i want to force a bald eagle to smoke cigarettes until it dies

Your loved one!

Reading some of the things here is kinda funny, not in the haha funny way but in the "I've thought of myself as just some weird ass fetish people have that I forgot I'm actually a person with value" way, okay ngl that is kinda funny tho

My disguise fucking sucks and i am going to get killed

Vetted family fundraiser masterpost 1

Version date: May 7th 2024.

This is a masterpost for the evacuation fundraisers I've vetted so far. The numbers next to the names have no significance beyond ease of navigation for me for when I check their progress in the future. You should look at the disclaimers instead and focus on those. Occasionally I will update these with new info, including new fundraisers, and the amount of cash that's been raised. Check in regularly on the original post when you see it being reblogged. In all likelihood once its reached you it's already outdated. This post is part of this masterpost series compiling fundraisers for Ghazzah and Sudan. I focus on Ghazzah as I am Palestinian and am more equipped to do verifications as I'm more familiar with my own country and its politics and dialect, but if I know a fundraiser for a Sudanese family is legit I will include it here.

Ottawa4Palestine’s vetted fundraiser spreadsheet (76 different families with listed fundraisers)

It’s really weird to me when people talk about the pressure to get bottom surgery, which shouldn’t be underplayed when it does exist, as if there isn’t also a pressure not to get it. It isn’t 1990 anymore and in my experience transmisogynists will act like you’ve a penis no matter what, terfs call your new pussy a “permanent bleeding wound”, chasers overwhelmingly want you to keep your dick and tbh it’s starting to bleed into other more mainstream culture this toxic idea that trans girls are only desirable (as unique fun objects) if they’ve still got a dick. Plus pretty much every trans girl I know who has gotten bottom surgery or has even openly considered it has had their “progressive” parents treat it with fear as if it somehow is the only “real” transition you’ve done and you’re not probably infertile from the hrt already and they want grand kids…most parents I know told their daughter something like “that’s a big decision can you hold off on it for a little longer” no matter how long it had been.

Like as wonderful as bottom surgery is and as awful as the pressure to get it is, let’s not pretend that there isn’t a lot of pressure not to too

Ultimately what is importing is protecting the decision making agency of each individual trans girl as much as humanly possible

ive had more pressure not to get bottom surgery than i ever had pressure or even support to actually get it and not just from strangers or chasers from friends and loved ones too

This is my favourite interview strategy

you can stop learning after you read this. you can drop out of college after you read this

speaking of ai dungeon this is literally the funniest thing ive ever gotten out of it and i cant even lookat it iwthout laughing so hard i fucking gag

btw after this no matter what i put in it would constantly just write "nutty nutty nutty nutty" over and over again i felt like i was trapped in a fucking underground cave system i was so so so sick

People who are like "ugh ELVES don't get enough credit" are genuinely the swifties of fantasy

the world needs to see this tweet

the rest of the life drawings from zeet :9

Bernie Wrightson - A Garniture of Gargoyles, 1994

I believe it was the work of legal scholar Florence Ashley where I first encountered this term (it might have also been Serano), but I’m becoming more and more committed to saying “degender” as opposed to “misgender.” like I think the term ‘misgender’ fails to properly identify the mechanism behind the process it describes: misgendering is not an act of attributing the wrong gender characteristics to a trans person, it is an act of dehumanisation. I think the term ‘misgender’ especially gives people much easier rhetorical cover to argue that trans women are hurt by misandry by being ‘mislabeled as men,’ or that they are in fact ‘actually men’ and benefit from male privilege, because the (incorrect) assumption underlying this is that when trans women are ‘misgendered’ they are being treated like men - to follow this line of thinking to its natural conclusion, this denies the existence of transmisogyny altogether, because any ‘misgendering’ of trans women is done only with the intent, conscious or otherwise, to inscribe the social position (and the privileges this position affords) of men onto them, as opposed to stripping them of their womanhood (and thus, their humanity).

The term degendering, however, I think more accurately describes this dehumanising process. Pulling from the work of both Judith Butler and Maria Lugones, gender mediates access to personhood - Lugones says in the Coloniality of Gender that in the colonial imaginary, animals have no gender, they only have (a) sex, and so who gets ‘sexed’ and who gets ‘gendered’ is a matter of who counts as human. She describes this gendering process as fundamentally colonial and emerging as a colonial technology of power - who is gendered is who gets to be considered human, and so the construction of binary sex is a way of ‘speciating’ or rendering non-human the Indigenous and African people of colonized America, justifying and systematising the brutal use of their land and/or their labour until their death by equating them to animals. Sylvia Wynter likewise describes in 1492: A New World View that a popular term used by Spanish colonizers to describe the indigenous people was “heads of Indian men and women,” as in heads of cattle. By the same token, white men are granted the high status of human, worthy of governance, wealth, and knowledge production, and white women are afforded the subordinate though still very high responsibility of reproducing these men by raising and educating children. Appeals to a person’s sex as something more real, more obvious, or ‘poorly concealed’ by their gender is to deny them their gender outright, and therefore is a mechanism to render them non-human. Likewise, for Butler, gender produces the human subject - to be outside gender is to be considered “unthinkable” as a human being, a being in “unliveable” space.

Therefore the process of trans women going from women -> “male” is not “being gendered as a man,” it is being positioned as non-human. when people deny the gender of trans women, most especially trans women of colour, they invariably do this through reference to their genitals, to their ‘sex,’ as something inescapable, incapable of being concealed - again, this is not a process of rendering them as men, it is the exact opposite: it is a process of rendering them as non-human. there is not a misidentification process happening, they are not being “misgendered as men,” there is a de-identification of them as human beings. Hence, they are not misgendered, they are degendered, stripped of gender, stripped of their humanity