Something Rather Strange

(Image: A banner which says “Every breath a trans person takes is an act of revolution. -Lourdes Ashley Hunter”.)

I think everyone, both normal and cis people, should get two free legal name changes at no cost

“Beep Beep Bitch, You’re Gay!”

That last one is fucking moving istg

at last. the gaydar

I will pretty much instantly distrust a fellow leftist if they paint the enemy as being ugly (’all terfs have bad hair’, ‘all far-right bros are fat people with neck beards’, etc). It shows me they haven’t done some of the most basic work of un-linking appearance from character, which leaves them open to a vast array of bigoted tropes, from fatphobia, ableism and classism to homophobia, transphobia antisemitism and racism, because who we see as ‘attractive’ or looking ‘wholesome’ and who we assume to look ‘untrustworthy’ or villainous’  has been coded by all these things.

I want to see fat butches and femmes who aren’t fashionable succeed. I want to stop feeling like I have to perform a certain aesthetic to be worthy of love.

We all sometimes feel an "imposter syndrome" about our LGBTQ+ identity, so this is your little reminder that you are a valid and beloved part of the community, no matter what labels (or lack thereof) that you use!