As long as there are stars up above

and the fucking treatment of nonbinary as mutually exclusive with transfems as fucking usual

is it fucking "bioessentialism" to look at art that clearly eroticizes puffy nipples and limp small penis on a character who will be referred to with feminine terms while being categorized as ultimately male and saying the character is obviously a fucking trans woman?

personally i think the real bioessentialism with regards to this kind of art is how the penis is used as an indication of unchangeable maleness no matter how much evidence the character is on estrogen or how much the character is portrayed enjoying being referred to with female terms. but what do i fucking know. i havent considered the feelings of men enough i guess

“i do not dream of labor” yes u do. labor is fulfilling. u dream of a world where ur labor isnt exploited and its that or starvation. i guarantee u dream of labor. labor is a necessity and in and of itself is a good thing.

if u dream of having a garden, of painting murals, cooking or baking for people, researching in a lab, or writing stories, u dream of labor. which is good! we all jus hate having our labor exploited and being underpaid for the value of our work. nobody wants to just sit at home and do NOTHING as quarantine proved! in and of itself labor is fulfilling and contributes to the betterment and advancement of society, too many people are just barred by arbitrary divides (class, education) and unable to perform labor they’d be best suited for, or that type of labor (arts, service industry) is undervalued and underpaid.

I don't know who is responsible for trying to re-define black face as being "intentionally mocking" only (AKA "it's not black face if you weren't trying to be mean!") but I've seen that sentiment spread all over the Internet, especially on TikTok, and it makes me want to rip my hair out. Very convenient argument for non-black people who are allergic to examining their own racism.

i think the reason so many white queers want to so vehemently redefine Remmicks obsession with Sammy as being queer attraction, while denying the racialized consumption that it actually is narratively, is because they see their own relationship to Blackness (& the cultures of PoC in general) reflected therein and so arguing for Remmick's innocence is an allegory through which they defend their own commodification of cultures they exist outside of.

i cannot stress enough that "femboy" is a transmisogynistic slur and a transmisogynistic caricature, and it is one that is employed overwhelmingly by tme people disrespecting and degendering transfems in the name of coopting our aesthetics and wearing our marginalization like a costume. yes some girls reclaim the slur, largely out of necessity to make a living doing sex work that covets their bodies but refuses to gender them correctly while doing it, but that does not save the term. in fact it is all the more damning.

you are white before you are trans and i feel like some of y'all forget that

this post is proof that white people hate it when you tell them they hold privilege over people of color

Just saw a "guide" on here on how to avoid Russian artists and Russian art, lest you accidentally like something made by us subhumans. One of the tips was to look for depressing art, usage of muted colours and uhm.. romanticization of abuse.. girl.. we might have to do away with Tumblr entirely by that metric..

it's so fucking sickening seeing the amount of vitriolic hate that Black trans women get for pointing out that white privilege applies to trans people too. there is no trans community and there never will be until Black trans women are listened to and not fucking harassed off of the internet for daring to suggest that white trans people are privileged over trans people of color. i don't want to be in a community with any of you racist pieces of shit.

like some of these men are self-reportedly cis-passing and they seem to think they really don't have privilege over even a clocky trans woman. like, brother. get serious

I saw one of these dudes mention having become sterile via surgery and I can't help but think like... yeah? a cis-passing man who can't carry children is telling women who can't carry children that we don't face reproductive oppression like he does? do we think sterile women are privileged...? or is it only if they're trans? what's the explanation here

so many people will be theoretically anti-war and some may even pay lip service to the notion of imperialism being bad, they will perhaps go so far as to say they oppose the idea US occupation. and yet still they will genuinely be shocked when you straight up hate the military in a real way, in the kind of way where you do not make excuses for or lend sympathy to anyone who enlists. they won’t follow you there. they will invoke things like poverty and ptsd and when you remain stone faced and uncompromising they will think YOU’RE the monster. and not, you know, the people who literally knowingly signed up to be a part of the mass murder machine.

like people are always talking about poverty in defense of enlisting and I just wish y’all could recognize the very simple fact that the people in the countries that United States military members are voluntarily signing up to kill are often also living in poverty and then on top of that they are having to worry about being bombed and slaughtered by the imperial poor. Like it’s just not a good excuse to offer yourself up to the murder machine. It isn’t. Of course the United States government doesn’t treat veterans well. It doesn’t treat anyone well. What do you believe veterans to have done that should entitle them to decency not afforded to anyone else? I guess personally I’d rather focus on getting EVERYONE fed and housed, focus on opposing the systems that lead to these conditions, rather than finding sympathy for those who believe they are owed a meal ticket drenched in blood.