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[impofthegasstation]

im reposting these here because im bringing these guys back from the dead or whatever. i remember i likr them an lotnok

[perenians]

WHY DID CASS’ BIRTHDAY HAVE TO BE ON THE DAY I HAVE *checks schedule* TEN HOURS OF CLASS SOBBING

[intersex-support]

Intersex Resources: Books, Art, Videos

Here's a list with some resources to learn about intersex community, history, and politics! These include some academic sources and some community sources. I'd love to add sources in other languages and that focus on countries besides the United States, so if anyone has recommendations, please let me know. Continually updating and adding sources.

Reading list:

Intersex History:

"The Intersex Movement of the 1990s: Speaking Out Against Medical and Narrative Violence" by Viola Amato.

Hermaphrodites with Attitude Newsletters.

Jazz Legend Little Jimmy Scott is a Cornerstone of Black Intersex History By Sean Saifa Wall

"Hermaphrodites with Attitude: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism" by Cheryl Chase

Chrysalis Quarterly: Intersex Awakening, 1997.

"What Happened at Hopkins: The Creation of the Intersex Management Protocols" by Alison Redick.

Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex by Elizabeth Reis.

Intersex Politics

“A Framework for Intersex Justice.” Intersex Justice Project

"Creating Intersex Justice: Interview with Sean Saifa Wall and Pidgeon Pagonis of the Intersex Justice Project." by David Rubin, Michelle Wolff, and Amanda Lock Swarr.

"Intersex Justice and the Care We Deserve: ‘I Want People to Feel at Home in Their Bodies Again." Zena Sharman.

Critical Intersex edited by Morgan Holmes.

Envisioning African Intersex: Challenging Colonial and Racist Legacies in South African Medicine by Amanda Lock Swarr.

"Intersex Human Rights" by Bauer et al.

Morgan Carpenter's writing

"I Want to Be Like Nature Made Me: Medically Unnecessary Surgeries on Intersex Children in the US." by Human Rights Watch.

Cripping Intersex by Celeste E. Orr.

"From ‘Intersex’ to ‘DSD’: A Case of Epistemic Injustice" by Ten Merrick.

"Did Bioethics Matter? A History of Autonomy, Consent, and Intersex Genital Surgery." by Elizabeth Reis.

Intersex Community

"Normalizing Intersex: Personal Stories from the Pages of Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics." edited by James DuBois and Ana Iltis.

Hans Lindhal's blog.

InterACT Youth Blog.

Intersex Justice Project Blog.

"What it's like to be a Black Intersex Woman" by Tatenda Ngwaru.

Intersex Inclusive Pride Flag by Valentino Vecchietti.

The Interface Project founded by Jim Ambrose.

Intersex Zines from Emi Koyama

Teen Vogue's Intersex Coverage

YOUth& I: An intersex youth Anthology by Intersex Human Rights Australia

Intersex OwnVoices books collected by Bogi Takacs.

Memoirs:

Nobody Needs to Know by Pidgeon Pagonis.

Inverse Cowgirl by Alicia Roth Weigel

XOXY by Kimberly Zieselman

Fiction:

Icarus by K Ancrum.

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Video/Audio

Every Body dir. Julie Cohen.

Hermaphrodites Speak! 1997.

Liberating All Bodies: Disability Justice and Intersex Justice in Conversation.

"36 Revolutions of Change: Sean Saifa Wall."

Inter_View: An Intersex Podcast by Dani Coyle

Hans Lindhal's Youtube channel.

What it's Like to be Intersex from Buzzfeed.

Emilord Youtube channel

I'm intersex-ask me anything from Jubilee

What it's like to be Intersex-Minutes With Roshaante Andersen.

Pass the Mic: Intercepting Injustice with Sean Saifa Wall

Art

"Hey AAP! Get your Scalpels Off Our Bodies!" 1996.

Ana Roxanne's album Because of a Flower.

Intersex 1 in 90 potraits by Lara Aerts and Ernst Coppejans

Anyone can be Born Intersex: A Photo-Portrait Story by Intersex Nigeria.

Pidgeon Pagonis "Too cute to be binary" Collection

Juliana Huxtable Visual Art

Koomah's art

Please feel free to add on your favorite sources for intersex art, history, politics, and community !

[trans-axolotl]

"The medical establishment tries to divide and conquer intersex and trans organizing. They try to make us think that trans and intersex people are completely distinct and that joining together will just muddy each other’s fights. This has been beneficial to the medical establishment. The opposite is true. Intersex and trans justice, when you boil it down to its basest form, is about bodily autonomy and self-determination. It’s about the inherent human right to experience love in all its forms, emotional and physical, in a body unhampered by social constructs of what a man or woman should look like. This stirs up a lot of vitriol from the rightwing white supremacists. These bills that will subject kids to genital examinations in order to play sports are horrendous. Sports was my life, but it was never like, “You have to spread your legs to play a sport.” This is legislation in 2021, post Trump, when Democrats have control.

