Intergalactic Queer

"can bi nbs say dyke" "can trans men say tranny" "can this specific identity reclaim this slur" ENOUGH !!! ALL that matters is whats in your heart when you say it. is there love for your community or is there hate for people not like you. are you saying it to hurt someone or to give a hurtful thing new love-filled meaning. theres your answer.

all queer people can say faggot because we're all faggots to our oppressors

Owning a black cat is awesome because you’ll leave the bathroom and The Shape will be waiting for you

I don't think people in the notes understand what this tweet is saying. It's not saying it's impossible to be born with a mental health issue, but that the issue isn't set in stone. Bipolar disorder can be trauma induced. Schizophrenic people in less individualistic, more accepting societies hear kinder voices. These are actual things you can look up.

I thought for the longest time I would feel nothing but suffering because of the dominant narrative surrounding mental illness. My parents were literally told by a psychologist I am "a severe case" and have no future. But guess what? When I got away from my abusive parent, it was incredible how much became more manageable than before. I'll never be "normal" or even be able to live alone, but I feel better than before. And I need everyone to know there's hope for you when you never expect it, even if you were in part "born like that".

Reblog to give the person you reblogged it from the energy to do one (1) chore or maybe many

*crying and shaking* please reblog from me, please i beg of you

beautiful caffeine on an empty stomach I'm going to live forever

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"Protect bad drag" is like every other "protect bad art" to me. Because if you only ever see the most polished and editorial final product, you'll never think that you can begin making that same art. You'll think you've been priced out of expressing yourself. You'll think beauty is behind a paywall. And that is poison, 100% of the time.

Sometimes I'm on here and y'all make posts that just make me go, "you are very young and would benefit from learning something about our culture in the last hundred years".

Yes, people are upset by trans and enby people, because their lives are entirely structured around the different roles of men and women, and the idea that men and women are fundamentally different and inherently suited to their traditional roles. Like, that shouldn't be a big realization. That was a major part of western culture until quite recently, and still is for a great many people. We attack their basic worldview by existing as ourselves. Obviously they're wrong, but that doesn't change the emotion of the situation.

Yes, conservative cis people act like marriage is a chore. For most of history, and certainly US colonial history, marriage was a social and economic necessity that created a working partnership. Attraction was certainly a hoped-for element but not strictly required, and love was a bonus, possibly even a bit suspect as a motivation. It was still like this when my grandparents married. I know couples today who are separated but married for financial reasons. We're not talking about the distant past. Marriage has been many things through the years, and "an equal partnership based on love" is a very recent iteration. Of course our culture is littered with artifacts of the older way. The older way was like...yesterday. Today.

Yes, Grandma has trouble at the grocery store checkout. When she was a kid they had rotary phones and radios, and you paid for everything with cash. She grew up in a culture that taught that childhood was for learning and adulthood was for doing, and now the world is asking her to learn a bunch of new things that basically sound like magic, and she's not even sure she can, and she's not at all sure it's an improvement (and she's got a point, though she might not know it).

There's just....a real lack of perspective. I dunno, watch some documentaries about the fifties. Read some historical novels. Go to the local Victorian house tour.

There are some elderly people near me in this restaurant and two of them started talking about their trans nephew really affectionately... maybe there is good in this world......

One of the old women was joking about how she "just can't figure out what he's gonna do next!" because her nephew is "so energetic." The man she's with was talking about how confident he is on testosterone compared to how "depressed and introverted" he was before "getting on the stuff." I love this so much. Shout out to supportive old people.

truly, no harsh noise project can ever approach the sheer auditory torture of existing in the same room as someone scrolling tiktok, like professional bad sound engineers couldn't make a listening experience this unpleasant if they tried

First sketchbook page of the year 💘

I feel a little hypocritical saying it when I haven't gone all the way with this method yet, but I highly suggest everyone at the very least learn how to buy/use DIY HRT so they're prepared in case official means are no longer acccessible to them. it is obviously not ideal compared to official means to accessing HRT, and we need to defend trans healthcare. do not interpret this as me advocating for "giving up". but when the healthcare system fails us, DIY is an option that everyone has, and it's important to me that people understand that they have options. spending an afternoon reading up on how you'd go about DIY is free and affirming even if you don't need/want to DIY right now.

here's the anarchist zines I own on the topic. there's a fem version and a masc version. this zine layout helped me understand DIY much easier than I'd been able to before which is why I wanted to share these specifically.

however, these zines are heavily adapted from the diyhrt.wiki so if you prefer to read on a website you can find the same info here:

and here:

I feel a little hypocritical saying it when I haven't gone all the way with this method yet, but I highly suggest everyone at the very least learn how to buy/use DIY HRT so they're prepared in case official means are no longer acccessible to them. it is obviously not ideal compared to official means to accessing HRT, and we need to defend trans healthcare. do not interpret this as me advocating for "giving up". but when the healthcare system fails us, DIY is an option that everyone has, and it's important to me that people understand that they have options. spending an afternoon reading up on how you'd go about DIY is free and affirming even if you don't need/want to DIY right now.

