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unfortunately i have to see discourse on my dash every day that makes me think some of y'all are really only posturing about the whole being a gender weirdo freak thing

"can you treat a trans woman as an equal if she has visible facial hair, or a trans man who has visible breasts?" is a good starting point but let me ask you some more questions.

could you have a normal conversation with a 50 year old transsexual who still considers himself a mother to his son? can you be in community with retransitioners and genderqueer people with non-normative transition trajectories? can you have a nice chat with someone who was afab and calls themself transfemme, or with someone who was amab and calls themself transmasc?

and even more! do you welcome the guy in a dress who calls himself a transvestite and has been doing drag every saturday for the past 10 years to your pride parade? are you willing to hear out the young woman who had bottom surgery at 18 and now kinda wishes she didn't? do you actually respect the people who decide not to go on hrt or to get surgery due to their family's medical history?

they may be hypothetical to you, but those are the people i have met and hang out with every day.

and you might answer yes to all of these, obviously, but could you actually say that when actually meeting them? because i've seen for myself that, no, the hypothetical and reality don't always align.

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disableddyke

if your class solidarity doesn’t include people who are on SSI, food stamps, or are unable to work it’s not solidarity

this also applies to homeless people, sex workers and undocumented workers. include them or your solidarity is meaningless

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carpenuit

Guelaguetza hairstyles by Netzahualxochitl Huerta featured in Vogue México shot by Luvia Lazo

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shehzadi

i know there’s hundreds of lists like this circulating regarding who to follow for news on Palestine but I decided to make my own. these are all Instagram accounts, with the obvious exception of the RNN telegram channel, but bear in mind several of these sources also post on Twitter/X and a few are even on Telegram - there is no dearth of information:

RAPID UPDATES & FOOTAGE ON BOTH GHAZZAH AND WEST BANK

RNN Telegram (if you are unsure/understandably wary about joining it officially, it is possible to view all the messages and footage without joining as long as you open it in the app; some attachments are too large to view in web browser alone but you can get some info from there too)

ON THE GROUND IN GHAZZAH

@/saleh_aljafarawi (instagram keeps deleting his account and i’ve lost track of how many he has but he is also @/saleh.jafarawi)

@/gazamedicvoices (translated 1st hand accounts from medics in ghazzah)

@/everydaypalestine (joint account of several palestinian journalists)

ON THE GROUND IN WEST BANK

@/aobaidaat (posts about both ghazzah & west bank)

@/mahmoud.photography97 (focused on Masafar Yatta where he lives - documenting the current ongoing demolition of palestinian homes and settler violence against palestinians)

MORE NEWS/INFO ON PALESTINE

@/shaunking (the only non-palestinian on this list - he posts combined with many other sources, mainly palestinians, to amplify information)

@/untoldpalestine (stories and memorials written for the martyrs by their loved ones - i would encourage you all to read these because it’s all too easy to get bogged down into thinking of palestinians as numbers, especially with how rapidly they’re rising. they were all people who had their own aspirations and lives.)

@/translating_gaza (post english translations of videos & take requests on specific videos via DM)

PALESTINIAN DIASPORA VOICES

@/sbeih.jpg (great source, especially if you’re looking to learn some of the basics on palestine)

@/dr.ghassan.as (plastic surgeon who was working in ghazzah but recently returned to his family in britain, which is where he holds citizenship, and is still advocating for his people in Palestine)

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Ngl “don’t assume someone is queer based on their appearance” is a very frustrating and norm core stance when you’re someone like me who prefers to dress like a faggot for the express purpose of signaling to other faggots that I am a faggot.

Please stop trying to make queerness just another attribute and accept that there’s a rich culture surrounding it and that that isn’t dirty or undesirable just because YOU think it’s obsessing over pain and alienation.

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