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We have decided to transition.
This is a pretty momentous thing, and I’m sort of making a point of sharing it with everyone for a handful of reasons.
One, I AM REALLY FUCKING EXCITED.
Two, it’s a big thing, and because of the way I run my blog/my relationships both online and offline, it bears knowledge. Considering the majority of you all aren’t going to be seeing/hearing me in order to ask “hey, what’s different?”, it’s kind of something that bears telling rather than being learned through observation.
For those followers who do not know (you must be new here, ahaha) I am trans*, female to male. I am also multiple. These two things mean I am a man in a biologically female body and I share said body with a number of other people. The majority of the other people in this body are male. Despite this, however, we had decided a number of years ago not to transition. This was because two of our system members are not male. One is genderfluid, and one is female. (The third odd ball out is nongender, and doesn’t give a crap what we do with the body, so this is all the mention xe gets.)
We have a lot of respect for each other. This is one of the key elements to our functioning so well as a group. As such, when the genderfluid and female members of the system weren’t sure they would be comfortable with the body transitioning, the rest of us gave them hugs and told them that was perfectly fine. And we meant it. It was a relatively small blow, considering we had already been presenting as male and as ourselves (giving our own names, despite that they are very different from the body’s current legal one).
Due to a condition that I went through some months ago, however, our dysphoria became so severe that we could not leave the house. Since then it has been an uphill struggle, but we have finally managed to get to a point where, despite that we no longer pass almost no matter what we do, we are able to confront society under certain conditions and for short amounts of time. We have come to recognise, however, that at this point in time the root of nearly /every single one/ of our anxieties and other mental problems is our dysphoria.
I am going into a professional career. In this professional career, I am identifying as myself. Male, gay, geeky, silly, old-fashioned Drake. The body does not look like this, and I have had to figure out a precarious balance between my professional face and my personal face. So far it has worked, but I have had to be increasingly cautious as I branch out more. The fact that I present as male but am not legally male could present serious legal problems in the future. It is a thing I was willing to sit down with a lawyer about, however, if it came to it. This is how much we love our sisters. I haven’t even thought twice about it the entire time.
Unbeknownst to us, however, the girls had been talking. This morning, upon waking, I was approached by them. We called a group meeting, and they told us that they would like us to transition. They were okay with that. They presented sound facts that supported this conclusion, both on our part and theirs, and after some more discussion we decided that this is the best idea for us all.
It’s going to be a long, hard process, but I agree with the rest of the system - we think we are ready. It won’t be something that starts immediately - right now there is other therapy that is needed more, and we don’t have the money to put toward something like that, and we need to figure out the legal, medical, social, and psychological avenues which need to be taken, but…
This is a green light.
And this /will/ be happening.
Thank you all.
Love,
The Neon Gay Disco Drake (WHO IS SO EFFING EXCITED YOU GUYS OKAY I SERIOUSLY //CAN’T// ASDNFSDFOAHKESRJGFNSDA)
Toward a Sex Neutral Feminism
What we have here is a binary dualism established to snare female sexuality. Sexual moralism demonises the slut, reinforces the humiliation of being fucked, denies women’s agency and is challenged by sex-pos feminism; compulsory sexuality demonises the prude, reinforces the purpose of women as to be fucked, denies consent, and is challenged by sex-neg feminism. Taking a step back tho, it is quite possible to see that how sexual moralism and compulsory sexuality work together to deny female autonomy.
Garfield minus Garfield Minus Jon Plus Jon, remains the only Garfield edit you really need in your life.
LOGAN HOLY SHIT LOGAN
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Abortion - Myths and Reality
Abortion has become an increasingly controversial topic. The anti choice movement has created a plethora of misinformation and flat-out lies. If you google information about abortion, a lot of scary, untrue “information” can come up, and this can be dangerous. I’m here to debunk some common myths about abortion.
MYTH: If you have an abortion, you won’t be able to have any kids in the future.
REALITY: Abortion is an extremely safe procedure. It’s 10 times safer than giving birth if performed before the 18th week of pregnancy, and about twice as safe as having your tonsils removed. A safe, uncomplicated abortion procedure should not affect future fertility. An abortion does not make miscarriage more likely, increase the risk of ectopic pregnancy, cause birth defects, cause premature birth, or increase the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
MYTH: Abortion causes breast cancer.
