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y’all aces need to understand that when young people say they’d “totally bang” so-and-so they are often trying to play the game. To fit in. They are mimicking something they don’t fully understand and to “fuck” or “bang” is not as much a natural human practice as it is language of a twisted, pornified debasement of human sexuality.
Iguaza Falls, on the border of Argentina and Brazil, is one of the widest waterfalls on Earth.
I will never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever stop talking about my vagina and reproductive organs. If you want me to, well you’re just going to have to fuck off.
everytime you think “gender is fluid” or “gender is a spectrum”, make sure to follow it up with: “for who?”
then think about young girls who are taken to ISIS camps to become their brides and be raped. and then think about female fetuses in China who are aborted.
what does gender mean in those contexts - in those countries? is gender something you can explore, bend, twist for those people? if the answer is no, why not? how is gender used in those countries?
is gender the power being enforced on the people, or is it something which the individual person actually has any control over?
Queer theory colonises
I use to rock with queer theory, especially since some African, black women were/are attempting to decolonise it but I personally don’t think this is possible. Brenda Cossman does a great job in meeting queer theory with feminism & de-colonial discourse but I don’t think queer theory can be saved. Queer theory comes out of the centre of European academia. And you know what? I happily engage in robust debate around these issues, with my peers.
As far as queer theory, I see knowledge & opinion still flowing from the West & North to the East & South (see ‘cis privilege’). Queer theory originated in Western, Euro-American discourse. It is uplifted by all people, regardless of race, because we are all still mistaken that Westerners are the arbiters of revolutionary knowledge. West goes beyond white skin, it is also specific epistemologies (knowledge systems) & ontologies (nature of being).
Third gender identities, which is how it has for centuries been described & understood in many societies outside of European societies & the European continent, is not simply a synonym for transgender or transsexual. Transgender & transsexual are contemporary cultural understandings, ‘cis’ as an idea as far as gender, is a European (male), cultural perspective. Two spirit, Hijra, Third gender=/=transgender or transsexual, don’t Euro-wash other cultures & understandings.
Women in the Global South can’t opt out or identify out of our oppressions, our oppressions are based on our materiality - brown skin, female bodies - & we sit on the labour & raw material side of the international division of labour. Women in the East & South represent some of the most oppressed groups & sit at the bottom of the barrel. The idea that women benefit from being women, that there is some benefit because we don’t ‘identify outside of our sex’ is the biggest load of white, male-centric nonsense I have ever heard. That there are African feminist women who agree with this, constantly astounds me.
The idea of some sort of privilege women have because we don’t ‘identify outside of our sex’ was obviously created by someone who has zero clue of the vast struggles women face because of our sex, sexual orientation, race, class, mental health issues, disabilities et cetera & who has a very narrow understanding & view of gender. You have to be incredibly naive of or just not care about the struggles faced by those of us born into the humxn, female sex, to think there is ‘cis privilege’ in not ‘identifying outside of’ being a girl or woman as in, some privilege in being marked as a second-class humxn from birth, because you are female.
Whoever first thought that gender inherently positions trans male people (transwomen) across the board as more oppressed on the basis of sex & gender, has in no way understood nor considered how gender hurts humxn, female people. Note that female is materiality, like skin colour & genetics is materiality & gendered & racial heirarchies are social constructs - my perspective.
I’ve read many examples of ‘cis privilege’ articles - you have to be purposefully naive & coming from a middle-class, non-immigrant, Eurocentric pov, to think those issues don’t affect women, & are something we identify into as a class.
You’re going tell me African lesbian women as a class, have ‘cis privilege’ over European-American trans male people (transwoman) as a class - get. out. Furthermore, ‘cis’ used within gender discourse (a European idea) is used within a specific framework of understanding & viewing gender - it is one cultural & epistemological pov, an idea, an ideology. No, I do not agree with your views regarding sex & gender.
