NiFeNeFiTi

lazyentitlednarcissist asked: You're right that anyone of any sex is capable of exhibiting masculine or feminine traits. That's because they're gendered ideas, not sexed ideas. So, if someone's GID is masculine, they've attached certain characteristics to that which have nothing to do with their sex. That, to me, makes the concept a lot less silly than if it were attached to one's sex. All of that aside, have you read anything about how agender folks experience gender? Sounds like you might share some common ideas.

That’s very true. I guess I have trouble identifying when things stopped being attached to sex and became their own entity as gender. Like, at what point in our social evolutionary history did that happen? How did it happen? Because gender seems to describe sex in a way, you know? Like, if you look at the words they use, “masculinity” and “femininity”, they are used to describe sexes as well as genders. Maybe I’m just struggling with the language of it all and it’s getting my concepts confused.

I have looked some at agendered folks as well as gender-neutral and neutrois. From what I understand I don’t think I’m neutrois, but everyone’s definition of each of them seems to differ. I kinda which there was someone gender-neutral or agendered I could talk to. That would bring a lot more insight into my understanding of these terms and experiences and could bring more clarity.

Anonymous asked: stop obsessing over your gender title, you admit you are comfortable with your female body, and characteristics and you can call yourself queer/bi whatever but people who don't fit in the gender binary have an ACTUAL REASON to identify their gender differently, you just seem to be obsessed over the title and the novelty of it all and it just seems annoying and self absorbed at this point. at least that's how you come across right now,maybe you have your own reasons but it doesn't appear that way

Oh, anonyface. My experience of gender has always been rather removed from the binaried experience of gender from when I was very little. From a young age I questioned my gender identity and what made me a girl as opposed to a boy. I had short hair and was called “young man” quite a lot and I found a strange comfort in it. Being androgynous felt right to me, not being perceived as a traditional little girl felt liberating and real, and that continued throughout my elementary school years. Once I hit puberty, I lost a lot of that androgyny because my body reads very female. So now when I dress, I don’t dress for myself, or the way I would if my body matched my perception of myself in my head. I dress for the body I was given, which falls back on feminine clothing that was cut to traditionally flatter my body type. Just because I don’t experience intense dysphoria over having the body I have or being perceived by others the way I’m perceived does not mean I don’t have an “actual reason” for exploring my gender. Maybe I will find that identifying as a cisgendered woman will be the most accurate description of myself. But it’s never felt that way when I was growing up, I don’t feel that way now, and I am allowed to explore this through community interaction just like anybody else. A lack of discomfort is not a lack of authenticity. It says more about my personality than it does my gender identity, in my opinion.

Either way, this was a rude ask. I’m not obsessing, I’m allowed to be comfortable with my sexual organs, and still have the right to question my gender identity. It’s not for you to say whether I have an actual reason or not. And trying to get in touch with who I am and how I identify myself is not self absorbed but healthy self-care. Maybe it was easier for you to identify where you lie among the various realms of identity but it isn’t for me. Besides, this is my blog. If you don’t like reading about this stuff, then don’t follow me or ignore my “Read Mores”. I’m going to talk about my life on here and if you don’t like that then stop following, by all means. Don’t waste your time.

Continuous/Synaesthesia - I’m wondering if there’s a word already in the queer lexicon for it, but that would definitely be appropriate.

Antidelusions - I’m afraid of using the term genderqueer because many people who identify as genderqueer feel they have the qualities of both men and women. I feel that I am female bodied and have no qualms about having such a body, but I’ve decided I no longer want to participate in the gender binary at all. That is to say, I don’t feel like I have male or female characteristics, rather that I believe any characteristic could be masculine or feminine because any person of any set of sex chromosomes could exemplify any characteristic so the entire idea is just silly. That being said, that might still mean I fall under genderqueer, I guess I’m just not sure.

(Source: hipocampo)

ghostbeef:

i’m sorry i just literally don’t understand why you would turn a character cis when they don’t need to be and it doesn’t add anything to the character

rudethoughtsonbabyanimals:

“well we couldve been friends if u werent such a fuckin misogynist”

The Struggle Continues at Chicago-Lake Liquors

amodernmanifesto:

A reportback of a IWW picket in Minneapolis of Chicago-Lake Liquors, which fired 5 organizers in April 2013. More information can be foundhere.

Over a month after the retaliatory firings of five works shocked South Minneapolis, a noted progressive community within the Twin Cities, workers at Chicago-Lake Liquors continue their fight for justice at work by taking it right to their bosses. Throughout April, workers and their supporters in the IWW have kept the story of the fired workers alive in South Minneapolis, holding two large informational pickets outside the store and flyering to customers every weekend night. While management refuses to speak with the fired workers, the Labor Board continues to investigate the firings and the IWW continues to heighten the pressure against the company.

On April 1st, five IWW organizers at the highest-volume liquor retailer in Minnesota were fired after the majority of their coworkers delivered a petition to management asking for a higher wages and to raise the wage cap for the store, which sits at $10.50 an hour, below Minneapolis’ living wage of $12.19. The five IWW members, whose union affiliation was at the time not known by management, were fired in an attempt to scare the rest of their coworkers into silence. So far the attempt has backfired, as IWW supporters continued presence outside the store has only solidified the idea that the union has Chicago-Lake workers’ backs and is not going away. The fired IWW workers continue to demand an end to union-busting at Chicago Lake, their immediate rehiring, and a raise for all workers there.

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