An adult teacher (whose job it is to protect the children they preside over) flippantly dismissed the fact that the child in their care had been beaten up in the boys’ bathroom.
The power structure of transphobia ensured that this honor child would be so affected by a shattered self esteem, and fearing for her safety, that her grades–and therefore whole future–was going down the toilet. (And no one fucking cared about her needs)
And of course, trans people of color will be hit hardest.
We have to do better as a society. Protect trans kids.
–Mod CS
Considering the last post got positive reactions and das what I crave baybey I sketched up this- I’ll work on it mroe tomorrow cause it’s nearly midnight and my allergies are hittin hard
Here’s its WIP on a google doc
https://docs.google.com/document/d/126N4HJEzpJbMwNVKNgGMacIMZqzr3r2pw0qctB7eUm4/edit
Some All Tomorrows doodles! First pic is just me figuring out how to draw them, though tbh a majority of them aren’t that hard lmao
Second one is an idea I had, it could be a small series but idk if i have the energy or time for that with uni starting up soon lmao. It’s a series of the species of All Tomorrows, of people living their lives, an individual, a family, a generation (as seen in said doodle), etc. Again idk if I’ll have the energy to do that lmao
Third is from an idea I had of a young Bug Facer who hears of the ‘aliens’ that have made a city for all of them to live and coexist on, and wants to venture to that city despite what everyone around her says. But she stows away on a diplomat’s ship anyway lmao.
I literally cannot express how immensely fucking funny it is that this entire bigoted tweet was derailed with two fucking words
I'm fucking crying, it keeps fucking going. There is so fucking many of them.
white people need to understand that all your posts about standing with us, and supporting us (us being poc as a collective) and whatever literally means fuck all if you don't do anything.
are you ignoring posts about racism because the language is too aggressive? [see: the use of 'you' as opposed to 'we] are you only interacting with posts about racism written by white people? are you making these loud proclamations on your blogs (and tagging every damn shit in sight, which just looks performative as fuck and clogs up our tag; i don't CARE what you have to say as a white person, i literally don't!) just ease your own conscience and so you can appear woke?
i can't tell you the amount of times i've scrolled past long ass essays on this app of white people now realizing their place on the racial hierarchy. in 2021. after how many information is out there, and how much theory and papers have been fucking handed to y'all. (this is about grown ass adults btw. there are 15 year olds on here who are more educated in these topics than y'all are, that shit's embarassing).
i can't tell you how i annoyed i've gotten because it's the fucking equivalent to a white person crying in front of me because they realized that the world is racist.
whoop de fucking doo, welcome to the real world. i don't really care if i sound rude because it's annoying and it does nothing for those of us of color on this site. it doesn't help us in anyway. and the worst is when y'all come onto OUR posts and post your white tears there. what the hell is that supposed to accomplish? what the fuck is the purpose? how does that help us in any way?
and it kinda really pisses me off that those posts crying about realising that racism exists will get thousands of notes and that posts talking about actual racism, and how it works - especially in online spaces - written by actual people of colour, get a fraction of them with the added touch of harassment by the same white ppl btw, because we managed to hurt your little feelings.
Someone told me recently to never accuse someone by saying “You’re lying!” because people automatically get defensive, angry, and likely to explode further just because they feel attacked. Instead you should say “You’re not telling the truth.” because it doesn’t sound as aggressive and it might prompt them to feel like you don’t find this a massive crime so they might confess instead.
I think this is true, and should be utilized, but… would I ever give up the satisfaction of snarling “You’re LYING and I KNOW it” right into abusers stupid lying face? No. RIP me.
Part of my job is processing all the new incoming books and putting our property stamp on them and barcodes, so I get to also see all the adorable new kid's books too with wonderful gorgeous art in them but ANYWAYS THIS NEW ONE CAME IN AND
"It Feels Good To Be Yourself. A book about gender identity" written by Theresa Thorn and illustrated by Noah Grigni. The cover shows the four main characters, one is a transgender girl, two are nonbinary in different ways, and one is a cis boy who is the little brother to the trans girl.
I typically don't read the kids books even when they are super cute but this one I HAD to read. So I start reading. And I just--
Here's a few pages: (short image description below)
Quick image description: Above are 5 pictures I took of pages that I really liked and made me extra happy. The first two are back to back pages of the book's introduction of JJ, who is a wheelchair user and is "neither a girl or a boy" and uses they/them pronouns. This is the text from the next two back to back pages depicting the four friends playing outside and coloring on the sidewalk: "Some kids don't feel exactly like a girl or a boy -- they feel like neither. Some kids feel like their gender identity isn't always the same -- it's often changing." [Next page] "And even with all these possible ways to be, some kids don't feel like any of the words they know fit them exactly right. There are a never-ending number of ways to be yourself in the world." The last page shows Ruthie after she came out to her parents as transgender. Her whole family (mom, dad, little brother, her, and a dog on the side) are hugging. The text reads "Oops! Ruthie was a girl all along -- they just didn't know it at first." End ID.
SO OBVIOUSLY IM ALMOST SOBBING AT WORK NOW OMG
This book is absolutely beautiful and so sweet and I encourage everyone to go see if they can borrow it at their library. It's a quick 2-3 min read, maybe 15 if you start getting emotional like my queer little heart did. I'm assuming there's a regular print version more widely available, and maybe a LT version too, and if my Hawaii library has a copy of the braille version I'm guessing others already have it too.
OH AND HERE'S THE BACK COVER I DIDNT NOTICE UNTIL AFTER I PROCESSED IT AND THIS PART REALLY GOT ME OKAY (text written below)
"No matter what your gender identity is, you are okay exactly the way you are. And you are loved."
Some userboxes bc working in customer service is fucking exhausting
Gore, LGBTphobia, transphobia, anti-BLM, enbyphobia, Ableism //
Hilda fandom, I have an important thing to say. If you read fanfics on Fanfiction.com please PLEASE don’t support the author Trevor Mason 117 or read his fics. They are mature and triggering such as graphic depictions of violence even against children, the author himself Trevor Mason 117 is a
massive transphobe,
enbyphobe,
ableist
pluralphobe
neutral on BLM and so many other gross shit. So please for the love of god do NOT support his content
it’s the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century.
you can only reblog this today.
Traumagenic System| Body is 14 years old of age| transfem| Filipina cartoonist| doing shit
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