You look so good in blue.

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Jean-François Bouchard’s Transpose

“I didn’t want this to be sexual or shocking,“ he explained in a recent interivew with Canada’sNational Post. “I wanted this to be about the personal stories. I could have shot this in a far more shocking way — scars, things like that. But I didn’t want to take over the personal stories that are more important.”

Fittingly, the spare, deceptively powerful portraits are accompanied by personal statements from his subjects, a diverse group of young and middle-aged trans men with whom Bouchard, a cisgender (nontrans) man, worked after three years of research. A statement by subject Alex reads simply, ”[My] tattoo means strong because you have to be. Five and a half years of weekly injections, two surgeries, and I now finally feel comfortable in my body.“

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Whose in/visibility? Feelings of a TWOC on #TDOV

[This picture composition is by Rae over at birlybir]

This morning, I woke up to social media telling me that today is Trans Day of Visibility. My first reaction was: “huh, what is this trans day of visibility that i never heard of? is that a new cool thing recently invented by white cis queers? is this also the day when we go around with our mason jars collecting allyship tokens?”… And then I stayed in bed and felt terrible for being so cynical. I also wondered what kind of trans person was I that I never even heard about a Trans Day Visibility?!

I got out of bed and went to work, but that sense of discomfort that had inhabited me since this morning refused to leave my body. Each time I logged on to social media platforms throughout the afternoon, I saw posts and posts about this trans day of visibility, mostly by cis folks, and a couple of heart-warming ones by trans folks and quite a lot of cynical ones by other (most racialized) trans folks. This wretched punch that had been beating in my guts did not stop as the evening rolled by…

“feelings,” I thought, listening to the signs in my body, “i have feelings.”

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[tateratots]

look at them

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reblog if ur proud of this chicken persuing a higher education

[teamarket-gone]

“I’m ______ and I don’t find this offensive” that’s it! let’s wrap it up y'all. the representative of an entire group has spoken. even if you’re in that group and you don’t consent, be quiet because this one (1) person is okay with it so their word is final. the end

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endless list of celebrity crushes  » laura jane grace

“After you come out and after you start talking about it, you kind of feel stupid for how long you haven’t dealt with the issue. Because people have been so overwhelmingly supportive.”

[travelchannel]

Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

Andrew Zimmern  (via bl-ossomed)

[gnarly]

when your jam comes on

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[alychampignon]

Oh, why did I come here? These humans all suck. I’d rather be home feeling violent and lonely.

“Together We’ll Ring In The New Year” by Motion City Soundtrack (via alychampignon)

[novacaine]

shoutout to all the nonbinary kids

who don’t have short messy and brightly colored hair

who can’t afford a binder

whose parents won’t let them get a binder

who aren’t lean or “the perfect weight”

whose pronouns aren’t respected by anyone except people online

whose pronouns aren’t respected

who can’t take selfies and post them because people will assume pronouns

who are female/male passing and don’t want to be

shoutout to every single nb kid out there who struggles with self image

hit me up i’m ur new parent i will take care of u and make u feel good

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[artemisj333]

there is no wrong way to be trans

[ya-pride]

The “acceptance” narrative puts trans characters through some really hard experiences. But, it totally ignores the feelings and experiences of the trans character. For example, in Luna by Julie Anne Peters, we get to hear all about how hard it is on Reagan, Luna’s sister, to have a trans sibling. We get to hear all about Regan’s problems with Luna transitioning, how she’s afraid to make friends because they might find out, how she’s upset about “hiding” Luna’s secret from Luna’s best friend. We’re also privy to Regan’s wishy-washness on pronouns, and how she thinks of her sister as “he” but switches to using “she” whenever she feels that Luna has “appeared”. What we don’t get to hear about is any of this from Luna’s perspective. We don’t get to hear what it was like for Luna to go to school in feminine clothing for the first time. We don’t get to hear how hard it is for her to keep this secret from her best friend. We don’t get to hear any of her opinions on what she’s going through, how she sees herself, where she sees herself going… These books do depict a harsh reality for trans people, but not in a way that I can personally connect to. Unfortunately, I’m just not here for a narrative that says that cis peoples’ inner turmoil about how they’re treating trans people deserves more attention than how trans people feel about being treated that way.

The “Acceptance” Narrative in Trans YA by ifoundmyselfreading on GayYA.Org (via princess-axolotl)