I desire no allyship to your sexist erasure & positioning of women as privileged within this system of oppression that is gender. I don’t identify with the same side of the construction of woman in a genderered system which is to be feminine (femininity is far more than aesthetic, it is the expectation of women to be submissive to men), compulsory heterosexuality, to be the sexual property of men et cetera. I don’t have a gender, gender is imposed on me.
Since gender is a construct, there can be no natural or ‘normal’ gendered ways of being, just repetitions made into social law. ‘Cis’ is not a problem because it others people in relation to how trans people are othered; I’m a homosexual African woman, I’m already othered in multiple ways. 'Cisgender’ is a problem because it discards the vast debates feminist women have BEEN having regarding sex & gender. It is a problem because it displaces gender & it’s heirarchies as a system of oppression & solely locates it as a mode of (self) identification. 'Cis’ naturalises & upholds heterosexual-patriarchal views of gender yet gender oppresses women. 'Cis’ requires some 'aligning with gender’ in order to make any sense, but for humxn female people to align with gender, is to maintain the system which oppresses us as a class. Gender essentialism is required in order to be able to construct a cis-trans binary view of gender. Femininity=/=womanhood.
Black women are inherently denied womanhood because of our race, lesbians because of our sexual orientation. Systems of gender position 'woman’ as heterosexualy tied in a submissive relationship to 'man’. Ideal womahood denies blackness, declares the ideal woman is more aesthetically based in Northern, European ideals of beauty & constructs black women as hyper-sexual.
As far as trans people’s pain & oppressions, who is being horrifically murdered? Black & Latina trans people. Yet there’s white, male phallocentrism at the centre of transgender discourse, I’m supposed to act like I don’t see it? If trans means not conforming to sex stereotypes, there are so many ways to understand & unpack this as far as gender. There are spiritual experiences & points of view regarding being third gender. If trans means someone who is dysphoric, there is much to be discussed as far as the European, medical model. Given the history of how European 'medical’ (cultural) points of view have pathologised everyone who is not white, male, & heterosexual & doesn’t in some way align with sex stereotypes, the European medical model leaves much to be desired.
White male trans people (transwomen) weaponise deaths of black & Latina trans people. Black trans people, I’m not aligning with this homophobic, sexist, anti-female person, Eurocentric mess.
If I didn’t have a black trans female friend (transman) & intersex trans friend who I’d seen debate & disagree with American queer theorists upon my 1st experience of “lesbian is not female-female vulva sexed materiality,” (before penises are female took over) I likely would not have had one of my first “this is bs” moments. If I didn’t come across trans people who reject dominant, trans discourse, it might have taken me longer to reject this discourse. I’m not rejecting the people who are characterised through this discourse, whose vast modes of being subvert expectations of gender based on one’s sex & who suffer from dysphoria.
No African woman (no woman) has 'cis privilege’ you cannot opt into & out of oppressions based on materiality - sex is materiality. Oppression is not a opt into & out of. Gender oppresses African women from birth, it is a system of heterosexual-patriarchal dominance. It imposes restrictive (Northern & European ideals of ) femininity onto girls & women, a femininity designed to service heterosexual, male desires, limit women & position us as submissive & subordinate to men’s masculinity.
Gender is a hierarchy, hegemonic masculinity & femininity heirarchies are constructed via gender. Gender is founded on a patriarchal male>female system of oppression. Yes, power’s also situational & relational (hence hegemonic masculinity & femininity) but this doesn’t disappear superstructures & you can’t just identify out of privileges & oppressions.
To say that male anatomy is female (a penis is female) is just another act of patriarchy which denies & obscures how we are oppressed, oppressed because we do NOT have penises (not because we are feminine), because we are not male. Femininity is used TO construct women’s subordination.
There are issues globally & in different societal contexts affecting people born into the humxn, female sex class (intersex girls & women too) in *specific ways, because of our materiality. No ID will spare all humxn, female people unwanted pregnancy & being denied access to abortions. A male person within a particular societal context, will not be kicked out of their home every time they menstruate.
