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"HEY! LITHEN!" <—[my Navi impression which is better in person]
did you know that autostraddle has been posting femslash on “Fan Fiction Friday”? did mallelis know this? (hell she probably talked them into doing it) does femslashrevolution know about this? what about femslash or femslashfantasies? WHY IS THIS NOT MORE KNOWN ABOUT
well anyway now you know so FEMSLASH AWAY MES AMIS
A society where trans girls are human means one that allows us access to gender appropriate facilities, like women’s shelters or, yes, public restrooms. One that does not deny us health care or, that when we can access it, puts up so many absurd and often insurmountable barriers. One where each of us is granted enough agency to actually know ourselves and our genders and have others treat us like the humans we are.
A world where trans girls can grow up to find love without the threat of violence. Where the girls with beards, man-hands, barrel chests, and so on can be seen as the beautiful and real women that we are. Where talking about sexual desire and fetishism of trans women doesn’t result in death threats and harassment. A world where not only do parents love their trans kids but where cis adults aren’t viscerally disgusted by the notion of dating a trans woman.
This is the world I want to live in. This is a world where a young girl like Leelah, struggling with abusive parents, might find enough hope to stay alive until she can get away.
And it is a world that, at the very least, starts with listening to trans women when we talk about our lives, experiences, and selves while we are still alive. But also one where people afford us dignity when we die.
Unfortunately, when you’re eleven and sick of being bullied and having only internet friends, you don’t really see the “caution, permanently internalizing white heteronormative ideals” signs posted ten years ahead in the future.
i should probably get off autostraddle and actually do some work but consider this:
no.
Anonymous asked:
Any tips for a first time strap on user?
Because Rooney Mara as a mousey Therese and Cate Blanchett as a femme fetale Carol are so undeniable and goshdarn pretty, it’s easy to forget that Carol is yet another film about homosexual women that is directed by a man. But that’s still important, particularly when this project has all the trappings of a blockbuster. It’s natural to want the film adaptation of one of the most important works of lesbian lit to do it justice. It’s also natural to be fiercely protective of narratives that intimately resemble our own stories of marginalization. And when the last two male-directed critically-acclaimed films exploring the vast terrain of lesbianism left some of us feeling like erotic Freudian doppelgängers and artistic products of the male gaze, it’s definitely natural for queer women to distrust the men who are essentially directing our lives: will they ever get it right?
Fortunately, director Todd Haynes excels at the queerly feminine. His previous subjects include a hodgepodge of housewives and glamorous pop stars, from Great Depression mamas with tons of gumption to a white woman in love with a black man during the Jim Crow era to Karen Carpenter and Ziggy Stardust. His willingness to take on stories that aren’t considered marketable speaks volumes, as are his creative partnerships with women like costume designer Sandy Powell and Cate Blanchett (whom Haynes also directed as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There). And for those to whom social justice cred matters, Haynes was a member of Gran Fury, the artist collective that worked on reproductive health-related visual campaigns at the height of the AIDS epidemic.
Anonymous asked:
Do you get access to the whole archive of A+ stories once you join?
yes!!!
Anonymous asked:
hey. sorry, but i can't access autostraddle ? every time i've been on there today, i get whisked away to another website -- i assuming because of ads? -- usually a different website every time, things like articles about dr oz or parenting tips. do you know if there's something i need to do to stop this or is this something that's gonna go away in a bit and it's just a fluke?
there was a weird error today with google adsense so we turned it off until they resolve it. like cee saw people talking about it on google adsense forums, this bug that was happening.
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Bend it Like Bechdel Outtakes
- Chelsey:
- that looks like sea world
- Grace:
- you look like sea world
And what came later in my life—all the trouble and isolation, the drugs and running away, the aching loneliness—that wouldn’t have happened, because I would have known love. I would have had this memory of being safely in your arms, since this one click in time, instead of stumbling into each other’s lives at thirty-six and forty-two. If we could have found each other then I might have loved someone, truly and sweetly, with all the musk and magic and invention of the young.
Paper Birds, by Liz Greenhill for The Rumpus, from this week’s Things I Read That I Loved.
I don’t feel right ascribing to culturally normative ideals for my own gender, and once I was allowed to set fire to the rain that poured them down on me, I was finally able to live as myself.