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I'm very upset about how this site censures trans women and is sexualizing them. It's actually legitimately dangerous to trans women and femmes to do this. Because of that I will be boycotting using Tumblr until "tgirl" is no longer a blocked tag and trans women/femmes are not told they need community labels. @staff

#trans #queer #solidarity #trans woman #trans feminine #tboy #tgirl #trans masc #trans man #lgbt community #lgbt #censorship #sexulization #boycot

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“Why didn't you tell her of her danger?”

“Because then, again, she would have left me, and I couldn't bear to face that. Even if she couldn't love me it was a great deal to me just to see her dainty form about the house, and to hear the sound of her voice.”

“Well,” said I, “you call that love, Mr. Carruthers, but I should call it selfishness.”

GO OFF WATSON!!

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One of the best writing advice I have gotten in all the months I have been writing is "if you can't go anywhere from a sentence, the problem isn't in you, it's in the last sentence." and I'm mad because it works so well and barely anyone talks about it. If you're stuck at a line, go back. Backspace those last two lines and write it from another angle or take it to some other route. You're stuck because you thought up to that exact sentence and nothing after that. Well, delete that sentence, make your brain think because the dead end is gone. It has worked wonders for me for so long it's unreal

#writing advice

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@staff

This is true I think, everyone just has very normal and even-minded thoughts and opinions about transfeminine sexuality

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thinking about the barbie movie and how i think that people have this idea that diversity automatically means intersectionality

it’s like look here are lots of different kinds of barbies with different identities and appearances but we are going to treat them as if they all have the same experience of womanhood and misogyny and objectification as stereotypical barbie. and all they need to do to achieve complete liberation is to band together against the patriarchy

this is in no way limited to the barbie movie but i think it’s a good example of something that is inclusive and looks intersectional on the outside but only really focuses on one type of experience of oppression

#tips for activism

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Do you want to talk about that kiss? Oh, that? You call that a kiss… No, that was… Uh, that was your buddy’s idea. Oh, right. Well, that is good to know.

VENOM (2018) dir. Ruben Fleischer

#venom

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nat @leftatlondon from music's has tboy swag!

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bathroom graffiti

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Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster has tgirl swag!

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Girls with. Girls with deep voices

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lindsay weir from freaks and geeks has tboy swag!

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new blog post:

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@staff

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1893 / 2022

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[ID: A tweet from Emily Gwen @/theemilygwen.

Did you know Disney sells lesbian flag pins? Bob Iger profits off the flag I designed for our community!

On another note, I can't afford to pay for my medication this month! Any help would be appreciated.

Donations: ko-fi.com/emilygwen

Store: emilygwen.threadless.com

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terfs keep mentioning the % of autistics who are trans/nb and that we're 'brainwashed'

and because i'm an asshole, i decided to look into why so many autistic folks are trans/nb. it's not an inaccurate statement, at least the first half, but terfs lie through their teeth so i decided to get to the scientific root of it.

the answer blew my fucking mind.

the study on gender and autism i found said two very specific things about autistic people: we are more mentally resistant to things like social conditioning and binarism. we like our secret third things, y'know.

an excerpt:

“The finding that non-binary identities are most elevated seems to support hypotheses focussed on autistic resistance to social conditioning, which are consistent with existing evidence of the same effect with respect to self-description of sexual orientation. Perhaps elevated rates of trans identity in autism might result from a rejection of the binary cisgenderist norm, which combined with a below-typical concern for social norms could promote the disclosure of the identity.”

94% of autistics surveyed for that paper identified themselves as non-binary.

other studies have found autistic people have higher levels of critical thinking, and require more evidence to maintain or convert to a belief system (hence why many of us eventually fall away from religion) than allistic people.

which means, at least from my perspective, that:

a) the 'brainwashing' terfs are accusing the trans community of inflicting on autistic folks would likely not even work if they tried.

b) the current binary definition of gender flies directly against embedded autistic modes of thinking to begin with.

you cannot brainwash someone into thinking something they already believe.