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Still working on multiple commissions, but this needed to be posted....
Transgender Day Of Remembrance... with the day fast approaching I'm finding myself more and more feeling driven, like a greater purpose has me swept up in it's wake. I wouldn't necessarily say fate, or heroism, but definitely that I'm fighting, with words and blood, fur something fur once that has immediate and tangible necessity to many people I love. Something that matters...
So many people I know, so many I may never know, all treated so abominably, so poorly as if they were somehow less than human... Mutilated, murdered... with no justice to be had in our fearful and out-dated system.
"Such an insignificant segment of the population" as that doctorate-holding yahoo described us... Insignificant?... Living, Loving human beings... My transisters.... just as capable of love, just as filled with laughter and sorrow, just as easily moved to sweet embraces and soul-shaking tears... insignificant?...
Not this November, No. We will not be reviled, or ignored this day. This time, we will be counted. We will stand in the light and force this world to acknowledge us. Those who would seek to do us harm, their own friends, their own children, their own loved ones in their own communities... they will be made to understand that we are real, as real and as strong as anything they've ever known and we are not to be slighted fur our innate differences.
Sing along, my loves, you know the words, yes? Rage Against The Machine's "Renegades Of Funk"... how appropriate...
No matter how hard you try, you can't stop us now...
Since the Prehistoric ages and the days of ancient Greece
Right down through the Middle Ages
Planet earth kept going through changes
And then the renaissance came, the times continued to change
Nothing stayed the same, but there were always renegades
Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine, Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X
They were renegades of their time and age - The mighty Renegades!
We're the renegades of funk ... We're the renegades of funk
From a different solar system many many galaxies away
We are the force of another creation ... A new musical revelation
And we're on this musical mission to help the others listen
And groove from land to land singin' electronic chants like
Zulu nation ... Revelations
Destroy all nations ... Destroy all nations
Now renegades are the people with their own philosophies
They change the course of history
Everyday people like you and me
We're the renegades, we're the people
With our own philosophies
We change the course of history
Everyday people like you and me
Minus the last verse, of course.... *smirks*
Stand tall my loves. There will be a day when we will all be free to live and love together in the light, free of concern or shame, I believe this in my heart. But it will take people with the conviction to fight fur it. It will demand much in both time and blood.
We will win Michelle. Take heart.
As always, love yourselves, my friends, and love each other...
Transgender Day Of Remembrance... with the day fast approaching I'm finding myself more and more feeling driven, like a greater purpose has me swept up in it's wake. I wouldn't necessarily say fate, or heroism, but definitely that I'm fighting, with words and blood, fur something fur once that has immediate and tangible necessity to many people I love. Something that matters...
So many people I know, so many I may never know, all treated so abominably, so poorly as if they were somehow less than human... Mutilated, murdered... with no justice to be had in our fearful and out-dated system.
"Such an insignificant segment of the population" as that doctorate-holding yahoo described us... Insignificant?... Living, Loving human beings... My transisters.... just as capable of love, just as filled with laughter and sorrow, just as easily moved to sweet embraces and soul-shaking tears... insignificant?...
Not this November, No. We will not be reviled, or ignored this day. This time, we will be counted. We will stand in the light and force this world to acknowledge us. Those who would seek to do us harm, their own friends, their own children, their own loved ones in their own communities... they will be made to understand that we are real, as real and as strong as anything they've ever known and we are not to be slighted fur our innate differences.
Sing along, my loves, you know the words, yes? Rage Against The Machine's "Renegades Of Funk"... how appropriate...
No matter how hard you try, you can't stop us now...
Since the Prehistoric ages and the days of ancient Greece
Right down through the Middle Ages
Planet earth kept going through changes
And then the renaissance came, the times continued to change
Nothing stayed the same, but there were always renegades
Like Chief Sitting Bull, Tom Paine, Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X
They were renegades of their time and age - The mighty Renegades!
We're the renegades of funk ... We're the renegades of funk
From a different solar system many many galaxies away
We are the force of another creation ... A new musical revelation
And we're on this musical mission to help the others listen
And groove from land to land singin' electronic chants like
Zulu nation ... Revelations
Destroy all nations ... Destroy all nations
Now renegades are the people with their own philosophies
They change the course of history
Everyday people like you and me
We're the renegades, we're the people
With our own philosophies
We change the course of history
Everyday people like you and me
Minus the last verse, of course.... *smirks*
Stand tall my loves. There will be a day when we will all be free to live and love together in the light, free of concern or shame, I believe this in my heart. But it will take people with the conviction to fight fur it. It will demand much in both time and blood.
