We're All Someone's Freak

A blog devoted to the abnormal, and appreciating the beauty in these abnormalities.

[middleagedwomen-curves]

And this is how religious people should react when someone comes out to them

[quasar02]

Re-blogging this from myself cause I wanted to add the most important part: before that first pic she acted like she was 100% on board with her granddaughter being gay while her granddaughter was there and I think that’s great. She had misgivings about it based on religion and upbringing but she cared enough about her granddaughter to not be an ass about it to her granddaughter. And all the above is after she’s out of the room. Who you are is not your gut reactions. It’s what you do with them.

[lionowlonao3]

i also wanna point out that when she says “god doesn’t make mistakes” she doesn’t say, “so elena can’t possibly be gay” she says it in the context that therefore if elena’s gay then god meant for her to be so i guess he doesn’t have a problem with it

[neotravis]

i watched all of this show in one weekend w one of my best friends it’s so so good

[ithelpstodream]

[cookie-sheet-toboggan]

so is Victory

[ashermajestywishes]

LOVE TRIANGLE

[bsparrow]

Don’t forget Truth (Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind)

[justrollinon]

This must be why the Trump administration hates them all 

[acciowine]

The Four Horsewomen of the Trumpocalypse.

[krustybunny-deactivated20221129]

I’ve never reblogged anything so quick

[spectrometon]

The Ultimate Squad, comin’ to wreck your shit and save the world

[quentineliot]

Rb for that art doe

[lgbtq-history-blog]

Black LBGTQ History Icons

Marsha P. Johnson

A leader of the Stonewall Riots. According to several eyewitnesses, Marsha was the one who “really started it”. She was “in the middle of the whole thing, screaming and yelling and throwing rocks and almost like Molly Pitcher in the Revolution or something”

Dedicated her life to activism:

Co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (later renamed Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries)

Ensured that the young drag queens, trans women and other street kids on Christopher Street were fed and clothed. Marsha also housed them whenever she could. 

In the 1980s, she was an activist and organizer in ACT UP. 

Stormé DeLarverie

Also a leader in the Stonewall Riots - has been identified as the “butch lesbian that threw the first punch” against the police officers.

Several eye-witnesses recollections also recognize her as the cross-dressing lesbian that yelled “why don’t you guys do something” at the bystanders that evoked the reaction from them that helped make Stonewall a defining moment in history.

Unofficially worked at gay bars who otherwise couldn’t afford security.

Bayard Rustin

Was a leading strategist of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement between 1955-1968:

The formidable behind the scenes figure of the civil rights movement who organized the March on Washington

Through his influence, the civil rights leadership adopted a non-violent stance.

Is and was often overlooked in African-American history because of the public’s discomfort with his sexual orientation.

Supported LGBTQ rights and movements.

Was posthumously awarded Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Another leader in the Stonewall Riots.

Has been involved in community efforts since 1978. She has worked at local food banks, provide services for trans women suffering from addiction or homelessness. During the AIDS epidemic she also provided healthcare and funeral services.

Is currently serving as the Executive Director for the Transgender GenderVariant Intersex Justice Project, working to assist transgender persons who are disproportionately incarcerated under a prison-industrial complex.

Alvin Ailey

At the young age of 22, Alvin AIley became Artistic Directer for the Horton Dance Company where he choreographed as well as directed scenes and costume designs.

Formed the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre in 1958 but continued to choreograph for other companies.

Ailey’s signature works prominently reflects his Black pride.

Is credited for popularizing modern dance. 

Was also posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

Feel free to add anyone I’ve missed!

[staff]

Here’s something without enough notes: A roundup of five regular people who did amazing, heroic things in the name of equality for both LGBTQ and Black communities.

We’ve been collecting the best stuff we’ve found about Black History Month right here—comics, paintings, GIFs—but keep spreading what you find because there’s tons more that people should see.

[revolutionarykoolaid]

@staff really got some nerve doe

[darning-socks]

((The ability to appreciate and evaluate human aesthetic is not determined by your sexuality))

[clint-ftm-barton]

THANK YOU

[selaphiraviel]

Reblogging at the speed of light

[theaceae-c]

“Aw what a cute cat!”

“What I didn’t know you were attracted to animals!”

