“I remember, I guess it must’ve been about six or seven years ago, when I first asked people to tell me their pronouns, and I thought, “Well, I didn’t ask before.” I figured if someone wanted to let me know, they would. But then I thought, “Oh, you know what? You have to ask this because otherwise people will assume.” They’ll just make normative assumptions on the basis of whatever their perception is, and perceptions are not reliable. And now I do do that, and I also introduce my own. It seems important that I found my way to they, which I like a lot, and I’m just sorry I didn’t have it at my disposal when I was younger. It would’ve saved me a lot of grief.”

— Judith Butler in Judith Butler Knows What Makes Transphobes Tick by Them magazine

Can we please stop pretending this man is progressive, or that we ever, for any reason, just gotta hand it to him? 🤦🏻‍♀️

“To be told, as Italian, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has informed the Italian and Spanish publics, that the advocates of gender will strip you of your sexed identity stokes fear and outrage among those whose sexed identity is fundamental to their very sense of who they are. To manufacture fear for the purposes of stripping trans people of their rights of self-determination is to mobilize the fear of having one’s sexed identity nullified in order to nullify the sexed identities of others. The very fear of being deprived of something so intimate and defining as a sexed identity depends on a general understanding that this would be, in fact, a deprivation; it would be wrong, in other words, to deprive someone of the sexed aspect of their very being. From this premise, it should be possible to universalize the claim, to refuse to engage in any activity that would deprive anyone of their sexed identity, including trans people, but the opposite has proven to be true, when asserting the right to one’s own sex requires that others lose theirs.”

— Judith Butler, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?”

Reasons to play In Stars and Time: Canon Pronoun Warfare.

"many other [states] have taken the same steps towards the self-declaration model (one that I myself made use of in becoming non-binary in California)"

I know what they mean, but I'm enjoying the idea that Butler is existing in a very specific fluid state of gender that means they're struck by a Ray Of Non-Binary Identity whenever they enter California

Any advice on how to cope with being a crypto in your daily life? Most of my friends, who I love, are normie libfem adjacent types (at least they're not terminally online tumblr furry hentai people thank God) but whenever the conversation turns to trans stuff they politely and nervously repeat the same platitudes and absolutely freeze up in terror whenever they come close to committing a thoughtcrime. Everyone hates JK Rowling as a matter of faith. I'd love to gently push back on some of their attitudes/assumptions, especially as I think they'd be amenable to some radical feminist ideas, but I'm also terrified of them seeing me as irredeemably bad and evil. They all think I think the same as they do because i'm a leftist, feminist, not their idea of a mean hateful bogeyman TERF.

Ngl I have the same issue too to some extent. I think the best we can to is when difficult conversations like jkr come up, just keep asking why. Not in a confrontational way, but kinda like you genuinely don’t understand. It might help them think about the ‘whys’ a bit more themselves if they have to explain it to someone else. Because this entire thing is based on assumptions and no one ever bothers to ask themselves seriously why

I just accidentally came out to my dad, I literally just sent him this video because I thought it was funny

And he sent me

This was not how I imagined starting the conversation lmaoo

I don’t know how to say this in a better way, but it really grosses me out when other women romanticize the worst aspects of existing while female,

particularly when they hold up gender based traumas and fears as universal female experiences/defining of womanhood

No shapeshifter is 100% Cisgender™

They can identify with their AGAB, sure, but like. In a queer way. Cis+. Chacha slide to the left but gender. A dash of genderfluid. They've gotta be at least a little nonbinary or else literally what is the point?

What can I say? I meet good people in good struggles every day, almost every day. Our numbers are increasing in the number of young people on the streets struggling for justice, whether it’s climate, or Palestine, or trans rights, or anti-violence. It’s really moving to me.

(I think the title is somewhat misleading, this article is far more about their latest book and general thoughts about the current movement)

“… sex assignment is not simply an announcement of the sex that an infant is perceived to be; it also communicates a set of adult desires and expectations. The infant’s future is often being imagined or desired through the act of sex assignment, so sex assignment is not a simple description of anatomical facts, but a way of imagining what they will mean, or should mean. That imagining comes from elsewhere, and it does not exactly stop after sex has been legally or medically determined at birth. The girl continues to be girled; the boy continues to be boyed; and these practices of girling and boying are repeated not just by parents, but also by a range of institutions that greet the child with boxes to be checked and norms to be embodied. In a sense, sex assignment does not happen just once. It is an iterative process, repeated by different actors and institutions, and depending on where one lives, it can be reiterated in ways that are not always in conformity with one another. Sex assignment is not a mechanism, but a process.”

— Judith Butler, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?”

Under the cut are mostly self-insert doodles of decreasing quality. Again, not much directly tied to Team Fortress 2. Might as well toss these out while I have no access to my puter. Much yapping under the cut and in the tags incoming.

Another self-insert, this time less of a "here's me as a tenth class" and more of a "here's my game experiences translated into the class I would take the place of". The Cleaner. Although I guess they could still be wearing either suit. It doesn't matter that much.

That one Convict's Case taunt with Backup would be extremely funny, because the man would be on the verge of a breakdown (he does not want to go to jail so bad you have no idea). The second image- I owe no explanation. You know what I am. You see the pattern with my favourites.

The duality of the man. Resting face versus "just heard you express interest in religion/Russian folklore" face. He's not that hard to make friends with, when you pull him away from all the explosions.

Some doodles of trying to figure his face out. Unfortunately, the more I stare at him, the more I worry that he looks like A Certain Guy With The Last Name "Kazarin", and the fear of never being original in my life caught up to me.

Don't look at me, don't perceive me, I refuse to explain any of my actions to you.

Ok sorry I’m long overdue for a follow up of these tags I left on your post lol. Here goes: In my brain, the role of a cop is a very masculine one. Like obviously there are female cops but whenever they appear in media ( at the ones I’ve seen) they always are very masculine. So with Hayward whole thing about performing the role of a standard cop I think he was also performing masculinity in a very standard way. His whole arc in season 2 has also been about learning who he is outside of that performance so he I think he can also start to experiment with gender and get silly with it. I think that’d be good for him. maybe this only makes sense to me but thank you for the space to expand upon me ideas.

This is paige and Hayward season three. my final message

I just saw this response omg loving where you head is at... gotta get this out on the record before s3e3

My kind friends... my kissing encounter with another trans woman... my general content feeling and happiness from HRT... things are good. They were so bad for so long but they are good right now.