We will win Michelle. Take heart.
As always, love yourselves, my friends, and love each other...
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I wish the best to come of this...I'm not sure that there is something for that here, though they seem to take an understanding to transgenders (I do not recall ever seeing a real one), I don't think it is very apparent here...
...I'm not really the one to fight for a cause...or fight at all...I am too weak on my own.
...I'm not really the one to fight for a cause...or fight at all...I am too weak on my own.
I think you're plenty strong hun. It may just take the right circumstances fur you to see that within yourself. I never knew how much internal fortitude I had until I fell in love, really true love, fur the furst time. When I looked into hir eyes and saw my future, I knew I could do anything, be anyone it'd take to make the world a better place fur the family I never thought I'd want.
i can be strong sometimes...just not by myself. As happy as Vi makes me, I am still meek and alone in this blasted state. I hardly consider my friends to be friends, aside from the one I do not visit much at all. no matter where I am here, I am alone in reality, and alone I am nothing...
Hrmmm.... *tilts hir head and eyes you, touching your chin* No...
You're not nothing.
You are you, hun. And you are someone who is loved. *hugs warmly* Love is a very treasured gift we give, something unique in our hearts, a doorway we open to someone, letting them inside all the barriers we erect to protect ourselves, all our illusions about ourselves and the world, our guilt, and our insecurities. When we allow someone in, we trust them inside us more than jsut physically, we trust them with the delicate fiber of ether that we shield away from the world so carefully, we allow that furson the power to harm us, maybe even kill us with their kindness, or negligence.
If someone loves you, my dear, you are never nothing. You mean something tremendous to them. *smiles and strokes your face, reassuringly* Please see that.
You're not nothing.
You are you, hun. And you are someone who is loved. *hugs warmly* Love is a very treasured gift we give, something unique in our hearts, a doorway we open to someone, letting them inside all the barriers we erect to protect ourselves, all our illusions about ourselves and the world, our guilt, and our insecurities. When we allow someone in, we trust them inside us more than jsut physically, we trust them with the delicate fiber of ether that we shield away from the world so carefully, we allow that furson the power to harm us, maybe even kill us with their kindness, or negligence.
If someone loves you, my dear, you are never nothing. You mean something tremendous to them. *smiles and strokes your face, reassuringly* Please see that.
(blushes and mewls as you hold him close, shivering a bit and flicking his tail) I know that...I try to feel it whenever I can, and feel like he was with me whenever I could afford to, but... It is just so hard to feel that way when you sit alone in your wreck of an apartment and the only person you want to be with is seventeen miles away...
*runs hir nails through your hair and coos reassuringly* I know hun, I know. It's so hard to keep hope alive when you have nothing tangible to hold, no kindling to keep beneath the fire save your hope, like constantly blowing on the embers, it's exhausting, I know.
Your love makes you feel so alive, but sometimes, when doubt creeps in, it makes you feel so incredibly cold.
Even though my apartment has so much in it, creature comforts, big ass flatscreen, couldn't count the movies, all this stuff, when I think of my beloved, much like you do hun, I d throw it all away to be there, to be within that fire and be real again.
If you need to talk sometime, let me know, okay? *smiles softly*
Your love makes you feel so alive, but sometimes, when doubt creeps in, it makes you feel so incredibly cold.
Even though my apartment has so much in it, creature comforts, big ass flatscreen, couldn't count the movies, all this stuff, when I think of my beloved, much like you do hun, I d throw it all away to be there, to be within that fire and be real again.
If you need to talk sometime, let me know, okay? *smiles softly*
(blushes and lowers his head just slightly, purring under his breath and looking up at you). Thank you. You know a lot about this, it seems... Both of us want to be with each other, but seventeen hours (not miles, as mis-stated) and very few windows make it much harder to do that. There are times when I seriously considered withdrawing as much money as I could from my account, taking a bag full of minor items, then throwing away my debit card and cellphone and email account and going off by bus to be with him, leaving my entire family behind (I have very minor problems with my family)
And thank you. I am glad to have someone like you to help. I shall surely keep you in my thoughts (smiles back sweetly).
And thank you. I am glad to have someone like you to help. I shall surely keep you in my thoughts (smiles back sweetly).
*blink blink* All of them? All? Do you really think Id-
Okay, actually yes... You win... *smirks* Masquerave several times actually...
As fur one with us, hun, I already have, before I began alla these commissions, I just need ta get it posted up hereses. *smiles and hugs ya*
Okay, actually yes... You win... *smirks* Masquerave several times actually...
