Reblog to give a transphobe indigestion.

*gurlegurgle*

decomposition (dysphoria) // june 2023

Brought to you because of my searing hatred for the DEA 💛

stumbled across this rly old doodle from 2019 and had the sudden urge to redraw for some reason. i think i've improved since then haha

anyway, trans rights!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

(good lord we need em so badly)

Lu Woh with big naturals real? 👀

wELL IT COULD ALWAYS HAPPEN

this was the art they showed when they talked about it

so like it's DEFINITELY something that HAS BEEN considered.

yknow, just never forgetting that.

Yall I promise I am not a bot

I am just a little gay creature who just wants to be gay in peace but I can't so I'm angry about it...

I was 27 when I actually made some new friends, which I hadn’t really done since middle school. Those friends are now like my second family.

I was 28 when I started watching more anime and reading manga and webcomics. These weren’t activities I ever got into as a kid or teen, but as an adult I find great joy in them. I then started writing and drawing again, which I hadn’t done in a long time, having found inspiration from these shows and stories. These hobbies are now how I spend most, if not all, of my free time.

I was 29 when I came out as bisexual, and within a few months realized I was also nonbinary. These are things I had never really thought of 15, 10, or even 5 years ago, but now are a huge part of my identity.

I was 30 when I started publishing my own webcomic. I had always been called artsy, and even started college pursuing an art degree, but I gave up on that years ago and hardly ever actually saw a creative project through til the end. Now I feel determined and excited to see this through and improve along the way.

My point is, sometimes you discover things about yourself later in life (if you even wanna call late twenties / early thirties “later in life”…). And that’s OKAY. I thought I had all my shit figured out by the time I was 25. Hell, I was living my normal adult life doing all the normal adult things and thinking “welp guess this is it”. I was wrong. And thank goodness for that.

So next time you see someone and think “isn’t that person a bit too old to be doing that..?” Maybe ask yourself - why shouldn’t that person be doing that thing? What exactly is wrong with it? Is there really an age limit for the thing they’re doing? Just… be kind and let people enjoy things, man.

idk it just bothers me a ton that people will hold internal anger towards a completely harmless thing associated with (gender) and sometimes that extends to the actual people who identify with those things. and i think there's a reason i feel that way

Pride events are extremely safe. Generally, people look out for each other, help where they can, especially in the weed department, and are very adamant about always making sure they have your full consent for everything. Yes, including fist bumps

Are there outliers? yes, absolutely, but they are that. Outliers!

but, boy oh boy, the second you leave pride...

better hide that pride flag, walk in groups of 5 or more, preferably with half of the group being able to defend themselves, and no, 1 bear is not enough protection!

but hey, at least we have a transgender crosswalk no- what? spray painted within minutes of the barriers being removed? oh. hm.

Well, erm, at least 5 out of the 7 large political groups sent representatives! Last year there were only 3!

two of them were very obviously avoiding questions and just talked about tolerance without even saying gay or trans?

AND the communist representative this year was a bit out of it, and barely anyone understood what she said, including the people who know the marxist manifesto by heart?

oh.

At least the petition to no longer allow taxi drivers and landlords to kick out/ discriminate against homosexual and trans people got enough votes, which means they'll have to vote on it.

Queer songs for pride???

I've done this before but i can't find the post so I'm doin it again!!!

What are some of your guys' fave queer:

Songs

Artists

Albums

Songs that maybe weren't written to be queer songs but you listen to it and your heart tells you "this is for me"

Drop them in the tags, comments, replies, or you can even send me songs into my ask if you want! anon is always on! Gimme those beats y'all i need to bulk up my playlist!!!

me: so i’ve been playing around with my iPad and learning to draw on procreate

mom: oh cool what have you been drawing?

me: oh just a character from that show i like the owl house

her: oh is it the witch one?

me: that. does not narrow it down at all. theyre all witches except one...

her: the mean looking one? the one that looks more like a classic witch

me: ???? Are you talking about hunter??? red eyes?

her: yeah that one isn’t he your favorite?

me: ????

There is a specific brand of transphobia which acts as though trans medicine and by extention trans identity was, like, invented in a lab by Capitalism Itself, and obviously it is ahistorical, but the problem, I think is deeper than dismissing it rightly as a conspiracy theory.

