if you were mentally healthy, you wouldn’t be tortured by the existence of your body , and you wouldn’t feel the need to medically or cosmetically alter your otherwise healthy body . idk why it’s so hard for them to admit that yes dysphoria is a mental illness … maybe because it clashes with the “ being trans is innate and something you’re born as ” bs ?

This Doonesbury abortion cartoon was originally written by Gary Trudeau in 2012, in response to a Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion. It was banned from many major newspapers, and they ran syndicated cartoons in its place.

Now seems like an appropriate time to bring these cartoons back, with the passing of Texas’ new law requiring the burial or cremation of miscarried or aborted fetal remains. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if Trudeau decides to write the sequel.

making up a brand new definition for a word that has had a clear definition and usage for over 100 years, and then being like “um it’s the LITERAL definition.” okay and if I changed the definition of zebra to mean 5’8 lesbian with brown hair, I’d be the LITERAL DEFINITION of a zebra. like…?? we all can change definitions but it doesn’t mean shit to the general population. if you come out to someone who’s normal and doesn’t have blue hair, a septum piercing, an associates degree in tumblr discourse studies, a bachelors in queer theory, and a masters in reposting liberal instagram infographics, they will interpret it to mean you’re a female homosexual, because we all fucking know what lesbian means!

more concerning to me are the compulsions, the constant fear-without-a-name every time we want to speak up but stop ourselves, the secret-keeping of our own ideas. the unnecessary apologizing, and worse, apologizing to someone who owes you an apology just to end the conflict or (crossing our fingers) passively remind them to apologize. forgiving those who hurt us even though we know it will happen again. overestimating how much we’ve taken and underestimating how much we’ve given in relationships, favors, conversations.

I’m concerned about what we do with our anger, how we turn it on ourselves, how we hide it, how we identify it by other names. how afraid we are of feeling angry & understanding what it means.

I’m concerned about our dismissal of our own needs, that we view our needs as obstacles to overcome. we feel guilty for needing food, rest, attention, space to ourselves.

what’s concerning is how we see ourselves in the third person, our bodies as avatars. we flip from perspective to perspective to check if we’re good from every angle. we’ve visited the mind of everyone around us. our empathy polices us.