THREAD: Face Shaving Tips From a Pre-HRT Trans Woman
Im not a dermatologist, if you have particular skin issues please consider them.
I cant promise you wont have 5 o'clock shadow by the end of the day, nor can I promise you wont get the occasional nick or scratch, but practice makes perfect and you'll get a smooth enough shave to slap some makeup over it and be gr8!
Also you can learn this stuff on any Male-focused facial-care site but you have to put up with Macho Trans-exclusionary rhetoric.
Spiritual Meta
There are a few important differences though:
'splaining hot take (discourse-adjacent, some second person at the end, 167 words)
When a person feels like they have power or authority, that can make them speak over others even when those others have better knowledge than they do. These aren't the only things that can make a person do that - excitement and enthusiasm and anger and passion can too - but power and authority are more relevant to the specific phenomenon of 'splaining.
A racist society defines some people as "white", bestows upon those people power, and trains them to feel they have authority. A patriarchal society does the same with maleness. A gender-essentialist society does the same with dyadism (the opposite of intersex) and cis-ness. A classist society does the same with wealth, economic security, managerial positions in its labor systems, and education within its educational systems. The list goes on.
One of the skills that helps us perform social justice better is learning to recognize what it is that is making us feel like we ought to speak so we can choose not to.
readin study on trans kids +
"we had some 'tomboy' trans girls in the study, just as we had 'tomboy' cis girls."
"This study does show that in fact not all trans girls (or cis girls) want to wear frilly pink dresses or play with dolls. We in fact see plenty of trans kids violating these stereotypes, just as we see cis kids do so,"
my heart is full knowing tht there are trans kids in this study who are being affirmed in their genders and im so hopeful for the world we must build for them
Oh holy shit, I had no idea how close my own spirituality matches the basic tenets of Sihkism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-1UAORcX4c
Gender Spectrum
So a lot of people have a lot of criticisms about the spectrum view of gender identity, mostly centred around the idea that it's a false dichotomy between male and female, which makes it an oversimplified picture.
And I completely agree with that criticism. But I don't agree that a spectrum is a bad depiction of gender, because this is not how a spectrum works!
Allow me to explain with a little thread...
PSA: duckduckgo has !-keywords that redirect searches to other sites
like
!w - wikipedia
!g - if you want to be a heretic
!aur - the AUR lol
!gh - github
!wa - wolfram alpha
so to search wikipedia for the article on crabs you type
!w crab
if you set ddg as yr default search you can jump to literally all of the webbed site searches with minimal keystrokes
re: Music
You can see how this was all put together. :3 #ManibrandrSoundworks #mastomusicians
Music
Okay, I am gonna sit on this mix for a day before publishing it.
Furry art, self-advertisement, ec
Okay so in a bid to keep the ball rolling on my commissions, I am gonna be doing busts like these attached images for $60+ a piece.
PM me if interested, or contact me via Telegram here: https://t.me/Freya_Manibrandr
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"What really needs rethinking today is the notion that digital ads can only be effective when they are targeted, & when companies know everything about everyone."
Unpacking the feasibility of less creepy 😬 digital ads: https://t.co/JihiwBtSIY #InternetHealth tweeted by @mozilla
Artist and Composer. Trans plural voidpunk anarchist and antifa nonbinary gremlin. My voice is for the oppressed, and I shall fight for freedom with no quarter, so that those around me won't have to.
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