unseelie-queen: “And you know, the fact is, nobody knew that they were prosthetic legs. They were the star of the show - these wooden boots peeking out from under this raffia dress - but in fact, they were actually legs made for me.” Aimee Mullins, on her look in the Alexander McQueen S/S 1999 show.

unseelie-queen:

“And you know, the fact is, nobody knew that they were prosthetic legs. They were the star of the show - these wooden boots peeking out from under this raffia dress - but in fact, they were actually legs made for me.”

Aimee Mullins, on her look in the Alexander McQueen S/S 1999 show.

(Source: witchesandslippersandhoods, via awyeahmona)

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im gonna go to bed i guess

goodnight

maybe tomorrow i wont get dysphoric as fuck


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awyeahmona: [Image: Koriand’r redesign. She’s wearing a thin purple breastplate and neckplate, and more purple armor that goes from her feet to below her knees, and between the neckplate and breastplate is some pale green ruched material; more of the material flows out beneath her waistband like a skirt. The color matches the glowing green stones on her armor, the glow of her eyes, and the green flames she’s holding in both hands. Her expression is one of someone about to head into battle, full of power and rage, her hair flows out above her with matching fierceness, and the muscles on her arms and stomach are thick and defined.] mayeko: I feel like my warrior princesses should look like they are both warriors and princesses and in Starfire’s case; are from space. Maybe I’m just trying to fill the Barda shaped hole in my continuity. This a more detailed and slightly updated version of the Starfire redesign I did recently that was featured over on Project Rooftop. ok i need this on my blog

awyeahmona:

[Image: Koriand’r redesign. She’s wearing a thin purple breastplate and neckplate, and more purple armor that goes from her feet to below her knees, and between the neckplate and breastplate is some pale green ruched material; more of the material flows out beneath her waistband like a skirt. The color matches the glowing green stones on her armor, the glow of her eyes, and the green flames she’s holding in both hands. Her expression is one of someone about to head into battle, full of power and rage, her hair flows out above her with matching fierceness, and the muscles on her arms and stomach are thick and defined.]

mayeko:

I feel like my warrior princesses should look like they are both warriors and princesses and in Starfire’s case; are from space.

Maybe I’m just trying to fill the Barda shaped hole in my continuity.

This a more detailed and slightly updated version of the Starfire redesign I did recently that was featured over on Project Rooftop.

ok i need this on my blog

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Femme invisibility from a non-cis POV

amydentata:

Expanded from a comment I wrote on an article by Megan Evans (Huffington Post):

Not all queer women are invisible because of femme presentation. The issue is more complicated among trans women. Some trans women are singled out for violence by the straight world and the cis world because of femme presentation. For some trans women, being femme is what makes them visible. There is another group of trans women who are occasionally read as cis, and other times read as trans. Their invisibility is temporary and random. And some trans women are regularly read as cisgender.

When femme trans women are read as cis, they are doubly invisible until bureaucratic paper trails or honest talks about personal history are used against them. When their queerness is revealed, the outcome is different than when just revealing trans status.

If I am read as trans among queer people, not only is my queerness questioned, but my femme-ness is questioned as well. My body is coded as “male”. I’m written off as “androgynous” unless I go over-the-top in my femininity. Even then, I am granted a segregated version of “femme”, banned from the hallowed halls of cis presentation, written off as a cheap imitation or an amusing oddity.

When I’m read as cis, none of this happens. My experience becomes that of the cis “femme invisibility” narrative. But I mentally start the countdown clock to when something comes up in conversation revealing my trans status. At which point cis people immediately change how they react to my presence. I’m invisible no longer, and in their eyes, femme no longer.

My dating issues aren’t just about being invisible to other queer women. I am also denied my womanhood. Instead of being overlooked like I don’t belong, some lesbians make the case that I literally don’t belong at all. I’m not just an outlier, I’m an impostor.

This varies from person to person, and trans status isn’t the only thing that affects how femmes are read by others. I’m disabled, and this changes how others perceive my femme-ness as well.

What intersections have you encountered between femme identity and trans status? What else affects how you, as a femme, are read by others?

