steups
no more apologies
nothing left to prove

this shit is mine.
it is for me.

if you don't like it
fuck off.
steups
unbought / unbossed: ugly / warsan shire
poop.
workworkwork
weeaboo-chan:

if i hear the argument ‘well i think it looks cool and i like it, therefore i can’t possibly be being disrespectful’ one more time im gonna pee from my eyeballs
"And how can i fully appreciate all of this when no matter how i’m interpreted, i still feel the need to stretch and itch and change? Some folks think this means i’m “not really trans”. i often get this from some other trans folks who are understandably invested in not being perceived as anything less or more than who they are. But my and their beautiful selves are not necessarily interconnected through the fact of our trans-ness, and we don’t need to consider each other in all our decisions about our own bodies and identities. Or i hear that i am really “just a butch, aha!” Generally, i get this from queer cis folks who aren’t honouring these complexities as much as they are just not fucking getting it or who are way too invested in the bodies of trans people to pay much mind to what we have to say about our fetishisation, conflation with identities that are not our own, and our bodily autonomy. i’m unsure why i’ve believed for so long the cissexist lie that i can’t be this kind of trans as well as this kind of butch."
romham padraig gallacher, Home/Sickness: Self Diagnosis — Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme
"When we dismiss the poison of discrimination in our waters we die from it; or worse we adapt and don’t know when we’ve become toxic ourselves."
Jewelle Gomez, Femme Butch Feminist — Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme 
"

Maybe I was embarrassed to be pregnant. I didn’t want to look like a butch who was trying to be a girl again, didn’t want to be in the in-between place where I didn’t know how to defend myself, where I felt part monster, part joke.

A pregnant woman’s body is hardly the model of conventional femininity. Bigger breasts aside, there is a massive hard ball of a stomach, more like my dad’s beer belly than a soft, rounded lady’s tummy. It’s true that some people find it attractive, but at least as many, if not more, are turned off by it. If the shape is not particularly feminine, if the work of pregnancy is often sweaty and sore and gruelling, then what is it exactly that makes it, in that butch’s opinion (and she’s not alone), the ultimate in femininity?

I think it’s because pregnancy is the physical manifestation of having been fucked. And specifically, fucked by a man. I think people reduce femininity to the one simple act. By the same token. the ultimate in masculinity is to be the one who does the fucking. Such conflation renders my butch pregnancy invisible, as it simultaneously devalues every femme in the world who does not have a baby. Their rich, complicated femininity is considered inferior to the more significant act of giving birth. This version of femininity is violent, tearing away at the legitimacy of our lives.

If femininity is taboo for butches, being fucked is even worse. As far as I can tell, a lot of us are, in fact, getting fucked by our girlfriends, but very few of us are willing to admit this openly.

"

Karleen Pendleton Jiménez, A Beautiful Creature — Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme

“I think it’s because pregnancy is the physical manifestation of having been fucked. And specifically, fucked by a man. I think people reduce femininity to the one simple act.”  

That’s the part I wanted to highlight, the rest was there for context really. 

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ravens-nest:

Lafayette is my Lifespiration.
ravens-nest:

Lafayette is my Lifespiration.
ravens-nest:

Lafayette is my Lifespiration.
ravens-nest:

Lafayette is my Lifespiration.
i’m a barista now