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HELLO, FRIENDS!

I designed a line of pride buttons for queers who aren’t into bright colors; and I’m going to be soft-debuting them at #FlameCon.

The current set is basically a quick ‘n’ dirty proof-of-concept: if people like ‘em, I’m hoping to develop a wider line, and ideally to expand it into clothing and other stuff–fingers crossed.

For now, individual pins are in-person / convention-exclusive; but if you’re interested in placing a wholesale order or possible distribution, please HMU at jay(dot)edidin(at)gmail(dot)com!

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Pride 2018 Edition: My Trans Narrative

First off, if you want to bring up religion to me, I recommend checking out Hugo and Jake first and then get back to me. When I first came out, people tried to police my gender. Since then, I have since found out just who I am. As this is Pride, I decided to look up “gender norm traits” in google so I could talk about them here, so here we go… Makeup Would I wear makeup? sure. Do I want to spend a half-hour or so caking tons of gunk on my face for it to melt off later? Not really.  I would wear it selectively / occasionally, but not as an every day thing. When I do, I would go for a subtle goth look.  Clothes One of the main things I got policed on is clothing, that I should be wearing dresses / skirts and tops. That’s not me at all. If I had my ultimate wish, I would be wearing jeans and t-shirts. The shirts would either be straight up black or be band shirts (so what I’m old).  I would also include boots with spikes and rivets. Also, straps in places. You can bet that I would have a leather jacket or two. Hair I tried to do the log hair thing. At the moment it’s short, but I’m probably not going to have it longer than past my ears or down to my shoulders. You can bet that I would dye it. What would I dye it? Trans flag colors of course! Childhood Toys

This is where things get a bit fuzzy. I don’t recall the toys I had all that well. What I do remember is having Ghostbusters toys and Thundercats as well. Most of my other toys were board games, and not girl or boy ones, just gender neutral board games. What I do remember is getting my love for video games from my brother. Yes I played the Atari E.T. game and hated it as much as anyone my age does. Sports I don’t care who you are, sports is freaking boring and I do’t understand the whole ritual behind “game day” food and such. Yes, I am a trans woman; I know cisgender men that hate sports to, and I know queer and trans women that love sports, so take your pick with that.

Again, me, I hate sports

Cooking & Housework Let me say it this way: I cook because I am hungry. I don’t cook because I want to or that I enjoy it. I would bake the shit out of some cookies and cakes if I had the money.

I have a physical health condition that doesn’t allow me to be on my feet for a long period of time, but even before that: cooking just is’t fun. No one likes cleaning / housework, and if you do well, ok, but I do it when I can because it needs done and not because it’s fun. I don’t really know what more to say about this… if you want to be a slob, then don’t clean. If you want to live in a clean and mentally friendly space, then clean your shit. Technical Skills / Hands on Projects Well, this is laughable! First off, I do have a computer science degree and secondly, try and stop me from putting furniture together or doing a craft.  That’s really all I can say for this: Try and stop me. and lastly being Submissive and Quiet Kink aside, which I am in that community, I am far from either of these. I am the most boisterous and upfront trans women you will ever find, So, I hope you learned something today kiddos. Until nxt time, be safe, and be well. If you like what you’ve read and want to see more from me, please consider becoming a patron over at https://www.patreon.com/theknightednerd

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Pride 2018 Edition: My Trans Narrative

First off, if you want to bring up religion to me, I recommend checking out Hugo and Jake first and then get back to me. When I first came out, people tried to police my gender. Since then, I have since found out just who I am. As this is Pride, I decided to look up “gender norm traits” in google so I could talk about them here, so here we go... Makeup Would I wear makeup? sure. Do I want to spend a half-hour or so caking tons of gunk on my face for it to melt off later? Not really.  I would wear it selectively / occasionally, but not as an every day thing. When I do, I would go for a subtle goth look.  Clothes One of the main things I got policed on is clothing, that I should be wearing dresses / skirts and tops. That’s not me at all. If I had my ultimate wish, I would be wearing jeans and t-shirts. The shirts would either be straight up black or be band shirts (so what I’m old).  I would also include boots with spikes and rivets. Also, straps in places. You can bet that I would have a leather jacket or two. Hair I tried to do the log hair thing. At the moment it’s short, but I’m probably not going to have it longer than past my ears or down to my shoulders. You can bet that I would dye it. What would I dye it? Trans flag colors of course! Childhood Toys

