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Trans Visibility Day <3

Prepare to be perceived OvO

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Cuddling emotional support Blahaj ♥️🦈

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yup

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You can only reblog this today.

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This was made for last year's Gallifrey One but then my printer exploded and the prints never got made. This year, I finally got to bring him and he sold out! I called it Ncuting Stars because I'm a huge dork.

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maybe it'd help if i stopped calling myself slurs to be funny.

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The mechanical power of teeth!

"stress" by yoan capote - made of bronze and concrete

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¡Viva Ladinoamefrica! ¡Viva el Panamericanismo!

I love so much being a Latina, being Latin-American, being a Brazilian Latina, being from Abya Yala, Pindorama, Turtle Island or, as Lélia Gonzalez says : Améfrica Ladina, Ladinoamefrica, Ladino Amefrica, in which the Jewishness of my giyur process dances beautifully with me being a Latina, in this context of interculturality and — in the construction of Ladinoamefrica — of powerfulness and powerfulfilling of African Bipoc diaspora, of the pre-Columbian Native Pan-American peoples and the Sefardic diaspora in the figures of Bney Anusim, deeply marginalized by systemic antisemitism of Inquisition as a form of racialization — even after forced conversion, the second class citizenship, the marrano stigmatization, precisely due to ethnicity and ancestrality — as well as cultural and religious supremacism...

As a Latina, Ladino feels so close and intimate, like a language I can grasp and relate to, and understand roughly, even before seeing details.

As a Latina, I love that I think of my Brazilianity with this Latinoamerica lens, of the great community of countries we as Brazilians, we as Latinas, are in... I love that I think of my Brazilianity alongside Lélia Gonzalez's notion of Ladino Amefrica!

As a White Brazilian Latina, I stand in solidarity with non-White Latinx and non-Whites in general, as well as deeply aware of marginalized racialized communities regardless of whiteness or not — like for instance with Romani people, the Tatar people, the Jewish people and the Palestinian people, regardless of Whiteness — in a collective liberation from kyriarchy and nordicism.

The importance of the category of nordicism with its extra layers of supremacism and racializations within whiteness itself.

And as someone born and raised in Latin America, the fact that I'm racialized as White here, means I think it's an important social marker of difference, even if I eventually move abroad — let us say, for instance, to Europe, to Canada or to the US, and then have my Latinitud as a factor of intra-social systemic marginalization in out of Latin America polities as a member of the Latin-American diaspora. And also with the very tendency and movement of talking about whiteness inside marginalized racialized communities, like the Latinx community in the US, in Canada and in Europe, with the figure of White Latinos, Latinas, Latines, Latinx.

Abya Yala is so beautiful! Pindorama is so beautiful! Brazil is so beautiful! Ladino Amefrica is so beautiful! ¡Viva Latinoamérica!

All this powerfulness, all this powerfulfillability, all this hopefulness, all this hopefulfillability!

Seguiré brillando como la trava tortillera que soy! Una chica brasileña, latina!

A homaranist, humanitist, gal. An intercultural cosmopolitan. A world citizen! A world federalist! A Pan-Americanist!

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And trans 🥺

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Lesbian Transfeminist Selfrecollections

Léia de Lima Pereira

I was asked by a partner of mine whether I was ace or not. Then I got overtly sincere and then I decided sharing these metacognitive recollections on myself together with reflections on what does it mean to belong to a particular orientation label, and further metacognitive recollections on myself.

It's complicated [to talk about my orientation. The answer to whether I'm ace or not: It's complicated!]

I'm demi-romantic demi-sexual.

And hyper-romantic hyper-sexual either about drive or about attraction. And hyper-gallant.

I'm also open towards sex with women and enbies even without sexual attraction, specially if I find them aesthetically attractive.

And if someone was once an enby or a woman, and specially if we had some thing, I think the attraction doesn't stop if the gender changes to a no overlapping class wrt to the joint union of women and enbies classes.