REALITY: A link between abortion and breast cancer has never been found. This myth has been promoted by people and groups that are against abortion; they use this idea to frighten people away from obtaining an abortion.
MYTH: If I have an abortion, I will become depressed and get “post-abortion stress syndrome.”
REALITY: The American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association do not recognize the existence of “post-abortion stress syndrome.” They have found the anti-choice studies and research flawed. Most scientific studies found that the long-term reactions to having an abortion are positive. Those at high-risk for depression and other psychological issues after abortion are people who already had emotional and psychological issues before the procedure.
MYTH: Plan B/emergency contraception causes abortion.
REALITY: Emergency contraception, also called Plan B and the morning after pill, is not the abortion pill. Emergency contraception stops a pregnancy from happening, while the abortion pill (RU-486 or mifepristone) terminates an already existing pregnancy.
MYTH: Only irresponsible people want abortions.
REALITY: According to the Guttmacher Institute, one in three people will have an abortion before age 45. Roughly two-thirds of those people will already have children and families. Mistakes happen. In a perfect world, birth control would be 100% effective, easy to use, and free or low cost. Everyone would have fact-based comprehensive sex education and access to sexual health services. There would be no rape or incest. Birth complications and birth defects would no longer exist. But, unfortunately, the world is not like that. Until that happens, abortion needs to be kept safe, legal, and accessible.
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He is absolutely correct!
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funny and frighteningly accurate
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An open letter to the “Black Bloc” brigades - Occupy Oakland
truth. speak it
Fuck the person who wrote this article, fuck the person who blogged this article, and fuck everyone who reblogged this article.
It is NOT “macho” to smash windows. At least half the black bloc were women, and many people of color. Have you not heard of Laila Khaled? What about Comandante Ramona? They were fucking soldiers.
Look at every other social movement in the world—will you condemn Egyptians for torching government buildings when by doing that, they are now running their own country instead of living under an oppressive authoritarian regime? Do you think the U.S. left Vietnam because they sat in peaceful protest while the United States blew their heads off? No.
It’s called resistance. I think a huge reason there’s so much “peace policing” happening at this protest is because so many white people—and poc who are fooled into their racist bullshit—are involved. I talked to a “hippy” white man on the way to the docks, and he said: “I don’t have a problem with undercover cops. That’s their job.” Yeah, seriously. Undercover cops have never fucked your shit up because you’re a white man who owns land. But they destroyed black families with crack. They killed Chicano leaders when they were actually starting to get people’s attention.
What the fuck did white liberals ever do for me? My mom couldn’t get welfare anymore because of Bill Clinton. White conservatives? She couldn’t get housing assistance because Bush cut the program that was helping her out. The white man created the circumstances that gave birth to my psychopathic gangster of a father. I don’t owe them shit. I don’t owe them an apology if I smash a fucking window—which I regrettably did not. I don’t owe ANYBODY an apology for exercising my freedom of speech when I write words on a public wall. That’s the people’s wall. It’s my wall. The corporations should be apologizing to us for filling our world with hideous advertisements.
But you are absolutely right: I’m not part of the same 99% as privileged white people who grew up believing the rich white man’s version of history. I’m not part of the group of poc that have been fooled by the white man’s lies. What the fuck do you have to be angry about? You don’t have a mercedes? You can’t afford 40,000 channels on the Dish anymore? You can’t easily pay for your shitty kids to go to school? Well guess what, my people have been dealing with that for our entire history, and we still are experiencing real oppression.
You don’t understand why preaching nonviolence is racist because you don’t understand violence. You don’t understand what it’s like to live in a place where you might get shot every time you step outside your door. You don’t understand the violence we experience when the police treat the families of criminals, like criminals. You don’t understand the violence I experience every time I turn on the television, and see my people portrayed as either whores, day laborers, or maids. When I fight back, it’s not violence—it’s resistance.
I wish I could say I had more white friends that sympathized, that tried to understand the oppression of my people—but they are few. I love them. I trust them. But I don’t trust the rest of you white people to back up me or my people when we get radical. I don’t fool myself into thinking you’re getting together to change things for me. You do this for you. I’m not part of your 99%, and I don’t want to be.
Maybe I’ll add more to this later.
when i was there some dude was really trying to get me to cosign on some non-violence. but i believe the police are violent and so are banks for that matter. those windows had it coming. please keep this critique coming. <3
