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[ventismfsblog]

[theypawz]

really fascinating how so many people treat racism as a personal failing and not a foundational issue with society. like. you know everyone's racist right? you have to actively unlearn racism even as a person of color.

if i didn't allow myself to engage with art made by people who held/hold bigoted views structurally reinforced by our society, i straight up wouldn't be able to experience anything lol.

it's an impossible standard to hold. and it's extremely telling when the people facing the most severe social scrutiny for racist remarks/behavior are by far not people with the most power to enforce racism in society, or even those with the most egregious views!

[plaidos]

it seems like the same type of people as those who said Steven Universe is Problematique Media are being impressively stupid about the amazing digital circus finale

[girl-debord]

"why don't trans women do any domestic labor" is right up there with "why do trans women never date each other" in terms of questions that show that you know nothing about trans women. except in this case the idea that trans women don't do domestic labor is instrumental in maintaining the social hierarchy that keeps trans women doing domestic labor. the idea that trans women are male-socialized and therefore predisposed to exploit the domestic labor of people who are female-socialized keeps trans women in the insecure position of having to prove themselves by taking on historically feminine domestic roles. the reification of economic feminist analysis into biological/socially-essential categories presents the perfect opportunity for tme partners & roommates to benefit from exactly the type of economic exploitation being criticized.

[problemnyatic]

the most valueable skill a white leftist can ever learn is how to take an L with grace.

[problemnyatic]

You gotta be able to take an L if your moral and ethical belief systems are to be capable of guiding you. Otherwise you just have an idealized self where you get really mad and scared when anyone points out it isn't actually you. How the fuck are you gonna walk the walk if you can't handle being told when you are not, in fact, actually walking it

[problemnyatic]

you cannot just socially transition into being a good person you are going to have to settle for being a messy human being who has to try and fail and keep trying to get better like everyone else. yeah even when it's embarassing and sucks for you a lot.

[maidslime]

Saw a post that said "if you call yourself a misandrist then I know you're weird about trans women who don't pass" and like. Those are women. Like if someone is a piece of shit to non passing trans women that's transphobia. Not some made up oppression for the men. Trans women are women. Stop trying to claim otherwise.

[maidslime]

By saying trans women who don't pass are affected by misandry you have become the one being "weird" about trans women who don't pass

[plaidos]

i was really really sick to the degree that i couldn’t work for the rest of May, and we’re going through a cost of living crisis in my country so if you want to support a disabled trans woman with an incredibly low income then maybe slip a couple bucks my way. thank you ❤️

[milf-king]

Eid Mubarak to everyone who celebrates!!

May the next Eid be with a Free Palestine

[milf-king]

Eid Mubarak everyone!!

There will come a day when we celebrate Eid and a free Palestine. Inshallah

[communistkenobi]

This is the most comprehensive and impressive resource I've ever watched on transphobia. I think this is an especially important video for cis people to watch. The video is accessible and meant to be an educational tool for people who are confused by what the hell is going on right now. Every possible question you could have on trans issues is addressed in this video.

This pride month, if you want to help combat transphobia from your coworkers, friends, family, and so on, this is a very good educational resource to help you understand every aspect of transphobic rhetoric, policies, legislation, history - everything. It was made by a cis guy who drove himself crazy trying to figure out why everyone hates trans people, to the point that he dropped out of university to make this video. Given the global state of increasing anti-trans violence, I really strongly urge cis people to watch this video in full. It is an incredibly valuable resource and I cannot recommend watching it strongly enough.

Life for trans people is only becoming more horrifying, and I genuinely appreciate and respect every cis person who takes the time to watch this video, educate themselves, and understand the many fights ahead.

