a bird gorgon. she lives in the countryside and works at the local bakery/cafe. in her spare time she makes clay sculptures inspired by her dreams and sings in a funky little blues band. she likes the color blue.
idk what shit-eating truscum needs to hear this, but your rhetoric directly harms people with culturally-specific genders. i’m native and two-spirit, that label describes my gender and my attraction. i use they/them pronouns and your “nonbinaries and cringey stargender trenders aren’t valid” bullshit is getting old. our languages were demonized and erased, our gender and attraction labels along with them. my experiences with dysphoria exist because of colonialist ideas of gender. we have been forced into arbitrary ‘male’ and ‘female’ categories by colonizers for centuries and truscum rhetoric perpetuates racist colonialist violence against natives.
your experiences are not universal, you’re not forwarding justice for trans people, and you’re definitely not an ally to natives or other people of color. you’re just a fucking colonizer.
non-natives, reblog this post
I’m reblogging this again because the comments are absolutely disgusting and a perfect example of how little transmeds value non-Western cultures, communities, and traditions.
Someone in the notes says “no one is like this in real life and if they are it’s just a confused phase.”
Bullshit! I know Two Spirit Nêhiyaw and Métis elders in their seventies. 2S activism has been around my city for decades. Do some fucking research. If you don’t come from a place with an indigenous 2S tradition, accept that you’re ignorant, not that it “isn’t a real thing”
I’m Jewish.
Our book of holy commentary, the Talmud, lists six genders.
The Talmud is older than Jesus.
And I assure you, as old as that might sound, Native communities in the Americas make that number sound minuscule. 2500 years is nothing compared to ten thousand.
(Yes, Native cultures and communities predate the so-called “cradle of civilization.” BY FAR.)
We have always been here. You reading a single high-school textbook and deciding that was all you needed to know is the problem. NOT US.
I’m a busy man. Got two caution signs to remind me to slow down sometimes. Got a vibrating megaphone. Clocks. Radiation. Four goats. Got half a tank of simple columnar epithelial tissue. 60% through my day. Half a tank of gas. And it’s only 10:50.
