“mental health” activism needs to decenter depression & anxiety and center schizophrenic people, obsessive compulsive people, & people w personality disorders
nonblack people - steer clear of shaun king & deray mckesson, as well as the blm foundation & campaign zero. they're not to be trusted and loads of other legit organizations and bail funds and emergency funds need your $$ & support more
afab trans ppl need to be wary of dating cis men that arent explicitly trans-informed. dont budge on your pronouns or identity for these men bc they'll never stop pushing until they're crying throwing up saying they don't want you to go on testosterone bc you'll "look like a man"
it becomes more and more obvious with each day how much this nft art thing is just spectacle and sport for rich people. theyre playing with our planet for their own amusement and ego
yall are weird as fuck putting random trans ppl on blast like this. they're just trying to help other ppl alleviate specific types of dysphoria + pass by society's standards.
so many of you r obsessed w/ dunking on your own ppl bc its the only way you can feel powerful. pathetic
maybe adhd isnt a cool new thing 2 have + its just been wildly underdiagnosed to any population that doesnt fall under "white cis boy" since its diagnostic inception. have you considered that we live in a world controlled primarily by discriminatory structures + not tiktok trends
the x-men first class vfx work for emma's diamond form is PEAK + the closest we have to what her diamond form *actually* looks like
i dont want to see slab of platinum emma in live action. or wolverine origins' "rhinestones are a girls best friend" mess
put more attention on this than millionaires like scarlett johannson.
comic creators live paycheck to paycheck or worse with no benefits of any kind, while the mcu nets billions upon billions from their work. without them, none of these movies would exist
do something for trans men besides posting “trans men are men” over & over. like, thanks, but do you listen to us? do you fight for our inclusion in feminist & reproductive justice spaces? do you respect our experiences with misogyny? do you uplift us in any tangible way?
its not a competition of who is more ill. but you can’t deny that depression and anxiety is overrepresented while other conditions are obscured. you can’t deny that the rest of us deal with things people w/ depression and/or anxiety will never deal with.
quotations bc i have a bone to pick w using “mental health” when talking about *mental illness* in specific. we’re dancing around using the term mental illness bc of ableism and bc it reminds people too much of us people who are “actually crazy”
also as a rule yall should not be making jokes about most things surrounding wwii (1939-1945) especially things you have no context for or knowledge of. lol.
hi i created the negrofication meme/phrase. it would mean a lot to me if you could follow my account & retweet this post bc as a black trans artist who often creates black &/or darkskinned representations of characters it can be very difficult to get eyes on my work
@historyinmemes
Four years of war is a bit of an understatement, he also survived years as a prisoner in a concentration camp.
He made some dramatic pictures of his experience and published a book.
Here's his story;
📢 everyone - ESPECIALLY cis ppl - PLEASE read the thread below
terf dogwhistles in general + on twitter have evolved and you NEED to inform yourself or become at risk of growing terfs' platforms
adding some more in replies 🧵
How to Identify TERF Dogwhistles Online: a thread
a lot of TERF threads that are more generally “feminist” are going viral lately. unfortunately, this is a deliberate attempt to radicalize you! let’s learn their coded language and stay safe.
first off: subject matter.
you cant deny that its us - as well as other neurodiverse people who don’t fall under mental illness umbrellas - that have suffered the bulk of the historical and present (specifically anti-mentally ill/neurodiverse) ableist violence talked about in advocacy discussions
the tumblr exodus didn't "ruin" twitter - it was the /meshing/ of tumblr culture and the existent + latent toxicity of twitter (specifically stan twitter). the internet equivalent of mixing cleaning products together and making mustard gas
1. mutation is not an ethnicity. krakoa isnt an ethno-anything
2. krakoa's creation did not displace indigenous peoples
3. in truth this argument has less to do with ethnonationalism, than it does arguments over whether "safe spaces" for minorities are inherently discriminatory.
