I wrote a review for an album that has changed my life, "seeyalater stratocaster" by
@ippotsk
. It is almost 7,000 words long, easily five times the length of my previous longest review. I hope you enjoy this album as much as I do.
Fuck it, face reveal time. Only a couple of months of HRT and growing my hair, plus four sessions of laser hair removal. I've got a long way to go, but I'm amazed at just how far I've come!
@jakebrodes
Brother, these American pistols don't cut it... you've gotta get a CZ, those Czechs know how to kill them Russians... put five in a guy breaking into my car in 2008 and killed a dog too... stay safe brother
I forgive my pre-transition self for not being strong enough to face being trans for so long. She was going through so much and barely had the strength to stay alive. She was terrified of losing everything. She did the best she could, and I forgive her.
@eccozones
literally me, finishing then picking my gay little dark willow support and getting my gay little kda of 0/5/3 after 10 minutes because i suck
A lot of trans people I know wish that if they had a superpower, it would be shapeshifting, but tbh, a major part of me wishes it was teleportation because I really want to see my friends all over the world ๐ฅบ
@KevinSTravers1
@umjammysammys
I interpret it to be a metaphor for how capitalism views those that can't or don't contribute to its perpetuation. The suffering to me isn't pointless, and has only gotten more impactful as the decades have passed since it was written and capitalism has taken control of our lives
@mountbellyache
people think they want lastfm until your friends see you listening to nick drake's discography on repeat for nine hours and perform a wellness check on you
@Esqueer_
Yeah well I'm not going to throw my Black trans siblings under the bus for any reason. I beg of you, stop downplaying their pain and criticism as infighting. If trans liberation doesn't address racism, it's worthless liberation.
there's an ideology amelia subscribes to that says any criticism of (white) transfeminine people is transmisogyny. take it from me, a white transfeminine person: it's absolutely not transmisogynistic to call her out for being racist and for hating transmasc people.
@Imani_Barbarin
This is something I've noticed in white-dominated trans spaces but put into far better words. There's this overt centering of white trans people as the default trans experience. Many of us will advocate for trans rights while ignoring true intersectionality and it's awful.
One of my trans friends gave me some of her old dresses and I absolutely love this one! It even has pockets! This was also my first time in a women's restroom, so that's another first off my list ๐
My partner introduced me as their girlfriend. Holy shit, it's official, I'm actually a girlfriend! This is the greatest feeling on the planet! Fuck graduating college, this is 1000x better. My deepest wishes are being answered and I can't wait to be the girlfriend of their dreams
I bought my girlfriend flowers because every trans girl deserves flowers and seeing her smile just made my heart melt and I'm tearing up from just how lucky I am to have her in my life ๐ป๐น
@transdrogyne
@ginnandsonic
I try to stress this so much as a transfem because when I first came out, I assumed trans men and transmasc people naturally benefitted from male privilege, but literally the first trans man I spoke to shocked me by telling me his terrifying experiences facing violence
@im_just_laur
"You're going to feel like you have to be validated by cis society to truly be a woman. You'll think that if they don't approve, you might as well not have transitioned at all. That is 100% not true. Your gender and presentation only needs the validation of yourself."
@niioriArt
Thank you so much for making this. I had dreams like this for at least 15 years. I was a woman and the people in my life were so loving and supportive of me, and then I would wake up in tears because it wasn't true. And then I decided to make it come true.
my mom once told me that i was becoming a stranger by transitioning. for any family out there, please know this: we're not becoming different people, we're becoming the people we've always been on the inside but have had to hide our entire lives and pretend didn't exist
over the weekend, i spoke with a ton of white women that were furious, irate, and wanted to make change happen. one thing i noticed was that nearly all wanted to make their own organizations to fight back so they could lead it or go viral and be the face of resistance.
told my dad that there were elected officials calling for a genocide of trans people and that i was terrified it was going to happen here. he immediately started yelling at me, calling me chicken little and telling me that it wasn't going to happen
@twinkbride
100%. In the US, I made about $150k a year. When I moved to Belgium last month, every single expense related to shipping everything I owned here, airfare, embassy fees, and the like ended up costing about $15,000. I was able to save that in four months.
It's a grift.
