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may the people i love always stay safe

Kauas Pilvet Karkaavat (Drifting Clouds) (1996) - Dir. Aki Kaurismäki

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I'm gonna start saying "especially non binary ppl" when talking about trans issues. Trans people are really struggling, especially non binary ppl, because we're treated like jokes and freaks in our own communities. I'm kind of sick and tired of things being "especially" about everyone else but us

Non binary people are treated like the scapegoats of the trans community, everything is our fault. We're too loud, to assertive, too annoying, too cringe. Too out there, we are visibly trans a lot of the time, and that pisses people the fuck off because we like it and it's a part of our gender identity and expression. We are just as oppressed and face just as much violence as everyone else

#passing refers to making our transness invisible

I am NOT letting you leave this in the tags prev it is so true. Non binary people cant pass because there is no way to pass for us. Passing as ANY GENDER is getting misgendered because it means others assuming we're binary people, and we're not.

One of the first feelings of dysphoria I got was the feeling of "everyone else will perceive me as a binary gender first and there is nothing I can do about it" and I wanted to stop existing at all, to stop having a body and stop being perceived so no one would dictate my identity for me.

Non binary people arent taken seriously on our own oppression, in talking about trans issues we're an afterthought, because if they cant categorize us then they refuse to talk about us. Binary people, cis and trans, get annoyed when we add onto a conversation with our non binary perspective, when we ask to be included in their talks about trans liberation and fighting against gender essentialism. We complain too much and we're too weird and too cringe, we cant use terms like transfem and transmasc without everyone assuming we're basically binary trans people, and binary trans people are so busy pitting transfem and transmasc as opposites while also saying "oh but we include non binary people!" No you dont, your inclusion is only for monogender enben whose gender is static and aligned with the binary. Because talking about only the existance of transfem and transmasc as two opposite exclusive sides is exorsexist as hell.

And dont get me started on how we dont fucking have LANGUAGE, there are so many languages that have no pronouns or neutral words to refer to people, existing in your native country means being misgendered.

We're either misgendered and invisible or misgendered and hypervisible. And people love to either act like we dont exist, or like we're basically binary cis or trans so there's no need to put effort in accounting for us.

It's literally horrific. If you're binary, at the very least there is language for you, and others to understand who you are.

I think "passing as making transness invisible" is a really good redefining of the term. That definition also allows us to talk about how even trans people who can easily be read as cis may not pass if they are openly trans or were well known (locally or more broadly) before transitioning.

And that understanding for me, stems from the reality that a major way many nonbinary people do not pass is pronouns. The minute you declare yourself nonbinary or adopt any pronoun other than he OR she, you have made yourself socially visible as trans. A 2024 study found that having they/them pronouns on a resume meant it was rejected more than not only the same resume without pronouns, but the same resume with binary pronouns. The author estimated that "74% of the discrimination faced by applicants who disclose “they/them” pronouns is rooted in their nonbinary gender identity rather than the political and other signals associated with the act of pronoun disclosure."

Without understanding this, a lot of nonbinary people are assumed to be functionally cis and move through the world as cis-passing people do, when that is often noy true—being misgendered is not the same thing as passing, but for nonbinary people, it is assumed explicitly or implicitly that if we are not gendered correctly, if we are not seen as our nonbinary genders, it must mean that we are treated as cis women and cis men and thus do not truly understand transphobia.

"kill them with kindness" WRONG. CRAB 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

“Does he think an empire is just a really big country” says the person who thinks that imperialism is only bad when it’s a western country doing it.

If Russia and China are not imperialist, then neither is the US, going by that tankie’s logic. How do they think Russia got so large? Did a magician just poof Russia out of thin air? Or do tankies think that Siberia was sparsely populated, so that justified Russian colonialism, which is the same thing that European colonialists used to justify their displacement of indigenous people in the US, Canada, and Australia (terra nullius). And what Soviet Russia did to Latvians, Estonians, Crimean Tatars, etc. was imperialistic. They displaced the native populations of the Baltic countries and Crimea and colonized those countries when the native populations refused to accept Soviet colonialism.

I’ve seen some western tankies refer to people who opposed the USSR’s “land reforms” as “feudal landlords”, as if the Soviet government didn’t target indigenous Siberians through forced collectivization and continued russification. Like, I thought that, caring so much about indigenous rights and sovereignty, anti-imperialists would side with indigenous Siberians. Or, do they think that only countries in the Americas/the American continent and Oceania (specifically Australia & New Zealand) are settler nation states?

Ukraine does not need an explanation. And no, don’t you dare give me that “NATO expansion” nonsense.

And as for China, need I remind you of Han Chauvinism, which is used to justify Han Settler Colonialism in Tibet and East Turkestan as well as the oppression and degradation of non-Han ethnic minorities in China?

I’m sure that people in Eastern and Central Europe, Northern Asia, and the Caucasus region would all be glad to hear that Russia was not imperialist. If we can accept that western imperialism, then we can accept that eastern imperialism is bad as well. Eastern countries have their own agency and are capable of imperialism just like western countries. If you cannot accept that, then you are not anti-imperialist. You’re just pro-imperialism as long as it’s not a western country doing it.

cultural appropriation is definitely not the correct term for it but i genuinely GENUINELY feel something like that when people associate capybaras with Japan, I know that this is probably cus south America has overall very little influence on like general worldwide culture or what not but it is infuriating how their actual native region doesn't even show up on the suggested search.

and how so many "cute capybara art" is them in Japanese hot springs under cherry blossom drinking macha or some shit. it pisses me off . carpinchos/ capybaras are native to south america.

real carpinchos drink mate

sportsmanship found alive and thriving within amber glenn's heart

Everybody STOP having a crisis, it’s now tea time

Pause all dread and catastrophe to have a cuppa and some cookies for the next 15-30 minutes

This is a wizard spell

they're composing songs before travelling to The Shire! 🎼

hi guys! discord is doing a survey on how people would like ai to be integrated into discord. take it and say fuck no to every question. when you get to "in general, how do you feel about discord inegrating ai features?", respond that you would actively get everyone you know off of discord and wouldn't pay for nitro or other shop items if they added ai features.

watch out for the trap! there's ONE QUESTION where the last option *isn't* the max 'no AI' option, read each part carefully to be sure

harry potter fans in 2025

people DESPERATE in the notes to explain why the way THEY engage with harry potter is morally pure. It's like white people talking about rap music in there! Libraries buy the books! Fanfiction maintains a conversation around the IP! There is NO WAY to enjoy harry potter in 2025 without publicly supporting JK Rowling!

Please stop fucking reading it so the library doesn't have to pay her money. I am a transgender librarian and I am not allowed to not replace old damaged HP books, people read them so we need to have them on our shelves, and what she does with the money doesn't factor into it.

STOP READING HARRY FUCKING POTTER.

I used to be into it! In-depth character analysis, wizard rock, irl quidditch, but when she outed herself as a piece of shit, I couldn't support it anymore!

ASK YOUR LIBRARY FOR OTHER BOOKS TO READ AND STOP READING HARRY FUCKING POTTER.

welp finland officially has the most unemployed percentage of the population in the EU

happy 2026 everyone

fucks sake