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RookieMag shoot
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in the archipelago. (by Sandra Beijer)
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You know how sometimes when you crack your knuckles, and there’s that one knuckle that won’t crack for some ungodly reason, and then no matter how hard you press down on it, it won’t crack, but instead it’ll just be really painful? So, for the first time, that’s happening to my pinky on my right hand, and every time I try, it’s like this PAINFUL SHOOTING TWANG. Gaaaaaah.
This is what I get for cracking my knuckles all the time…
Because I still am one. Because it never goes away. Because as a white person, I have absorbed messages for my entire life that I am better than the majority of people on earth, I have absorbed messages telling me that the only lives worth caring about are the ones belonging to those with pale skin. Every day of my life, I absorb more messages that tell me that. Those voices in my head are pretty loud.
There is no “delete” button for that.
What can happen is that the voices of people of color can be louder. If you really listen, if you commit yourself to looking whiteness in the face for what it is, you can hear other voices, voices screaming out their own humanity in the face of white supremacy. They shout pretty loudly.
But the racism is still there. It always will be. It never goes away. You can fight it, but you are never absolved.
As soon as you say: “I’m not racist” you wash your hands of any further responsibility to fight those messages that tell you that white skin makes you better, that anyone without it doesn’t deserve empathy or human dignity. As soon as you say “I’m not racist” you commit yourself fully to racism.
Yup.
Read.
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OH MY GOD. THERE’S GONNA BE A LEGO LORD OF THE RINGS VIDEO GAME.
THIS MAKES ME SOOO HAPPY. THINK ABOUT HOW HILARIOUSSSSS IT WOULD BE TO PLAY THAT. GAAAAH.
I want it in my hands nowwwww!!!
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“The fact is that in the last decade or so, trans men (particularly white trans men) have come to take the lead roles in trans activism in many ways in many parts of North America. One result of this has been that trans women (particularly trans women of color) have often found themselves struggling to find space within which they could speak for themselves. By presenting himself and Chaz Bono as activists while presenting trans women of color as passive, Gunner Scott has unfortunately fallen into this trap by perpetuating the cycle in which trans women are denied agency, even while their stories are used to promote the “need for trans visibility.” —
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Seriously, Chaz Bono is a douche, I don’t even want to talk about it it makes me so upset
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i-sauntered-vaguely-downwards:
We need to stop this.
(Yes, “we,” not “you.” I am one of you and I can’t pretend not to be).
You know why cis people are called cis scum? You know why said scum is supposed to die? And you know why every single one of us is guilty by association?
Because shit like “dearnoncispeople” exists. Because there are cis people out there who whine and cry about having “cis” as an identifier because they don’t like being identified. Because when us cis people feel the discomfort of hearing examples of cissexism pointed out to us, we don’t think it applies to us.
The thing is, we may want to say that just because we remember someone’s desired pronouns correctly or we go out of our way to say “trans women are real women!” that we are some sort of revolutionary. We’re not. I am not. You know what that’s called? That’s called being a decent fucking human being.
And the problem is, for people like me who feel compelled to say “we’re not all like that” (and trust me, I’ve learned to stop fucking going to that excuse), we’re really over-simplifying. Cis people are not simply divided into two groups (people who openly hate trans* people and people who don’t). It’s a lot more complicated than that. There are people who recognize a trans* person’s right to exist but still go on saying that they have “mental illnesses,” that the desire for surgery or hormone treatment is “vanity,” and
A little while ago I came under some fire for identifying myself as “not scum” and at first I felt attacked. Then I opened my fucking ears and realized that what they were saying is true. We can’t just go around patting ourselves on the back for being begrudgingly tolerant.
You - and I - need to start here: instead of trying to just say that we’re “not all like that,” we all need to apologize for what we have done and let happen. And even then, we can’t just say something like “I’m sorry for what other cis people have done.”
And then we need to make it better.
Sincerely,
Bree
So if anyone wants an example of doing shit right, this post is a pretty good example.
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Went to a party, and pretty much had the best time with people that I rarely ever get to see because we all go to different schools in faraway places. I miss them because they totally make life worth living because they’re all so incredible.
oh look it’s my teeth
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