Also, don’t appropriate intersex people!
Of course male people face gross oppressions too.
However, there are very specific, female oppressions we face because of our materiality. You don’t get to erase centuries of our lives, experiences, stories, love, pain & oppressions because you feel a certain way & suffer in a certain way.
Are you even going to factor in feminists like Oyewumi saying Gender is a Western invension (I agree & disagree with her, life & history of North meets South is not so black & white)? Feminists like Bakare-Yusuf who critique her work & map out various perspectives regarding African feminisms, sex & gender? You can’t impose LGBTQ across different contexts.
There are complex, diverse debates & layered views of feminist women across the world’s second largest continent, alone. How you can declare there’s no debate is beyond me! African feminist women have been debating gender for a long time & we are just getting started, you don’t get to declare your knowledge as the most valid & reliable. African feminist women have been debating the idea of 'woman’ & 'womahood’ for a long time, you don’t get to declare a boundary on points of view, world sense & opinions.
It is queer theory & this type of gender discourse which is actually deeply embedded in Western, Euro-American discourse. I’m sick & tired of having to accept Western discourse because reasons, this isn’t the 1800s, I don’t have to accept nor agree with sh.
Stop creating this myth that rejecting this discourse is an act of white supremacy & that queer theory is inherently de-colonial in nature.
'Cisgender’ is a problem because it discards the vast debates feminist women have BEEN having regarding sex & gender. It is a problem because it displaces gender & it’s heirarchies as a system of oppression & solely locates it as a mode of (self) identification.
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#Viktor was obviously deeply in love with her #just remember the fact that he took her to prom #even knowing that he could’ve choose any other girl #remember how he forgot about everyone and danced with her all night #remember how he looked at her while saying ‘write to me, please’ #remember how, a few years later #on Fleur’s wedding #he danced with her one more time #probably being conscient that her heart already belonged to Ron #this is why I love Viktor Krum so much #he just enjoyed being with Hermione #and didn’t care about the future #mostly, because she wasn’t going to be a part of his.
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#never understood krum hate #he’s like what everyone wanted draco to be #surrounded by dark magic and bad influences #treated like royalty #even without his famed seeker status he was pureblood elite #and yet he never treated anyone as lesser #he liked muggle born hermione for her mind AND physical beauty #thought harry was a great quidditch player #and never once compared harry to his own skills because he’s humble #was genuinely flattered that ron wanted his autograph #liked cedric and made a poin to tell harry so #also told harry he would be an ally in the fight against voldemort #the only time he did dark magic was under the imperius curse #to which he can’t be held responsible #three years later he talked to an in-disguise harry at bill and fleur’s wedding #just a regular person he didn’t know was harry #and investe himself in that conversation #he made such an effort to interact at hogwarts and i feel like most the fandom dislikes him for no reason #because he was the type of character who wanted to rise above the expectations others held of him #he knew durmstrang’s bad rep and actively wished to do better #i don’t know y’all i just think we should all appreciate viktor krum more
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Jer. Read this. All of it.
uh noT TO MENTION LOOK AT THAT LITTLE KISS HE BLOWS HER IN THE THIRD GIF LIKE HOW COULD YOU NOT LIKE HIM HE’S ADORABLE YOU HEAR ME
I was just awoken damn
*sighs LOUDLY*
Why are we all overlooking the best part of these gifs: the moment where Angelina, who has clearly been watching this exchange, comes over to Hermione like oHHh MY GOD LET ME sEEE
you know i always thought hermione and viktor krum should have ended up together. ron and hermione never made sense to me, but i wish she’d ended up with viktor.
#ships that make more sense than canon
Enypniastes eximia, a sea cucumber known as the deep sea Spanish dancer, “uses a unusual defense mechanism: when attacked, its grainy skin lights up and detaches, sticking to the aggressor. Finding its face plastered with a sticky, bioluminescent mask that it cannot shake off, the would-be predator becomes the vulnerable prey.“
Image and text from The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss by Claire Nouvian.
