provisional self

librarycards:

librarycards:
i really want no part of the trans/eating disorder relationship discourse until we have first established the part medico-psychiatric & insurance gatekeeping plays in compelling trans people to use extreme weight loss & other modes of self harm to “diy” transition, because they will pick and choose which trans people are deemed legitimate and deserving and determine who will spend their life in debt for surgery and who will be covered.
not even to mention the machinations of race, ability, transmisogyny, and class that ensure that multiply-marginalized trans people do not receive care.
& then we can be denied access to transition if we are “too crazy” after perpetuating violence against ourselves to cope w dysphoria…. they have infinite ways of saying they want us dead.

birlinterrupted:

watching the like now accelerating cycle of miscast (and frequently offensively described) movies abt trans men and everyone complain abt how terrible this is, not noticing that the monkey’s paw has unfurled one finger since the trans community complained that there wasn’t enough representation and everything that had been made was about trans women, who were privileged to at least be so visible

volutions:

but fr i’m still trying to get a second job and my mother has withdrawn any sort of financial support i was previously getting, who has a rich friend who wants to give my gay ass money?
https://paypal.me/qoheleth

baeddel:

like six years ago on here this girl posted a recording of her calling into a primmy radio station and asking ‘After the revolution… whos gonna build the roads?’ and the guys like, ‘No one, there arent gonna be any roads’ and she says ‘but how am I gonna ride my 86 camero?’& he starts trying to talk abt like wage slavery or whatever while she keeps bragging about her car

pyomorphic:

gorps:
Raccoons should have guns I think
they will

ciscritical-not-cisphobic:

Reminder that community involvement correlates to increased depression in trans women.
In other words: people hate trans women so much that community involvement wears us down. Communities that regenerate and heal trans women are outliers. Trans women that get enough social esteem in other communities to make those communities good for them are against the grain.
This is true even though social interaction and acceptance is, for many people, a basic need.
Communities (any community) fail trans women so utterly that it is less depressing to go without community involvement than to try to involve yourself in one.

elfwreck:

caribbeansappho:
caribbeansappho:
caribbeansappho:
listen… i’m a lesbian and i know full well what oppression based on love is like… but i wish white gay folks wouldn’t act like sexuality is the only reason anyone’s ever felt that
there are people in my family who’ve been disowned because they married someone of a different colour to them… i’m mixed race and the very concept of my existence would’ve been illegal in the us when my parents were born. the supreme court only ruled against discrimination of mixed-race marriages in 1967! that’s barely 50 years ago. homophobia is an awful thing to experience and i know that from first hand experience but i’m begging you to remember that gay people aren’t the only ones being killed for who they love. please remember the struggles faced by Black and brown people when you talk about oppression. please have some solidarity with your nonwhite friends (especially your nonwhite gay friends!) when you talk about dismantling the systems that keep us alone and isolated. please remember the horrible history that is anti-miscegenation laws when you talk about equal marriage rights, because they aren’t just for white gay people.
this is okay for white people to reblog
Mixed-race marriages were still being denied in 2009. This is not ancient history. Just because it’s law, doesn’t mean bigots give up their preferences. In communities that shelter and protect bigotry, it takes a long, long time for oppressed people to get the same rights everyone else has.