GOT7 - HOME RUN
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GOT7 - HOME RUN
i actually do think you should draw clocky trans people. no i don’t think they’re a stereotype or caricature. i think that’s a horrible thing to say about real people who exist. i think that’s a horrible thing to say about my friends and my family. i want to see your art of a trans boy with curves and long hair and baby face because that’s me. i want to see your art of a tall trans girl with broad shoulders and facial hair because that’s my friend. stop being scared to draw the people you know.
“I’m not going to draw a clocky trans woman because that’s how TERFs draw them” i don’t think my friends should be forced to only see themselves in artwork made my TERFs and transphobes. They should get to see themselves lovingly drawn by other trans people.
something about Rob's eyebrows pinching together and making him look super pathetic
I am gently taking your hands and begging you, BEGGING YOU, to understand that humans are not inherently harmful to the planet. We are animals who are part of the ecosystem. We belong here. This is our home. We belong here. You belong here. Yes, you belong here.
"humans are animals too" means both that we are not uniquely worthy or valuable and that we are not uniquely terrible or harmful. We have the capacity and the responsibility to do better.
Vintage Photos of Queer Couples of Color
One of the biggest things I remember Marsha P. Johnson for is S.T.A.R (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries).
It was a group she founded with several other trans women, specifically sex workers, and they housed trans and gay kids (specifically Black and Brown ones) who needed it, using the money they got from sex work.
She was murdered, likely (at the very least aided by) the US police, and it all hurts my soul so much. Not just thinking of all the people who are alive today because of her but how she was a poet, she was a performer, she was a sex worker, she was beautiful and vibrant and alive.
I'm alive today because of the kindness of Black and Brown trans women who were looking out for and taking trans kids under their wing and the way they disappear left and right and not only do people move on in the blink of an eye, but they turn these people into "symbols" without respecting who they were or what they believed in is so heartbreaking.
To anyone wanting to honor Marsha, maybe try watching out for trans kids, helping out where you can. Fight transmisogyny/noir. Commit some crimes to help other queer folks. Put some bricks in a bag, hit a cop. Protest (or help out with one). Fight whorephobia and stick up for sex workers.
Don't just bring up Stonewall or make memorabilia with Marsha's face on it. She was a fucking person and so are all the other Black trans women who have been murdered and have disappeared, respect it.
(yes this is us centric but im already seeing so many posts "honoring" marsha p johnson and im tired.)
I don’t want to hear any stupid infighting this year.
Jaia Cruz, a trans woman of color, was sentenced to FIFTEEN YEARS for defending herself agaisnt a violent transmisogynist, and Johnathan Joss, an indigenous gay man, was recently murdered in a shooting. He protected his husband in his final moments, despite all of this being preventable had the police did anything about the constant homophobic threats and harassment they received from their neighbors.
To no one’s surprise, conservative media (specifically NY Post) is already publishing articles covering up significant details about each of these cases. One such example involved painting Jaia as “pure evil” when she was being verbally abused and physically attacked until she stabbed him in self-defense. Another claimed Johnathan and his husband “got into a dispute” with Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez (the shooter) when the shooting was an entirely premeditated hate crime based on Tristan’s account.
Lest we forget that only a couple of months ago, the torture and murder of Sam Nordquist, a black trans man, was discovered.
We’re not even a WEEK into Pride Month. Stay vigilant of your surroundings. Keep your community close. We need to prioritize protecting ourselves and our own, especially when queer people of color are among our most vulnerable.
If we don’t got us, who does?
Only mildly late sketch for a fun DTIYS challenge from @ro3rin Another TUA fanart because I do what I want. Nothing too fancy, but this is such a fun concept that demanded to be drawn. I decided that it really only worked if the milk carton was trashed, so I had fun playing with texture on this. It was more challenging to do the lettering, which is why it got significantly more scribbly as I went. My biggest regret was the cheap paper I drew this on, but hey... that sketchbook was probably on sale when I got it. Thanks for the idea!
Tangible
+Bonus: the whole canvas and modified version 😛
Bullying so intense it goes beyond the grave lmaoo
Girl dad klaus ☹️💔
I kept wanting to make this piece so I actually picked up a pencil and made it 😛🌹
Five chasing Klaus for some reason lmao 😭
really not sure when it happened or why but personally I'm pissed that the queer community at large seems to have given up ground on the "people with penises/vulvas/testes/ovaries" language to sex & gender essentialists in exchange for the much less precise, much more demeaning "AGAB" language.
is it because you're scared of the word vulva? of acknowledging out loud that some people have penises? of recognising that many many people, including but certainly not limited to trans people, have mixed sex characteristics that cannot be accurately summarised by "afab/amab" as shorthand for "female/male"?
