cloverguts:

you are valid you are valid you are valid

mtn-dew-fcker:

mtn-dew-fcker:

I want cis lesbians to work on making a stronger support system for trans lesbians. Saying “no terfs” just ain’t enough, y’all.

Like, help a trans lesbian get a job. Invite her out to shit. Talk to her. Bring her around other lesbians and don’t make a big show of correcting someone who misgenders her. Offer a ride home at the end of the night so she doesn’t have to walk or bus alone. If you see a trans girl on the bus, sit next to her so some random, terrible dude doesn’t. Don’t invite people to a gathering that’d make her feel unsafe. Know your friends & girlfriend better. Talk to’em about the how and why of supporting trans lesbians. If they’re not on board, get them on board, and if that doesn’t work, it’s time to question the company you keep.

Make it so she feels that OF COURSE she belongs. That OF COURSE she’s supported.

Like idk, everything I just listed is stuff that… you just do for a friend. Y’all it ain’t that hard to treat a trans woman like, ya know, a friend.

I want to add that I definitely want cis lesbians to reblog this

aloneindarknes7:

calystarose:

Because treating people fairly often means treating them differently.

This is something that I teach my students during the first week of school and they understand it. Eight year olds can understand this and all it costs is a box of band-aids.

I have each students pretend they got hurt and need a band-aid. Children love band-aids. I ask the first one where they are hurt. If he says his finger, I put the band-aid on his finger. Then I ask the second one where they are hurt. No matter what that child says, I put the band-aid on their finger exactly like the first child. I keep doing that through the whole class. No matter where they say their pretend injury is, I do the same thing I did with the first one.

After they all have band-aids in the same spot, I ask if that actually helped any of them other than the first child. I say, “Well, I helped all of you the same! You all have one band-aid!” And they’ll try to get me to understand that they were hurt somewhere else. I act like I’m just now understanding it. Then I explain, “There might be moments this year where some of you get different things because you need them differently, just like you needed a band-aid in a different spot.” 

If at any time any of my students ask why one student has a different assignment, or gets taken out of the class for a subject, or gets another teacher to come in and help them throughout the year, I remind my students of the band-aids they got at the start of the school year and they stop complaining. That’s why eight year olds can understand equity. 

courteneyact:

Everyone else is relying on ugly - why can’t I rely on pretty?

blushingkatya:

not to be dramatic, but out of trixie and katya as a pair, how is trixie the one who won all stars. how

mare-magicis:

probably my favorite thing abt queer eye is when jonathan just says whatever the hell words he wants in whatever order and snaps his fingers and then somehow i’m still like babe… i GET IT

henstomper:

i wish cis ppl would realize that replacing a rigid gender binary with a rigid gender trinary doesnt actually solve anything

heavyweightheart:

my friend said that whenever she has a bad feeling about her body/appearance, she asks herself “who profits off of this emotion?” and i really love how simple and incisive that is

astrosoeur:

Aries: ”I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

Taurus: ”If a man treats a life artistically, his brain is his heart.”

Gemini: “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.“ 

Cancer: ”To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.“

Leo: “Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”

Virgo: “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

Libra:  “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.“ 

Scorpio: “Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

Sagittarius: “I can resist anything, except temptation.”

Capricorn: “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

Aquarius: ”To define is to limit”

Pisces: “The secret to remaining young is to never have an emotion that is unbecoming”