As fur one with us, hun, I already have, before I began alla these commissions, I just need ta get it posted up hereses. *smiles and hugs ya*
A salute to those, all transgenders, who've passed away, due to hatred, stupidity and ignorance in any way.
Love this picture. Well Done!
I feel so ignorant, I never knew there was a Transgender remembrance day.
Some day, I hope to join the "ranks" of those who were brave enough to Be who they truly were.
Also.....HAH, I get this image of a huge army of Transgendered Civilians forming a militia.
Love this picture. Well Done!
I feel so ignorant, I never knew there was a Transgender remembrance day.
Some day, I hope to join the "ranks" of those who were brave enough to Be who they truly were.
Also.....HAH, I get this image of a huge army of Transgendered Civilians forming a militia.
Thank you hun, with all the love in my heart. You seem to really "get" this image, far more than many on here who claim TG fursonas.
Ah but yes... Turns out, our local G/L/B/T community group will also be supporting a forum the day after I've set my vigil, so this could be a very great thing fur the "alternative lifestyle" members of the local community... *grumbles* hate that term..
If and when we get an army, I got dibs on designing the storm trooper uniforms!
Ah but yes... Turns out, our local G/L/B/T community group will also be supporting a forum the day after I've set my vigil, so this could be a very great thing fur the "alternative lifestyle" members of the local community... *grumbles* hate that term..
If and when we get an army, I got dibs on designing the storm trooper uniforms!
Society didnt change much is the past mileniums, it's the same fear of the dofferent, of the one we dont understand. Fear turns into hate, hate turns into inhuman acts.
People are still very close minded and are afraid of excepting the different, not because we are humans, but because we are animals.
I hope you'll get the attention you deserve, and that people will acknowledge your existence in the best way possible.
I wish you the best of luck Ashe, and to all of you.
People are still very close minded and are afraid of excepting the different, not because we are humans, but because we are animals.
I hope you'll get the attention you deserve, and that people will acknowledge your existence in the best way possible.
I wish you the best of luck Ashe, and to all of you.
Very well said hun... Very well said.
I hope only that it makes a difference, what happens, a positive one, in the life of at least one mind, one heart. Maybe some bigotted jerk will hear our words and listen. Maybe they'll realize the hurt they've caused or allowed to be caused, to people who don't deserve to be hurt like that. Maybe some lonely confused young furson will see that they aren't alone, and that others feel as they do...
Thank you love. *hugs tightly* Thank you.
I hope only that it makes a difference, what happens, a positive one, in the life of at least one mind, one heart. Maybe some bigotted jerk will hear our words and listen. Maybe they'll realize the hurt they've caused or allowed to be caused, to people who don't deserve to be hurt like that. Maybe some lonely confused young furson will see that they aren't alone, and that others feel as they do...
Thank you love. *hugs tightly* Thank you.
Oh hun.. you know ... you were definitely in mah mind when I was workin' on this? Your words and our friendship have been a big part of what I think has inspired me to take a bigtime stand fur my Transisters lately.
Thank you. *hugs tightly and bows, lowering hir hat*
Thank you. *hugs tightly and bows, lowering hir hat*
I just finished sketching my picture, I thought of you and your beloved when I drew it... as well as all my other trans-brothers and sisters. One day, my dear dear friend, we won't have to fear being ourselves... laws will protect us and our kind. **hugs you tightly**
*shares the embrace* With warm, brilliant and compassionate fursons like you in this world hun, I know we'll always have the flame of hope going. Maybe it's weak now, but in time, it will light the way to our better world, fur our beloved friends, partners, and children.
I'm looking furward to seeing your pic, hun. I'm keen on seeing what you've got going there... *peers about fur hints of stray artwork*
I'm looking furward to seeing your pic, hun. I'm keen on seeing what you've got going there... *peers about fur hints of stray artwork*
*blushes a little and laughs* Flattery of that caliber will get you everywhere, sexy Nacht. ... mah package... *giggles and hugs ya* Well, acts counting far more than intentions, I'd say sure thing hun. In our thigh boots and PVC, we'll be more fashionable than the SS could've evr hoped to be!
Hey, that rhymed!... holy shit....
Hey, that rhymed!... holy shit....
I really wish I could find a 'slogan shirt' that has the following on it:
"Ignorance: It has no place in the modern world."
I get so indescribably enraged at modern society whenever 11/20 rolls around and we look back on those whose journeys down the road of life were prematurely terminated. I feel them all like a stab to the heart because I never know if I'll end up on the list.
