the homosexuality persists

gay and transgender life in provincetown, massachusetts. chris korda, 1991.

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

~ The Blight of Respectability, Geoffrey Mortimer, 1897

i love asking my non-trekkie friends about star trek

Ghost In The Shell Art by Tsutomu Nihei

Another Christian cultural hegemony thing in leftist/progressive circles is people who feel the need to confess their sins either publicly or directly to some marginalized person in the hopes of being granted absolution.

If you recognize a racist/homophobic/transphobic/etc habit or thought pattern, you just need to reflect and do better. By yourself. You can't Recite 20 Hail Mary's your way out of existing under white capitalist patriarchy.

IE If you misgender someone, apologize to them; but don't ask random trans people in your general proximity (online or irl) to absolve you for buying Harry Potter merch.

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it fucking sucks being a disabled person who can't work and having to see these fuckass posts where someone's like "ahaha jobless people have no life and that's why everyone shitty online has No Job" and everyone and their mother reblogs it joyfully onto my dash for me to see. yes unemployed and unemployable people are truly without exception dogshit people with no hobbies and no redeeming qualities. you're so right. anyway if you'll excuse me i have to start my shift at the I'll Never Be Employed Because Of Permanent Disability And I Love Knowing How You Really See Me store

if ur able to work can u reblog this i am seriously SO sick of it.

btw this isn't solely a disability rights issue or an issue about people who are entirely unable to work. you should also be thinking about the people who are regarded as unhireable. transfems are hugely discriminated against in this way, people of color are passed over for less qualified white people, anyone who has any difficulty playing the interview game is less hireable... frankly anyone who made the mistake of pursuing the things they love and now has a degree for a niche field. if you still joke about Jobless People it's because you've fundamentally connected the worth of people to their labor, and specific labor, work that you see as valuable. and while i'm at it stop making fun of people who still live with their parents. asshole.

Rachael Williams, the first Ms Leather titleholder, and model Elexis

ph: Honey Lee Cottrell | 1980s

Marcy and Sarah, photography by Ricky Lee, "Driving Ms. Diesel", circa late 90's

Cis men joke about how the arm they use to jerk off is stronger than the other and act like it's just a dude thing when I damn well know the Hitachi magic wand weighs more than a dick

(tags stolen from @sepulchritude, thank u for ur insight !!)

CHAPPELL ROAN Photographed for 'Call Her Daddy'

Illustrations by Daisuke Takakura, Sabu magazine, September 1990 issue.

really not sure when it happened or why but personally I'm pissed that the queer community at large seems to have given up ground on the "people with penises/vulvas/testes/ovaries" language to sex & gender essentialists in exchange for the much less precise, much more demeaning "AGAB" language.

is it because you're scared of the word vulva? of acknowledging out loud that some people have penises? of recognising that many many people, including but certainly not limited to trans people, have mixed sex characteristics that cannot be accurately summarised by "afab/amab" as shorthand for "female/male"?

"in [GENITAL RELATED] situation AFABs will need to do X and AMABs will need to do Y" there are "afabs" with penises and "amabs" with vulvas. Saying this shit makes you look so unserious & honestly transphobic (given the ongoing erasure of post-op trans people within broader community). Intersex people and GRS have both existed for long enough (fucking forever and, decades, respectively) that we should well past making this basic fucking mistake.

quit referring to people by a vague & often violent event that happened at their birth as though it defines ANYTHING about how they & their body currently operate, and start using precise language so you at least look like you know what you're fucking talking about.

i agree, and will add:

do NOT say 'people with a vulva/vagina" when you talk about PERIODS AND BIRTH CONTROL. the term you want is FUNCTIONNING UTERUS.

lots of trans women and transfem people (including intersex ppl, *including cis women*) can and do get bottom surgery. the procedure in itself does not make actual-blood-loss periods happen, though, because long-lasting uterus transplant is Not A Thing (yet?) and *the blood comes FROM THE UTERUS*. if it's about *side effects* related to *hormones* (so, not punctual iron deficiency, bc that's linked to the blood loss…) then… it's about HORMONES. again, not external(ish) physical characteristics like a vulva or vagina!

agab language can be useful and appropriate in some contexte, but when talking about medical stuff, PRECISION is indeed what we need. and "assigned gender" is anything but that.

DING DING DING we have a good addition to the post!!!!!!

precision is key.

"estrogen dominant" and "testosterone dominant" endocrine systems are also useful terms, especially when interfacing with doctors.

EDWARD FURLONG & ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER // Terminator 2: Judgment Day, directed by James Cameron (34/∞)