@kingbealestreet
black art can never just be fun....they're always demanding these deeply painful political statements from us no matter the context of our work?? its reminiscent of how nonblack ppl r always turning to black people to save them, like we're all channeling malcolm x all the time 😭
"ana mardoll works for lockheed martin" + "we know this bc k1w1f4rms doxxed him for being trans + disabled" are just facts that we should acknowledge. it changes little. it doesn't absolve him of working for lockheed nor does it make KF anti-imperialist kings
trans men are markedly different than cis men. most of us have lived the majority of our lives/currently live our lives experiencing misogyny & gendered violence (from cis men + women). erasing the complexity of our id to justify hatred of our demographic is what is transphobic.
stop tweeting for bipoc to reply with their work for a *chance* at a gig. just tell us whats up & provide an email or application page. its honestly degrading for all of us to have to publicly post in the replies hoping for a shot, knowing op could very well just ghost all of us
"cancel culture", as its defined by white conservs, isnt real. that doesn't mean that dogpiling + ratio-ing random marginalized ppl who fucked up online isnt an incredibly cruel + dangerous activity. it's an abusive act that traumatizes ppl + never addresses or remedies harm done
this is why racial analysis is important bc what gave this white british woman the idea that she could accurately judge (a representation of) asian-american family dynamics + generational trauma (a term predominately sourced from studies on the trauma of ethnic minorities)
there was a movie this year which came to the conclusion that you’re allowed to treat your family abominably if it’s a result of generational trauma and if you saw that movie and thought “uhhhh fuck that???” YOU’RE the bad guy
some discussion around this has been needlessly victim blamey. the real issue here is cishet men seeing afab nb people as quirky cisgender women + faking acceptance for sex
these cishet men often abuse and assault afab nb partners, + attempt to force them into detransition
nonblack artists w a platforms need to consider the racial optics of drawing black ppl while black artists are suppressed + black ppl in general are suffering en masse. being open about your nonblackness is super important, as is considering what youre drawing and when.
jameela jamil accidentally misgendering someone among the mass amounts of racist, ableist, + sexist abuse she gets every day is not at the top of my worries as a trans person lol
"sokovian fortune teller". how are you going to erase wanda's romani heritage & then impress perhaps the most prevalent romani stereotype - the [g slur] fortune teller - onto her?
@marvel
what the hell is wrong with yall? how did this make it to the final release?
#WandaVision
this is no ftm passing guide 2013 tumblr shit, nothing here is insinuating that acting either way is required or better than the other. some ppl actually need to pass/stealth to evade violence and are not concerned with deconstructing gender roles all the time
📺 WANDAVISION & WHITEWASHING 📺
its finally here! my video essay on the whitewashing of romani superhero wanda maximoff, anti-roma racism in media, & how the show's resulting whiteness damages monica rambeau's character as well the entire premise.
the fact that a black psn posted a WHITE WOMAN WITH DREADS and y'all either deliberately twisted it to be about her transness or were so ignorant to racial issues you thought it MUST be abt her transness is such a perfect example of how white queers perpetuate white supremacy
annoyed that "media literacy" has — at least online — become increasingly synonymous with Understanding Movies Correctly and not shit like THIS, which is frankly much more important and what "media literacy" is intended to (primarily) be ABOUT
With Fandom discourse in its current state I think everyone should start employing the SIFT Method:
'Stop. Is this an expert in the field of the topics being discussed? Go out and find the best source you can on this topic. Trace & fact check."
Normalize researching discourse
positioning hatred of "men" + masculinity as an inherently ethical or righteous act endangers trans men + transmascs. this is how ppl who wholeheartedly believe that trans men are gender traitors or otherwise enemies to womanhood are able to gain power + influence in queer spaces
so many leftists are embarrassingly undereducated on antisemitic dogwhistles. why is he being jumped for this? there's a reason globalists is in quotes.
this is not abt cia crimes, it's about blaming jewish ppl for them/indoctrinating ppl into antisemitic conspiracy theories
the amount of protections and resources southern trans people have are already so fuckin minimal, and now they don’t even have this. some of us living in the northeast or west will be okay because of state protections but down south they dont have that
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i understand this perspective/pregnancy as body horror, but a lot of body horror (or what most audiences understand to be "body horror") IS about the body being/becoming horrifying to others
that's why ableist depictions of people with deformities are extremely common in horror
i don’t usually entertain objectively nonsense takes but: do people actually think that ‘body horror’ refers to the body becoming horrifying to OTHERS? because… no, that’s not what body horror means!
i need white profs to stop bringing up black people murdered by police - especially as examples - without warning in class. your black students do not appreciate it, as it is a jarring reminder of the months of nonstop collective trauma we have experienced
feeling for the victims on the xmen '97 team who had to bear this emotionally & physically and are also going to have to deal w/ their work being associated w/ demayo's abusive behavior. as much as demayo pretends otherwise, the show is a huge COLLABORATIVE effort.
