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She didn’t have to flex this hard 😤😤

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…who provide hard evidence that politicians who voted for SESTA/FOSTA engaged in their services. Identities protected and a legal team is on it. I found it on Twitter through SWOP Behind Bars and AVN so…do with it what you will, lovelies. I hope it’s legit.

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school districts and administrators are working hard to scare students out of protesting in the wake of the Parkland shooting.

don’t fall for their bullshit. you have the right to speak up and make yourself heard. a local superintendent doesn’t overrule the first amendment, much as they might like to.

and here’s an open invitation: I’m a teacher, recent PhD, one-time educational administrator (although not in a public school), and hopefully soon to be a college professor. if you need advice on navigating the crap your school is giving you or minimizing the impact they can have on your chances of getting into the college of your dreams, message me. I’ll help you find legal resources, write admissions essays, find ways to argue for your right to protest to your school board - whatever I can do.

please signal boost this, and if you’re someone who can help (civil rights lawyer? college admissions counsellor? experienced activist leader?), join in and let young activists know what you can do to help.

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“We want diversity, we want intersectional gender parity, we want equal pay.” Debra Messing drags E! while being interviewed on E!

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@wildheartmp3 + ziggybb

Living With The Pet.

Artist Yaoyao Man Van

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was this you @wildheartmp3

I’m SCREAMING this girl just asked if I’m doing anything this weekend bc we could hang out and this dude was like “I’M NOT DOING ANYTHING” and she said “sorry I have a family thing all weekend I can’t get out of :/” and turned back to me and proceeded to make plans with me in front of him this is the “*visibly texting* I don’t have a phone” meme on crack

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it blows my goddamn MIND that this rhetoric goes after TW for being women hating when actually isn’t “pregnant people” about making it inclusive of transmen and nonbinary and gender queer folk who may get pregnant?

NOT 👏🏼 ALL 👏🏼 TRANS 👏🏼 PEOPLE 👏🏼 ARE 👏🏼 TRANS 👏🏼 WOMEN 

That’s why anyone coming out against this and yelling at TW is transmisogyny and transphobia: you can’t even bring yourselves to acknowledge ftm/transmasc/nb experience because you’re so busy shitting on the transfeminine.

“feminists reacted with outrage”

no. TERFs did.

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ALSO MY DUDE MY PERSON MY GUY

http://www.underworks.com/sleeveless-swim-top is DABOMB, I have one, I feel badass in it bc it’s faintly superheroesque. However, take it from someone who definitely didn’t but also maybe did this - when you put it on, make sure you don’t tuck it in to do anything. Otherwise you will push through the water and your shorts will start to come off and lemme tell you, nobody needs that.

Or if you don’t need a tonne of support and just want the coverage in a way that’s comfortable, look at a “tankini”. I have longer shorts, but to me it feels like wearing a workout shirt and I don’t have to think about anything else.

Hi, so I lived in Ohio and my family wanted to go to this water park and so do I (btw I'm transgender ftm). So I bought swim short but I've been thinking what to wear for the top. I did some research on what to wear for the top but there is none. I hated to wear a bra or a bikini bra and I also hate to wear binder without a shirt on. So please give me advice on what to wear to the water parks. Thanks.

I suppose it also depends on your chest size but maybe a swim shirt? A full length binder that looks like a tank top? Or just a t-shirt, if your chest is small and you tape your nipples (make sure to do so safely!!!!!!!!! look up how to do it!)

I hope you find something that works!

- Emil

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He’s scared of himself in the mirror

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Pride, New York, June 1990

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I get really confused when americans, when talking about universal health care are like ‘yeh but it’s not free sweaty :) :) you have to pay it through taxes :) so gotcha!!’

and I’m like ….???? That’s the whole point??? Everyone pays their fair share so that no one has to be turned away because they don’t have insurance??? And no one has to set up a Fundraiser page just so that they DONT DIE???? So people don’t put off going to the doctor because they’re scared of going bankrupt?? Because healthcare is a RIGHT and should be free at the point of access?!?

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Does poetry play a role in social change?

Yes, where poetry is liberative language, connecting the fragments within us, connecting us to others like and unlike ourselves, replenishing our desire... [I]n poetry words can say more than they mean and mean more than they say. In a time of frontal assaults both on language and on human solidarity, poetry can remind us of all we are in danger of losing — disturb us, embolden us out of resignation.

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@People unsure of their trans status

I want to say a few things to people who may be where I was several months. Things I really needed to hear.  1. Not everyone’s story is “I always knew I was male, I had always had a strong, unmistakable desire to be male, my dysphoria was always strong and obvious, transition was a freeing and happy thing, the changes were welcome, and I had little to no fear or doubt in myself.” I doubted the fuck out of myself. I didn’t know I was dysphoric until my 20′s. Not all of my dysphoria was very obvious, but in hindsight there was subtle and obvious signs. Transition is scary and there’s things I’m worried about, and the changes are both euphoric and scary as fuck.  2. Again, doubt and fear are normal.  3. Your dysphoria will probably get worse when you realize you’re trans, when you realize you’re dysphoric, when you start transitioning, etc. Don’t mistake this for not being trans.  4. Don’t rule out being binary. I was convinced I was bigender for a long time. Turned out I actually just didn’t have bad bottom dysphoria about my vagina (clit is hella dysphoric before anyone calls me out) and liked penetration too much. I also wanted to be a more feminine male and confused this for wanting to live socially as female. That seems stupid and obvious, but dysphoria can be really hard to read.  5. New names and pronouns may totally sound weird or uncomfortable at first. You may wish you didn’t have to change your name or pronouns at all. You may not respond to them for awhile. My girlfriend started transition 5 years ago and still finds her name weird at times and still reacts to her name given at birth. 6. The transmasc/ftm hate is pretty much only a small part of the Internet. Most trans women and transfems do not hate or feel negativity towards trans men/transmascs. In fact, there’s often a sense of camaraderie for being in a similar (but also different) situation. I know there’s a lot of negativity here directed at trans men and often times transmasc people as well, but it’s not really a thing IRL or elsewhere. Tumblr harbors a really extremely, radical part of the trans community. 

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do you want to know something?? I always wondered what the hell kind of hairstyle the Ancient Egyptians were trying to portray with depictions like these

and this

until I did my hair this morning and 

oh

welp

you can take the noses off our statues but until you find a way to take Egypt out of Africa we’re still going to find ourselves

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