[tvandfilm]

Creating Bette and Dot || AHS: Freak Show

[thekhoolhaus]

Angel Haze

#angel #haze #angelhaze #love #romance #relationships #relationship #deserve #tkh #thekhoolhaus

[transcendnormal]

[artisticauthor]

Androgyny is so often considered the standard for non binary people which can be harmful to those of us who reject gender stereotypes completely. Your gender is valid! Your gender isn’t compromised! You’re genuine as you are.

[salon]

Let’s call everyone “they”: Gender-neutral language should be the norm, not the exception

This weekend, the New York Times made headlines. A story, titled “Where Radical Is Sensible,” profiled a Manhattan activist center, and spurred a broader conversation about gender neutral pronouns. “Mx. Hardwick, 27, who prefers not to be assigned a gender — and also insists on the gender neutral Mx. in place of Ms. or Mr.,” the piece read, consistently referring to “Mx. Hardwick” throughout.

Though the move was touted as something of a victory, perhaps signaling broader acceptance of gender neutral language, the profile seemed to imply the opposite, linking Hardwick’s gender neutrality with the store’s “radicalism.” More jarring was the clarification. It was understandable that the Times found it necessary to define the honorific “Mx.” for readers unfamiliar with the term. But it was bizarre that the paper attributed the editorial decision to Hardwick’s “preference,” or, for that matter, felt the need to explain it at all. The Times went out of its way to make clear that it would have assigned Hardwick a gender but for the subject’s insistence otherwise.

The NY Times offers “Mx.” and the Washington Post “they” — here’s why we should take that one step further

[awkwardandraunchy]

If we are all someone’s ‘freak’, does this mean we are all each other’s 'normal’ too - and worthy of embrace?

“We’re All Someone’s Freak” by Gwendolyn Ann Smith

[proudtobehomo-blog]

Let the kids decide what types of toys they want to play with

[transcendnormal]

“A distinctly human construct”

To dub the classification of beings into predetermined categories is something that Gwendolyn Ann Smith finds to be a “distinctly human construct.” I find this interesting because it places a heavy weight on the human shoulders in that we should blame ourselves for our own arrogance. I fully agree with this statement. No other thing is at fault for the position we have places ourselves in at this moment in time. We recognize hundreds of thousands of species of one type of animal - not only do we recognize this, but we support and accept this as fact. Scientific fact, even! So, why then, do we struggle so very much with the idea that there may be more than two types of humans. Beyond two classifications of gender. Just because science says one thing, doesn’t give excuse to ignoring the identity one feels inside their soul.  

[transcendnormal]

We live in a world of incredible variations, where there are some 200,000 species of moths and butterflies to be found in this planet, where one an find snowy ice caps and boiling cauldrons of lava, and where biodiversity is the very thing that keeps the whole complex system in tune. The notion of classifying things and then claiming that only this or that is a proper version of some being is a distinctly human construct, full of arrogance and hubris.

“We’re All Someone’s Freak” by Gwendolyn Ann Smith 

[justanartsydoodler]

[wearepioneerspress]

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USING THEY AS A PRONOUN

By Carrie Colpitts

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A handy palm-size guide to using “they” (and other options) as a gender pronoun instead of “he” or “she.”

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[transitiontransmission]

Ancient trans warrior "discovered" at Siberian dig

DNA testing has shown that the 2,500-year-old remains of a warrior fetishised as a virgin amazon was, in fact, a transgender woman.

In our male dominated world, when a women of authority is recognized, be her alive or centuries gone, the key to her power is unfailingly attributed to men.

Such is the case of our Siberian trans ancestor originally discovered in 1990 in theAltai Republic. Jane’s feminine attire conflicted with the male warrior artifacts with which she was buried. It was assumed at that time that Jane was genetically female and accordingly fetishised and declared a “virgin amazon warrior princess’‘.

New DNA testing shows that she was genetically male, or as we know now, a transgender woman.

Traditional burials of the Pazyryk cultural normally made a clear distinction between genders but not so with our warrior.

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[transcendnormal]

Men who are afraid to feel keep women around to do their feeling for them while dismissing us for the same supposedly ‘inferior’ capacity to feel deeply. But in this way also, men deny themselves their own essential humanity, becoming trapped in dependency and fear

“Man Child” by Audre Lorde