Black transmen & transmascs: I just wish I was a fluffy haired boy
My nigga....
YOU ARE!
YOU HAVE A CLOUD ON YOUR SCALP!!!
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Black transmen & transmascs: I just wish I was a fluffy haired boy
My nigga....
YOU ARE!
YOU HAVE A CLOUD ON YOUR SCALP!!!
new creature discovered. how to proceed?
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I find it really weird how the self proclaimed transfeminist crowd on here is so insistent that trans men who believe their manhood is fundamentally different from cis manhood (due to experiencing misogyny and transphobia, etc) are not āreal menā and/or are misgendering themselves, but they find it perfectly understandable and acceptable when trans women talk about how they experience womanhood differently from cis women?
Like, for example, these people mostly seem to agree that referring to trans women with terms like ādudeā and ābroā is bad (unless someone individually tells you they prefer otherwise), and even though I have literally never once even heard of a cis woman getting upset over being called those things, itās widely understood by these people that this is a symptom of dysphoria that is more often than not specific to transfems because their relationship with womanhood, while equally real and valid as cis womenās is, is just in some ways very different due to the way they grew up. I just donāt get why, if youāre able to apply that logic to trans and cis women, why is it so hard for these people to apply a similar line of logic to the experiences of trans men?
Why are they so dead set on viewing cis manhood (and the most privileged versions of it, at that) as the default, most real form of manhood? If you see a man as less of a man just because he isnāt shy about the misogyny he experiences, you really ought to unpack your transphobia and think about why your idea of āreal manhoodā inherently excludes the experiences of the vast majority of trans men.
I will say, I don't think this crowd is as accepting of trans women whose experiences vary from the acceptable norm as it seems. There's at least two users on here who have been bullied out of identifying as trans women, or nearly such, purely because they talk about transandrophobia and don't describe their gender within a very specific frame. Trans women can have experiences cis women don't have, but I often see it framed more as "trans women are basically just cis women who have it even worse!" than actual inclusion of like, a transfem who doesn't relate to the experiences of binary trans woman, or a trans woman who likes having a beard, or, god forbid, a trans woman who is also a man or identifies as male.
Which is why so many of these people are also transmeds or transmed-adjacent and intensely exorsexist. It's a product of transfeminism that only seeks inclusion within a (white) cisfeminist framework, and therefore every trans person needs to be essentially a cis man or a cis woman with extra modifiers; we aren't allowed to conceive of "trans" as it's own gender position, because this kind of gender theory is based more around the desire for acceptance by cis women (smth transmascs can also fall into) than it is actually challenging cissexism in feminism beyond "treat trans women like cis women!"
scone butch... The person for all your pastry and lesbian needs
I hate making scones but am an absolute slut for them so this is a partner Iām now seeking ardently. I will be your clotted cream princess
Wait this is literally a bomb ass drawing of that one post,,,
This one
I love it itās perfect
My cat can open her jaw wider than I can open mine.
dont settle for that cis chaser straight trans girl, there are men who will love you and treat you like the princess you are straight trans girl
But how do I tell them from chasers š
Pay attention to how they treat you and other transfems. See if they see you as an actual person, respect you, don't try to control you, and generally just treat you like any other gal.
So, it ain't the same, but a couple of Venn-diagram overlap points from someone who's witnessed these overlaps with chubby chasers & been through that shit, 3 big easy tests:
How does he talk about women who aren't from The Category? Are all skinny women horrible rail-thin cunts? Are all cis women crazy, unpredictable bitches? How about his exes from The Category? Did they betray the True Way Of Being The Thing? Are all his exes from The Category? (That doesn't bother me so much if he's also in The Category, tbh. t4t is real & so is fat4fat.)
Does he have a fixation on the body parts/qualities that put you in The Category, or does he also talk about how great your eyes/mouth/brain/conversation is? Does he have cutesy or infantilizing terms for parts/qualities of your body, especially parts/qualities of your body specific to The Category, double-specifically if they're not terms you used first? Are you "fluffy"? Is your dick your "princess wand"? Do you use those terms?
