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normalest space station in federation history

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Look me straight in the eyes and tell me your current music taste isn’t what your father played in the car when you were a kid.

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[“Tuck: Mm. Well, we have a tradition on this show that if someone self-describes as femme, we ask what femme means to them.

Leah: Ooh, I love that.

Tuck: Yeah, and I’d say you say “femme” on maybe every single page of Care Work alone [Leah laughs], sooo… what does it mean to you?

Leah: Yeah, I would say that femme is a multiverse. It’s always important for me to say like it’s one big, huge, ocean with a lot of different currents in it. It’s a lot of different kinds of queer, and I think there’s ways specifically for me, as I’ve been able to name myself as non-binary as a word in the last 5 or 6 years or so, or more than that even. It’s really taken me back to like, what’s my femme root? And it’s a thing that I think that is maybe not true for every femme who came up in the 90’s, but for me and a lot of people I know it is, I’m like, femme was never “girl”, and it was never “woman”. I wouldn’t have said oh it's a genderqueer identity, other people did, like Cyrée Jarelle Johnson has amazing early writing where he’s like, no femme is always non-binary, it’s always trans, and he makes some really amazing arguments that way.

If you’d asked me in’ 96, is femme genderqueer, I would have been like mmmhhh, but what I did know was that, like my friend Amira made this really beautiful sculpture that just says “femme is for free” and I was like, yay it’s like a portal out of all the ways that being somebody who’s feminized is about pain and oppression and violence. And for me, it was always, again without using that word, a genderqueer identity, it was like, I’m not a girl. I’m not a woman. I kinda itch when I hear those things. And then later on, ironically as there was more organized femme community, I would go to the femme conferences that were happening that were amazing spaces, and that really, I’ve got to say never were like oh, no, no, this is just for the ladies, the cis ladies, but I was like oh there are a lot of femmes out there that are like cis women who really like a 1950’s rockabilly look, and that’s so not me. And I didn’t know it was gender feels, but I was like wow, I feel really ugly next to you. And I feel like I’m trying to do your look, and it’s just not working. And it makes me want to rip my skin off.

So for me, I had an experience in the early 2000’s where there were transmasculine people and femmes. And femmes were not assumed to be trans or non-binary at all. There were a few exceptions, like I had a few friends who were trans women or trans femmes who were partnered with trans guys, but that was pretty rare, and in a lot of kind of AFAB queer community, it was just like there’s trans guys and there’s femmes, and to be femme was to kind of be the girls auxiliary of this setup. There was just so few representations of, I don’t know, trans masculinity of color, you know, and a lot of the models out there that I knew of that I saw around being trans were really binaries. And that wasn’t the fault of any of us, I mean it was the fault of, we were still dealing with the Harry Benjamin system, where it was like, you’ve got to be a guy if you want to get T, and there’s no middle ground. And there was a lot of language then about like, yeah, your job is to kind of be the perfect girlfriend, the perfect support person, and there’s a lot of language of oh you know, transmasculine people are going through this second boyhood, this second teenager-hood, so you’ve gotta really be the girl to make them feel like the boy, and there were just so many ways that binary stuff, sexist stuff, gender stuff, was really not questioned at all in there. And there wasn’t room for me to be like, hey, I’m femme, but I’m not cis and I’m not this kind of perfect girlfriend who my gender is existing to kind of maximize your gender.

And so I think out of that kind of shmear of reality, a lot of femmes I know of different genders have come out about being non-binary or trans, or we’ve figured out different ways to inhabit our genders or explore gender in the past decade, you know, ish, definite in the past like 5 or 6 years, and I think a lot of it has to do with both the enormous work that as femmes we’ve done to create femme community where there’s a multiplicity of femmes speaking to each other, to the work of transfemmes to really unpack the misogyny and sexism in a lot of femme and trans communities. And also things like the beginnings of just harm reduction and openness, and doing away with the Harry Benjamin standard so that people can go and get, can try out microdosing hormones or be like I want this kind of surgery, this kind of gender-affirming care. I don’t just have to kinda get this thing that’s off the rack. I get to kinda design my own gender care. And I think that that’s all this together has created room for all femmes, and all people, but I want to say specifically a lot of femmes who are Generation X or older femmes, to be able to really explore our genders and come out as trans and non-binary and inhabit the world in our bodies and our genders the way we want them to be. Which we did not have room to do or even really think about 15, 20, 30 years ago.

Tuck: Right.

Leah: Yeah, I mean I guess the TLDR is like, femme is for free, and if it’s not about freedom, then it’s not femme. That’s my answer. That’s my story.”]

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people are always slandering historians for saying reasonable things like "some things that seem romantic to us were platonic in the context of the times", when there's so many evil historians you actually have to look out for. number 1 : the closet royalist

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Unsettling Languages, Unruly Bodyminds: Imaging a Crip Linguistics

Manuscript authors: Jon Henner, Octavian Robinson

Read aloud by Mx. Vagrant Gautam.

Abstract

People use languages in different ways. Some people use language to help find other people like them. Many people use language in specific ways because of how their body and mind work. Sometimes a person’s environment and material conditions forces them to use language in a certain way. However, when someone languages outside of what people think is normal, others can think that they are bad with language or are not as smart or are broken. We are trying to point out that no one is actually ‘bad with language.’ Our goal with this paper is to help people understand that no language is bad. It is okay to want to change your own language use if it will make you feel better. But no one should make you feel bad about your language. We need a bigger and more flexible understanding of what language is and what it communicates about a bodymind’s capacity.

Manuscript link: https://criticalstudycommunicationdisability.org/index.php/jcscd/article/view/4

Citation: Henner, J., & Robinson, O. (2023). Unsettling Languages, Unruly Bodyminds: A Crip Linguistics Manifesto. Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability, 1(1), 7–37. https://doi.org/10.48516/jcscd_2023vol1iss1.4

Social media: The authors can be found on Twitter at @jmhenner and @DeafHistorian. Read by @DippedRusk on Twitter.

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This is the funniest fucking thing, omg.

THE SAPPHIC MERIDIAN

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art nouveau tile pngs ! credit not necessary for pngs ! like or reblog to use <3

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Antique moon and stars banjo heads

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Also preserved in our archive

First new addition to the isolation protocol board in a long time. Feel free to add your own if you know of any other resources like this!

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do you or do you know/are you related to someone who has a wikipedia page?

no, i do not have a wikipedia page or know anyone who does

not directly, but i am a few degrees removed from someone who does

yes, i know someone who has a wikipedia page, but not well

yes, i know someone very well who has a wikipedia page

yes, i am related to someone who has a wikipedia page

yes, i have a wikipedia page

yes, multiple of these/multiple individuals

nuance button?

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rewatched The Forsaken because i love Lwaxana. had completely forgotten that she calls Odo “the thin beige line”

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The EP–1320 Medieval is, amazingly, a real gadget being sold by Teenage Engineering — it’s a “beat machine” (or “instrumentalis electronicum”) loaded with a bunch of musical phrases & instruments from the Dark Ages. “This is ludicrous and I love it.”

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many worry about pro-shippers when they should be worried about the pro-letariat........liberation awaits and the only fanon you should be discussing is frantz

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this tweet is ruining my life rn