This is where things get a bit fuzzy. I don’t recall the toys I had all that well. What I do remember is having Ghostbusters toys and Thundercats as well. Most of my other toys were board games, and not girl or boy ones, just gender neutral board games. What I do remember is getting my love for video games from my brother. Yes I played the Atari E.T. game and hated it as much as anyone my age does. Sports I don’t care who you are, sports is freaking boring and I do’t understand the whole ritual behind “game day” food and such. Yes, I am a trans woman; I know cisgender men that hate sports to, and I know queer and trans women that love sports, so take your pick with that.

Again, me, I hate sports

Cooking & Housework Let me say it this way: I cook because I am hungry. I don’t cook because I want to or that I enjoy it. I would bake the shit out of some cookies and cakes if I had the money.

I have a physical health condition that doesn’t allow me to be on my feet for a long period of time, but even before that: cooking just is’t fun. No one likes cleaning / housework, and if you do well, ok, but I do it when I can because it needs done and not because it’s fun. I don’t really know what more to say about this... if you want to be a slob, then don’t clean. If you want to live in a clean and mentally friendly space, then clean your shit. Technical Skills / Hands on Projects Well, this is laughable! First off, I do have a computer science degree and secondly, try and stop me from putting furniture together or doing a craft.  That’s really all I can say for this: Try and stop me. and lastly being Submissive and Quiet Kink aside, which I am in that community, I am far from either of these. I am the most boisterous and upfront trans women you will ever find, So, I hope you learned something today kiddos. Until nxt time, be safe, and be well. If you like what you’ve read and want to see more from me, please consider becoming a patron over at https://www.patreon.com/theknightednerd

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Gender Pronouns

Since people want to discuss gender pronouns still, let's discuss them.

First let's clerify a term: preferred.

From Merriam-Webster:

liked better or best : used or wanted in preference to others a preferred method

A person's pronoun(s) are not "preferred", they are their pronouns. No if, and, or but about it.

Is that cleared up enough for you?

I hope so. Moving on.

From my own experience most people go by 1 of 3 pronouns: He / Him, She / Her, or They / Them.

Yes, there are number of third-person pronouns which you can find a list of by doing a simple Google search. Of all the transgender people I know, they mostly go by the ones mentioned above. This does not invalidate other pronouns, I'm just saying this is my experience.

If you don't know, or are unsure of, somebodies pronouns you wanna know what is the best practice is? Ask them.

I'm by no means telling you what to do. You want to be a dick, be a dick, and constantly misgender people. See how far that gets you.

Oh. "They" is not a singular pronoun I hear you say? Look over this link and get back to me:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

I'm going to leave this here, but by all means, if you think this needs a part two, I'll write one.

#pronouns #transgender #trans

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Trans Femininity and Me

When I first began transitioning immediately people tried to force me into the female binary. Yes, people actually tried to police my gender when I came out as trans. Maybe this has shaped my own view of what is feminine or maybe it was seeing the cis hey women in my life being more tomboyish than anything.

This has been on my mind since I started having conversations with a mental health professional lately so I can get further gender confirming surgery.

Let's start where everyone does, hormones. I am, indeed, on HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) and have been for the past three years. When I first started Estrogen it was emotional rollercoaster city. Since then people said they could see a change in my face; though I didn't of course, and still don't. I also had a decent amount of weight gain, at least 20 or so pounds, so that was fun.

At present I have major physical health issues which prevents me doing exercise and, with me being on government assistance for food, I can only budget about $40 a week for food. Any sort of "healthy eating" gets thrown out the window.

