December 2011
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Getting naked is a political act
It depends on the context, the situation.
If I’m alone, I’m only limited by my own dysphoria. There are times I just don’t want to be reminded of my physical form. Most of the time it’s a body I’ve had at least a decade to get used to and I can forget or decide not to think about it. Sometimes it’s the body I want at the moment and the dysphoria only comes...
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Obviously I must stay off Tumblr until I watch the Christmas Special.
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One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
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Musing about Native Steampunk. →
moniquill:
One of the most disheartening aspects I’ve found in American Steampunk alternate histories is the assumption that despite alternate histories that allow for magitek and phlebotinum and aether-powered airships and steam-powered, clockwork everything from cell phones to teleporters to ray guns… there is still an assumption that NDN genocide took place. That European contact can only...
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genderfork:
I wish that asking all people their preferred gender pronoun were as natural and common as asking them their name.
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To all those [people] who don't think the rape...
oforganon:
I get it—you’re a decent guy. I can even believe it. You’ve never raped anybody. You would NEVER rape anybody. You’re upset that all these feminists are trying to accuse you of doing something, or connect you to doing something, that, as far as you’re concerned, you’ve never done and would never condone. And they’ve told you about triggers, and PTSD, and how one in six women is a...