Gender Identity LGBT+ 2016
This is by no means a list that includes every gender identity out there. Please remember that sex is biology (female, male, intersex) and gender identity is sociology. If you respond to this list, just to make mean/rude/jerkass comments, you are risking having your blog being removed from Tumblr (yes, identity erasing qualifies as hate speech on tumblr).
Abussosgender: A gender identity for those who feel their gender identity is completely incomprehensible. Similar to anongenderand exploraregender. Synonymous with staticgender.
Aerogender: Believing your gender identity is determined by environmental and/or external factors (time of day, seasons, weather, specific people near you, etc.). Controversial
Agender: belief of having no gender identity
Aliagender: Feeling like your gender identity is completely different from “traditional” ways of describing gender (femininity vs masculinity). You believe you have a gender, but nothing within the contemporary gender spectrum seems like a “right” fit for you. Similar to Egender, Videgender, and Nesciogender. Controversial.
Alexigender: Where one feels like they are genderfluid, but unsure of what specific genders they fluctuate between.
Aliusgender: Feeling as though your gender identity can’t be described by “stereotypical” gender descriptors
Ambigender: A gender term for those who DO NOT feel comfortable using the term “two-spirit” for any reason (such as not having American indigenous blood in them).
Ambonec: Feeling as though you are simultaneously a girl and a boy, as well as neither, similar to the concept of “schrodinger’s cat”
Androfluid: Feeling as though your gender is fluid between multiple masculine identities, sub-community of genderfluid
Angenital: A gender identity where one feels uncomfortable with their genitalia (wanting to be sexless), but does not mind gendered pronouns (he/she/they/etc.)
Anongender: A gender that is unknown to yourself and others. Similar to: exploraregender, abussosgender, and staticgender.
Anvisgender: A term for those who feel apathetic towards their gender identity. Synonymous with Cassgender.
Axigender: a gender that includes agender and another gender term. There is no overlap, and little-to-no transition between agender and the other gender. In the polygender community.
Bigender: Having 2 distinct gender idententies, sub community of polygender
Bigenderfluid: When you feel like your gender flunctuates/is fluid between two distinct genders. Found within the polygender and genderfluid community.
Brevigender: A gender term for a type of genderfluid person who feels their specific gender identity changes very rapidly. Synonymous with Veloxigender. Similar to: sychnogender, and mutogender.
Cassgender: feeling as though your gender identity is unimportant (and/or feel indifferent towards their gender identity). Synonymous withanvisgender.
Cancegender: Someone who feels they are primarily agender. However, they also feel their gender is fluid. Alternative name: agenderfluid
Cassgender: feeling as though your gender identity is unimportant (and/or feel indifferent towards their gender identity)
Ceterogender: A nonbinary gender with specific feminine, masculine, or neutral feelings.
Chaosgender: One who feels their gender is too confusing to pin down to one term, sub-community of novigender
Collgender: feeling as though you have many genders, but because of the amount, it is confusing and overwhelming to tell which is which. Part of the polygender community.
Comgender: Umbrella term for anything not agender
Demiboy: Feeling like a boy MOST of the time, otherwise, unknown
Demifluid: an umbrella term for nonbinary gender identities that have a partial connection to a certain gender. This includes the partly female identity demigirl, and the partly male identity demiboy. There are other partial genders using the “demi-” prefix for the same reasons. The “other part” may or may not be known.