Beauty

Beauty for me ranges from feminine looking cisgender men or masculine looking women and everything in between.

When it comes to myself, I vision myself as being a tattooed raven haired goddess. Not something very realistic for myself it feels, but that's how I would like to look.

Clothes

I don't understand a lot about "male" or "female" fashion. They both have changed to a varying degree over the centuries. It's known that men used to wear heeled shoes and carry purses of money on their person (much like the wallet of today).

For me though, it's about function and comfort. Is it black, does it fit, and does it have pockets is what I ask for with pants. For shirts, is it black, comfy, and / or have a design on it that I like? If 2 out of 3 is yes, then I'll wear it. Other than that, you can keep your tights and skirts to yourself.

Accessories

Why? Why do these have to be a thing?

Jewelry has never been a thing for anyone in my life, and I really don't see it's appeal.

Scarves are annoying and only remind me of winter, which I dread every year.

Headwear and gloves are, again, things I associate with and wear only in winter.

Bags. Bookbags or something similar are okay with me, I utilize them on the regular, but handbags? ... do they have skulls on them? They sorry, no.

Makeup

People of all sorts wear makeup, hell, even Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have to wear makeup under those lights. Again, maybe it's because of how I grew up or maybe it's because my finances to date have has to go to other life expenses, but I never put high priority on the subject. That's not saying I wouldn't like to experiment, but experimenting costs $ too.

If you're going to take anything away from this it should be that just because you're a trans woman or a trans male doesn't mean that you have to fit into the binary if you don't want or feel the need to. Also, yes, even if you're non-binary you can still be on HRT.

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#transgender #trans #queer #mtf #mtf hrt #nonbinary #non conforming

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Addiction: A Survivors Tale

From Merriam-Webster: 

Addiction: the quality or state of being addicted the quality or state of being addicted. 

The subject of addiction has been an ongoing topic in my life as of late. I remember at about the age of 7 or so one of the first addicts in my life actually went on to make their life better, avoiding alcohol at almost every turn, and trying to genuinely be a better person.

I have bad memories of them too; Of them fighting with their partner and breaking things, of them letting strangers into the house or giving them keys to the apartment. Any others, I have blocked out for my own mental health.

Now, in the past few years, thanks to a third party, they have begun to have “random” blackouts and get offended at routine medical questions when going in for a mundane procedure. I wouldn’t be as concerned as I am for them, despite the strained relationship, if it weren’t for their age and current health. Worse yet it seems that they can’t admit to themselves that they are an addict.

I don’t recall being hurt / abused by this person while they were drunk. During my childhood though, they were my main abuser. That’s not to say that abuse cannot happen while someone is intoxicated or otherwise inebriated, because abuse very much does happen in these circumstances. 

The following comes from Recovery Ranch:

Here are 10 of the most important things to look out for in yourself or your loved one:

1. Lying About or Hiding Your Drinking – Denial is common with people having problems with alcohol, so both problem drinkers and alcoholics might drink secretively or lie about how much they drink to make it seem like less of an issue. This can be hard to spot for anybody but the individual, due to its very nature, but it’s an important sign of a more serious problem.

2. Drinking to Relax or Feel Better – Almost all people struggling with addiction abuse their substance of choice for emotional reasons. Whether it’s stress, depression, anxiety or anything else, using alcohol as a method of easing negative feelings is a risky habit—the “relief” it provides is only temporary and it ordinarily makes things worse in the long run. If you drink more when you’ve had a stressful day or need a drink to feel like you can really relax, it’s a big sign that you’re using alcohol as an emotional crutch.

3. “Blacking Out” Regularly – Drinking so much that you have no memory of what happened is another red flag for a problem with alcohol. Simply put, it means you drank way too much. If you find this happening to you (or notice it happening to someone else), you have to ask what is driving you to drink so excessively? You don’t need to black out to have fun, so what’s the real reason?

