Extract From Tumblr Blog By Musk Ming, A Berlin Based Chinese Artist

Yuka Mannami Zoo #63 (S/S 2019) ph. Jack Waterlot

"there is something wrong with me" would imply theres something right with other people. which i dont believe

It's common for transphobes to see us as our gender only when it can be used against us. The trans man is a man only when being intimate with him would make you gay or when his masculinity and the idea of him being a man disgusts you, but never in a context where it would be affirming to him. In the mind of a transphobe, he can be both a disgusting predatory gay man trying to turn a straight man gay and a woman who will never ever be a real man. He can be a deranged female fetishist preying on gay men and also a naive girl who just wants to escape misogyny. He can be a butch lesbian groomed into transitioning by homophobes who want to turn her straight and gender-conforming and also an unsafe man who deserves no protection and must be kept out of women's spaces. Transphobes can hold multiple of these pairs of beliefs at the same time about the exact same person because they're bigots and that's how bigotry works. The enemy is both too weak and too strong.

You notice things if you pay attention.

In the Mood for Love I 花樣年華 (2000), dir. Wong Kar-wai

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k.d.: In high school, I took an aptitude test that said I was 98 percent guaranteed to be a mechanic.

Anne: I’d love to pull into your garage and see you wiping your hands on a greasy rag.

k.d.: I’d say, “How can I help you, little lady?“ 

Anne: And all the cute girls would come to your garage and the other mechanics wouldn’t get it.

k.d. and her good friend Anne Meredith in Rolling Stone, August 1993

三船敏郎 // MIFUNE TOSHIRO 醉いどれ天使 // Drunken Angel (1948)

These Women Rockers From Botswana Are Defying The Country’s Patriarchal Society

Patrick D Pagnano, selection from Empire Roller Disco, 1980

Donna Summer photographed by Harry Langdon for her album On The Radio (1979).

Jøshua Zerø photographed by Nicole Ngai