Demigender: Can be used as an umbrella term, feeling like your gender identity is nonbinary MOST of the time, otherwise, unknown
Demigirl: Feeling like a girl MOST of the time, otherwise, unknown
Egender: Refusing to identify within the gender spectrum
Eafluid: Feeling as though your gender is fluid between multiple nonbinary genders, sub-community of genderfluid
Equigender: Feeling as though you have multiple genders, but they’re all in equal amounts, found in the polygender umbrella
Exgender: Believing your gender identity can’t be described (”is beyond”) the gender spectrum
Exploraregender: A gender term for those who are constantly questioning their gender identity, feeling as though one gender term in particular in never quite right. Similar to: Anongender, Staticgender, and Abussosgender
Fegender: Someone who is nonbinary but feels strong connections to femininity
Gemigender: feeling as though you have two opposing gender identities at once. (such as: agender and comgender; demigirl and demiboy, etc.). Found in polygender community.
Genderfluid: Believing your gender identity shifts/flows from 100% masculinity to 100% femininity, including “no gender”, shifts/flows can be on an hourly, daily, etc. basis
Genderless: Feeling as though you have no gender
Genderqueer: An umbrella term for anyone not cisgender, considered controversial
Gendermaverick: A nonbinary gender for individuals who feel that the gender spectrum is too constricting, synonymous with genderfuck, controversial
Gendernull: Unsure of your gender identity, but feeling like agender is extremely close to your gender feelings
Gendervariant: An UMBRELLA term for those who don’t identify as cisgender, genderqueer is synonymous
Gynefluid: feeling as though your gender is fluid between multiple feminine based genders, sub-community of genderfluid
Hemiboy: Where someone feels like they are HALF a boy, HALF something else.
Hemigender: Where one feels like they are HALF one gender and HALF another.
Illusogender: Feeling as though you have a gender identity, but it feels like wearing a mask (instead of feeling a deep sense of connection to it), controversial
Illusoboy: Feeling as though you have a masculine gender identity, but it feels like wearing a mask (instead of feeling a deep sense of connection to it), controversial
Illusogirl: Feeling as though you have a feminine gender identity, but it feels like wearing a mask (instead of feeling a deep sense of connection to it), controversial
Intricargender: Being fascinated/intruiged by a gender identity, but knowing you don’t actually identify with said gender (used as a “tag-on” gender). Word composed of latin root for “intruiged” and “gender”
Implagender: Someone who feels they are never quite sure of their gender identity
Juxera: a gender identity where one feels strong connections (also described as “closeness”) to femininity, but feels like the ‘traditional’ binary is too constricting
Lamingender: Feeling as though your gender identity has multiple layers, part of the polygender community
Librafeminine: Being agender, but having strong feelings of connections to femininity
Librafluid: feeling primarily agender, but occasional swings between masculinity and femininity
Libramasculine: being agender, but feeling a strong connection to masculinity
Manugender: nonbinary gender identity with strong connections to masculinity, “opposite” of fegender
Minumegender: Feeling like you are MAJORITY agender (75% of your gender identity), and the remaining 25% is some other gender. Sub-section of demigender.
Mutogender: A subsection of genderfluid,where your gender identity changes, depending on the type of situation you are involved with. It is a more specific type of genderfluid.
Murargender: a type of genderfluidity, where one feels like they are never the same gender twice
Necrogender: Believing your gender existed in the past, but is no longer in existence in the present. This could be due to: trauma, life altering events, etc. Controversial.
Neutrosis: A non-binary gender identity which is considered to be a neutral or null gender. It may also be used to mean genderless, and has considerable overlap with agender - some people who consider themselves neutrally gendered or genderless may identify as both, while others prefer one term or the other.
Nesciogender: A gender that is unknown to yourself, due to some sort of mental disability (and/or illness) that makes the concept of gender difficult to understand. Similar to Videgender:
Nonbinary: An umbrella term for anything not FTM, MTF or cisgender, can also be used as an individual identity gender term
Nonpuella: Someone who physically is not feminine (their sex or body’s characteristics), but feels a strong connection to femininity
Nonpuer: Someone who physically is not masculine (their sex or body’s characteristics), but feels a strong connection to masculinity
Novigender: Feeling as though your gender identity is too complicated to pin down to one word
Pangender/Omnigender: A gender term used to describe individuals who believe their gender is all-encompassing of all genders in existence, controversial
Polygender: Believing you have 3+ distinct gender identities
Proxvir: a gender identity where one feels strong connections (also described as “closeness”) to masculinity but feels like the ‘traditional’ binary is too constricting. Another way to describe this could be the “avant garde” of masculinity in relationship to gender identity. Feminine equivalent is known as juxera.
