no, I don't think I will

I used to not get lesbians until I realized they aren’t just horny sex freaks, but also feel romantic attraction! 🥺🥺🥺🥺✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻#ally

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

But now I think every attempt of a man to “transition” or identify as a “woman” is insulting and misogynistic. I don’t even care if it’s one of the good, genuinely dysphoric gay ones who pass. Like what the fuck are you doing bro. Your whole existence is some kind of misogynistic insult.

- marsha p. johnson repeatedly identified as a gay man and drag queen and survived into an era where the language did already exist if he chose to identify as transsexual. he explicitly stated that he was not transsexual and claimed that all transsexual people were also homosexual.

- sylvia rivera did identify as a transsexual woman (and made disparaging speeches about lesbians). she was not an ally to lesbians. lesbians and transwomen have not always been allies.

- neither of them were there when the stonewall riots began, according to marsha’s own testimony. sylvia was sleeping off a drug trip on a park bench, and by the time marsha arrived at stonewall, the riots were already in full swing.

- storme delarverie, a mixed black gender-nonconforming lesbian and drag king, may have been the one who incited the stonewall riots. she never identified as a transman despite surviving into an an era where the language was made accessible to do so. accounts differ as to who started the riots.

- stonewall was not a special haven for trans people and drag artists, it was just some bar where gay people met up. by all accounts, it wasn’t even a good bar.

- pride as a festival and parade was invented by gay men, lesbians, and bisexual people. fred sergeant is one of those gay men, and he has been beaten (in recent years, as an elderly man) by trans people and their allies due to his views on medical transition. non-homosexual trans people were unheard of in this era.

Video of young girl in Iran: I hate being female in this horribly misogynistic society where women and girls are violently oppressed, and I’m also attracted to the same sex. I wish I were a boy sometimes

CAKE AND FUCKING DRESSES AND PASSIVITY???

Desi women who have been raised to see them, their sisters and their mothers stripped of their personhood in tightknit patriarchal families, and who have decided they will break with the tradition.

Closeted ex-Muslim women from countries like Pakistan, Iran and Somalia who quietly work towards a life of freedom in apostasy, risking shame and estrangement from their entire families for doing so.

Eldest born daughters who recognise that they should have never had to absorb the rage of their dysfunctional family, and who learn to find the balance between taking care of those they love, and taking care of themself.

Women who grew up around loveless marriages, domestic abuse and crime, who commit decades of their adult life to growing into a healthier person, pursuing a life free of fear, addiction and violence — to provide a better life for their children.

Underdog women who were made to feel that they could never amount to anything, because they were working class, a ‘trouble child’, disabled, undesirable to men, or struggled with their mental health, who then put in the work to psychologically disentangle their self-worth from these false messages.

Women who looked at the unfulfilled lives of their mothers and grandmothers, and who decided that the cycle ends with them; that they will commit themselves to knowledge, personal growth, compassion, fulfilment and adventure, to live the lives that their foremothers couldn’t, for those foremothers.

White men say it's brown men

Left wing men say it's right wing men

Right wing men say it's left wing men

Muslim men say it's Christian men

Christian men say it's muslim men

Poor men say it's billionare men

Billionaire men say it's poor men

Gay men say it's straight men

Straight men say it's gay men