celebrating The Freak I #queer
Luciano and Lunga are biological boys living in Alex and Tembisa. They identify as both male and female. While the way they express their gender and their sexual orientation could get them beaten and/or raped and/or killed, they choose to be themselves, to “celebrate The Freak”.
Not keen on the whole “biological boys” phrasing. But I like the photoset immensely.
i solemnly swear from this moment forward: to smash the binaries, drive the boundaries into the ground and to free our sense of fashion.
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So much coming out of Belgrade, and I have to go to work in two hours *sob* source
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Pavel Pétel for H&M
Makeup & Photo: Sergey OstrikovI don’t know what’s happening here but I like it.
IS THIS FOR REAL
I THINK I LOVE H&M FOR THIS
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I dont often signal boost anything on here from my personal blog. But this is a post I wrote about the new line of Chrysalis Lingerie that has kind of blown up. Lots of hits yesterday. So i thought it is worth sharing here.
A Critique of the Launch of Chrysalis Lingerie #girlslikeus #trans #transgender #transsexual
I was super excited about Chrysalis Lingerie’s new line of lingerie that caters to trans women. I’ve been eagerly anticipating the site’s store launch for years now. Their launch has been delayed multiple times, but now Chrysalis is finally coming to mailboxes near you. Today I saw a post on my tumblr dashboard saying that the store is finally online for pre-orders that will ship on May 10th. I clicked the link for the store, and then my jaw hit the floor. And I don’t mean that in a good way…
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‘Tis the season…. SF gets in the spirit. All we are missing is the black and teal!!! (I stole this pic from @R.Pera)
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jesusfuck
I don’t know where this is from, but…
Between this and that Toyota commercial-
Man, I hope genderfuckery of this highly attractive magnitude just INVADES popular media until privileged heteronormative cismen who unthinkingly dominate the world around them through objectification of women and shaming of homosexuality are forced to think.
Forced to think because when they see an attractive ass in panties, they can no longer instinctively flap their dicks at it and say, “I’d own that” without having to think about gender or sexuality. Torn between their habit of reflexively objectifying women and gay-shaming themselves and others, they would have no choice but to open their eyes a little wider and actually think about the people they share the world with instead of living in a neverending reel of imagery that reinforces a narrow reality where they are king.
The commentary is good, yes, but I’m pretty much reblogging it because it’s hot as hell.
As pointed out to me by LavenderPanda regarding the Toyota these sorts of add are very transmisogynistic. What they are doing is showing an attractive person which is presumed to be a woman (due to the presence of lingerie), but at the end the commercial goes “lol nope! We fooled you, this is actually a guy”. And while it may seem that this is breaking down gender boundaries, the general reaction by men is going to be horror that they were actually checking out a guy all along.
This is a perfect example of stigma against trans women the bullshit idea that they are trying to “trick” or “deceive” straight men.
So no. This commercial is not transformative or progressive, it’s actually incredibly transmisogynistic.
-admin response.
I’m a trans woman myself. While I do have a problem with the car commercial with the andro person which does use that trope. I read those one a little differently. Granted ice only seem these giffs. And I don’t know of this is an advertisement. But to me this is a celebration of genderfuckefy. I don’t see that editorialized ending of “oops we tricked you.” To me the ending reads as “guys can e sexy in lingerie too.” Which is why I reblogged it.
Again. This is just my POV as a trans woman myself. Some other trans women might have problems with the gifs. But I myself enjoy them. I think these giffs capture what is so fun and enjoyable about wearing lingere. No matter who you are.
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jesusfuck
I don’t know where this is from, but…
Between this and that Toyota commercial-
Man, I hope genderfuckery of this highly attractive magnitude just INVADES popular media until privileged heteronormative cismen who unthinkingly dominate the world around them through objectification of women and shaming of homosexuality are forced to think.
Forced to think because when they see an attractive ass in panties, they can no longer instinctively flap their dicks at it and say, “I’d own that” without having to think about gender or sexuality. Torn between their habit of reflexively objectifying women and gay-shaming themselves and others, they would have no choice but to open their eyes a little wider and actually think about the people they share the world with instead of living in a neverending reel of imagery that reinforces a narrow reality where they are king.
