if a character is CANONICALLY BISEXUAL and you headcanon them to be lesbian or gay, you are biphobic

if you think a character cannot be bisexual because they are only shown in wlw or mlm relationships, you are biphobic

if you think a character cannot be bisexual because they are only shown in “straight passing relationships” you are biphobic

Lmao.

(Image: An X-Men panel of Cyclops, who is saying, “These are our lives. It’s not a game of dress-up for the terminally over-privileged.”)

Cis writers: when you insist that trans identities are nothing more than misplaced misogyny and overly rigid gender roles, you are also claiming that trans people cannot possibly be aware or considerate of either our own minds or those factors. Cis publishers: When you hire cis writers to tell--or, in many cases, co-opt--our stories, you are rewarding and reinforcing the same.

The idea that a person--especially a person as intelligent and socially aware as Dr. James Barry--couldn't distinguish between identifying as male and disguising himself to navigate a sexist system is so grossly patronizing and dehumanizing; and to do so in the face of his explicit lifelong and dying wishes is even more ghoulish.

Cis women: Your experiences are not the experiences of trans men. Transmasculinity is not a cheat code for hacking patriarchy. 

I've put roughly 40+ hours into this game, mostly 12 hours straight in one day. I've never had such a blast playing a game before and I can almost say it's a favorite.

How am I to fit it in?

Grouped with the masses that share the same skin

Yet deep within

Roots run through my veins

The same outcry but different pains

Different tribes and a different land

Stripped and sold to the hands of man

Enslaving minds, and families and lives

Killing men and raping wives

Do you see me and think the same?

Steal my identity and change my name

You call me black rather than caribbean

Disregard the country that I've been living in

Discredit my roots based upon your assumptions

Til I open my mouth and cancel your presumption

What about my blackness you refuse to acknowledge

You take one look and use my appearance as the common factor

Nevermind my difference, never mind my matter

The heretiage, the love that I've come to know

The details in the fabric, the rigmarole

I will never neglect who I am

Erase my identity for the sake of man

What bout my blackness do you refuse to see,