I saw a post by @adhdmoi about sensory overload and realized it was relatable for anxiety, autism, and ADHD. so i made a meme.
[id= a picture of three arms with their hands held together in the center. One arm is labelled “ADHD” another is labelled “Anxiety Disorder” and the third is labelled “Autism Spectrum Disorder”. Where the three hands are held together there is a cropped screenshot of a post by adhdmoi that says “hhhhhhhhhhhh TOO LOUD” /end id]
you ever notice how to bureaucrats trans people are whatever gender is most expedient for them? transgender woman gets denied a change of gender, she goes outside topless and gets arrested on public indecency charges that only affects women. not woman enough to change her gender, but woman enough to go to jail. this trans woman veteran from ww2 got married after changing her gender on her birth certificate, and after her husband died she was denied widow’s benefits because social security said gay marriage wasn’t legal in the state they were married in. didn’t matter that legally she was a woman and he was a man. she fought that decision and won, but she still was woman enough for her state but not woman enough for the feds
being trans isn’t always about people deliberately misgendering you, sometimes it’s about them deciding what gender would fuck you over the most at any given time. you’re not a woman until it’s expedient for them, you’re a woman until they’d have to actually give you benefits. it’s a bitch and a half
I’m really done with the infantilizing of white women, acting like anything they do wrong is because they were somehow “forced” into it by men. In my own life as a white woman, some of the most heinous words and hateful hearts I’ve ever encountered belonged to white women. News Flash: it’s 2017. Barring some bizarrely specific abusive relationship, no man is forcing any white women to vote for racist politicians, to join the KKK, or to call someone the N word on twitter. White women have autonomy, and we are capable of evil all on our own.
But we’re also capable of putting a stop to it in our own ranks and doing good.
So stop making excuses and start making choices about where you want to stand.
concept: bring back “sexuality is fluid” but not in a “it’s ok to coerce people to be something they’re not” way, and instead in a “the boundaries between gay/bi/trans experiences are not as strict as separatist bloggers would like to make you think” way, and also a “there is no shame in someone changing how they identify” way
I don’t know if this is weird or not, but I totes read Mulan as a trans woman! I tend to read all “women who pretend to be men” stories as very similar to my experience. In contrast, I’ve never imagined that a character presented to the audience as male was actually a trans woman.
Is my way much rarer?
In any event, I think we can all love Mulan!
[Image description: 1. A photo of two clasped hands. One arm is labeled “lesbians” and the other “trans men”. Their joined hands are labeled “loving mulan”
2. A photo of three joined hands, each one holding the wrist to their right. The hands are labeled “lesbians” “trans men” and “bi ppl who stan sheng”. The space in the middle is labeled “loving mulan”.
3. A pixilated stick photo of four hands clasped in a circle with the words superimposed on top: “ all LGBT people interpreting mulan’s undoubtably LGBT identity differently depending on their own experience, and subsequently loving Mulan because of our overlap of experience as LGBT people” End description.]
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