sailorbryant:

weavemama:

trump’s 1 year anniversary of being president is starting off with the government shutting down that’s the perfect representation of how american politics has been going for the past year

HOW DO WE HAVE A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN WHEN ONE PART CONTROLS THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE THIS IS FUCKING RIDICULOUS

Trump will give healthcare workers the right to refuse to treat LGBT people

genquerdeer:

fattyatomicmutant:

stillwithhernothim:

THIS SHOULD ENRAGE ALL OF US!

The Trump administration is considering a new “religious freedom” rule that would allow healthcare workers to refuse to treat LGBT patients.“
Please… read that again.

WOULD. ALLOW. HEALTHCARE. WORKERS. TO. REFUSE. LGBT. PEOPLE.

#RESIST

He’s done more than “consider a rule”

He’s even created an entire division that fields complaints that these people would make in case someone tries to strong arm them to do it!

He even created a website hot button that use a help desk so it can get you a representative!

We knew they’d try harder after the trans band failed.

this is murder.

Trans women have already been denied care by emergency responders, and died as a result, that has already happened. Now that fucker wants to bring that back, with legal protections for killers who do that.

That is murder. Make no mistake, this will kill people.

Trump will give healthcare workers the right to refuse to treat LGBT people

commandercait:

You don’t know true fear until you’ve sewn over a pin and the tip of the needle has broken off and launched itself directly at your face.

fun fact: if you ever read the manual you are supposed to wear goggles whilst sewing. I’m not kidding. Does anyone do it? No. But they warned you so you can’t sue them if you get a needle tip in your eye.

apersnicketylemon:

seechelles:

sari-y-fawr:

So very true

So very false???

A cat literally can’t express itself but a boy who wants to wear dresses will say “I want to wear a dress” vs a trans girl who will say “I’m a girl” there’s a massive difference and conflating the two just reveals how little you understand about our experiences.

I bet y’all demons would have kept trying to convince 13yo me that I was a boy. You only care about kids that turn out to be cis. You’re transparent and we see through you.

Also, a kid saying ‘I’m a girl’ instead of ‘I’m a boy’ is not going to die if they say they are a girl instead of a boy. A cat will die if fed a vegan diet.

Human children are also not animals, they are people. Comparing a four year old to an animal in terms of ‘ability to express ones self, intelligence, and capacity for decision making’ is not only vastly, provably incorrect, but extraordinarily dehumanizing.

A child is more than capable of making decisions on their own. No, they can’t make life altering ones like ‘keep grandpa on life support’, but they can choose things and know about themselves. Believe me, I have met a LOT of four year olds. They have the capacity for decision making. ‘This shirt or that shirt’, ‘these shoes or those shoes’, ‘this bear out of all these different bears’, ‘poutine not a burger’.

They can also tell you facts about themselves by age four: ‘I like the ocean!’, ‘I like pizza with pepperoni!’ ‘I have brown eyes!’ ‘my dog just died!’ and ‘I am a boy/girl’.

Four year old children are aware of a great many things. They certainly lack maturity and world knowledge, but they know enough about themselves by age four to tell you if you’re wrong about something about them. If I told a four year old ‘you have purple hair’ they would correct me if they in fact had blonde hair. If I call a boy a girl by mistake, they correct me and tell me ‘actually I’m a boy’. And who the hell am I to question that?

From a Nonbinary Writer:

brynwrites:

I’ve been wavering back and forth on whether or not I should post this because it’s very personal and possibly not as informed as I would like it to be. And it requires a little prefacing.

I’m nonbinary.

I write nonbinary characters. (I don’t have a single story which doesn’t include at least a protagonist or love interest who’s nonbinary, usually with a number of nonbinary supporting characters.) 

And these nonbinary characters come in all forms and styles and pronouns and self presentations, from humans who believe they aren’t defined by anyone else’s perception of their gender, to characters whose entire society doesn’t differentiate between male and female, to agender demi-gods who use gendered pronouns because they feel like it and their to genderfluid parents who wear dresses to the opera.

Through the process of writing these characters I’ve subjected them to quite a few beta readers. And what I see in my feedback is a consistent trend of binary readers worried over whether my portrayals of nonbinary character might come off as offensive, while nonbinary readers don’t bat an eye. 

Now, I’m certainly not saying that it’s bad for people of binary genders to be critical of how nonbinary characters are portrayed, because I love having people watching out for me and my nonbinary fam.

But I’m also worried.

I’m worried that binary writers aren’t writing nonbinary characters because they’re afraid of getting it wrong.

If binary writers are worried a nonbinary writer is getting their own representation wrong, then how much more are they criticizing themselves for perceived flaws in their own nonbinary characters?

Please: Write nonbinary characters. Specifically, write nonbinary protagonists and love interests.

There is such a broad scale of nonbinary identifying individuals, who’ve all had very different experiences, who all present themselves in different ways, with different pronouns, for different reasons. We are more diverse than you can imagine.

And yet we have essentially no representation. We are dying, dying, for characters in fiction who’s similar to us. The most devastating way you can mess up is to not care enough to try in the first place.

Edit: 

I’ve had this post sitting in my drafts for a day because I needed to edit it and boy. Boy am I pissed.

Just fucking pissed.

After having a binary person (one who only writes a nonbinary villain no less) attempt to call out my #ownvoice representation, I couldn’t be more angry. 

(I mean, I could be more angry, as proven by that time a TERF broke into my personal messages to write me two essays on why my identity isn’t real and I actually just hate myself enough to pretend it is, but that’s a different story altogether.)

So I amend this:

Please, please write nonbinary characters. But please, for the love of all things good, don’t try to tell other writers how to write these nonbinary characters if you aren’t also nonbinary. 

Write us characters but don’t fucking step on us in the process.

#If you’re binary, please reblog this!