This isn't limited to knowing how to obtain sketchy bathwater testosterone (affectionate) either. ((Though do know how to do that without getting into legal trouble like I did oops)) It's not too difficult to learn what tests your endo orders for you to monitor your levels and how to read those results. The girlies have it a bit harder than those of us that usually only need T to get things in working order, but none of that is inaccessible knowledge. Knowing your levels can help you make decisions about dosages and which meds you should be on.

And know how/where to get needles if your insurance doesn't want to pay for them or the pharmacy is out of stock. Needle exchanges are wonderful places period but can also help you out here. Barrels are accessible without a prescription, I switched my pharmacy issued 3ml barrels with 1ml barrels to make measuring dosages and injecting easier.

Know HOW to administer different types of meds. SubQ and IM injections for hormones are, assuming you don't have a too large amount of fluid to inject, essentially interchangeable. Be able to do both, even better if you can help others who can't self inject with their shots. Again, this information is more for the girlies, but know all the different routes of administration (buccal, sublingual, oral, patches, up your butt, etc.) and how that effects medication absorption.

Know how to work with the side effects of other parts of medical transition that cis doctors tend to not know or warn you about. Vaginal atrophy can be remedied with topical estrogen cream, and you can figure out your own ways to source that. How to combat hairloss if that is a thing you so desire. How to combat acne. Deal with T dick sensitivity. Can't start T yet but periods give you dysphoria? Hop on the depo shot. Want facial hair? Try these things.

Even if the knowledge won't directly help you at any point its good to keep as a backup. And who knows, maybe you'll pass that knowledge on to somebody whose life will be saved because of it.

Lean on your community, this is knowledge we have and pass on as a collective. Most of the people I know who DIY to a certain extent do so with other people's scripts, usually when there is an issue having their own script renewed or filled in time. (ALWAYS refill as soon as you can with everything you can and if you're hardcore know how much you can skimp on a dose or occasionally skip to build a stockpile up for yourself or others) DIY communities tend to not advertise for obvious reasons, but if you get yourself connected with your other trans its not hard to seek these places out by word of mouth.

good morninge !

Good morning, cat of my heart!

hope youm are ready for another day of my unparalleled beauté !

The more I get back into liking, loving and lusting on people, the more I'm reminded what a sanitized, segregated lie queers have been built into.

I've met the sweetest, prettiest queens who tell me "Well, I'm a transsexual. Sometimes I call myself a transman because both my trans self and my manhood are me."

New friends tell me about the sexcapades their closed polycule gets up to that they just watch because they're a kinky ace.

There's staunch lesbians who helped the love of their life transition as a transmasc, gay men begging to be topped by trans men with the fattest tits.

Older queers don't hesitate to shout "oh, like Prince!" when I tell them I'm androgyne. Vanilla questioning men will text me day after day before shyly confessing I'm their dream guy. Closeted trans women ask to kiss me because I'm their dream girl. Doms and subs who melt when they realize I'm both and neither, and they didn't know somebody like me existed.

There's vanilla lesbians on Grindr and acearos who have shown me love deeper than I thought possible and guydykes kissing girlfags and MtFtMtX elders and throuples that have so much affection that they just collectively parent babygays who got disowned.

Everybody is so beautiful! There is so much love! It is no wonder a cruel world has a vested interest in suppressing queerness when humanity is so expansive to us.

I also want to make it explicit that not only are these real people, but like. This is explicitly about people I know across the spectrum of race, ability, and more. Including me, a fat cripple!

Queerness is not the exclusive domain of the thin, the white, and the ablebodied. If you are any of those things and can only picture queer people like you? You need to ask yourself why.

That's why I'm making this addition. It is on me as a white person to make the room for queer BIPOC that is vehemently, violently denied. And I did not make that room in the original post.

Intersectional and lateral aggression kills. There's no "community" without U and I.

This is making me cry actually

My dad has a little gag he loves doing that involves me being trans (it’s fun- don’t worry).

So, my dead name is also the name of a food item (spelled different but sounds the same). We sometimes eat that food item- it’s a nice treat. His little joke is that he will only call that food “Dead Names”- which leads to hilarious instances of hearing my 70 year old father call out “Hey, I’m going to go grab some Dead Names while we’re here!” while he’s half way down the isle in the grocery store, or him coming home and saying “hey, I picked up a box of Dead Names while I was out! :)”

It just makes me so overwhelmingly happy that my old name is not something wrapped in grief. It doesn’t represent a loss. It is something we can smile about and remember even if it doesn’t fit me anymore.

Your dad sounds so cool

He is! Sometimes he uses the wrong pronouns, but he consistently does that to cis people too, so I’m p sure that’s just him never thinking about pronouns in general. No thought, head empty/ his ADHD thought process goes too fast to register them.

Also the First Thing he said to me after I came out as trans was “Is it ok if I call you Sam? Samuel is just kinda formal for an every day thing.”

(The second thing he said to me was that he loved me no matter what.)

(The second thing he

said to me was that he loved

me no matter what.)

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.