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I want to add that many groups of women, such as trans women, in many situations do still get less rights if they wear pants instead of skirts. This is still a constant struggle.

I want to add that many groups of women, such as trans women, in many situations do still get less rights if they wear pants instead of skirts. This is still a constant struggle.

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."

u/RosethornRanger — 10 hours ago
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Race is imposed upon racialized people of color as a form of "markedness". Its purpose is to identify and designate the acceptable targets of oppression and establish whiteness as the default mode of existence.

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.

u/GrapplingHooks_ — 1 day ago

Almost all cis allies I have interacted with protect hypothetical cis people "making a mistake" more than they help trans people. One example of stopping that is giving children a description of potential puberties, without gendering them, and letting them choose between them

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".

u/RosethornRanger — 1 day ago
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If disabled people don't have rights, all your enemies need to do is define you as disabled. This literally happens all the time, like with women who wanted the right to vote in the US.

a poster in a hand drawn font with a badge and an atline. The text says "ableism is intrinsically linked to queerphobia because when there is hatred for LGBTQ+ people, ableism is the quickest and easiest way to remove our rights and freedoms." The badge is the image of the queer progress flag in a circle with a white stylized outline of a person in a wheelchair over it. The atline says @CaitRuthLawrence

u/East_Bridge_1739 — 3 days ago

"I'm not even gonna try to pronounce that"

Making this post to discuss a thing that a lot of folks take for granted. This is not exclusively an Anglophone problem, but I experience it most often from Anglophones. When it comes up, it often makes spaces feel inaccessible and unsafe to me as a trans and brown person.

I am a trans person and I am of Indian descent. Growing up, I always believed I strongly identified with my birthname because of how upset I would get over people not putting effort into pronouncing it. My birthname contains consonants literally impossible to pronounce for most English speakers, but I understood that and did not mind that part. The real problem was people not letting themselves be corrected on the vowels in that name, which definitely do exist in almost every dialect of English. Time and time again I would remind people and they would simply not listen. Then, as a teenager, something changed. The "polite" liberal (not always white, but most commonly in my interactions) way to interact with my name was to deprive me of one. They would cite their desire to not want to embarrass themselves or offend me as a reason to not allow me a name. Sure, this name is one I did not identify with, but it was a piece of my ethnolinguistic background I carried with me nonetheless.

Now, as a trans person, I place even greater importance on being named. To be named in society is to be permitted to exist socially. My new name, again, is from my ethnolinguistic background. It is part of me and I will not take on a European name on transition just to be palatable to others. I am met, again, with the refrain of "I am not even gonna try to pronounce that". Denied a name once more. Denied not only my ability to exist in social spaces as myself (a brown person) but also denied my agency as a trans person. To me, a name is only a name when other people call it, otherwise it's just a collection of sounds that makes me personally happy that no one else uses.

Everyone has their own accents and clusters of sounds they can and can't pronounce. I accept that. Many people from non-Anglophonic cultures do get very frustrated in Anglophone countries when their name isn't pronounced with full authentic phonemic reproduction. I think this is not only inconsistent and hypocritical, but often ableist towards those with auditory processing atypicalities and other language-related disabilities. The goal is not perfection or total, 1:1 culturally authentic pronunciation. I want to be socially personed, I want to exist around other people with my own name (or at least an acceptable variant of it in the accents that surround me).

Social communication calls for compassion. Compassion for the limits of authentic pronunciation, yes, but also compassion for the people whose names are denied them.

Some helpful, actionable tips for people with names interacting with people with different accents:
- Try to settle on a close approximation of your name that would work for their accent or other speech needs.
- When correcting the pronunciation (which you are certainly in your rights to do), provide it slowly and "accentized" to the person you're talking to.

Helpful, actionable tips for trying to pronounce names with unfamiliar sounds:
- Try to sound it out or look it up if you came across it while reading.
- For in-person or voice call interactions, ask how to pronounce their name. If they use sounds you literally cannot pronounce, request that they help you find a way to say it that suits your accent or other speaking needs.

