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mr terrific and his terrific spheres :d

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Morning? Routine?

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Sharp tongue

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working with little kids is so dangerous. you get one kid who has a unique way of speaking & then spend the rest of your life with an internal monologue like “me’s go bathroom?”

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I was under the impression transandrophobia just meant “transphobic things that usually just happen to trans mascs”. Most people who believe in transandrophobia, at least that I’ve seen, define it as transandro-phobia, not trans-androphobia, and there doesn’t seem to be an official theory for it like transmisogyny.

I understand why someone would interpret it that way and be drawn to a word with that meaning, but unfortunately it’s a term that falls apart under inspection. In truth, there don’t really exist transphobic things that happen primarily to transmascs that transfems also don’t experience in some form. Everything from sexual violence, hormone fear-mongering, forced detransition in relationships, lack of access to reproductive care (have you even heard any advocation recently for trans women’s reproductive care, be it access to freezing sperm cells, vasectomies, uterus transplants, or the right to adopt?), and wage gaps is something transfems also experience just as much if not more than we do. Even if the rhetoric takes different specific forms, there isn’t any unique material violence we face that the women in our communities don’t. I think the term transandrophobia comes from a reflexive instinct for us to ‘have our own thing’ because transfems have the theory of transmisogyny to explain how oppression compounds for them, but we don’t need a word like that because we just don’t experience a unique compound in regards to our transphobia. Transmisogyny is a useful term to describe how trans women are a disproportionately targeted demographic— a society that devalues women will always see someone assigned-male stepping outside of their sexgender assigned class as the greatest, most humiliating offence to the systems of patriarchy and cissexism possible, and that woman will be disproportionately targeted for violence and correction thusly. It is grounded in the way our world functions and useful to describe the specific vulnerable position transfems are in. Transmascs simply aren’t in that same position. We’re marginalized for stepping outside of our sexgender assigned class, but there’s nothing specific or unique about it. If it’s seen as a crazy and hysterical decision, so is it too for trans women. If we’re seen as mutilating our bodies, so are trans women. In the same way transandrophobia is reflexive, I think it’s also an easy get out of jail free card for many trans men to avoid properly considering the privilege we hold over trans women, and the privilege that comes with stepping into masculine roles in general. If we both have our own words, if we stop understanding transmisogyny as something uniquely, pervasively violent and not just the ‘girl version’ of transphobia, we lose our grounding in the material harms we intend to discuss. To maintain that grounding, we have to be honest and realistic and understand that trans women do have it worse, and have it worse in ways that we can and often do contribute to. I understand that’s an uncomfortable realization for some guys, but reckoning with privilege is rarely comfortable, yet always necessary. If transandrophobia is a word that brings you comfort, I urge you to think about why, think about how its use may affect transfems’ ability to discuss their own issues and have dialogue with us about our negative behaviour, and why it has thusly become a topic that gets so many transgender men down transmisogynistic pipelines.

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While I agree with the message of this post as an Indigenous trans man who has heard this rhetoric around passing many, many times, co-opting our experiences as ‘transandrophobia’ is ridiculous. We don’t experience this because of some kind of (nonexistent) axis of oppression against men, we experience this because of colonization and white supremacist standards of being— which white trans men perpetuate very often! Most of the times I’ve heard this said have been FROM white transmascs! I’m not interested in any ‘allyship’ that attempts to wrap us up into the trans men’s version of the MRA movement. I am sick to death of transandrobros acting like racial discrimination is an experience they can co-opt and use as evidence for their transmisogynist ideology, as if the similarly racialized transfems in my community don’t experience the same harms I do tenfold. The Native transfems in my life and community are invaluable, beautiful people and any Native activism that leaves them behind is not Native activism anyone should be interested in, especially coming from a white man online. Enough of this.

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this is actually legitness

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while im generally all for including more diversity in reimaginings of majority white stories, i think there are a lot of pitfalls that are very easy to stumble into wrt making canonically white villains who have done awful things into characters of color, because you run the risk of pulling on various racist caricatures and negative racial stereotypes. because there are a lot of racial stereotypes based on casting people of color as various kinds of bogeymen who do awful things... which in some cases are rather like the things the villains in some stories do. and making these villains into characters of color can be pretty gross even unintentionally, especially when the white villain in question has a story arc that is predicated by their whiteness in canon. which is not to say that white villains can never be reimagined as characters of color, but rather that doing so requires attention and care and respect. which is not always the case, i find,

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We are seeing the same playbook as Iraq and a lot of Iraqi diaspora also said the same things when it was ongoing. Regardless of how you feel about the Iranian government, do not fucking do CIA job

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“you’re alive! :D” “we covered this?? i thought??”

happy late-middle-of-pride <3 reunion hug but tim picks kon up :] probably based off a suggestion from rimi forever ago

from red robin (2009) issue #9, naturally

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Ahmed was nearly killed in an airstrike yesterday trying to get aid for himself and his family. He lost several friends and was injured himself. Please donate anything you’re able, his situation is getting more and more impossible to endure and I don’t want my friend to die

Hi everyone, a really good friend of mine Ahmed Al-Muzain (@/a7med.03k on Instagram) recently set up a gfm to cover costs of living, medical care, travel costs, and surgery expenses for him and his family following the terrors of the Gaza genocide. I would really really appreciate it if you could all share and donate what you can, thank you so much

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hi. fuck ice. here is how you can help families affected by unlawful deportation

edit: and FUCK LAPD. here is how you can help bail out protestors who are in the trenches, facing mass arrests and putting their bodies on the line.

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Just walking

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It’s gonna be a high school musical yuri summer

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Israel cuts Gaza's final internet line, plunging it into total communication blackout.

Israel bombed the last main fibre route in Gaza, which means that as of June 12, all internet and fixed-line communication services are now completely cut off, further isolating Gaza amidst an ongoing genocide.

I am seeing more and more calls from inside of Gaza for help with eSims as that is currently the only way they can connect internally and with the outside world.

- Buy eSIMs here.

- If you can't afford it, you can donate any amount to this eSIM fund.

- Instructions on how to buy and share eSIMs.

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I know the truth hurts