'Lurcher leaping a fence' by UK photographer Fay Godwin (1931-2005) #womensart

Turns out it's really dangerous to have a whole field of medicine designed by people who don't face the consequences of it. So about trans healthcare..

there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like

Note to self

On the fourth of July, 1980, about fifteen trans women went to one of the most upscale public swimming pools in Milan, took off their tops, and started lounging around. It was a Friday, and the height of the summer vacation, so there were plenty of families with young children around. 1/

Not to get all ‘oh Jeremy Corbyn’ about things but I have very vivid memories of journalists and other cunts all laughing their heads off at the 2017 manifesto commitment to plant fucking loads of trees to help cities mitigate the impact of excessive heat.

Heads up, the deadline to fix your hearts or die is tomorrow

embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world

Neither grief nor pride had so much truth in them as did joy, the joy that trembled in the cold wind between sky and sea, bright and brief as fire.

When I did the maths a few years back, within a 3 year period there had been 5 articles about puberty blockers for every Trans adolescent who had ever received puberty blockers via the NHS.

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

Ishmael is a real one

"‘What’s in a name?’ As a Hungarian trans man, I can tell you: Everything I can’t have" transwrites.world/whats-in-a-n...

What is hard is to keep alive on a world you don't belong to.

There is no death for an otter, only life to the end.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Did you know: Every single trans person is braver and stronger then any collection of terfs could ever hope to be. That’s just science.

from these citations, I take it—the conclusion aimed at will naturally follow of itself

'On the beach' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #WomensArt #August