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[ID: “Trached dykes eat pussy without coming up for air.” Connie Panzarino, a longtime disability activist and out lesbian, would attach this sign to her wheelchair during Pride marches in Boston in the early 1990s. Shockingly explicit, her sign refuses to cast technology as cold, distancing, or disembodied/disembodying, presenting it instead as a source and site of embodied pleasure. “Trach” is an abbreviation of tracheotomy, a medical procedure in which a breathing tube is inserted directly into the trachea, bypassing the mouth and nose. Someone with a trach, then, can, in effect, breathe through her throat, freeing her mouth for other activities (another version of this sign is “Trached dykes french kiss without coming up for air”). From a cyborgian perspective, this sign is brilliantly provocative and productive. It draws on the pervasive idea that adaptive technologies grant superior abilities,not merely replacing a lost capacity but enhancing it, yet it does so in a highly subversive way. The message here isn’t about blending in, about passing as normal or hypernormal, but about publicly announcing the viability of a queer disabled location. It’s disnormalizing, adamantly refusing compulsory heterosexuality, compulsory able bodiedness, and homonormativity. As Corbett O’Toole argues, it challenges the perceived passivity of disabled women, presenting them as actively pleasuring their partners, thereby graphically refuting stereotypes linking physical disability with nonsexuality.]

Praying for a safe journey back to the spirit world, Uncle ❤️‍🩹🦅

All previous pins are now unlocked as add-ons for the project, so feel free to get wild and grab all the pins you want!

It was a vaguepost of a trans man who complained about feeling pressure to be feminine. Yet people refer to it completely outside of queer context.

Everyone who knows even a little bit about LGBTQ+ history will have heard of the Stonewall Riots, a key moment at the start of the queer liberation movement that took place in New York City in the late 1960s. Fewer people might be familiar with similar events that have taken place in other countries, such as the 1971 Begoña Passage Raid, which came to be known as the “Spanish Stonewall”. To dive into the history of this event, we need to look back at the LGBTQ+ rights situation in Spain under the regime of Francisco Franco.

EDIT: If you come onto this post to try and tell me “transfem” means “transitioning away from being AMAB” or anything another than simply “trans and feminine”, I will only try to correct you once.

By Kaoru Yamada

Happy Pride!