Had so much fun at my benefit cam show and raised some $$ too!
Just donated it to the awesome Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project which advocates for black and brown trans and gender non-conforming folks in the prison system.
I challenge you today, if you have the means(which many more of us do than donate to worthwhile causes) to donate to a POC(people of color), queer, trans, or female lead organization which seeks to advocate for and elevate their own people in an intersectional and ethical manner.
If you would like to donate to the Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project clickHERE
Proceeds from the sale of this shirt and sticker are going towards helping trans women be able to take low or no cost firearms training so that they might be better able to defend themselves and their loved ones.
I know that times, are tough, but if you can afford too, I hope you might consider helping out.
It’s almost here! ⚡Trans-Affirming Magical Care is a trans themed Harry Potter fanzine featuring fanart, fanfiction, poetry, comics, personal essays, and op-eds by trans fans and allies. ⚡Specs: 60 pages, full color, perfect bound, manga-size ⚡Price goes up to $20 once pre-orders close on March 31st (trans day of visibility) ⚡Profits to benefit trans kids in the UK! ⚡Order: https://gum.co/transHPzine
Drawn by @eakettab (on IG) and inked/ colored by me! I love drawing together with my boyfriend. Both of us were closeted trans boys back when Harry Potter was being released, but we had each other and our other queer, GNC, and trans family. I know a lot of you, My Family, are hurt by JK Rowling’s recent transphobic remarks. You are beautiful, valuable, loved, and necessary.
Standard Registration for the symposium ends THIS FRIDAY!
Join PSY from June 17-19 in NYC! Programming includes conversations, panels, and workshops on Trans Rights and Housing, Host Homes and Rapid Re-Housing for Rural Communities, Inherited Trauma, Youth Organizing and Movement Building, Rapid Re-Housing in High Cost Markets, The Latest Data and Research on Youth Homelessness, Impacting Policy to Meet the Needs of Youth Experiencing Homelessness Under 18, a HUD Listening Session, and many more!
Follow this link to find conference details and learn more about Point Source Youth: https://bit.ly/2U9j0x7
Here’s a press photo I took of my old friend and Activist Powerhouse, Mason Dunn; speaking at the Boston City Hall Pride Flag raising to kick off Pride Week in Boston. I believe this was the year we got Trans Public Accommodations passed. I was essentially proud as both a photographer and activist to have gotten this photo of Mason giving a passionate speech, with Governor Baker, who signed the law with a little fanfare as possible, in the background!
(Still and all, thanks Gov. Baker! You might not have been excited to sign the law, but you did it! Which is a damn sight better than the horrible anti-trans laws some other governors are actively trying to pass. I’ll take quiet allyship over vocal hostility any day!)
#tdov #trans #nonbinary #intersex #genderqueer #gendernonconforming #transdayofvisibility #transgender #transsexual #transexual #transwoman #activism #visibility #transvisibility #mapoli #transrights #allyship #activists #massachusetts #boston (at Boston City Hall Plaza) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cbxx-S-uZTM/?utm_medium=tumblr
I started the Tumblr Girls Club as an adventure with no map. Out of pure luck and serendipity I have stumbled on something so much bigger then myself or the gorgeous girls I have learned so much from and with.
The Good
I have discovered so many beautiful, honest, sincere people who shine the light you can only have to share when you have found yourself. I have discovered gorgeous girls in successful places in their life - in careers, in warm and wonderful marriages or single and loving it. They tend to live in liberal cities that have social support structures.
The Bad
But I have found myself fighting back tears (and losing) as I discover the stories of society’s cruelties to the gorgeous, harmless, brave and futuristic girls around the world. Girls abandoned by their families at a young age, beaten, stabbed, mugged, raped, left for dead - not one isolated case but in every continent and in so many countries. Not stories from a magazine or stats you read - but girls right here reading and sharing this along with you, and I have met a new girl like this almost every day but every week many times since starting the club.