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racismfreeontario: Black History Month: Canada had slaves, too MONTREAL — What unfortunate distinction does Olivier Le Jeune hold in Canadian history? Le Jeune was the first recorded black slave in New France, brought to Canada from Africa in the 17th century when he was a child. If you didn’t know the answer, you aren’t alone. The story of blacks in Canada doesn’t form part of the national narrative and is outside the mainstream of what most people learn, says Lawrence Hill, author of the acclaimed historical novel The Book of Negroes. Hill told students on Thursday at Ecole secondaire Antoine-de-Saint-Exupery in Montreal that he finds most Canadians and Quebecers know more about the history of blacks in the United States than they do about the topic in their own country and province. As a teenager, Hill said he was never taught about the history of blacks in Canada. If it wasn’t for his parents, who had written books on the subject, “I wouldn’t have even known that slavery existed in Canada.” Hill’s appearance marked the launch of Black History Month at the high school and also the launch of a French-language Black History in Canada Education Guide, a teaching tool that draws on The Book of Negroes. The guide was developed by the Historica-Dominion Institute, a charitable organization dedicated to Canadian history and citizenship. It contains discussion questions related to Hill’s novel, as well as a black history in Canada timeline that notes key milestones, such as the abolishment of slavery in the British colonies, which took effect in 1834, and the election in 1866 of Mifflin Gibbs to Victoria, B.C.’s town council, making him the first black politician in Canada. The English guide was sent to more than 3,000 schools across Canada last year. The new French guide has gone to 1,500 French and bilingual schools in the country. “It’s an honour for the novel but more importantly, it’s a tool that hopefully teachers or students can use if they want to learn more,” Hill said in an interview. Many teachers and educators have so little information about black history, Hill said. “Dozens of times in my life teachers have come to me and said ‘I’d love to do something about black history or talk about black literature but where can I find anything?’” “As Mr. Hill said, it seems that Canadians know a lot about (American) black history but we don’t know enough about our own black history,” said Brigitte D’Auzac, senior manager of programming for the Historica-Dominion Institute. “So it was important for the institute to make sure that we talk about it,” D’Auzac said. “Let’s get every kid in school aware of this. And let’s talk about our history. It’s important and we need to know about it.” Hill told students how he was born and raised in Toronto, the son of a black father and white mother who had emigrated from the U.S. Fluent in French, and a graduate of Universite Laval, Hill talked to students about his novel, weaving in historical information — such as the first big wave of black immigration in 1783 to Nova Scotia at the end of American Revolutionary War, and how, faced with racial discrimination, slavery and segregation in their new location, one-third of the Black loyalists ultimately left Halifax in 15 boats to create the colony of Freetown in Sierra Leone. “The first big exodus of blacks from the Americas to return to live in Africa came from Halifax,” in 1792, Hill said. He also read an excerpt from The Book of Negroes, which has been translated into French with the title Aminata. Hill said it’s great to see more and more people in Quebec have learned about Marie-Joseph Angelique, a black slave who was accused in 1734 of setting fire to her master’s house, which also destroyed half of what was then Montreal. (Angelique was convicted and executed.) For the longest time, people in Quebec seemed to know nothing about the history of slavery in Montreal or Quebec City, Hill said. “After all, the first slave in Canada is in Quebec City in 1628 — a boy from Madagascar, Olivier Le Jeune.” Hill said he believes there is often an “unconscious resistance” to looking at our own history. Many Canadians know about the underground railroad, he said, which makes us feel good because we feel “we’re welcoming poor, fugitive American slaves and giving them their freedom here. “So it’s convenient to know about that. And if a Canadian does know a tiny bit about black history in Canada they’re likely to trumpet the underground railroad,” Hill said. “But very few people can talk about, or know anything about the black Loyalists or them being so terribly mistreated in Nova Scotia that they left en masse 10 years later.” (via Black History Month: Canada had slaves, too) See also: Black Canadian, Slavery in Canada, Underground Railroad

racismfreeontario:

Black History Month: Canada had slaves, too

MONTREAL — What unfortunate distinction does Olivier Le Jeune hold in Canadian history?

Le Jeune was the first recorded black slave in New France, brought to Canada from Africa in the 17th century when he was a child.

If you didn’t know the answer, you aren’t alone.

The story of blacks in Canada doesn’t form part of the national narrative and is outside the mainstream of what most people learn, says Lawrence Hill, author of the acclaimed historical novel The Book of Negroes.

Hill told students on Thursday at Ecole secondaire Antoine-de-Saint-Exupery in Montreal that he finds most Canadians and Quebecers know more about the history of blacks in the United States than they do about the topic in their own country and province.

As a teenager, Hill said he was never taught about the history of blacks in Canada. If it wasn’t for his parents, who had written books on the subject, “I wouldn’t have even known that slavery existed in Canada.”

