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It’s wild to me to see transvestigator conspiracy theories online that could be so easily explained by natural human variation. That woman has a deep voice? Yeah, sometimes they do. A woman has broad shoulders?? Maybe she plays rugby or hits the gym a fuckton. There’s a “bulge” in her tight pants?? Maybe her vulva is just fat. All the “markers” of trans woman that transvestigators use to harass any woman aren’t even things unique to trans women.

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evilcore

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I think I just realized that part of my anxiety with being in public is that I feel like I don't have the same right to use public spaces as other people do. Like they're the real People Who Use This Coffee Bar. And when I try to use it as someone who is not Inherently Worthy Of Using The Coffee Bar I'm just getting in their way

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Get these ai writing assistants out of my face!!!! I don't care if my writing is bad at least it is mine!!!!

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the problem with buying food is after you eat it you have to go buy more food

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based shadow

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i gotta remember this

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daisyussy

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take everything i say with a hint of lime

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victor newman from young and the restless is actually the only father figure i’ve ever had

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debbie downer and negative nancy should lez out

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this is beyond words beautiful

Cerulean Nights by Sophie E. Eikli, originally published in the first edition of Beloved Zine. Image ID in image description.

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"I was real proud that in all those years I never hit another butch woman. See, I loved them too, and I understood their pain and their shame because I was so much like them. I loved the lines etched in their faces and hands and the curves of their work-weary shoulders."

- Stone Butch Blues (Chapter 1)

I love other butches. Even ones who I vehemently disagree with. There's something about being butch that makes you part of an inseparable connection. You could put me on a desert island and I would still feel connected to the butches i've met, and the ones I didn't, who paved the way for us. Meeting another butch feels like coming come, like finding a long lost sibling. Even when we're strangers, we know each other in ways nobody else could ever know us.

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The only recognition I can find in their eyes is that I am "other". I am different. I will always be different. I will never be able to nestle my skin against the comfort of sameness.

—Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

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Leslie Feinberg in Outlaw (1994) directed by Alisa Lebow

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