@MysticMaryy
this is so performative. he's an echidna, he has no canonical race. people can draw him however they like. editing that person's art was wrong.
all you've done is make things harder for black artists, especially those of us that racebend characters. we dont need this.
there's *still* so much gender traitor rhetoric wrapped up in how the trans/lgbtq community sees trans men. in some ways we are seen as worse than cis men bc of our """choice""" to be men when we "could have" been a morally superior identity (female or at least nonbinary)
what abt this is any different from taking hormones, getting surgery, tucking, binding. we do them for many reasons - to alleviate dysphoria/achieve euphoria/etc or to abide to societal standards of what we're "supposed" to look like, for personal or safety reasons. + more
jokes aside, very scary that people have completely lost their methods of contact w family + friends because of this outage. like im realizing that a lot of my relationships take place on platforms that could dissipate at any moment
emma with telekinesis is lowkey blasphemous to meeee. what makes her so interesting in action, is her being in one of (if not Thee) most physically vulnerable roles of a team (the telepath), while *also* being a tank/bruiser when she needs to be (diamond form)
it doesn't escape me that the bulk of people """convincing themselves""" they have adhd (or autism, bpd, did, + other stigmatized + underdiagnosed conditions) are women, trans people, and people of color, especially ppl who fall into multiple of those groups
the fact of the matter is that conditions like adhd, autism, personality disorders, and did are heavily stigmatized, heavily mis- or underresearched, and therefore highly underdiagnosed espec across race/gender/age lines. the "rarity" of these conditions is manufactured
black people: (existing)
twitter leftists: you prospering in any capacity in this world that has exploited you at every possible level makes you the enemy of the "people" & we will symbolically cannibalize you when our "revolution" comes no i don't see any irony in what im saying
this is exactly why sending these stimulus checks to the adult dependent's claimer is a horrible idea. this will result in disabled + abused ppl being barred from financial independence bc their parents or caretakers can legally withhold that money from them for whatever reason.
terfs harm trans men & transmascs in specific thru saying:
- we're actually confused women/(cis) lesbians
- we're trying to access male privilege
- patriarchy made us hate our ~femininity~
- we're "traitors" bc of the above & bc we have "chosen" to be men of all things
(& more)
wandavision would be so much more impactful if wanda was actually wanda. her cookie cutter suburbian assimilationist fantasy-nightmare would take on such different meaning as a nonwhite marginalized woman in a hostile world that has only taken advantage of her
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can yall please read before you clown. this character/comic was created by a team of mostly lgbtq ppl, including a gay writer of color & a trans woman artist of color. this chara is a runaway helping other marginalized runaways + unhoused kids; he is not some queer cop rep shit
@blaquemariquita
the culprit is structural + societal ableism, not people being cringe online. the fact that a couple circulating vids of people w/ adhd being annoying (a loaded term here) is enough to create a wave of anti-adhd hate is actually indicative of how much society hates ppl with adhd
very upsetting that racist white kids have preoccupied conversations around hyperfixations & adhd/autism. understand that this absurd lack of accountability is a blatant performance of white tears & has nothing to do with the serious system of oppression that is ableism
white kids joking about lean *while not even knowing its a drug* is an example of how the vast majority of popular internet memes nowadays are the result of white ppl misappropriating + decontextualizing black concepts, many of which are associated with or sourced from black pain
++ being in relationships w cishet men is ofc potentially dangerous to all trans ppl in varying ways. im emphasizing afab trans ppl here bc im in part referring to the convo arnd cis(het) men + "they/them pussy" tiktok trends/fetishizing afab trans ppl ⬇️
some discussion around this has been needlessly victim blamey. the real issue here is cishet men seeing afab nb people as quirky cisgender women + faking acceptance for sex
these cishet men often abuse and assault afab nb partners, + attempt to force them into detransition
poor white people CHOOSE to be white supremacists. they do this because they are not able to access the same amount of white supremacy as their wealthier counterparts. they are not victims. they should not be centered or coddled. they should be dragged through the streets
making any xmen character gay is inherently not "out of nowhere". not even getting into the fact that the mutant identity is a metaphor for marginalization, including sexual orientation, the gay subtext is literally bursting out of every single one of those characters
so much of mlm culture is inherently transgressive (men celebrating + id-ing w female celebs/icons/etc, exaggerated performances of femininity + masculinity in ball + drag, male fem identities) that framing trans mlm's relationship w/ fanfic as particularly impure is BEYOND ridic
will always love love love this art.
personally....i really don't know how to explain but this is the encapsulation of how bisexual desire is queer regardless of the other parties' gender