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"Lesbian Weddings" by Wendy Jill York

source: The Femme Mystique, edited by Lesléa Newman

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The 2024 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.

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there’s such an unbelievable multitude of this type of (straight) woman who’s like “when he mentions a ‘she’ 😡🥺👀” “when he calls some girl his ‘friend’ 👀👀🔪” etc and this person is like a different species to me. this person is a space alien. this type of person makes me feel like amy adams in arrival

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Bed Size References

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Hi there! My name is Aubrey and I generally don't know how to start these kind of posts because I try not to make them.

In the short: Hi there, will you please help me get a bed?

In the long: I'm a physically disabled and chronically ill person who lives in a household that lives paycheck to paycheck, with me only getting SNAP benefits to sustain myself every month. I've been sleeping on a broken down couch for the past 2~ years and it's really start to put a toll on my already messed up back.

I've been in the process and getting stable enough to start looking for employment, but I'm still not at the point where I'm able to do that safely with my health in mind.

So I'm asking you, dear reader, if possible in this economy to commission or donate to me so we can save my back together! Art examples on my Ko-Fi! Thank you very much for reading and good timezone.

Bed Frame: $0/$390

Mattress: $140/$140

Total: $140/$530

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Ko-Fi | Paypal | Cashapp

#mod meri #i feel so thankful for what you've all done for me so far. it'll really help me in my day to day life. #i'm so excited you may even get a mod meri bed unboxing (and blanket tour. when i get them.)

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You say you want a sensitive butch but are you going to hold them when they sob uncontrollably from the traumas in their life, are you going to make sure that the voice in their head telling them off for being that vulnerable isn't the only thing they can hear, are you going to reward their vulnerability by stepping up and being an active caregiver in their life?

So many butches I know just like me are controlled and contorted by their fear. Their fear of being othered, of being perpetrators of hatred and aggression, of showing any number of their personality traits that are considered unbutch and weak.

So please. If you are lucky enough to have a butch in your life this is your sign to reward their vulnerability. Reward it with your touch with your time and your thought.

[This post is written by and for trans women butches, fuck off my post]

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Bed Size References

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Hi there! My name is Aubrey and I generally don't know how to start these kind of posts because I try not to make them.

In the short: Hi there, will you please help me get a bed?

In the long: I'm a physically disabled and chronically ill person who lives in a household that lives paycheck to paycheck, with me only getting SNAP benefits to sustain myself every month. I've been sleeping on a broken down couch for the past 2~ years and it's really start to put a toll on my already messed up back.

I've been in the process and getting stable enough to start looking for employment, but I'm still not at the point where I'm able to do that safely with my health in mind.

So I'm asking you, dear reader, if possible in this economy to commission or donate to me so we can save my back together! Art examples on my Ko-Fi! Thank you very much for reading and good timezone.

Bed Frame: $0/$390

Mattress: $0/$140

Total: $0/$530

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Ko-Fi | Paypal | Cashapp

#MAM #i am going to delete my last reblog after this. gosh brain fog day. i made a link error. please help me get a bed!!

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Hey if you’re over 18 and have time this summer and can make it to Fresno, CA and you wanna take a niche class in acting, animation, writing, music, visual art, design, or dance you should see if CSU Summer Arts has something you want. The deadline to apply is May 15.

I’m not getting paid to do this or anything. It’s just that one of these classes like literally changed the trajectory of my life a few years ago and they’re so fun and idk if even one person out there decides to check the program out because of this post I’ll be happy.

You can get college credit too if that sweetens the deal for you lol. I did Summer Arts to substitute for my senior intensive seminar for my English degree when I took a writing class there.

