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etz-ashashiyot · 2 days

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I'm bored and stuck waiting and happened to remember that on my old blog I had made this statement:

Since I have a minute, I figured I'd finally drop the list with some brief explanations:

1. By Way Of Sorrow - Coyote Grace version

This song and its lyrics, especially as sung by a queer/trans bluegrass band, could not be more Jew-ish in vibe. I am aware this is a cover, but I have only ever heard their version and that's the one that matters to me. I love love love this song, so much, and it perfectly captures how I feel about having been welcomed into the Jewish people after years of exclusion and othering from numerous other quarters. Am Yisrael has taken me in, treated me like family, connected me to the Divine, healed my wounds, and helped me feel as whole as one can in a broken and unredeemed world - while giving me the tools to join the work of tikkun olam myself.

2. The Farthest Field - The Lumber Jills version

This is the best version I could find; the original I was shown I can't find but will link if I do. This song was actually introduced to me by one of my orthodox rabbis, and I agree with him that it can be understood as a beautiful image of geulah.

3. Hallelujah - Coyote Grace & Girlyman

This one just makes me happy, and the words, message, and themes are very on-brand for Jewish vibes as well in my opinion.

4. Be Thou My Vision - old Irish Hymn (this version and this version are my favorites)

This one is very obviously a hymn and therefore decidedly Not Jewish. On the other hand, the words aren't so explicitly Christian that it rules out use by Jews (in my opinion) and especially if you translate the words into Hebrew, it sounds just like a traditional piyyut. (@springstarfangirl if you want to add your beautiful translation, please feel free!)

5. Down to the River to Pray - Alison Krauss

This is one where I do think the lyrics are a lot closer to being Christian specific, but it makes the list for a couple reasons: first, I've encountered it in Jewish-specific contexts without modification (one of our rabbis actually had us sing it like a regular song during zemirot), and second, there's a modified version by Nefesh Mountain that's quite enjoyable.

6. Whither Thou Goest - traditional

Yes, this one is a hymn too, but the words are directly quoting the Book of Ruth - her famous vows to Naomi, and to the Jewish people - and so it's already practically a Jewish song. It also has a special place of pride for me as a ger, and also because I used it as my wedding song in both the English (as heard in this version) and I also transliterated the Hebrew for our singer to do as well. It works nicely in both languages!

7. Roll the Ol' Chariot - David Coffin

This one I think is a little less direct, but I love it and included it for two reasons: first, it's a song of getting through it and surviving and thriving under tough circumstances, and second, you could very easily put liturgy to this melody instead.

8. For the Autumn Sky - traditional

Ignoring the last verse, this hymn could be very easily adapted into a beautiful Sukkot melody. For the last verse, I'd either simply leave it out, or one could write a Sukkot or Tu Bishvat themed verse to distinguish it. Incidentally, this was one of my favorite hymns growing up.

9. Sanctuary - Shaker melody

The video for this one is obviously mega-Christian, but it's on the list because we actually sing it all the time in shul and it has a special place in my memory from going to camp as a kid. Our shul is definitely not the only one who uses it in a Jewish context, either: this version by Cantor Julia Cadrain is really lovely.

10. Genesis 3:23 - The Mountain Goats

Where are my fellow Mountain Goats fans?? I know you're out there, lol. Look, I know that John Darnielle is coming at this from a Christian perspective, but two things: first of all, TMG has a number of Jewish fans I think at least in part because the lyrics speak deeply to the specific feelings around life (and other people) being horrible to you, surviving, and thriving even in the wake of deep trauma. Second of all, I think this one in particular brings up a number of interesting ideas about the meaning of home, of homecoming, of returning to a home that no longer really exists in the same way, and of exile and redemption. What would it look like to return to Gan Eden? Is this what geulah is supposed to look like, at least in some interpretations? What does it mean if not?