Is he proud to be seen in public with you, or are you his dirty little secret? Have you met his friends at karaoke night, or does he only ever want to stay in? Are you a person, or a living sex toy?
You deserve better. Demand it.
I'm instituting a new policy of "if I can't easily read your crusty scanned PDF then I'm sending it back to you, telling you to get your shit together and save your .docx as .pdf, and causing snakes to manifest inside your house"
this but also if you are in accounting and you have an Excel file please do not save it as a PDF or take a screenshot of it and then paste it into another Excel file
I take it back whatever you have going on is way worse than what I was dealing with holy shit
@thesummoningdark hello?????
yeah no this is a real thing an actual human being said to me
Good afternoon to everyone in the notes having a horrible time! Y'all are fighting demons I never knew existed!! I think every person that makes you do stupid time wasting shit like this because they refuse to learn basic computer literacy should be fired!!
Hi!! You mentioned something about racism in Epic the Musical? Would I be okay to ask about that?
You have NO idea how long I've been sitting on this infographic made by my buddy @antivan-surana
1) Okay, so. First what I wanna counter- because I know it's coming- is "but there's more white antagonists and there's an equal amount of Black people in the protagonists and the antagonists!" This is a common argument when discussing racism: numbers versus rates. Out of a 24 member main cast (at least the ones I got here) five of those actors are Black (six characters, two played by the same guy). 21%. Okay, not great, not terrible!
2) Now, out of those 6 characters, played by 5 Black actors. 5 of those characters- 2 of them despite their technical protagonist roles- are either antagonists (antagonist ā villain), or are treated as such by the fans. 5/6, or 83% of your Black cast is or will be considered acting in opposition to your main hero.
3) one of these Black characters dies early on, and I even got complaints that they whitewash his character to bits. So, yay! One genuinely protagonist Black character... Dead. It's not even like most of these human characters don't die either, but... Ya know. Woulda been cool to pick a protagonist Black character that lived!
4) My thoughts on Calypso and Antinous and the historically bad stereotypes they now represent by casting two Black people in those roles, as well as how their Blackness will affect perception of those roles by a nonblack audience that may have treated them differently if they weren't. This one is a major factor for me, if NOTHING else. Like even if all other things were different, I would still be uncomfortable if the cast list remained the same.
5) @does-it-like-black-women ran a poll on Epic's treatment of Black women (the sole Black woman on the cast), and even though all the takes came from different directions, there was still a very much overwhelming answer of "No". So it's not like people don't notice!
Someone put in my tags once that the casting was a blind audition. Idek if that's true, but I'm not gone hold you, if you cast an entire play blindly and your stats come out looking like this?? I'd be wondering if there's some other biases we might have to look at with you. But that's not a numbers based bullet point, just a thought of mine.
6) "the creator can't be racist, he's Puerto Rican!" Puerto Rican doesn't mean not white. Latino doesn't mean "not white". The same peer who made this infographic explained that there's still a lot of antiblackness in Puerto Rico. You can literally be friends with Black people and still manage to be racist to them, there's no Protective Identity that stops one from committing harm! I also remember being told that he had taken advantage of some of his Black artist peers, though I didn't keep up with that.
In summary, the musical itself is not the problem. It's just another modern take on The Odyssey. You could listen to this whole thing and be fine. The issue is the culture around the musical. That's my problem. That's where the antiblackness lies. If you have a cast where the majority of your Black characters are bad guys, and you've got an audience that is steeped with antiblack bias (and BELIEVE ME... Yes. It does. Every fandom does.) you're gonna end up with that bias festering and revealing itself.
And to me, that's something that someone who was intentional in their casting would have thought about. Someone who took the time to think about what they were creating, who cared about the depiction of Black characters, woulda stood back and at least said "hmm. Maybe we need to make some more of the Gods or maybe even Odysseus, Penelope, or Telemachus Black".
But it's really just another example of the same old, same old, just in a popular form that I think everyone (including Black listeners) just shove under the rug. And while I don't blame anyone for listening, I do think it's part of critical media consumption to acknowledge "hey... That is a little weird, even if it's not intentional."
I'ma make a small addition for point #3, and the whitewashing the fandom [and Official Artist in this case!] maintains.
