“A digital storytelling project exploring and celebrating the lives of transgender older adults who live in or have strong ties to rural areas and small towns in the Pacific Northwest.”
The stories are audio recordings from the trans elders themselves, and I find it incredible to listen to their stories and literally hear their voices. This is definitely worth checking out and maybe even getting connected and sharing your story. You will also find a variety of resources and archives on the website. Check it out!
If you want to get involved, they’re taking volunteers, donations, help to spread the word, and stories from rural trans people. Here’s some info from the website on who they are looking to hear stories from:
Who is eligible to participate in the project?
Transgender* adults 50 years of age and older who live in or have strong ties to rural areas and smaller cities/towns in Washington State (outside the Sea-Tac metro). In 2024, we will be expanding the project to include transgender older adults who live in Oregon, Idaho, western Montana, and British Columbia.
* We include and welcome anyone and any identity that falls outside the gender binary, including nonbinary, genderqueer, gender-diverse, gender non-conforming, and Two-Spirit folks.
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Edit to add:I am in no way associated or affiliated with this project. I simply came across it while surfin’ the web and thought yall would be into it and wanted to share it with tumblr! If you have thoughts or feedback or want to get involved or just want to talk to the project, I encourage you to reach out to them. Check out the website! I have zero affiliation with it.
as a kid i had one of those “there’s a monster under my bed” moments except real.
every night i would cry about a ghost or something trying to scare me by knocking on my bedroom windows and walls. like, really loudly, every hour or so, every night. only at night. so my dad was like “heh okay kiddo let’s check it out :) ah see? there’s nothing here :)” and left.
until years later he admitted to me that he did in fact hear the unexplainable knocking when he slept in that room one night, and it kept him awake with fear. and suddenly felt awful for not believing little kid me.
imagine your kid being like “daddy there’s a demon in my closet” and you being like ok son lemme just check that for you :). and you open the door and there’s a demon in the closet
Quick question, I have Insomnia so I usually have my Jigglypuff use Sing on me whenever I need to sleep. Is that ok?
Because some people I've told this about are worried about it being unethical due to Jigglypuff potentially running into a breathing problem if I take too long to fall asleep.
that’s not really a huge problem in short term, they’re pokémon made to Sing. fun fact: a large portion of a jigglypuff’s round body is taken up by only the eyes and the diaphragm. plus i imagine it’s pretty enriching since a lot of jigglypuff are encouraged not to Sing at all
The way people are making “barbenheimer” art with cheerful depictions of mushroom clouds is really disturbing to me. Those bombs killed hundreds of thousand in Japan, not to mention the people in the US who were directly affected by the research and testing without ever being made aware of the true danger. It really strikes me that people have become all too removed from the horrors of nuclear war and the testing and deployment of these weapons.
So please, before you decide to go draw pink mushroom clouds for lols, maybe read up on all the people they’ve killed, whether instantly or slowly.
my liege you cannot trust this buffoon. he doesn’t even begin every other sentence with “my liege.” he‘ll never whisper in your ear the way i do it, my liege. sire. your fuckableness
I always thought the name wormtongue was derogatory but I clearly misunderstood their dynamic
We’re not appreciating the Weird Barbie enough. It’s said in the movie that she helps everyone who need help while they always see her as someone who’s not as good as them. She was friends with all dismissed Barbies and Kens, was there to offer support and safe shelter for everyone who needed it in Kendom, without her nothing in the movie would’ve been alright. When Stereotypical Barbie calls her “ugly and unwanted” she still helps her.
She was representing a woman in women’s world who was pushed aside by other women because she didn’t fit in but still had more wiseness and kindness than everyone who thought they’re better than her.
i want art to feel EARNEST. this disgusting, near pornographic level of tongue in cheek meta humor is making me sick to my stomach. i don’t know how many more movies i can take about clever subversions and the movie winking at you to say “we know it’s a little silly, but…” where is the whimsy? why can’t we believe in the pretend you’ve created? why don’t you have enough faith in it? in my ability to believe?
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