The Lonely Ducklings
The most common story I found, almost in everyone I talked to was a loneliness, fear and isolation. Being kept from who you are is crippling, and being afraid of who you are is probably even more so. Girls who are in serious monogamous relationships that don’t know how to talk to their wives or girlfriends or how to get their support. Who feel very alone in their adventures. Trapped (as I was) as hairy men in panties in the bathroom and in fear of their partner’s reaction (who they usually love like i do/did)
THE WORLD *IS* CHANGING
I know I’m the only one who is optimistic about this. But believe me. This is a change we can make. Its a change we are making. Just 20 years ago a girl born in the country side would live her experience in complete isolation. The internet helps us create an instant mesh network. We can support each other, be there for each other, be the social structures that weren’t there yesterday. Today we are here.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
If nobody else in the world is here for you, then at least I am. You message me. You tell me, you talk to me. It is much much bigger then me, you’ll see. The thousands, the millions, the hundreds of millions of people who support you in becoming yourself. I won’t have it anymore. I WONT. And you don’t know how many people are on my side - SO many gorgeous souls around the world boys or girls old and young who send me messages of pure support. They are here for YOU not me. They are yours not mine. You are not alone, I won’t allow it anymore.
THERE ARE ROADMAPS FOR YOU
I went on this adventure without a map. But i have one or two of them now. And I have found others building maps too. These maps are the ways others like me have found to be gender fluid in a blessed life, full of sun and support and success. The world hasn’t been working on these maps yet. But we are now. And the Girls Club will be discovering them, sharing them and you will all re-map them. We will think we found India when we found the Americas. We will name things wrong and sometimes find ourselves in storms together and sometimes just on the beach in our bikinis in Tulum. That’s OK. Because we are building the new maps and they will become more and more true as they become true for you.
THE FIRST MAPS
I am working first on the maps that are very personal to me. And then the ones that are so adjacent to me, that I have learned so much from others that I can collaborate with them on and help so that many maps get release. The maps rely on two basic principles which seem contradictory but aren’t: WE ARE ALL THE SAME and WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT. They are both true at the same time in a beautiful way. Every human alive is a pervert - with sexual fantasies they are terrified of and hide from everyone they know. That’s just nature and the universe. But we are all different - whether we are comfortable as a boy or a girl or as fluidly moving between the two. Whether we like girls or boys more or serious relationships or being single or being open or any of those permutations - those are where we are like snow flakes again building our own totally unique pasts and futures.
Here’s my first list of maps to work on:
1 - Gender Fluidity for Married Couples How can you lead your wife to find the safe place to explore the world together, to explore who you both really are. I am in a completely monogomous relationship, I would NEVER EVER cheat and I am married to my dream. But I spent 10 years hiding from her. I think there are a series of conversations and steps to possibly take to get to a safe place for a couple to truly start to know each other and create trust at the same time as incredible excitement. We lead our lives based on narratives we’ve been told that we follow and there are a new set of narratives that are unfolding as much better options.
2 - Working On Your Picker as a Gender Fluid Person How do we choose which people to give our time to? How do you turn a flirty look in a classroom to a life spent together building a family? How do you know if you can be with a girl you have a crush on or are in love with if you need to be gender fluid and it is a secret? How can you pick the people who support you for who you are and give people a safe, low shock way to be able to understand you and themselves. There are people you need to get away from and never trust inside your life and people who you need to find a way to open up to and build a million times more trust with. There are maps for understanding your options as a gender fluid person that are much better then you might have initially thought.
3 - What (Semi) Straight Dudes Can Do There are so many men out there, they might classify as dudes or alphas or bulls or just men or guys, who don’t want or need to become gender fluid. But its you, reading this, who knows - you are a compassionate person who has never bred hate but always been open and could never treat someone poorly because they belong to a minority. You read the Star Belly Sneech and you got it. You might think you are a casual outsider looking in. That’s not true. This change is about YOU. You are a leader, a person people listen to. The quiet in the closet support for this is going to change - through you. The mesh network of support we are creating is going to grow - love is a multiplier effect and you will use it to be stronger then the people, your friends and coworkers and family who need you. With humor, with lightiness, with sun with small comments and the way an opinion can be steered you are going to change the world slightly and in every way. And in our private secondary internet identieis you are going to be part of the mesh network that supports gorgeous brave girls in their journeys so they are never alone. Not with you here. Brave, sincere, genuine, a gentlemen who respects women who defends women who fights for women. I fight with you.
written by Andrea - please do send me thoughts, corrections, suggestions and make versions of these that work for your own. make them yours , change them shape them take them spread them.
