hydromellucida
@hydromellucida.bsky.social
they/she・not not not・晴天就算不多 还不是得过・becoming so quickly obsolete, while remaining so durable
touching grass s3e34: getting the most of the last bit of sun
July 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
touching grass s3e34: getting the most of the last bit of sun
no alt text, obviously
May 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
no alt text, obviously
and i still think you deserve a good life foodhouse.bandcamp.com/track/nono
![[spotify lyrics]
I don't think you're ugly but you think you're ugly and because you think you're ugly you are gonna hurt somebody
You just won't transition so now it's your mission to make all the life decisions for somebody who transitioned
I just think it's odd that we were kids, and you were not](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nht6njsq7dwhho6nv3nslivm/bafkreia5xh7g5rkckflr3cykqinxwbayid4lq5wemibpny6gntxwvumwea@jpeg)
March 7, 2025 at 4:32 AM
and i still think you deserve a good life foodhouse.bandcamp.com/track/nono
perversely fascinated with how things have made it to here already. i guess only slightly faster than i expected
March 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
perversely fascinated with how things have made it to here already. i guess only slightly faster than i expected
no. no it did not
March 5, 2025 at 6:03 AM
no. no it did not
sisterhood is real
March 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
sisterhood is real
tyra’s name stands out to me here, and i think there’s something fascinating to be written about comedy & biopolitics, perhaps with a “smilex” pun in the title…
c. riley snorton & jin haritaworn, _trans necropolitics: a transnational reflection on violence, death, and the trans of color afterlife_
c. riley snorton & jin haritaworn, _trans necropolitics: a transnational reflection on violence, death, and the trans of color afterlife_
![Tyra Hunter was headed for work in the passenger side of a vehicle in Washington D.C. on August when her car was broadsided at an intersection. When fire department personnel arrived on the scene, onlookers already had pulled Tyra and the driver from the car. As a crowd gathered, firefighter Adrian Williams and others began treating the injured-that is, until Williams cut open Tyra’s pant leg and noticed she had male genitalia. At that point, according to eyewitnesses, Williams stood up and backed away from Tyra, who was semi-conscious, complaining about her pain, and gasping for breath. Williams was quoted by one witness as saying, "This bitch ain't no girl… It's a
n*****, he got a dick" […]
As the “jokes” continued, bystanders began to plead with the emergency responders to resume working to save Trya’s life. One bystander was quoted as saying, "It don't make any difference, he's a person... a human being". After some time, other firefighters attended to Tyra's inuries, and she was transported to D.C. General Hospital, where she was placed under the care of Dr. Joseph A. Bastien, who failed to provide a necessary blood transfusion or insert a chest tube necessary for Tyra's medical care. She was pronounced dead later that day.
Of course, the "treatment" Tyra received is not an isolated incident. Popular transgender lore would interpret the events precipitating Tyra's death as medicalized transphobia, which of course they are. But a broader politico-theoretical framework allows us to understand Tyra's body (before and after the accident) as a site where the medical establishment enacted what Henry Giroux calls a "biopolitics of disposability:· a "new kind of politics... in which entire populations are now considered disposable, an unnecessary burden on state coffers, and cosigned to fend for themselves" […] The consequence of this logic effaces the way power and life are maintained and reproduced through the deaths of certain others.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nht6njsq7dwhho6nv3nslivm/bafkreidzkayk6u3xmvcq7kptot3mg4gpd4rdueh2zlsd7aesnxib4v3tli@jpeg)
![Haritaworn's analysis of the appropriation of trans of color lives by white queer theorists provides an incisive theoretical framework for understanding Tyra's after-death transformation by layering race onto trans theorist Jay Prosser's supposition about the degree to which transgender and transexual inclusiveness might really stand in for queer inclusivity. Prosser asks, "to what extent this queer inclusiveness of transgender and transsexuality is... the mechanism by which queer can sustain its very queerness... by periodically adding subjects who appear even queerer precisely by virtue of their marginality in relation to queer"; we wonder to what degree queer and trans anti-discrimination and anti-violence movements are produced and sustained by the violent and frequently murderous impulses specifically directed toward trans feminine people of color.