4. Being Unable to Stop Once You Start – If you always finish a bottle of wine once it’s opened or drink all the beer in the house once you’ve had one, it’s another sign you aren’t in full control of your drinking and you may have a problem.

5. Drinking in Dangerous Situations – Drinking when you really shouldn’t—like before work, before you have to drive somewhere or drinking against your doctor’s orders when you’re on medication—is an important sign of problem drinking. Even if something hasn’t gone wrong yet, every time you do something like this you run the risk of serious consequences. Regularly taking those risks strongly implies that alcohol is the main priority in your life.

6. Neglecting Your Responsibilities – If you’re having problems at work, school or with your household responsibilities because of your drinking, you have a problem. Alcohol has crossed the line from an occasional indulgence to something that seriously impacts your day-to-day functioning.

7. Having Trouble in Your Relationships – This is closely related to the last point, but it’s in many ways more important. If your drinking is causing problems with your closest friends, your significant other or your family, it’s an indication that alcohol is a bigger priority than even the most important people in your life. These last two symptoms are general signs of any addiction, and might mean that your issues are going beyond the problem-drinker stage.

8. Being Able to Drink More Than You Used To – Tolerance is another key sign of addiction, so if you can drink more than you used to and need to drink more than you did before in order to get drunk, it’s a strong indicator that you’re becoming an alcoholic. It means your body is exposed to alcohol regularly enough that it has adapted to cope with it better.

9. Experiencing Withdrawal – Withdrawal is different from a hangover; it’s the reaction to the lack of alcohol rather than too much alcohol. If you start to feel irritable, tired, depressed, nauseous or anxious when you haven’t had a drink, there’s a possibility you’re going through withdrawal. Other signs include having trouble sleeping, losing your appetite and experiencing shakiness or trembling.

10. Trying to Quit but Being Unable to – If you have realized your drinking is becoming a problem (or someone who cares about you has) and tried to make a change but have been unsuccessful, you should seriously consider finding additional help. Deciding to quit drinking shows that you understand the impacts it’s having on your life, but the fact that you’re unable to means there’s a big chance you’re struggling with alcohol addiction.

So, if you find yourself facing a dependency issue, I urge you to call  SAMHSA’s National Helpline, 1-800-662-HELP (4357), (also known as the Treatment Referral Routing Service) or TTY: 1-800-487-4889. It’s a confidential, free, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, information service. They can provide assistance in English and Spanish, for individuals and family members facing mental and/or substance use disorders. This service provides referrals to local treatment facilities, support groups, and community-based organizations. Callers can also order free publications and other information.

I hope someone out there that may be reading this can get the help they need.

If you’d like to help and support me in writing more articles like this, I can be found on Patreon over at https://www.patreon.com/TheKnightedNerd

#addiction #alchohol #dependency #dependence #booze #liquor #samhsa #family #support #treatment facilities #blackout

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Undertale: A late critique

I only heard of Undertale last year and decided to give it a fair shake this year when I was attempting to recording game footage.

The musical score blew me away, and I can appreciate it’s originality. I do love its story, dialogue, and characters. What the crux of the game is, for me at least, is the combat. 

I understand that Undertale’s combat system is influenced by games like Super Mario RPG and Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, these are games I never had the opportunity to play. By the time the former came out my family had moved onto Sony and the Playstation console line and with the latter, I never had a Game Boy and I presently do not own a 3DS.

It’s said that Undertales creator Toby Fox stated that he set out to create a mechanic that he would personally enjoy, and you know what? That’s all fine and good. For being a crowdfunded game, raising $51,124, then selling over one million units on Steam and getting nearly an A score from Metacritic and most gaming publications who am I to argue with the general public.

#Gaming #Toby Fox #undertale #videogame review #steam

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PTSD and Anxiety while Gay / Trans / Non-Binary

Trivializing Several times I tried to speak into my recently acquired webcam about my mental health for potential viewers of my YouTube channel to understand somewhat about me. Each time I tried, though, there were constant issues.