This holiday season we are celebrating by sharing some organizations we are passionate about and our initiatives to promote them. For Day 10 we are shining a light on @blackcapto: Love is love, BOY MEETS GIRL® is for everyone. This style is in support of The Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention. Since 1989, the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (Black CAP) has worked to respond to the threat of HIV and AIDS in Toronto’s African, Caribbean and Black communities. Our work is guided by our motto, ‘Because All Black People’s Lives Are Important’, which serves as a reminder of our commitment to the human rights and dignity of all Black people who are vulnerable to HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Link in bio to shop. #BLACKCAPTO #BOYMEETSGIRL #GIRLMEETSGIRL #BOYMEETSBOY #BOYMEETSGIRLUSA . . . . . . . . . . . . . #pride #gaypride #rights #equalrights #pride2021 #rainbow #rainbowflag #nycpride #helsinkipride #prideparade #pridemarch #pridemonth #prideweek #celebrate #lgbt #lgbtq #transrights #equality #love #fashion #loveislove #giveback #charity #charitable #donate (at New York City, N.Y.) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXrB9UhOBBd/?utm_medium=tumblr
Today the German government issued a postage stamp in honor of #MagnusHirschfeld. In 1897, Hirschfeld founded the first gay rights organization in the world in Germany. This year marks the 150th anniversary of Hirschfeld’s birth and 2019 will mark the centennial of the founding of his Institute of Sexual Research.
On this day in 1946, film historian, activist, and co-founder of @actupny and @GLAAD was born. In a 1988 interview with #MakingGayHistory’s Eric Marcus, Vito said, “I want to be around to … tell the world what happened so that people will realize what we all went through. Because I think our lives have been devalued. These are brave courageous, beautiful people who are dying.” Vito Russo died of complications from AIDS on November 7, 1990. Listen to our episode featuring Vito here: http://bit.ly/mgh-russo
Happy birthday to Frida Kahlo The legendary Mexican artist would have been 111 today. Her work has inspired generations of artists. Frida occasionally wore men’s clothing and was proudly bisexual — despite the world being hostile to LGBTQ people in the early 20th century. : #NickolasMuray The first portrait was taken by Frida’s father, Guillermo Kahlo, in 1926.
It’s #TransDayOfVisibility ! And it’s the first day I can openly celebrate!
I’m a eurobeat producer & performer known for the song “Discord” and songs as “Ken Blast” in the Initial D anime/games— and, in late May 2021, I came out as a woman. ️⚧️
Coming out and living openly as my real, best self has been one of the happiest decisions I’ve ever made in my life.
Also. Trans rights are human rights. Let that phrase resonate loud and clear every day, as loudly and clearly as it does today.
The Trump administration has rescinded a guidance on transgender students. We are bringing together trans youth leaders, community leaders, legal experts and allies from across the country to discuss what this means and what’s next for trans youth advocacy.
They’re back! Link in bio and all proceeds going towards SPART*A to help fight effects of the military ban. Shirts generously made and provided by @sparkletownstudios
The most #transgender administration already (naming trans people and LGB to historic positions in his their cabinet) and now this promise that @joebiden and @kamalaharris are keeping to the #transcommunity about the #transmilitaryban - an unfair ban that 45 had in place and his alarming attack on the transgender and LGB community.
#election2020 is here. All of these things are at peril, if Trump is re-elected. We can’t stress it enough. If you’d like to keep the rights we have now, #dontboovote - VOTE!
It’s not that we are just a political media, it is that we felt compelled to answer history’s call to stand and #resist with all that we are against Trump and the #GOPTraitors — who replaced #RBG unfairly and dishonorably for a justice that will put in danger #lgbtqrights , #samesexmarriage , #obamacare (needed by many members of our community) and #transrights and protections aren’t erased and to do that, we had to answer that call. For you. For us. For our futures together.
