December 2011
10 posts
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Oh my GAWD.
nothingbutsurrender:
pompadoursandpincurls:
Ultimate eyeroll when people say shit like, “Why do we even have to label ourselves? We’re all equal and human blah blah blah.”
SHUT UP. SHUT UP FOREVER.
Pretending we have no differences erases the reality of our experiences and our oppression.
NOT defining ourselves means that someone else is doing it for us.
No fucking thank you.
Most often...
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FACT: Trans women have an intuitive knowledge of...
Oh, how I can hope!
Reblog with your age.
nothingbutsurrender:
thedeedeedee:
yawg07:
fiasko0:
emdefmek:
askdarklyspectre:
lady-lyra-and-co:
lethanvas:
quiethoof:
askadamthepegasus:
millenniumclockwork:
ask-axiom:
ask-willowhearttheunicorn:
wolfytails:
robotmonkeyryan:
ask-ampere-volt:
askminicelestia:
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Another way in which I am a nerd:
kiriamaya:
Whenever I hear the name “Kardashian”, I think of Cardassians.
Do you ever spot things and think “I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks that” to yourself?
On the lonely job of progressive activism.
nanoraptor:
Dear activists, helpers, those who rail against the onslaught of ignorance and the like.
You get in many arguments, I see, and on topics that are well worth speaking up about. Social injustice, racism, sexism, ableism, privilege and a whole host of other inequalities that still exist in a world that isn’t what it could be.
Please know you’re making a difference. Remember when...
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I got a letter today
I’m finally off to Charing Cross.
In six months time. Towards the end of May 2012.
Well, at least I got it. What else can you say? I feel like I ought to be more happy. I feel glad more than happy, and angry more than that. Angry that it’s taken so long to get here and angry that it’s still six more months to wait. I’m also angry that the letter says it’s an...
April 2011
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A good thing, and a bad thing.
A lot has been happening since I last posted.
An immensely positive thing was that I have finally approved for GNRH agonists - finally, well over 11 years since I embarked on this journey I will be free of the constant damage that testosterone is doing.
This morning I went to have the pellet injected, to sit under my skin doing it’s work for the next three months. I have an appointment to...
March 2011
1 post
finnsblog asked: What time is it?
February 2011
12 posts
Transgender differences on brain scan →
A 2010 study of 121 transgender people found that 38 per cent realised they had gender variance by age 5. White matter differences could provide independent confirmation that such children might benefit from treatment to delay puberty.
On one hand, this strikes me as an amazing breakthrough for recognition of gender variance.
On the other, this seems like a double edged sword; this makes me...
From Complicity; In defense of Vodafone →
Zoe O’Connell writes a little about the criticism of Vodafone, and the other Egyptian network providers.
[…]There’s been criticism levelled at Vodafone for bowing to Egyptian government pressure in turning off the mobile phone network. I don’t believe they had any choice, not because of government political pressure but because otherwise they’d be asking their engineers to put ...
Apparently we need a new net?
Reading things like this hurts me.
helenbop:
Egypt Proves We Need a New Net
Some of us might like to believe that the genie is out of the bottle and that we all have access to an unstoppable decentralized network. In reality, the internet is entirely controlled by central authorities.
Well, yes. What did you really expect?
Old media, such as terrestrial radio and television, were as...
Dear SJ people who are fond of talking about...
kiriamaya:
I guarantee you that your ableism is not helping whatever social justice point you’re making. In fact, it’s helping to undermine it.
So please stop it. Please.
Nothing much I can add to this.
Sometimes I wonder if it’s people not considering things, or if it’s deliberate. Either way the hypocrisy feels galling. I do also think that maybe it shows how deeply ingrained...
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Voicelog
kiriamaya:
kiriamaya:
I’m going to start recording voice posts about… my voice. For three reasons:
Showing off the results of my attempts to improve it
Overcoming my nervousness (because I always sound horrible when I’m nervous)
Talking about voice issues for trans folks. Usually, conversations about this topic don’t go beyond, “I sound horrible!” “No, you sound fine!” “NO YOU ARE LYING I...
An apology
I’m not sure why, but I feel like I ought to explain, and apologise.
I haven’t forgotten about Tumblr, though I have been away quite a while. I recently started a new job. It is something of a time sink, and it doesn’t really allow me space or safety to do anything with Tumblr. My monitors are visible from the whole office, more or less.
It’s good though; it’s...
January 2011
15 posts
Just read a deconstruction of one of those posts...
dappercat:
And after a quick bount of hyphen moving, I am now thinking about ass-music and what it would be like (other than the obvious fart gags).
Booty shakin’ tunes? or something more?
Something with … ass :D
Do you require ass-istance?
When it hurts
This might be kind of triggering for some, for talk of self harm.
When it hurts on the inside, so bad, and you want it to hurt on the outside. You want to punish yourself for being so fucking shit and so fucking useless. It just hurts and hurts and it never stops. Something inside says that if you make the pain real on the outside, it might let it out.