"in [GENITAL RELATED] situation AFABs will need to do X and AMABs will need to do Y" there are "afabs" with penises and "amabs" with vulvas. Saying this shit makes you look so unserious & honestly transphobic (given the ongoing erasure of post-op trans people within broader community). Intersex people and GRS have both existed for long enough (fucking forever and, decades, respectively) that we should well past making this basic fucking mistake.
quit referring to people by a vague & often violent event that happened at their birth as though it defines ANYTHING about how they & their body currently operate, and start using precise language so you at least look like you know what you're fucking talking about.
i agree, and will add:
do NOT say 'people with a vulva/vagina" when you talk about PERIODS AND BIRTH CONTROL. the term you want is FUNCTIONNING UTERUS.
lots of trans women and transfem people (including intersex ppl, *including cis women*) can and do get bottom surgery. the procedure in itself does not make actual-blood-loss periods happen, though, because long-lasting uterus transplant is Not A Thing (yet?) and *the blood comes FROM THE UTERUS*. if it's about *side effects* related to *hormones* (so, not punctual iron deficiency, bc that's linked to the blood loss…) then… it's about HORMONES. again, not external(ish) physical characteristics like a vulva or vagina!
agab language can be useful and appropriate in some contexte, but when talking about medical stuff, PRECISION is indeed what we need. and "assigned gender" is anything but that.
DING DING DING we have a good addition to the post!!!!!!
precision is key.
"estrogen dominant" and "testosterone dominant" endocrine systems are also useful terms, especially when interfacing with doctors.
One of my favorite older theories from the Umbrella Academy fandom will always be that Commision killed Dave. It adds even more tragedy when you think about it, and it makes sense. Klaus only came back when he died. He was fully prepared to go live out his life about 20 years before he was even supposed to be born. And well, that would certainly fuck with the timeline.
Correct me if I am wrong, but years ago I collected a list of neopronouns by year of coining (only before 2000 otherwise things would get a bit out of hand very quickly). I wanted to share this list with you all!
History of English Neopronouns:
• Ou (1789)
• Ne/Nim/Nis/Nis/Nimself (1850)
• Ve/Vim/Vis/Vis/Vimself (1864)
• Ze (1864)
• Thon/Thon/Thons/Thons/Thonself (1884)
• E/Em/Es/Es/Emself (1890)
• He’er/Him’er/His’er/His’er/Him’erself (1912)
• Hir (1920)
• Ae/Aer/Aer/Aers/Aerself (1920)
• Tey/Tem/Ter/Ters/Temself (1971)
• Xe/Xem/Xyr/Xyrs/Xemself (1973)
• Te/Tir/Tes/Tes/Tirself (1974)
• Ey/Em/Eir/Eirs/Eirself (1975)
• Per/Per/Pers/Pers/Perself (1979)
• Ve/Ver/Vis/Vis/Verself (1980)
• Hu/Hum/Hus/Hus/Humself (1982)
• E/Em/Eir/Eirs/Emself (1983)
• Ze/Hir/Hir/Hirs/Hirself (1996)
• Ze/Mer/Zer/Zers/Zemself (1997)
• Zhe/Zhim/Zher/Zhers/Zhimself (2000)
It would be really nice to have the origins and originators of all these pronouns:
“Ou, a”:
Native English Gender-Neutral Pronouns. According to Dennis Baron’s Grammar and Gender: In 1789, William H. Marshall records the existence of a dialectal English epicene pronoun, singular ou : "'Ou will' expresses either he will, she will, or it will." Marshall traces ou to Middle English epicene a, used by the fourteenth-century English writer John of Trevisa, and both the OED and Wright's English Dialect Dictionary confirm the use of a for he, she, it, they, and even I. The dialectal epicene pronoun a is a reduced form of the Old and Middle English masculine and feminine pronouns he and heo. By the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the masculine and feminine pronouns had developed to a point where, according to the OED, they were "almost or wholly indistinguishable in pronunciation." The modern feminine pronoun she, which first appears in the mid twelfth century, seems to have been drafted at least partly to reduce the increasing ambiguity of the pronoun system....
