The Hind End of Space

To myself and to my fellow AFAB non-cis people

sadyanovels:

We don’t just need to acknowledge our systemic oppressive power over trans women and AMAB non-binary people.

We don’t just need to listen to what trans women have to say about their own experiences and listen without contradicting or talking over them.

We don’t just need to be realistic about who faces the most violence and who most urgently needs social change and an end to gatekeeping (hint: it’s trans women and AMAB non-binary people).

We need to do all those things, AND we need to make sure EVERY trans-related initiative we take is focused around the survival, safety, and well-being of trans women, especially trans women who are poor, disabled, Black, and/or Latina.

All transphobia leveled against AFAB trans people is rooted in misdirected transmisogyny. Gatekeeping and the pathologization of transness were set up by TWEFs as part of their initiative to exterminate trans women. Combatting transmisogyny is the only way to make progress in any fight related to trans issues.

If you truly want a ~*~unified trans community~*~, then start by supporting, protecting, and centering the lives and voices of trans women in everything you do.

ABOUT DEVIANTART’S TOS

kaeferlein:

Look, I’m not a lawyer, but I do know some stuff about contracts and copyright, and I encourage other artists to read up on it because it’s important. People have been freaking out about dA’s ToS every 6 months or so for as long as I can remember and I highly doubt deviantART sold someone’s work (and to do so would be illegal). Its way more likely that some designer at Hot Topic snagged the image and no one bothered to check it was theirs. DeviantART does NOT have the rights to sell your work. Here’s why:

“Artist at all times retains all right, title and interest in and to the Artist Materials provided by Artist hereunder (including, without limitation, the copyrights in and to the Artist Materials), subject to the non-exclusive rights in the licenses granted to deviantART under this Agreement.”

This is important. You retain your copyright to the work you post on dA, other than the non-exclusive (meaning, they are not the only people who have these rights and they can be given to others) rights you grant them. 

These rights are laid out in Section 3. License To Use Artist Materials. DeviantART has the right to display your work through digital means, which it needs to, well, show your work on the web and mobile. They have a right to edit it, which they need to make thumbnails, put watermarks on if you choose, etc. They can also use it for dA-specific advertising, like posting it on their tumblr. That’s it. They can sublicense those rights. However, this does NOT include physical media (like a shirt) or commercial use, and regardless section 5 reads:

“Limitation Of Rights The rights and licenses granted to deviantART under sections 3 and 4 of this Agreement require deviantART to obtain Artist consent before deviantART makes any commercial agreement with anyone else to separately buy, license, re-sell or re-publish or commercially use any Artist Materials not in association with deviantART but as an individual work of art or as a group of works from a single Artist in isolation from any other works.”

They NEED YOUR PERMISSION to give your work to anyone else. Period.

So yes, one part says you grant them a royalty-free license. To have your work on their website. Nothing else. I’m not saying dA is a perfect website, but there’s no need to rush out and delete your gallery just based on their terms of service.

baeddelbludd:

baeddelbludd:

did-u-kno: trans women’s (esp. trans lesbians’) bodies and sexualities are coded as inherently threatening, and this coding is constantly leveraged to justify the perpetration of immense violence, including sexual violence, against us?

if your feelings of safety or unsafety lead you to commit violence against trans women, you are still a violent transmisogynist. these feelings are not above critique.

(Source: autogynephile)

fuckyouwhiteboy:

sheercalculatedsilliness:

kyubabe:

Quebec filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallée, who directed Dallas Buyers Club, spoke to CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi, who asked whether he ever considered casting a transgender actor.

“Never. [Are] there any transgender actors?” he said. “I’m not aiming for the real thing. I’m aiming for an experienced actor who wants to portray the thing." (x)

by “the thing” of course he means someone who is transgender 

holy shit fuck this guy

im vomiting

(Source: traditionalmarriage)

hexgoddess:

Not liking penis isn’t transmisogynist.

Equating penis with man, equating being a lesbian with not liking penis, erasing trans women lesbians, treating trans women’s bodies as revolting, pretending that criticism of transmisogyny is just trans women trying to get into your pants (related: pretending trans women transition to get into your pants), pretending cis lesbian women who like trans women who have penises are actually bisexual for that, ignoring how structural oppression paints certain bodies (like trans women’s) as less desirable and how that can influence and even fully adjust attractions, stereotyping all trans women as having penises, stereotyping the function of the penises of trans women who have them, on the other hand

That stuff is all transmisogynist. 

Maybe you should stop doing that stuff and then claiming it’s just because you dislike penis and you won’t be rightfully accused of transmisogyny anymore. :)

But of course, it must be said that a lot of us don’t like our assigned junk and really want to change it partly because of that rejection.

and y'know, the dysphoria.

(Source: punlich)

america-you-wanker:

turntechgoddamnit:

Think of it this way: ‘Otaku’ is to Japan what ‘Brony’ is to us.

i thought these tags were important

(Source: kimojunk)

Cis women friends, we need to talk.

kiriamaya:

Look, you know I love you. You know this isn’t me trying to tell you that you’re terrible forever. You know I don’t hate you for what I’m about to say.

But, well, y’all keep fucking up. And you keep fucking up in the same exact ways, even after hearing me and other trans women tell you ad nauseam exactly how you’re fucking up. And hell, you probably literally are sick of hearing it. But if you’re serious about doing right by trans women — and, if I call you friend, you are — then please listen.

(And please, don’t try to claim that it’s misogynist to specifically address cis women instead of just “cis people”. That’s BS and you know it. Cis women oppress us in certain ways that cis men do not.)

Okay, so:

I get how important it is to love your bodies, and I totally support that. I also get that it can be cathartic to attack your oppressors’ bodies. I understand where that’s coming from, totally.

But:

• As a woman with a penis, I can tell you with certainty that you would not be afforded more respect if you had a penis. In fact, you’d face even more of an uphill battle getting the jobs, recognition, etc. that you want, because every single time you did anything at all, people would just dismiss you for being a trans woman. You could fucking cure cancer, and all anyone would say in response is, “that’s a duuuuuuuuuude lol that’s disgusting”. You’d face even more misogyny, even more abuse, and even more dehumanization in general.
• The uterus and/or vagina is not the fount of all womanhood. In saying or implying that it is, you are saying that trans women are not women. And you know that’s not true.
• Trans women are women. Some trans women have penises. Ergo, some women have penises. So when you insult penises/testicles/etc. in general, you are attacking other women’s bodies. How is this pro-woman? How is it feminist? (Radscum needn’t bother replying to this, obvs.)
• Trans women’s health issues are women’s health issues. When you say you don’t care about the health of people with penises, you are necessarily saying that you don’t care about trans women’s health.

I know you know this already; it’s all pretty obvious remedial Trans 023 stuff. And yet, when I bring it up in reference to something you posted, y’all resist it in various ways, usually tearing pages from the Derailing for Dummies* playbook. Which frustrates me so much, because you know better, and I know you know better.

Yes, by all means, be proud of your vagina! And support/boost/offer education about how DFAB reproductive systems work, since society actively tries to suppress that information! And defend everyone’s right to choose tooth-and-nail! And raise holy hell about the fact that it’s easier to get Viagra than it is to get birth control! But here’s a thought: you can do all of that without degendering trans women, without shitting on our needs and our bodies, without situationally revoking our personhood when it’s convenient for your arguments.

You can. You really can. If I thought otherwise, we wouldn’t be friends.

So please, please pay more attention to what you say and what it means. This shit needs to change. So please, help change it.

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* No, I don’t care for the title. It’s still a good (and wonderfully sarcastic) reference to the derailing tactics folks use.