u/RosethornRanger

a reddit post by Nerdy-BabyGirl that says "I love this! I see a lot of men who think women have more freedom just inherently, for example I've seen men complaining that 'women can wear trousers and no one bats an eye but a man can't wear a skirt without being ridiculed' when women first wore trouser they were jailed! We can wear wear trousers now because women, feminists, fought for two hundreds years to make it a non-issue. Men have never engaged in that kind of activism against the patriarchy on behalf of their own right to express their own, whole versions of masculinity. Feminists, women, aren't the enemy, we aren't the ones policing your masculinity, and telling you not to cry, not to feel, not to wear a dress. The feminists who fought for 200 years to wear pants are the blue print. Follow in your big sisters' footsteps and reclaim the lost parts of identity. Women and queer people aren't the enemies of masculinity - We're allies, we understand what it means to rebel against rigid, restrictive societal gender norms and do our own soul searching to find the version of gender that works for us."

Alt text: An blurry image focusing on Gordon Ramsay's disappointed expression. At the top of the image is text in all caps that says "How cis allies who say "protect trans people" look at you when they actually have to protect trans people". At the bottom left corner is the text "imgflip.com".

Alt text: screenshot of a tumblr post by skopostheorie on August 15th, "Ethnic is one of the funnier euphemisms for not white. Damn you look like you come from somewhere." Below the body of the post is a fire emoji greyed out with the text "Blaze" next to it. At the bottom, there is a box indicating the post has 37.129 notes at the time of the screenshot, as well as options to share, comment, reblog, and like.

A meme using a still frame from the movie toy story. It is an image of andy dropping his toy woody. Text over andy says ""leftists"". Text over woody says "Me wanting to recruit disabled people instead of more reactionaries". There is a caption saying "I don't want to play with you anymore".

A 4 panel comic titled "how the middle became the right" The first panel is a white colored person standing on a white line between blue and red people saying "both sides make good points". The red person says "those evil commies hate you for being straight and white". The next panel has the blue person saying "I literally never said any of that" with the white person falling to the right. The third panel has the red person catching them saying "are you gonna let those pedo groomers teach your kids to hate america". The white person says "you're right. The left has gone too far". In the final panel the blue person is saying "I just want healthcare and for minorities to stop being killed why do you believe everything they say about me?" The white person then says "shut up commie fascist scum".

A 5 panel comic about a small pink blob interacting with a bat. The first is them sitting at a desk while the bat is drinking coffee with headphones around their neck. The blob says "How's it going bat" and then the bat says "just woke up", looking tired. The next is them lifting a drink to their mouth while the blob says "but it's 12:30 in the afternoon, with the bat saying "I know". The 3rd panel is the bat looking defeated with their headphones on and the block saying "haha you can be such a lazy bum" with the bat saying "no". The 4th is a zoom out of a bunch of round houses at night with the text "later at 3am". The final panel is a lit up desk filled with papers and a small bookshelf next to it. The bat is sitting there and says "I'm just wired this way".

An image of text saying: "Social media for non disabled people may just be scrolling through photos of a family holiday from someone who you went to school with 10 years ago but social media for disabled people can be life saving. It is finding a place to feel integrated and accepted. Social media was the first time that I could find a sanctuary away from the pain of existing n a world that wasn't build for me. I learnt that I was not broken, I was not a failure but I was autistic. '@neurodivergent_lou', is positioned in the bottom left corner of the post."

A Tumblr post by burntBlueBerryWaffles that reads "I love being autistic and trying to communicate because every time it's." Under this is a pencil drawing of a cow looking down to hallways the left hall is labeled "keep things short (they will think your tone is passive aggressive)" the right is labeled "explain the context and your thought process (they will see a wall of text and think you're attacking them)." Both halls lead to the same black pit labeled "misunderstanding" above the hallways it says "the illusion" and below "of free choice"

3 posts from a twitter user named Candace D (@DiaryofaSickGirl). The first says "At one point I thought I might have fibromyalgia and someone told me I shouldn't seek that diagnosis because then drs would think I’m “crazy” and “drug seeking.” it’s fucked up how we have to consider how we might be judged when diagnosed with anything.' The next post says "I was just like idc what anyone thinks of me, I need answers and help. Turns out I have a whole list of other things instead. My mom was diagnosed with fibro so I thought it was good to consider and explore for myself as well. IF you don't get a diagnosis people think you're faking and if you do people thing you're crazy. You literally can't win at all ever when you're chronically ill/disabled. Everything you do will be wrong to people. It's so exhausting.

This is a screenshot of a tweet, replying to another tweet, that has an image of text. The reply is from Devon Price (@drDevonPrice) and says "Wish people would also quote the next few paragraphs of the book after this, where I cite research showing that unmasking/disclosing you're Autistic makes this effect drop away!" The original tweet is by Kaela Sharma-Baek (@kaeKaeCurtis) and says "learning this changed my life (and broke my heart) https://t.co/4pE7QDIzR3". The image of text says "From Dr Devon Price's Unmasking Autism: "Sasson and colleagues, in 2017 for example, found that neurotypical people quickly and subconsciously indentified that a stranger is autistic, often within milliseconds of meeting them. They don't realise that they have identified the person as autistic, though. They just think the person is 'weird'. Participants in the study were less interested in engaging in conversation with autistic people and liked them less than non-autistics. All based on a brief moment of social data. It is also important to point out that the autistic people in this study didn't do anything wrong. Their behaviour was perfectly socially appropriate, as was the content of their speech. Though they tried their damnedest to present as neurotypical, their performance had some key tells and was just slightly off and they were disliked because of it.""