And in some cases, I may have some opening depending on the level of aesthetic attraction, even outside of women and enbies, specially if it's estrogenized people, and/or cis — or transmasc — femboys, that is to estrogenized people — regardless of which puberty it happened at, natal puberty or HRT — and femmes. I myself am femme and butch, futch , fembutch, androdyke. I'm still doing introspection to understand this very aspect of my orientation.

Then, what I call opening is like a scalar desire, a desire without targets, like purely undirected desire. So for instance, one may just want to kiss and be kissed. Doesn't matter whom. And this desire may be there when it's a particular someone, but as an instantiation of "someone", and not as this specific person. In order words, it's about the desire not requiring that person to be fulfilled. Like, I just want to be kissed. And if it's with someone nice, way better, if it's with a friend, way better, and if it's with someone aesthetically attractive, way better. But it doesn't have to be with this or that particular Ms so and so.

I'm highly gynocentered (like wifgender 4 wifgender) and t4t in my orientation attraction wide and opening wide, even tho there's exceptions.

And as someone who's into more than one gender, I'm bissexual. Either for opening and for attraction. But if I say it without much context or as a primary and solely label, people will then erase the fact about how my attraction works, and erase the fact that most often I feel repulsion by testosteronic (those who went through testosterone) masc presenting cis men — and for testosteronized nonenby trans men I feel more like an indifference, but it's still a pull sending me off a horizon of desire.

But I also want to highlight, that if we are to include all women in our understanding of lesbian possibilities, we shouldn't forget gender fluid, bigender and pangender women — which may also be other genders, including wergender genders, and even manhood. It's not something easy to say, as these topics are heavily polarized, but I think it's deeply imperative to use my voice to empower other women, those deeply disenfranchised because of their enbyhood not being well behaved to the eyes of enbyphobic normativity.

And people may be bi and not into men, altogether. Someone who's into women and enbies fits both lesbian and mspec definitions in so many historical and contemporary definitions.

And people may have fluid sexualities (abrosexuality), or one romantic, and the other one sexual, orientations...

One may even be socially read as a category and claim it as an act of empowerment and as part of political personal identity. I see communities as places of solidarity and empowerment.

And historically the shift to exclusive monosexuality within orientation labels is rooted in the kyriarchal fear of admixture, and in the idea that monosexuality is a more revolutionary, pure, engaged form of homosexuality. The Golden Stars.

And it considers monosexuality as the default, the normalcy. And it washes away the accepted cases of non-monosexuality (mspec) when it's convenient, by not really fully acknowledging them as such. But then what really is the point even to just accept halfly and arbitrarily just some types of non-monosexuality (mspec).

Also one understands that one may be ace and have sex, so behavior doesn't mean attraction and doesn't mean orientation, and attraction, even if alone, is enough to fit orientation labels. One also knows that one can be aro ace and a lesbian, because of behavior and how it's socially read and how it's analogous to the behaviors of concrete lived experience of lesbians. So also behavior alone is already enough to fit.

Also gender roles, including homophobia, are applied to gender categories, but not just someone's true gender, but also their legal gender, their assigned gender at birth, their socially read gender as gender is assigned to them throughout life, the gender assigned to their bodies — which may differ from assigned gender at birth if one goes on HRT or has surgeries, or discovers details about one's own biology that weren't known at the time of natal gender assignment, or even the gender assigned, and specially historically so, to gender presentations.

And I'm a big lesbian. Specially understanding it as a sociocultural historical phenomenon, which involves concrete experiences of orientation, but in these larger context of it being a community. I learned a lot on this from many people and places including from my friend mariam pessah.

I learned a lot from many peoples and places, including my friend Atena Beauvoir Roveda, together with other reflections I've been making, that one's concrete casuistics of behaviors don't ultimately determine one's orientation.

If we understand the LGBTQIAHPN2+ community as a community of solidarity and empowerment, deeply related to gender nonconformity, as the historical sexual inversion trope can atest to, the usual inclu definition of lesbianhood as queer, marginalized, attraction to women, or attraction to women and enbies, or queer orientation towards women and enbies, one can then see queerness through the lens of homophobia as a gender role applicable to a multitude of genders. And the same for Achillean gayness.

