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4 years

so kids without personal computers with stable wifi in quiet homes just won't get to go to school huh

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2 years

the trans women of color whose memories are used to sell pride junk and push criminalization were called mothers bc they mothered gay street kids abandoned by their natal families & the state. libs would call them groomers if they were still alive

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4 years

cis people continuing to not understand that they also have genders, hormones, and pronouns

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2 years

the eternal banger

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rather than remember and use people’s correct pronouns, a lot of cis people have defaulted to using they/them for everyone. please don’t do that! you’re missing the point.

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4 years

none of the mascs and butches can get our hair cut right now. mother pandemic force femmes us all

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3 years

you're in her DMs. i'm in the DSM. we are not the same

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4 years

don't call the cops on people who you don't think are social distancing appropriately. for the same reason that you don't call the cops on people for almost everything.

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2 years

NYT cis journos: why do these trans kids want to live 🤔

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2 years

kate bush’s iconic song about gender-swapping is charting while straight people are obsessing over us… some people made that deal with god, babe

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5 years

"you are valid" discourse rotting brains so we get shit like "no matter what scotus says you are worthy and beautifu" i don't care what you think of me i just want to make rent

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2 years

nonmonogamy is bad bc if you sleep w someone cringe your partner will roast you for the rest of your life

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2 years

friendly reminder that just because it's about "trans kids" doesn't mean it's not about race or class or ability. it's actually super about those things.

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2 years

my favorite cis ally is the kind who’s like “have you ever met a trans person? they are harmless. they’re honestly kind of busted. how dare you say they’re dangerous when they’re literally these sad weird losers with issues”

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2 years

not to nitpick but you don't have to clarify you want free, on-demand abortion "for people with wombs." who the hell else is getting it

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2 years

“grooming” panic functions primarily and secondarily etc as a means of separating queer adults from queer youth. it’s harder for us to protect them and it’s harder for them to care for us as we age

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3 years

from 3/7-3/13, don't use Amazon, stream on Amazon Prime, shop at Whole Foods, etc., in solidarity with Bessemer Amazon workers trying to unionize.

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3 years

i love how oreo wasn’t like “trans women are women” or “trans people are sacred,” instead going for the much more ominous and politically weird “trans people exist”

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4 years

@Gdrahcir i am not super interested in holding kids accountable for failing to thrive in a fucked up scenario

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4 years

bi visibility day is on bruce springsteen's birthday on purpose

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2 years

re the “medium ugly guy” thing: straight people find it gender affirming when the woman is pretty and the man is not. hope @this helps

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4 years

hi mom can you pick me up this person i gave an orgasm to is sharing RBG in a crown

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11 months

everyone gets sexier when they transition. wanting to be alive makes you hot

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11 months

Eliott Page is a good looking guy, but I am about to blow your mind right now by saying that the goal of transitioning from female to male is not, typically, to maximize our sexiness.

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2 years

if we define non-nuclear queer collectivities as grooming and normalize sexual (and other) violence in str8 state-sanctioned groups, what can “family” actually mean

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2 years

prostitution laws preventing people from working together or sharing their $$ target working women, like the oft-invoked sylvia rivera, from providing for their families—including children & youth—w SW.

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5 years

word of advice it’s rude to ask sapiosexuals if they’ve had “ the surgery”

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1 year

lyft driver asked for my # and i was like, “am i a boy or a girl?” and he just nodded sagely and whispered, “i know.”

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2 years

in MY new book everyone with an x chromosome gets killed off

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2 years

always forget about the concept of foreplay until straight people start talking about it. “foreplay” lol

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3 years

don’t want to rt the NYT piece about how zoomers are scary but talk about a shameless, feckless effort at portraying the youngest poorest cohort in the workplace as being more powerful than the people who employ them

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2 years

there’s an angle where “family” is a consumer good.

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3 years

just looking at this fills me with joy. i can smell the artificial cherry. i can feel the plastic baby in my arms, its tiny body rejoicing in the self-replenishing nourishment that only i can provide.

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1 year

i know it's hard but if u want to be a trans ally you have to let go of your disgust for masculine women

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5 years

fuck marry cancel

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2 years

but if men aren't inherently evil then white women might have to start looking into other power dynamics...