@alexfixrro
@NoPuzzl98
I heard the name Kira in 2003 and thought it was so beautiful that I would name my daughter that, but then I decided to use it for myself
@byJudeDoyle
As a trans woman, I believe man-hating beliefs are severely harmful. They justify transphobia to transfems and transmascs, but much more importantly, they justify violence against men of color writ large. When a radfem says kill all men, it's never the white men that get targeted
@ASonNamedBort
@AlexisuwuAlexis
I told them I was a refugee from the war-torn country of Belgium and Sadiq Khan personally came up to me and gave me ยฃ5000, a luxury apartment, and a free Mercedes! He was so nice that I voted for him 50 times ๐
@AnaMardoll
This is so ridiculous. The first line of our holy book, Sri Guru Granth Sahib ji, says that God lives without hate and without fear, and so should every Sikh. We get vaccinated so we can live more without fear of hurting people in our lives.
@tracydaniello
@AOC
tracy, i am an actual unironic communist. AOC is nowhere close to my far-left beliefs. as for the rest of the dems, AOC's policies would significantly benefit you far more than nearly any other congressional dem's policies
@HaplessLarry
I get the intention but it's important for us as non-Black people to realize that our advice can only go so far as it's linked to non-Black experiences. We should make sure that Black advice and knowledge is shared as that is what the OP requested and will help their child most.
@JMFingK
"We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existenceย by any means necessary." - Malcolm X
y'all, this is about the dreads and the fact that lana tried to blame transphobia on the Black community and has a bad history of Orientalism and yellowface, not whatever else you're thinking
@H0NEYRIVER
One of my favorite moments was dancing with a shy, shy newly out trans girl at a lesbian bar who was blushing really hard and kept looking away when our faces were inches away, so I asked her if she wanted to kiss me and she quietly said yes and it was the most tender kiss ever
@im_just_laur
I thought that meeting other trans people would make us be friends immediately, so I overlooked a lot of awful behaviors in my early trans acquaintances and paid dearly for it.
@lustrousglobe
@aadaamaa20
I hate that threads like this have to happen so often, but I sincerely appreciate you saying this truth and hopefully more of us will realize this
@nfr_podcast
Injury Reserve's By the Time I Get to Phoenix is an all-time devastating album. Can't really think of any other 2021 release that hits as hard
I get really uncomfortable when the white transfeminine experience is seen as the standard or default trans experience. Trans PoC deserve to be seen. Trans people in non-white countries deserve to be seen. Trans men and transmasculine people deserve to be seen.
@PinkRangerLB
@im_just_laur
I've spoken with a lot of my friends of color about this and many of them have brought up that if voting did nothing, their votes wouldn't be suppressed and gerrymandered to the degree that it is in the South. It's a perspective that is crucial to supporting people of color.
yeah i'll come out and say it directly. the number of conventionally attractive white trans women with tens of thousands of followers on here that i've never seen try to make things better for trans poc, disabled trans people, poor trans people, etc. is too many to count.
Trans men deserve the world and I hate how they have so little representation in media. It's one of the reasons why I'm going to write stories featuring trans men in leading roles. I just hope that I don't perpetuate negative stereotypes since I don't experience their issues
STAFFER: so Mr. President, this art of you from 4chan is supposed to represent-
PRESIDENT BIDEN, hovering in the oval office, eyes glowing red: who do you think first posted it on there?
"Mr. President, the laser eyes thing was a 4chan crypto thing. The ethics of co-opting this to take ownership is still semiotically very much up for debate, but I would guess long-term this polls well since the anime aesthetic is not inherently fasci... sir? Sir? We've lost him."
I confessed to my partner that I want to spend the rest of my life with them. They reciprocated and I am just so happy right now. Words can't even describe what I'm feeling
@erikaheidewald
I've been struggling with this exact thing recently, where it's like, despite having significant hearing and vision loss and arthritis, I don't feel like I'm allowed to call myself disabled because actual disabled people have it a lot worse than me. Thank you for saying this ๐
My grandparents called me for the first time since shit went down Christmas Day. They said "Hello [deadname]" and I thought "Here we go again" but then they asked how I pronounce my name. I told them and they both said "Happy New Year's Kira!" Maybe things will work out!