A tweet of the text "Transmisogyny is the fact that I'd be arrested for showing "female" breasts in public, but then put into a men's prison because I'm "not a woman". Trans women are only considered women when it justifies more harm. We are never considered women when it would protect us from harm." This was posted december 5th 2018 and has 4.5k retweets and 16.6k likes.

A tweet by Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthyGeek saying ""He's not like that in real life" stop. Is the internet real? Yes. Are people on it living? Yes. Then he's like that in real life. There are then two tumblr posts. The first by sluti-snek saying "all the internet did was give him a place where he didn't have to worry about being punched in the face when he says what he thinks." The final post is by "the-scottish-bae" saying ""He's not like that in real life" just means "he's not like that when there are repercussions""

Alt text: a long Tumblr text post by angry-trans-boy-thoughts. The icon on the post has wires.

Dysphoria isn't just “hating your body."

Sometimes it's sadness. It's crying for the child you never got to be. It's lying in bed, wondering who you would've been, if only you were cis. It's looking at a cis guy or cis girl and feeling hollow in your chest.

Sometimes it's anger. It's screaming at the sky, for the unfairness of it all. It's wondering, “why me?” It's lashing out and resenting your family and friends, because even if they try they will never understand the pain you go through, will never understand what using your name and pronouns and supporting you in your transition means to you.

Sometimes it's numbness. It's looking in the mirror and just feeling empty. It's taking a shower and staring at the ceiling, hands going through the motions, forcing yourself not to look down. It's pushing your friends away because you can't feel it within you to laugh or care anymore. It's seeing someone else and hearing someone else and people talking about someone else, not you.

Sometimes it's fear. The fear of changing in front of someone, of doctor’s appointments, of looking in the mirror when you step out of the shower. It's the knot in your throat when you hear someone call you the wrong name but you're not brave enough to correct them. It's the fear that you'll never get to be yourself.

Sometimes it's confusion. It's being young and wondering why those pronouns feel so wrong, why your name doesn't fit you, wondering why your body feels so wrong but not having the words you need to explain yourself. It's walking past a store window and being genuinely puzzled, because for a second, even if just a second, you forgot that you were transgender. It's expecting to see something but seeing something else entirely.

Sometimes it's exhaustion. Sometimes it's so damn hard and you just want to sleep and never wake up again. Even if you've just woken up in the morning, you still feel like the weight of the world rests upon your shoulders, and your shoulders alone. It's the feeling that no matter how much you sleep, you will never wake up to a world where you will get to be who you are without going through so much pain and effort and money. It's wishing that someone would just hold you and tell you that they love you no matter what, no matter what- they'll support you and fight for you and call you the right things.

Dysphoria isn't just “hating your body."

A cartoon humanoid lying with their front on the ground, with their arms in front and to either side of their head. They look up and forwards, with tears both in their eyes and rolling down their crumpled face. Three curved arrows from above point from the text "forgot the word" to the very unfortunate person.

A collection of drawings of scenes featuring cartoon humanoid cats, with text below them to describe the scenes, and a title above all of them at the top of the image.

Title: types of rest

creative: An red-brown cat in a pink-tinted shirt, siting at a disk with stationery on it, holding and reading a book in their left hand.

sensory: a white and orange cat in a light yellow dress and orange boots, croucning and smelling an orange flower while between two white flowers. A pink butterfly flies nearby.

spiritual: a grey-white cat in a yellow striped scarf, a yellow top, an orange coat, orange jeans and orange socks, with their eyes closed whilst performing a yoga pose (lotus pose, sat on the ground and with knees folded and hands near kneecaps).

mental: a yellow-green journal book with the word "journal" a flower and spots on the front cover, behind a yellow pencil and next to an iPod-shaped audio player and wireless earphones.

emotional: a ginger cat in a sky blue top, dark green jeans and green socks, holding a large brown dog, saying: "i don't think i can do this anymore".

social: two cats sitting on stools, drinking tea in mugs and talking around a table. The ginger cat on the left wears green dungarees/overalls, a pink top and orange boots, and the white and orange cat on the right wears a light red shirt with the image of tree on its front, black jeans and brown boots. The green kettle on the table is painted with the image of a plant.

physical: a grey-brown and white cat sleeping on their back on a bed and under a gridded blue blanket, with their head on a large white pillow. They sleep between an alarm clock and their pink slippers. Above and to the side, a crescent and five-point stars shine through a window with pink opened curtains. Three "z"s rise from above the cat.

A two-panel comic, with both panels featuring three humanoids and one shorter creature between them, all having a friendly conversation.

First panel: inside the rightmost humanoid's speech bubble is an upwards-pointing triangle. The short creature looks on with a cat face, thinking: "i have something to say about this! i'll wait for them to finish!"

Second panel: the two humanoids to the left of the short creature have speech bubbles each with a single square in them. The short creature looks on with an extremely worried and wide-eyed look on their face, thinking, in all capitals: "the topic!! the topic is changing! nooo!"

Alt text: a thousand-yard stare meme. Caption: How it genuinely feels to be queer sometimes The image underneath the caption: a grey-skinned and brown-haired cartoon person with glasses and wearing a yellow coat, staring directly forwards with an expression of dread, with a soldier helmet with a white band on their head. The helmet is round, and is often associated with infantry in World War 2. A trans flag and a rainbow pride flag hang from their helmet. Their helmet also has a small trans lesbian flag badge (half trans, half lesbian, diagonally split with the seam from top left to bottom right). On their coat, they have a rainbow heart badge. Behind them, a soldier rests in front of a tank in a partially destroyed forest in front of a mountain range, and two planes move in the air above, between columns of rising smoke.

A comic faded panel from the peanuts gang of charlie brown linus and lucy laying in the grass on a hill as linus says "there are no norms all people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist" as charlie looks shocked