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How to Detect and Debunk Anti-Trans Propaganda in the Media
“The Switch” is the first transgender sitcom in history starring trans/non-binary lead cast, this is EVERYTHING
wait wait did I just watch a trailer for a show where a woman gets fired for being trans, loses her apartment and then moves in with her best friend who is an NB… environmental… assassin??
I… I need to watch this show
Okay but this looks hilarious and I wanna watch it
Okay so the first season is already out and they have to sell 100k copies to get the green light for season 2 so go here http://www.welovetheswitch.com and give them your money
pyramid seven is a queer owned, chicago based boxer brief company made for people with periods, regardless of gender.
(Not literature, sharing anyway, because yes)
Five Favs: Books with LGBTQ Characters
What do you read if you love fantasy and representation? I highly recommend the following:
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
A fantasy heist novel featuring a racially diverse cast of characters, including a bisexual gunslinger and a gay demolitions expert. Part of a duology (book two is called Crooked Kingdom).
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
What’s the opposite of bisexual erasure? Because basically everyone in this series is bi. V.E. Schwab has stated that “it is a world that cares about magical hierarchy more than heteronormativity.”
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
How many fantasy novels do you run across with an asexual main character? Not enough (and in fact, this one is technically a novella). Here you will also find a transgender character and explicit discussion about gender roles and nonconformity.
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard by Rick Riordan
Each of Riordan’s novels is more inclusive than the last, but we don’t meet my favorite argyle-wearing pottery-making genderfluid einherji until book two (The Hammer of Thor). Book 1, of course, is still well worth the read (Muslim Valkyrie? Yes please.)
The Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce
The Circle of Magic books were a staple of my childhood. Imagine my delight when one of the main characters comes out as a lesbian in book 9! Plus, in books 1- 8, we get Lark and Rosethorn, two ladies living together in domestic bliss who raise our main characters. Start this series with Sandry’s Book.
Happy Pride, and happy reading!
See more of Robin’s recs…
Cisgender authors can write great trans characters, but trans authors live the experiences of their characters every day and their voices need to be the loudest on trans issues, argues teen writer John Hansen. So here’s a list of the best trans YA and middle grade books by trans and non-binary authors
This article makes a good point about books from small presses sometimes being hard to find. We have some of these at the library, but not all - which makes this an excellent time to remind you that you can request books that aren’t in our collection, and we will find a way to get them to you. It’s probably also a good time to remind you that your purchase requests and check-out history are confidential.
Kickstarter for "My Dad Thinks I'm a BOY?!" A trans-positive children's book
no one talks about how rick riordan literally scammed disney
dead ass pjo was that seemingly “normal” kids fantasy series with a seemingly white straight kid saving the world and it’s a fucking success. percy jackson? iconic! ppl fucking love percy and his character and then hoo comes out? everyone is pumped bc everyone is in love with that world. the first book? two main bad ass poc characters. the second book? two more bad ass poc characters! the fourth book and there’s literally a gay character and it’s not like disney could say no. hoo ends and then there’s magnus chase and ppl are fucking pumped bc that’s annabeth chase’s cousin and in the first book there’s a muslim girl and by the second book there’s a transgender and genderfluid character. trials of apollo? a main gay couple in a happy relationship and a fucking bi character. could disney say no? no. literal 10 year olds are reading books with heaps of representation all published by disney. rick riordan played the game. you step in thinking ur just gonna get white cishets and you walk out surrounded by different cultures and rainbows.
tldr; rick started out with the basic pasty white and straight series which got hella successful and used his success to pusblish more books and allow only one (1) cishet and only one (1) white
i doubt he planned it but deadass it would be so funny if that’s what happened
#oh also #not to mention #tkc #awesome biracial leads that actually talk about racial issues #the rest of the cast is a bunch of kickass poc as well there are like … 2 white people i actually remember #tkc was so great bye (via @zoenightstars )
PSA
y’all
need
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read
Shimanami Tasogare
It is an amazing manga with an almost entirely LGBT+ cast and talks a lot about gender identity, sexuality and troubles faced by those within the LGBT+ community (especially for younger members). Also it is fucking BEAUTIFUL.
Kamatani Yuuki’s use of imagery and visual metaphors never fails to take my breath away.
Please just read the damn manga.
A friend of mine is talking about trans veterans at a national anthropology conference.
He asked me to write a statement in response to the result of the 2016 election. This is it:
An open letter:
De Oppresso Liber. To free the oppressed. Nous Defions. We defy. Liberty and justice for all. My country has long claimed to be THE symbol of freedom and democracy across the globe. We have always espoused these lofty ideals.
