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vintageblackglamour:

Langston Hughes flanked by Zora Neale Hurston (right) and Jessie Redmon Fauset in at the grave of Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute in 1927. Mr. Hughes and Ms. Hurston ran into Ms. Fauset, who was invited to speak at a Wednesday speakers series at Tuskegee and together, they made the trip to Mr. Washington’s grave site. It was also during this trip that Mr. Hughes and Ms. Hurston discussed the possibility of doing a certain folk opera together. Photo: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.

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trans-mom:

anyways, transmedicalism and the offshoot terms people proudly use (i.e. truscum) are honestly just ideologies created to mock people and judge people to their own standards. never is it done in a way to help people, it’s always ridicule. how much outreach due self proclaimed “truscum” do? How often are they cited as helpful with anything but ideology?

the people who were always most beneficial to my discovery of self, gaining of hrt, and helping me deal with internal strife were trans women who opposed the transmedicalist concept. and since then I’ve always tried my best to do the same for everyone. the helpful and the loving have always been those opposed to transmeds, the people who wish me ill, call me fake, and expressed really gross sentiments have always been transmeds.

it’s a bunk ideology. not just cuz its wrong, but because it’s the successor of HBS and used as an ideology of hate and stone throwing at the vulnerable.

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I know “we will outlive them” is very specifically a Jewish resistance slogan

(it comes from a song, there’s a really badass story about it, you can hear about it here )

what I want to know is: should people who aren’t Jewish use that slogan? cuz I would suspect it’s a pretty emphatic no

please advise if you’re Jewish and have the energy, thank you 💙