Flowerpetalscout - Sawyers Sanctuary

i think the reason people have the view that transmasc people have an easier time passing and are generally more able to be cis passing is because the only transmasc people they perceive to be “really” trans are the cis passing ones. like they look at the whole transmasc community and see a handful of “real” trans men and a bunch of stupid girls playing dress up, so in their mind 100% of us are effortlessly cis passing, because the ones that aren’t just aren’t really trans, and therefore have no idea what its like to suffer as a trans person

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Koi (Hong Kong, 2024)

house sparrow. eläintarhanlahti, helsinki jan ‘25

What Autistic People Want Our Friends to Know

Neurodivergent Lou

Ay, I made these two illustration for a riso workshop last week, it was absolutely awesome !!! (shoutout to dear @jeananasartblog who motivated me to tag along - the print she made during the workshop is RAD AS HELL🔥)

My University has a requirement that, regardless of your degree, you need to take at least one course that centers on the experiences of a marginalized community or communities. I took a course on the psychological trauma of racism. There was a whole week's worth of lectures and conversations sprinkled throughout the course about how racism affects white people.

My second to last assignment for this course is writing about how we will do something for social change. And part of what we've been discussing all this course is how white people need to specifically think about the privileges and the ways racism also affects you negatively. Understanding that is a good way to start discussions with white people about racism, especially as a white person. Which is what's emphasized throughout the course: starting conversations. Starting discussions, whether in your personal life or your career, are a great way to do something for social change.

This was an introductory course with no prerequisites. There was a specific video we watched of a black man talking about how white people don't understand how this system also harms them as well and his frustration that we don't identify that.

Of course we should just care that people are suffering, and that should be enough, but part of the issue is the way people misidentify their suffering to come from people fighting oppressive systems and not the oppressive systems themselves harming them also.

why the emphasis on men suffering? nobody says that white ppl suffer under white supremacy because they don't, it's there to benefit them and only them, same with the patriarchy and any other oppressive state

People do in fact talk about white people suffering under white supremacy. I have seen many different anti-racist thinkers discuss that exact topic.

There is literally no benefit from insisting that oppressive systems are 100% good and healthy for those who benefit from them. It is good when people go "actually this system sucks and makes mine and everyone else's life worse."