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Once again promoting the Archive I run for those who have not heard of it!

Violence against transmasculine people goes undiscussed and ignored far too often. The goal of this archive is to gather these acts of violence in one place, to remember the victims and raise awareness about anti-transmasculinity as a force of violence in our world. As of Feb. 2024 the list is up to 208, and can be sorted by location, ethnicity, and type of violence. There is also a page that collects research & writing on anti-transmasculinity.

If you know of a case of violence against a transmasc person, or done to someone else but out of anti-transmasc bigotry, you can send me a link to a source talking about and I'll add it (though please check & make sure its not already on the list first). If you are non-Western, non-Anglophone, and/or from an Indigenous community, I could especially use your help finding victims of ATM. They do not have to be modern, and they do not have to self-identify as transmasc specifically; they just have to be cases of someone being targeted due to being seen as or associated with FTM transmasculinity.

#resource

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Unknown Inuit artist

Igloo Scene, c.1950

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One of the most frustrating things about researching Inuit art was that in the beginning, people did not think of these sculptures as fine art, but crafts so nobody bothered to write any artist names down. Sometimes artists inscribed works with their disc numbers (numbers assigned to individual Inuit by the Canadian government in lieu of their names because white people found them too difficult to pronounce/write down). The database of these numbers are now classified because the government is embarrassed of how dehumanizing this was.This leaves it so that there is no way for scholars like me to find out who created beautiful sculptures like the one above.

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“By the usual measures, Biden should be cruising to reëlection. Violent crime has dropped to nearly a fifty-year low, unemployment is below four per cent, and in January the S. & P. 500 and the Dow hit record highs. More Americans than ever have health insurance, and the country is producing more energy than at any previous moment in its history. His opponent, who is facing ninety-one criminal counts, has suggested that if he is elected he will fire as many as fifty thousand civil servants and replace them with loyalists, deputize the National Guard as a mass-deportation force, and root out what he calls “the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.””

— Joe Biden’s Last Campaign

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Harris Reed wearing Harris Reed at the 2024 Met Gala

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i imagine the butches’ stripper bar - jill mcdonough

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𝖲𝗇𝗈𝗐 𝖼𝖺𝗍𝗌 ❄️

𝗑 - 𝗑 / 𝗑 - 𝗑 / 𝗑 - 𝗑

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four days at sea (atlantic, ijsellmeer, baltic sea, north sea)

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@lovesdaya

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Ophelia, 1872 - oil on canvas

— Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (France, 1823–1887)

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more collage? of course! (tysm @snailspng for all the wonderful pngs!)

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Ship's mahogany medicine chest, England, 19th century

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Peter Ferguson (Canadian, 1968) - The Grotto at St. Michel (n.d.)

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Bed of Lettuce by Paul Octavious

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we'll talk about cis men having fragile egos but tbh! patriarchal gender roles gives everyone fragile egos when it comes to gender because its inherently unhealthy. it ties the very concept of self to gender & then makes gender something one can easily fail at. cis women who feel attacked when told they hurt someone (because they feel like their role as a caretaker is being threatened) and cis women who get angry at gender neutral medical language (because the patriarchy values the idea that womanhood & pregnancy (& everything related to it) are synonymous) are behaving in the same way men who feel attacked when their masculinity is threatened. trans people will also do this too, sometimes overcompensating because we have to fight ten times as hard to not be seen as failures by default. patriarchal gender is always fragile and quick to lash out because the patriarchy survives on fear and specifically the fear of losing one's self via gender failure (& the material punishments that come with that). hope this helps

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matty carrington ph by doug inglish for man about town, may 2019

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“Bruised Fruit / To The Core”

chronic pain has been kicking my ass lately so uh here’s something that came from that

prints available here !

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Some of you don't have firm principles that transcend ideology, and it shows.