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new game for mutuals friends followers friends romans countrymen etc. can y’all reply/reblog and put in the tags One (1) creative project you’ve got going on currently? it can be for class, for fun, for work, literally any type of art/craft at all, doesn’t matter what stage of the process it’s currently in. i love hearing people talk about their projects it sustains me

Lots of trans men probably would’ve been lobotomized in the past because that’s how you deal with unruly women. But sure we don’t face our own oppression

a lot of them were. it's not hypothetical. The majority of lobotomies were performed on people assigned female at birth, and the diagnoses were things like hysteria or sexual deviance. That's exactly the kind of diagnosis you would expect to see in a historical person who might call themself transgender today. We have plenty of records of "male impersonators" being institutionalized before the advent of the lobotomy, so we know they were pathologized by the psychiatric establishment of the time. There's no question that it happened, and probably the only reason there's not more evidence of it is because the procedure was a "success" and the patients became docile (i.e. intellectually disabled) enough to no longer effectively resist being gendered female and dressed in female-typical clothing.

It's also not even entirely past tense yet. Sure, physical lobotomies are for the most part a thing of the past, but there are professionals who use medication to achieve the same end goal, which especially when you consider some older psychiatric medications were advertised and thought of by professionals as chemical lobotomies, is still pretty fucking shit.

I love asking friends, without context, "what are you really into this week?" I'll go first. this week I'm really into mouthwash and sudoku. Last week I was into peaches.

we used to be a society on here!! reblog, don't like! I want to hear what you're into!!! I'm literally looking into the nyt game Pips!!!

I'm getting back into playing music this week! not that I've really stopped, but I talked myself into thinking I was bad a few weeks ago but I'm not and it's been fun to get back into that mindset!

I started learning to play Kalimba! And I'm reading my library books on animals!

you're all so cool and beautiful ! this week i am enjoying the Blender (smoothies !) and drawing badly but a lot !! i am particularly loving abstractish cartoonish flower doodles ! let's do this every week !