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a trans fag’s personal archive | 19

[honeygleam]

the violence in art in room with a view (1985) dir. james ivory

[mangledguts-pretending]

the reason why maurice makes me so emotional is that E M Forster wrote it in 1913, knew that it couldn't be published, held on to it for years and sent it only to his friends, and then after his death Christopher Isherwood, another gay writer made the effort to get it published....and then in 1987 it was directed by another gay man...and now hearing the dedication 'to a happier year" read out by Ben Whishaw, an openly gay man who's been married for ten years just makes me feel some type of insane way.

[muad-deeb]

The language here is fantastic, but as notably: It’s such a pure instance of Clive’s self-denial.

THIS is his moment of clarity? He’s standing in for actors (most of which he vouched were “that way inclined,” at that) in a theatre that was played on for centuries.

The stage wasn’t empty. Poor Clive shrank himself into the role of a conformist squire, stranded himself from true affection, and called it enlightenment.

[vampyr-bite]

[it - stephen king // blood brothers - bruce springsteen // dead poets society (1989), dir. peter weir // maurice - e.m. forster // stand by me (1986), dir. rob reiner // bobby jean - bruce springsteen // no surrender - bruce springsteen // the body - stephen king]

[hellish-cruelty]

The Power Of Touch.

Films in Frame - My own private Idaho, Maurice, Call me by your name, Moonlight, Brokeback Mountain, Kill your Darlings, Another country, Dorian Gray, I killed my mother, Happy Together

[bivampir]

Maurice girlies (gender-neutral) it's my duty to inform you that a Vietnamese LGBT movie channel have made a fan reconstruction of the 1987 movie, by adding all deleted scenes (which include establishing wayyyy earlier that Alec works at Durham's, establishing Alec's bisexuality, Maurice's beautiful ending monologue to Clive, and many more) resulting in a movie that's almost 3 hours long, and uploaded it to youtube (with English subtitles!) here!

[littlefettuccinealfredo]

weeping over this inscription i found in my secondhand copy of Maurice:

"Harry, I'm glad I met you in 1973. Nathaniel"

[milanotre]

I LIKE THE SPRINGTIME

(vienna, mariahilferstrasse)

[nothorses]

extremely fucking weird to have to convince leftists that fighting for a better public education system & better wages for teachers is not, like, the Lame Establishment Dem take or whatever.

It is not Cool and Radical to advocate for the dissolution of the entire public education system in favor of Everyone Doing Their Own Thing. what you're describing is libertarianism, and a system that directly and dramatically benefits fascist right-wingers and child abusers.

the community-centered child rearing yall love to talk about exists. it desperately needs to be improved, but the bones are here, and they're already doing a lot of legwork in the fight against aggressive nuclear family isolation.

it's called public school, you fucking dweeb.

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

Public education is a thing we did right.

We just really, really need to update it.

[pleasestopthese]

the anarchist protest at haymarket square on 4th of may 1887 that cops sabotaged with a bomb, that led to the deaths by execution of the haymarket 7, which is commemorated internationally every year on the 1st of may, was a protest for an eight-hour workday and universal education. do not fuck this up.

[socialpants]

Like please my fellow anarchist, understand that "No gods, no masters" doesn't mean "No community, no mutually beneficial systems". Public education is a mutually beneficial system. Does it need to be updated so that it actually supports communities as opposed to creates a production line from kindergarten to labour under capitalism? Yes! That's the whole concept of anarchy; constantly improving structures and systems. Not no structures at all, but constantly improving because every system can and should be criticized and improved upon.

No mutually agreed upon rules and systems is libertarianism and it does not go well, my friends.

[partiallycloudy]

[loverofbeauty]

Flip Schulke:  Muhammad Ali Training Underwater  (1961)

[newloverofbeauty]

Stellios Kamitsis:  The man with the answers  (2021)

[androphilia]

Hyun Dong and Kim Young Seok photographed by Hyunwoo Min, 2020

[newloverofbeauty]

Nan Goldin:   Matt and Lewis in the Tub,  Cambridge.  (1988)

[newloverofbeauty]

Dorothea Lange:  Japanese Students in an Internment Camp during WW2, Sacramento  (1942)

[zanephillips]

Jack Rowan and Colin Morgan in Benjamin (2018)

[nothorses]

haters* will see a transmasc say "I think trans people should all be nice to each other" and immediately fly into a rage, send death threats, stalk their friends, and launch a harassment campaign that they sustain, actively, for a minimum of 12 connective months.

*fucking unhinged "trans allies" who apparently dedicate their entire lives to this bullshit, for some reason.

[genderkoolaid]

transmasc activists: we came up with transunity to encourage solidarity between trans groups and look at transphobia in a way that acknowledges its nuance and varied forms of harm without oppression olympics or disregarding the harm done to certain trans people because they "aren't as oppressed"

these people: you are tearing the trans community apart. why can't you do the healthy thing for everyone and just accept that oppression can be quantified, yours is lesser, and you can never ever ever forget it or else you hate trans women

[nothorses]

my favorite part of this is that we came up with the words "transunity"/"transunitism" specifically because

a) certain individuals I will refrain from naming started calling people "transandrophobia truthers", which is... such an unhinged misappropriation of terminology meant to address conspiracy theorists and antisemitism that I dont even know where to begin

and

b) making them admit that the people they believe are Really at fault for destroying trans unity... are the "transunity" people... is inherently funny.

and, as a personal aside, I think the term itself encourages people to keep in mind what's really important here, and what our actual goal is. a lot of young transmascs start to see the bullshit and think "wow, yeah, my suffering IS legitimate and worth addressing! (good, correct) why do trans women hate me? I trusted them! (incorrect, bad)". It's easy to start resenting other trans people for not seeing this sooner, and for participating in the problems here.

the goal of "transunity" is to remember that at the end of the day, other trans people aren't benefiting from this. they didn't create this problem, and further, it hurts them too. we have more things in common than make us different.

[quark-nova-deactivated20260116]

yes, and transunity makes sense. we literally can't just rank oppressions and say trans men have it better or worse than trans women or enbies. transandrophobia and transmisogyny are both things.

and like... transmasc activists came up with it, but it's literally in the name. transunity. everyone can and should use this framework to understand how trans people are all hurt in different but related ways. and that doesn't make any of them less legitimate.

but since this was solved, why are some people still ranting against trans men? are they misinformed and do they believe trans men are against this and are the ones wanting to rank oppression? why not just support transunity then? like that seems to be the sensible thing to do in literally every single case, i don't see what the point of fighting against transunity even is.

(again, i'm not transmasc myself, i'm transfem and very confused)

like even for people who are amab enby like myself, transunity seems like the way for us to be able to get equal access to nonbinary spaces, to reassure everyone that we are not the danger people believe us to be. again i don't know the exact opinions of every transunity blogger on that matter, but it seems to be quite a direct consequence of the idea itself. so, assuming transunity isn't hypocritical (which it doesn't seem to be at all), there's no reason not to support it right?

(again, i'm not transmasc myself, i'm transfem and very confused)