Henri-Paul Motte Leda Et Le Cygne 1900

ICC Berlin. Photo: Matthias Heiderich

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.

i think it's important not to act like the harassment imane khelif experienced is merely misdirected transmisogyny. it really can't be separated from the racism at play. transphobia was the cudgel she was beaten with for the crime of being visibly non white

Me by photographer Steven Harwick, AKA Bound Leather Zine (@intoguilt)

arguably the best photo shoot featuring toshirō mifune

Mark Prelude OA-7689 // World Receiver (Japan, 1980s)

Marlon Brando by Cecil Beaton 1946

DREW STARKEY & DANIEL CRAIG Queer (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

Rest in peace, David Lynch 🤍🕊️ January 20th, 1946 - January 16th, 2025