For one, just dismissing it is ignoring the blatant antisemitism rooted in this "theory," because this conspiracy also comes with it the idea that "The Jews" invented transness in order to gain power. Obviously this is incorrect, but I have seen people spread this idea who don't think they're antisemitic. And that's terrifying! It's scary to see the same antisemitism (and transphobia) being touted together to slander both groups. We have seen this before, to a larger degree.

It's interesting people think that if there was no profit incentive for healthcare that trans healthcare wouldn't exist, but you must recognize there is a reason people link jewishness with healthcare (and by extent capitalism) and transgender identity and our healthcare. It isn't just trans people hurt by this. Jewish people are also the intended targets of this conspiracy.

Apparently some people think America Ferrera's speech in the Barbie movie is "corny" or "obvious" or something like that. But here's my personal perspective

First thing out of the way: I am nonbinary. I am not a woman. I am AFAB, though, and was therefore socialized like a girl and young woman, even if I felt like those words never really applied to me. Most of the time, though, other people who don't know me will see me as a woman. It's whatever.

No, this movie is not saying anything new. It is not a groundbreaking statement to say women face all these exhausting contradictions that cause them to bend over backwards to do the slightest thing.

But I don't think it's supposed to be groundbreaking. I don't think most people at the Barbie movie are going to have a huge revelation because America Ferrera said something that never heard or thought before. In the context of the movie, the character is speaking to a literal doll who has only recently learned that the real world is kinda shitty for a lot of people. Because this doll is literally something little girls project on, and little girls very often grow into women who deal with this shit. Yes, this is feminism 101, because it's speaking to a character who, until a day ago, lived in a matriarchal society where she never HAD to learn feminism 101. The oppression she faces is literally new to her!

And let's not forget that this is being said by a Latina woman in a blockbuster film. How often do you see that? She describes herself as a "boring mom with a boring job," and then she gets to rant about the fact that she's expected to always be extraordinary, but at the end of it all, she just wants her daughter to love her back and have a good day. And because of that, she's the hero of Barbieland!

Yes, it's cheesy. No, it's not subtle in the slightest. But sometimes, it's nice to hear someone say the words out loud.

And honestly, if you're going into the Barbie movie expecting subtlety, that's on you.

If a socially conservative society tells us binary gender is a tiny box, and you exist mostly outside of that box, by then saying you're non-binary, aren't you reinforcing the idea that binary gender is a tiny box?

I want to kick at the edges of the box and make the walls blurry. I feel like that is way more productive for everyone who's not fitting in those strict boxes. No more suffocating gender boxes, more gender nonconformity. But make it normal.

i absolutely cannot believe people are trying to start discourse about whether nex benedict was actually nonbinary / whether it was okay for him to describe himself as nonbinary to some people if he didn’t actually identify that way as if he isn’t literally DEAD because he was KILLED. this is a MURDERED CHILD and these monsters are so busy getting mad at the possibility that he might have been a trans boy who described himself as nonbinary to his family because that was easier for them to take that they’re turning a CHILD who was MURDERED into fucking discourse. even when we die at the hands of cis people’s violence, our own community finds a way to make us the villains of the story.

and all of this bullshit on top of the ways that cis people are already trying to say our grief over his death is unjustified. all of this on top of people claiming he wasn’t murdered and speculating on other causes of death (i literally saw someone say he “clearly went home and took the coward’s way out” and i have never been more disgusted) or claiming that he started the fight as if any action on his part could’ve been enough to justify his death. i am haunted by the sound of his father screaming that his child was not filth because that is what people have been saying about this poor kid, that’s how cruelly his memory is being treated, and even the trans community can’t get it’s shit together enough to look past the stupid discourse and see the tragedy in front of us. did you all forget that it was supposed to be up to us to grieve him in the way he deserves when the rest of the world fails to care if people like him live or die? did you all forget that this child was our sibling, the future of our community, a life that we should have had the chance to know and treasure while he was still here but that we now have a responsibility to hold close to our hearts in his absence? nex’s life was precious and it was ended far too soon and if you truly believe that anything is more important than mourning his life and fighting for a world where no more trans people have to meet such an awful fate, you’re a traitor to this community and you do not deserve the place you occupy within it.

i’m so tired. i can’t even imagine how tired his family must be, to see the public treat the child they’re grieving so horribly, to see the world fail their baby again. leave him alone. he was already robbed of peace in life; the least you can do is let him finally have it in death.