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it/its. woman-liker. adult. tme. sri lankan. free tamil eelam. global north. intersectional and transfeminist stuff. previously void-of-moths.

[skulkingthing]

i am going to live forever

[ivy-saurs]

randomly remembered this tweet and had to stop myself from bursting out laughing

[queerasfact]

This is Rita Hester. Rita was born in 1963, in Hartford, Connecticut. She loved rock music, food, and dancing. She often holidayed in Greece. She had a pet cat, and a boa constrictor.

In 1998, Rita was murdered. In 1999, Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded in her honour.

Today we mark Transgender Day of Remembrance and remember Rita, and everyone else who has been murdered because of transphobic violence.

[idiotduckbox]

I know it’s early in the year, but in my junior year of college, I went through this site, found the people who had died in our area (and included Rita Hester), compiled their photos, age at death, bios, and info for the vigil, and printed posters of them and put them up on the day.

Nobody took them down. But I watched people barely even notice them. The following year, I made them more eye-catching - paid for color printing, made the background pastel pink and blue, formatted them like lost posters, and at the top, wrote: "will you remember me?"

That got noticed.

So if anyone feels like me when the anniversary comes - like our deaths aren’t being noticed, like nobody cares, like nobody even knows - maybe this can inspire you to put up your own posters, and hold your own vigil. Or let this inspire you to do your own project.

[skulkingthing]

I Must Keep Everything In My Head All Of The Time So I Don’t Make A Mistake

[vicholas]

The fact that after the United States the countries with most mormons are Mexico, Brazil, Philippines, Peru and Chile makes me want to scream. Kill all missionaries now.

[beatbizzle]

Mormons stole my great great grandmother from her husband, married her off to a white settler, and then sold all her land because she couldn't find the deed (they destroyed it) and now there's a whole ass freeway and demolished mall on our tribe's land that I see every day on my way to work.

The white men that did this have billions in generational wealth while my mother and grandmother both died from having inadequate healthcare.

When I say fuck mormon missionaries, I mean it so deeply and if I were capable of feeling hatred, it would be at that entire establishment.

Fuck. Mormon. Missionaries.

They tricked my great great (great?) grandfather into helping build a town that became one of the largest growing cities in the country, stole his daughters, killed his sons, and "blessed" the land in their colonial god's name. And the women were forced to convert or die.

[vexxingpink]

[skulkingthing]

is pinterest just like. one giant ad

[skulkingthing]

Yummy Food Great Awesome

[closet-keys]

I have said before that I don't agree with the reactionary tendency to blame "social media" for broader issues, especially at this current moment where (particularly in north america and europe) we're being propagandized constantly to allow increasing censorship and surveillance via "common sense" rhetoric about how evil social media is.

with that said, I think it is necessary to understand policing of online public space as a dimension of the policing of public space more broadly. there is no ''just go outside'' solution to these issues, because ''outside'' is policed as well.

for example, the way that sex workers have been ruthlessly and structurally targeted for social death online is completely in line with how they are treated offline as well. these things work in conjunction. if you make sure someone cannot find and vet clients online, they must do so offline. if you make sure they cannot meet clients indoors, they have to meet them on the street. if they have to meet them on the street, police have more access to these workers (to harass, assault, sexually violate, abduct, and kill them). the whole system works together. every prediction I heard from sex workers in 2016 is the reality today.

so when transfeminized people are talking about being relentlessly harassed off of every social media platform, that is not just an "online" issue. it is happening alongside their being driven out of all public space, online or offline (e.g. with bathroom policing, denial from employment, housing, and shelters, etc.)

when people from the global south are being labeled as "scammers" or "foreign bots" and getting their accounts banned repeatedly, it is part of the exact same ideological justification for border policing, detention, and deportations--it is the constant reinforcement of the idea that these people are "criminal" and here to "take what's yours" and "might appear to be someone struggling but they're not really human."

when images of people with racialized features, fat bodies, facial and skin differences, visible disabilities, intersex and transsexual sexed traits, etc., are repeatedly hidden by algorithms, marked "mature," and censored, this indicates a resurgence of "ugly laws" as part of the broader ascendant eugenics movement. this cannot be divorced from the stigmatization, defunding, dismantling, and criminalization of healthcare for "undesirable" populations.

social media is part of public space. if someone wants to prevent a population from accessing it or being seen within it, this needs to be understood as a call to keep that population out of public space more broadly. if someone who does not own private property (most people) cannot be in public, they must be either trapped within a setting where autonomy is severely limited and communication is surveilled (prisons, detention centers, psych wards, etc) or dead.

[tgirlmaomao]

fuck no im not following your alter she posts bad

[thanatos-girl]

Tbh i think the disabling nature of a lot of work is sort of criminally overlooked by a lot of otherwise excellent labor analysts

[thanatos-girl]

Like im a janitor, I clean all day, and at 23 I am developing serious upper back pain that is echoed in my older coworkers ten-fold. It's a job that demands you to be up and moving constantly and often bent over or scrubbing something. We (janitors) have much higher rates of back, joint, and muscle problems and injuries compared to the population average, as well as significantly higher rates of sickness and chronic illness. It's a job that literally destroys your body.

But whenever people talk about my profession, it seems like their main concerns are the (accurate) ideas that the labor we do is wildly devalued and invisibilized and that it is a gross and thankless job to clean up after others. While this is a major aspect of the work I do I feel like it undercuts the serious physical toll of the work itself and the ways that impacts our ability to experience life out of the workplace.

[thanatos-girl]

Obviously this doesn't just apply to janitorial work, and tbh its perhaps an issue of imp-core labor and its failures to understand itself given that the most dangerous jobs with the most disabling effects have largely been outsourced to the periphery at this point, creating a sort of buffer for the modern imp-core worker where the largest problem with most jobs truly isnt the literal material effects of the work upon the worker

[birdhug]

X

[vezhenart]

Kira Voskresenskaya

A hunter, a werewolf, a daughter who killed her own father for his sins

[crazysodomite]

[erratic-meowmeow]

[unspeakablybea]

not being near anyone who likes me for years and years and years is starting to have an effect on me i think

[sneefss]

starting

[dinovelvet]

[sharkinablanket]

[thefoolishkat]

and they are the bestest of friends

[oldmanontumbler]

Lesbian vampires drink from any girl!

I love the "vampire eats out person on their period" thing as much as anyone else, but it's usually a cis woman getting eaten out, because the implication is that "period = blood = vampires want her for her blood." So I wanted for trans girls on their periods to get some vampire action, too. Y'all deserve it.

Also: the vampire is has facial hair. Some women do. I modeled her after women I knew in the past, most of whom were Indian, who had facial hair. If you are cruel towards any woman who has facial hair, cis or trans, you will be blocked.