It is a shame that where I work has a uniform policy and I'll not be able to mourn properly for the bright flames that have been extinguished, but you had better believe that I'll be listening to 'Life is Beautiful' and only very few other select songs.
We must hold out hope that the next four years are better, and bring many more changes in the way of acceptance in general. Forget the war against terror, it's time to start a war against hatred, intolerance, and ignorance.
Let's start with the KKK.
"Ignorance: It has no place in the modern world."
I get so indescribably enraged at modern society whenever 11/20 rolls around and we look back on those whose journeys down the road of life were prematurely terminated. I feel them all like a stab to the heart because I never know if I'll end up on the list.
It is a shame that where I work has a uniform policy and I'll not be able to mourn properly for the bright flames that have been extinguished, but you had better believe that I'll be listening to 'Life is Beautiful' and only very few other select songs.
We must hold out hope that the next four years are better, and bring many more changes in the way of acceptance in general. Forget the war against terror, it's time to start a war against hatred, intolerance, and ignorance.
Let's start with the KKK.
You said it all, hun. And you were right. Unfortunately it's still going to be such a long and very uphill battle on removing the ignorance and petty hate towards TG/TS/TV/CD in our culture.
Just like at the protest yesterday, a Unitarian priest pointed out... lovely speaker by the way... she noted how it's only been the last ten years, TEN years, that some states have finally repealled their segregation laws pertaining to blacks and whites. With a culture still so mired in "This grog' cave, you no come in" mentality, we have to be strong and ready to take a bloody nose or two just to keep the ball moving.
I'm really sorry about your workplace hun. Again, people can't get it out of the middle ages it seems. Too new, too uncomfortable to adopt a change they don't like. I know I'll be thinking of you and yours when I'm offering up my hopes and prayers fur the beautiful loves that I know this world has lost. Too damn many.
As you said, all we can do is hold out fur a future, keep fighting and make a better worldfur tomorrow, a world where our children may not have to be afraid to hold the hand of a loved one in public, or just sit in a park enjoying the beauty of nature.
I know fur freedom to mean anything, it must apply to all, even to the viewpoints I find foolhardy, offensive, or evil, but as our country is constructed on the notion that we are free to express our opinions and share them, it is implied that we are free to listen as well to these new ideas and opinions. With this gift of freedom, perhaps in time, the ignorant, hateful, and cruel will give creedence to the notion that they are not so different from the objects of their oppression. The white hoods may come off, Reverse Svastikas, 13's, Panthers, all the symbols of oppression and anger, will be left to lie in the dust, and we will be able to finally just sit down and look at each other as people. Not genders, roles, races, ethnicities, or cultures, just people, with all the same desires to love and be loved, have little chubby smiling babies t obounce on our knees, and a hand to hold in the hospital when we let go of that last spark of life we'd clung to.
Oh yeah, and the KKK? Those guys are assholes.
Just like at the protest yesterday, a Unitarian priest pointed out... lovely speaker by the way... she noted how it's only been the last ten years, TEN years, that some states have finally repealled their segregation laws pertaining to blacks and whites. With a culture still so mired in "This grog' cave, you no come in" mentality, we have to be strong and ready to take a bloody nose or two just to keep the ball moving.
I'm really sorry about your workplace hun. Again, people can't get it out of the middle ages it seems. Too new, too uncomfortable to adopt a change they don't like. I know I'll be thinking of you and yours when I'm offering up my hopes and prayers fur the beautiful loves that I know this world has lost. Too damn many.
As you said, all we can do is hold out fur a future, keep fighting and make a better worldfur tomorrow, a world where our children may not have to be afraid to hold the hand of a loved one in public, or just sit in a park enjoying the beauty of nature.
I know fur freedom to mean anything, it must apply to all, even to the viewpoints I find foolhardy, offensive, or evil, but as our country is constructed on the notion that we are free to express our opinions and share them, it is implied that we are free to listen as well to these new ideas and opinions. With this gift of freedom, perhaps in time, the ignorant, hateful, and cruel will give creedence to the notion that they are not so different from the objects of their oppression. The white hoods may come off, Reverse Svastikas, 13's, Panthers, all the symbols of oppression and anger, will be left to lie in the dust, and we will be able to finally just sit down and look at each other as people. Not genders, roles, races, ethnicities, or cultures, just people, with all the same desires to love and be loved, have little chubby smiling babies t obounce on our knees, and a hand to hold in the hospital when we let go of that last spark of life we'd clung to.
