Transfarmer

Transman living, loving and farming in Ca

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Fresno County Sunrise, CA by Sierra Sunrise

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It’s almost as if nobody wants to admit that they might not be prepared to do the work it takes to love somebody. And it can be laborious. To be intimate with someone who is flawed (which is the standard) requires us to expose our own flaws. We don’t talk about the heavy responsibility of that. We don’t talk about how we’re too lazy or too cowardly sometimes. We instead accuse love of being elusive. It isn’t. It is omnipresent. It asks us to be better people. And sometimes we flat out refuse.

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Melancholy isn’t, of course, a disorder that needs to be cured. It’s a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face to face with the certainty that disappointment is written into the script from the start.

Alain de Botton, The Course of Love  (via rojospinks)

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Love this exchange from Act 3 of this week’s This American Life “Grand Gestures” episode. 

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The big myth about passion is that it’s there all the time or it’s not there at all. But passion comes and goes. If you want to feel passionate, you can’t take your temperature constantly. You have to just show up, start working, and hope that your hard work eventually leads you somewhere that feels passionate. When you’re inspired, sure, you run with that. But most of the time you’re just trudging along, putting words on a page, waiting for a light to shine through the darkness.

Heather Havrilesky  (via rojospinks)

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waterfalls in waimanu valley.

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This tragic turn in your life gouged a big scratch across you. Own that scratch, the anger and the sadness there. Because it was a gift, this premature exit from a fantasy world. It was your passage to a better life, lived among real people with heart and substance, where tarnished things are good enough, where you are good enough. You are good enough. You are good enough, right now. You are good enough. You are.

Heather Havrilesky 

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it’s okay if the only thing you did today was breathe.

because even breathing gets harder. but it will get better.  (via awkwarddly)

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To the young people in particular, I hope you will hear this. I have spent my entire adult life fighting for what I believe in. I have had successes and also set backs. Sometimes really painful ones. (..) This loss hurts, but please, never stop believing that fighting for what’s right is worth it.

Hillary Clinton (via mademoisellevert)

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The Gulf of Alaska

In this particular area two seas meet but do not mix due to difference in water density 

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Kalalau Trail, Kaua’i by Catalin Mitrache

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Everything you want to know about top surgery and the inner thoughts of one transmans mind. 

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iconic

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Comparing Rachel Dolezal to transgender people is scientifically absurd

As you have no doubt read, there is a lot of controversy over the revelation that Rachel Dolezal, president of the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, has been pretending to be black for years. And it should surprise no one that conservatives who refuse to acknowledge transgender individuals’ identities used the opportunity to draw comparisons between the two.

This is ridiculous.

We know for a fact that transgender people are, for lack of a better word, real. MRIs have shown that a male-to-female transgender person has a brain that is like a woman’s, and that female-to-male transgender people have brains that are like men’s. Biological sex is hardcoded into the human genome and, on occasion, the body doesn’t match the brain. When trans people say they feel trapped in the body of the opposite sex, it’s more than a euphemism: On a biological level, that’s exactly what’s happened.

This isn’t true for race, for which biological influences aren’t much more than skin deep. There is no difference between the structure of a white person’s brain and that of a black person’s brain in the way that there is between a male brain and a female brain. Rachel Dolezal isn’t a black woman trapped in a white woman’s body; she’s a white woman who has chosen to identify as black.

Rachel Dolezal, screenshot via KXLY-TV / Youtube

I’m not going to speculate as to why she has made that choice. Although, for a really solid critique of her behavior and its consequences, read this.

What I will say is that it remains a science fact that it is impossible for her to be transracial in the way that Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner are transgender. Race and sexual identity are differently different, with biology making the latter run far deeper than the former. To equate Rachel Dolezal’s performance of another race with the trans community’s deeply-rooted and unchosen identities is to trivialize both race and gender. Don’t do it.

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