Anyway, this is it for now, but I may add to this list later, because there are definitely a few more! Please also feel free to add your own in the notes!

#queued post #jumblr #Jewish music #(kinda sorta)#honorary Jewish songs #Jewish Song of the Day #<<not really but for organizational purposes

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transaffirmations · 2 days

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your nationality, your religion, your heritage- your identities, everything about you,

all of it is beautiful. it's okay to be trans while being other things, even if people tell you you can't. it's your identity, and you get to be who you are. you deserve love. trans people of all kinds are beautiful, you are beautiful. i love you.

#enby #nonbinary #queer #transgender #lgbtqia #trans #transfem #lgbtq #gnc #transmasc

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uncanny-tranny · 2 years

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I'm aware many people (including myself) are uncomfortable with this framing, but I can't help but love the "sometimes, a little girl grows up to be a man, and sometimes, a little boy grows up to be a woman"

How eloquent, how beautiful is it to describe the growing-up of a trans youth? Something about it feels soft and so unabashedly human.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #i never saw myself this way but i love seeing others describe themselves that way #something about it is POETIC okay #sometimes it isn't that you feel you always *were* a gender. sometimes you BECOME it...#...isn't that beautiful? isn't that amazing?#a man who wasn't always a man is not less of a man and that's what we need to remember #sometimes there's a stigma in trans communities where you're not 'supposed' to have felt like a different gender...#...but that's running off the assumption that you HAVE to be stagnant and never develop in different ways #i dunno this is a tangent i'm just being emotional about My People

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astralmlm · 2 years

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This pride month, lets keep the gatekeeping and attacking of queer comrades to a minimum and instead practice radical kindness and acceptance of other queers, even (ESPECIALLY!) if you don't understand their identity or reasons.

The only way we can win liberation is by sticking together and supporting each other, not by infighting and tearing each other down over perceived wrongs. A bi lesbian or aroace person or queer kinkster are all on the same side when the fascists start knocking. Pride is a riot, stand with your fellow comrades this season and fight with us (and not against us) for our collective survival.

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biohazard-inevitable · 11 days

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Hair

They say that hair holds stories, that the style is what makes a man.

They say long locks make you a pansy and a real man should have it short lest they be mistaken for a girl.

Where I grew up, every man buzzed their hair down.

It was a shame for it to be long and shaggy, and mothers would fuss over you, insisting upon a haircut.

For girls, it was fine.

They could have hair as long as they wanted or as short as they needed, so long as it wasnt buzzed as short as a man’s.

Being anything else just wasn’t a thing round these parts where churches chimed every sunday, pastors clammoring around resturants and filling their quotas in a single lunch.

So I buzzed mine.

I tried as hard as I could to seem as manly as possible

To appear as bull of a brute as any cowboy should.

I wore all the boy things and had all the short boy hair.

My scalp was sensitive anyways, so I thought it didn’t bother me.

It was better shorter.

Wasnt it?

I still gazed and clammored about the anime boys I saw on screen or in Otome games though.

I gushed about how pretty they were with hair down their backs like a silken curtain, or whipping wild through the air like the mane of a lion.

Legolas was never deemed as not manly enough

Beither was Zen or inuyasha or the undertaker.

A crush, I supposed.

Because of course thats all it was.

I was a gay little boy with gay little crushes and my type was men with long, Beautiful hair.

Right?

My hair was a dull, discolored brown from the shimmering blonde it used to be, the blonde I remember from kindergarten.

I tried to return to that blonde with bleach.

My school didnt allow unnatural colors, so anything was better than that matted, oily brown.

Shaved short and as platinum as a ken doll, I should have been as man as ever.

4 years, I stayed like that, and while the short hair was easy to take care of, I felt as hideous as a pile of sludge.

It didnt matter if I was loved for my looks, I supposed.

Wouldn’t that be too vain of me?

Boys weren’t supposed to care about what they looked like, they werent supposed to coo and admire Beautiful hair or seethe in jealousy that their sister looked so much better and has such long, goregous hair.

