love them chunks

>:)

made a comic about some thoughts! small ways you can empower people, choosing who to empower, and why “don’t make your orientation your whole personality” misses the depth of the issue.

stay cute, stay proud, and love your friends

For folks with readers and/or reading issues like me, have a transcript of this very important message:

1st panel: [image of a person wearing headphones and holding a gaming control] “On a call with a friend recently I said the phrase ‘Yeah I don’t really ever want to pass as straight again.’ And I’ve spent a while since trying to explain to myself what I mean.

2nd panel: I remember two specific moments which defined this feeling in me. [image of 2 people sitting with a box of cookies and a speech bubble that says “these cookies are awful”] Bat and I lived in Notre Dame Indiana for a while. [image of touchdown Jesus] known for football christianity, Mike Pence, and racist wage gaps

3rd panel: [image of 2 people holding box of cookies looking at 2 people holding hands] One day at a farmer’s market I saw two girls spot us and they [image of hands letting go of one another] let go [faceless image of two people standing close together] but then after looking again they relaxed

4th panel: [image of 2 people with cookie box from behind being passed by 2 hands holding each other] They walked by us and they felt safe. It’s a moment I always remember as a concrete time I helped a stranger

5th panel: The other time… my brother asked me to come with him to a dinner with some of the other professors… [image of person talking to a panicking person with a scribbled “renting with him” and “post grad” labels respectively. Speech bubble from person on the left says “that sounds awful” and speech bubbles from person on right say “I know” and “QQ”]

6th panel: We ate at Bonefish [image of the 2 from previous panel among a line of diners at a table] surrounded by white, straight boomers whose opinions determined our future.

7th panel: [image of boomer talking, speech bubbles say “oh no, that’s my student’s partner” and “they’re actually-”] You get that feeling Here it comes

8th Panel: [image of line of diners, with op and brother tiny in front, boomer speech bubbles read: “”They??” and “nonbinary??” “it” “what does that even mean” “just pick one!!” “themselve” “what about grammar” and laughter] You feel Invisible. Bite your tongue.

9th: [image of OP and brother driving home] We didn’t talk much about it | both upset | ‘complicit’ through power imbalance

10th panel: [image of OP trembling at a sink] THEY FELT SAFE

11th panel: [a row of faceless boomers] In a room of white passing straight people they felt similar enough to feel safe in dehumanization

12th panel: So now I fly my flags | I dress more confident | I dye my hair [image of OP as described with nonbinary, trans, rainbow (with black/brown), aro, and ace pride flags wearing rainbow shirt] I will be loud and I will be obnoxious and I will be angry.

13th panel: So people who need protecting [image of hands holding each other] feel safe [image of faceless frowning boomers looking at a couple] DO NOT

trans day of visibility!! reblogging kedreeva's transcript of my gay little comic.

quicky short comic. panels under cut

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Thank you for the people who pointed out that this comic has been broken here for a while! because of you, we finally got around to repairing it by finding the original images and re-hosting them elsewhere.

anyway, this comic is still very dear to me and I saw some mentions of it again, so here it is!

my mom is traveling rn and she sent me this photo and I am Losing my Fucking Mind over it

reblogging this onto main so my mom can see how much people like her photo!!