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First time on tumblr in 2 years. I’m definitely not the same person just from the first ten posts. The posts about being clinically depressed do not resonate anymore. I am happy now. It’s a blessing how much I have learned emotional resilience skills and have a whole hearted sense of being present. 

It makes me get curious when I see celebrities being dragged for things they have said years in the past on social media. I wonder of the over 16,000 posts on here I’m sure I’ve said something that no longer resonates with who I am or what I value. There may even be something I posted that would be hurtful to someone somewhere. 

I’m sure there has to be one or more post that just completely reflects the angry, unconscious person I was when I started tumblr in when I was a teenager.

I invite a more compassionate and forgiving internet culture that allows people to evolve. We are creating in this very moment a standard of how we hold people accountable on the internet. There hasn’t before been a generation that literally grew up on the internet, a public backlog of mental dribble and 3am retweets.

 I see in the future people recognizing someone’s scattered blunders on social media 7+ years ago (just like US bankruptcy laws lol) expire as a reflection of who they are, given they are within the reasonable level of clearly this person has grown and had consistently been behaving appropriately since. 

This is coming from a transgender person who has so much understanding for people who have said transphobic things in the past but consistently make different choices. My own mother didn’t support me, said horrible things, I don’t drag her for filth when she slips up even now calling me the wrong pronoun. I recognize where she was, is and where she is going. Doing that has allowed her to come back to being one of my biggest supporters. I gave her space to grow. That’s when real conversation and change happens. 

And if someone does have the time to go back through my 16,000 posts I’d gladly delete anything you brought to my attention that was shameful. It would save me the trouble, I don’t have the time and I don’t want to delete my blog because I transitioned genders on here with photos, videos, and posts. It’s a priceless capsule that maybe will help people. 

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I am going to start a new diary series on my channel all about transgender spirituality. This clip is from Transgender Spirituality Ep. 1 Expanding My Beliefs (link in my bio for full video) • I get almost daily comments on my YouTube channel either saying I am going to hell or I should repent based solely on the fact that I am transgender. What these people don't understand is as they attempt to push me into their own narrow view of who I should be in the eyes of their religion, they haven't pushed me to feel guilty for who I am and accept their beliefs at all. They haven't pushed me to shy away from Spirituality all together. They have only pushed me to expand and TRANScend my own Spirituality that recognizes as I honor my inner spirit, my soul, that tells me I am this gender, I am honoring the Universe, I am honoring the higher source of love that created everything. Maybe you call it God maybe you don't. It doesn't matter. As I honor myself I am honoring the Universe (God) trying to express its highest self through me. We are all meant to listen to our inner spirit (heck, call it Inspiration if that makes more sense to you) in order to express our desires and the source of love's desires through the lives we allow ourselves to live. They are one in the same. No matter what anyone says to me they will never be able to separate my transgender identity with my spirit or from God or the Universe. Being transgender is part of the highest expression of my truth. The Universe is transgender because I am transgender. • • • #transgender #thisiswhattranslookslike #ftm #genderfluid #genderqueer #trans #transman #spirituality https://youtu.be/4xVlcKZNhQE

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If the Government Treated Men Like It Treats Women

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I was looking at selfie sticks on amazon and i think this review is so sweet and cute

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As we approach June and the anniversary of Stonewall, I just want to remind everyone that twerfs/terfs have no connection to the spirit of Pride or Stonewall. Those were founded by the very people they want to dehumanize, and twerf ideology aligns with the anti-lgbt.

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A photo I took of beautiful Sophia from last summer’s Dyke March in Montreal, QC

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when youtube restricts your videos

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Your daughters do not exist to give you grandchildren

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A compilation of amazing tattoos that turns scars into works of art. (Source)

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so i got a notification from our security camera that someone was at the front door and

a blurry friend

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no show should be longer than 5 seasons

what show have you watched where you are like “oh yeah season 7 definitely was the best one”

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are there any genitalia-based sexual orientations? like someone doesn't care what gender someone is as long their genitalia looks like this...?

offhand there’s:

transphobia transmisogyny cissexism violent dehumanization reducing human lives into arbitrary categories and destroying their identities for something as petty as sexual gratification edit: intersex erasure (thanks @theunitedcabrio)

so you can pick from those if you want

-mod aspen