And yet.
Here we are.
I was never a patriotic “true believer” but gods I thought we were better than this. In spite of losing the popular vote our electoral system is poised to emplace a man who campaigned on the promise to restrict the human rights, civil liberties, and bodily autonomy of black people, Muslims, immigrants, and queer people of all stripes. We have elected a man who is staffing his cabinet with openly white nationalist figures like Stephen Bannon.
David Duke, the KKK, and the actual American Nazi Party are holding victory parades and celebrations for our new president elect.
I want to say I don’t recognize my country. But I do. The thing is, when I was a child I did believe that we were the good guys. We were the greatest country in the world—freedom was what made us different from every nation across the globe. Then again, in those days I was a male-assigned child who went to church 5 times a week and only ever got into trouble for bringing my bible to school and preaching to my classmates. To say I was naïve is an understatement. The scales fell from my eyes very quickly.
When one of the faithful raped me for 5 of my first 10 years of life, it was somehow MY shame to bear rather than his. My father convinced me not to press charges because once people knew I had been raped, he said, I could never take that back.
I learned that words and actions rarely aligned. The church sign always said “All are welcome” but the church bylaws, which were updated in the 1990’s by the way, still forbid members of the church from even being party to interracial weddings. My dad “didn’t approve of black people” as if they somehow chose their race and threatened to disown me if I ever brought home a black girl. My family fears that gays will “convert” good little Christian children.
My country kills unarmed black children but takes white mass murderers into custody and buys them cheeseburgers. In my country a man with a gun can harass, stalk, and kill a child and claim he feared for his life, but a black trans woman who accidentally kills her meth-addled neo-nazi attacker with a pair of scissors from her fashion design class will go to prison.
No, I absolutely recognize my country. All straight cisgender white Christian men are created equal. The rest of us are to be dominated, subjugated, incarcerated, or deported. Or otherwise “protected” from choice and bodily autonomy. The toxicity of whiteness and Christianity and masculinity is a swift current that swept me into the teeth of a war I never believed in. I did terrible things for a nation that refuses to acknowledge my basic humanity, and I will never be able to wash that blood off my hands. In special forces our motto was De Oppresso Liber—most often paraphrased as “to free the oppressed”. Our direct action teams appropriated the motto Nous Defions—We Defy—from the French resistance in World War II. To me they are more than just buzzwords. I took them to heart. I recognize that America is an oppressor to people of color, women, queers, and the disabled. My transgender status and my womanhood do not negate my status as a warrior, and I recognize president-elect Trump and those who back him as the same dark forces my grandfather battled in the 1940’s. I recognize my country for what it is—an empire built by slaves on the bones of natives—but I still believe in what it could be. I know what side of history I will be on. My America is diverse, without the divisions encouraged by those who would put so-called state’s rights before human rights or federal protections for them. My America has skin that is red and black and brown, not just white. My America is queer and fat and femme. My America is Atheist and Jewish and Muslim. My people are disabled and incarcerated and undergoing “reparative therapy”. I still believe in one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. For ALL. And I say to Trump and Pence and Bannon: We defy you. WE DEFY. Nous Defions.
Alana McLaughlin, former staff sergeant, United States Army
De Oppresso Liber.
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Valhalla does not discriminate against the kind of fight you lost. Did you lose the battle with cancer? Maybe you died in a fist fight. Even facing addiction. After taking a deep drink from his flagon, Odin slams his cup down and asks for the glorious tale of your demise!
Oh my god, this is beautiful.
A small child enters Valhalla. The battle they lost was “hiding from an alcoholic father.” Odin sees the flinch when he slams the cup and refrains from doing it again. He hears the child’s pain; no glorious battle this, but one of fear and wretched survival.
He invites the child to sit with him, offers the choicest mead and instructs his men to bring a sword and shield, a bow and arrow, of the very best materials and appropriate size. “Here,” he says, “you will find no man who dares to harm you. But so you will know your own strength, and be happy all your days in Valhalla, I will teach you to use these weapons.”
The sad day comes when another child enters the hall. Odin does not slam his cup; he simply beams with pride as the first child approaches the newcomer, and holds out her bow and quiver, and says “nobody here will hurt you. Everyone will be so proud you did your best, and I’ll teach you to use these, so you always know how strong you are.”
————
A young man enters the hall. He hesitates when Odin asks his story, but at long last, it ekes out: skinheads after the Pride parade. His partner got into a building and called for help. The police took a little longer than perhaps they really needed to, and two of those selfsame skinheads are in the hospital now with broken bones that need setting, but six against one is no fair match. The fear in his face is obvious: here, among men large enough to break him in two, will he face an eternity of torment for the man he left behind?
