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Three years later…

9/13/18

Made it

#top surgery #qtpoc #personal #ftm #trans

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Damn my world is imploding

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Wow. Talk about attention to detail.

Video here: https://twitter.com/javi_draws/status/965260617790738432?s=21

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Two years since top surgery. Three years HRT.

But life has been so unrelenting. Work. Family. Chosen family. Blood family. A pandemic. A terminal illness. Forgetting constantly to take my HRT regularly. I’m so exhausted, and I wish I could just completely disconnect for a good minute without upsetting the people who want to support me.

But again, I am still surviving and pushing through. I’m really hoping for the day when it won’t feel like a constant uphill battle.

#qtpoc #qtpoc selfies #queer #ftm top surgery #ftm hrt #personal #qpoc #filipinx

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I’ve found myself wondering “Where are the trans people of color?” a million times.

In my life, I’m often the only person of color in a room of trans people. I’ve noticed it is harder to find pictures and reviews of products (like packers, skin tone binders, or breastforms) in the non-white skin tones. I see fewer pictures of POC post-surgery, and fewer people of color documenting their changes on HRT. Selfies of trans people, binary or non-binary, tend to skew towards the white and AFAB side. Hopefully, this blog can provide a sense of community and inclusion for all trans people of color. 

This blog is a place where we can answer that question. Where are the trans people of color? We’re right here! We’re talking about how our day went, about our families, about coming out, about our pets, about our transitions, about our ups and downs. We are here. We exist. This is a new blog for TPOC (trans people of color) to submit selfies of themselves and other content!

Anyone and everyone is allowed to follow us, all support is welcome, but only TPOC can send selfies/content.

Please reblog and spread the word!

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Meirl

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-  from Shauna Miller’s “The Importance of Leslie Feinberg”, November 17th, 2014

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The kiss and its prelude.

2020

Zhang Yidan (instagram)

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Well, that was unexpected

(via)

#aries and taurus

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Ain’t nothing gonna break my stride [sound on]

(via)

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As protests against injustice in legal system, discrimination, police brutality spread through the US, it is necessary to educate yourself about these issues. 

Here are just a few book recommendations (there are so much more out there), include both non-fiction and fiction about racism and challenges that black people face throughout their lifetimes. 

Thank you so much for more recs. Below are some more amazing book recommendations from the comments:

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates

Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals

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A little pick me up.

via @pigeonpup

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A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.

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