There are still cops killing Black and Brown people and children. They are locking people up, splitting up families at the border, throwing them in cages, which is born of slave catching. These antitrans bills are working to codify into law what a man is and what a woman is. There is a connection between our pushback on surgeries on intersex kids and the state incarcerating Black and Brown people. It is all tied into white supremacy as the definition of what it means to be human. White supremacy is thrashing around and trying to be relevant, and I hope we all live to see the aftermath. I think it’s necessary for intersex and trans activism to work in solidarity. This is the future wave that we need to ride."

-Pidgeon Pagonis, interviewed by David A Rubin, Michelle Wolff, and Amanda Lock Swarr in Creating Intersex Justice, 2021.

[muchalucha-art]

Doomien just may be the series' most underrated episode...

As I've mentioned, due to the fact producing a lot of these episodes was such an intense experience, it has been years since I've watched some of them. This one is just brilliant. He didn't get a writing credit of course, but the dialogue was all Gabe Swarr's. I held on to a copy of his first draft storyboard for this episode for years. Unfortunately when interest in the series seemed to cool around 2017 - plus the fact I had to downsize because of my move to the UK - I regretfully had to part with all my storyboard copies.

Really enjoying revisiting and re-familiarizing myself with these great episodes.

Everyone gets the 'Legion Of Doomien' reference, right?

[b-movie-scream-king]

I FUCKING HATE THIS STUPIC FUCKING GAME IF TJAT UGLY ASS FUCKING SLUTLORD FAGTARD CHAINSAW VILLAGER CUTS MY ASS IN HALF ONE MORE FUCKING TIME IM GONNA LOSE IT I SWARR TK FUCKING GOD

[blackkittiesinabox]

Thinking about writing a full document on how our system works

From headspace

To our spiritual origin

To switches

Just for like.. funsies

I swarr im going to sleep now

-Val

[ooppo]

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[cf56]

Don't worry too much about the end of Animaniacs. Executive Producer Gabe Swarr has confirmed on Twitter that The Warners lived (or they just need to be reanimated). The meteor was meant to be a metaphor for Hulu.

Thanks for the comfort! I think this is a good PSA for the fandom. However, the problem for me honestly wasn’t that I felt sad over seeing the Warners dying… it was that I didn’t feel sad. I didn’t feel anything. It was just so strangely done. Part of that may have been due to me being spoiled on it right before, so I’ll never know what my genuine reaction would have been.

I understand the metaphor they were going for with an abrupt and sudden ending. I just think they should’ve thought it through. You might be disappointed, but you can at least give the fans something positive to hold onto. This could be the last Animaniacs content ever, they don’t know. That ending could be what we’re left on forever. I would’ve much preferred something positive, an actual satisfying ending for the fans. (Look at the last paragraph of my post here.) I don’t think being rushed is a good enough excuse, because they clearly had enough time to record the voice lines and animate the different ending.

I’ll have more to say in my full episode review. I’m sorry to be so negative lately. I’ll try to reverse the vibe a bit this upcoming week, but for now I have to get my most pressing thoughts out while they’re fresh.

[sarejinjin]

Exams start in 2 days wish me luck. I've actually been revising I swarr (இωஇ )

Anyways I'm new but follow me fellow strugglers for my mid art(trad and digital) and rants

[beeclops]

Gabe Swarr (executive producer of the Animaniacs reboot) says The Warners survived the final moment of the show. I just want to let fans know.

are you seriously kidding me right now 💀

[pastelalleycat]

Not going to say who these tags belong to or what post it came from. What I am going to say is, some people are trying to cope in the best way they can. And many, myself included, were upset at the Animaniacs S3 ending. (The tweet by Gabe Swarr saying they were still alive helped, but I didn't see that tweet for a day and many episodes of the Muppet Show were needed to help me calm down.)

Maybe there are better places to post "meltdowns", and the meltdowns themselves should probably be tagged as such. I can acknowledge that. But to be fucking frank, I haven't seen a greater lack of sympathy in the fandom (directly relating to the show) than these sort of responses to people genuinely hurting from the season finale and Warnergames. Not an exaggeration.

Yes, Animaniacs is just a show. Yes, it's fictional. Yes, it's not as plot-based as other shows. But people have the right to be upset. People have the right to express that they're upset. Fiction does, in fact, impact reality. And if the best thing you can possibly say is that people should just stop hurting, that they need to keep their "meltdowns" out of a community that's supposed to be supportive and open, then I think you're the person who needs to go outside. Touch some fucking grass.

