Vatu - the lemon monarch

Tavvy, Harry, and Yiffy are GG, TG, and AG

Which leaves quite a few options for what GCAT combination Yiffy’s handle would be, but I feel like it’ll probably match with one of the kid handles due to the established patterns, which really leaves GT and TT. Seeing as Tavvy and Harry’s both match with one of their parents (Jake and Roxy), this naturally leaves TT as Yiffy’s handle

Yiffy's relation to the signless and to a lesser extant Karkat

SHE LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!

When I was doing my criminology degree, I went to several professors with several thesis ideas, and all of them were denied. These were all ideas based on transmasculine crime and victimology stats. Every professor shot down every thesis I had on ideas related to transmasc victims of various crimes.

Their reasoning? There's no need for this. This is useless. Nobody is interested in reading about trans men and transmascs being victims of crimes. They wouldn't even let me do my thesis on estimating more accurate stats on transmasculine victims of homicide. Which is an INCREDIBLY important thing!

lgbtqia / Gay Tumblr ™

Do you live in America?

Do you have to rely on family? Would you feel safe being "out" in places where people carry guns and enjoy gay bashing and law enforcement cheers it on?

Shut The Fuck Up about trenders, fakers, etc etc etc

Stop thinking people are required to explain themselves to you (a stranger) or anyone else.

Don't assume people who don't list pronouns are doing it for shitty reasons. Don't assume someone who won't insist on any pronouns is apathetic or ambivalent by default.

Stop assuming people who start presenting in certain ways (like however they "best" pass, or are expected to present legally) are not part of the group or that it means anything other than:

Going back in the closet is totally fucking acceptable, and those people deserve support in whichever ways they feel safe, even more.

Gatekeeping will hurt so so many more people that it could ever help, especially with the increasing political dangers.

If you resent people for not willing to be martyrs, fix yourself.

Sometimes survival is the only resistance people can offer. Grow up.

Well, I'm Black and survived lots of trauma and child abuse, which admittedly colors my opinion but here's a run down:

ODD (or Oppositional Defiant Disorder) is a diagnosis almost solely given to Black and Native/Indigenous American kids (and its often given to Black/Native/Indigenous kids who display the same symptoms that get their white counterparts diagnosis' like PTSD, Autism and ADHD).

The symptoms of ODD largely revolve around "disliking authority figures", "being angry", "defies rules and authority figures", and "argumentative". I think like, 50% of kids in prison get diagnosed with it in the US.

Its not used to help kids, its used to label them as "bad" for displaying feelings and things that are often explicit signs of trauma and/or neurodivergence, especially kids of color!

The "science" (or lack thereof) behind it has been torn down repeatedly and yet the DSM-5 continues to keep it there so people can use the diagnosis to fuck kids over. And its not just the racism that pisses me off, to be clear!!