So here we are, on Tumblr, to try and discuss this.

I am a CPS, Certified Peer Specialist. A CPS can be someone that has a lived-experience with mental illness and/or dependency issues and are on their way to their own path of recovery.

A few weeks ago I had an interview at a crisis center for such a position. The interviewer talked me through, or role-played with me, some scenarios that I would experience at a crisis center and I realized this type of position isn’t for me, but also made me realize I’m not as far along my path to recovery as I suspected. 

Why?  Because I never focused much on my PTSD thinking it was separate from my anxiety.

My PTSD stems from childhood trauma both from blood family and peers.

Corporal Punishment

As far as family, I suffered corporal punishment being smacked in the face or spanked. Spanked with hand, shoe, belt, kitchen utensil, anything my abuser could get her hands on. 

I was always to blame for anything that happened. One time I had a cast on my arm, due to an accident I had when I fell down a hill, my abuser “forgot” that I had a cast on my arm and we had to argue why I couldn’t do the dishes, you know, with a cast on my freakin arm!

I’ve had my hair pulled, forced to stand in an aera of the apartment, even when my legs and back was hurting.

I’ve had my mouth washed out with soap which, let me remind you that, such an act can cause harmful effects including vomiting, diarrhea, irritation of the lining of the mouth and digestive tract, and in rare instances, pulmonary aspiration.

As a elementary / pre-elementary school age I was forced to stay at the dining table until my plate, set with adult sized portions, was finished. This has led to an undocumented (up to now) eating disorder. I can basically eat a full meal and be hungry a few hours later all because I was taught from a young age “don’t waste food.”

 Emotional Abuse

I truly have blocked out alot that I have suffered in this area. The things I can remember are:

* Distancing or attempting to distance myself from my abusers. 

With family this showed itself by constantly trying to find other living arrangements, even dropping everything and attempting to make a new life for myself in Buffalo, NY which failed miserably.

Peers, I basically became a shut-in because of their constant bullying, among other things which I’ll get to shortly. This also lead to me keeping a distance from everyone and always questioning peoples motives. I had eventually left school when my locker was broken into.

Internalizing abuse

I honestly don’t know if I’m using this in the right way, but to me what this means is the fact that I was verbally abuse ALOT by family through being

Countered

Discounted

Verbal abuse disguised as jokes

Accused and blamed

Judged and criticized

Trivialized

Undermined

Threated

and Name Calling

and that these are now things I constantly do to myself. I know these are alot of terms, but go look over 15 Common Forms of Verbal Abuse in Relationships by Berit Brogaard D.M.Sci., Ph.D for their definitions. 

Peers

As I mentioned I had alot of bad dealing with my peers. I was harassed, ostracized, jumped, beaten, bloodied, and bruised many times. Saying my early childhood, middle childhood, and my adolescence was hell is putting it mildly in, of course, my own opinion.

Hate Crime(s)

In 1998 / 1999 when I was 16/17 and saw myself as a gay male I was sent to Job Corps by the magistrate  because I had stopped going to public school. Well, it was either that or pay a fine to which I forget the amount of. 

One night I was woken up, forced against a wall and my stomach was punched repeatedly. When I went to grab my glasses from my locker my new abusers saw the powdered bleach I had in there (we were allowed to do our own laundry at Job Corps) and forced it down my throat. Thankfully I was able to cough it up and was sent to the hospital. I don’t know what happened to those that did this act.

10 years later, in 2009 when I developed Crohn's disease the pastor of the GLBT phobic church I used to go to showed up to my hospital room one day (I was in the hospital almost every other week because of obstructions until surgery was done) in clerical collar and everything telling me the reason I was sick was because of “my lifestyle”.

2015(ish) to present 

As a masculine trans woman / non-binary person I’ve been called It, thing, alien, told to get myself right with the lord. 