[plaidos]

by the way i havent said this before because its cringe to talk about steven universe these days but. steven universe is transfeminine right. like we all saw steven universe future. steven is a trans girl. right. right. ri

[plaidos]

trust me: rewatch this show apply the lens of Steven as an egg unwilling to investigate his feelings about gender because he’s afraid that it’ll prove he isn’t his own person and is just a reflection of his mother. watch as he experiences gender euphoria from fusing with Connie (eventually even suggesting staying permanently fused), as he magically represses his own puberty for years. Watch Greg explicitly tell Steven that he can be a girl if he wants after he comes to him worried about who he’s destined to be. watch him continually and often intentionally repress and shape himself into what he thinks he should be for everybody else. this is literally what the show is about.

[plaidos]

tell me you dont see it.

[maehkon]

this:

[plaidos]

parts of Steven’s narrative are absolutely allegorically transmasc — but the reading i’m talking about is a watsonian one, not doylist. Sugar’s experiences with coercive female assignment are obviously very present in Steven’s storyline with anybody with the eyes to see it, but at the end of the day, in-fiction, Steven was canonically assigned male at birth & struggles frequently with misshaping himself into an ideal masculine figure (Coach Steven, Too Many Birthdays, Everything’s Fine). i think there’s room for parts of Steven’s struggle to be allegorically transmasc whilst (s)he could still be literally transfeminine, much in the same way that Rose’s narrative draws from both transmasculine and transfeminine inspirations (Rose is both running away from and towards female identity, shirking daughterhood but asserting herself as a mother & even giving herself a womb).

also, just for point of reference, way back before i came out as a woman, i first struggled with being misgendered the other way around. many trans girls growing up being called girls for being little faggots growing up, so idk, i think it could really go both ways

[plaidos]

i regret to inform you that this actually happens in the original show and you just missed it. Steven spends the entirety of Lion 4: Alternate Ending trying to find hints from Rose about what he’s supposed to do with his life, what he is supposed to be for. Eventually, when he finds the Nora tape he takes it to Greg who tells him that as far as he knew, Steven isn’t necessarily supposed to have a magical destiny, his entire purpose to be something that doesn’t have a purpose, to be something that is supposed to grow and change and be different one moment to the next —

"Because you're going to become something extraordinary. You're going to be a human being. *giggles* That's my favorite part. A human being. A human is an action. I wonder who, how you'll be, what you'll think, what you'll want. Oh, I'm so happy for everyone who's going to know you.

Steven even asks his dad the exact question that so many trans youth before him struggling with their identity asked: Would you have preferred me if I were a girl? Was I supposed to be a girl? These are questions that haunt kids working out that they’re trans, as if everything wrong with Steven’s life would be explained by how he was supposed to be a girl. I relate to this a lot. But the part that really sends it home to me is how Greg responds:

Steven, she just wanted you to be you. When you have a kid, you have no idea who they're gonna be. Even Garnet couldn't predict it. That's what was so exciting to your mom, that life is full of so many possibilities, and you would get to explore them for yourself. I mean, you could be Steven or Nora or anyone else. And you can always change your name. Hey, I did.

i genuinely don’t know how to analyse this other than as Greg saying “me and your mother wanted you to be your own person, whatever that means to you. if you would be happier as Nora or as anybody else, i will support you through that. i would be a pretty big hypocrite if i didn’t”. as far as i can tell, there is no way to interpret “I mean you, could be Steven or Nora or anyone else. And you can always change your name” than Greg explicitly telling Steven he’s allowed to be trans

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[kaban-bang]

Tumblr users are trying REALLY HARD to redefine both terfism and bioessentialism as "when you say men as a class benefit from misogyny".

Not lost on me how both of these terms that were used to point out instances of transmisogyny are now being weaponized to shut down transfeminists.

[witchintestine]

In 2010, webcomic artist Andrew Hussie opened up MS Paint and drew an amazing digital serket.

[lobster-lover]

little quick thing. i know how to wield a pen and paper sometimes

[visualgirladvance]

two vriskasprites.... that's amazing digital serkets

[evilnicegirl]

i hope that someday there will be no more advertisements ever again