LGBTQIACAB spotted in Naples, Italy

The Scott Pilgrim art style is so fun to draw with aaaaaaaa

hiyaaa don't know if you're still accepting questions for that q&a but how have your family and school supported your transition? /nf

(tw for discussions of transphobia, and a brief mention of surgery)

I ended up deciding not to do it, HOWEVER, I love answering questions on Tumblr like this whenever asked, so I'll do that. ^^

I came out as a trans guy when I was 9 and my parents have always been very supportive. One of my siblings was weirded out or upset by it at first but after about a year she became very accepting of it as well.

Generally speaking, my family (at least all of the family I have spoken to since coming out) have all been extremely supportive. I got an estrogen blocker implant at 10 (almost 11 though.) and testosterone gel a few months after I turned 13.

The school that I was in when I came out was--- weird? I don't know whether or not to call them supportive to be honest. Students would openly harass me (in a transphobic way) in class, and the staff did not care AT ALL. I was frequently misgendered by staff. The counselor asked me really uncomfortable and unnecessary questions about my plans about using the bathroom at school, etc.

It was odd. But I wouldn't say it was just- transphobic. It was just.. weird. I dont know.

My current school, however, is absolutely fantastic. There is currently three openly queer staff members (though there used to be four). I hadn't changed my name yet when I started going there, but later did change it and told staff via email over a winter break, and they all immediately learned my name and I was deadnamed very few times.

Whilst I have faced a lot of transphobia (primarily by children, but a bit from adults as well), I am very privileged to have not faced NEARLY as much as a lot of other trans people.

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I'm so mad. I am so incredibly upset. I want to turn back time and come along to this concert SO BADLY the band was apparently not just really good and really different but also very very queer and just fuckin gave my parents a merch hoodie in my size bc "it's really cool that their daughter is openly nonbinary" and I. I wanna meet them so badly. I want to have been there SO BADLY i am UPSET i have been WRONGED

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To the drag queen with the LGBTQIACAB flag at pride today I love you ❤️

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"Bottoms, Tops, we all hate cops"

Seen in Narrm / Melbourne

since some people liked my aro patch, i'm gonna show you all that i made by now :)

[id: a patch that has the aromantic flag (dark green/light green/white/gray/black) as a background, written on it is in red in a horror-like font "romance is dead" in all caps. end id

[id: a black patch, sewn on the leg of a black jeans, with a combination of the trans and the anarchy symbol in white painted on it. end id]

[id: a black patch with lgbtqiacab in all caps in white painted on it. the first a has some light green outlines. end id]

[id: a black patch with a lighter painted on it with white colour. on the lighter is written "burn the rich" in all caps. end id]

^ i made this one for @reflectionsofmythoughts :)

[id: a black patch with "pocket full of dreams" painted on it in white. "pocket" and "dreams" are in all caps. end id]

Yes, actually, nonspeaking and otherwise high support needs disabled people can be and are queer.

Just because I cannot usually use mouth words does not mean I do not know myself, it does not mean I don't have an identity of my own. Being nonspeaking does not mean I do not have the knowledge or emotion to figure out who I am.

I am a gay, greysexual trans man who also uses xenogenders.

..and I am nonspeaking, autistic, and I have mid-high support needs.

"Well, it's very rare. Most of you cant figure it out, only some can. You don't have the mental ability to know you're gay!!" Okay, first of all that is ableist and wrong on so many levels. Second of all, it just isnt true.

AAC users are very infantilized, which I believe is pretty common knowledge if you have ever looked at my blog. Due to this, the vocabulary we have on our devices are usually quite limited.

And when what words you have acsess to are limited, what happens? You can barely express anything, let alone your own identity (which may be very complex!)!

If giving AAC users acsess to queer vocabulary was more common, I guarantee you more of us would be out as queer. I guarantee you.

Not to mention the fact that autistics experience identity differently, which is why a very large amount of us are gender nonconforming or queer in some way.

So I just want to talk about fascist imagery in metal esp black metal bc fuck it.

Metals weird like the Napalm records logo is literally a swastika imo but I could be seeing what I want to see bc I'm always on the lookout for fash imagery in metal to avoid and catalog it.