Quadgender: Feeling as though you have 4 distinct gender identities. Subform of polygender.
Quintgender: feeling like you have 5 distinct genders. Sub-community within polygender.
Quoigender: Understanding the concepts of gender and gender identity, but believing they could never be apply to you. Connected to agender.
Scorigender: believing you are fluid between 3 genders that are similar (such as: 3 feminine genders, 3 masculine genders, OR 3 nonbinary genders). Part of the genderfluid community.
Selenogender: A sub-section of genderfluid, where the times you shift are constant (example: 1 month 1 gender, another 1 month a difference gender; 2 hours 1 gender, 2 hours another gender, etc.). Similar to: sychnogender, brevigender, veloxigender, and mutogender.
Staticgender: Feeling as though your gender is incomprehensible. Synonymous with abussosgender. Similar to Anongender and exploraregender.
Sychnogender: A subset of genderfluid, where one believes their gender identity changes on a regular basis throughout the day, everyday. Similar to: brevigender, veloxigender, mutogender, and selenogender.
Tachigender: Feeling as though your gender changes quickly and on a regular basis
Tinegender: A gender identity where you believe your gender is fluid, BUT the change is so small/minute, that your OVERALL identity does NOT change. Part of the genderfluid community
Transneural: An umbrella term for any gender identity that is NOT cisgender.
Trigender: Believing you have 3 distinct gender identities, sub-community of polygender
Vapogender: Similar to agender, but feeling as though you are “barely” away from agender (you feeling like you have a nonbinary gender, but it’s only barely beyond agender)
Videgender: One who does not see gender in a “traditional” way (femininity vs masculinity, or lack thereof), so they based the concept of gender identity off of something like “aesthetics” or something that “has the same feelings” as one might describe something. Similar to Nesciogender
Veloxigender: A subsection of genderfluid, where one feels genderfluid, but it moves too quickly to put a name to the individual gender identity feels that are felt. Synonymous with brevigender. Similar to:sychnogender, and mutogender.
Vexegender: Feeling as though you’re somewhere in the nonbinary umbrella, but unsure of exactly where you belong, the concept of gender is difficult to grasp for individuals who identify as vexegender
This is personality.
Female Palm Treefrog (Hypsiboas pellucens). Mindo, Ecuador.
Female biology is to be respected.
Instead of debating men online, find a women’s project that interests you. The men aren’t looking for a debate, but wanting to drain you of your energy. Finding a project instead could inspire you to help or start your own.
One cannot live a healthy fulfilled life if they live in a constant need for validation. Validation by definition must come from outside of yourself. It makes you dependent on others to confirm your self worth. And ultimately is entitled because you force everyone around you to perform emotional labor. If someone refuses to grant you the validation you require it can cause you to tailspin. If your identity requires validation, if you are unable to feel confirmed within yourself, the problem isn’t the people who won’t give you their emotional labor. The problem resides within you.
You know something is definitely wrong with the education system if students feel like crying because they can’t learn something in an amount of time.
You know something is definitely wrong with the education system if students would rather get sick than to go to school and learn something.
You know something is definitely wrong with the education system if students would actually risk their health so they can get a good grade in a test.
You know something is definitely wrong with the education system if the amount of pressure on students to do well can give them stress/mental problems.
You know something is definitely wrong with the education system if students are taught that failure is not an option, and that it is looked down upon if you do.
You know something is definitely wrong with the education system if students feel anything other than happy to learn for their future.