i am the judas of the french canada

i knowwww his work is beautiful and it pisses me off because he was just such a fundamentally abhorrent person. one of my favourite paintings of all time is amrita sher-gil's self portrait as tahitian (1934) which is a critique of gaugin's depictions of tahitian women and girls (and it was known in europe in his time that he had a pattern of sexually assaulting and abusing women both in europe and in the americas) that acknowledges his artistic influence on her work but is critical of his racism and misogyny as she depicts herself as a brown woman in the self-portrait like the tahitian women gaugin painted, identifying herself with them and turning the colonial white male gaze (nonwhite women's bodies as things to be bought and consumed and traded like cultural objects) back upon itself in the european man's shadow behind her and the east asian panel she stands in front of (chinoiserie and japonisme being popular fads in france in this era)

two tahitian women by gaugin (1899) and self portrait as tahitian by amrita sher-gil (1934)

Sondos, a young woman in Gaza, shared some of her favorite decor details from her tent in this May 31, 2026 post. As Sondos explains, she has always taken pride in her home and the tent is no exception.

Sondos is on Instagram @ sondos_alnerab.

i know level 3 autistic guy with severe cognitive impairment who can unload and load dishwasher by self, set plates on table for meals and wash body most well independently but with supervised in the room for safety, but that dont make his support needs and autism level lower he still cant take care of himself by own, cant go out home by self, cant shop by self, cant drive, doesn't understand stuff same level others do, still need that carer for life.

The spider is mankind’s friend.

He is misunderstood by most people.

No shirt, no bra, completely bare torso, just like cis men are allowed to

It's about desexualizing breasts and "female presenting nipples" and not being criminalized for our bodies if we want to go topless because it's a million damn degrees out. This was a popular growing movement that was still widely known a decade ago!

Note: The article about her predates her coming out, so uses the pronouns and name that were assumed at the time.

There's definitely a lot of other incidences where trans women at all stages of HRT, including with absolutely none ever taken, who have been policed and arrested and fined for that. There isn't so much a threshold in breast-related puberty where this is seen as lewd, per se.

To my understanding a lot of this is more complicated than that. Like an impossible equation of time and place and culture around nudity and culture around gender and how gender is defined, etc.

My main point here though is that trans women have already done this experiment basically.

This situation also happened in 2011:

This next article isn't exactly the same as the topic at hand, but does involve trans people going topless as a form of protest.