Odin rumbles with anger. Curses the low worms who brought this man to his table, and regales him with tales of Loki so to show him his own welcome. “A day will come, my friend, when you seek to be reunited, and so you shall,” Odin tells him. “To request the aid of your comrades in battle is no shameful thing.”
———-
A woman in pink sits near the head of the table. She’s very nearly skin and bones, and has no hair. This will not last; health returns in Valhalla, and joy, and light, and merrymaking. But now her soul remembers the battle of her life, and it must heal.
Odin asks.
And asks again.
And the words pour out like poisoned water, things she couldn’t tell her husband or children. The pain of chemotherapy. The agony of a mastectomy, the pain still deeper of “we found a tumor in your lymph nodes. I’m so sorry.” And at last, the tortured question: what is left of her?
Odin raises his flagon high. “What is left of you, fair warrior queen, is a spirit bright as fire; a will as strong as any forged iron; a life as great as any sea. Your battle was hard-fought, and lost in the glory only such furor can bring, and now the pain and fight are behind you.“
In the months to come, she becomes a scop of the hall–no demotion, but simple choice. She tells the stories of the great healers, Agnes and Tanya, who fought alongside her and thousands of others, who turn from no battle in the belief that one day, one day, the war may be won; the warriors Jessie and Mabel and Jeri and Monique, still battling on; the queens and soldiers and great women of yore.
The day comes when she calls a familiar name, and another small, scarred woman, eyes sunken and dark, limbs frail, curly black hair shaved close to her head, looks up and sees her across the hall. Odin descends from his throne, a tall and foaming goblet in his hands, and stuns the hall entire into silence as he kneels before the newcomer and holds up the goblet between her small dark hands and bids her to drink.
“All-Father!” the feasting multitudes cry. “What brings great Odin, Spear-Shaker, Ancient One, Wand-Bearer, Teacher of Gods, to his knees for this lone waif?”
He waves them off with a hand.
“This woman, LaTeesha, Destroyer of Cancer, from whom the great tumors fly in fear, has fought that greatest battle,” he says, his voice rolling across the hall. “She has fought not another body, but her own; traded blows not with other limbs but with her own flesh; has allowed herself to be pierced with needles and scored with knives, taken poison into her very veins to defeat this enemy, and at long last it is time for her to put her weapons down. Do you think for a moment this fight is less glorious for being in silence, her deeds the less for having been aided by others who provided her weapons? She has a place in this great hall; indeed, the highest place.”
And the children perform feats of archery for the entertainment of all, and the women sing as the young man who still awaits his beloved plays a lute–which, after all, is not so different from the guitar he once used to break a man’s face in that great final fight.
Valhalla is a place of joy, of glory, of great feasting and merrymaking.
And it is a place for the soul and mind to heal.
I’M NOT CRYING YOU’RE CRYING
THIS IS GLORIOUS
Beautiful.
@prismatic-bell, can you do a trans girl that loses her battle with depression? I think i need to read that. This is so wonderful, please.
The assembled crowd pauses in their feasting and carousing, all confusion, when the newest arrival comes.
Some of them are older, and have never seen someone the like. Some have been here only a few short years, and look on her with sympathy.
She is beckoned, as always, to Odin’s table, and as always, asked for her name and her tale.
Her voice is quiet, and unsure, and afraid.
“My name is Leelah.”
The assembled crowd is still all confusion. Odin only raises his flagon high.
“And Leelah, warrior queen, tell us the tale of your great battle!”
The tale does not entertain; it brings tears. A girl cut off from her sisterhood, fighting the daily twin demons of body and mind, every day forced to answer not to the name Huginn and Muninn will keep her by but one thrust on her at birth, dragged forcibly from those who would call her sister and friend. Loki’s gift of transformation was not hers, and so she stands before Odin, Gallows-Burden, awaiting judgment.
A redheaded man in ancient leather armor raises a flagon.
“All hail Leelah, wise woman, great warrior!”
The shouts echo throughout the hall, up and down in every mouth–the ancient gods of yore, and the legendary heroes, and those unsung brave warriors of centuries untold, and the pink-clad scop in the corner with her unbound hair a glossy curtain to her waist.
As the last shouts fade away, Odin raises his flagon again.
“Leelah, great warrior, who has found favor with the assembled of Valhalla, you are most welcome here,” he says. “But I make you the offer, as well, of an audience with Freyja, Giver, Lady of the Slain, to enter her hall if you find favor, and there learn the ways of women and find your sisterhood.”
