transgenderstreetlegend reblogged
my disorder is not an abuse tactic.
my disorder is not an abuse tactic.
my symptoms are not abusive, they are unhealthy.
my inability to control and manage my symptoms makes me unstable and causes me to have trouble maintaining relationships. my inability to control and manage my symptoms hurts other people, and i am working on it.
my disorder is not an abuse tactic. none of this makes me a bad person. i am going to get better, one day.
(i am a borderline but this post is for all cluster b’s! i love you you’re doing great and your disorder does not make you a bad person. /p)
(to anyone who reblogged this and isn’t cluster b, but resonates with it or supports us - thank you. this is for you, too.)
transgenderstreetlegend reblogged
if ur gonna send me transphobic anon hate at least get the suicide rate dogwhistle right, ur right wing besties aren't gonna care about "43%"
"Fact is, nobody in the real world cares about you." begging you to do 5 seconds of research before you send random people hate mail
the ask in question is actively thanking matt mullenweg (ceo of tumblr) for standing up against trans people with the currently ongoing banwave against transfems by the way. just in case you were wondering what kind of impact you have and what far right transphobes are taking away from your recent tirades, @photomatt. (if you want to see what they said for yourself you can go check recent reports by me and actually do something about them to show you actually give a shit about transphobia).
this is your impact, matt (it appears i am now unable to tag him in posts), you did this.
the "queerest place on the internet", folks.
also just so it's been said, i've been getting actively harassed basically the entire time i've been here, but that's kind of "normal" if you're a big trans creator with opinions so i dealt with it just fine, but it has genuinely never been as awful as the last few days since matt's meltdown, he has actively made harassment on this site worse.
(also i posted about the 'fun' asks on twitter because there it's still possible to tag him in posts)
transgenderstreetlegend reblogged
You shouldn’t have to be trans to get any sex characteristic-related surgery. It’s not a limited resource. Plenty of cis men get implants and cis women get breast reductions. From Colby Gordon today and Leslie Feinberg in Transgender Warriors (1996).
fundamentally it's all just body modification and that's all good
Look you don't have to be dysphoric about your entire gender to be dysphoric about specific body parts. People should be able to get top surgery or a hysterectomy or whatever, on demand. For whatever reason.
Getting rid of my uterus was one of my first experiences of gender euphoria, before I knew what nonbinary was.
I asked for a breast reduction, they refused on the grounds that it was cosmetic, that my breasts weren't large enough to require a medical reduction. I boggled at that, and then said, "Fine, I'm nonbinary, we'll go the gender confirmation route." And that got the process done. I am nonbinary, but it shouldn't have taken that to get 22 fucking pounds of breast tissue removed. How goddamn large did they have to be to justify a medical reduction? My O2 sats went up after the surgery despite the post surgical binder. I medically needed them gone. I could not medically get them gone, but could do it as gender affirming care.
Someone close to me would benefit from a hysterectomy, wants a hysterectomy, and was told that her excruciating pain and excessive bleeding and exhaustion and lack of interest in future procreation was not sufficient to get a hysterectomy paid for by medicaid, but when that person said, "I'm genderfluid and I want gender affirming care" suddenly everything was covered.
And I 100% support that, even though it didn't even occur to her to think of herself as anything but female until I suggested it, but on thinking about it she decided genderfluid worked for her.
But even as a nonbinary person, I am DEEPLY disturbed that the easiest way to get essential care is to stop being female. What the everlasting fuck. Just give women hysterectomies if they want them. Same as you do for vasectomies. Someone wants smaller tits or no tits? De-vavavoom them.
And if you have to ask for gender affirming care in order to get necessary medical treatment? Go forth with my blessing.
transgenderstreetlegend reblogged
That's it. That's the dream. I'm almost mad that that's the dream.
That's half the dream. The other half is being fairie fucking godmother to everyone on the planet.
See, I had 100k for a hot minute. Doesn't matter why. But for nearly a calendar year, I picked up the tab every chance I got, i lavished people with gifts, I took a friend to Greece, I paid for healthcare for myself and a few other people, for lawyers to help someone get out of an abusive marriage, Christmas presents for a single mom of 3.
It felt incredible. Just to take away the worry and say, "I've got you." Instacart groceries to a grieving friend of a friend across town. Pay the unexpected car repairs. Gift a young artist a yearlong subscription to Procreate.
That's why I'll never understand billionaires. If you could fix it, if money could actually make even one life better, why would you not do it? Even just for the kick? Hell, i don't care if it feeds your ego. Be Tony Stark, be Superman, idgaf. When you'll never be able to spend all that you have, even if you some up every damn day like it was your job, if you could end world hunger six times over for the price of a social media company, why wouldn't you just DO IT?
