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some good news!!!

the downside of this, however, is that this bill only really applies to things like puberty blockers, estrogen, progesterone, but not testosterone. because testosterone is a controlled substance, trans men(or people assigned male on hrt!!!!! never forget our intersex siblings) can’t benifit from this law. kinda just another example of the way making t a controlled substance fucks over minorities.

however, given the state of the world, watching gop lawmakers cross typical party lines in favor of gender variant people is definitely a ray of sunshine in a pretty shitty week

*Scrolls past*

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*

*rebogs*

This is horrible. Using chemicals to become something you're not. I hope you see the terrible things you are doing and find The Lord.

God is trans and she told me that injecting yourself with hormones is awesome and i'll go in super-heaven :}

This is blasphemy. Do not speak of the Lord like that. HE will not be allowing you into heaven if you don't repent for your sins.

Actually god personally told me that every trans person is going to heaven and every cisgender person is going to hell unless they repent for the sin of cisgenderism 👍

That is the most foolish thing I've ever heard. I fear you didn't speak to God... You spoke with the devil himself.

Me and God had nasty t4t sex and the devil watched from the cuck chair

it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

G is for Grrrr

...Or Good Dogs! This is one of many clever and elegantly designed decorated initials found in the 1522 Johannes Froben printing of Erasmus's version and translation of the New Testament.

Novvm testamentvm omne, tertio iam ac diligentius ab Erasmo Roterodamo recognitum. Basileae: Johannes Frobenius, 1522.

ok well this blew my mind

This is also true with filmmakers. Western filmmakers pan their cameras mostly left to right and Iranian filmmakers do right to left.

Time seems such a universal concept and then I find out the different ways people perceive everything and remember “it’s all appearances to consciousness”

But the coolest part of that time-direction study, was there didn’t seem to be a consistent pattern to how aboriginal Australians arranged the images, until it was realized that the issue was where the participant was sitting, because they were consistently arranging them East to West.

you can discuss the problems within academia literally forever and you probably should but “historians are trying to keep information from you” is always going to be an anti-intellectual, reactionary opinion, sorry, literally no way around that

if you literally don’t even know what a professional historian does at work daily and you literally think it’s oppression for someone to ask you to crack open a book every now and then, i promise it’s not a historian’s fault why you don’t know anything

If you want to know who doesn’t want you to know your history, look to your politicians, friends.

Also - I studied to be a public historian- it’s our role to make complex historical topics easy to understand for everyone.

So historians are definitely not gatekeepers- some just might not be good educators- but that’s fine! Not everyone needs to a good educator there are different types of historians

But just get a historian talking about their field of interest & you’ll find out they definitely aren’t trying to keep info away from the public.

also also! a lot of what may be inaccessible is gatekept by publishing companies or institutions, not historians themselves. if you’re hitting a wall, try reaching out to the scholar directly. or reach out to your local librarian!

Party all night, knap all day

treating "historians" not only as this unified group but also as a coherent socio-political entity w unified ideas, ideals, goals and methods is actually the reddest possible flag. thats a tell-tale sign that this person doesnt know what the fuck theyre talking about. capital h Historians arent lying to u. capital h Historians arent hiding stuff from u, they dont want u to believe anything, bc Historians isnt an organization or a political affiliation. u know the old saying, 2 jews, 3 opinions? historians r like that too

"Historians dont want u to know *historical figure* was gay!1!!" n its in the 'personal life' section of said figure's wikipedia page

scream. n when u graduate Evil Archeologist Grad School, They send u to rob graves in greece n the global south for the british museum

treating "historians" not only as this unified group but also as a coherent socio-political entity w unified ideas, ideals, goals and methods is actually the reddest possible flag. thats a tell-tale sign that this person doesnt know what the fuck theyre talking about. capital h Historians arent lying to u. capital h Historians arent hiding stuff from u, they dont want u to believe anything, bc Historians isnt an organization or a political affiliation. u know the old saying, 2 jews, 3 opinions? historians r like that too

"Historians dont want u to know *historical figure* was gay!1!!" n its in the 'personal life' section of said figure's wikipedia page

scream. n when u graduate Evil Archeologist Grad School, They send u to rob graves in greece n the global south for the british museum

I think one of the reasons drag kings aren’t as popular as drag queens, aside from the fact that straight women don’t like us, is that people are uncomfortable acknowledging masculinity as a performance. Like we as a society know that femininity is a performance, with its own costumes and rules. Masculinity is also a performance, and nothing makes that more clear than someone making an exaggeration of it

To everyone saying that “uh actually it’s cause drag kings aren’t as visually interesting”

Kreme Inakuchi

Wang Newton

Murray Hill

Hugo Grrl

Lotus Boy

Landon Cider

Manny Dingo

Even more :) If you dont see visually interesting and amazing drag kings on your feed you are not paying enough attention, go and find them! Here’s some that I know!

Showponii (from brooklyn, femgay drag king and AMAZING performer!)

The Cakeboys (a drag king collective made of sweaty eddie, senario, muscles monty, and richard!)

Henlo Bullfrog (from philly, also has made costumes for drag race!!)

TJ MAXX! (MUA! Amazing artist too)

KLONDYKE! One of the most amazing performance artists i’ve ever had the pleasure of watching

ZANAX ! Philly and NYC, some of the coolest visuals in drag right now

And that’s that follow more kings on insta thats where the drags all post for event promotion :-))

I'm adding onto this post to give you THROB ZOMBIE, the Horror Himbo (tm), aka my hometown intro to drag. He's pretty big now after coming in 2nd on the Dragula show, but even his early stuff was so creative and weird and interesting (and a big part of my gender coming-out process lol)