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| User: | drakyn (840149) Kristopher's Journal
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| Name: | Kristopher | |
| Website: | Monster's Creed | |
| Bio: | "And the time came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud became harder than the risk it took to bloom"---Anais Nin ****** I am not an ideology, a political view, a theory, a mutilation, a “most self-destructive embodiment of the patriarchy”, etc. That sort of thinking is the same sort of bigoted thinking that causes people to see me and my brothers, sisters, and siblings in trans* experiences as less-than human. People are dead because most people cannot see us as more than objects of ridicule and curiosity. Because society-at-large sees no problem in making us justify our mere existence. Society, even feminists, see no problem with assuming that the stereotypes given by sexist, cissexist, transphobic, patriarchal journalist and publishing industries are true. You want to know why so many of us medically, legally, and socially transition? Fine, I’ll tell you. Because we don’t want to commit suicide. Because our bodies (not, btw, our supposed femininity or masculinity) do not fit with what our brains expect. Because living a lie, pretending even for those you love and cherish the most, is a most poignant torture. Because disassociating from your emotions and the whole gorram world when your body becomes even less androgynous during puberty is fucking hell on your soul and mind. Theory, ideology, politics…fuck no. ****** --Me "It is time to look the monstrous in the eye. It is time. It is time to say that we are beautiful in our fierceness, and that we are our own. We are not the rejected of what we can never be. We are what we were meant to be. We are not pieces of wholes thrown together incorrectly. We are not mistakes. We are not inferior knockoffs of someone else. If our monstrousness is frightening, then it is time we bare our teeth and draw that fear close to us and stop being so afraid of our fearsomeness that we fear everyone and everything else right back. I am throwing my head back, here, and saying it: no more being afraid. Hell no. My monstrousness is not a place of shame. It is a strength. It is the power to say I am mine, and I will tell you what I mean. Not you. I am not any thing trapped in anyone's body. I am tougher than that, and I have plenty of blood to spare in this body of mine, and plenty more miles to go before any of you can bring me to my knees, and I dare you to try." --Part of a poem/essay by little light @ http://takingsteps.blogspot.com/2007/01/seam-of-skin-and-scales.html "I am not an ideology, a political view, a theory, a mutilation, a “most self-destructive embodiment of the patriarchy”, etc. That sort of thinking is the same sort of bigoted thinking that causes people to see me and my brothers, sisters, and siblings in trans* experiences as less-than human. People are dead because most people cannot see us as more than objects of ridicule and curiosity. Because society-at-large sees no problem in making us justify our mere existence. Society, even feminists, see no problem with assuming that the stereotypes given by sexist, cissexist, transphobic, patriarchal journalist and publishing industries are true." --Me. I hold to my belief that we don't suffer from gender identity disorder. We suffer from everybody else's gender identity disorder. Having such a shallow definition of one's gender is bound to create insecurity in the face of transpeople, and we have to bear the brunt of the world's insecurity on this subject. -Changelingjane What about if transwomen called themselves "political women", instead of "women", would that make it okay? Could they join your treehouse club then? --R. Mildred in reference to allowing "political lesbians" into lesbian-only spaces and claiming lesbian identities. People focus a lot of their attention on others’ bodies as the determining factor for their role and their value, while disregarding the body as a potential source of valuable experience and identity. - Kerrick Adrian The "nature versus nurture" debate has meaning for each of us here because we are constantly being asked in life: Why are you the way you are? When did you first know you were different? Do you think that while you were in the womb your tiny fist inadvertently clenched an essential gene too hard? Or was your mother domineering? And my answer is; Who cares! As long as my right to explore the full measure of my own potential is being trampled by discriminatory laws, as long as I am being socially and economically marginalized, as as long as I am being scapegoated for the crimes committed by this economic system, my right to exist needs no explanation or justification of any kind. -Leslie Feinberg Resisting being called "defective" and "broken" is not intolerant; it is standing up for one's rights as a citizen and one's value as a human being. Asking to not be hit is not intolerant; asking not to be called "fag" is not intolerant, asking for the same rights that hetero folks enjoy is not intolerant. I will never accept that being "tolerant" means allowing myself to be regarded as inferior. I don't care if bigots get hurt feelings because I fend off the hand that hits me. --Unknown I do not want tolerance. One tolerates a head cold, a bad smell, or a Conservative government. I want acknowledgement as a fellow member of society and respect of and compliance with my rights as a citizen. --Montrealais       On the use of the word 'cisgender': The point of using the term is partly linguistic convenience - some term is needed, after all. The other point is to try and use a term that makes cisgendered people realize that they are positioned in this debate, rather than implicitly dividing the world into unpositioned people and trans people. You have no more right as a cisgendered person to be treated by others as unpositioned than men have a right to be treated by others as the genderless gender, or whites as the raceless race. --Ampersand Annd... here's a quote about a friend of mine (check Magan's profile for more details) : "megan_julca srsly needs to let go of the male privilege - we get it - [she's] trans, [has] a hard life, and no one accepts [her] as a woman. [She] can shut up now." --faolchu_scatha Keep your Jesus off my penis! http://www.atomfilms.com/landing/landingIndex.jsp?id=jesus_off&mature=accept | |
| Memories: | 10 entries | |
| Interests: | 108: +anima, androgyny, animals, anime, anime icons, anti-cissexism, anti-heterosexism, anti-ooc, anti-racism, anti-transphobia, are your interests lj-approved?, bisexuality, bishounen, bondage, books, boys, brotherhood, cats, celestine prophecies, childfree, combatting oppressions, computers, decriminalization, depression, dragon, dragons, elves, equality, fae, faeries, fag, fairy, fan fiction, fanfic, fanfiction, fantasy, female-to-male, feminism, firefly, frustration, ftm, gender politics, harry potter, hikaru no go, hormone therapy, hunter x hunter, interlocking oppressions, internet, intersections, kurt wagner, kurt/todd, listening, lotr, manga, narusasu/sasunaruisthesamefuckingpairing, nightcrawler, nightcrawler/toad, philosophy, queer, queer politics, queer rights, reading, ryuuichi, sakuma ryuuichi, scott cunningham, sex positivity, sex workers' rights, sexuality, sidhe, slash, smashing binary hierarchies, spirituality, tblg, the brotherhood, toad, toad/nightcrawler, todd tolensky, todd/kurt, trans inclusion, trans issues, trans politics, trans rights, trans*, transboys, transexuality, transfag, transfags, transfeminism, transgender, transgender rights, transgendered, transguy, transition, transman, transsexual, transsexual rights, transwomen, valdemar, vampires, werefolk, werewolf-rights, wings, wolves, x men, x-men slash, x-men: evolution, yerba mate, ♂♂ | |
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