During the pandemics, I spiraled into a cognitive crisis which then was among the fuels that engendered my lesbian transfeminist turn in my understanding of things.

I ended up doing all these reflections.

Then, I came up with the idea of who fits the label lesbian and can claim this label as "anyone whose gender identity, legal gender, assigned gender at birth, assigned gender in social reading and passing, assigned gender to one's own body (not necessarily one's agab), and/or assigned gender to one's own presentation / expression is woman and/or nonbinary who's romantically, sexually, sensuously, aesthetically and/or queerplatonically attracted, oriented and/or romantic, sexual, sensuously, aesthetically and/or queerplatonically intimacy engaging, towards anyone whose gender identity, legal gender, assigned gender at birth, assigned gender in social reading and passing, assigned gender to one's own body and/or assigned gender to one's own presentation / expression is woman and/or nonbinary".

And for Achillean gayness, replace woman by man: so "Anyone whose gender identity, legal gender, agab, passability gender, bodily assigned gender (not necessarily agab) and/or presentation gender is man and/or nonbinary who's romantically, sexually, sensuously, aesthetically and/or queerplatonically attracted, oriented, and/or romantic, sexual, sensous, aesthetical and/or queerplatonic intimacy engaging towards anyone whose gender identity, legal gender, agab, passability gender, bodily assigned gender and/or presentation gender is man and/or nonbinary".

I wrote some essays on this, and two chapters of a book, where I begin to deal with those topics in a propedeutic way. I plan on writing more essays on this, and then with some other essays on more general topics through a lesbian transfeminist lens, I plan on hopefully in the couple next years, have written a book which I plan on calling "Critique of sexual reason: lesbian transfeminist meditations".

I'm also deeply inspired by queer studies and by French matérialismes trans, by trans existentialist movements of transanthropology and transanthropophagy by Atena Beauvoir Roveda, as well as by trans-inclusive radical feminism, as well as ofc intersectional feminism, Marxist feminism and anarcha-feminism.

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THE HEBREW PRIESTESS

Ancient and New Visions of Jewish Women's Spiritual Leadership

Jill Hammer and Taya Shere

Reading this is yet another step in my personal journey aiming towards becoming a giyoret!

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Day 95 - Dance Partner Oh boy this one took me a bit, but I really wanted to get out a sequel comic to Scrambled Egg. Anyway, hope you like the comic. If enough people like this one I may make more.

Scrambled Egg

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Was feeling euphoric. As rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum says: "Joy is an act of spiritual resistance"! Self-care, self love, pride is also a form of lesbian transfeminism!

Survival is part of the victory against those who want us to disappear, to not be ourselves, to be exterminated! It's a victory against the statistics!

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Imensa emoção, como escritora transfeminista lésbica, estar ao lado dessa amiga e tão talentosíssima escritora, uma das ilustres forças na literatura feminista negra brasileira! No autógrafo do seu livro Maiúscula, tão Maiúscula ele quanto a própria autora! Ela que foi uma das figuras que muito me ajudou a sentir confiança em mim mesma como escritora, lá em 2019!

Tre ege emocie estas al mi, kiel verkistino el lesba transfeminismo, esti apud tiu amikino kaj tiom talentoza verkistino, unu el la fortoj de brazila nigrula feminisma literaturo! En la aŭtografo de ŝia libro Maiúscula (Majuskla), tiom Majuskla kiel ĝia aŭtorino mem! Ŝi estis unu el tiuj uloj kiuj plej min helpis farti memfideme kiel verkistino, en la jaro 2019!

Momentous emotion, as a lesbian transfeminist writer, it is to me being along her side, her being such a talented writer, one of the illustrious forces in Brazilian black feminist literature! In the autograph of her book Maiúscula (Capital), as Capital as its own author herself! She was one of those figures which helped me the most about becoming self confident as a writer, back in 2019!