Inclusivity - Blog Posts

a reminder for anyone who feels like they're going to spiral, do something bad to themselves or someone else, etc. :

you aren't a bad person.

it's okay to let your feelings out, but do so responsibly. there is always at least someone who will let you use them as a support system. there is always at least one healthy coping mechanism that will work for you.

take a deep breath, smell the flowers. focus on the environment around you. listen to the sounds of the outside. clench all of your muscles and slowly, one by one, let the tension go. light a few candles, or sage. pray, if your belief system includes it.

listen to reiki, asmr, or guided meditation. listen to music, no matter the genre. write out your feelings, even if it's a first draft. watch something you love; hell, do something you love. distract yourself from the feelings of guilt, anger, and anguish.

of course, you can't always run away from it. that's fine. leave it for now, and come back to it later in a healthier mindset. sleep on it. forget it in the moment.

just take care of yourself. you got this!

( anti-endogenics are able to interact with this post. self-care is for everyone. )

Learning sign language should be mandatory in all schools.

Why? Well I’m not really educated in this but like, communicating without making noise? Being more inclusive? Third language? Sounds dope to me

Alright so we just finished our drama performance and I am both exhausted and very awake so, before I pass out, I want to talk about the live action Snow White. I don’t love that Disney is making all of the live action remakes but I don’t really care about changing the race. I think diversity is very important and the fact that Disney is actually trying is nice. The one thing I will say is that I think they did the wrong thing for inclusivity in Snow White. I think what they should have done was make Snow White a person with albinism, which would still bring awareness to a population that doesn’t have a lot of awareness online. It would logically make sense because the whole “skin as white as snow” obviously but also she would probably wear a wig because, considering the time Snow White is set in, she would probably struggle with extreme discrimination and public pressure (especially since she is royalty). Also wigs in this time were considered a status symbol, which also works with the whole princess thing. Another thing is that rouge was a common way to get red lips in 16th century Germany, which is the time and place Snow White is set in. I know I’m definitely not the first person to think of this idea but honestly it makes a lot of sense. I just kinda needed to talk about this somewhere and I want to know people’s thoughts one this.

maybe there's something im not understanding here, and honestly at the end of the day i don't really care one way or the other this is a pretty exclusively online topic, but the whole "neo/xeno AGAB" thing is like... vaguely transphobic right?

and i am absolutely 100% NOT the person to try to tell others how they should identify or what labels they should be using, im literally a transmasc nonbinary mspec/queer lesbian transspecies werewolf who uses xeno pronouns for fucks sake, it doesn't really get anymore "queer as in wtf is going on" than that.

but from what i've seen and read about it, it kind of seems to be simultaneously reinventing and discrediting the definition of transgender. To directly quote the "AGAB Non-Conformity" infographic made by @/nonconformityhub,

"Those who reject their AGAB, are unassigned, or were forced to fit a binary sex at birth may wish to self-assign a different AGAB. It's based around the idea that we shouldn't be forced to stick with a falsely assigned gender."

like, am i not understanding something or is that literally just the definition of being transgender or gnc?? i think the thing that rubs me the wrong way about it is that it almost kinda implies that as a transgender individual you should or need to disclose the gender you were assigned at birth to others, which (unless it's for legal or health related reasons) you literally just don't. If you are a trans man, congratulations, you are a man. You don't have to be an "AFAB man", you're just a man. As far as anyone else needs to be concerned, you are male and have always been such. The whole point of being trans is to reject the gender you were assigned at birth because it's flat out not what you are.

Idk again I don't really care that much I don't think it's gonna single handedly set back trans liberation or anything of that sort, I just feel like we SHOULD be focusing on dismantling the system of assigning genders at birth to begin with and reasserting that sex ≠ gender, rather than simply modifying the system to appeal to certain individuals and disregarding preexisting communities trying to accomplish that goal, and would maybe just encourage everyone to look at this kind of stuff with some healthy skepticism

In regards of the Trump government scraping all trans inclusion in its queer information portion of its websites I have made this thing. Spread the word. Don't let them pretend we never existed.

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