Genderqueer, pansexual, polyamourous/open photographer, personal trainer, martial artist, 23. Prefered pronouns: they/their/them. Because if you just list a bunch of words, that describes who you are, right?
It bothers me because it’s unequal, but it also bothers me in its implications: that my body is inherently sexual, and a man’s body isn’t. It feels like men are being viewed through the first-person lens of “it’s nice to feel the sun on my skin, and I don’t mean anything by it” and women are being viewed through the distinctly third-person lens of “it’s inappropriate for me, a heterosexual man, to see her sexy parts.” It ignores the experiences of people who are turned on by male chests and somehow manage to contain themselves when they see one. — The Pervocracy: My boobs want to be free. (via sexisnottheenemy)
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oh my goodness this comic is adorable
This article is interesting in that it uses a man being hit on by other men to examine ways that women might feel when they are hit on.
It alludes to, but does not actually address the culturally accepted power dynamic between men and women in the sexual and dating fields, and asks men to think about their actions without labeling men as the aggressor, talking about privilege, or the double standards on women.
New Call for Submissions flyer that includes the mailing address! PDF available upon request. If you know of an organization that serves people that might not be able to submit online or might not see the information here, please let me know!
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I just got my second binder in the mail.
My first binder is full length. The new one is a model built for sport and ends at the base of my ribcage. I was hoping to wear it under tank-tops as the straps are also thinner.
Unfortunately, the term “hour-glass figure” was made specifically to describe my body. Though that bottom half of the binder always bunches up which is uncomfortable and sometimes unflattering, it definitely serves a purpose. 
Scarlett Johansson & Dita von Teese for Flaunt Magazine.
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I’d like to believe that Jiz Lee is the guardian angel for all kinky queers
I don’t always reblog porn stars, but when I do, they’re Jiz Lee.
This is a somewhat controversial stance, but to me queer means something completely different than “gay” or “lesbian” or “bisexual.” A queer person is usually someone who has come to a non-binary view of gender, who recognizes the validity of all trans identities, and who, given this understanding of infinite gender possibilities, finds it hard to define their sexuality any longer in a gender-based way. Queer people understand and support non-monogamy even if they do not engage in it themselves. They can grok being asexual or aromantic. (What does sex have to do with love, or love with sex, necessarily?) A queer can view promiscuous (protected) public bathhouse sex with strangers and complete abstinence as equally healthy.
Queers understand that people have different relationships to their bodies. We get what it means to be stone. We know what body dysphoria is about. We understand that not everyone likes to get touched the same way or to get touched at all. We realize that people with disabilities may have different sexual needs, and that people with survivor histories often have sexual triggers. We can negotiate safe and creative ways to be intimate with people with HIV/AIDs and other STIs.
Queers understand the range of power and sensation and the diversity of sexual dynamics. We are tops and bottoms, doms and subs, sadists and masochists and sadomasochists, versatiles and switches. We know what we like and don’t like in bed.
We embrace a wide range of relationship types. We can be partners, lovers, friends with benefits, platonic sweethearts, chosen family. We can have very different dynamics with different people, often all at once. We don’t expect one person to be able to fulfill all our diverse needs, fantasies and ideals indefinitely.
Because our views on relationships, sex, gender, love, bodies, and family are so unconventional, we are of necessity anti-assimilationist. Because under the kyriarchy we suffer, and watch the people we love suffering, we are political. Because we want to survive, we fight. We only want the freedom to be ourselves, love ourselves, love each other, and live together. Because we are routinely denied that, we are pissed.
Queer doesn’t mean “don’t label me,” it means “I am naming myself.” It means “ask me more questions if you curious” and in the same breath means “fuck off. —
What Queerness Means To Me « Tranarchism (via docasaur)
“and in the same breath means ‘fuck off’”
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Pixar
When they’re making a movie about men they make a movie about lifting a house into the sky with balloons and traveling across the world, or about a lonely garbage robot with a heart of gold (so to speak.) When they’re making a movie about girls they make a movie about the restrictions placed on girls, and how this one! special! girl! will fight the (other women) people enforcing these restrictions placed on her.
Pro-tip: when the only plot you’ll write for girls are about how they’re GIRLS! DID YOU NOTICE THEY’RE GIRLS!! LOOK IT’S A GIRL! (BUT NOT A ~~GIRLY-GIRL~~ DON’T WORRY) THE WORLD IS UNFAIR TO GIRLS BUT SOME OF THEM ARE PERFORMATIVELY MASCULINE AND THAT MAKES THEM COOL as a priority dominating the story about them as people and it comes off as feet-draggingly second-wave and smacking of tokenism even though she’s the chief protagonist, which is almost impressive.
this is interesting and I think I mostly agree. agh.
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