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2 years

impossible to overstate how good and right this is. gay power is only powerful insofar as it is in solidarity with other people's movements. invoking the labor slogan: "an injury to one..." fucking love leslie, man

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2 years

Leslie Feinberg describing how, before there was a pride flag, the Gay Liberation Front flew the North Vietnamese flag

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1 year

you literally will constantly succeed

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1 year

i’m sorry but if you present like this and try to fuck cishet men you will fail

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3 years

is it storming if they just let u in

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3 years

has this section from My Lunches With Orson where the big man talks about how sexy Charlie Chaplin was in drag made the rounds yet

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4 years

what do you miss about going to the gay bar? i miss standing in line for the gender neutral bathroom at 2am and getting nervously cruised by a baby butch who doesn’t know it’s ok to be gay yet

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9 months

this makes them even more gay😍

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2 years

im bored of media where butches are the biphobic ones. where is my little tv show where a butch and a femme are together and the femme is mad bc the butch is fagging out

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2 years

it IS easier and you’ll never misgender someone who uses they/them exclusively (like me!). but you’ll misgender everyone who doesn’t. defaults are easier but they also aren’t respectful.

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3 years

here’s Orson talking about fagging out when he was with gay men to “keep them comfortable”

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2 years

using "womb-haver" "afab" "femme" "uterus-owner" usually comes from those desiring clarity & inclusion, but more often than just replaces cissexism. luckily, these terms almost always unnecessary. no one without a uterus is going to accidentally get an abortion.

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respectfully, I do not have a strong desire to be referred to as a womb-haver or whatever. you can just say abortions are good and people should be able to get them. it’s fine

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2 years

don't worry babe you're not transgender you just want surgery and HRT and a name and pronoun change to reduce your cis dysphoria

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2 years

i wanna hear willem dafoe say “boy pussy”

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3 years

the lady at the deli said “$4.50, boss,” then took another look at me and corrected herself: “boss BABY”

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2 years

i’ll point out again that a lot of people (cis and trans) do this to misgender trans women who use she/her.

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5 months

it’s so funny that straight people saw this and thought it was about women

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9 months

one of the problems w historicizing 20th c lesbian bar culture is that a lot of contemporary lesbians think it would have included them simply bc they’re lesbian

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3 years

the question was a setup to reinforce the myth that trans, gnc, and nb people are new to queer and lesbian culture, so this answer is a total dunk. WE ARE ALL FUCKING AND IT RULES

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giving children information about themselves and their world is empowering. the only people that that threatens are those who seek to harm children.

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@gothjafar what gets me is that she sings it wrong

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1 year

the dearth of sex in movies is dull and bodes ill; i wish that actors making decisions about their own labor, in an industry famous for exploitation of performers, wasn’t so decontextualized; being an actor who doesn’t do sex scenes bc you’re monogamous is embarrassing lol

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2 years

using the r slur…? makes you look ugly and cruel. there’s simply no need

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3 years

i think, if you're a writer, it's a good idea to write as often as you can in order to teach yourself proportion. not everything is the best thing you've ever written, or the worst. not everything shares the same level of skill or scale. profundity is by definition uncommon.

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1 year

how are you non-binary and straight

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a career as a writer is not inaccessible because some writers advise writing daily or generalize about “hard work.” it’s inaccessible bc even the best, most disciplined writers can’t make a living doing it.

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3 years

so we got a prequel about buzz lightyear but not these toys? trans erasure

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1 year

things change over time but remembering that “4” (as in t4t) was originally meant to facilitate fucking, rather than an exclusive/separatist politics, sure does make life a lot easier

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2 years

i don't believe in marriage but if your romantic relationship survived the first two years of covid you're married

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3 years

recently i've been hearing a baby crying next door and i kept thinking, damn, where did this baby come from? they didn't have one before, and today i realized...it was born

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5 years

2040 password questions are gonna be like “what’s your mother’s deadname”

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1 year

the greta thunberg dickshaming thing is funny bc there are people coming at it without a trans lens. like im supposed to feel bad for cis men who aren’t hung. come on now

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3 years

feinberg's legacy has been monstrously difficult to pinkwash because leslie was always explicit about the connections between hir gender nonconformity and hir liberatory mission as a gay communist.