I don't have a coherent conclusion to this, except that if I ever meet Jeff Bezos, I'll beat him to death with my bare fists.
transgenderstreetlegend reblogged
My grandmother Naifa al-Sawada was born in June 1932. A beautiful girl with blue eyes, she was the only daughter to her parents. They were originally from Gaza but moved to nearby Bir al-Saba, where Naifa’s father Rizq worked as a merchant. She did well at school and in 1947 obtained the necessary certificate from the British – then the rulers of Palestine – to attend university. She did not do so, however. Her father was fearful about what could happen to her at a time when war in Palestine appeared imminent. At a young age, she married my grandfather Salman al-Nawaty and went to live in Gaza. Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist forces expelled approximately 800,000 Palestinians from their homes. Among those directly affected by the Nakba – Arabic for catastrophe – were Naifa’s own parents, who fled their home in Bir al-Saba for Gaza. Having witnessed the Nakba, Naifa encouraged her own children to defend Palestine. Naifa gave birth to four girls and six boys.Like so many mothers in Gaza, she experienced great loss. Her son Moataz went missing while traveling to Jerusalem in 1982. It is still not known what happened to him. Another son Moheeb, a journalist, left Palestine for Norway in 2007. Three years later he traveled to Syria. In January 2011, he went missing. The Syrian authorities subsequently confirmed to the Norwegian diplomatic service that he was imprisoned. But he has not been allowed to contact his family.We do not know his current whereabouts or even if he is alive or dead. My grandmother witnessed the first intifada from 1987 and 1993. On the streets around her, youngsters with stones and slingshots rose up against armed Israeli soldiers in tanks and military jeeps. During that time, her son Moheeb – the aforementioned journalist – was held for more than a year without charge or trial. That infamous practice is called administrative detention. My grandmother lived close to al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital. She took great care of arranging everything in her home with her delicate hands. She used those same hands to comb her hair into braids. She memorized the Quran and took great interest in the education of her children and grandchildren. On 21 March this year, Israeli troops broke into my grandmother’s home. The soldiers displayed immense brutality. They ordered the women in our family to evacuate on foot and arrested the men. They would not allow the women to take my grandmother, who had Alzheimer’s disease, with them. The soldiers claimed that my grandmother would be safe. That was a lie. The invasion of my grandmother’s house took place amid Israel’s siege on al-Shifa hospital. My grandmother’s house was destroyed during that siege and she was killed. Her remains were found days after the Israeli troops eventually withdrew from the hospital earlier this month. She was killed – alone – in the same house where she had lived since 1955. We do not know if she suffered or if she died quickly. We do know that she was older than Israel’s merciless occupation.
transgenderstreetlegend reblogged
some emergency alert operator just gave me a three minute taste of being an indie horror game protagonist jesus fuckin christ
reminds me of the time the entire state of Missouri got an amber alert for the joker
transgenderstreetlegend reblogged
TWO HOURS AGO: israeli tanks are headed towards rafah, they are moving forward with their ground assault. as we all watch the solidarity encampments across the us, REMEMBER WHAT THOSE STUDENTS ARE FIGHTING FOR! DO NOT LOOK AWAY FROM PALESTINE!!
transgenderstreetlegend reblogged
[image description: all 4 are photos of the same kitten from the same shoot. It has curly fur and is nestled in a similarly textured blanket. It has a round face and blue eyes. End ID]
transgenderstreetlegend reblogged
pixiv banning r18 material in the us/uk is bad. really bad
i shouldn't need to tell you why this is concerning
you won't need to go too far. from what i can tell, and from what I've seen people say on discord, you can change the national region your account is set to in settings, so if you change that (to, say, Japan or Canada), that should be enough, without the need for a vpn
transgenderstreetlegend reblogged
i support universal free healthcare for one simple reason: if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness you should quit your job. quitting your job is the correct response to terminal illness. but you can’t do that if your healthcare is tied to your job
lovemedonlothario
listen if somebody knows that they will be dead in a years time, and you are forcing them to continue to come into work, that’s fucked up. terminally ill people should be able to quit their jobs and live their last few months to the fullest. i don’t get how that’s a controversial opinion
dykes read Fucking Trans Women challenge
i am so fucking serious