He goes on to describe how relics of these sex-neutral terms survive in some British dialects of Modern English, and sometimes a pronoun of one gender might be applied to a person or animal of the opposite gender. (Source)
“One”
In 1770, Robert Baker suggested use of “one, ones” instead of “one, his”, since there was no equivalent “one, hers”. Others shared this sentiment in 1868, 1884, 1979, and even now. Others throughout this period disagreed, finding it too pedantic. (Same Source)
“e,” with “em” for the object and “es” for the possessive (1841)
(Source)
Ne/Nim/Nis/Nis/Nimself (1850)
GLOSSARY ne, nis, nim; hiser ca. 1850 NY Commercial Advertiser 7 Aug 1884 (Source: search term "pronoun Ne Nim 1850", search result "https://www.jstor.org/stable/455007")
Ve/Vim/Vis/Vis/Vimself (1864)
The history of oppression by pronoun is wittily investigated by the linguistics professor Dennis Baron in his book What’s Your Pronoun?. He quotes an American newspaper correspondent who declared in 1892 that there was a word missing from the English language. “What is wanted is a personal pronoun, common gender; the singular of they … The person that invents a word to fill the vacancy will receive the benediction of other nations as well as this.” In fact, many alternatives had already been invented. Baron lists 200 of them from newspapers and dictionaries on both sides of the Atlantic, ranging from “ou” (suggested by the Scottish philosopher James Anderson in 1792) to “ve”, “vis” and “vim”, which were proposed in 1864 by an American periodical, The Ladies’ Repository, as a unisex pronoun that would ensure “precision, perspicuity and brevity … in this age of improvement”. (Source)
Ze (1864)
“Ze,” often assumed to be a more recently coined term, was created by “a writer identified only as J. W. L.” in 1864, Baron writes. (Source)
Thon/Thon/Thons/Thons/Thonself (1884)
In her Master’s thesis from 1991 (Solving the Great Pronoun Problem), Kelly Ann Sippell provided an extensive list of gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns that had been proposed over the previous hundred and fifty years. This list included, but was not limited to, hes, hiser, hem, ons, e, heer, he’er, hesh, se, heesh, herim, co, tey, per, na, en, herm, em, hir, and shey. Sippell estimated that there had been approximately 80 suggested ways of saying "him or her" or "his or hers" in a single word that was not they or theirs. For those who are interested in a spectacularly comprehensive list of gender-neutral pronouns which never quite caught on readers may turn to Dennis Baron’s magisterial treatment of the subject in American Speech in 1981 (“The Epicene Pronoun: The Word That Failed”), in which he documents over 100 proposed lexical items, dating in use back to the middle of the 19th century (nim, talis, iro and ver are some of his findings).
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Thon is thought to be a contracted form of "that one," and was coined in 1858 by Charles Crozat Converse.
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The initial reason that thon caught on was that one or more of the editors at Funk and Wagnalls took a shine to the word, and around the turn of the 19th and 20th century it was included in their dictionary.
thon. Pronoun of the 3rd person, common gender, meaning “that one, he she, or it”: a neoterism proposed by Charles Crozat Converse, and apparently complying with the neoteristic canons, since it supplies an antecedent blank, obeys a simple and obvious analogy, and is euphonious. —Funk and Wagnalls, Supplement to A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, 1903
The word remained in various Funk and Wagnalls publications for much of the 20th century, and also saw inclusion in another dictionary, Merriam-Webster’s Second New International Dictionary (1934), although it was defined slightly less fulsomely (“A proposed genderless pronoun of the third person”). The genderless pronoun sense of thon did not last as long in Merriam-Webster’s dictionaries as it had in Funk and Wagnalls, and the entry was dropped for the third edition of our Unabridged dictionary, published in 1961.
People really wanted thon to work out; the word was used in crossword puzzles for several decades, generally as the answer to the clue of “proposed genderless pronoun.” It was poked at and analyzed by linguists. The cartoonist Ryan North even devoted one of his marvelous Dinosaur Comics strips to the topic of thon. There is a considerable body of evidence of the word in print, for it seemed that whenever a newspaper columnist wrote an article bemoaning our language’s lack of a gender-neutral third-person pronoun, several people would write letters to remind the paper that thon had been coined back in 1858. (Source)
E/Em/Es/Es/Emself (1890)
Francis Augustus Brewster coined e, es, and em. (Source)
He’er/Him’er/His’er/His’er/Him’erself (1912)
In 1911, an insurance broker named Fred Pond invented the pronoun set "he'er, his'er and him'er", which the superintendent of the Chicago public-school system proposed for adoption by the school system in 1912, sparking a national debate in the US, with "heer" being added to the Funk & Wagnalls dictionary in 1913. (Source, quoted on Wikipedia)
Heer (1913)
also Funk & Wagnalls dictionary (Source, quoted on Wikipedia)
Hir (1920)
"The pronoun ‘hir’ was coined in 1920 by a newspaper in California, The Sacramento Bee,” Baron explains. “They tried using that off and on from the 1920s through to the 1940s.” (Source)
Ae/Aer/Aer/Aers/Aerself (1920)
David Lindsay through the book Voyage to Arcturus. (Source)
Co/Coself (1970)
In 1970, Mary Orovan invented the pronoun "co/coself", which gained use in a cooperative community in Virginia called the Twin Oaks Community, where it was still in use as of 2011. (Source, quoted in Wikipedia)
Tey/Tem/Ter/Ters/Temself (1971)
In 1971, Casey Miller and Kate Swift coined the gender-neutral pronouns tey, ter, and tem. Writing in the preview issue of Ms. Magazine, Miller and Swift called their creation “the human pronoun” [...]
