Trans Experience - Blog Posts

Touch my mind and you’ll get my body.💕💕

Who’s cuddling tonight💦🍆

Every country, every race, every ethnicity, every religion, every socioeconomic level, every period of human history — we are everywhere. We are natural. You can’t get rid of what’s natural. I think they know that, and it terrifies them.”

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There's a play I love called Pronoun by Evan Placey that my drama teacher assigned me back in school that I think so wonderfully captures this. I remember reading it for the first time and feeling so strongly understood and heartbroken at the same time, because it felt so real. it felt so much like I was watching a real person take those beginning steps away from miserable. it has stuck with me to this day. I will always remember how it felt reading it and how I felt so seen. I still have the copy my drama teacher gave me. it's one of my most cherished possessions (which is saying something cause I cherish everything that people I love and care about have given me lol). (and that drama teacher was a godsend too, he was fantastic)

I think that the real essence of a 'trans' story isn't actually about gender at all, so much as it's about going through a transition from one state where you're miserable and unhappy and wish for death or feel like you're already dead to another radically different state where...you're content. You're just content. You had something chronically wrong with you, like a painful screeching that just becomes the background noise of your existence and then...it's gone. You are, in some ineffable cosmic sense, where you belong.

"B-but not conforming to gender norms is hard for kids to understand 👉 👈"

Have you every worked with kids before??? Be so fr. I volunteer at summer camps and stuff and I look pretty androgynous, I have had kids ask me if I was a boy or girl. Back then (last summer) I wasnt really comfortable in my trans-identity so I said both, they did give a shit. I told them that, they would correct other kids on it. Like they thought I used they/them WITHOUT me telling them that and would correct other kids in that. the kids doing this were like 5 btw

so yeah if its that hard for you just say 5 year olds know more then you

(@numinoussssss told me I should post about this btw bc I tell him everythign)

If anyone at all is looking for a fantastic bit of queer media to watch this pride month (yes i am aware that it's nearly over but ive only just watched them myself) then please please check out:

Lingua Franca (2019) dir: Isabel Sandoval. The story of an undocumented Filipino trans woman living as a live in carer in New York

And

Carlotta (2014) dir: Samantha Lang. A film based on the life of an Australian trans icon and her friends and how they went from working class boys to household names. -A quick warning though this film is dark in places so please be cautious-

Both are centered around the trans experience, and I found both through looking at the work of actor Eamon Farren, and both are fantastic films that I wish were more well known.