Another time I was clinically preping for my 2nd intestinal surgery and so I was already in a horrible head space having seen multiple medical professionals and being stuck in several exam rooms. After which, I met my partner at a restaurant and ordered some chili as comfort food, thinking it would help me mentally, huge mistake that was. We traveled to a local Target, as we often do and my gut was hurting the whole time.

I rushed into the woman’s restroom (trans woman after all) to relieve myself as immediately as I could and that’s when a woman and her daughter walked in complaining of... something I’d rather not say. So I, in my already horrible mental state, decided to speak up... again, worst. idea. ever.

I immediately got told I was in the wrong restroom by her, she continued to make fun of me, even going so far as to call a friend on the phone to talk about me.

This, by far, is the worst insulting thing I have ever faced as a human being.

Why sharing?

I’m sharing this because through everything, there are those that say I’m resilient because:

of my ability to overcome adversity

that I can seek out help even when in a crisis

and that I look for positive outcomes in negative situations

I, of course, don’t feel that. I feel I am living my life as authentically as I can despite all the bad things that have happened to me.

I want others to know, even in your darkest hour (and I’ve had many) there is always hope. There will always eventually be someone there to help you as you fall. and lastly, you are not alone; there are likely others out there experiencing the very same thing you are. if you can, find them and connect with them. You don’t have to share your burden alone.

Oh, and one more thing: You are loved, wanted, and cherished.

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#TDOV reminders

-The trans flag was inspired by the creator of the bi flag and explicitly includes nonbinary people. (source)

“[Monica] Helms came up with the trans flag in 1999, after she met Michael Page, the creator of the bisexual flag and he told her “the trans community needs a flag too”. The idea for the design came to her quickly, hoping that the colours would mean something to people, with the white stripe in the centre representing the non-binary community.” 

-Bisexuality has been inclusive of nonbinary folk since at least 1990. See the 1990 Bisexual Manifesto published in Anything that Moves (source)

“Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature: that we have “two” sides or that we must be involved simultaneously with both genders to be fulfilled human beings. In fact, don’t assume that there are only two genders.”

-Trans people and people of color comprise large portions of the bisexual community. (source)

“With more than 40 percent of LGBT people of color identifying as bisexual, and about half of transgender people describing their sexual orientation as bisexual or queer…these groups [are] vulnerable to further disparities that occur at the intersections of biphobia, racism and transphobia.” 

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Gender Identity and Me

There are 33 separate Gender identities spanning over many cultures and traditions, so where do I see myself? I have been asking myself that since learning about, and entering into, the local trans community in my area.

I could say I am Genderqueer, but I am not sure if the label of Pangender fits under that. Why the confusion? I’ll tell you.

I  never really felt like a boy. I did boy things because it was expected of me as an owner of a penis. Nor did I necessarily want to do girl things. I like wearing jeans and t-shirts, I would even wear band gear if presented with any. I will wear the occasional girly thing should I feel the desire. I like nail polish and black lipstick, but that’s about it. Maybe I would try my hand at my face sometime, but eyes are off limits. I always have liked to have my hair short; Long hair gets in the way.

So where does this leave a gamer that can easily switch between Metal, Pop, and Electronic music? Well, it leaves me being a human with many of my own interests and beliefs. If you don’t like who I am, then to hell with you, I’ma going to keep taking my E injections and be happy.

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Health Update

I am trying to make an effort to post here every Friday. A few weeks ago I had to be in the hospital due to physical health issues. Crohn's Disease was kicking my ass inside a hernia that has developed. The following few weeks I was regaining my mental strength and trying to get over my anxiety of sharing my life with others.

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So here’s a thing or two about my girlfriend:

She plays first person shooter games and is really really good at them. She plays electric guitar and shreds like a beast. She loves death metal music, and even produces her own. She wears Hot Topic T-shirts and jeans. She doesn’t like dresses, but might wear a button-down top every now and then. She loves having the side of her hair buzzed short. She has a half-sleeve tattoo on her bicep that is Lovecraft-inspired. She has stretched earlobes, up to a 00g right now. She LARPs (live-action role plays) and kicks ass. She loves watching horror movies even though they scare her sometimes. She’s into girls and wouldn’t turn one down in bed.