The commentary is good, yes, but I’m pretty much reblogging it because it’s hot as hell.
(Source: eberles)
“My name is J, I’m 20 and I’m from London. My preferred pronouns change on a daily basis and I identify as not binary and genderqueer. I’ve been living in London for the past ten years; before I lived in Newcastle and also in Saudi Arabia for a while when I was very young. I love London because there’s access to lots of good places for trans people, like Gendered Intelligence, where I’ve been going since 2008. When I was quite young (around 15, 16 years old) I took part in a documentary about my transition for Channel 4, and a lot has changed since then. It was a good experience because it provided further awareness of trans issues, and I know a lot of friends were helped by the documentary: it helped them come out to their parents and their families.
I think my gender identity has evolved since then, and I still think that the media is very binary when it represents trans people- there’s not a lot of scope for non-binary trans people to be portrayed, and I know that in other documentaries about trans people if they had not binary histories or identified as non-binary, they would cut down their stories and just hide that part of them to stop people being confused, which I think it’s pretty bad because non-binary people already don’t have recognition pretty much anywhere in the world and it’s very hard for us to be taken seriously, for example at work or by medical professionals who are meant to be helping us transition, so I think erasing our stories and journeys is pretty harmful.
When I did that documentary, I was pretty early on in my transition, and I didn’t really know that there were other avenues to go down so I felt scared of coming out as non-binary to my mum when she had just got her head around me being a binary trans person. I was afraid that if I did come out as non-binary so early on in my transition, I wouldn’t be taken seriously. I wanted to start hormone therapy and I was concerned that I’d have to hide that side of me in order to get the doctor’s approval.
Now, I’m out as non-binary to my mum and my friends, and she is accepting of it although she doesn’t really fully get it. She understands the concept that there are more than male and female genders and she’s pretty accepting of me dressing in women’s clothes. She uses my male name, but when we go to the gender identity clinic at Charing Cross she’s quite proactive in getting me treatment and getting me recognised as non-binary, so I’m pretty grateful to her for being understanding and putting it forward with medical professionals who listen to her rather than me. It’s her privilege: she’s older, she’s cisgender and she’s my mum.
At first I went privately for my transition, but now I get my hormones through the NHS (National Health Service) on a repeated prescription. I plan to be on hormones for the rest of my life. I identify as having a male sex, so I like the effects on my body that hormones give me as they fit with how I perceive myself and my biology. I don’t think I could not have testosterone in me; it’s something I’ve always wanted and that I need to have. I’m going to go for surgery on the NHS if I can get it, as top and perhaps lower surgery is something I am interested in. Doctors who authorise surgery don’t really want to give it to me at the moment, even though I’m living full time as male and I’ve been legally male since I was 16. They give lots of people top surgery within two years of physical transition, but they don’t want to give it to me because I identify as non-binary.
At the moment, I’m writing a book based on the documentary, and I’m keeping it binary- however, I speak a lot about not binary identities a lot. I’m very vocal about non-binary peoples’ existence. I’m not outing myself as non-binary but at the same time I’m not keeping quiet.
I find it very easy to date people who are trans, especially non-binary people, because I know that they’re going to understand me and I won’t have to be on my guard around them. Having said that, I’m currently dating a cisgender person! Overall, I think trans people feel safer dating trans and non-binary people because they’re more likely to understand what your journey has been like, your dysphoria and frustrations around your gender.
I haven’t really lost any friends over my transition because I didn’t have that many friends beforehand- whilst now I surround myself with queer and trans people! I don’t think I have many cisgender straight friends, actually, maybe one or two!
Currently, I am an apprentice for an arts organisation and I work with events. I finished school early and I’ve been volunteering in different places to gain experience until I got this full time apprenticeship that is the equivalent of an A level, and provides very good experience anyway.
I’d like to get married in the future and have children. I would get married as a man, and getting a Gender Recognition Certificate is on my to-do list. I still think that tackling non-binary issues is the next step to starting to get full recognition and inclusion for trans people.”
From Anima Animus by Claudia Moroni
