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Agnes Herczeg ; artist research ; inspiration for the weaving project.

Agnes was born in Kecskemét in Hungary. In 1997 she graduated from the Hungarian university of Fine Arts, majoring in textile conservation. She has extensively studied embroidery and lace making, using materials of only natural, vegetable origin, for eg. yarns, threads, tree branches, roots, fruits and seeds. 

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A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.

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Unliking and liking a post to signal to the mutual who reblogged it that I read their tags while laying on my stomach and kicking my legs and twirling my hair

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I just really am so sick of people pretending women aren’t treated like second class citizens and aren’t utterly hated and mistreated in this country bro..it’s enough. I’m so tired of like misogyny I know this is feminism 101 but I’m tired. Of. It. It’s crushing…just the constant reminders from every corner of mainstream culture that if you’re a woman you are worth punishing. Over it!!!!!!!!!!! Going to space!!!!!

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hate hate hate how people act like a woman who doesnt wear revealing clothes must not be comfortable with her body. hence the push to treat wearing a bikini as a fat woman (or even as just a regular non-fitness-model woman) as a victory. no one is telling men that they need to wear speedoes to show they love themselves.

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Teenage girl realizes she isn't trans after tiktok and social pressure convinced her she was a transman. Now she's being ostracized by TRAs and doesn't know how to go forward and feels super alone.

She didn't medically transition because she was under 18.. but how many people over 18 are brainwashed into gender ideology and then actually get the surgery before they realize their mistake? Heartbreaking.

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Something that I think is important to keep in mind irt detransitioners is that they are not “irreparably damaged” or “broken.” They’ve been groomed by a system that capitalised off of their self esteem issues and sex dysphoria. That does not mean that they are damaged now.

Telling detrans women that their bodies are no longer female or need to be fixed, is so harmful. It reinforces the idea that there is something wrong with them that can be fixed by surgery. I don’t think detrans women are somehow lesser women because they’ve had a mastectomy, just as I don’t think women with breast cancer are lesser women. The same applies for women who’ve had surgically constructed “penises.”

I do think that women who’ve had phalloplasties were victims of medical malpractice but that doesn’t mean I think they should risk their health to have their issue “fixed.” There is nothing to fix other than their sense of identity and potentially any solvable issues caused by hrt.

Detrans women, you are not broken. There is nothing wrong with you. Surgery has never been the answer for your issues, self acceptance is. You’re not less of a woman for not having breasts or a functional vagina, uterus, or ovaries. You’re an adult human female and that’s all that is necessary to “validate” your womanhood. You’ve undergone medical procedures, many of which you shouldn’t have undergone. But that is not an issue that can be solved by getting a breast augmentation or attempting to “fix” your neophallus.

You’re perfect the way you are. There is nothing wrong with you. You are a woman and that is amazing. You will always be a woman, regardless of any surgeries and hormones.

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Gender Detransition: a path towards self-acceptance (free pdf) available in english, german, french, dutch, spanish & swedish thinking about detransition? you are not alone

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from tightbra

My mother supported me when I explained my dysphoria and intention to transition. One day though, she asked me a vital question. She asked me why I had to be a boy. “What will you be able to do as a boy, that you can’t do now? Why do you need people to see you as a boy? What is the difference between a boy and a girl?” 

At the time, I interpreted it as transphobia, due to old age and ignorance. I dismissed the questions, assuming that she was too dense to understand my struggle. What I realized later though, was that those questions were valid, and had to be answered if I were to continue with my transition. I needed to understand why I felt the way I did.

After two years of introspection, therapy, and learning, I found the answers I needed.

What will you be able to do as a boy, that you can’t do now? Live, free from the oppression inevitably tied to being female.

Why do you need people to see you as a boy? I don’t. I need people to see me as a person. An individual. A whole.

What is the difference between a boy and a girl? Nothing, not really. The only difference is in how we’re perceived and treated.

What I learned was that there is nothing wrong with me, or the way I was born. Rather, it was a problem with society: the way they viewed me, and all women.

14 year old me didn’t want to be a woman. I wanted to be a person. Only now, years later, have I come to understand that women are people, we are individuals, we are whole. Despite the way society pushes us down and demands we wither.

thinking of detransition? you are not alone

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the two people i tried to be

to my body, im sorry it took destroying you twice to realize you are not the enemy

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GLAAD sending support to someone who they thought was transgender

Then deleting the tweet when they find out the person is a detransitioner

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there is something really sad about this to me. does this person think there is ANY amount of time on testosterone or body hair or pitch of voice or masculine-type behavior that will ever make them indistinguishable from a man, especially in the context of sex? or is it that this person thinks their partner should have brainwashed himself successfully by now? or that he simply shouldn’t say the obvious truth out loud: when a male and a female fuck, it’s heterosexual sex? i’m genuinely trying to tell, because it has to be one of these.

i shy away from “trans cult” language because it’s polarizing and alienating, but this is an example of brainwashing imo. this female person is…surprised? hurt? betrayed?…by the very plain fact that their male partner recognizes the sex they have as heterosexual. that emotion the ftm person feels is genuine, but to anyone not indoctrinated into the belief system of trans ideology, the male is simply describing reality.

there is a part of me that wonders how this person could really truly be hurt or surprised to learn this; the answer to that question is ideological indoctrination.

it’s like with traditional religion. i imagine a christian couple who engage in christian events, go to church, say prayers together, etc. two people who seem to genuinely believe. then one day the wife confesses that she goes to church because she likes the food and seeing her friends, but she doesn’t actually believe in god, jesus, etc. to an atheist like me, this is unsurprising, but to her husband, it could feel like a real betrayal. that’s because he is embedded in an ideology and he has faith.

idk where this is going. i feel so sad for this ftm person for how bewildered by plain reality they seem and how deep they are in an ideology that they likely don’t even recognize AS a belief system. and i feel sad for the male partner who is same-sex attracted and being made out to be a villain for acknowledging that his female partner isn’t the same sex as him.

gender as an ideology continues to wreak havoc on us.

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That gap I-

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women of radblr, would you be interested in a discord server focused on autonomous reproductive health and other women’s health issues? i’m thinking of things like painful periods, PCOS, fibroids, cysts, irregular/anovulatory cycles, discussion of contraceptive methods, abortion resources, pregnancy achievement, pregnancy and postpartum, endometriosis, how to conduct self breast and cervical exams, STI prevention and treatment, the emotional issues that all of these create, etc. but there are a million other things we could discuss and share resources and experiences about!

going through any of these alone can be really difficult, overwhelming, frustrating, and terrifying. i think this could be a good way to share support, bounce around ideas, talk about what has worked for those who have been through it, and so much more! i would really love any thoughts/feedback on this idea, and to gauge interest in it. i think when we put our heads and hearts together, we can create a resourceful and supportive community that can help those of us going through something really difficult.

please comment or message me if you have any ideas or would like to join something like this, and rb so it reaches more of us <3 we are stronger together!

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The definition of bodily autonomy as “I can do whatever I want to myself,” is really disturbing. The idea that it is unethical to intervene in someone self-harming is practically dystopian. And the corollary that someone agreeing to harm you because you asked is the ethical choice is even worse.