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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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*giggles* "Shock and Awe" tactics indeed... No puns from you, cutie, before you start!
Check my front page though, theres another picture set for you I thought you'd like, n might cheer you up *kisses your forehead*
Aw CRAP, my mini-Wheats got all soggy and mushy while I was typing... *grumles, kicks hir desk pouting* Goddamit...
...I'm not really the one to fight for a cause...or fight at all...I am too weak on my own.
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.
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*
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 I snorted when I saw the buldge.
Fur a fun game though, guess how many people in this picture I've slept with... *chuckles*
You should do one of you and meeee sweetie D8
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*
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.
i see me being the bitch to the one in front X3
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!
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.
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.
*hugs back*
great drawing..and great speech -applauses- o:
The best truths come from the heart. And my heart has plenty in it when it comes to the people I love.
i see me being the bitch to the one in front X3
Whassa gurl ta do...? *hums and pirouettes*
Thank you. *hugs tightly and bows, lowering hir hat*
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*
~N~
Hey, that rhymed!... holy shit....
~N~
"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.
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.
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.
But yeah, that's a rarity.
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.
Anyway, love the posing, good song, cool outfits. ^^ powerful image. You guys look like a bada** biker gang of sorts, hehehe.
*rises his fist in salute*