decapitated fetus

She said that the fact that I fucked her like I would a woman and first time flipped her over & ate her out it what she liked most #treaturpartnersthesame

I've been wanting to unpack this particular terf argument for a while but I'm not even sure what I wrote that you could be responding to here. yes it's bioessentialist to see trans women as our assigned sex before what we actually are, but that fact alone does not obligate you to sleep with anyone

it would be fatphobic to announce that you don't want to sleep with fat women, and someone simply calling that out alone would not constitute pressuring you to sleep with anyone you didn't want to

Nobody can be exclusively attracted to afab people because YOU DON'T KNOW. You can't, not for sure.

"The conditions of trans people in egyptian prisons due to the "stretchy-ness" of the law"

"Testimonies of transgender girls about egyptian prisons"

Queen's boat/Cairo 52

"What did you exactly mean, uncle Hisham?" An article about the controversial Hisham Selim interview

The details of the abduction and murder of Eden Knight by her family

Hanaan El Tawil

""The marital cage": the marrying of lgbtq community members to people they do not want or are not attracted to"

"The difficulty of reaching hormone treatment in Lebanon"

"Transitioning in Morocco.. a journey through a minefield"

"Paper-only marriage.. the lgbtq community and the price of belonging to an oppressive reality"

"Who will compensate Malak El Kashif and her preceders for the days spent unjustly in jail?"

Articles by Malak El Kashif about her experiences 1 2

"Accused and threatened.. lawyers speak of their experiences defending lgbt people in egypt"

Nad Salaam on growing up nonbinary

Interview with Oscar El Halebi

Article about Iman Le Caire

Mashrou' Leila and Sarah Hegazi's suicide 1 2 3

Maha's campaign this girl is trans and Iraqi and was outed to her abusive family, she has been urgently trying to leave Iraq for years, her friend who organised the campaign betrayed her and disappeared and all the funds were returned and the dono's are going excruciatingly slowly so I'm putting it here in case this post gains traction

[Most of these are in Arabic and you are going to read them with google translate.]

There was a “curly hair day” at a local kindergarten my friend works at. She organised it, and she’s white (not ethnically) with wavy hair. I’m brown (not Black) with straight hair. Her son, star of the show, is white with a big head of 3b-3c curls.

I told her, “you never hear of straight hair day.” I know how it sounds, my intent was not to complain there’s not enough “straight hair appreciation” - I wanted to point out that we seem to emphasize curly hair as an extension of the exoticization of primarily Black features, and by highlighting their Otherness or considering them as Exceptional, it perpetuates the idea that these features aren’t the norm/standard, and that idea is one of the backbones of White Supremacy. When you separate curly hair from straight hair by talking about the former and only ever implying the latter under the assumption it’s the “default,” we’re in fact pushing the idea that WHITENESS is default.

I don’t think we should stop loudly appreciating features that are demonized, undermined, and erased under White Supremacy, because that, in fact, is radical and counter to the values of White Supremacy. At the same time, institutionalising the Difference of said features, posed in opposition to the Normativity of white features, is still victim to the framework (reframed but still beholden to White Supremacy). This was also a point of contention between Cesaire and Fanon, in regards to the Black Excellency movement.

I thought about this when you replied to that ask about Black hair in a survival situation, and in it you mentioned / asked about how straight hair would fare in the same situation. Because there are differences, yet straight hair doesn’t get the treatment that curly hair does, because curly hair must be EMPHASIZED, as to emphasize difference, and therein lies my problem.

Did I say all of this to her? No. She looked at me, and responded: “Well, it’s because not a lot of people have straight hair.” She paused, looking at me. “Oh, sorry.”

I think that is the funniest thing that she could have said. Did I need to say all that? No. She is operating on a wavelength more radical than I can dream. I was the fool.

Yeah you woulda annoyed me saying that too 😅 because in your head, you know what your intent is, but if you didn't say it in a way that at least sounded like it was joking, or if I didn't know you well enough to know you knew that context, it would have just come off as a microaggression.