#Intersectionality LGBT+

[timkontheunsure]

I'd assumed they must have met; because Loona stays that night at their house.

🙂 I'm actually really happy is Sallie May already ahead of her big sister on this.

Cus Loona's is literally the only hellhound we see all day.

(There's also couple of imps that looks like they might be Trans in some of these. So didn't assume Sallie May would be completely out of community locally, but it's possible she is isolated at home).

Just figuring that still being stuck at home with her bigoted parents, in a monoculture; would make it trickier to shake off crap ideas you get raised with.

But like I said; I'm extremely happy if we're going to get some intersection solidarity😀

It's unfortunately pretty common that queer people can still be a bit racist.

Me and my sib were raised with homophobic and racist ideas from the jump. Which basically amounted to a lot self hate on both fronts.

We try to do better a bit each day, and we've been call eachother out since we were small. So I thought Millie and Sally May might have a similar dynamic.

But we do still fuck up, and that's why I want to see Millie's actions be looked at again. Hope that happens no matter what.🙂

Odd thought, but does anyone else think Sallie May will be used to explode Millie's previous microaggressions to Loona?

when the show starts Millie is more likely to call Loona their business's hellhound, instead of her name.

Making Loona joint office property, like a stapler or the photocopier.

And when Millie heads home, with the rest of IMP, for the harvest moon festival; we see where she got this attitude. From her family.

Everyone else gets introduced by name; but Loona who's back to be described as property.

Which Blitz rightly backs Loona up when she calls this shit out. But he slightly misses the point saying Loona's his daughter.

She was asking to be seen as an individual, instead of resource owned by Blitz. Like a pet or a work animal. And Blitz bless him still ties her statues with these bigots to being his.

Sallie doesn't even mention Loona in the group of people who came to visit.

She mentioned Stolas, who wasn't even staying with in their home; when Loona was.

Millie seems to have started to come around to treating Loona better. Using her name, talking to her directly instead of past her. And even asking her nicely to do something, instead of demanding things like Millie did before.

Yep, it's the very bare minimum of starting to see the other person as a person. And if Millie's changes where pointing out now; it'd be Millie wanting a cookie for something she should have been doing all along.

But it is interesting that it's been left, when Stolas doing the same thing to Blitz has been called out. (Because both her and Stolas are trying to do better).

It feels like a way to have this address would be seeing her own sister pull the same crap she used to. Sallie is set to be in more episodes. (Pet theory is she's help out with Millie's maternity leave).

Loona didn't feel these people deserved to know her name, because she'd just be the hellhound to them anyway. It's not like any of them even asks.

I honestly can't see Sallie May not fucking this up and being very rude; with Millie having to think about her previous actions and apologise.

[ash-the-fluffy-cat]

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say black lives matter

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say disabled lives matter

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say First Nations lives matter

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say neurodivergent lives matter

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say women’s health matters

You don’t get to say queer lives matter if you don’t say ANY other marginalized communities’ lives matter

Intersectional identities are here and won’t go away

[h1biplvm]

Sit down, minority! This person who knows nothing about your community and is fueled with misinformation is gonna explain to you how your body works!

[nonbinarynow]

I am black. I am nonbinary. To any other enben of colour,

I see you.

I know how you are treated in your ethnic culture, in your family. How they tell you "it's a white thing" even though it was your vibrantly-gendered culture that was steamrolled into a binary by Western colonisers. I know how it feels to not be able to use your correct pronouns in your mother tongue because no one knows the neopronouns you have to use in your binary gendered language. I know how you try to mix and explore sides of your native culture that you have never explored before. That you never knew you could blend so euphorically back when you used to live under the binary. I know the guilt you feel for not fitting in, for not being able to pass up your racialised binary gender experience. The ethic sisterhood, the racialised brotherhood. I know how it feels, to be able to pass as something amongst white people, but then the sweetness of that is taken from you as you remember that it is rooted in the racist binarism that continues to subjugate the binary members of your race. I know how to feels to feel invisible in the non-binary community, when most of our representation is white. I know how it feels to view androgyny or gender neutrality as impossible unless you are white; it was the same feeling you felt towards masculinity and femininity when you were binary gendered. I know how it feels to want to transition in a masculine or feminine way, but remembering those who pass as men or women in your ethnicity get killed and sexually assaulted at random by the system. I know how it feels to not want to risk it, to want to hide forever. I see you. I. See. You.

But I do not only know your struggle. I know the beauty of finding other enben of colour, who understand the intersections, the history. I understand the joy that is uncovering that history before colonialism, of the many different genders and modalities of you ancestors gone by. I know the smile that comes on your face when your chosen family (which can include blood relation) uses the right pronouns, the right neopronouns. I know the understanding that it's okay to still understand your racialised binary experience will forever be a part of you that white trans people might not understand. I know the joy of expression through hair, and the absolute ecstasy that comes when you too will realise that androgyny and gender neutrality is not just for white people, not just in white expression. It works in your ethnicity too. I know the feeling of peace that comes from being gendered in your desired way by a member of your race, realising you are surpassing the binarist system.