[This is] a key example of a larger project of reincorporating transgender bodies of color under a more legible sign; in this case, the representation of Tyra as a spectacularized gay male body. transgender bodies, it is always a process of translation-with risks (of appropriation) and payoffs. One "payoff" in this instance was the $2.8 million lawsuit Tyra's mother, Margie Hunter, won against the city and hospital on December 11, 1998, when a jury found them guilty of negligence and malpractice. While $500,000 was awarded for damages attributable to the withdrawal of medical care at the accident scene, a further $1.5 million was awarded for conscious pain and suffering endured by Tyra in the emergency room as the result of medical malpractice. The sanitizing of Tyra's transgender body undoubtedly allowed her to be understood more sympathetically as a son. Indeed, Margie Hunter told Washington Post reporters,
"Tyrone always was so sure he would be famous, that hed be on the television," she said. "I don't think he meant this way. I know I didn't. But maybe this is God's will and something good will come of it".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nht6njsq7dwhho6nv3nslivm/bafkreides7pdwwcxxhxgd3wgccyjpffzenhkvk66iofaftuvvlnireo7me@jpeg)
February 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
tyra’s name stands out to me here, and i think there’s something fascinating to be written about comedy & biopolitics, perhaps with a “smilex” pun in the title…
c. riley snorton & jin haritaworn, _trans necropolitics: a transnational reflection on violence, death, and the trans of color afterlife_
c. riley snorton & jin haritaworn, _trans necropolitics: a transnational reflection on violence, death, and the trans of color afterlife_
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![We are an embattled community, Mr. MacDonald. We need your attempts to make our deaths into occasions for amusement like we need a heart attack. These are not abstractions for us: every time a transperson falls as a result of a hate crime, the Menace organizes another Memorial Vigil for the first day of the murder trial. We'll be at Deborah's. And at Channel's.
And we've already held a Vigil for Tyra.
What's nice about transgender activism is it's reliable work. Another Transperson is brutally murdered in a fairly unambiguous hate crime every 4-5 months. This will not change with better laws or more legislation. It will change when we are no longer considered disposable people. It will change when we are no longer considered freaks. It will change when people no longer find the violence of our lives a fit and amusing response for our having crossed gender lines. We will continue to die violent deaths, Mr. MacDonald, until people's attitudes change.
The fact is, performers like you do a great deal to set and solidify popular attitudes of what is fashionable and hip. I hope you lose at least a couple nights of sleep over this. I've enclosed the Village Voice article on Brandon's murder, and I made certain the pictures of him were in color. He is a beautiful young person in any gender, isn't he Mr. MacDonald? Please look at his face, and that of Lana, beside him, and realize that by your actions you've helped bring the deaths of the next beautiful young person like Brandon, or Deborah, or Chanel, or Tyra just a wee bit closer.
Riki Anne Wilchins
The Transexual Menace - NYC Chapter
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February 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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come back, come back baby come back
February 16, 2025 at 7:03 PM
come back, come back baby come back
ahh. i always thought of it as
February 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
ahh. i always thought of it as
me if i were a rice pudding
February 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
me if i were a rice pudding
something about silences
February 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
something about silences
![[tumblr post by derinthescarletpescatarian]
Lean into the funny idiot archetype so that when you're unexpectedly hypercompetent at something they give you The Look where you can see them reexamine their entire perception of you in confusion, respect and no small amount of fear, and when you keep playing funny idiot they will be forever wary of you. Let them find out, incidentally, that the jester keeps a knife under his hat, and never figure out how to deal with that because they won't abandon their boxes.
[reply by theshitpostcalligrapher: image of the line “them find out, incidentally, that the jester keeps a knife under his hat” written in calligraphy, red ink on a small white card]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nht6njsq7dwhho6nv3nslivm/bafkreie6tban4un5szea37s4hsajepvrebqn46n43usjupd4k4idfs2tse@jpeg)
happy valentine’s day
February 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
happy valentine’s day
not NOW, co-star
February 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
not NOW, co-star
![[photo of kobo laid atop art book from previous post]
Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written-when only I can see them-from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love without contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences.
(It is a mistake therefore to compare someone writing about his own life to an exhibitionist, since the latter has only one desire: to show himself and to be seen at the same time.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nht6njsq7dwhho6nv3nslivm/bafkreifvnjf3xid5lax4bjsvdcqxxvhgfy2cvondlbftn5gwhutx5zrdi4@jpeg)
i wish this just felt like, ooh, nice art book, let’s get it, and not, if enough of us don’t preserve copies of our history individually they’ll be lost forever
February 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
i wish this just felt like, ooh, nice art book, let’s get it, and not, if enough of us don’t preserve copies of our history individually they’ll be lost forever
i’m little my to the haters
February 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
i’m little my to the haters
these photos rockcritics.com/2009/01/22/p...
February 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
these photos rockcritics.com/2009/01/22/p...
while we’re alive
February 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
while we’re alive
thinking about her
February 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
thinking about her