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[stumbles in here after 4 years or so]
Well would you look at that.
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Can I show you some unicorns 🦄
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art will save you, being unreasonably passionate about something niche will save you, letting past sources of joy show you the way back to yourself will save you, earnestness over composure will save you, the natural world will save you, caring for something bigger than yourself will save you, daring to be seen will save you, kindness not as a whim but a principle will save you, appreciation as a practice will save you, daring to try something new will save you, grounding will save you, love will save you, one good nights sleep will save you
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We need more walkable cities. I am so tired of my transportation turning to aquatic life. It’s so inconvenient.
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Source: tumblr.com
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Created by, for, and about lesbians, On Our Backs came about in the tumult of the “feminist sex wars,” a deeply polarizing internal debate in the feminist movement regarding sex, sexuality, pornography, erotica, and BDSM. Divided into sex-positive and anti-porn camps, the sex wars saw rabid disagreement on what the nature of things like pornography were doing for lesbians and for society as a whole. Many feminists argued that pornography and erotica were inherently objectifying and abusive. Writer and theorist Andrea Dworkin argued that not just pornography but heterosexual sex as a whole was a “means of physiologically making a woman inferior,” and claimed that anyone aroused by porn that depicted sexualized violence (whether real or scripted) “was evidence of a mind that’s absorbed the propaganda of the patriarchy and eroticized the subjugation of women.” On the flipside, sex-positive feminists argued that pornography itself was not an inherent evil, but rather its morality was dependent upon the creators and participants. Rubin, one of the founders of the lesbian feminist BDSM group Samois, believed sexual liberation was a key component of the feminist movement and that public expressions of female sexuality were crucial in asserting women’s existence as fully realized beings.
Thinking about @asterosian's post about how "your fetish doesn't have to be praxis", and I want to riff: your gender transition also doesn't have to be praxis.
Like, yes, it's cool and good if your gender transition upsets cisheteronormativity and power. That's great. However, if you feel as though your gender transition has to upset cisheteronormativiy and power, and you think you aren't achieving that, this view becomes something that can make you stay closeted.
We've already seen the consequences of trying to make your gender presentation praxis, in criticisms of second wave feminism: it leads to people either feeling as though they have to take on a gender presentation they don't like, or they have to bend over backwards to justify why the things they like are Actually Praxis (even when they obviously aren't).
It's okay to transition just to alleviate your gender dysphoria, or to give yourself more gender euphoria. That isn't selfish or regressive. You don't need to maximise the amount of praxis in every action you ever take; that's a very quick path to burnout.
At the end of the day, your gender is what it is. That may or may not change over time. You may push the edges of what you’ve been comfortable with and find it’s more expansive than you thought - but you may also find that you settle more and more comfortably into a conventional gender. If whatever does or doesn’t change is driven by your own relationship to your self and your experiences, wonderful.
Gender is politicized. Absolutely. But whenever I start hearing echoes of “your understanding of yourself should change because it would be better for me” (possibly with a side of “and I’ve also decided it would ~actually~ be better for you”), I don’t care if that’s coming from a relationship, a community’s norms, or a political movement, it’s shit. I’ve seen enough about why transitioning, or transitioning to a particular gender, or sometimes even not transitioning, is actually harmful/regressive/uncool, and I’m over it. It keeps people from even being able to think about the option of embodying the gender that they would find suits them best. You don’t owe anyone (or any movement) that kind of influence over your identity or desires.
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I tell my girlfriend I am hornet. She thinks it’s typo, but she’ll find out soon enough.
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vampcraft
i think as adults it’s our responsibility to be nice to kids and treat them with the respect we wish we got at that age and im not kidding or exaggerating in the least