I know the feeling of great pain that comes from being an enban of colour, a black enban to be specific, but I also know the feelings of great beauty that you get from that intersection. It gets dark sometimes, but there is joy to be found. There is community to be found. There is unity to be found. There is life to be found as an enban/enby of colour. We are strong and we shine brighter than the sun.

[activistwitch]

Illegal Women

on the UK Supreme Court Ruling on the definition of biological sex and why it should piss you off too.

I won’t have the patience nor ability to go into it in detail as my spouse Raven has done us the gift to do, so my best advice right off the bat is for you to set aside a couple of hours, a glass of wine or any other nervous sedation of your persuasion, and put this on your TV

for a quick and insufficient TL:DR, on Wednesday 15th of April the UK Supreme Court published a ruling on the definition of Biological Sex. That’s because two Gender Critical (TERF) organisations, with money funnelled from the likes of JK Rowling and the american Heritage Foundation (the ones who wrote project 2025 and to whom you owe the current state of the US fascist regime), decided to take the Scottish Parliament to court a few years ago.

The offence? Including Trans Woman in a Bill for quotas in boards of directors, so that it would be enshrined in law that at least 50% of the members of a board had to be women. Of course, both cis and trans.

Ben Cooper, the same lawyer who took Tavistock to court on behalf of Keira Bell, the same lawyer who again, paid partially by JK Rowling defended Maya Forstarter and furthered trans oppression, wrote a pamphlet of “rules” out of the most terfist, gender critical ideology that one can possibly imagine. Despite many a trans person and organisations asked the court to bring also their knowledge and lived experience as witness, they were all rejected.

And now the UK Supreme Court has simply put their signature and ratified the definition of “woman” terfs gave them: someone with gestational capacity.

read it again.

“but what about menopausal women?! but what about people with reproductive health issues? without uteruses? who cannot bear children?”

Oh yeah you got it, any reasonable argument against it has been shrugged at.

You thought telling terfs “if you want toilets to be single sex spaces based on genitals do you want this bearded trans me in them!?” was a gotcha? Here they are showing us that in a world where you have billionaire fascists behind you, you don’t need to be right to win.

And in fact according to this rule now, all trans women, and also trans men “who look too masculine” are now excluded.

Like Jess o��Thomson covers in her first article about this legal absurdity: this is Gender Critical’s gloating at having their cake and eat it too, making it clear that if you thought reason, science, facts, were anything to describe the world by? You were sorely mistaken. All it takes is money and the white cis het able establishment to make the rules. about people they have no representation or idea of, and that they openly rejected the witness of.

In this video Raven has put over 7 years of research, because the moment we stepped into the awareness of our queerness, of our transness, we knew we had to have every single little bit of information to advocate and defend ourselves.

and now it’s proof that even that, can be not enough.

And they don’t even hide it anymore. Here’s JK Rowling reaction to the ruling, behind which it is public knowledge, she put 70000£ of her own money. When Labour won in July 2024 she also demanded a meeting making sure Labour’s policies earned her donations (in the realm of Millions of pounds) by guaranteeing gender critical stances.

if you’re wondering what is happening, how is this happening, how did we go from Tory Prime Minister Theresa May saying in 2017 that she would have reformed the Gender Recognition Act of 2004 to de-medicalise it “because trans is not an illness”, to Labour re-appointing Baroness Falkner into the “Equality and Human Rights Commission” who had already been called out by 30+ LGBTQ+ organisations as doing the exact opposite the label said, this is the story.

sit down, listen, learn, and understand why this ruling harms you whether you’re cis or trans.

This ruling is a stepping stone into the complete annihilation of bodily autonomy for everyone.

This is the kind of people that with no shame, has paid for women’s rights to be rolled back (cis woman in a lesbian relationship with a trans woman? Fuck you, you’re not a lesbian anymore, the court ruling actually says that) and tells you you are now “protected”.

you decide who you need protection from now, or next when they tell you that elective hysterectomy because of your endometriosis is not quite something They think you need, especially if you’re white and of child bearing age.

Cause if the population is shrinking, but the war on immigrants is at an all time high, where do you think new labourers will need to come from?

Two seminal pieces of work this research could not have come together without are here on substack, go check them out

@taliabhattwrites The Third Sex

@dolphin-diaries Detrans Women v. Trans Men, Or: The Sanity Of Sex Change

Go watch the full video to understand where Trans People come from, and how since the 1960s trans rights have been rolled back, with the courts hiding cases for precedent, and overall protecting the statue quo with patriarchy at the top happily supporting capitalism. Cause that’s what it all ends up to be: this shows you don’t need to be right to win, you just need to be rich.