when i read this zine some time ago i was struggling to accept my sexuality. i never had sex ed in school growing up in south america, so all i had was the cultural knowledge that i was an object for the penis to go in. when the penis goes in, i was told at age 9, it will hurt so much you wont be able to think about anything else but the excruciating pain and im telling you this so you can prepare yourself, so you don't make any noises of pain to distract the man from his pleasure. when i read romance and erotica novels as a teen i'd think the orgasm the women characters described were a fantasy. yeah as in i didn't believe in the existence of (female) orgasm. no joke. so when i started questioning that i might be a lesbian... well. how the fuck was i supposed to pleasure a woman if they're unpleasurable??? i was panicking. like really, a lot. i mean as an adult i had found out about the clit and i had found out the female orgasm was in fact a real thing, but i could never fuck women the way a man would. i didn't know then that was a good thing, that that's sort of included in the "desire for women" part of lesbianism. that i had to relearn everything i thought i knew about sex, gender roles and sexual organs. but at the time i just thought every woman id fuck would wish i had a penis, and resent me bc i didn't. i thought theyd find me lacking and that i wouldn't be able to pleasure them without it. and then i read this zine. jesus fucking christ. Mira Bellwether tells us how she prefers to fuck her gfs with dildos instead of her real life penis right around the same page she reveals shes a lesbian. i felt like crying. i think i actually did. heres a woman with a penis, here's what i thought i had to be all this time to fuck women properly and she didn't even use the damn thing. she used her penis as a clit fuck me. do you even get it. she talks about how a real penis doesn't have the range a dildo does bc its softer. i think i will never forget what i felt when i read that. the drawing of a woman using a strap on with her penis hanging on top like a giant clit is gonna be branded on the inside of my brain until i die. my entire understanding of my sexuality is tied to this zine. my understanding of what turns me on and what doesn't, of what sex could be like, my acceptance of myself, of my body, of my desire for women. it turned my whole world upside down. without the trans perspective id never come to terms with my lesbianism and id never learn to define my sexuality in a way that works for me
That link is dead so here's the archive
Mira Bellwether passed last year. A legend of transfeminine and lesbian sexuality, and she died, and so many have yet to mourn her.
Please, read her zine. Learn how to please (and be pleased by) trans women. And when we tell you that we're lesbians, believe us. We literally wrote the book on this shit.
transgenderstreetlegend reblogged
puppygirl-hornyposting2
reminder that digital libraries aren’t owned, also why pirating digital content is a necessity
transgenderstreetlegend reblogged
Anonymous asked:
“I can’t be a trans man on the internet” go the fuck outside then dude. Signed a trans woman who has had enough of your bullshit posts
I’m gonna use this ask to make a point.
Trans guys if you get an anon claiming to be a trans women that says rude/bigoted shit, don’t believe them. Transphobes have admitted to pretending to be trans women and sending bigoted asks to trans men.
If you get an anon ask saying weird shit claiming to be from a trans women - always remember anons can lie about who they are! 9 times out of 10 it’s just some cis person lying to paint trans women as evil bigots.
And everytime I see a trans man fall for the bait and start saying transmisogynistic shit I just sigh.
Prev tags !!
Yep ! And it sucks to see so many other trans guys just fall for it.
I feel like I should note that what I actually said was “I can’t be openly trans on the internet.”
Because any trans person can tell you that no matter if you’re a trans man, trans woman, nonbinary, or whatever else - if you are openly trans you will get sent shit for being trans online.
transgenderstreetlegend reblogged
“After thirty years of intensive research, we can now answer many of the questions posed earlier. The recycle rate of a human being is around sixteen hours. After sixteen hours of being awake, the brain begins to fail. Humans need more than seven hours of sleep each night to maintain cognitive performance. After ten days of just seven hours of sleep, the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be after going without sleep for twenty-four hours. Three full nights of recovery sleep (i.e., more nights than a weekend) are insufficient to restore performance back to normal levels after a week of short sleeping. Finally, the human mind cannot accurately sense how sleep-deprived it is when sleep-deprived.”
— Matthew Walker PhD, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (via themedicalstate)
patricide1917
Jesus christ
Sleep is a super power
That last bit makes a whole lot of sense and it honestly astounds me, that I never once considered it.
But yeah that seems very obvious.
Finally, the human mind cannot accurately sense how sleep-deprived it is when sleep-deprived.
ineffablewitch
This explains why i am literally unconscious for the entire weekend. When the lockdown first happened I slept a full three days.
Every time I’m up late, my mind flashes back to “the human mind cannot accurately sense how sleep-deprived it is when sleep-deprived” and sigh to myself, before forcing myself to get up and go go bed.
How sleep, you ask?
Too sleep, I say.
transgenderstreetlegend reblogged
[Id: an image of a pale brown snail sitting on a toy motorcycle. Above and below the snail is text that reads "They want you to give in to the despair" "They want you to give up." "There IS a future for us" "and we WILL live to see it". The words "is" in "There IS a future for us" and "will" in "and we WILL live to see it" are bolded and capitalized. Next to the motorcycle, a red Lego helmet sits on the ground. End Id]
transgenderstreetlegend reblogged
i always think abt my cousin in greece who's like obsessed with american culture, bc ill say that im going to a barbecue and she'll be like "wow.... a real life american barbecue... will there be red cups?" you bet your ass there'll be red cups. take my hand. have a hot dog. all your dreams can come true here at the real life american barbecue