And they accept international students fyi

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Pangender (any multi gender/gender-fluid) gnc culture is wondering whether anyone actually sees you as your other genders or if they will only ever see you as weird non-binary and your assigned gender at birth

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#gnc culture is #pangender

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i was talking to a friend who's a trans woman about this. she used to be really weird about butch trans women, but ended up being butch herself. she told me she was adverse to it because "it was like watching someone leave their house completely naked. you feel maybe a little embarrassed for them but you're mostly scared for how other people are going to treat them too. [she] thought "well, [she'd] be embarrassed doing the same and maybe they were having a hard time passing. but then finding out they're doing it on purpose, [she] thought that they were making a joke of being trans, like they were enforcing the stereotype of just saying you were a woman despite not making any effort to look like one. [she] was confused as to why anyone would do that, especially when she'd been having a hard time being treated well even though she did everything to make herself like a cis girl." she hated having to put in so much effort into looking feminine but did it because she was sure that's just what you had to do. obviously, probably regardless of how she looked, she was going to be treated like shit on the principal of being trans and after actually talking to butches and thinking about it more, she decided to just dress how she felt comfortable and still be proud of being a woman.

That's very interesting to hear. That is the consistent impression I've gotten from well meaning trans women.

I had to wrestle with the whole, "declaring myself a woman without making the effort," thing. When I first transitioned I put on dresses, tried on makeup, and got cute jackets. None of it felt right. I knew, entirely, that I was a woman. But doing all of the things women were supposed to be doing made me feel even worse than when I had lived as a man, which is saying something.

I eventually figured out that there is plenty of effort to being a butch woman. There are still styles, there are still pieces of gendered clothing, there are still gendered actions, they're just hidden in plain sight. They're all the things I wanted to do and all the ways that I wanted to be perceived that I couldn't understand until someone (Leslie Feinberg) held a mirror to my face (SBB) and said Butch. Then it all clicked.

I've been doing HRT for three full years now. I've been socially transitioned for three full years now. It is work. It is a challenge. It is walking out of the house with nothing but your soul and what you choose to armor it with. For some women the armor is a dress and a full face of makeup. For me its leather and boots.

I love my sisters deeply. I love women deeply. I love womanhood deeply. But my womanhood is also deliberately not womanhood. My selfish desire is a world where I can be exactly who I am without having to justify it to every woman, trans or cis, that crosses my path. But that's not gonna happen any time soon.

As so many butches, cis and trans, have said, It is a difficult road to walk and I have no choice but to walk it.

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a reminder whoever needs to hear this:

if you only wash one dish, that's one less dish to wash. if you only tidied up a section of your room, that's less for you to deal with later. if you washed your clothes but didn't put them away, you have clean clothes available for you to wear. you're doin SOMETHING and that will always be better than nothing

(it's okay if you cant do anything for a while, it doesn't make you any less valuable or important)

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FACTS!

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thank fucking god I'm not 14 anymore

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August 1989. ‘Dandy style is a combination of fabrics and patterns – the result n exotic “costume”.’

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THE DAY OF LANGUAGES!!!

This 7th of May, 2024, we use our own language again!

If your language, native or not, is something other than English, on May 7th you can speak that language all day!

You’ll blog in your chosen language(s) all day: text posts, replies, tags (except triggers and organizational tags).

Regardless of what language people choose to speak to you, you can answer in your own.

Non-verbal, non-written languages (like sign language, dialects, otherwise non-written languages) are more than welcome! See my FAQ for tips

English native speakers can participate in any other language they're studying/have studied/know.

The tag is gonna be #Speak Your Language Day or #spyld for short.

Please submit me some language facts for me to share on this day <3

Pinned post and FAQ

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gnc culture is wearing full glam one day and wearing gym shorts and a hoodie the next

Hell yeah. We love versatility.

#gnc culture is #mod rob

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GNC culture is feeling an intense sense of affection for anyone who uses your same pronouns or expresses their gender identity in a similar way you do .. she/he people I love you so much

she/her and he/him users deserve the entire world.

#gnc culture is #mod rob #pnc

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transmasc gnc culture is initially cutting your hair super short and then realizing you liked it longer, just not in the same way as before

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#gnc culture is #transmasc