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Trans joy is having a dinner party with friends to celebrate one year of top sugery and while you clean up after the party your moms boyfriend stops by and gives you a card with trans pride colors and a gift card for your favorite store to congratulate you.

That's so sweet!! I'm glad you have this support in your life, congratulations on top surgery!

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Happy trans joy Tuesday!

Spread the joy if you can, and look out for pieces of it coming to you if you can’t, trans joy always be there and find you again and again :)

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This happened a couple weeks ago, but i visited home after moving to college. I went to the mall with one of my friends and at one point we got separated and she didn't recognize me. She then told me it's because she was looking for a teenage boy and not somebody's uncle. Kinda in that teasing way friends do, but it just made me happy.

Lol aw that’s a fun moment, I hope you had fun at the mall!

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Group marching in Toronto Dyke March | 1996

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Hello I'm activist for transgender from kakuma refugee camp am standing here for requesting some help like basic needs, food medication and shelter 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🙏🙏🙏🙏https://chuffed.org/project/135248-help-gift-and-her-community

If you can spread this, please consider doing so!

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Beth McCarthy gives trans fan new name

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i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. martha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

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[ID: text in pink, purple, white, and blue on a black background reading, “If the binary was real we wouldn’t need laws to regulate it.” There are stars around the text, and signature @blessthemessy in the corner. /End ID]

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Happy trans joy Tuesday! Remember that trans joy will always exist somewhere 🏳️‍⚧️

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The Gay Coloring Book (undated), another gem from Cornell University's Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections on JSTOR.

You'll have to visit the university library to see the inside of the book, though. But fret not, with more than 11,000 additional images in the collection, there's plenty to keep you busy—and they are all free and open for everyone!

UPDATE: @commander-kiranerys just shared a link to the full scan! https://www.houstonlgbthistory.org/Houston80s/Assorted%20Pubs/gay%20coloring%20book.pdf

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every day you wake up and there's new trans girls in the world. they just realized a little bit ago. isn't that wonderful?

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Apparently my grandma used to be crochet buddies with a guy her age who was in a fairly happy t4t marriage :)

Aww that's so sweet! Hearing stories about trans elders is so nice

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Heard my neighbor in her sixties refer to her nibling in conversation :)))

Aw yay! It’s a small gesture but I can tell it meant a lot to you :)

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Happy trans joy Tuesday!

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happy pride to intersex people. we get left out of a lot of merch, flags, marches and even just positivity posts. here's one for intersex folks.

happy pride to intersex people. may your pride month be uninhibited by intersexism.

happy pride to intersex lesbians and gay intersex men.

happy pride to my fellow intergender folks.

happy pride to intersex aces, intersex aros, intersex aroaces, intersex bisexuals, intersex pansexuals, intersex omnisexuals.

happy pride to trans and nonbinary intersex people, happy pride to intersex agender, genderqueer, bigender and genderfluid people.

happy pride to intersex people who have indigenous or religious/ethnic genders, like my fellow tumtum and androgynos, but also to all ay'lonit and saris.

happy pride to intersex two spirit folks, as well as intersex hijra, intersex makkunrai, oroané, bissu, calabai, and calalai. happy pride to intersex vakasalewalewa.

happy pride to any other intersex folks i have not mentioned. happy pride.

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St. Marsha P. Johnson (art by me)

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Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Not a typical pride month illustration, just me wanted to represent my community in my own way 🥰❤️