i know that you guys aren't the person i'm referring to here, and you don't have to post this if you don't want to, but i have to get this off my chest
i'm a bigender person in the UK, but unfortunately my parents are transphobic and its not exactly safe for me to be out of the closet. i've just finished my a-levels and i honestly think i wouldn't have been able to do it without my psychology teacher. from the first day of lessons she got everyone to write down their preferred name and pronouns, and i had the confidence to put my actual name instead of my deadname. it was the first time i was open to an adult, and she never once outed me to my parents or other teachers. i remember one time she accidentally misgendered me in lesson and she immediately caught herself and corrected herself instead of ignoring it. it just made me feel so seen and human for once. i'm now going to university in september and i've managed to find an accomodation to share with other trans/lgbtq people like me.
if my teacher is somehow reading this: thank you for everything you did. i really do think i wouldn't be here right now without everything you did. keep being the best teacher there is.
- LD
having even just one ally like this can make such a big difference!
our Youth Voice Jay actually just interviewed some educators about how they can support LGBTQ+ youth in their classrooms.
and our Youth Voice Nashan had a convo with other LGBTQ+ youth about bullying at school and what they wish teachers knew!
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Back at that research paper again, feeling very good about it (and our chances of being published authors). Another conference is on the horizon, going to present our poster again.
Trying to focus on the excitement and beat away imposter syndrome with a baseball bat π
a bit different than usual business, but QUEER COSTUME DESIGN !!!!
so for my senior thesis project i'm designing this spec collection for chappell roan!!!!!!!!!! it's 6 different costumes and i'll be designing and making and styling them all from scratch and then shooting them professionally and editing it all together as a fashion film for my portfolio!!!!
as a costume design student at an extremely homophobic conservative christian school (my parents basically made the school choice for me), this project is kind of my final fuck-off to the school and all the harm it's caused to me and it's queer community, specifically in art majors. the project will highlight queer history through design and honor iconic moments and people from the gay movement as well as just being generally awesome and super fun because it's CHAPPELL ROAN!!!! i'll be modeling the whole thing myself too :)
i'm trying to raise $3000 by oct. 15th in order to afford all the materials and the location for the shoot (la is so expensive bro). if you're interested in contributing or even just sharing this post that would mean sosososososo much to me!!!!
donate here ----- > thesis project venmo
my instagram for the full info ----- > @laurenofwestview on instagram
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support a queer student in a non supportive arts environment!!! much love to you all xoxoxoxoxo
I am a history student in a fairly prestigious school. You all know what this usually means : a bunch of white cishets, usually pretty right-wing. Which is- not a problem. Not when one knows how to talk to people and avoid topical subject unless one's not absolutely certain of the public or prepared for the fallout, with all the arguments needed.
I'm a woman (well, a girl. I'm barely an adult). I don't study a lot of women. I didn't learn about women history back in high school but I chalked it up to living in a pretty conservative part of the country and the usual state progams' conservatism. Lack of time, I thought.
If we didn't study women other than a name in passing, we of course didn't learn anything on queer history - everything I know about it is because I did my research.
But I thought it would be better in university (the system is not exactly a university but, to my knowledge, it's unique to my country and I honestly don't feel like getting deep in detail right now so let's call it a university). After all, I thought, this is history. I will learn more about women. They did exist. They did take an active part in history.
In a way, I did. I learnt about two rival queens in Merovingian France and about a bunch of regent queens who were frankly pretty badass. And I learnt the name of a lot more queens, all wives and mothers of kings. The name of a few mistresses, too.
And that's it.
While I do realize that we will study historical economy and sociology more in depth next year, it still feels like a disappointment that I have so much on male historical characters and maybe twenty pages on women - which isn't a lot knowing the volules of my notes. And it's usually a brief brush of "here's what her name was and where she came from, here's the name of her husband, the name of her children, the name of her main counselor" and then all that happened during her regency, which, while interesting, is not her reign. It's not her.
But the sources, you will say. Indeed, the sources. I'm not taking the blame on my teachers - though I'd like it if they could stop with the jokes on women's sexuality, like, yeah, they had one.
