Just Be Still With Me

No one is safe until trans women are safe

If you ever wanted to know how you can help make a change for your trans sisters, this is it. Let spaces that do not welcome your transgender sisters die off by not participating in them. You can take it one step further and write a message to the organization (or other) managing and planning those spaces and events stating that their lack of transfem inclusion is the reason why you do not participate. As a black black person, this is like my litmus test of whether or not a queer space is right for me. If they are transmisogynist, there is a 90% chance that they are also racist. It doesn't even have to be overt transmisogyny. Transfem erasure is a big red flag because if trans women do not exist in their world, there is a big chance that black people don't either. Transmisogyny and misogynoir are very similar since they are both based in a eurocentric ideal of what a woman is. I know I'm not the only little black girl that got told by their peers that they aren't feminine enough to be considered a woman or be desired as a one. Many of the same arguments used against my trans sisters have been used against black women. This is not a coincidence. Look into your own transmisogyny and there is a chance that you will find racism somewhere in there. Please make an extra effort to protect your BIPOC sisters.

This doesn't apply to me because my strategy only fails when I don't have perfect control over my immediate surroundings and routines! Hah!

welcome to the Murdersex zine, a zine celebrating all things sex and murder. but um. we don't want to romanticize it or anything so don't make your submissions too murdersexy. we will do extensive background checks on all applicants and if we decide a past work of yours has too much sexy murder we'll have to remove you, sorry. we have limits, you know, we want a tasteful gory spread you could put on your coffee table, and having the Wrong people in it would kill the vibe (and we condemn all killing! wholeheartedly!)

i love how this post picks up whenever something like this happens again

Am I getting a good grade in tumblr mutual?

Reblog to give the person you reblogged from a good grade in tumblr mutual

no one talks about how straight up painful it is to be the bigger person when deep in your soul you just want to be a huge bitch about it

tumblr users’ obsession with self-reporting (especially as a weird form of penance) needs to be studied

you don’t need to tell the world you still like Harry Potter because it’s your comfort movie or because your dad read it to you when you were little or something like that in response to a post about the harm continued monetary support of Harry Potter causes. you don’t need to tell tumblr all the myriad of reasons you don’t like rap under a post about how rap is often misrepresented as ultra-violent or overtly sexual and misogynistic because of racism. No one on tumblr has to know anything about you. no one has to know you still read your old Harry Potter books or that the only rap artist you like is Eminem. No one is going to say “oh of course you’re the One True Good Person with a Good Reason!” when you say that rap is difficult to listen to because of your auditory processing disorder or you’re only a part of the Marauders fandom. Just keep your shit to yourself and don’t embarrass yourself under other peoples’ posts.

um armed agents of the state just broke into my home and kidnapped my entire family THANKFULLY i will be peacefully protesting with my ukulele tomorrow once i get the proper PERMIT and in four years from now i'm going to get out and VOTE

So much evil can be stored inside the small body of an Italian from jersey

It's also important to note that PBS-funded programs are trying their best to stay afloat despite this! If this news angers you and you have the financial ability to donate, PLEASE throw some money at your local public broadcasting station! If you don't have a local PBS, consider Oregon Public Broadcasting, which has been in continuous operation for over 100 years (first radio, then TV).