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Sutematsu Oyama (1860-1919): Japan’s First College-Educated Woman

Full entry (with footnotes) here. Patreon here. Art notes behind the cut.

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Please, please, please don’t refer to nonbinary people as “enby” or “enbies” unless you are talking about specific nonbinary people whom you know identify with the phrase.  It is a cutifying phrase which is alienating and exclusionary to a lot of us who do not want our identities to be cutified.  If you want to be inclusive, please use “nonbinary” or “NB.” 

“Enby” is fine to use for people who like that term but it’s by no means a universally acceptable term and quite a lot of people are uncomfortable with it so using it when talking generally about all nonbinary people is going to make it hard for some people to take part in your dialogue.  Recognize when you use it that you are alienating people whom you are talking about, who already feel alienated by a lot of conversations around gender that we have difficulty relating to. 

And please, if you are a nonbinary person who relates well to the term “enby,” take the time to make sure the people you are speaking to know that that is *your* term and not a term appropriate for all nonbinary people.

I am feeling deeply discomfited, excluded from & silenced in conversations I should be able to take part in by people’s insistence on using labels that make me feel resoundingly not-okay.

Yeah, I’ve seen it floating around in the wild myself! If y’all would like a watermarked version, here you go:

The Metro #396: 80′s and New Wave with Violent Femme, Duran Duran, and more

Now available on Radio Free Satan:

This week on The Metro, Warlock JNothing brings the following bands for you weekly trip back to the 1980s: Captain Sensible, Talk Talk, Violent Femmes, Duran Duran, The Go Go’s, Thompson Twins, Madonna, Nick Heyward, P.I.L., Billy Idol, Til Tuesday, Missing Persons, Bobby McFerrin, Frank & Moon Zappa, The Bangles, and finishing up with The Romantics.

Non-diabetics have asked me what hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) feels like, and I’ve always found it indescribable. I could list symptoms, but nothing really conveys the feeling. And I am talking about a level of hypoglycemia *only* someone on artificial insulin could understand. Then I came across this optical illusion and instantly thought “That’s a hypo!”. Hypoglycemia feels like this. Your whole body, your thoughts, your feelings, and perceptions (sight, hearing, everything), feel like this. I know it is an abstract illustration of an abstract description, but this is the best representation of how a low blood sugar feels that I could possibly imagine:

HB2796 is an absolutely blatant attempt to strip away the civil rights of transgender people; and it’s absolutely fucking terrifying.

Quoting the official summary of HB2796:

This bill prohibits the word “sex” or “gender” from being interpreted to mean “gender identity,” and requires “man” or “woman” to be interpreted to refer exclusively to a person’s genetic sex, for purposes determining the meaning of federal civil rights laws or related federal administrative agency regulations or guidance. No federal civil rights law shall be interpreted to treat gender identity or transgender status as a protected class, unless it expressly designates “gender identity” or “transgender status” as a protected class.

HB2796 is currently with the Republican-majority House Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. Please, PLEASE–especially if you’re cisgender, and doubly if you’re one of their constituents–call the Representatives on the committee and explain just how much damage this will do, how many lives it will destroy, and how many legislative careers (hopefully) hinge on its passage or failure.

Committee members are:

Chairman Steve King (R-IA-04; King is also one of HB2796′s sponsors) - (202) 225-4426

Vice Chairman Ron DeSantis (R-FL-06) - (202) 225-2706

Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ-08; Franks is also one of HB2796’s sponsors) - (202) 225-4576

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX-01) - (202) 225-3035

Rep. Karen Handel (R-GA-06) - (202) 225-4501

Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) - (202) 225-3265

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD-08) - (202) 225-5341

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY-10) - (202) 225-5635