kiefharing:

lets take a minute to talk about how fucking badass my little cousin is?

I was doing face painting at my niece’s third birthday party today, and my 9/10 year old cousin tyler was there. (he’s the awesome dude with a butterfly on his face)

Now let me start off by saying, tyler isn’t a particularly feminine or “girly” boy. He plays sports and such, but also happily attends his older sister’s dance recitals. Long explaination short… at nine or ten (idk) 

He already understands that things, and hobbies, and colors, and interests are not split up between boys are girls. 

when he came up and I asked him what he wanted he chuckled a bit but very clear and confidently said he wanted the butterfly. he wanted the pink butterfly. 

he got a little shit from some family who would see his face, laugh, smile, and say “hey Ty, aren’t butterflies for girls?”

he would just respond with “they are a part of nature… nature isn’t just for girls” 

and that was that. 

I fucking love my little cousin. 

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lynzave:

today these kids were talking and being really rude during a test so I finally fulfilled my dream of telling them off by yelling “I AM FAILING THIS CLASS AND YOU DILDOS AREN’T HELPING MY SITUATION, LET ME TAKE MY TEST” and it went dead silent for like two seconds and one person snickered and the teacher said “don’t you dare laugh, she’s absolutely right”

I’ve never had a school official back me up after calling someone a dildo.

wearetheamericanway:

Don’t forget Superman, John. He was an immigrant too. All Americans have a connection to immigration, share your story with us.

The U.S.’s current immigration system is byzantine, cruel, and benefits neither American citizens nor anyone else. We need comprehensive immigration reform to bring highly skilled workers into the United States to help our economy grow and to bring security and stability to the lives of immigrants living in the United States today. Nikola Tesla was an immigrant. So were Joseph Pulitzer and Albert Einstein and Igor Stravinsky. Rational, compassionate immigration reform is needed so that the next Teslas and Einsteins are not denied access to educational or entrepreneurial opportunities in the United States. The time has come. - John Green

transqueery:

Trans* Men and the Erasure of Childhood Femininity

artoftransliness:

thechroniclesofdrew:

Gender identity is far more complex than what you wear or what hobbies you partake in. It is more complicated than how you wear your hair or the toys that you played with as a child. Many trans* men proudly proclaim that they never liked dresses, they always kept their hair short, they were a ‘tom boy’. They keep anything ‘feminine’ close to their chest, secret and hidden lest someone clutch it and hold it aloft as ‘proof’ that they are not trans* enough.

This is my confession: in many ways, I was not a typically masculine child. My parents granted me the freedom to express myself without fear or judgement. I loved thePower RangersandPolly Pocketequally. I had long, flowing blond hair and perpetually scabby knees. I dabbled in make-up, played dress-up and skateboarded too fast down steep hills like I had some kind of death wish.

These things are not what make me a man. Equally, they do not make me less of one

The hardest part of coming out, for me, was not pronouns or family or work. It was the pressure to disconnect myself from certain aspects of my childhood, the person that I had once been (and still am, in many ways). To edit myself – talk about my eighth birthday and leave out the fairy castle cake, paint my experiences in blue rather than pink or purple. It was the sudden revelation that I could not talk about my first boyfriend, or any boyfriend, without it feeling somehow socially unacceptable, without someone double-taking or their smile freezing on their face.

I felt ashamed of the ballet class I took when I was five, the dress I wore to my prom, the snapshots on the walls that damned me for my ‘girlhood’. Like somehow, if I was a ‘real man’, I wouldn’t have or shouldn’t have partaken in these things. I erased whole sections of my childhood, consciously locked them away and didn’t talk about them for fear of being judged. Of being told I wasn’t really trans*, that my interests or hobbies or the way I looked took away my credibility.

I would never tell a cis boy that he can’t do ballet, or play with make-up, or dress up in pink. I would never tell him that those things mean he’s not a ‘real’ boy. Yet I still felt the shame associated with that, and still judged myself by those arbitrary standards.

Many of us boast about hating dresses from an early age, or about wanting to be Spiderman for Halloween like that somehow validates our masculinity. Like we have to dress up our childhood as a stereotypical boyhood in order to be real, or to be taken seriously. But if we liked to knit, or our favourite colour was pink, or we went to prom in a dress, that’s okay. It doesn’t define us. We can talk about that without being less of a man. It doesn’t make us fake, it doesn’t invalidate our gender, and it isn’t shameful.

We are not born knowing that the colour pink is for girls and that the colour blue is for boys. Gender isn’t formed by what you wear, what you do, what you like or how you express yourself. Gender is what’s inside you, and no one can define that but yourself. No matter what you looked like or how you expressed yourself as a child. My name is Michael, and I am a man who had a fairy castle cake for my eighth birthday. And I’m okay with that.

This is really interesting. A lot of trans* people are insecure about parts of their childhood in which they liked pink (or blue) or played with dolls (or cars). As this person points out, gender isn’t defined by what you wear, do, or like (or what you have worn, done, or liked in the past). Just like how liking traditionally masculine stuff doesn’t make you a trans* man, not liking those things (or having not liked those things in your childhood) doesn’t invalidate your gender identity. 

theyoutubegang:

whimsicdoctor13:

emmalyrose:

boobrien:

causticgambler:

mageofform:

hellingly:

that sounds exhausting im sorry

they killed them after they stabbed them 666 times?  how does that much stabbing not kill someone all on its own?

do you think any of them lost count?

“476, 477, 479… wait shit. steve, i think i fucked up. do i start over?”

what the hell is wrong with this website

Instead of doing all that work, couldn’t they have just killed three Russian teenagers and stabbed them each six times? That would be much easier.

Tumblr: where we criticize satan worshippers, not for killing people, but for the unnecessary amount of effort they put into doing it.

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the-questionmark-kid:

the-fast-and-the-fluffiest:

altogether-ooky-avaedgeworth:

theburningpile:

Beyond this being really cool, I just gotta say…

HOLY SHIT STAPLES DID SOMETHING THAT POSITIVELY AFFECTS THE UNIVERSE?!?

STAPLES OF ALL THE COMPANIES

That was easy

I would love to show this to my mother -.- Not that she’d take any of this to heart

exitdoesnot-exist:

kissonmebabyy:

jennaanne01:

Is that a girl or a boy? And you smile because today maybe you might just pass. But then you see their eyes register no facial hair, no knot in your throat, no bulge in your pants. They say it again, louder, tauntingly. 

Is that a girl or a boy.This time they know the answer and they just want to see you squirm. 

And you do. 

And they snicker. 

“IT” performed by Kavindu “Kavi” Ade. 

There are no words for the emotions that this video causes. 

ALWAYS FUCKING REBLOG. oh my god, the feelings

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youngsuslord:

THIS IS THE BEST THING I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE! omg he’s just like sup. 

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wearitasawormstach:

tall:

pocketpinya:

boomette:

look at that guy on the left he is so photogenic i bet there is a stock photo of him laughing with a salad

fixed that for you

oh my god i found the post that started it all

oh my god my blog is now complete