reminder: you are the tip of a spear, thrown by everyone in your lineage, queers before you who managed to survive, in spite of the odds. hoping & fighting for something better, propelling you towards better. center yourselves, lean on your ancestors, and remember your inherent power and worth.

As an older queer, let me add that they have come for us before, in vast numbers with murderous intent, and there was loss and pain and death, and also joy and creation and survival. We will, as we have, build something together to get through.

i’ve gotten a lot of messages from baby queers being like “will we get through this” and the answer is yes. i don’t know how it’ll all go down and it will suck for a while but your human spirit is 10000x stronger than their hatred. it’s the only reason you’ve gotten this far

I come alive, within. Beneath the skin, the skein of the world, I glow, like eyes in a midnight forest. I - the true me, the lilt behind the words, the play behind the eyes, the soul within the name - I writhe, and I dance, and I split...

“99.2% of GPS patients who received gender-affirming medical care continue to identify as transgender into adulthood. Of the remaining 0.8%, most did not regret the medical treatment they received.” This is why transphobes are terrified of youth care, and why youth care should be legal everywhere.

A wolf’s winter coat can be around 6 inches thick! I love how this absolute goon squishes himself up again the bars to get pets. Don’t worry, his enclosure spans across several acres and this is a wolf sanctuary where I volunteer! -Wolf Watch UK

lesbians

Big Werewolf Dyke Energy

Hey have an essay

Not me sobbing in bed because this fandom has some of the most genuinely awesome people and I'm so fucking blessed to know them. I wish people could see how freeing it is to just be themselves instead of being worried it's cringe or demonizing us because some asshole told you to.

at 39 years old and nearly five years on HRT, my body keeps changing considerably don't ever let anyone tell you that the changes stop after two years or that you transitioned "too late" 💜

Don't cry Don't raise your eye It's only

and as silly as it is to have to be told “try not to overlook when the world doesn’t hurt,” yes, i had to be told to try not to overlook when the world doesn’t hurt and he did it in such a way that i still say it verbatim. if this isn’t nice, what is? i think it’s lovely.

having unresolved, uncomfortable or overwhelming emotions is such a huge creative asset so long as you can detach identity from the feelings themselves. art rly shines when you can make the space for all the messy complexities inside without it becoming u. every facet is worth showing.

snirf snorf

I ORDER MY COFFEE BLACK. NO SUGAR. NO MILK. NO WATER. NO CUP. THEY HAND ME THE BEANS. I EAT THEM IN THE PARKING LOT LIKE A HORSE. THE BARISTAS HAVE STOPPED CHARGING ME. I HAVE NOT SLEPT SINCE TUESDAY. I CAN HEAR THE WIFI

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

If I can stay up for two more hours, Mr. Frodo, then this will be the furthest I've ever been from the Shire

Found this post on reddit and the last bit nails it: “Please don't remember her for the horrific end to her life. Remember her for who she was, a true blessing. To everyone around her.”

a 19 year old trans woman was killed by being stabbed 40 times at UW in seattle Washington I don’t wanna hear anyone talking concern trolling shit about white trans women in “safe states” overreacting at what’s happening in the United States

There are about 2.8 million trans people in the United States. Over 400,000 of us have been displaced by political factors since 2024. That's 1/6th of all trans people in this country.

goddamn, dude.

IT'S JORTS WEATHER BABYYYYY

seeing ppl discussing "male socialization" in regard to trans ppl. not sure what instigated it, but here's my best online essay on it (with a bit of “Trans Masc vs Trans Fem” discourse as a treat): on Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/on-male-soci... & Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-male-so...

I was not "socialized male," I was "socialized other." I was "socialized fa**ot." Trans women experience sexual abuse, assault and harassment disproportionate to their cis peers, male or female, 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 transitioning. Read Casey's thread.

My favorite thing I've seen said on the topic is that trans women are largely not socialized male, they're socialized doormat. Taught that if they ever speak up and ask for a need they must immediately beg forgiveness and mercy. And yeah, refusing to recognize trauma is cruelty.

The "socialization" we experience is being violently beaten into that closet, to have our expression being met with punishment from those around us, so we shrink ourselves down, we hide and quieten and suppress ourselves, apologize constantly because we are hypervigilant about taking up space...

A trans girl is not "socialized male" - she's brutalized into hiding herself. What someone is doing when they accuse trans women of "male socialization" is that they are denying us the closet, denying that it is a painful and traumatic experience where the life is choked from us by dysphoria.

I'm reluctant to speak up on trans topics these days because it's often not worth the pain caused, so I'm probably going to regret this, but disappointingly a lot of people need to hear this. Accusing trans women of "male socialization" is an astonishingly cruel, callous, and spiteful thing to say.

obsession over the question "what is a woman" is meant to stall the real question, "why do we treat women like shit?"

We are all patriarchy socialized

they don't only teach you the gender roles for the gender they think you are you absolute rubes

cis women are equally as """male socialised""" as trans women because we're all socialised as "women are quiet and obedient and men are loud and get what they want". the patriarchy does not, indeed,want young girls to grow up feminist anymore than young boys

saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)

Last year when I visited Vegas, I was too scared to use the women's washroom when we first landed, and only used the gender neutral one This year in Vegas when we landed, I used the women's washroom, without hesitation The little things remind me that I've come so far since I started 🙏

pro-tip: if you are a cis woman on a date with a trans lesbian, do not try to argue with her about whether or not she is male socialized. this will end very poorly for you.

okay, the new issue of @transplantszine.bsky.social is actually even cuter in person than i expected it would be. having a truly shitty day and this perked me right up.

LEGENDARY

The Sabres and the Bills are the reasons why every bar in Buffalo closes at 4 am

The pronoun switch that comes with the Linkle mod creates many Midna statements that would make oomfs fold immediately

it's harder to be yourself, than it is to be anybody else #therian #holothere #werewolf #furry #fursona #furryart #wolf #photograph #schmear

So much of how society got here & so much abuse directed at marginalized communities is because bigots and monsters figured out how to be hatemongers “politely” and slip past corporate moderators, and when those communities rightfully angrily push back against it they are banned for being “abusive”

They say to be careful if the tall werewolf girl at the goth rave wants to buy you a drink, but don't worry! 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘬 ... Got a #GothMonth commission from @zerospanda.bsky.social and I love it!!

Beastess, Chapter 26: Payback Syd and her pack-mates infiltrate Lady Luck Casino to try to pull off a heist, while also dealing out some payback to the man at the top. Fortune favors the bold, after all. Read it here: www.scribblehub.com/read/1895248...

Beastess, Chapter 26: Payback Syd and her pack-mates infiltrate Lady Luck Casino to try to pull off a heist, while also dealing out some payback to the man at the top. Fortune favors the bold, after all. Read it here: www.scribblehub.com/read/1895248...

Fell down directly onto my left hip & butt cheek during roller derby practice today, TWICE Right where I injected my estrogen this morning 😭😭😭

Chapter 27 is done at 4,936 words! That puts the total word count of Beastess so far at ... 86,856 words. Holy cannoli, this is getting LONG. On to Chapter 28!

When the rifle is big but her biceps are even bigger <3 A little drawing of Unvar the marksman from @fenradwulfrath.bsky.social universe. She's a Lunborn Canid heavy hitter. This was drawn during Tuesdays stream on #twitch If you want to see the process please checkout the link below for the video