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All of this presupposes that there is only one right way to look like and be a woman. And it’s infuriating. On the one hand, whenever I go out in public or post pictures online, a part of me is deathly afraid that I’ll be insulted or worse. I desperately want to be accepted as the woman I am. On the other hand, I hate that in order to feel safe, I’m expected to fit into the very narrow box that is labeled “woman.” Tips on how to pass always seem to say that you should avoid building muscle mass and avoid wearing clothes and makeup that are too costumey, that you should try to hide your shoulders and soften your features. Trans women are often told that if we want to pass, we have to try our hardest to be petite, soft, have just the right amount of femininity, and not stand out too much. But what if I want to be a different kind of woman? What if I want to look like Grace Jones or Kate Moennig? What if I want to look like Beth Ditto or Dolly Parton? They’re all cis women; don’t they pass?”
Meyllen Djneres (via muffinsandcouture)
The moral of “passing” discussions always seems to be:
If you get bashed it will be your fault.
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Do you even know how badly I’ve been needing to hear exactly these words for the past few months now?
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*slow clap——> standing ovation* yes! Yes yes!
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omg when i started transitioning Kate Moennig was legit my goal
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i just need this on my blog again
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Photos that speak: Fuck your fountain. Fuck your tree. Fuck voter suppression. Fuck your labels. Fuck your stereotypes. Fuck your hatred. Fuck your restaurants. Fuck that dude. Fuck police brutality. Fuck white supremacy.
I have nothing left to say.
The pictures they don’t show in our US History books.
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Peter Hujar
Be Sweet, Newark, 1985
Gelatin-silver print
unframed: 37 x 37.5 cm
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“VIOLENT AND STILL”
Frozen roses #5
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friendly reminder that gerard got enough votes to win the kerrang’s sexiest female award in 2007
ugh I used to be all about this, y’all, but now I—I don’t know. the mcr fandom is, generally speaking, really fond of the way gerard does gender? and when we say things like, “gerard is such a woman!” we mean it in a good way? so it’s not like where everyone hates on bieber for having a feminine voice, but it still strikes me as really shitty and transphobic (I think?) when we make jokes like that. certainly it’s upholding shitty, problematic ideas about what counts as being a man, and certainly it’s fucked up to assert that /anyone/ any gender other than the one they identify as.
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outtake from a photo shoot i shot/styled a few months ago called princess charming.
more here <3
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Why people should not even think of using the word “tribe”.
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I’ve always hated this word.
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ya the word tribe is a no
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Fucking thank you.
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An apology letter from a student to a fellow teacher.
