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Why are the wrestlers at the store. Leave me alone Mr cena

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Kara thompsonii, a species of land snail, climbs a tree in Cañar, Ecuador

by Edgar Segovia

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It’s so hot outside but I saw some animals

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Sketches by Gustav Gaudernack, 1910

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Three of my friends and I went and took some money to buy a kilo of flour, which costs $85, and we were on the way.

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Untitled #326

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Chi Ming (Chinese, 1984), Asleep, 2016. Oil on wood, 20 x 20 cm.

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Dario Robleto

The Common Denominator Of Existence Is Loss

2008

50,000-year-old extinct cave bear paws, human hand bones, stretched and pulled audiotape of the earliest audio recording of time (experimental clock, 1878), 19th-century mourning ribbon, bocote, shellac, glass

42¾" x 47 ½" x 47 ½"

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Genuine question that I hope will not be taken in ill faith—I do earnestly believe transfems about their experiences and in structural transmisogyny—but do you have any data that supports that trans women are at higher risk of violence than trans men in society at large? Most studies I have seen have reported significantly higher percentages of violence against trans men.

human rights campaign: 83% of trans and gender-expansive victims of fatal violence between 2013 and 2024 were trans women (this report also breaks down the extremely disproportionate levels of violence against tpoc and especially black trans women)

trans pulse: trans men are less likely to be depressed when experiencing less transphobia, having greater sexual satisfaction, and not in the “planning but not yet begun” stage of transition, while trans women are less likely to be depressed when having little involvement with any community organizations

nsvrc: trans women are nearly 2.5x more likely than the greater trans population to receive unequal treatment at rape crisis centers (which i hope will help shed some light on the factors that lead to certain studies saying that trans men have higher rates of being sexually assaulted)

transequality: trans women are more than twice as likely as trans men to engage in sex work, and transfem sex workers are significantly more likely than transmasc sex workers to be hiv+ (also another good report to look at for stats on these factors for tpoc)

2016 gender inequality survey (via the williams institute): 19% of trans men/37% of trans women have lost a job, 17% of trans men/30% of trans women have been denied a promotion, 13% of trans men/26% of trans women have been removed from contact with customers or clients due to their gender identity

transequality: 10% of trans men report having been to jail "for any reason," compared to 21% of trans women

also, just some notes on reports that seem to say the opposite, not that this is going to just completely negate all of those studies, but it is important to consider: most reports that i looked at that say trans men face more violence (mostly ipv and sexual assault) than trans women are self-reported.

i point this out bc (as demonstrated by the rape crisis center discrimination statistics) it cant be ignored that trans women are constantly inundated with the idea that they cant possibly be victims, that they are inherently violent perpetrators, and even that their specific incidents of being assaulted were actually incidents of them assaulting others.

this necessarily instills the idea (which is proven true over and over again) that they wont be listened to when they share these things, and that reporting it (officially or otherwise) may in fact lead to additional consequences on their heads, rather than any kind of justice or even support.

hope this helps! (genuine)

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saw a comment where someone verbatim said “women are not an oppressed minority group” in bold and went on to say there was no force/group killing large numbers of women. it was from 4 hours ago. adults in 2025 literally talk like the misogynistic teenage boys I went to high school with in 2008. misogyny never went anywhere & the reactionary surge in power has just enabled these people to go back to saying publicly the shit they’ve been keeping to themselves for like 15 years

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Pigsty with Tower

China, Eastern Han dynasty (A.D. 25–220)

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why would you lie like that Google ai???

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Oppositional sexism is a very useful term actually. Like, so much is better explained by the idea of “there’s a societal belief that men and women should remain opposites and should have no overlapping traits” than “this is homophobia/transphobia”. Why does society hate displays of femininity in men and masculinity in women? It’s oppositional sexism. They hate that you’re proof that masculinity and femininity aren’t inherently opposites. Thank you julia serano for another banger

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From ‘The Insect Quire (Summer Version)’ by Masuyama Sessai (1754 - 1819). Edo period Japan

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We’re riddled with pointless talk, insane quantities of words and images. Stupidity’s never blind or mute. So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves; what a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying.

Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations, 1972-1990