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This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation


This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation


This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation
![A large pair of unsettling eyes with ringed pink irises stare at a nude pink girl with straight black hair. She is clenched in its oversized white fist. Pink hands of various shades reach up from the bottom of the page. Text reads: [FETISHIZATION IS NOT REPRESENTATION IS NOT APPRECIATION IS NOT RESPECT]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/f1d032e5d84d6c4f453f43396130b11f/afe6e9c81b0d38a8-b5/s500x750/3a842f58088d943afac6d66b69c54058d9825b78.png)
![A girl with light pink skin and black hair holds a pink glittery mask over her face. It is titled so a single weeping eye is visible. A thick black bar crosses the red background behind her. Text reads: [YOUR GLORIFICATION OF THE PALATEABLE AESTHETICS OF MY CULTURE IS NOT REVERENCE]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/35de8f66c16b754a8999602014b2c306/afe6e9c81b0d38a8-38/s500x750/d591e28abdff0b0d7917286f04ffc6dc6cda7fc0.png)
![A chunky black silhouette stands against a pink background covered in images of singing kpop girl idols. Inside the figure, text reads: [AND EVEN AS YOU MEMORIZE THE PHONETICS OF YOUR FAVORITE KPOP CHORUS YOU STILL MISPRONOUNCE MY LAST NAME]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/fb64f5ac2567bcc24bf9d4f0c07f8964/afe6e9c81b0d38a8-08/s500x750/9423083458e865b96f01e1b03d844e6c3cbc675f.png)
![An assortment of Asian food on pink dishes is arranged on a black background, including shrimp tempura, chicken curry, gyoza, soup dumplings, pork katsu, white rice, miso soup, kimchi, tteokbokki, kimbap, sushi, and ramen. Text reads: [YOU ENJOY EATING OUR FOOD BUT YOU DENY US A SEAT AT THE TABLE.]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/560569b41269f26c626d36e436270627/afe6e9c81b0d38a8-86/s500x750/80890688305772401fd19b56e7e7bc68fcf6b63c.png)
![Two white silhouettes pose with a selfie stick against the Seoul skyline. White clouds and a plane stand in the pink sky. Below that, red fire consumes the background. Below that still, the background turns to black. Text reads: [YOU FANTASIZE THAT ASIAN COUNTRIES ARE A DREAMLAND YOU CAN ESCAPE TO… ALL THE WHILE IGNORING THE UGLY SCARS COLONIALISM HAS LEFT ON OUR HISTORIES… AND HOW WE ARE STILL PICKING UP THE PIECES IMPERIALISM HAS LEFT BEHIND]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/0b1334d87e9f9a95b6aa98fa3c129f60/afe6e9c81b0d38a8-a9/s500x750/f405d0537d16b282ab559f82ba741955571729d3.png)
![A girl with flowing black hair and pink skin weeps into her hands. Her tears are blood, and the wind seems to blow cuts across her body. Text reads: [YOU SPEAK OVER OUR VOICES, BUT YOU ARE SILENT AS WE ARE HARASSED AND KILLED]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/1fbdcc01003576dcea4fa63b500a0f43/afe6e9c81b0d38a8-b2/s500x750/46cc07a847414ee59dfe3cc76919f54124fd5244.png)
![A white background is consumed by pink and reds at the bottom. Four black panels form a two-by-two grid, each of them showing a sexualized Asian girl drawn in red lines. The first, a girl in an Orientalist belly dancer costume; the second, a girl in a maid dress; the third, a schoolgirl in uniform; the fourth, in an oversexualized qipao with a slit along the thigh. Text reads: [GOD FORBID AN ASIAN PERSON EXISTS OUTSIDE OF YOUR IDEAL CONSUMMABLE PACKAGE: QUIET AND DEMURE AND POLITE AND CUTE]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/0560e0f0d88a03d9af051ec7b708a833/afe6e9c81b0d38a8-e6/s500x750/e4273424e0ac344d0511b04fe176e64c7e4188ab.png)
![A drawing of a girl with shoulder-length hair and a hanbok against a pink background. A black bar blocks out her eyes, white text on it reading: [I AM NOT YOUR ASIAN AMERICAN DOLL]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/b460ead7a02a9f5f6c69bf313edeb1ff/afe6e9c81b0d38a8-b8/s500x750/2e9d397547c015b431e54d95be89744d312b7f8c.png)
I Am Not Your Asian American Doll: a comic for AAPI Heritage Month 2023
I usually spend a lot of time editing and fine-tuning my comics so that they come across as polite and inoffensive. But honestly, I’m really tired of the way Asian cultures and countries are treated / talked about while Asian people themselves are excluded, and thought it was about time I really let my rage out lol.
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This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation


This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation
Hey I'm gonna start something that'll maybe go nowhere let's go
All UK phones will go off with a loud siren-like sound on April 23rd at 3PM

Screenshot reads as follows:
The new Emergency Alerts system will be tested nationally on Sunday 23rd April.
The system will warn people when their lives are in danger. An Emergency Alert is a loud, siren-like sound with a message on your mobile phone screen.
See more: https://gov.uk/alerts
The Emergency Alerts system is now live and it will be used to warn people when lives are in danger
Please don't ignore this as people with mental health conditions, those in abusive environments, et cetera, who are unaware of this might panic or be in harms way.
If you have a secret phone because you're living in an abusive situation, here is how to turn these Emergency Alerts off because they will still make a sound with your phone on silent:
More info for domestic abuse survivors here: https://www.housing.org.uk/news-and-blogs/news/emergency-alerts-information-for-domestic-abuse-survivors/
Even if you're not from the UK, please share this if you can!


This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation


Today has been extra rough. My best friend is M2F. She called in tears earlier. The conversation we had several weeks ago took hold. She’s terrified people will start “hunting trans people” if what the police are saying is true.
I had paltry words today. I couldn’t do much more than listen. I couldn’t tell her it won’t happen. That, alone, is terrifying.
The narrative is being pushed so hard and there’s little counter-messaging.
I don’t understand why we aren’t in the streets. Kids all over Florida are staging a mass walkout this week in support of trans rights.
Why aren’t we in the streets demanding change? One coordinated strike, across the country, all at once. Millions of people are angry about today. Yet we sit idle.
Aw geez: Indiana likely to enact anti-trans laws on the one hand, but throwing stars will be legal, at least in some places. Whut? From Indiana Public Broadcasting, IPB News:
On the anti-trans bill, Lauren Chapman reports:
“Gov. Eric Holcomb has until Wednesday, April 5 to sign, veto or let a gender-affirming care ban for transgender youth become law without his signature. The governor says the issue is ‘clear as mud’ but he would take action by deadline.
Senate Bill 480 bans medicinal or surgical gender-affirming care for transgender youth. Surgical gender-affirming care isn’t provided to minors in Indiana. But medicinal care is more common — prescribing puberty blockers or hormone therapies to help treat gender dysphoria. The bill would forcibly de-transition transgender youth already receiving therapies by the end of the year.
Holcomb said he’s spoken with providers and others to get a grasp on the issue and he’s talked to the lawmakers behind the measure. ‘I think their intent is to address the care for the child,’ Holcomb said.”
Saying that an issue is “clear as mud” to me sounds like the man from Utah who said he wished women could just make decisions for themselves instead of male legislators.
Full story
Brandon Smith reports on throwing stars:
“Throwing stars are set to become legal this summer after lawmakers sent legislation to the governor eliminating their prohibition.
The weapons have been illegal in Indiana since the mid-1980s. And a bill this session, SB 77, was originally aimed at legalizing them only in certain entertainment venues – the ax-throwing businesses that have become popular wanted to offer throwing stars. The measure was expanded to fully legalize throwing stars after, Rep. Dale DeVon (R-Granger) said, Indiana prosecutors and public defenders both got on board with the idea.
‘And put them in the same category as a pocketknife,’ DeVon said. ‘So, they will not be allowed in schools or anything like that.’”
via WBAA’s website.
I – got nothin’
Pls reblog for reach!
I really need help explaining to someone why using they/them deliberately for binary trans people isn't okay. I.e calling a trans girl they/them after she has told you she uses she/her.
I can't get the words together right and it's just making me angry so if someone has a good explanation of this PLS comment or reblog with it.
Okay besties I know I'm not usually online at this time but I just saw something that gave me so much anxiety that I can't do my homework and it's important that as many people know about this as possible
I just found out that on April 4th (literally yesterday in my time zone), Governor Brad Little signed a bill that made it a felony for any doctor to help a child seek gender-affirming care in Idaho. That means that I, a trans person about to turn 14, can't get gender-affirming care for about another 4 years if this bill remains. I don't know if I can wait that long, especially with the thoughts I've been having due to dysphoria. I can't even begin to imagine what it could be like for other trans youth. I don't know if there is anything that I can do about this, but if there is, please let me know, and if anyone sees this please reblog so that more people can be informed about this. My heart goes out to all trans youth living in Idaho in these rough times