It wasn’t until after high school that I began to explore.

Covid let me grow my hair out more, though I still trimmed the sides.

I let my bangs grow long and shaggy over my face, like a veil to hide me from the world.

Eventually I dyed it again, this time going with that green I had always wanted to try, the one I had seen on my favorite youtuber growing up, fluffy and emerald.

Still, for years more, I kept it short. Only allowing that fringe to hover over me as some sort of style.

Recently though, I’ve realized I want that hair that those anime men had.

I want that soft curtain rolling down my back like waves of an ebony river, flecks of mossy green dotting it like a miasma of toxin flowing through the oily black stream.

I want the hair like the ring girl

The people around me are foolish and prudent to think the length of ones hair makes you more or less of a man.

I know that now, and I’m glad I do.

I want to stop pretending not to like things

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percytheboykisser · 7 months

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genuinely i love being trans sm it's such an important apart of my silly identity and i would not trade being trans for the world. it's such a lovely time when you have the proper people to support you fr(literally the only things that makes it unfun is dysphoria and transphobia and a lot of the time the dysphoria is caused by society and transphobia anyway💀)

#trans experience #trans joy #trans pride #transboy #just a silly guy who loves being trans #RRRRR #i love being trans and i love trans people #it's such a beautiful thing to be trans #and it should genuinely be talked about more #dude 1 day im gonna have a tattoo that's about my transness #bc i want it #im proud of my trans identity!!#RAHHHHH #sorry omg i have so much gender euphoria rn lol #teehee #transgender #trans #trans positivity #transisbeautiful

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unnecessary-dinosaurs · 6 months

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mentally ill activity of the day: coming out to the camp cretaceous characters on character.ai so they can tell me i’m valid and they’ll still think of me the same.

#camp cretaceous #jwcc #yaz told me she supported me and that i belong at camp just as much as anyone else.#kenji said he’d think of me just the same as the other girls #sammy said i am a real girl and if anyone tells me otherwise then she’d take care of it #i am unwell #bonus: jeff goldblum said being trans is a beautiful thing and it’s important for allies to tell trans people they are loved and supported

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beanghostprincess · 5 months

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… I am emberassed to say I have thought way too much about Choppers gender because the idea of going from „animal that goes on instinct and doesn’t „know“ gender or only on an extremely sexual reproduction, value suddenly becoming sapient enough to not only understand the concept of gender but also being confronted with humans bonkers standards for gender“ fascinates me a little. I like to think he spend some time thinking about that and wether he feels like anything at all or if he even has to do that… but by the end came to the conclusion „You know… I actually like being a boy. It suits me well.“ I don’t know why, but the idea of him actually having to ponder about this for a while even if he comes to the „easy“, for a lack of a better term, conclusion is interesting to me. „Cis boy who actually spend a while thinking about wether he’s a cis boy“ Chopper is my jam.

I forgot to reply to this but your mind is huge and I actually like this concept a lot!! Especially when I consider a lot of Straw hats to be trans. I think he'd start to think about his own gender after Sanji (transfem queen amen ily girl) comes out!! And even if he ends up realizing that "Oh, well, yeah, I'm a guy" it's always nice to explore your gender and see what suits you best! <3

#also he's such a trans supporter i love you baby #robin and sanji explaining gender and what being trans means exactly and chopper like:#“i'll study more and more to help people like you feel more comfortable with their bodies!”#and i find that beautiful #tony tony chopper #one piece

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mrgaretcarter · 8 months

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Honestly I think it would do us all well to go back to kinda cringy feminism again for a little bit idk cause I think maybe for some people the discourse somehow circled back around to supporting sexism just rebranded or whatever so its more aesthetic