I've seen arguments/defenses that "the characters are just drawn like their voice actors!", whether that's the official artist or fan content. This as a reason why antiblackness isn't so thoroughly seeped into this place.
So tell me why Polites, "the friend of Odysseus" and the one whom serves as his canon guide, is drawn as white. Pale white, a glowing and Illuminating white, even prior to his death.
And here's his voice actor! :D
It took me MONTHS to find out that he wasn't white, like all of the fanart suggests. With the drawing above being referred to as his "Canon" design.
He's Odysseus' beacon! His moral compass, the one whom Odysseus changes his entire mindset for, whom he grieves as a lost brother for the rest of the musical and story.
But there's no way he could be Black. Or have a hint of melanin in him. Y'know what, just put some shitty lookin curls on top and call it a day! Maybe if you squint you might catch the speck of melanin the artist bestowed upon him, the LaCroix of Ethnicity!
YK actually yeah all of these are really great points
I do actually really like Epic but I won't say it didn't make me extremely fucking uncomfortable upon listening and noticing how many of the major antagonists were black and the others did not seem to be. Especially Calypso really threw me off.
Because... Barbara's voice is beautiful. So truly stunning and I would like to support her completely in the future.
But it's the fact that Calypso is also just in general so often a sexualized character and I'm gonna be honest most of the more modern and common depictions I've seen if her have been black while the others are white which, comes off very jezebel tropey even if not meaning to
And then with the context that she and antonious are both portrayed or implied to be rapist and the best singers were that happened to be black is very odd.
I do feel like the glowing polities is a bit of a non issue though. He's glowing because he's like...a ghost and a guiding light. Which I don't think is strange. But I do think it's strange how he seems to be drawn here. I had not noticed that because I did not engage with any of the videos or streams that were out and the only art I have seen of him has him with curly hair and brown skin but I do see the issue here
It's a bit unfortunate that this turned out this way. And I don't think it intentional but I do think it's a bias that should be looked at if this is how Jorge has chosen to cast and move forward without considering how this may come across and maybe he can do better with his next upcoming orohect
Diversity is important but it's also important to be mindful in your casting
Now I do think, however, it's important taking into consideration the fact that these people auditioned for these roles specifically though. Obviously they're not helpless victims or something. Or at least to my knowledge they all auditioned specifically for these roles. And I don't think Jorge should specifically be attacked for casting them in these roles or anything
But I do think in terms of all casting and creating of characters we also have to be conscious when we have limited character or casting of any marginalized background "Does my story seem to perpetuate stereotypes with this character" and if the answer is yes you should maybe either re-write the character or add another character to balance it out
I heard the guy who was cast as Antinous tried out for Tiresias. So. I was nodding, not in full agreement but acceptable, until you said that part. We don't have to throw stones at Jorge, but we do deeply need to understand that yes, it is a reflection of his bias.
No, I'm not gonna give partial blame to the Black actors for trying out for these roles. You can say that they were aware of the lashback they were gonna get- as is a common thing amongst Black actors who try out for any role of ANY personality because people just... Don't like Black characters and people... But we're not going to act like white people don't try out for roles reflecting the utmost scum of the earth and still get adoring fans all around. Because those roles wouldn't be nearly as bad if the rest of the cast... Weren't almost completely white.
can we see how jack and nana would draw each other in their own art styles š„ŗ
FOR CONTEXT: Nana has low vision. Things are blurry and fuzzy to her but SHE DID HER BEST TO DRAW HER BOYFRIEND.
I wanted her drawing to show what stands out most about him to her. She gave him a big smiley face because he's a chipper fella, the scribbles on his face are his freckles because she knows she has them (and she can feel the difference in his skin texture with them), the scribbly hair because his hair is super soft and curly, big ole nose because they boop noses all the time, and his hair flicks since she sometimes plays with them.
AFTER EXPLAINING ALL THAT, you can def understand why Jack is emotional.
Soft toy elephant named āPumpieā, dressed as a sailor in an elegant dark blue woollen jacket with lots of brass buttons and matching trousers. Pumpie also has other items of clothing, such as a kilt and a jacket. This sweet little critter was made from felt and filled with straw and wool, England, circa 1900.
