wise words of the nut

you’re allowed to be a boy btw. You’re allowed to be a girl. You’re allowed to be both or neither or something else entirely. You’re allowed.

shoutout to nonbinary people who are deemed complicated or confusing. shoutout to nonbinary people who have 5 names. shoutout to nonbinary people who go by neopronouns. shoutout to xenogender people. shoutout to nonbinary people who use gendered terms for themselves but allow no one else to. shoutout to nonbinary people who go by different pronouns every day. shoutout to multigender people. shoutout to transmascs who were amab. shoutout to transfems who were afab. shoutout to nonbinary people who are neither cis nor trans. shoutout to nonbinary people who have pronouns that only certain people are allowed to use. shoutout to nonbinary people who are known by different names to different people. shoutout to outherine people. shoutout to transmascfems. shoutout to nonbinary people who are both cis and trans. shoutout to nonbinary people who don't care about making sense to others. shoutout to nonbinary people who actively want to confuse people.

If youre a closeted person somewhere out there thinking "I want to transition but it would be less progressive/unique/countercultural for me to be that gender instead of this one" please know that you are a real person not a character in a narrative and cant live your life based on what is good media representation. You are real you can only be yourself and theres no moral weight to any identity over another

Liberal transphobes enjoy positioning trans identities as regressive compared to cis queerness or like non-transitioning transness or anything else they can leverage to make transphobia look progressive and I think its easy to absorb that message subconciously. But in real life we just are what we are and no ranking of validity can change the fact that you have an identity that is NOT chosen and is just your unchangeable truth. Not only should you not have to live a life dictated by what is most countercultural to identify as or whatever but also: being trans is extremely countercultural and feminist and leftist to begin with and theyre only trying to convince you otherwise bc theyre bigots

#cyclosporiasis (taylor’s version) (via @consolecadet)

masks as a signifier of deceit or attempting to hide something is Out. masks being used to represent stepping into one's own identity and not one foisted upon them is the new hit craze

everyone say thank you to that one anne hathaway twelfth night promo image for all it's done for fandom

“Huh why do all the nonbinary and intersex people seem to hate every binary that is dependent on genitals we come up with? Maybe they’re just whiny. Surely the next binary that is dependent on genitals we come up with will show them how much we need binaries that are dependent on genitals.”

I hate you Ozempic craze I hate you 'heroin chic' I hate you weight loss ads on public radio I hate Burn Fat Fast ads every thirty seconds I hate you I hate you I hate you

I grew up before the term 'thigh gap' was invented I grew up before 'hip dip' was invented I was born before 'muffin top' was a thing before 'clean girl look' was a thing before 'glass skin' was a thing before razoring off peach fuzz was a thing and I'm so so so fucking tired of us inventing new concepts purely for the purpose of convincing people to hate their own bodies enough to buy products

“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it, but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.” Ursula K. Le Guin "American SF and The Other" in Science-Fiction Studies 7, 1975.