Oh yeah, and the KKK? Those guys are assholes.
You know, I can't help but in the way that doing stuff like this also hurts them. It's great art, I will give that, but the thing is, it's like over-flaunting it, like with gay pride parades, or disability parades. In a way it just seems like instead of making things equal, it's making them seem like assholes. :/
Perhaps. Unfortunately, without the few of us willing to be in their faces though, so many others never have the courage to even try to walk in public, and they live in suffering silently. It takes the five or six willing to stand in the way of the millions to have the few thousand too afraid to even stand on the sidelines sometimes. If that makes me an asshole, then so be it. Better me an ass than so many others never even getting the chance to be that.
Besides which, this image is one of solidarity and standing up fur ourselves. If it's misconstrued by it's viewer as malicious, it says more about the viewer than the art, I'd think.
I do agree with you though, the whole issue of pride is an iffy one to me. I agree in being in the face of the conformist mass, it's the only way to make sure we are understood and not ignored. But pride? I have pride in what I accomplish, what I have done with means of my own will and strength of character. If I am what i am just by nature, then I'm not sure if pride is the right way to put it. Conversely though, it's about the only way to react to a vastly larger and established majority that has hammered it into us fur centuries we should be ashamed of what we are, so P.R.I.D.E. it is.
Oh, and thanks fur the praise. I was rather proud of how this turned out too. I might eventually color it if I ever get time and maybe a working digital program.
Besides which, this image is one of solidarity and standing up fur ourselves. If it's misconstrued by it's viewer as malicious, it says more about the viewer than the art, I'd think.
I do agree with you though, the whole issue of pride is an iffy one to me. I agree in being in the face of the conformist mass, it's the only way to make sure we are understood and not ignored. But pride? I have pride in what I accomplish, what I have done with means of my own will and strength of character. If I am what i am just by nature, then I'm not sure if pride is the right way to put it. Conversely though, it's about the only way to react to a vastly larger and established majority that has hammered it into us fur centuries we should be ashamed of what we are, so P.R.I.D.E. it is.
Oh, and thanks fur the praise. I was rather proud of how this turned out too. I might eventually color it if I ever get time and maybe a working digital program.
The mass are ignorant, yes. It just sucks for the few who aren't part of the mass. About the closest thing I've had was a friend who was a drag queen, and another who was a lesbian (They were pretty much inseparably), and said the same thing about the whole issue. I agree though, it is hard to find people who are just like "So? Hell, I don't care, it's their choice. If it doesn't affect me, then why should I worry? Like I'd ruin a good friendship over someone's sexuality."
Whooo... you're right about that. Isn't it amazing? You'll have some friends who just sell you on the world "Oh yeah, we're friends, I'd go to the wall fur you, I'd help ya bury the bodies, oh hell yeah!" But the moment they find out you're gay, or a crossdresser, or transgendered, maybe even a herm of some sort *points to self* That steadfast commitment just seems to disappear? Ugh.
Medically, I'm a "Partial hormonal hermaphrodite" which supposedly accounts fur my femenine appearance, motherly instincts, estrogen levels, and satyrism. Or so the doctors have said. I've often considered some dgree of surgery, either just she-maledom or full reassignment, honestly. I already get mistaken fur a female half the time, and I dress however I feel that day anyways.
You know, I agree. Beside which, it's a bit more... I dunno... functional? If that's the word I'm looking fur, or not. Hard to say...
Well, from what they've said it's less uncommon than most ob/gyns like to let on. Some 11-12% of babies, I've been told are at least herm to some degree these days. I don't know how much truth there is to that, but I'd believe it sometimes, from the clubs I've worked at. People who were born a bit of both and were "corrected" in some fashion to be just the one.
Well, from what they've said it's less uncommon than most ob/gyns like to let on. Some 11-12% of babies, I've been told are at least herm to some degree these days. I don't know how much truth there is to that, but I'd believe it sometimes, from the clubs I've worked at. People who were born a bit of both and were "corrected" in some fashion to be just the one.
This is one of the first pics of yous that stuck out to me...A bold army of transisters (I'm wanting to say trannies, but that is offensive to some folk, but I sarcastically call myself that cuz I'm just...wacky, or edgy?..I dunno*laughs*)
Anyway, love the posing, good song, cool outfits. ^^ powerful image. You guys look like a bada** biker gang of sorts, hehehe.
Anyway, love the posing, good song, cool outfits. ^^ powerful image. You guys look like a bada** biker gang of sorts, hehehe.
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