Feeling pretty gender today. Happy TDOV from a 44 year old trans man.
As legislation gets more and more hostile towards us, I get increasingly bitter at how visibility without action results in us becoming targets and wedge issues. It’s exhausting.
I hate having to plead every day to cis folks to take this crisis seriously. TDOV especially feels like “beg to be seen as human beings” day.
Every trans person posting today is opening themselves to a spike in harassment that might follow them for the rest of their lives. Just in the hopes that our allies could do something beyond telling us we are valid. We know we are valid. We need action so we have the same opportunities to survive and thrive.
Cis folks, you can challenge transphobia in so many ways:
Give to trans orgs and trans people directly
Stop supporting and platforming transphobes such as the wizard lady
Become more involved in local politics, from contacting your reps to voting regularly
Make your workplace more trans friendly by explicitly protecting gender ID and presentation. Normalize preferred names. Get rid of gendered dress codes. Etc, etc.
Be brave and call out all the casual transphobia you encounter. Even if it’s coming from your own family. Especially here, really.
Listen to trans people. Follow us on social media, uplift our voices where you can. Resist the urge to tell us you’re “one of the good ones”. Learn about our challenges, especially how they intersect with race, disability, etc.
I’m being visible today for fellow trans folks who are being made to make themselves small, or even invisible. I want to let y'all know that you deserve to take up space in this world. That trans folks of all ages exist and have always existed. That being trans is not a tragedy or a threat, just because cis folks think so.
The Death Toll of the Earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria may have reached 20,000 people, and that’s outside of all those who are injured and lost.
If you could donate PLEASE do!!!
Here’s a post full of charities you could donate to, but I’ll add my own trustworthy ones here:
Islamic Relief: teams are on the ground right now providing emergency food assistance, shelter, medical supplies to hospitals and clinics, as well as blankets and tents for those made homeless by the quake in Turkey and Syria
Molham: The team at Molham are currently on the ground helping displaced families in Turkey and Syria who have been affected by the earthquake
The White Helmets: The team are on the ground in Northwest Syria searching for survivors and removing the dead from the rubble.
MSF: remaining in close contact with the local authorities in northwestern Syria and with the authorities in Turkey to extend their support where it’s needed. They’re providing essential life kits to displaced people in the region
please PLEASE reblog. Syria and Turkiye need our help!!!
if you're waking up like me thinking "where do we even go from here?"
you:
build community & involve yourself locally
learn self sustainability skills
choose kindness
protect others & yourself
join or build a mutual aid group and/or network
find time for small joys (the arts, cooking a meal you love, spending time with loved ones, etc.)
Ladies, gents, and piratical pals!!!!? Late april fools stuff retweeted from your April fool
The only April Fools related thing I’ll ever post up today.
A fool for fools that is Guybrush Threepfool Threepwood
Precious man (not in black!) sighted ❤ (x,x)
Neil Gaiman: Hi, I'm Neil Gaiman. I'm wearing the first red T-shirt I've worn since 1987. Because I'm a member of the WGA. I'm on strike. I care so much for the things that I've written but I'm out here right now not working and here until we get a good contract because I care about the future of the WGA, the future of young writers. I want a world in which no AI writes scripts or attempts to. I want a world in which young writers get to learn how to make television. And I want a world in which we are fairly compensated for the things that we put up on streaming.
~ I see strength. I see ingenuity! Firey Jr., There's no one quite like you ~
a collage for this jelly-filled joy, though I still have to question how he is both jelly-filled and have a whole.
once upon a time, there was a little boy called doug eiffel. and doug had a superpower: he could get inanimate objects to reproduce sounds happening very far away. modern science calls this power ‘radio.’ … doug eiffel also calls it ‘radio.’
WAIT
Reblog this to have your mutuals describe what their first memory of you is
Happy birthday to the only playformer/j
april fools you look cute everyday keep it up
What is in Will Wood's music that makes the gay podcast fans go wild?
Hi! I'm Lerin | Any Pronouns! | A big nerd who makes like one post every something or other | probably trying to make fanart | afraid to post said fanart | Artsy | Write-y | Gamer
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