Author: all things grow

Gendered Bathrooms Survey

fourlittlebees:

So my kid, who is cool as fuck, is writing a position paper for school on gendering bathrooms. But when they went to cite data for the paper, they discovered…

All the data about gendered bathrooms includes only binary trans folks.

For those of you who don’t understand what that means, it means that the only data being cited in all these arguments has to do with trans people who identify as FTM or MTF transgender, and leaves out a whole slew of people in the community: agender, gender queer, bigender, etc.

So my kid, being a smart cookie, said, “Hey, do you think if I ran my own survey, I could cite that in the paper?”

My kid: smarter than I am.

So they put together a survey. There is no personally identifying information being asked (I double-checked), so it’s anonymous, and the data will be used only for this paper, although they or I may post what they learn about how this bathroom BS affects trans people who don’t identify according to a binary gender definition.

Thank you in advance for completing the survey or passing it along!

http://goo.gl/forms/zfqU44YisK

WHAT ARE YOUR PREFERRED PRONOUNS THIS IS IMPORTANT

amandla:

afropunkprincess:

amandla:

I honestly don’t know… I mean they/them makes me feel comfortable but I know that the media and the general populace that follows me will critique it/not understand which makes me feel sad and almost more uncomfortable. So I guess she/her for now

this is very upsetting and sad to me. fight the good fight. continue to push boundaries. we need more like you and we continue to stand behind you. 

Damn you right. They/them it is.

thoodleoo:

this is a conversation, or a poem of sorts, i suppose, that i imagined between sappho and a girl realizing that she loves another girl. it’s a bit of a personal project, i guess; all of sappho’s part in the conversation is taken from the fragments of her poetry, and it’s supposed to symbolize how girls who love girls can find someone like them in sappho.

the lines are, in order, from fragments 138, 118, 57, 156, 104b, 15, 36, 31, 96, 47, and 126. all of those are the lobel-page numberings, with the exception of 15, which is bergk’s numbering and which the lobel-page collection omits.