Hill’s appearance marked the launch of Black History Month at the high school and also the launch of a French-language Black History in Canada Education Guide, a teaching tool that draws on The Book of Negroes.

The guide was developed by the Historica-Dominion Institute, a charitable organization dedicated to Canadian history and citizenship. It contains discussion questions related to Hill’s novel, as well as a black history in Canada timeline that notes key milestones, such as the abolishment of slavery in the British colonies, which took effect in 1834, and the election in 1866 of Mifflin Gibbs to Victoria, B.C.’s town council, making him the first black politician in Canada.

The English guide was sent to more than 3,000 schools across Canada last year. The new French guide has gone to 1,500 French and bilingual schools in the country.

“It’s an honour for the novel but more importantly, it’s a tool that hopefully teachers or students can use if they want to learn more,” Hill said in an interview.

Many teachers and educators have so little information about black history, Hill said. “Dozens of times in my life teachers have come to me and said ‘I’d love to do something about black history or talk about black literature but where can I find anything?’”

“As Mr. Hill said, it seems that Canadians know a lot about (American) black history but we don’t know enough about our own black history,” said Brigitte D’Auzac, senior manager of programming for the Historica-Dominion Institute. “So it was important for the institute to make sure that we talk about it,” D’Auzac said. “Let’s get every kid in school aware of this. And let’s talk about our history. It’s important and we need to know about it.”

Hill told students how he was born and raised in Toronto, the son of a black father and white mother who had emigrated from the U.S. Fluent in French, and a graduate of Universite Laval, Hill talked to students about his novel, weaving in historical information — such as the first big wave of black immigration in 1783 to Nova Scotia at the end of American Revolutionary War, and how, faced with racial discrimination, slavery and segregation in their new location, one-third of the Black loyalists ultimately left Halifax in 15 boats to create the colony of Freetown in Sierra Leone.

“The first big exodus of blacks from the Americas to return to live in Africa came from Halifax,” in 1792, Hill said.

He also read an excerpt from The Book of Negroes, which has been translated into French with the title Aminata.

Hill said it’s great to see more and more people in Quebec have learned about Marie-Joseph Angelique, a black slave who was accused in 1734 of setting fire to her master’s house, which also destroyed half of what was then Montreal. (Angelique was convicted and executed.)

For the longest time, people in Quebec seemed to know nothing about the history of slavery in Montreal or Quebec City, Hill said. “After all, the first slave in Canada is in Quebec City in 1628 — a boy from Madagascar, Olivier Le Jeune.”

Hill said he believes there is often an “unconscious resistance” to looking at our own history. Many Canadians know about the underground railroad, he said, which makes us feel good because we feel “we’re welcoming poor, fugitive American slaves and giving them their freedom here.

“So it’s convenient to know about that. And if a Canadian does know a tiny bit about black history in Canada they’re likely to trumpet the underground railroad,” Hill said. “But very few people can talk about, or know anything about the black Loyalists or them being so terribly mistreated in Nova Scotia that they left en masse 10 years later.” (via Black History Month: Canada had slaves, too)

See also: Black Canadian, Slavery in Canada, Underground Railroad

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alessandramortt: Harl and Miss J by ~J0801 This is just so awesome, Oh, and I love [rule 63] fanart :) im more than a little ashamed of how attracted i am to joker here but well um no i have no excuses, im sorry

alessandramortt:

Harl and Miss J by ~J0801

This is just so awesome, Oh, and I love [rule 63] fanart :)

im more than a little ashamed of how attracted i am to joker here but

well um

no i have no excuses, im sorry

(via powergirl)

#clown girls man #clown girls #joker #harley quinn
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saprophilous: Two/face + batman. Done for D00li my partner in crime. Check out her art! http://d00li.deviantart.com/

saprophilous:

Two/face + batman. Done for D00li my partner in crime. Check out her art! http://d00li.deviantart.com/

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#body horror #scars #gore ?
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kippery: vintagegal: Fetish art by Gene Bilbrew 1950’s wwwhhhooaaa <3__<3

kippery:

vintagegal:

Fetish art by Gene Bilbrew 1950’s

wwwhhhooaaa <3__<3

#superhero stuff
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ninarhymes: SKRIMS of course I made a cat people, I want to be sneaky and stealy because I could never be in real life

ninarhymes:

SKRIMS

of course I made a cat people, I want to be sneaky and stealy because I could never be in real life

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