CLICK THE SOURCE LINK BELOW and you will find #150 245x171px gifs of sheryl lee ralph in An NBC Interview (2023)! These were created from scratch by Jessi. you may edit these as much as you’d like, but please don’t redistribute or claim as your own. please like/reblog if you use them!
Sheryl was 66 during filming and is African-American (African and Jamaican).
tw: none
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i cant wait to see people say barbie is gender
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The world would be a better place if cis people understood the concepts of gender euphoria and dysphoria as things that everyone experiences, not just trans people.
The woman is not wearing makeup and a short skirt for male attention. She is doing that because it gives her gender euphoria as a woman.
On a more serious note, if a man doesn't feel comfortable to wear a pink shirt; eat a pink ice cream; listen to a female singer who is popular; express his feelings; drink fruity juices; hold his girlfriend's purse; say certain words; act with kindness towards his loved ones; apologize; deescalate conflict; watch a movie enjoyed by women; play with a small and fluffy animal; because he thinks these things make him look girly, less manly or "nor a real man", that is no way to live. That man is experiencing intense levels of gender dysphoria and he needs help.
I feel like people only look at men like that and laugh and call them sexist. Some of them might be and they need to be called out for it, but I feel like gender dysphoria is very common in cis men and we should be calling it what it is.
A cis man doesn't "feel uncomfortable" when he paints his nails for the first time, he gets dysphoric. Just like the cis woman who wears jeans during summer because she forgot to shave her legs and is embarassed about it.
Dysphoria happens to cis people, All. The. Time. Pass the message on.
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anyways i love you people that are both gay and straight, in whatever way that presents. being nonbinary often can mean a complicated relationship to sexuality and how one perceives it within the societal restrictions of homo and heterosexual, and i think bridging those definitions and having "contradictory" labels like lesboy or whatever is really cool. i support and stan he/him lesbians or butch lesbians or she/her gay men or femme gays or she/he pronoun users and whatever else, be it cis or trans or both. if you feel like youre both cis and trans that also rocks. dont let people force you back into a binary within the queer community, stay strong!
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So I have been seeing some arguments about Mizu’s gender in the Blue Eye Samurai posting which is valid af and shouldn’t be an argument. Just a conversation. Because they really don’t outright tell us, do they? But you know what they do give us? Episode 5.
We go through the first 4 episodes believing that Mizu spent their entire life as a boy, but then episode 5 shows us that’s not actually the case. We see first hand that they spend a few years as a woman and a wife. She does this for her mother who she is happy to see alive and who saves her. (And I imagine a bit of curiosity about this specific life that she has missed out on.) We see her lacking in her “wifely duties” finding almost no joy in the housekeeping part of being a woman, except for cutting vegetables. (She takes much better to her husband’s job of taming and riding horses) We see her try to embrace this side of herself, especially when she starts to love her husband.
But then they’re suddenly not woman enough. They beat their husband in what is meant to be a friendly show of skill and suddenly being a woman is an entirely different problem than it was before. Because now she has to care about ego, something that was never an issue when he was a man.
And this is so very clearly being shown with the puppets. At first Mizu is the ronin. A man. A warrior. Someone who takes the responsibility of other’s lives.
And then Mizu is the Bride. A woman. Caring. Someone open and willing to take care of others, not just to use them.
And then Mizu is the demon.
Neither a man or woman. A being only fueled by revenge.
And this is where Mizu chooses to become a man again, but not just because they can no longer be a woman, but because they simply are not a woman. But now they know what that means. They tried womanhood and found it lacking, and I believe that Mizu also finds being a man lacking as well.
Especially since this is a continuation of the brothel story and he has just witnessed some of the most base desires of men. (Which also introduces him to the concept of bisexuality, something they hadn’t considered before)
A woman who has seen these same desires and ugliness of man calls him more of a man than has ever walked through her doors, and she means it as a compliment. And for someone who sees men as something vile, what a strange compliment to give. To be more of a man than other men. To rise above other men. To almost be a woman?
Mizu is one of the few people in this show that understand more than anything that gender is a performance. He tried to be a woman and it wasn’t right. She tries to be a man and it still isn’t right. Mizu is a secret third thing, and it’s been said all throughout the show.
And it’s meant to hurt, to insult, but if there’s one thing I know about words used against us it’s that they can be reclaimed. And Mizu isn’t a man, but they aren’t a woman either.
Mizu is a demon.
And all I can really say to that is fuck yeah.
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possibly a long-shot, but could anyone possibly point me in the direction of some resources on sewing that focus on either “mens” clothing, or more gender neutral stuff? it feels like all the beginner patterns and books i can find have skirts and dresses as their main focus, which i certainly won’t wear, and none of the women in my life tend to wear that sort of stuff either, and it feels like a waste to make a bunch of skirts for practice just for them to get chucked in the back of a wardrobe. any recommendations for online resources (youtube, blogs, etc) or physical books would be very welcome. thanks!
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carrie-anne moss gif pack
CLICK THE SOURCE LINK BELOW and you will find #58 245x150px gifs of Carrie-Anne Moss as Jeri Hogarth in Iron Fist Season One (2017). These were created from scratch by Sveja. Do what you want with these, just don't repost/claim as your own, don't use them to play Carrie-Anne or in any smut/smut-based blogs, and like/reblog if using.
Carrie-Anne was 49-50 during filming and is white.
tw: drinking, flashing lights, food, shaky camera, violence
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It's so interesting and so exceedingly frustrating how agab is being utilized now within the queer community as a way to isolate and sort nonbinary and genderqueer folks into binary boxes that determine their moral purity levels, and their authority to do and write and exist.
The way nonbinary writers are being put under accusation of fetishizing gay men while their AGAB is continually brought up in a way that feels like queer-space-approved misgendering.
The way feminist circles that are supposedly trans-inclusive will use the word AFAB in a way that implicitly but intentionally isolates nonbinary people who aren't AFAB from joining. It's for women*.
The way the language is already flawed and leaves out intersex folks from the conversations while focusing on a binary of sex that isn't truthful.
The constant obsessing over whether someone is AFAB or AMAB and whether or not that gives them the privilege to join, do, write, or be present in certain spaces really really concerns me. How are we supposed to dismantle a binary system of gender if we can't even move past forcibly assigning and focusing on people's genders assigned at birth?
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