She’s transgender.

Now of course, there are the people who will take what I wrote and say, “Oh, well doesn’t sound like she’s really trans. Sound like she still likes a lot of guyish stuff so, like, is she sure…?”

But wait. If I had said all of these things about a cis girl, she sounds like a guy’s dream girl. How come after I said that she’s trans, suddenly people think there’s no way she could actually be a girl. If cis girls can like those things without their gender being questioned, so can trans girls.

Let trans girls be masculine.

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Black Panther and Whypipo

24 hours. It took about 24 hours (as of the time of this writing) of the new Marvel movie Black Panther coming out for the media and internet to go totally nutters. As a crayon white person, I was going to step back and let my friends and other POC have their spotlight; fellow Whypipo couldn’t let that happen.

Comic books were never a huge thing in my household growing up, video games reigned supreme, I knew more of Sonic and Mario than I did of X-Men. That said, I can carry an appreciation for comics, the characters, and the movies based off them.  I have educated myself watching Lewis Lovhaug, Linkara, for the past two years. I have learned many things from his reviews, the most important is that the characters typically deal with issues bigger than themselves and the struggles there-in.

This is how I have always tried to view real world political issues placed before me. To that though I feel like I have to say the following: To those making dummy accounts on social media saying that they, their significate other, or their children were assaulted by people of color: Stop it. To Ben Shapiro (as quoted by RightWingWatch): Stop it. Caitlyn Jenner does not represent Trans people. Blade Trilogy was mediocre at best, and the Catwoman movie? Please. You know what you’re doing, stop.

Shapiro goes onto say 

“This is the most important moment in black American history, not Martin Luther King, not Frederick Douglass, not the Civil War, not the end of Jim Crow, none of that, not Brown vs. Board—the most important thing is that Chadwick Boseman puts claws on his hands and a mask on his face and runs around jumping off cars in CGI fashion—deeply, deeply important. Black children everywhere will now believe that they too can be superheroes who jump off cars in fictional countries.”

Yes, Ben, it is. The milestones you mentioned above were each important in their own right. It’s only been 153 years since the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified. The United States of American has been horrible to people of color since, and likely before, 1620; the settling of Plymouth (398 years ago). King was assassinated 50 years ago.

It’s not about Chadwick Boseman putting “claws on his hands and a mask on his face” and children of color are not going to “believe that they too can be superheroes who jump off cars in fictional countries.” What it does, Ben, is give adults and children of color hope. Considering us Whypipo have controlled things in this country since the puritans settled here, yeah, POC need inspiration and hope.

All in all, the rest of ya’ll Whypipo need to sit down, STFU, and let POC have their moment of glory.

#POC #people of color #comics #marvel #black panther #Whypipo

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Journalists and Trans Issues

I just got done watching  Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric. As usual there was so much wrong with the way the information is presented.

The most glaring to me is in a conversation with a trans teen in the subject of hormones and blockers Couric says to her

“You didn’t want to grow facial hair. You didn’t want your voice to lower.”

This is something I learned month one, week one, when I started interacting with more trans folk prior to my own transition is that you don’t talk about that, unless the person either brings it up them, or they give express permission for that discussion to happen, which I don’t know if Couric got or not as it’s not shown on camera.

Another thing Couric does that stands out to me is that right before a female trans patient goes in for surgery, Couric asks her about her birth name. Could you really have any less tact or professionalism?

With younger trans folk, they did stay away with mentioning their birth names, but not for the older adults who I hope they asked permission of.

My partner, who watched part of it with me, also noticed there is some Bi erasure when they talk about a camp that is apparently for Gay, Lesbian, and Trans youth only.

There is likely much more wrong with this 1.5 hours documentary that I can’t even think about right now is too fried. I can’t say this is the best documentary about Trans folk, but it’s certainly not the worst I’ve come across. 

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