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lia • 26 • they/them • ✡️ b.a. polsci and organizer of 10 years dreaming big, writing hard I follow back from not-thesunlightmuse

[hyaenidaeful]

Fucking hate how this medical system works because it's so binary centric when it comes to gender affirming care.

Misgendered in every document because I have to be a ""man"" for insurance to decide it's actually gender affirming care and not cosmetic. Nevermind the multiple times over I've been diagnosed with gender dysphoria though, of course.

I just want my fucking surgeries done and over with so I can ditch all this technical and depressing to deal with bullshit.

Leaves me irate that people still seem to think being nonbinary is easier or that we don't struggle or exorsexism is some lesser evil.

We face all the same shit you do and some because society doesn't fucking acknowledge those who aren't binary.

[busket]

if you make up a new gendered binary to sort people into and nonbinary people ask "well where do I fit into this?" and your answer is "that depends on the sex you were assigned at birth" well I dont think thats very good, tbh

[thesunlightmuse]

The most annoying thing about the "TMA/TME" discourse is that AFAB people absolutely are "affected" by transmisogyny. That's what transvestigation IS. Do you not see that. Do you not see how bullying and harassing a person because they might be a trans woman is a form of transmisogyny. You cannot sort people into categories based on the gendered oppression they face, because there will always be people who face a different kind of oppression than you think they "should."

Of course, most of the AFAB people affected by transmisogyny are POC, so nobody cares :)

[secret--songs]

What if you made up a guy who suffered suffered suffered suffered suffered suffered

[empress-of-dark2005]

[evergreen-femme]

[dragonologist-phd]

the thing about heavy handed symbolism is that sometimes. it's fun.

[saulwexler]

Hey did you draw that evil feminist caricature to warn men how their wives would act once they got the right to vote? Illustrator: sure did boss. real sexy, just like you asked.

[faggotfungus]

[forfuckssakejim]

Yeah quiet quitting is great and all but have you tried chaotic working?

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

Anyways. Be chaotic. It’s more fun that way.

[bshmatthews]

[desolationlesbian]

my cat is completely obsessed with watching the bathroom sink drain and I have started calling this "her shows." as in when I'm in the bathroom and she meows and runs up I'll be like "oh you want to watch your shows?" and run the faucet for an extra few seconds so it fills a little. she will then sit there at the edge of the sink for ages totally entraptured by the drain. blorbo from her sink

[desolationlesbian]

her shows

[socialmaya]

Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old

[sylestial]

One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century

[tayefeth]

That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.

[antique-scarecrow]

Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years

[downtroddendeity]

I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.

Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.

[kuttithevangu]

People keep being like “to be clear cyclospora isn’t actually DANGEROUS unless you’re vulnerable”… ok? First of all, millions of people ARE babies, or elderly, or immunocompromised. And secondly. Do YOU want to have diarrhea for weeks?

[creekfiend]

INFORMATION 👏 IS NOT 👏 FEARMONGERING 👏

[subluxurious]

Just going to leave this here, as I had to dig this up for a similar conversation with other chronically ill people. TLDR; no amount of food poisoning is safe, even if you are "healthy"

https://www.tumblr.com/3liza/806510634179149824/marths-team-experimented-with-a-dose-of?source=share

[chungledown-bimothy]

reblog to tell a 14 year old that these are the very, very hard years and they're not wrong to feel the way they do.

[nojglisrenaissance]

I had a fifteen minute long crying session yesternight over the fact that all I was 10 years ago, at the ripe old age of 14, is lost and lonely, and now, at 24, I am neither and that filled me with so much gratitude

[cecil-speaks]

reblog to tell a teenager that these aren’t actually the best years of your life and that things can and will get better when you have independance and maybe are away from your situation right now.

Its me reblog to tell me that

[fishandshesmygills]

the point of fanfiction is to write something so self indulgent that nobody else has thought of it before or cares

[kitkenk]

i just really wish everything was okay for trans girls forever

[loredwy]

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

[would-you-punt-them]

now all the things you guys have told me about american high schools are starting to make sense

[jeaninelatragedia]

holy shit.

[frustratedasatruar]

You're not really supposed to say it this way, because its considered crass, but here in the US children are culturally and legally considered essentially the property of their parents.

Note that its considered more crass to point this out than it is to treat children as property in the first place.

[clonehub]

I hate you epitome of innocence being represented with blonde hair I hate you lightness representing goodness I hate you "angelic features" automatically being read as blonde hair and blue eyed with pale skin I hate you whiteness as the default for morality I HATE YOU I HATE YOU

[clonehub]

Guess who's being the most annoying on this post

[clonehub]

this post isnt about blondes and how its so unfair to them that theyre always viewed as good healthy holy morally upright outstanding people no matter what this post is about racism its about colorism its about white supremacy making people with dark features and skin literally feel evil. this is not about your stupid disney princesses or achilles or your fave anime boys being allowed to be unhinged feral shitty awful people and this sure as hell is not an opportunity for blonde people themselves to show their entire pasty flat asses and beg praise for "breaking the stereotype" by being shitty unhinged people. fandom people you are 192% of the problem. white people in general you are 1,000% the origin of the problem. this site is so unbearably white my GOD

[neovagina-penisis-evangelion]

I don't know what else I could add to the discourse around this cause hooooooly shit yeah, a lot of people on tumblr do the whole, "I don't know anything, I'm just a widdle puppy/baby"