reworked claudia illustration from last year
loons
Denys Wilkinson Building, Department of Nuclear Physics, Oxford
1971
Arup Associates
Image from RIBApix
It really demonstrates how disconnected certain self identified "leftists" or even "socialists" are when they describe calls to read theory as "elitist" or "classist". Like if the people who'd spent their entire lives in the desperate poverty of Russian estates, Cuban plantations and South African townships could learn to understand this shit then your "underfunded school system" or whatever is not an excuse.
Because this sort of thing is vitally important to know; to enact political change you need more than just pure will and spontaneous consciousness. It's not enough to know that things are bad and want to change them; you need to understand why things are bad and how to change them. And you're only gonna do that by learning theory. Dreams can only get you so far; to accomplish anything you need the science as well
a cosplay photo so old it was taken on actual film (which explains the streaks from my scanner) and the con we were at doesn’t even exist anymore. it was around 13 years ago actually now that I think about it.
The thing about whatever hrt effects you think are "undesirable" is that not only are you voicing disgust about other trans people's bodies but also intersex people who naturally produce the same hormones will have the same traits you think are yucky. And they didn't get a choice about it. So maybe cope with T giving you a dick or shut the fuck up or something... consider why you're more okay with #boy pussy than ambiguous genitals
Sorry but I don't have any patience left for the "but what if I get on T and straight men don't think I'm hot anymore? 🥺" crowd like Okay. Well you're a man, right? Get some self respect. And stop saying nasty shit about other people who aren't or maybe never were Cishet Desirable. Cause that's what you're doing bitch other people already look like what you're so fucking scared of being
1915 Old wood frame home at 29th and Third Avenue in King's Bay, New York. From New York History, FB.