White Wizzard I used to think was just a band name and I would always make fun of it and say "wow they should have just called it grand draggon" or "haha 'we're gonna name our band White Wizzard... but with 2 Z's so noone gets us confused with those other guys'" until I looked in between the 2 z's and lol the font literally hides 2 sig runes and I might be tripping but I sincerely doubt that a band named white wizzard having 2 sig runes hidden in their band font was a coincidence but it may be.

Other bands will out right put SS in their name but I could never tell if they were just dicking about or if they are actual Nazis.

I've never been able to just trust a band isn't white supremacist bc why would I believe them even if they say they aren't? I just catalog a moment in their music and if I ask a band what they meant I take their explanation into consideration but i'm not gonna believe they're not white supremacists on their word. I sadly don't think I can ever trust a metal band to not be secretly racists, lgbtqiacab+ phobes, or actual Nazis or worse.

Unrelated but not really unrelated, there's this moment in Dorohedoro where Kaiman walks into a baseball stadium wearing a black and yellow jersey with an 88 on it and that's the kind of shit im talking about. I can't really unsee the imagery I've associated with white supremacy and it seems like it pops up everywhere.

Metals great and bands like Nocturnal Breed, using the track "Thrashiac" as an example, helped me realize how easy it is to be indoctrinated into fighting for something you stand for and believe in and how it could be taken to the extreme where you would die and fight for and with your "brothers and sisters" who identify similarly to you. I could never tell if that was them intentionally trying to convey that point or if by over glorifying war and side ism and tribalism they demonstrated how easy and petty it is to go to war for something you believe in bc youre surrounded by people who also believe in something heavily enough to fight and die for their beliefs and how heavily intoxicated with war and violence people can become even when they believe in nothing except metal.

So metals taught me a lot but I've recently become uncomfortably aware of the imagery and themes I've been supporting and glorifying and the imagery honestly just gets uncomfortable at times. I'll want to put a patch that I really like on my vest but I'll realize the imagery is way to similar with white supremacist themes. Example, the Ghoulunatics Asylum patch or the Shitfucker shitswasifa (a literal swastika but slightly modified). I've read interviews where Shitfucker explains where they pulled their imagery from old Japanese Punk bands who would use Nazi imagery in their music and album art and acts. I would honestly love a shitswasifa patch for that reason tbh but I don't want to have to explain it to people and I understand that people would get uncomfortable when they see it bc its way to similar to a swastika.

I want to read more interviews and listen to more bands esp the old J punk bands Shitfucker talked about (they gave a list in an interview of bands that inspired them but I can't find it😭) I've also read that despite the imagery they hang out with leftist and anarcho bands but still idk anymore tbh the Nazi imagery doesnt even seem to matter a whole lot. I feel that thin blue line flags at least in America have a lot more white supremacist meaning than Nazi imagery at this point.

Regardless wearing a shitswaifas gonna get me shot and I don't want to die for something stupid like that.

On top of that there's so much more and I'm probably going to do a more in depth exploration of everything I don't know about the metal and punk scene before I die just to fucking know more. I've been lazy as hell lately with thoughts of dying and I've been to bored to do anything bc of it but this has been p inspiring I guess.

People want to can the Confederate flag and I honestly get that. It's a call back to the KKK and racism lynchings and slavery and everything. I also understand that Nazi imagery is insulting and scary to Jewish people. I don't believe in censoring freedom of speech. I would love to see this imagery put away and into a museum and it would really only take people being mature and just taking down their flags in respect to Jewish people and POC which I feel it's never going to happen unfortunately unless we censor imagery and criminalize it's use which seems itself like a slippery slope into fascism so I'm real confused right now on this lol. Plus censoring Nazi imagery prevents its use in criticizing our government when it begins acting like literal Nazis but I also feel like MAGA hats and thin blue line flags more than do the trick as imagery similar to nazism without needing to use Nazi imagery to call them out. We can just go "MAGA hat is bad and is fascism" and its true.

This is a tough subject that I want to be informed about.

Btw if there are typos, I'll fix them later if I can. This is my first post and it's 3am and I'm not rereading anything right now!

Ty for reading!

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LGBTQIACAB seen in Strasbourg, France