The Hind End of Space

White feminists:

waepenlesbian:

quietbang:

split-the-coast:

When you discuss the wage gap, here are a few things to keep in mind:

• Only white women make $0.77 to a man’s dollar.
• Black women make about $0.68 to a man’s dollar.
• Latina women make about $0.58 to a man’s dollar.

Intersectionality matters.

I will keep reblogging this to point out that disabled people, including men, make 22 cents on the dollar. Mostly because it is legal to pay us below minimum wage, but whatevs.

Original post is somewhat false. That only applies to white, black, and latina cis women. Of those trans women that are lucky enough to be employed (usually white) the average is $0.68 to a man’s dollar. Keep in mind though, that vast swaths of trans women (especially twoc) aren’t able to find legal sources of income at all, and thus aren’t even included in the study. If they were, that number would be far lower (exactly how much further, I don’t have the data to say, but given the number of us that are forced to engage in sex work just to survive, [one study pegged it around 2/3] no number would be too low to surprise me.)

to the people who aren’t trans women who are oh-so-sad about Leelah but didn’t give a shit til today and won’t give a shit til next time this happens

autogynephile:

What y’all don’t seem to fucking understand is that nearly every trans woman you’ve ever met has been close to suicide and/or otherwise in mortal danger at least once (to say nothing of all the trans women you’ll never meet because they’re fucking dead).

What y’all don’t seem to fucking understand is that constantly conjuring up or not conjuring up the will to live is a defining characteristic of being a trans woman; that nearly all of us are constantly battling the same things Leelah was before she died.

And even more crucially, what y’all don’t seem to understand is that YOU are the people who create these conditions. YOU, the dismisser of abuse, the spreader of rumors, the Rocky Horror fan, the TWEF, the truscum, the doctor, the radical queer, the cop, the chaser, the partner, the unreliable friend, the vagina feminist, the vulture, the liberal, the predator, the rapist, the ‘ally,’ the drowner-out of trans women’s voices, the trans man hosting TDoR, the person who keeps transmisogynistic friends around, the person who thinks Leelah’s death is ‘so sad’ but refuses to connect it to any larger political context, the nice and well-meaning person who lacks accountability, the blogger who turns a trans woman’s death into an opportunity to garner social capital. YOU are to blame for this. YOU are why this keeps happening. YOU are no better than Leelah’s parents - not til trans women are categorically loved, supported, and protected in a MEANINGFUL way (and, by the way, not just the rich thin white ones who are factually the least endangered but excite you most after they’re dead).

Where are you when the trans woman in YOUR community calls out for help? Do you even believe her? Are you an apologist for her abusers, or are you there to support her like you’re there to denounce Leelah’s parents? And how far does that support go, anyway?

Where is this rage and sadness you’re all suddenly feeling when the living trans woman offers her analysis of her situation and you either ignore it or argue against it because it’s uncomfortable to you? Where are you when you see others doing that?

Those, of course, are rhetorical questions. We both already know the answers, don’t we? You’re nowhere and you don’t give a shit til you have something to gain from it. Fuck you and butt out.

autogynephile:

followers who don’t already know this — don’t reblog valeriekeefe

7252) For the longest time I looked forward to being “full time”. Then it happened and guess what? It sucks. Being a woman is hard, being a trans woman is even harder. I’m weak. It’s too much for me and I just want to give up on life.

Trans women and restlessness

petalsandbridges:

Cis people don’t realize that trans women weren’t born with the feeling of calm they have. And then were traumatized repeatedly through our entire girlhoods and many of us repressed a bunch of emotions during adulthood until finally coming out… only to be traumatized at a blinding rate again. Are you seeing a pattern here? We never got to sit down.

Now, some of us -it helps to have various privileges- are getting the chance to sit down, become less hyper-vigilant, and become gentle towards ourselves after so many people have been very not gentle with us. That is a beautiful thing and this blog is about my own coming to that, but can we just look at this for a second?

The trans woman you (say, cis women) think are a bit much, the ones who you think need to turn a down a notch? The gap isn’t that they’re “a bit masculine for you,” the gap is that you’ve never met someone who’s been through so much shit and never had a chance to rest.

comfemgem:

Trans men want to stop being treated like women.

Trans women want to stop being treated like monsters, with the aspiration of being treated like women.

ATTENTION BAY AREA READERS

jobhaver:

transhousingnetwork:

the need for shelter in the san francisco bay area has been much more significant than the number of people offering shelter on this page. if you are in san francisco or the bay area please, please submit “have couch” posts if you can, thank you

this is so important. we regularly receive submissions on trans housing network from people, usually trans women, in the bay area who are in extremely dire situations. the bay area has a massive issue with LGBT homelessness and its something that affects trans spectrum persons disproportionately, especially trans women.

however, we very rarely receive any “have couch” submissions from that area and its very common for posts from persons needing shelter in the bay area to go unanswered even when we aggressively promote them, despite that area’s reputation as ‘Queer’/LGBT friendly. this pride day, do something that actually matters and offer help to a transgender person on the streets.

even if you cannot offer a place or aren’t in the bay area, please signal boost this. thank you

(Source: transhousingnetwork)

kwansimah:

ferenginar:

yungmethuselah:

If you think all Black people’s blogs are “social justice” blogs, you’re racist.

I read some newspaper article recently that pretty much summed up Tumblr and the responses to it this way—privileged people who come here are shocked to see marginalized people talking about their experiences, so they think everyone’s just obsessed with social justice, rather than talking about their own lives.

🙌thissss

(Source: unverifiedmessiah)