For an oral exam, I have to choose a book and review it. It's usually a good way to get into a subject that we don't see in class for whatever reason. I decided to get a book on lesbian history - especially between 1515 and 1715. I spent a whole week looking for one. It's not only that it is not taught in class ; it's that I couldn't find anything. Wikipedia was no help, and my local bookshop only managed to find the thesis of a lesbian activist, written some thirty years ago at least.
It saddens me that, as a girl, I haven't had a lot of representation of women in high school. But at least I had some. I didn't have any representation of lesbian women growing up - which would have been darn useful as, as I recently discovered, not everyone had Liv Tyler's Arwen for a computer wallpaper or fantasized about kissing Ginny Weasley (the book version). And I still don't have any in history - not the one that I study, anyway.
It saddens me. We do have records of male homosexuality, of gay medieval kings and aristocrats (mostly, weirdly enough, in the 12th century) and they are mentioned by our teachers, even just in passing. Women's homosexuality is not just unmentioned - it seems nonexistent.
This is not about me : I'm fine. I've grown up with the Internet and good parents. This is about generations of girls growing up and reading, like me, that the poetess Sappho liked to write poetry about and to her friends. (true story) This is about generations of girls growing up without having access to the historical roots of women's badassery, awesomeness and, objectively, stupidity - as well as men's. This is about the gap we have in lesbian history between the death of Sappho of Lesbos and the birth of Anne Lister. This is about growing up and not knowing if it is allowed to be so or so, not knowing about the essential role of women in historical economy or about the sapphic communities that existed.
It is tiring. Sometimes I feel like I'm barking at a tree that won't move. But this is my history. I am not done reclaiming it. If I have to become a historian to do so, I suppose I will - but it is tiring! And if it is this bad for lesbians, I'm afraid for transgender people - or aro/ace people, or literally anyone who wasn't a cishet man and who feels devoid of history.
In more than one way, gay men know and feel homophobia - but at the end of the day they are men, entitled to a history that's been recorded by chronicles and researched by dedicated researchers. I'm so angry for not having that. It's not that we don't talk about it, it's that it's not even there to begin with. I can quote a couple essays about male homosexuality, and more than a few personalities - think Marcel Proust or king Louis XIII of France, and those are just the ones that I can quote off the top of my head. I could find a lot more, given some time. And that's great that we know that about them, that it's not glossed over like it used to be. But it's not enough and I want to see people like me. People who lived and triumphed and suffered and died being women who loved women. I want to see people like me in history : I know they existed.
hi !!! im soleil (or sunny) and i'm entering my first year of social justice & peace studies with a minor in english (class of '28) !!! i am (hopefully) using this to then become a highschool teacher (english and social science) with a specialty in urban education.
i live in canada, so all of my knowledge is in relation to the canadian university system. i am disabled, both physically (hEDS + co) and mentally/developmentally (autism, adhd, and mental health disabilities). i'm a bigender lesbian as well !!!
outside of my studies i am a poet (hoping to work toward publication someday), a musician (10 instruments + vocals), and work full time at a nonprofit in the summer, while volunteering during the year.
i do not start my school year until september '24 (currently finishing my final highschool exams) but with all the prep for university happening now, i wanted to make this account π happy learning!
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I am currently working towards my Masters dissertation at Lancaster University studying accent and dialect variation in the North East of England. If you were born in or are from any area within the North East I would be exceedingly grateful if you would take 5-10 minutes to complete the following survey so that I actually have some data to analyse for my dissertation.Β
The survey is completely anonymous and seeks to gather information regarding how people from the North East pronounce certain words and the words and phrases that locals use that aren't found in other areas of the UK.
If you yourself are not comfortable taking part in the survey I would also be grateful if you could send it on to others that you know from the North East.
If you have any questions regarding the survey you can email me at [email protected] or feel free to message me here on tumblr.
To the girl in my class who included nonbinary and trans athletes in her essay on the relationship between sports and gender? Thank you, you made my whole ass week.
