#women

[lesbianarthistory]

Helena Janecic – "City Gals" series (2011-2012)

[flocklings]

Unknown Derby Girl, 1970s, Hermosa Beach, CA.

[lovecrumbss]

[milsae]

i like doing drawing practice while i change the person into a woman of my taste

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

Hundreds of people marched in Minneapolis on Friday to honor missing and murdered Indigenous relatives. Between 27 and 54 American Indian women and girls in Minnesota were missing in any given month from 2012 to 2020, according to the Minnesota Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Office.

Star Tribune, Photos by Leila Navidi.

[alicepire]

This is awesome for trans and intersex people, and something I wholeheartedly encourage from that lens. But by being deliberately exclusionary in this way, these people are also making these health messages less useful for cis people.

When "women's health" comes up, it's always a mystery of "is this for breasts, vaginas or uteruses?" Which body part are they avoiding actually mentioning today? Hysterectomies are far more common than you'd expect, I was shocked to find out how many people have had them. If your "women's health" message is only subtly alluding to functioning uteruses and periods, then it's not relevant to menopausal women, trans women, many intersex women, and a surprisingly large number of cis women of "child bearing age". It also might not be reaching non-binary people or trans men who might actually need it. Not all vagina owners are uterus owners, whether the vagina is original or handmade.

The amount of time I have wasted trying to work out if a "women's health announcement" was relevant to me, only to discover it was about cervical cancer or pregnancy or something mentioned in cutesy terms at the end is maddening. It means I start disregarding "women's health" messaging that could actually be relevant for me.

Being precise when talking about medical things isn't just for "woke" or whatever term pearl clutches are using to refer to people who are different to them and they are afraid of. Precision means advice reaches the people who need it, even if they don't fit the incredibly narrow definition of whichever binary sex you're imagining exists.

really not sure when it happened or why but personally I'm pissed that the queer community at large seems to have given up ground on the "people with penises/vulvas/testes/ovaries" language to sex & gender essentialists in exchange for the much less precise, much more demeaning "AGAB" language.

is it because you're scared of the word vulva? of acknowledging out loud that some people have penises? of recognising that many many people, including but certainly not limited to trans people, have mixed sex characteristics that cannot be accurately summarised by "afab/amab" as shorthand for "female/male"?

"in [GENITAL RELATED] situation AFABs will need to do X and AMABs will need to do Y" there are "afabs" with penises and "amabs" with vulvas. Saying this shit makes you look so unserious & honestly transphobic (given the ongoing erasure of post-op trans people within broader community). Intersex people and GRS have both existed for long enough (fucking forever and, decades, respectively) that we should well past making this basic fucking mistake.

quit referring to people by a vague & often violent event that happened at their birth as though it defines ANYTHING about how they & their body currently operate, and start using precise language so you at least look like you know what you're fucking talking about.

[fiercebitch]

[devouredmelancholy]

Only threw this party for you

[animentality]

[j0celynh0rr0r]

Weird I am

[psikonauti]

Jang Koal (Korean,b. 1989)

Topsy-Turvy, 2022

Acrylic on hanji

[numberonewastelanderbaby]

I'm sorry, but she is GORGEOUS

[culturevulturette]

Lookin good, ladies. You can feel the swagger of the gal at bottom right through time and space.

1905 – 1908 street style ♡

[knightesspo]

Young Sevika and young Ambessa.

[capricorn-season]