#hypervisibility

[pyrosex]

Trans women are not “lucky” to be hypervisible

Trans men are not “lucky” to be invisible

[kai-canine]

Why is no one else talking about how much transandrophobia there is at the moment? I know I talk about this a lot personally, but it seriously irks me for us to have such little representation compared to transfem people. Now don’t get me wrong, I think it’s amazing that people in the trans community get recognition, I love it! But there’s so many instances where trans men are accused of being misogynistic just for complaining about their own problems, or headcanoning a character as ftm. It’s so tiring, I just want a character to relate to without being shot down and accused of horrible things.

(Copied from my post in a community)

[livias]

dissolve

I explore the collapse of identity and spectacle; the forest, indifferent and ancient, absorbs any 'manufactured identities' - symbols of pop culture - into quiet decay. The superhero (once a global emblem of strength and belonging) appears in nature as a hollow product, detached from its cinematic mythology. The costume becomes both a mask and a mirror, a consumer product that stands in for selfhood, even as it erases it. Nature offers a return (not to purity or escape, but to a state beyond narrative, beyond consumption); the forest accepts "the figure" without question, reducing the spectacular to something humbly organic. Without an audience or a city to save, it is reduced to a symbol of post-consumer drift, a body caught between performance and disappearance. Who are we when our branded identities fall away?

[journeysendinlovers]

There is a long long conversation that I want to participate in and highlight about race and the Palestinian liberation struggle because 4 things are true:

1. Hypervisibility is not a privilege of the exploited. It's a harrowing experience to be observed perpetually by a global audience as you resist your own murder. Black people globally are very familiar with this experience. The Palestinian people are both hypervisible and dehumanized to such an extent that their national cause has been used rhetorically by many who are willing to watch and cry and throw pennies but not provide actual support for their safety, which feels very familiar to Black people.

2. Nonblack people globally on average do not recognize Black suffering as human suffering because Black life isn't recognized as human life by the averqge nonblack person. If that feels accusatory, it is. Think before responding to that, ask yourself some questions before you ask me a half baked one because by ethnicity, nationality, status in the eyes of civil society and so on, all nonblack people benefit from the dehumanizing of Black people.

3. Palestinians have used their hypervisibility for the benefit of the struggles of others even at their own expense, even at the risk of their lives, Palestinians have been insistent, for years, that their struggle is connected to the suffering of the whole world and they've been extremely correct.

4. Antiblackness is and always will be a factor in how nonblack people are treated collectively by the media gaze and how that manifests is actually significantly more complicated than "nonblack = positive, Black = negative " because proximity to and empathy for Black liberation is a factor in the treatment of nonblack groups, and when you put yourself out there on your own behalf and the behalf of Black people, your humanity becomes conditional to empire. Empathy for Black struggle, let alone solidarity with Black struggles for liberation, makes targets.

[sweetpea67]

Hypervisibility is not a privilege.

Invisibility is also not a privilege.

Both these things can coexist.

[part-3]

I can't esacpe the transphobia and transmasc hate bro like i go on twitter and everyone is dragging a trans guy for daring to portray transfem experiences, i come on here and the super cool artist i followed will say shit like "trans men face inherently less oppression for being afab" (wild-ass statement btw, like anyone being percieved as a women or a "third gender" would be treated kindly) i go on instagram and people tell you to kys. like where tf am i supposed to go

[somethingmissingthiswaycomes]

I'm not sure how common this is or if I'm just hyper aware of when it happens, but please don't say "trans people" when you mean trans women specifically, or "trans women" when you're describing something about trans people in general.

Not only does it erase trans men and nonbinary people, but in pushing trans women specifically, or issues primarily affecting trans women, to the forefront of every conversation about trans people in general, it also exacerbates the hypervisibility of trans women that make them the central target of the most violent anti-trans propaganda.

The lowest stake issue about it is that it just kinda feels bad when someone is talking about trans people and I have to do that extra processing in my head — like, "Oh they said 'trans people' but they're definitely talking about binary trans women here." "Ok they said this is about trans women but it also applies to most nonbinary identities." "That statement implies trans men don't exist, but I know they don't mean that so I won't hold it against them. Would it be rude to say something about it?"

Obviously the same applies when talking about trans men, but I haven't seen it happening that way around.

One could also go into talking about transfems and transmascs or trans manhood and womanhood with language that assumes a person can't be both or change from one to another — but you can't really just say that's a problem and have most trans and trans friendly people go "oh yeah I didn't think of that" bc being multigender is. even less understood and accepted than being otherwise nonbinary. But give it some thought, please.

That's my serious post of the day.

[silverlovesmadi]

Sign the Petition

Immediate removal of the “Grounded in the Stars” Statue in Times Square– It’s causing harm

I am in full support of Black American women resting and enjoying ease. The placing of this statue in the middle of Times Square clearly violates and disrespects this much needed rest era and therefore harbors on tone deaf.

Anybody who is in support of this image of a black woman (and other statues like it outside of the US) not being used as a public square target by a biracial male with a white mother / black father (and allegedly white wife) in the middle of an incredibly dangerous unsafe hostile scary political climate, please sign the petition and help create a safer environment for your black little girls.

Safety, rest and protection for black women and girls is all that matters.