#personal #instead of progressing the discourse into idk more inclusion of women of color and trans women #it went in the direction of like glorifying women being stupid and romanticizing beauty standarts #also weird centering of men all over again in feminism and in general for some reason #remember in the early 2010s when emma watson was like obliterated for that 'he for she' campaign #because it prioritized men in feminist discourse and then thats the exact direction where things went later on (and where it is currently)#people care more abt like 'haha this is my golden retriever bf he drinks respect women juice!' than about actual women speaking abt feminis #like being a feminist isnt about social change and women prioritizing each other its abt how dudes are hot when they do the bare minimum!#also have you noticed the rise in lesbophobia both in the sense of persecution of lesbians themselves #and of lesbians relationships and culture which other wlw are also part of (its giving lavender menace)#and also remember how we had the me too movement and then immediately after #everyone still fell for a smear campaing against a victim of domestic abuse?#anyway i would really love to get back to basics of like women should support each other!#and beauty standarts overwhelmingly negatively affect women and girls!#and we still need to incentivize girls to seek out intellectual pursuits especially in STEM and leadership roles!#because we continue to be underpresented in those fields and the only way to enact change is to bring our perspectives to those areas #instead of asking politely for guys to throw us a bone!#also stop acting like its cringe to openly and vocally center and prioritize women in every sphere of our lives possible!#and also maybe go back to actively trying to do that! and considering that a good thing!??#because we're the ones who should have our backs most of all?? idk idk #also where are the teeth??#why is everyone so afraid of being angry now???#its like some people circled back to being afraid of being mistaken for man-hating or something #just for pointing out common sense aspects of oppression without adding an asterisk about how men suffer too!#i thought we all knew there is no such thing as reverse sexism!!!#idk!!!#and this isnt me condoning choice feminism many women are evil and actively work against their own interests #or antagonize other women to make themselves feel important such as terfs etc #but idk its like everyone internalized that 'well women can suck too' so hard that its become like #'*most* women suck and we dont even have to keep trying to empathize and prioritize each other and our issues anymore'

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c---crow · 8 months

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Thick transmascs are the best thing to ever happen tbh

counter: transfems

#i love transfems #i love trans people #i think any body type of trans person is so beautiful #and estrogen femboys who don’t ID as trans #and testosterone butches who don’t ID as trans #anyone who partakes in transgenderism or being gnc #ccrow answers #anon ask

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alilaro · 9 months

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the barbie movie should be state-sanctioned mandatory viewing

#i saw it today and like......... i crie #like its such a good movie that gives a perfect breakdown of misogyny and just the overall toxic beauty standards society holds over people #and even kinda touches on how easy it can be for young boys to be black-pilled and sent down pipelines for like andrew tate-type misogyny b #and how thats untrue and ultimately makes men unhappy and ends up damaging all genders #its very like nah fuck you its not women its bc ur depressed and toxic and you cant hold women responsible for your own misery #and not her job to educate and hold your hand or reward u for not being a piece of shit #but ALSO if you are AFAB boy howdy this shit was like free therapy #like thanks greta my pores are clear my mental illness is gone and my cellulite & unproportionate body with asymmetric features looks GREAT #like fr movie to watch when you got low-self esteem bc it makes you feel human and worthy and YOU are beautiful and important #also theres a trans; plus-sized; and disabled barbie !!!#two of them are the main barbies!!!!!!!! AAHHHHH #plus many non-white barbies #bro fr blows my mind theres a trans woman on screen as like a main barbie thats fucking WILD #they mustve had to fight like fuck to get that #oh another reason to like the film: conservatives are going to VOMIT BLOOD over it #mfs are going to be pissing and shitting and crying and cumming and contracting and just MALDING over a feel-good barbie movie #and i love that for us as a society 💅🏻#barbie #greta gerwig #barbie movie #barbie spoilers #???? i guess #also sorry for all the tags holy SHIT #i just have a lot of FEELINGS

