#tpoc

[shermangiftbasket]

heres a comp of all the kissing I caught at tboy wrestling 😗

[certifiedsexed]

Just a note for TPOC (Trans people of color!), just because "white culture (AKA racism)" is everywhere does not mean you have to follow it.

Feel free to choose names that connect you to your culture/heritage, feel free to transition in ways that connect to/relate to your race/ethnicity and don't let "white culture" define your transition.

This is not to say you cannot choose traditionally "white" names, or transition in ways that don't connect to your heritage: its to say don't let racism force you to do those things, do those things only if they feel right for you and for nothing else.

Do not let "white culture" (or white people!) define whether you're gender/non/conforming (especially since, depending on your culture, 'conforming' to gender may look very different than whites expect it to!), or whether your name/hairstyle/new clothes is cool and affirming.

You define your transition. You define who you are. No one else.

[crreature]

Faces and Phases by Zanele Muholi

Begun in 2006, Faces and Phases is an ongoing series of photographic portraits of Black lesbians and transgender individuals Muholi has met in South Africa and beyond. The portraits work as a visual statement as well as an archive, presenting and preserving an often abused and ostracized community through visual records.

As Muholi writes: “In the face of all the challenges our community encounters daily, I embarked on a journey of visual activism to ensure that there is Black queer visibility. It is important to mark, map and preserve our mo(ve)ments through visual histories for reference and posterity so that future generations will note that we were here.

“In Faces and Phases I present our existence and resistance through positive imagery of Black queers (especially lesbians) in South African society and beyond. I show our aesthetics through portraiture.

“Faces express the person, and Phases signify the transition from one stage of sexuality or gender expression and experience to another. Faces is also about the face-to-face confrontation between myself as the photographer/activist and the many lesbians, women and trans men I have interacted with from different places. Photographs in this series traverse spaces from Gauteng and Cape Town to London and Toronto, and include the townships of Alexandra, Soweto, Vosloorus, Khayelitsha, Gugulethu, Katlehong and Kasigo.”

[gettinontopic]

"Transracialphobia - (n.) - Term describing the intersection of transphobia and racism as experienced by transgender people of color."

Ahha, took me too many days but I have found the post where I coined it and the addition made in the transgender dictionary with said definition!

This will be a tag that I hope stay primarily trans people of color talking about their experiences, though white users can post in it (as with pretty much any tag) if it's relevant to the topic at hand.Overall though I want this to be a spot where trans voices of color can speak up and be found, and also find each other in these talks.

Relevent does not include: Using poc as an example where no one asked and isn't actually about us!!

[naga-noia]

realizing I could be masculine in a black way was so freeing. I don’t just want to be a man. I want to be A Black Man. and that’s fucking rad as hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[our-queer-experience]

“Finally, one day when I was twelve or thirteen, found this National Enquirer wit anatide about Billy Tipton.

(Editor's note: Bily Tipton was an American jazz musician. Although he lived his adult life as a man, it was discovered after his death in 1989 that he was assigned female at birth.)

I hid this National Enquirer in our house like it was a Playboy magazine, so I could come home and look at it. And I stopped praying to God every day, because at least I then had a role model in Billy Tipton.

Billy died in poverty before his time because he didn't want to seek medical intervention to blow his cover. And still, just learning about him gave me a grounding to know that I wasn't crazy. There are people out there like me, that I can relate to, and I can figure out hopefully how to move forward.”

— Kylar Broadus in The Book of Pride

[mushroomyhouse]

Trans people exist in every culture and background across the world and throughout history ❤️

An illustrated print collaboration by @zandegoop and margot fink available at

❤️ mush.house/zandegoop ❤️

[h0rnyh0rr0rs]

Tumblr staff @changes

Please stop changing the site for worse, nobody likes it, we all fucking hate it, and you make it painfully obvious you do not intend for anyone to actually use or benefit from the changes.

We do not want twitter or instagram or tiktok, this is why we are fucking here. If you want to change something so bloody fucking badly, remove the censorship. That's it. Remove the censorship on our bodies, remove the censorship on trans people and people of colour, stop fucking shadow banning everyone who isn't a literal fucking Nazi or a child. You LOVE nazis on your site, they're everywhere as well as bots, and you'll flag and ban or delete REAL people posting nude art, but nooooo the nazi bot accounts with ai generated cp are just keystone to your shithole vision for the site.

If you insist on changing things, at least try to for the better, and quit dicking us around with things you know we'll hate. You tried it recently with fucking up reblogs, you're trying it again most recently with age verification.

THIS HELPS NOBODY!

Age verification is fucking pointless and does not help anybody, it does not make the site more safe. You don't care about safety when you refuse to delete spam accounts and nazi accounts and pedo accounts, no matter how many times they're reported. Because apparently a nipple is so heinous as to require releasing your sensitive information to yet another predatory online data pit, but oh no the magats telling every queer person on here to kill themselves for their imaginary god is actually wonderful and wholesome and more please.

You clearly do not give half a dried shit about us, so what the fuck are you even doing with this nonsense. We don't want it. We keep telling you we don't want it. Just fix what would actually improve the site why is it so difficult. Like you never gave a shit about freedom of speech- hence the heavy censorship on anything queer or body diverse, so it's not like this is a viable argument.

Not that it would be anyway, as fascism is a poison that destroys freedom of speech, or freedom of anything really, so allowing fascists to scream at people on here (whether they're bot accounts or the rare actual magat that got lost here) is a threat, and is completely unnecessary. Again, this is not twitter, and the people who actually use this site Do Not Want It To Be. Let the nazis keep their app until they all scream themselves to death, just keep it the fuck away from here.

You are not protecting anyone by further censoring us. You are making it worse, and removing any last safe spaces we have for expression, when we are already so closed off from each other. If you insist on doing something at least don't make it any worse that it already is. Just do something helpful for fucking once.