You’re sure everyone you know hates...
Whoooops.
kiriamaya:
Earlier today, I reblogged a link to something which used “batshit” as a pejorative, without any comment. Despite reading the post and being someone who’s normally very sensitive to ableist language, I literally did not notice the word; apparently I’m so inured to it that I don’t always see it even when it’s right in front of me. I apologize. I will watch for that in the future.
The...
This just can't go on...
dappercat:
radicallyhottoff:
the deportations of people for *whatever* reason—dividing them from the families and cultures—from everything they have known for their entire lives—this is *banishment*—this is worse than a prison sentence.
Is this justifiable for *ANY* reason? for the worst of the worst—is it ok to dump that person in some other country for them to deal with? For somebody who...
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Cut to Britain 2015
helenbop:
From a comment in The Guardian:
“Unemployment at record levels Repossessions at record levels Inflation at record levels Interest rates at record levels Hospital waiting lists at record levels Crime at record levels Suicide at record levels Rioting in the streets
………………….and bankers bonuses at record levels.
This is what the Tories do best.”
I can’t help thinking that we’re pretty...
Acts of revolution
dappercat:
Every trans voice I hear in music is a revolutionary act to me.
Every one of us I see with an instrument in hand, hear singing out and making something fucking beautiful lifts my heart and helps me realise this isnt’ an avenue that fucking closed to me when I realised who and how and what I was.
Every trans voice I find in print and in blog is a revolutionary act to me.
Everyone of...
Onward, but not necessarily upwards
I finally have another appointment to see that psychiatrist. The NHS psychiatrist who gets to decide whether I get my body altered to fit how I think it should be. The one who broke the promises she made on my previous visit. The one who, after talking to the second psychiatrist I saw, appeared to have suggested that I’m deluded. The one who left me in tears, depressed and feeling suicidal.
...
“If we teach women that there are only certain ways they may acceptably behave,...”
– Harriet J on Another post about rape (via archenemies)
After a while :(
That moment when you think that you annoy someone
lunokhod:
but you want to talk to them.
All the time.
All.
The.
Time.
Plus the constant gnawing fear that, at any minute, anyone could finally realise the truth; that I’m an insufferable and horrible person that doesn’t deserve their company.
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SO HERE'S WHAT THERE NEEDS TO BE
thecurvature:
A FUCKING “UNDO” OPTION ON THE “MARK ALL AS READ” BUTTON IN GOOGLE READER.
This is not the first time I have accidentally clicked it. ON THE ENTIRE READER.
Also, here’s a fun fact. Did you know that when you hit “mark all as read,” you can’t go back into individual posts and mark them as unread again? The box disappears. Completely. There is literally no way — automatic or...
December 2010
61 posts
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Procedures "not normally undertaken" by the Welsh... →
This would be the prescient paragraph:
There are a number of interventions which should not be funded in Wales under any circumstances, including hair grafting for male baldness, gender reassignment surgery and caesarean sections for non-clinical reasons.
Apparently taken from a Public Health Wales document provided to the newspaper after a request. (Emphasis mine)
This is after a widely...
“I also do not believe that talking is always good; for me, anyway. The vast...”
– zuky (via kiriamaya)
Reblogging this because it resonates - one of the things that has been a near constant in my life is people trying to make me talk - as if that would fix things, make it easier. I will talk IF and when it feels safe, feels right.
I value immensely the people who allow me to do...
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WatchIn honour of the last Kodakchrome processing being innocent, as I just reblogged, since DapperCat is on hiatus I thought I would share this in her stead.
So mama don’t take my Kodachrome away
…. they just did.
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dinokitten:
single-ace:
mollyfreakinpotter:
kenmonsterx:
thegreatestgood:
[Original Image removed from inline, because I don’t need this homophobic crap on my dashboard.]
I don’t care. This is my opinion and I want to share it. I feel it’s the truth.
HOMOPHOBIA IS FOR FUCKING PRICKS
You feel it’s the truth? Wishing that something yellow is blue won’t make it blue.
… I...
It's three days since I last talked aloud.
helenbop:
I’m wondering if I can remember how to speak.
From experience, it takes a lot longer to forget how to talk :(
I’m going to try to leave the house today, just to prove I can.
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"oh no gender variance has become a fad!"
wicked-grin:
ichmuss:
1. More people challenging the binary/challenging cissexism is not a bad thing.
2. No one has any right to tell anyone that they are or aren’t gender variant. You know you better than I or anyone else can.
3. While I could say “no one does this for fun” (this: not “passing” in any bathroom, having your pronouns disregarded and disrespected, having people tell you that...
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A Merry Christmas to all Bankers →
Some of you may have heard, over the last year and a bit, about the various flaws in and outcry against the UK’s chip and pin system, for protecting credit and debit cards against unauthorised use. I’ll skip over for a second the banks conflating authentication and authorisation, and also the human flaws and vulnerabilities, and only briefly touch on the lack of accessibility features...