I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.
"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not youāit's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!
The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.
Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than mostāentirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup
"Meet people where they are" is Activism 101, and people seem to be allergic to seeing that this is exactly that.
"Bean Soup Rhetoric" is a very good concept.
Queer refugees in East Africa are living at the intersection of multiple forms of vulnerability fleeing violence at home, only to face new risks in displacement.
Across the region, many LGBTQ+ people are forced to leave their countries because of criminalization, persecution, and threats to their lives. In some places, same-sex relationships are still punishable by severe penalties, even death.
For those who reach countries like Kenya or Uganda, safety is not guaranteed. Refugee camps such as Kakuma have seen reports of discrimination, attacks, and tensions affecting LGBTQ+ residents, even as humanitarian agencies try to improve protection.
Recent years have also seen more people fleeing harsh laws like Ugandaās Anti-Homosexuality Act pushing queer individuals to seek asylum across borders, often into already strained systems.
Beyond physical safety, queer refugees face isolation, lack of healthcare, limited legal protection, and mental health challenges shaped by both displacement and identity-based trauma.
And yet, across East Africa, queer refugee communities continue to organize, support each other, and demand dignity, visibility, and rights.
Queer refugees are not just statistics they are people seeking the same thing anyone would: safety, belonging, and the freedom to live openly.
š³ļøāš Their stories matter. Their safety matters. Their rights matter.
(A post from a queer Sudanian refugee who can't set up a fundraiser in his own country.)
Not to be that person, but if you remember this, how's that newfound back pain going for ya babe
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LET'S DO THE FORK IN THE GARBAGE DISPOSAL
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Judith Butler, philosopher: āIf you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logicā
Feels like a good time to remind certain people that this is coming from Judith Butler, who is not just a leading feminist philosopher, but also THE COFOUNDER OF QUEER THEORY
The literal cofounder of queer theory as an academic field says that abandoning trans people is fascist logic.
The voices in our community trying to exclude us may be loud, but they are not right, and they do not speak for the community as a whole or our history or anything at all.
Trans people belong here. We always have, and we always will.
The above is a video shared by smrchildsadness on Twitter, showing a person participating in a pride parade exchanging a pride flag with a person standing on his (am using his pronoun based on the TikToks/Tweets of what happened) doorway who had a Portuguese flag. There are sounds of cheers and crying and the two people hug each other as they exchange the flags. The man at the doorway then waved kisses to the crowd within the pride parade.
The Tweet says: "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE WAS WAVING THE PORTUGUESE FLAG BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A PRIDE FLAG AND THEY TRADED FLAGS AND HE'S SO EMOTIONAL TO GET HIS OWN PRIDE FLAG I'M EMOTIONALLY RUINED"
For context, apparently they were worried that maybe he's a nationalist because he was waving the Portuguese flag and some nationalists opposing the pride march were waving that flag. But upon interacting with him, it turns out he didn't have have a pride flag and he wanted to wave *a* flag in support of the pride march. So they had an exchange and now he has his own pride flag šš„¹.
The image above is a Tweet by kunwara_ladkaa that says "I'm crying so much right now (Image taken by Manuel Fernando AraĆŗjo/Lusa)". The image shows the same man from the pride parade crying as he hugs his new pride flag.
The above image is a Tweet by dudz_zZzz that says "ainda não parei de pensar nele," which according to Google translate from Portuguese to English is "I still haven't stopped thinking about him." The image is a drawing of the person from the pride parade, crying as he hugs his new pride flag.
Posts were made on July 1, 2024.
One of the most joyful moments of 2024 during a Pride Parade in Portugal.
6/4/2026
there's literally nothing more radical in 2026 than believing that humanity can become good news for each other and the only world we'll ever share.
Saving the tags.
obviously I take no pleasure whatsoever in tenderly caring for you while you're sick and writhing in bed with a fever
comforting you while you're vulnerable, running my fingers through your disheveled hair, placing a cold compress to your skin, flushed and hot to the touch, etc.
what do you take me for - some kind of pervert?