Never Forget The Reign Of Terror Waged Against Muslims (and By Extension, Sikhs Profiled As Being Muslim)

Finally watching Birds of Prey with my dad! (I like it so far.)

This is so amazing!!!

I tried book binding and embroidered a cover! I love my tiny book very much 🌿

[ID: Reed Erickson, a trans man with styled hair, wearing a dark suit and posing with his hands folded. END ID.]

Reed Erickson (1917–1992)

Excerpts from the podcast Making Gay History, S04E07: Reed Erickson.

“He was really accepted in society, both for his relationships with women and his transition, which is really interesting when you think about the 1960s. There were very few people who could so openly and publicly transition, let alone maintain multiple marriages.”

“The influence of the Erickson Educational Foundation cannot be stressed enough. We today would not have trans health care, period, without the funding and the information provided by the Erickson Educational Foundation.”

“It was the first organisation in the world that actually provided support and information to trans people, both through its newsletters and publications as well as an in-person office where people could call or drop in to receive information.”

“Essentially, the framework that trans rights organisations use today in terms of collecting resources by area and distributing them to trans people in need, is based off the work of the Erickson Educational Foundation. So without that, the modern trans movement as we know it would not exist.”

[ID: Three photos of Reed Erickson. In the first, he is standing with his girlfriend Daisy Harriman, wearing a dark suit while she wears a pink dress. In the second, he is posing shirtless, with his top surgery scars visible and obvious facial hair. In the third, he is posing with his wife Ailene and their daughter, in the late 1960s. END ID.]

Trans history involves a fabric of people across generations and cultures. Many trans stories have been erased, particularly trans male contributions, in favour of the myth that Stonewall rioting was the single galvanising event responsible for all progress.

Remember:

Trans men have always existed, and have always been involved in the fight for trans rights.

Stonewall was vitally important, but LGBT+ activism existed before then, too. To think otherwise is to erase the hard work done by the full spectrum of LGBT+ people.

Erasing trans male history further isolates modern-day trans men, and perpetuates the myth that we have never been involved with our own communities. Erasing cis gay and lesbian history perpetuates the myth that our communities have never overlapped, or acted as allies to one another. If you’re passionate about Stonewall, for example, I suggest you educate yourself about Stormé DeLarverie, AKA “the gay community’s Rosa Parks”. She instigated the uprising.

There is not one single person, or one single event, which is responsible for all progress.

"Were you sent by someone who wanted me dead, did you sleep with a gun underneath our bed, were you writing a book, were you a sleeper cell spy, in fifty years will all this be declassified, and you"ll confess all what you did, and i'll say good riddance, cause it wasn't sexy, it wasn't forbidden, I would have died for your sins, instead I just died inside, and you deserve prison but you won't get time"

Websites that help with content filtering and content warning

Can I Play That? - accessibility of video games

Does the dog die? - tracks different content of movies and shows, you can check if a particular one has content you don't want seeing

Trigger warning database - like doesthedogdie, but with books

Unconsenting media - for all media, checks with whether or not there's sexual violence in a certain piece of media

My spotify wrapped 😂

I swear half of the fandoms I'm in is because I saw random artwork and thought it was so beautiful I had to watch the show.

Why are the hulu subtitles so bad. They are always so far ahead.