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i'm using the words of humans to say what i want to know
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plus this :)
March 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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dont hate me but ry took a really good photo of me
willa is squatting in some spring grass, wearing a light blue silk slip, two tiny braids falling over her chest, she looks.. no offense.. pretty https://www.instagram.com/ry__noor/
February 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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bedside book stack reveal
February 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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cat girls will outlast u
text from a 1952 paper by Margaret Mahler: "GEORGE was just under seven when admitted to our Children's Service with fulminant symptoms of delusions and hallucinations. He had developed fairly normally to the age of three. when a sister was born. He began to have night terrors. At about the same time he began to have what his mother aptly described as "talking tantrums." He would pace the room. talking angrily to himself about something which seemed entirely irrelevant to his environment. He would mumble: "I'm a pussy cat. I'm a pussy cat. Elaine is big. I'm a pussy cat." Shortly after the baby came, he wanted to wear her clothes. and often wanted to wear his mother's. He insisted that he wanted to be a girl, preferred female animals and asked his mother perseverative questions as to why he should not be a girl. At about the same time he began to be afraid of the holes in a fence which he passed. or wherever he encountered any. His father frequently used this fear as a threat. often telling him he would put him in a hole. He tried to get reassurance from his father by asking frequently: "Do you love me?" George became a very good but asocial student. He often spoke of his sister. and again and again of his pet kitten in school. "I have a cat at home. It's a girl cat. I like my cat. I'm a girl cat."
January 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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incredible line from a student's essay
To be loved is to be changed. Covered in saliva, tears, and dry spots,
January 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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i have two poems in the new issue of Grotto: grottojournal.net/Willa-Smart
December 4, 2024 at 2:39 AM
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meme reading 'who here a lesbian but in the dennis cooper way' - text overlaid on image of one man holding another man baby style
November 30, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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have been casually assembling a bibliography of 20th century transfeminine life writing / memoirs. certainly not a complete list — if you know of any omissions plz lmk so that i can add them :)
pre-2000s transfeminine memoirs & life writing * Daniel Paul Schreber, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903) * Jennie June, Autobiography of an Androgyne (1918) * Jennie June, The Female Impersonators (1922) * Lili Elbe, Man into Woman (1933) * Tamara Reese, “Reborn”: A Factual Life Story of a Transition from Male to Female (1955) * Hedy Jo Star, I Changed My Sex (1963) * Christine Jorgensen, A Personal Autobiography (1967) * Geoff Brown, I Want What I Want … To Be a Woman (1971, published as a novel) * Dianna, Behold, I am a Woman (1972) * Jan Morris, conundrum (1974) * Being Different: The Autobiography of Jane Fry (1974) * Canary Conn, Canary: The Story of a Transsexual (1974) * Nancy Hunt, Mirror Image: The Odyssey of a Male-to-Female Transsexual (1978) * Renee Richards, second serve (1981) * Tula, I am a Woman (1982) * Angela Douglas, Triple Jeopardy (1983) * Ashley April (w Duncan Fallowell) April Ashley's Odyssey (1983) * Inge Stephens, Alain, transsexuelle (1983, in french) * Stephanie Castle, Feelings: a transsexual's explanation of a baffling condition (1992) * Angela Douglas, Hollywoods Obsession (1992) * Tula, My Story (1992) * Julia Grant, Just Julia: The Story of an Extraordinary Woman (1994) * Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw (1995) * Jayne County, Man Enough to Be a Woman (1995) * Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual - Beth Elliot and Geri Nettic (1996) * Bambi Lake, The Unsinkable Bambi Lake (1996) * Claudine Griggs, Passage through Trinidad: journal of a surgical sex change (1996) * Jennifer Spry, Orlando's sleep: an autobiography of gender (1997) * Deirdre McCloskey, Crossing: A Memoir (1999)
November 25, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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next dsm is going to replace gender dysphoria with unpunctuality
footnote from a robert stoller text: "In our research team, we practically consider the diagnosis of transsexualism made, before ever having seen the patient, when 'she' fails to appear at the appointed time for the first visit."
November 17, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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One of the keys to enjoying eating beeswax is to remember one word — moderation.
November 15, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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November 15, 2024 at 2:17 AM
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Richard Burton was a handsome man. To view pictures of him click here.
November 14, 2024 at 1:46 AM
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July 21, 2024 at 1:40 AM
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Angela Woods suggests that the term "word salad" was invented by Jung.
May 16, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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beth elliott realizing she is trans by getting really stoned
February 23, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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unsure about new sweater
December 28, 2023 at 6:54 PM
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i keep telling myself this
November 29, 2023 at 3:00 AM
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transhistorical gay guy bleached hair
November 21, 2023 at 8:51 PM
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also funny bit about terfs' "nostalgia for the Bad Old Days of women's music" when Stone is discussing her time as a recording engineer at Olivia Records
October 17, 2023 at 2:48 PM
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interesting point in a 1995 interview where Sandy Stone suggests that the rise of transphobia might be understood less as a reaction to the public/legislative “success” of transsexuals than as a kind of economic opportunism born of the market established by the institutionalization of queer theory
October 17, 2023 at 2:37 PM
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does anyone know if this is true?
a page from Autobiography of an Androgyne with the following sentence underlined: "Inability to whistle is a general characteristic of passive inverts."
August 10, 2023 at 5:16 PM
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country girls make do :)
July 22, 2023 at 8:56 PM
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British Lord meets an intriguing woman at a party; as she leaves she drops a card with the name of a “Public School for Adults in need of Correction” and the instructions “Find Me” written on it.
cover of the zine, Sentenced Him to Be a Lady, by c.c. published by Empathy Press
July 13, 2023 at 9:26 PM
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being murdered :)
a photograph of a page from Michael Eignen's book, The Sensitive Self. "In Cogitations, Bion writes of being murdered, then being all right. He likens a psychotic seeing blood mounting up on his sleeve to being murdered in reverse. The patient dreads annihilation as his blood is restored. It is an annihilation he must risk if he is to come alive, if the blood of meaning and feeling is to flow in his psychic veins: "At the point when his blood will be fully restored to his circulatory system he will experience being murdered. And then he will be all right.? The closer to life, the closer to murder as a rite of passage. Murder as gateway on the way toward aliveness, as psychic circulation increases, contrasts with images of bleeding to death. Bion writes about loss of blood as an image of loss of feeling or splattering of common sense. Hemorrhage expresses injury to thinking and feeling processes."
July 6, 2023 at 7:50 PM
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mmm
May 24, 2023 at 5:10 PM