[dn-838]

No matter how much people attempt to divide the movement, the Aspec community will forever stand besides our Trans siblings

[vagathathegreat]

Always remember intersectionallity is extremely important.

[mxjackparker]

If you're a trans person who is not a sex worker, you may be tempted to distance yourself from sex workers to try and seem more respectable.

Here is why you should have solidarity instead, due to our shared struggles and strength in numbers:

[tfem-confessions]

After a long wait, our trans server is officially open!

It's 13+ with adult segregated spaces for those who want them. I'm so happy that we're finally done with it! I worked very hard trying to pull it all together for you all, and I hope you enjoy being in it as much as I enjoyed making it!

LINK

As a quick clarifier: This is an intersex and transfem focused server, but allies are more than welcome to join! There are intersex and transfem exclusive areas if those of those identities do so wish to utilise them.

Edit: We fully support and welcome people who do or don’t agree with us. This is a neutral space and you do not have to follow or agree with mine or Isabell’s stances on anything in order to be welcomed here :)

[exeivt]

my zine AGAINST releases today digitally. available for pay-what-you-want on my ko-fi (consider tipping if you're in a good position to, but i understand either way, so no worries)

AGAINST is a 24-page zine that details the intersection of chronic illness, mental illness, and trans identity/struggles, and the impact of these things on an individual's ability to engage with self-care. the first half of the zine offers personal experience and the second offers tips and advice.

a print version will be available on ko-fi and etsy starting Monday, 5/12 with a full-color cover; feel free to wait on that one!

both versions are written fully in Open Dyslexic font. contact me if you want a document compatible with a screen reader instead.

thanks for your support. you have all my love.

[roxyandtheroxies]

It sucks so much that the LGBT community is so persecuted, it sucks for many reasons, and one of them is that it limits the capacity for LGBT people to safely talk about many topics...

To make an example, i cannot imagine how it must feel like to be a non-binary person who, just for a matter of preference, doesn't like people with dyed hair or piercings, and can't stand rock or punk music or drugs or sex-openess or is even like religious or something! Like i get the LGBT community generally wouldn't connect with a person like that, but that's the point i'm making, anyone can be LGBT, and anyone means anyone, even some hardcore conservative transmasc who wants his wife (married by church) to have dinner ready when he comes back from work and to have three children and stuff, as well as bald transfems and many other people who are far removed from their stereotypes.

It sucks that people like that would struggle, even more than usual, to find like, partners or long-lasting friends even in LGBT-centric spaces. My heart goes out for them.

[c0rps3g0bbl3r]

Hi I’ve seen some people go “Nex’s murder is awful but don’t forget about Palestine” and I’m here to say DONT DO THAT.

These are both situations that deserve attentions. They are both wars founded on colonization rhetoric and racism. They are both valid and incredibly important to talk about.

I know it’s difficult to see, but Native Americans are suffering everyday. American and Canadian politics/news outlets are just VERY good at hiding the thousands of Natives who have died to malicious neglect. Thousands have over the last 150 years of treaties and Millions have died collectively.

These numbers run parallel to the Palestinian genocide for very similar reasons. Genocide is genocide no matter how you split it. So:

FIGHT for Palestinian Rights and Freedom

AND

FIGHT for Indian Rights and Freedom

Don’t separate ranks, don’t disuade discussion and demand for change, and certainly do not create spaces for White martyrdom to continue to fuel colonization and genocide.

Doing ANY of that IS contributing to colonization, and unlearning is a bitch process for all of us! That’s okay. Be okay with grieving and fighting together, never apart.

[strangekindstudio]

"Someone shot Clover. But Clover’s still alive. Luck. Heels. And a bridge by the river. She searches for her Somewhere on the perilous road to Nowhere."

CLOVER is a full cast, cinematic, feature-length prologue episode of KIND: An LGBTQ+ Mythical Noir Audio Drama. Listen now at your preferred podcasting network!

Strangekind Studio is a not-for-profit creative collective. We present cinematic, full-cast audio dramas that subvert tropes and challenge genre conventions. Our aim is to spotlight characters who are part of the intersection, including characters who are LGBTQ+, disabled, neurodiverse, and BIPOC.

Our first season, KIND: An LGBTQ+ Mythical Noir Audio Drama, is currently in production and due to premiere in October 2024. You can check out our podcast and social media HERE.

Poster art by Eva Monique

[alovesogentle]

This me pitching my Female Centered, Queer Focused online book club/substack:

I'm still working on the group's first read, but you can subscribe here.