Skeptic, crank, grouch, looker-up of things arcane and mundane, ground crew for the Tiny Air Force.
Here be music, maps, memes, monsters, mountains, movements and monoliths. Also masks, meteors, motion, mechanisms, monstrosities, miscellany and maybe magic.
Please, please, please don’t refer to nonbinary people as “enby” or “enbies” unless you are talking about specific nonbinary people whom you know identify with the phrase. It is a cutifying phrase which is alienating and exclusionary to a lot of us who do not want our identities to be cutified. If you want to be inclusive, please use “nonbinary” or “NB.”
“Enby” is fine to use for people who like that term but it’s by no means a universally acceptable term and quite a lot of people are uncomfortable with it so using it when talking generally about all nonbinary people is going to make it hard for some people to take part in your dialogue. Recognize when you use it that you are alienating people whom you are talking about, who already feel alienated by a lot of conversations around gender that we have difficulty relating to.
And please, if you are a nonbinary person who relates well to the term “enby,” take the time to make sure the people you are speaking to know that that is *your* term and not a term appropriate for all nonbinary people.
I am feeling deeply discomfited, excluded from & silenced in conversations I should be able to take part in by people’s insistence on using labels that make me feel resoundingly not-okay.
Thanks!
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
justanotherstupidape asked: Can you watermark your Captain's Orders poster so I can distribute it on other sites? I just saw it on FB with no source attributed.
Laverne Cox Shows You The Long, Intense Fight For Transgender
Rights Is Still Marching On | TIME
The ACLU presents: Time Marches Forward & So Do We. Laverne Cox is
the first Trans woman of color to have a leading role on a mainstream
scripted television show and was the first transgender actor to play a
trans-character as a series regular on network television. But the fight
is marching on.
Temperature anomalies arranged by country 1900 - 2016. by Antti Lipponen Via Flickr: Temperature anomalies arranged by country 1900 - 2016. Visualization based on GISTEMP data.
This week on The Metro, Warlock JNothing brings the following bands for you weekly trip back to the 1980s: Captain Sensible, Talk Talk, Violent Femmes, Duran Duran, The Go Go’s, Thompson Twins, Madonna, Nick Heyward, P.I.L., Billy Idol, Til Tuesday, Missing Persons, Bobby McFerrin, Frank & Moon Zappa, The Bangles, and finishing up with The Romantics.