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2 years

being every letter in LGBTQ is like EGOTing

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3 years

you all do know that straight men could provide acceptable oral sex to women if they wanted to, right? it's not because they don't know where the clit is or it's complicated. it's because they don't care. hope this helps

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6 years

Queer Eye but 5 butches come to my house to spit in my mouth am i doing this right

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2 years

arguing over whether or not the shooter is “actually” nb is beneath us and a distraction. it doesn’t matter. stunt or not, that person’s identity is, if not immaterial, secondary to the white supremacist project they serve

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3 years

medical transition is a lot of things but it's not assimilation.

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3 years

isn't it wild that doctors can find it deep within themselves to treat a guy with swastika tattoos but they somehow can't help your transsexual ass

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3 years

the demand for “natural” bodies from transgender athletes is not undermined by the punishment of black women athletes whose “natural” bodies are “too masculine.” these are inextricable from each other.

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i farm desktops like my father before me. ain’t much but it’s honest work

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yesterday i was exploring an abandoned mansion and i found an overgrown swimming pool with computers in it

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3 years

@badinfinity2 this is so funny. "trans alpha males are endangering our delicate cis men"

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i think it’s interesting that all the coverage i’ve seen of billie eilish doesn’t include “what” she came out as

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2 years

they gave me the option so i took it

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5 years

validity is cheap healthcare is expensive

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2 years

pronoun stuff is so tricky. most of us want to be identified correctly, without having to explain ourselves.

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1 year

saw that keffals tweet. i often think about how my sister, who’s been called that word all her life by everyone from strangers to family to medical professionals, has like zero rights.

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3 years

please remember that lauren berlant used they/them 🖤 RIP

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not even a shred of homoeroticism

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Jeremy Allen White photographed by Luke Gilford for British GQ 🔗:

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4 years

solidarity with Caster Semenya, who is a hero.

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4 years

tfw you unlock that level of trans where you forget your friend's deadnames

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1 year

do u think that straight people are actually distinguishing between transsexual and gnc people in any meaningful, consistent, rational, informed, culture-competent way

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i love it when a cis person is just sophisticated enough to ask your pronouns but gets bent out of shape when you ask for theirs back. WaIT a MINUte I Look NorMAL donT I!>!!>

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2 years

honestly would settle for cis journalists recognizing that you can actually be trans and gay, bi, or lesbian AT THE SAME TIME

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1 year

did a tv show make you relate to a bad guy? were you disturbed by your own implication? that’s art, baby

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3 years

@thepplsbottom what if you have no holes in your body, what then

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okay sorry i kept watching it this sext took me out

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4 years

maybe having their job outlawed while still being forced to pay rent will make more civilians understand what SWers have been talking about all this time

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@daniel_m_lavery what haunts them? a literal ghost

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2 years

Modern Family (2009-2020) encapsulates the Obama-era assimilation of a certain kind of white homosexuality into the neoliberal project. The show's two major punchlines are gender-nonconformity and Latine people.

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while i wont say all closeted people are straight, there’s a reason why straight people can and do have queer(ed) sex: they have chosen straightness over their own desires. they are straight, despite how they secretly indulge.

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feel like i could start a real cringe lesbian meme saying that gay girl foreplay is putting our hands together to see whose is bigger

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3 years

the idea that pride is an opportunity to expose kids to difference is insidious. it's not a zoo (nothing should be. zoos are bad). kids already witness difference in the street every day. what if your kids were surrounded with queer and trans people in their daily life?

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3 years

if your distinction between non-binary and trans people relies on medical interventions it don’t make no sense

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2 years

i feel like some people think that if they get covid and have mild symptoms that if they pass it on to someone else, that person will also have mild symptoms.

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i'm kind of obsessed with my boss. i'm using he/him at work because it's just easier and he is running with it. he keeps referring to me, him, and another coworker as "a band of merry men." obsessed

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thinking about last year while literally in the middle of a fistfight this trans girl i did not know corrected a cis man who misgendered me. hope she's doing well

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