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Trans Day of Visibility at the Museum of Liverpool - It was a joy to spend the weekend at the Museum of Liverpool documenting the TDOV (Trans Day of Visibility) events for National Museums Liverpool. Trans joy from floor to ceiling. Writing, artwork, poetry, music and interesting talks. The event was wonderfully put together by Spirit Level.

Those in Boorloo (Perth) Western Australia, please come along to our film screening this Saturday at 7pm of Desire Lines.

"An Iranian-American transman, Ahmad, searching for his place in history, finds more than a just link to the past in the archives. Drawing from first-person accounts, as well as fictionalized segments, filmmaker Jules Rosskam explores the lines of desire as they intersect with identity for many transmen.
Join us for a screening of Desire Lines. Followed Q&A featuring Nova Sobieralski senate candidate with the socialist alliance."

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/cultural-dissent-screening-desire-lines

Trybooking:
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1372174

#boorloo #perth #westernAustralia #trans #TDOV #filmScreening

🪭it’s really weird to see #TransDayOfVisibility become this massive thing and to have governors officially recognizing it as a holiday.

I remember when #TDoV at my college campus was me and two other people sitting at a table in front of the student union answering people’s questions.

Now look at it. Look at what we’ve accomplished.

Last year during #TDOV , we (en.osm.town mods) had to suspend various accounts and some whole domains because of transphobia.

I jokingly said that I'm looking forward to tdov this year because the transphobes will come out of the woodwork again, easily spottable and bannable.... But this year we got no reports of transphobia during tdov.... Either people aren't reporting on our instance or ... we did actually ban most of the transphobes already? either way 🚀

Kopfschmerzbedingt bestand mein Trans day of visibility gestern nur daraus, dass ich bei der Lohnarbeit einen trans Pride Pin an der Mütze hatte und einen Pulli mit einem Aufdruck einer Blume und der Aufschrift "Be brave, be kind, be true, be you", alles in den Farben der trans Flagge. Übersetzt heißt der Aufdruck "Sei mutig, sei nett, sei echt, sei du"
Mir ist es wichtig, im Alltag als transfeminine Person sichtbar zu sein. Grade bei der Lohnarbeit bin ich viel im ländlichen Raum in Sachsen und Thüringen unterwegs. Hier bin ich für viele meiner Kund*innen wahrscheinlich die einzige trans Person, mit der sie zu tun haben. Und wenn sie durch mich merken, dass wir auch einfach nur Menschen sind, die ihr Leben leben wollen, und nicht so, wie wir in Comedy Serien und Filmen dargestellt werden, hilft das vielleicht, Transfeindlichkeit in der Gesellschaft abzubauen. Meiner Erfahrung nach kommt Transfeindlichkeit oft auch einfach durch Unwissenheit, schädliche Darstellung in den Medien und dadurch, dass es einfach das Unbekannte ist, womit eins im Alltag nichts zu tun hat.
Ich bin sichtbar und nehme auch alle Risiken und Gefahren bewusst in Kauf, damit es die nachfolgenden Generationen ein bisschen leichter haben :neocat_flag_trans:

A closing thought for #TDoV / #TransDayOfVisibility, on the less joyful side

Even among the people who love us, sometimes it feels like we can only exist in one of two states:

  • highly fetishized dehumanized sexual objects
  • sexless, sexuality-less, romanceless entities from beyond

and that sucks