright and glaring spotlight is being shined on a fundamental truth because they've finally gotten confident enough to not feel ashamed and you are turning away from it to bury your head in the sand!!!

[deathwarlock]

the doomed noob trolls futilely.

[stillnaomi]

The Liberal Guide to Acceptable Behaviour

killing a rich couple to steal $100k worth of jewellery and watches in order to escape poverty?

❌ bad, wrong, you're a murderous scum and should go to prison for life (we'll be praying for your soul)

joining the military to help kill and maim foreign people, in order to escape poverty?

✅ you can't blame them, it was government's fault for tempting them with money. they're literally poor (that foreign country's government was evil anyway)

[stella-and-the-pinks]

if you're disabled and/or chronically ill, i cannot stress enough how much you deserve friendship.

if your conditions make it hard for you to follow through with plans, you deserve friendship anyways.

if you use equipment like mobility aids, aac, ventilators and oxygen, feeding tubes, insulin pumps, etc, you deserve friendship anyways.

if your conditions make you have to cancel last minute a lot, you deserve friendship anyways. if your conditions make you have to leave early a lot, you deserve friendship anyways.

if you're housebound/bedbound, you deserve friendship anyways.

if you need caregiver support to hang out with friends, you deserve friendship anyways AND you deserve the caregiver support you need to enjoy time with them.

if you have a service dog, you deserve friendship anyways.

if your conditions cause "scary" medical episodes like seizures, fainting, meltdowns and shutdowns, etc, you deserve friendship anyways.

if you're disabled and/or chronically ill, i cannot stress enough how much you deserve friendship.

[read-marx-and-lenin]

The US, in an attempt to manufacture consent from so-called "progressives", loves to pinkwash its imperialist activities. Every nation declared an enemy of the US empire has been denounced for being homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, etc. Despite this, domestic LGBTQ+ and women's rights continue to revert under the auspices of the Trump administration, and the empire has set its sights on Cuba, a long-standing enemy with some of the most progressive and forward-thinking policies on LGBTQ+ and women's rights in the world.

«Frente a una tendencia global de retroceso, Cuba se posiciona a la vanguardia internacional en la protección de los derechos de la comunidad LGBTQ+, consolidándose como un referente positivo», afirmó la directora del Cenesex [Dra.C. Mariela Castro Espín] durante su intervención.

Cuba understands that the solution to homophobia, to transphobia, to misogyny, is not to callously use these issues as a justification for war and sanctions. The solution is to provide positive examples of equality and to show how these changes can be made. Cuba has provided the world with a model of how socialist democracy can achieve major improvements in human rights even under siege conditions. When people are empowered to fight for their own rights and participate directly in the political process, anything is possible. But when corruption and private interests dictate public policy, like in the United States, human rights become little more than bargaining chips or abstractions.

The callous weaponizing of human rights by the likes of the United States, Israel, and the European Union for the purposes of undermining the sovereignty of other nations and furthering the imperial and colonial domination of other nations has done nothing to safeguard the rights of any people and has given conservatives and bigots ample ammunition to launder their own conservative views under the guise of anti-imperialism. If those of us in the imperial core want to further the cause of LGBTQ+ and women's rights, we must firmly reject imperialism and pinkwashing. We should look to Cuba as an example of progress and demand that the US keep its hands off of the island nation. We should work to make our own nations into positive examples for the rest of the world to follow, and not throw stones in a glass house that is becoming more and more fragile by the day.