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one of the most important things i’ve learned this year is that yesterdays anxieties are todays resolutions. when something you were anxious about ends up being completely fine and not a big deal, which is almost always, it’s helpful to take a moment to recognize that. and if you’re a believer in non-linear time you can send a quantum mental message to your “past” self telling them that they don’t have to worry and the lotto numbers are xyz

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to the anon asking why trans women don't have male privilege.

well. a lot of you are gonna be shocked to hear this one, but it's incredibly clear why not if you listen to trans women's experiences.

trans women have written at length about being sexually victimized, othered, subjected to violence for gender non-conformity, internalizing transmisogynistic cultural norms, being socially excluded and penalized for their failure to be adequate "cis men" and much more. if you are a person who has experienced misogyny but are not a trans woman you really have got to spend a lot of time reading transfeminist writing about this stuff, because your understanding of gender based oppression will always be woefully incomplete if you don't know what a lot of trans women go through and trust them as a reputable source.

here are some texts that i recommend just off the dome

Here's a thread from Grace Lavery about how even before she came out as a trans woman, men perceived her as an acceptable target for sexual assault in much the same way they do women of all kinds.

Here's a book from Laura Kate Dale about how her Autism was never recognized when she was a child because she met all the hallmarks of "female Autism" as a young closet trans girl.

Here's Jules Gill-Peterson on what transmisogyny is, how it functions, and how it affects the entire course of trans women's lives.

Here's Julia Serano's foundational text that introduced the concept of transmisogyny which explains at length how transmisogyny is so baked into our culture that it influences everyone and harms trans women long before they come out.

There's also just, you know, the base logic that queer people still suffer from homophobia and transphobia as kids before they even *know* they are queer. That's not exactly controversial. In fact the very fact that presumed straightness and cisness is forced upon everyone to the extent that a person must "come out" as anything else is a clear demonstration that trans women suffer from transmisogyny at every point in their lives. Being told you are not permitted to be yourself, that people like you do not even exist, is a pretty core experience of oppression and mimics what a lot of other groups of oppressed women (for example, lesbians) go through.

I will also clarify that trans men often experience privileges related to transmasculinity before they even come out! People never quite treated me the way they treated cis women, I've written about that before, and while structurally trans men do experience misogyny, their positionality is different in all kinds of subtle ways.

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Professor of Assyriology, Matthew Stolper, standing in front of the Colossal Bull Sculpture from Persepolis.

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ive seen very few if any sexy models. modeling in general is not sexy i dont see how u could be attracted to a model. posing is not sexy bein aware of the camera is not sexy. candid is sexy. im sexy. im candid. im candy. eye candy. hi mandy. im randy. beach sandy. need handy.

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in wigan, it's as good as gone

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weed is awesome and i love it and i need it but i’ve been feeling a clarity of mind and an ability to be present in the moment during this tolerance break

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Lets go All Over The Fucking Place with mama

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me and one of my boyfriends childhood besties instantly bonded because we both like on cinema and he actually went to on cinema live. and i just found out one of his close friends cousin works on office hours so she has met tim and everything like i’m just a few degrees away from them

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Rare footage. I've never caught him on camera in the act of chasing his tail before.

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redditors love saying shit like "im six foot one, but i want nothing more than a hug. people think im just some titan, but i just want a hug as an adult"

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nasr a. aziz eleyan, "grandchild," 2007, oil on canvas

photograph of the palestinian artist with his granddaughter, lina

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Today marks the seventh anniversary of the original release of the Official Announcement Teaser for The Elder Scrolls VI.

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slowly going off these antidepressants i’ve been on for the last 10 years and almost instantly dropped 3lbs i’m actually so fucking pissed because i just bought new pants. they don’t tell you about the challenges you’ll face when you’re unmedicated like loose trousers and the unshakeable feeling that youres personally responsible for eliminating all the suffering in the world

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whig historians will tell you that history is all about schmovement, but marx corrected this bourgeois understanding with the view that schmovement and fundamentals are in a reciprocal relation, though fundamentals exert the dominant influence