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u/GrapplingHooks_ — 2 days ago
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A poster with a punk goose holding a trans flag in their beak with sparkles around them their is text saying "if you don't stand for all woman, then you stand for no women!"

u/BlockSenior4624 — 3 days ago
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A tweet by Duckie (trans and gay flag) @SisterDucky Saying "Young queers who say 'I don't consent to be part of your kink' Don't realize that that was the actual legal justification for arresting trans women and cross dressers until the 1980s. Unless someone is performing a public sex act, you don't get to consent to how I dress. Ever."

u/East_Bridge_1739 — 3 days ago
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A two panel meme. The first has an image of satan with a thought bubble. The second has a picture of a vampire woman with a bunch of bats and revealing pink clothes. Satan is saying "my child will trust doctors and wait 5 years for 50mg of spiro and 2mg of E" and the hot vampire is saying "diyhrt.market, diyhrt.wiki, and r/transdiy"

u/East_Bridge_1739 — 3 days ago

Making reactionaries comfortable at the expense of vulnerable minorities just makes you another right wing organizer. On top of everything else, if you want people to be willing to be vulnerable then you need to show that vulnerable people are protected.

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".

u/RosethornRanger — 3 days ago

People who already believe in "half a genocide" don't need our help believing in the rest, they just need it to be socially acceptable

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".

u/RosethornRanger — 4 days ago
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liberals love saying that they gave queer people marriage equality, but I still don't have it, and neither do most of the queer people I know

A brown woman in a wheel chair on a blank pink back ground saying "people with disabilities still don't have marriage equality"

u/East_Bridge_1739 — 4 days ago
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Two posts, the first by “teaboot” shows text stating, '1.7% of people are intersex, 2% have green eyes, and 1.5% are redheads, but yeah red is a natural hair color, green is a natural eye color, and being intersex is a “deformity”. keep pretending gender isn’t a social construct' The bottom post, with a user named “rogha” states, '0.06% of people live in Ireland, and we all agree that People Live in Ireland.'

u/East_Bridge_1739 — 4 days ago

"I stay up at night wondering if keeping my kid in school is the decision I’ll regret most."

If parents want to change public schools, they need to be committed to helping teachers and students in public schools, not for their own selfish and foolish interests with homeschooling and unschooling. Public schools are worth saving because they are a public good for all people, and saving them means banning corporations and religious groups from influencing public school policies. Performing and Marching Arts should abolish Drum Corps International and Bands of America. Arts and Humanities need to be put back in schools. ABA Therapy and Bad SEL need to be tossed. Reform literacy and media studies to include comics, graphic novels, manga, and visual arts. Ditch standardized tests and Self-Help books and learn real history, civics, philosophy, logic, and science engagingly. Toxic competition needs to be abolished and replaced with student creativity, expression, community, education, and accomidation.

ABA Therapy, Self-Help, Temple Grandin, Centrisum, Creationisum, Greed, Toxic Competition, and letting parents overcontrol policy are how we got into this mess. I would never allow any parent of a special needs child to homeschool or unschool a child because those children need homerooms and teachers who are also special needs who respect student autonomy. I know because I was a homeschooled child, and looking back, I would not want that for any other child, regardless of who they are.

Parents and Teachers need class solidarity, not warfare.

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u/Comfortable_Fan_696 — 2 days ago

People want to do things. Most of work can't be measured and can't be seen, you can't actually reward or punish people for the amount of work they do, you can only reward of punish people for how flashy and normative they make it look, which is a whole separate set of work.

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".

u/RosethornRanger — 4 days ago

URGENT: An unregistered trans refugee in South Sudan’s Gorom Camp is severely sick with a blood infection and pneumonia. She has no shelter, clothes, or food. Please help us save her life.

