noom171717:

krolia: let’s name him yorak

keith’s dad: krolia, the light of my life, the moon to my sun, the love of my life, the yee to my haw, what the fuck

strongorcbutch:

steadfastconfusion:

strongorcbutch:

preta-dreaming:

preta-dreaming:

cis people getting all their info on trans people from trans men hurts trans women tbqh

i hear so many people say “my trans male friend told me that [thing that practically does not apply to trans women] and therefore we need [thing that has horrible consequences for trans women]”

This is something which I see on Tumblr a lot. It’s really important to remember that there are issues that trans women face that have zero to do with trans men, so it needs to be only trans women weighing in on those things. I frequently see trans men for example weighing in on the problems with modern mainstream drag (RPDR et al.) and declaring them “not really problems because it doesn’t bother me personally”. That sort of thing needs to stop yesterday. 

As a person who is uneducated on the issue… What is the problem with mainstream drag?

Whew…uh. Alright, short version. 

So back in the day there was ball culture. Ball culture was the precursor to modern drag. Without ball culture, there is no drag. That’s the first thing you need to know.

So back in those days, “trans” wasn’t a word we really had yet in American english. “Transgender” hadn’t really been coined yet, even “transsexual” with all its problematic connotations barely existed outside of extremely clinical environments. But if you go back and read things actually written and said by the people who were in that early scene, they were primarily what we’d call “trans” today. And primarily people of color. For most of US history after colonialism happened, being trans and/or GNC has been dangerous, and for people of color extremely dangerous. Ball culture was a place for people of color with non-birth-assigned or variant gender expression to be themselves in a way that was both celebrated, and safe.

Things have changed, though, and not for the better. Over time, its become less celebration, and more spectacle. Less safe space, and more stage performance. There was always a stage, a show about it, but the ball culture was again about CELEBRATING the gender variant and non-conforming. Modern drag has become a parody, a point-and-gawk, the audience is primarily cis and white, and often even straight. 

Rather than people who are often not allowed to be themselves to be more themselves, modern drag has become about people becoming someone they’re not, stage personnas that are taken up for a show and then set aside after, by people who will then turn and mock and show bigotry towards the very people who were once a part of and represented by it. This has become deeply ingrained in modern drag, to the point that if a drag performer comes out as trans, scenes frequently turn on them. They’re told that they’re “taking it too far”, rather than revealing more of who they are. They’re often looked down on and even outright shunned from drag scenes if they dare come out as trans.

RuPaul and his TV show have only aided this selling out of the culture that was to the masses at the cost of who drag once existed to serve. Games that invite contestants to guess if someone is “female or (anti-trans slur)” are a prime example of this. It’s a little less funny when you realize bigots play that game all the time, only when they spot a trans woman they beat or even kill us. And RuPaul isn’t dumb. He’s been around long enough to know exactly what he’s doing, but he’s too busy making his TV show money to care. When people in the trans community have tried to reach out to him, he’s talked down to us, told us that we’re too young to know better. I’ve been around long enough and studied my history enough to know that HE SHOULD KNOW BETTER. He uses anti-trans slurs in a show with a primarily cis and surprisingly straight-heavy demographic. He uses his fame to continue to defame trans women, and rather than listen, he demeans further. His show has recently even banned trans women completely. Like reflect on how far that is, how much of a theft of culture that represents. 

The progenitor of drag was about celebrating trans and gnc people. Modern, mainstream drag is a sell-out making money on the backs of my sisters. That’s the problem. 

politicalsci:

devilishdescent:

ohnoagremlin:

wingleader:

shoresoftheshadowlands:

thylacineshrine:

creepsandcrawlers:

r-evolution-aries:

tilthat:

TIL a cave goat that went extinct approx. 5,000 years ago is the first known mammal to have become cold-blooded. Their bone growth rate is unlike any other mammal, and more similar to crocodiles in showing slow and adaptive rates to environmental temperature.

via http://ift.tt/2vtQ0Yg

The goat’s binomial name is Myotragus balearicus. It was kind of an oddball in a lot of other ways, too, an example being that it had forward-facing eyes, giving it stereoscopic vision, which was pretty odd for an ungulate. 

Here’s what its skull looked like, btw.

(By Didier Descouens – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0)

can’t believe we missed out on hte fucked up crocodile goat. 😦

that was the devil

What the what

having a bad time picturing what a goat with forward facing eyes would look like

it went extinct because anything that saw it instinctively wanted to kill it

pinkcheesegreenghost:

rtrixie:

The way I see it, America will eventually have the choice between forgiving student debt or facing the massive destabilization caused by an entire generation being unable to build any wealth.

By destabilization I mean that the millennial generation will eventually become aware of the fact that they will be enslaved by their student debt for most of, if not their entire lives.

Many in this generation still had parents that were able to save and contribute financially to their children’s college education, but that’s also going to be a thing of the past when everyone has their own debt burden to carry well into adulthood – meaning the problem will become unimaginably worse for the next generation.

Once people realize this, you’ve got a social powder keg unheard of since the social question poised by the industrial revolution.

The entire student loan system is little more than a scheme meant to extract every last bit of present and future wealth from society’s youngest members, and the longer it continues, the uglier its inevitable end is going to be.

and so many millennials are choosing not to get married, or have kids because of all the debts they owe. 

its having much more severe consequences than people want to admit.

obscureliteraryreferences:

ayellowbirds:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

shitpost-senpai:

prochoice-or-gtfo:

paintedspectres:

this-tragic-affair:

PETA: They’d rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)

FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. They’re also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)

Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and don’t have a single autistic person on their board (x)

Please support other, better charities, and feel free to add any others you can think of to this.

Susan G. Komen for the Cure: CEO makes insane amounts of money, they deny a lot of requests for wigs/help with treatment/etc., and have attempted to sue other charities that use the color pink as part of their anti-breast cancer campaign. ( x x x )

The Salvation Army: They promote the hatred of LGBT+ people, work with fundamentalist Christian groups to support conservative politics and rip off and exploit workers. ( x x x )

Wounded Warrior: They take money that should be spent on veterans and blow it on huge opulent parties for the company bigwigs. 26 million in 2014 alone wasted! ( x x x )

^ Important reminder to NOT waste any money donating to these groups

Reblogging because of the added info about Wounded Warrior.

Locks of Love: Not only do they charge children for their wigs, but they’re also really bad at making those wigs: they were unable to determine how much hair they had even received in a year, and a lot of it went to waste. (x)