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BABY Pangur????

Being intersex doesn’t make you biologically trans but we are literally considered by society as less male/female or a mix of both and are treated accordingly.

me browsing this folder: omg omG I don’t know which one I’m more excited to watch, this Frontline episode from 1992 or this NOVA episode from 1984!!!

Yay, 11 results for sewing! I’m interested to see what Nancy has to show us about embroidering with a free motion foot.

"We have to extricate ourselves from narrow identitarian thinking if we want to encourage progressive people to embrace these struggles [ women's liberation, racial emancipation, abolition ] as their own. With respect to feminist struggles, men will have to do a lot of the important work. I often like to talk about feminism not as something that adheres to bodies, not as something grounded in gendered bodies, but as an approach—as a way of conceptualizing, as a methodology, as a guide to strategies for struggle. That means that feminism doesn't belong to anyone in particular. [ . . . ] Both men and women—and trans persons—have to do that work, but I don't think it's a question of women inviting men to struggle. I think it's about a certain kind of consciousness that has to be encouraged so that progressive men are aware that they have a certain responsibility to bring in more men. Men can often talk to men in a different way. It's important for those who we might want to bring into the struggle to look at models. [ . . . ] It doesn't happen by itself. It doesn't happen automatically. You have to intervene. You have to make conscious interventions."

this was actually really good in some instances though because i started having insomnia and intrusive thoughts very young and when little me was like “mom i don’t like the thoughts in my head but i can’t make them go away and i can’t sleep” she replied with “oh honey. active thought suppression never works. in fact, wegner et al. (1987) tested this when they told a bunch of people to talk about whatever they wanted, and they told half of them to try not to think about a white bear. people thought more about the white bear when they were trying not to think about it! but when they told the people to think about a red car whenever thoughts of the white bear came to mind, the people had a much easier time not thinking about the white bear. so you see, you can’t force the thoughts out of your mind. you just have to let them pass through, and pick something else that you want to focus on”

but please do not get this very true concept confused with “you cannot pick and choose what is canon”

An anti-trans activist lied about a trans athlete injuring cis women. Now she has to pay the price.