Hi everyone,
I am writing this out of absolute desperation for a young transgender woman who is currently fighting for her life. She is a refugee who recently fled to South Sudan after surviving a brutal mob beating in Kenya that nearly killed her. She came here looking for safety, but instead, she is trapped in a living nightmare.
Right now, she is severely sick. She is suffering from a severe blood infection, pneumonia, and constant, painful hiccups that won’t stop. Because she just arrived in the camp, she is not yet registered. In South Sudan, being unregistered means you do not exist to the system she has zero access to public services, clinic care, or aid distribution.
On top of being dangerously ill, she has absolutely nothing. She has no shelter to protect her from the elements, no clothes other than what she escaped in, and no food. She is sleeping exposed, which is making her pneumonia rapidly worse.

The Reality for LGBTQIA+ Refugees in Gorom Camp
Gorom Refugee Camp is heavily overcrowded and is not a safe haven for queer people. LGBTQIA+ refugees here face daily violence, stoning, death threats, and a complete denial of basic medical care from the surrounding community and fellow refugees. Because the camp cannot guarantee their safety, many are left completely isolated without proper protection.  

The Legal Danger in South Sudan
To make matters worse, seeking help from local authorities is impossible because her very existence is criminalized. Under Section 248 of the South Sudan Penal Code, consensual same-sex acts (termed "unnatural offences") carry a penalty of up to 10 years in prison. Furthermore, Section 379 (Vagabond law) explicitly criminalizes any male person who dresses in the fashion of a woman in a public place, carrying a prison sentence.  
Because of these laws, she cannot turn to the police or local systems for protection. Doing so risks imprisonment or further state-sanctioned abuse.

Photo description.
Image one; shows the unregistered transgender being talked about, laying on bare ground where she sleeps, while so weak, covering her self with a red cloth, she is dressed in very old red shirt and blue trousers, she is laying on cut old sucks, her face is covered with a transgender flag emoji for her own security.
Image two; shows the transgender in question laying on a bed in a clinic where she was rushed on drip or in (treatment)

How You Can Help Save Her Life
She has survived a mob attack and a dangerous border crossing, but she will not survive this medical emergency without immediate intervention. We need to raise €650 right now to secure private medical treatment, antibiotics, decent clothes, and a safe, temporary space for her to recover.
Every single euro goes directly toward her medical treatment and survival needs. Please, if you can spare anything at all, donate today. If you cannot donate, please share this post so it reaches someone who can.
**Donate here to help save her⬇**️🏳️‍⚧️
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u/256ugft — 4 days ago

The worst is when people add words to what you said

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"

u/RosethornRanger — 5 days ago

Not everyone can exist safely in public. If you don't believe online organizing is organizing, then you aren't building a movement that includes disabled people

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."

u/RosethornRanger — 5 days ago

biology isn't a binary, and models aren't reality. Saying that sex is reality is like saying the dictionaries tell us how language should be used. Sex is nothing but the model of applying the gender binary to the body, and right wingers clearly know this and use 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.

u/RosethornRanger — 6 days ago
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A twitter post by @wokingGirl1. It says When my sister married, and changed her title and name, my aunts were all "ooh, congratulations MRS <newname>". When I transitioned and changed my tile (sic) and name they were all "it's too hard, I’ve always known you as…". If you’re cis and you’ve done this, maybe reflect on why.'"

u/East_Bridge_1739 — 8 days ago
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Apart from the ableism, this is a massive reason why everyone should be against wage labor. If you need your labor measured to get resources, how is that not going to be skewed towards oppressors who pretend they live in a vacuum?

a post by @ma1ybe that says "my classmate in med school studies for seven hours every evening and exercises daily. I used to ask him how did he manage it & he said, 'I'm very disciplined'. I met his wife yesterday. she told me how she cooled him three fresh meals daily, mowed their lawn, ran all errands, cleaned the house weekly, and handled all social plans. It made me wonder how many times 'discipline' means a woman doing all of the other essential work that keeps a life going"

u/East_Bridge_1739 — 8 days ago