Leelah is conveyed, that very day, to Fólkvangr in the company of the Valkyries. She does not return, but instead a slender man in simple clothes enters Valhalla in the same company with which Leelah left.
Odin, as always, inquires.
“My name,” the man says, “is Brandon.”
[[In memory and honor of Brandon Teena and Leelah Alcorn. May they rest in power and know peace and healing in a world beyond our own.]]
Thank you.
nobody ever talks about how saying non-binary genders don’t exist is racist as fuck
How?
many many many indigenous cultures have historically included more than two genders and to say that those genders do not exist is to say that those cultural traditions are invalid, and that only the imperialist gender binary is correct. which is racism.
Source?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijra_%28South_Asia%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakla
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathoey
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muxe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Spirit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%27afafine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81h%C5%AB
Do you need any more or are you done being a dick
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/16/india-third-gender-claims-place-in-law
http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1820633,00.html
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2012/05/30/153990125/in-mexico-mixed-genders-and-muxes
http://www.nativepeoples.com/Native-Peoples/May-June-2014/Two-Spirit-The-Story-of-a-Movement-Unfolds/
http://theculturetrip.com/pacific/samoa/articles/fa-afafines-the-third-gender/
For those who don’t like Wikipedia
THISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHIS
THE WESTERN IDEA OF TWO GENDERS IS EXACTLY THAT
WESTERN
THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF CULTURES ACROSS THE WORLD WHO SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM OR OTHER FORM OUTSIDE OF TWO GENDERS
It’s here. By which I mean you can buy the book. You can buy it as a paperback from Lulu.com. You can buy it straight to your Kindle from Amazon US | UK. You can buy it in a number of ebook f…
MY BOOK IS OUT.
PIMP IT ‘TIL THERE’S A FANDOM
This is my favourite thing that I’ve read this year BUY THE THING READ THE THING I need to be able to talk to people about this.
hello it’s different time-zone-o’clock buy my book and make everyone you know buy it and draw lots of lovely fanart
thank you
xx
I’ll just keep reblogging this to remind myself to actually read it soon.
meanwhile i’ll just keep reblogging it to remind everyone else to buy buy uy buy and talk talk talk and pimp til there’s fandom
(@kissing-monsters told me people would be more interested if I made a huge point about it being GAY GAY GAYETY GAY but like yes there is a queer romance and yes one of the most important characters is a trans woman but i don’t think of it as a GAY book or a TRANS book? any more than i continually think of myself as a GAY or A TRAN)
To All Trans Girl Gamers...
If you’re like me, you’ve probably had experiences where you’ve avoided playing with others online due to your gender identity or have had to conceal large aspects of yourself when gaming as to avoid harassment.
Some of you may play without mics to hide your voice, which can leave you left out of team-based games that require lots of coordination.
Some of you may feel forced to use more masculine avatars and Gamertags online so that people won’t question your voice, but then you have to deal with others treating you as male.
Or maybe you haven’t taken these measures whether it is because you vocally pass or you have resolved to just deal with instances of harassment when they occur.
What I’m offering is an invitation.
I’m attempting to form a group of trans women for trans women to be able to play video games together without having to hide themselves due to the fear of being harassed by others.
This group will not have platform restrictions; there will be sub-groups for each console as well as PC, and there is no limit to how many groups you are in. (If you have multiple systems you may join each corresponding group)
If interested send your messages to this blog’s ask box. Include your Gamertag and which platforms you play on and you shall be added to those sub-groups.
The main restriction here is to join this group you must be a trans woman. Gaming session will not be exclusive to trans women if the leader of that session so chooses to allow for others, but group membership is for trans women only.
The current name for this blog is a place holder and once we have more members we will vote on a new one.
Hope to see you guys online
-Alexandria
This looks adorable! "hanayome wa motodanshi" by Chii
Haven’t done a giveaway in awhile so here’s one. Every time I do one people are strangely assholes about it so I have zero patience this time around.
This is a box catered to medium to dark skin tones. Ideally I’d like to give this to a queer/trans person of color who is building up their makeup kit because it would be of greatest use to them. Please don’t enter via reblog if none of these requirements apply to you. Signal boosting is fine. I am not dealing with international shipping btw sorry. You don’t need to follow me just make sure there’s a way to contact you if you win. Obviously. Giveaway side blogs will be disqualified also.
This giveaway ends April 10 2016 at 1200pm est.
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“Chasers” By Last Words First
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