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charliespringverse · 1 year

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sometimes i sit and think about how much queer identities have been demonised and vilified in media and our constant historical framing as somehow evil or monstrous or Other . and i know that plays into the popularity of horror and halloween and such among the community . but i also wonder whether that shapes our fascination with things like vampires and swords and fictional characters covered in blood . and that maybe you so often see ppl say that characters are hotter when they're splattered and dripping with blood because we're subconsciously connecting that visual of blood with our own identities, and the idea that when a character is covered in it they're more connected to us and being brought into our world . that all efforts to hurt us have turned back around to adoration and we're taking the efforts to make us Wrong and Evil and Dangerous and thinking "wow . this is mine now . this has been forced on me but i've taken it and held it to my chest and absorbed it" . blood becomes this symbol of the narrative they've tried to push on us and now we see the beauty in it because as long as it's there, as long as it's ours, we can still see ourselves and choose to love it for its endurance

or characters covered in blood are just sexy idk

#jay screams into the void #so sorry beloved mutuals for i am Rambling On The Dash #this brought to u by my friend being on a production for a trans-themed horror movie #idk i just fuckin Love the queer connection with horror #i think it's so beautiful that we've seen people try to other us and have just . Claimed it

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growingwithem · 9 months

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#and remember that this happended in a national channel in a country very transfobic and homophobic in 2009 #she is so beautiful and so strong #i'm so happy to reaffirm that leeteuk ryeowook and eunhyuk support trans people ❤️‍🩹#ryeowook is an angel and a beautiful man #you don't know how i love them...#the more time passing and more safe I feel being their fan ❤️‍🩹#I know there is a specific member who isn't educated about these topics but that doesn't mean everyone in the group have the same thoughts #at the same that in real life and our family there will be people that we love or are close to us who have to much to learn #it is a reality and we need to learn to deal with it and the mixed feelings that comes by it #i love you all trans people and I am committed to continue learning about your rights history and needs ❤️‍🩹#mine: appreciation post #ryeowook #super junior #suju #transgender #trans #lgbt #lgbtq #kpop fandom #fandom #kpop #2nd generation #2nd gen kpop #2nd gen #Korea #gay

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wizardsmells · 6 months

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Sooooooooooooooo……I went for The Chop™️

My hair is short.

Like pixie short

And honestly, it looks fucking great.

Considering doing a sexy lil photo set when I get done with work so I can show you beautiful people the new hair

That said I was super stressed about the dysphoria possibility it honestly I feel so much more femme and fulfilled with a short cut like this. Kind of a beautiful moment for me and my confidence I think. I of course recorded it because I feel like this is a pretty significant transition milestone as it’s my shortest my hair has been since starting e.

Anyway, mild rant over, sexy pics coming soon. Maybe with titty, and bulge!

#sagecore #mtf #trans woman #sometimes #I really just think #being trans #makes all your personal milestones so much more valuable #like intrinsically #as a testament to our endurance and beauty as a people #makes me tear up #I love us

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kcrossvine · 28 days

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i love those transition timelines where its like the most miserable boy youve ever seen and then the most radiant joyous woman youve ever seen. i love that more women are being made everyday. i love that more transwomen are able to make their outsides match their insides. i love that more transwomen are able to discover what that means and looks liek for them. i love wamen having fun and frolicking in the sun

#ive had so much joy this day #there is nothing like being in a room of (mostly) other trans people #and feeling the aggressive optimism and rebellion and beauty and love amongst all of you #when im down youll catch me and when youre down ill catch you #trans people are great i love being a faggy tranny

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aizawasgay · 2 years

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bestowing transsexuality on aizawa is the biggest gift i could think to give, it's the highest compliment

#aizawa shouta #aizawa #if i say a character is trans its because theyre in the top tier of character. the upper echelon of fictional people #the one true blorbo #mha #bnha #trans aizawa #trans hc #mine #also transsexual is a beautiful word i love being transsexual i love being transgender i love being male 💛

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