[animaniacsxposed]

Hi, fun fact to throw into the colossal cringe inducing mess that is Animaniacs nsfw discourse nobody ever catches: The creator of the reboot, Gabe Swarr, confirmed some time ago the Warners can be seen as young adults or purely ageless entities set to individual personal interpretation. They can be children, they can be adults, there are no rules. I have screenshots. Also Ruegger legit never said the Warners were 14 11 9 I'm so fucking sick of that podcast being misreported, he question-answered what they "might" be and immediately disputed it by saying Yakko's an adult, ppl need to stop treating it as definitive bc it shows they've never actually watched that interview

From the Animaniacs Bible itself. I just see them as physically teenagers but there real ages would be 93 according to the graves.

I never understood where the random ages of 9-14 came from and I've never heard of this podcast with Ruegger before I thought people were making up numbers

[trans-axolotl]

"When Intersex Justice Project was established it was revolutionary. At least to my knowledge, except for the Intersex Society of North America’s protest of the annual convention of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1996, there hadn’t been any sustained protest by intersex people and, in particular, Black intersex people and intersex people of color. In thinking about the Intersex Rights Movement, there was a coalescing with Hermaphrodites with Attitude and Transexual Menace, but IJP was born of a radical ethic centering people of color in intersex work, something that historically hadn’t been done. Because of the way intersex people are so heavily pathologized, it’s really important to liberate intersex identity from medicine. IJP humanizes intersex people who have been pathologized.

...My desire for founding IJP was to create a safe space for me and people like me to be supported. Most organizations in the United States are not capable of supporting Black leadership. Period. I’ve experienced my leadership being undermined and my ideas appropriated. This is a microcosm of what actually happens to Black people in leadership. My desire to found IJP was to make a safe place for Black people, and I really want to center Black people and intersex people of color in this work.

Especially at this moment in the United States, as we are contending with racism and anti-Blackness, how does Blackness relate to being intersex? How does being Black and intersex relate to disability? How does it relate to being poor? How does it relate to reproductive justice? For me, it was really about making those strong connections. In this second wave of the intersex movement, the work has to be connected to other social identities and categories if it’s going to succeed. Historically this work has been done in a silo. For me, intersex justice is being in conversation with other movements."

-Sean Saifa Wall, interviewed By David A. Rubin, Michelle Wolff, and Amanda Lock Swarr in Creating Intersex Justice, 2021.

[muchalucha-art]

Mucha Lucha! Episodes 30, 31, 32...

Here's a bunch...

EPISODE 30

WRONG! The storyboard artists have been labeled incorrectly on the document. Brat in the Hat was a joint effort I believe from Ricky Garduno and Greg Colton, whilst Election Daze was (I think) by Tina Kugler.

Again, Lili and myself were back in Sydney for a spell as these were being produced. We still made notes and suggestions, but we weren't present at WBA: we had our own animated mini-series in production (Cosmic Baby) and staff working in our Sydney studio, and so we divided our time between LA and Sydney.

Election Daze sticks out for me as I had an issue with our story editor over it. I really thought the premise was too much of a generic school story that had been done to death in countless other shows since the 1960s: Heck, Marcia even competed with Greg in The Brady Bunch in the same story back when I was a kid! But I was assured that it would be done with originality and would be different to what had come before. Was it? Let me know your thoughts :)

*edit: actually writer Ken Pontac must have been a Brady Bunch fan, as it combines ANOTHER BB story where Marcia competes with Greg's girlfriend to be head cheerleader and guess who has the deciding vote? That's right, Rikochet! Er, I mean...Greg!

EPISODE 31

Welcome back Gabe Swarr! Going through these I couldn't help being struck by the absence of Gabe. He started the season with Lone Stars, but it had been a LONG time since his last episode Chain Of Fools. Why? I remembered it was most likely due to the fact he was working on his own pilot at Disney based on his comic book 'Big Pants Mouse'. This made me realize that the board artists must not have been under any contract and worked strictly on an episode-to-episode basis - in house or remotely if they preferred. Gabe must have taken time away to work on his animated pilot.

But he came back with a bang, and completely made this episode - LATE NIGHT LUCHA - his own. This was one of the first times a board artist decided that they were going to design their own characters via their storyboard. It was a trend soon followed by Ricky and Greg. I heard some grumblings later from one of the season 2 character designers about this, but as far as Lili and I were concerned people like Gabe were all-round geniuses and we welcomed what he - and the others - came up with! In the end, the show itself was the winner!

For more images from this episode...go here

EPISODE 32

You've heard it right? A wrestler is suspended (usually by WWE) and the reason is because they are in the process of battling 'personal demons', which was usually a euphemism for alcohol or painkillers. Well I decided to use it and came up with the story Flea's Personal Demons (again no credit).

Ah, Virtual Luchadores! All hail to the king - Ricky Garduno. Michael J. Prescott may be credited as having wrote it, but we know how writer credits work in the WB universe, so it could have been nothing more than the idea. This was ALL Ricky. I've blogged and posted about this one in a lot of detail (search #virtual luchadores or # virtual luchador to see previous posts), and I am still in awe of how great he/it was/is. We really were blessed with his brilliance.

And that's it for now...Eddie out :)