Miller and Swift did acknowledge they as the pronoun of choice whenever gender is unknown or irrelevant, or it needs to be concealed. But as professional editors, they considered singular they ungrammatical. Instead they used they, their, and them as models for the new pronouns tey, ter, and tem, offering this example: “If anyone objects, it is certainly ter right--but in that case let tem come up with a better solution.” (see section Te/Tir/Tes/Tes/Tirself below)
(Source)
Xe/Xem/Xyr/Xyrs/Xemself (1973)
Apparently independently invented by several people, including Don Rickter (the pronoun appeared in the Unitarian Universalist publication UU World on 1 May 1973 and Mario Pei gave Rickter credit on page 145 of his 1978 book Weasel Words). (Source)
Te/Tir/Tes/Tes/Tirself (1974)
see Tey/Tem section above
Three years later, Warren Farrell did just that, "improving" tey, ter, and tem by coming up with te, tes, and tir. At the time Farrell was a self-proclaimed male feminist, though he has since become an advocate for men’s rights. But in 1974 Farrell copied Miller and Swift’s pronouns without really crediting his source or explaining why his slightly-altered coinages offered a better solution than Miller and Swift’s.
Farrell did note that Kate Swift was the source of “t” as the first letter for his pronouns, but he trumpeted his own version of “the human pronoun” without bothering to mention that Miller and Swift had already staked out that term.
And Farrell couldn’t resist mansplaining his pronouns, though his account is a little hard to follow:
Each of the human pronouns consist [sic] of a t plus one letter from both the masculine and feminine gender of the older pronouns. Te takes the e from he and she, tes takes the e from hers and the s from his, tir takes the i from him and the r from her.
Farrell adds this final bit of pseudo-scientific authority to make his coinage more attractive: “All words are pretested for easy readability and pronunciation.” But perhaps the pronunciation is not so easy after all: in his illustration, Farrell feels he must explain that te sounds like tea, not tay. (Source)
Ey/Em/Eir/Eirs/Eirself (1975)
In 1975, Christine M. Elverson of Skokie, Illinois, won a contest by the Chicago Association of Business Communicators to find replacements for "she and he", "him and her", and "his and hers". Her "transgender pronouns" ey, em, and eir were formed by dropping the "th" from they, them, and their.
Per/Per/Pers/Pers/Perself (1979)
shortening of person, coined by Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time (1979) (Source)
Ve/Ver/Vis/Vis/Verself (1980, 1970)
There are several sets of pronouns that use "ve" in the nominative form, the earliest of which was created in 1970.[72] In the 2019 Gender Census, 24 participants (0.2%) used a set of pronouns starting with ve.[1]
ve, ver, vis, vis, verself is the exact set used by Egan, Hulme, and Reynolds (see below). The set's date of creation and creator are not yet known to the editors of this wiki. A nearly-identical but incompletely recorded set was ve, vir, vis, (not recorded), (not recorded), which was created in 1970, and published in the May issue of Everywoman.[19][20]
Use in fiction:
In Keri Hulme's mystery novel The Bone People (1984), a character is called by these ve pronouns.[73]
Used by Greg Egan for non-binary gender characters-- including artificial intelligence, as well as transgender humans who identify as a specific nonbinary gender they call "asex"-- in his novels Distress (1995) and Diaspora (1998).[74] Egan is sometimes credited with having created these pronouns, but it doesn't appear that he claims to have done so.
In Alastair Reynolds's science fiction novel On the Steel Breeze (2013) one character is called by these ve pronouns. The novel never gives any exposition about this character's sex, gender, or pronouns, and vis gender-neutrality doesn't influence the plot. The lack of remark gives the impression that a nonbinary gender is unremarkable, but this is also why some readers thought the pronouns were a misprint.[73]
(Source, quoted here)
Hu/Hum/Hus/Hus/Humself (1982)
Also known as "humanist pronouns", this set was created by Sasha Newborn in 1982, in a college humanities text. They are obviously based on the word human. (Source)
E/Em/Eir/Eirs/Emself (1983)
Michael Spivak. (Source)
Ze/Hir/Hir/Hirs/Hirself (1996)
In 1996, Kate Bornstein used the pronouns "ze/hir" to refer to a character in their novel Nearly Roadkill. (Source)
Ze/Mer/Zer/Zers/Zemself (1997)
In 1997 Richard Creel proposed ze/zer/mer (taken from the last letter of him and first of her) (Source, quoted here)
Zhe/Zhim/Zher/Zhers/Zhimself (2000)
Ironically, I couldn't find a source for this one, lol.
Also this page and this page has a lot more.
Klaus, Ben, and drag
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