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Hey guys this is just a friendly daily reminder :
Don’t FUCKING FORGET ABOUT #FERGUSON .ive havent seen any posts about ferguson lately and this aint okay
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i actually like being up early i just don’t like getting up early
YOU PUT THIS IN WORDS
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forced him & forced her
im confused can someone explain this to me?
left one is a boy trapped inside the body of a girl, yet everyone around him keeps impossing him all the girls’ stardarts (that’s why they’re coloring him pink); right one is a girl trapped inside the body of a guy and the same applies for all the hands touching her
thank you so much for explaining
So….I saw some tags on this that were like “but some trans women may be cool with masculine stuff, and some trans men may be cool with feminine stuff so maybe this is less applicable to those people”
Let me explain something to you: this visual, the one right there, it has nothing to do with masculine and feminine. I am an incredibly feminine trans man. What this is depicting, though, is the experience of trans people people being invasively dehumanized and made to appear in the form of another gender. That I am a man who enjoys many very traditionally feminine things does not make this less applicable to me. It makes it more applicable.
When people tell you that makeup and nail polish (two things I adore) make you a woman…. you feel like your gender has just been scrubbed away by someone else’s hands. As though they are coating your body in a lie you can never explain to them is so wrong you want to scream.
Feminine trans men and masculine trans women face all the same struggles as cis people who cross traditional masculine/feminine boundaries and then some. Because our gender has to be earned and proven, in a way cis people never have to do. People ask me why if I like makeup and nail polish I don’t just “stay a woman” and I can never really seem to make them understand that I NEVER was a woman. That I did not “become” a man. That I always was and my presentation as feminine in some ways did not make me female.
It feels like someone else, painting over our truth, hands like ravaging wolves, words like stinging cuts, judging eyes like daggers. It is invasive and terrifying and most of us experience it when we are so young we simply do not know how to respond.
So we fold ourselves into foreign shapes. Pretend that who we are fits the cis/heteronormative standards of masculine and feminine. And we are still so very much that image up above. It is still someone telling us what our gender should be, painting over our truth, laying us bare as though they own our bodies and our minds and our souls.
So please, friends. Don’t imagine that because I like nail polish and eyeliner that the above does not apply to me. If anything, it applies MORE, because people try to convince me on a regular basis that those two things should mean I am a woman, because women are feminine and they like nail polish and eyeliner. But the truth is, none of those things determine my gender.
Stop putting your hands on my body, stop painting over my truth, stop imagining for a moment that you know what it feels like to be forcibly removed from who you are. Just stop. And let us be who we are. Free from the expectation of your narrow ideas of male and female and masculine and feminine.
Please. Take your hands off me. And all my brothers and sisters.
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THERE MUST BE A PARAGRAPH BREAK EVERY TIME A NEW CHARACTER SPEAKS
THIS IS NOT OPTIONAL
NO ONE WANTS TO READ ONE BIG BLOCK OF TEXT JESUS CHRIST
REMEMBER TIP TOP OK:
Make a paragraph every time that any of these things change!
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reblogging again because this is IMPORTANT
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Yes, lets imagine a world WITHOUT MUSLIMS, shall we?
Without Muslims you wouldn’t have:
- Coffee
Cameras
Experimental Physics
Chess
Soap
Shampoo
Perfume/spirits
Irrigation
Crank-shaft, internal combustion engine, valves, pistons
Combination locks
Architectural innovation (pointed arch -European Gothic cathedrals adopted this technique as it made the building much stronger, rose windows, dome buildings, round towers, etc.)
Surgical instruments
Anesthesia
Windmill
Treatment of Cowpox
Fountain pen
Numbering system
Algebra/Trigonometry
Modern Cryptology
3 course meal (soup, meat/fish, fruit/nuts)
Crystal glasses
Carpets
Checks
Gardens used for beauty and meditation instead of for herbs and kitchen.
- University
- Optics
- Music
- Toothbrush
- Hospitals
- Bathing
- Quilting
- Mariner’s Compass
- Soft drinks
- Pendulum
- Braille
- Cosmetics
- Plastic surgery
- Calligraphy
- Manufacturing of paper and cloth
It was a Muslim who realized that light ENTERS our eyes, unlike the Greeks who thought we EMITTED rays, and so invented a camera from this discovery.
It was a Muslim who first tried to FLY in 852, even though it is the Wright Brothers who have taken the credit.
It was a Muslim by the name of Jabir ibn Hayyan who was known as the founder of modern Chemistry. He transformed alchemy into chemistry. He invented: distillation, purification, oxidation, evaporation, and filtration. He also discovered sulfuric and nitric acid.
It is a Muslim, by the name of Al-Jazari who is known as the father of robotics.
It was a Muslim who was the architect for Henry V’s castle.
It was a Muslim who invented hollow needles to suck cataracts from eyes, a technique still used today.
It was a Muslim who actually discovered inoculation, not Jenner and Pasteur to treat cowpox. The West just brought it over from Turkey
It was Muslims who contributed much to mathematics like Algebra and Trigonometry, which was imported over to Europe 300 years later to Fibonnaci and the rest.
It was Muslims who discovered that the Earth was round 500 years before Galileo did.
The list goes on………..
Just imagine a world without Muslims. Now I think you probably meant, JUST IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT TERRORISTS. And then I would agree, the world would definitely be a better place without those pieces of filth. But to hold a whole group responsible for the actions of a few is ignorant and racist. No one would ever expect Christians or White people to be held responsible for the acts of Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma bombing) or Anders Breivik (Norway killing), or the gun man that shot Congresswoman Giffords in head, wounded 12 and killed 6 people, and rightly so because they had nothing to do with those incidents! Just like the rest of the 1.5 billion Muslims have nothing to do with this incident!
Sources:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-islamic-inventors-changed-the-world-469452.html
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-01-29/world/muslim.inventions_1_hassani-inventions-muslim?_s=PM:WORLD
http://www.ummahedinburgh.co.uk/radio/files/Muslim-Invention-Article.pdf
Also, without Muslims, all the knowledge and philosophy of Ancient Greece would have gone the same way as the Library of Alexander. The only reason we still know the names Socrates and Archimedes is because the texts concerning them was saved by Muslims.
Imagine a world without white people…
*crickets*
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