it's looking really fucking bad. tennessee is my home. it's a beautiful state full of beautiful diverse communities. all of us, cis or trans will be effected by this negatively. if you're not fighting to protect trans southerners then you need to start.
Reminder to check out r/amerexit cause I’m not sticking around for this - @/immersion-blender
Important info from the comments!! If you’re looking for specifics it’s r/AmerExit case sensitive!


I feel like US conservatives went from a 3/4 to 7 on transgender people over the course of a year and a half.
Basically, if this passes, the state Florida will take away your children if you are transgender or one of your children is transgender (as the bill notes it will take away cis children if they have a trans sibling).
Absolutely monstrous.
fucking hate the "well it's not technically marriage inequality that disabled people can't get married without losing their benefits because no one's stopping you from getting married" yeah something is stopping us from getting married. Loss of medical care. Homelessness. Hunger. Death. I don't know how to tell you this but SSI is not a thing that you get because you could technically get a job but you don't feel like it. The process is awful, it's dehumanizing and it can take years even if you're clearly disabled. If you can work you do work, and if you can't work you can't afford to lose your "benefits". It's eugenics plain and simple, it came from a time where you could only fuck if you were married and they wanted to de-incentivize disabled people from fucking so we would stop existing.
look at me. listen to me. bigots and queerphobes don’t know the distinction between a trans person, a gnc cis gay person, and a cisgender heterosexual crossdresser. all of these people are just queer degenerates to them. that is why their anti-drag bills are written so vaguely as to encompass any possible mundane gender nonconformity - so they can target as many of us as possible in one ruling. and that’s why you need to stop trying to put lines between these groups in regards to ‘who’s more oppressed’ and ‘who has the right to talk about gender’ - gender nonconformity and transgenderism are punished in exactly the same way. cut one of us and the other bleeds. our fight is the same.




Just a hunch here, gop. But I think being 14 and married to a gross older man or dying in a mining accident is a bigger threat to a child than hearing about trans people.

we have to fight against them together or die there's no choice at this point.
if you're a cis lgb and think you're safe you're not. they're coming for all of us.


This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation
as things start gearing up for Autism Acceptance Month I am going to make an effort to share stuff from nonverbal, high support needs, and other words for "severely" autistic people (especially from marginalized groups like autistic people of color) and I think others should too. I chose to do this because I am very deeply opposed to the way low support people have gone about destigmatizing autism.
me, I am the epitome of the white "geeky" autistic that I read about in books from specialists and historians: I had no speech delay, I'm capable of many self-maintenance tasks like hygiene and food, but I still am not independent and I struggle greatly with social situations, show repetitive behavior, and have sensory integration problems.
by making it seem like autism is just a label for quirky people that get really into tv shows, prefer small silverware, and fidget sometimes, you've come all the way back around to encouraging ignorance. you've started to push people with more disabling autistic traits into the background of your activism or even tried to pretend your activism doesn't apply to them.
obviously it's important to acknowledge and share the ways that autistic people who can speak and maintain independence still struggle immensely in a neurotypical world, because that is something the vast majority of people still don't understand. but we need to do better at emphasizing the ways people's autism affects their lives, and advocating for the rights of people with different needs than our own.
this might seem harsh to say but it really seems like some of you are ashamed to be associated with people from different parts of the autism spectrum than you. why claim the label then?
when you see someone talk about an experience you didn't have, always make an effort to learn something from it.
come together with people from all points on the autism spectrum. make friends with them and listen to their voice, whether it's spoken or not.
it is called neurodiversity for a reason. our brains are extremely diverse, and that's why it's important to make sure you are not your only source.
if you look at one person on the spectrum, even if that person is you, that is one autistic person, and you can't make claims about autism based on that person alone.