Branwen's Stuff

I'm Branwen. Amateur bioengineer, philosophy major, wanna be nurse practitioner, writer, composer. Born in 1986. I reside in what has to be one of the more corrupt cities in America, Chicago. Oh yeah. I'm changing my sex from male to female. I'm mad as hell about a lot of things -- the injustice and insanity of capitalism, the fear of those who happen to have different amounts of melanin, the subtle yet omnipresent oppression of sexism, ignorant hatred of LGBT people and most importantly, the solutions to these problems. I speak my mind and don't let anyone's opinion censor what I say. I've held myself in for far too long
white teen with her lil'sis: "Aw, sister day out"
black teen with her lil'sis: "OMG she gota baby so young?"
White teenage mother: "mistakes happen"
Black teenage mother: "thats so sad" "her father wasn't in her life" "welfare queen" (Black people reaction) "Thats a damn shame she gotta baby" "dumb bitch"
White graffiti artist: art
Black graffiti artist: vandalism
White people with locs/dreads: "OMG you're sucha rebel" "your dreads are so hawt"
Black people with locs/dreads: unprofessional
White girl wearing short shorts: no big deal its summertime
Black girl with short shorts: "she has no respect for herself" (Black people reaction)"she's bringing our race down"
White men sagging: "Swag" "thats just the style"
Black men sagging: gangsta, thug, "he looks suspicious"
The vast majority of drug users?: White people
The vast majority of people incarcerated for drugs?: Black
White people: no stop and search
Black people: "he looks suspicious"
White with a hoodie: "its cold out" "thats the new style"
Black with a hoodie: "he looks suspicious" "he's dangerous and might have some skittles and iced tea"
Whites rapping about money, cars, etc: "this is sooo dope" "swag" "Mac Miller is BEAST!"
Black rapping about money, cars, etc: "this is music?"
White in the Ivy League: Congratz!!
Black in the Ivy League: "sport scholarship?" (Black people reaction)"Oh, you hoop? football or track?"
White college athlete: .....
Black college athlete: "thats the only way they can get in college" "you're only here cus' you can dribble a ball"
White people & rock music: normal
Black people & rock music: "you like this music?" (Black people reaction) "you listen to white people shit?"<---Even though Black people were some of the earliest pioneers of Rock-n-Roll
White ex-con: *processes application* "This is America we believe in second chances"
Black ex-con: Application meet mister trash can
White homophobia: tolerable
Black homophobia: "you guys have always hated gays" "you know thats like slavery"
White in the mall: no need to follow them
Black in the mall: lets play follow the black ma- I mean, leader
White with bad grammar: no big deal
Black with bad grammar: crucified
White & tatted up: body art
Black & tatted up: thug/gangsta
White drug addicts: rehab
Black drug addicts: jail
Movies about the world ending: White man saves the day
Movies about the world ending: about 4billion Asians & around 2 billions Blacks seemingly disappear....
White actors: kings, witches, aliens, warlocks, lawyers, superheroes, teachers, etc.
Black actors: slaves, gangsta, slaves, drug addicts, slaves, poor people.
White woman angry: Justifiable and a lil'bitchy at the most
Black woman angry: Could have had the most shit filled and fucked up day and will always be The Angry Black Woman

Gender Expression Is Not Gender Identity

artoftransliness:

From the Article:

One of the chief confusions about transsexuality and the decision we make to transition is how, from an outside perspective, with limited or superficial understanding, it can seem that the reason we transition is because we’ve determined ourselves to be female or male on the basis of our personalities fitting better into a female or male identity than into the gender that we’d been assigned, and that therefore we “ought” to be the sex that matches our personality.

That is not how it works, how we came to realize our gender identity, or why we transition.

From this basic misunderstanding a whole host of common confusions and misconceptions arise. This is what motivates people to say that we ought to simply learn to accept ourselves instead, or that if we lived in some kind of post-gender utopia without rigid binaries there would cease to be any need for transition, or that trans people are buying into or enforcing gender binaries and stereotypes, or that trans women are “appropriating” female stereotypes and trans men are simply experiencing “internalized misogyny”, or that we ought to learn to simply be happy with being feminine men or masculine women.

(via blickblocks)

1 week ago - 200

Gender Expression Is Not Gender Identity

artoftransliness:

From the Article:

One of the chief confusions about transsexuality and the decision we make to transition is how, from an outside perspective, with limited or superficial understanding, it can seem that the reason we transition is because we’ve determined ourselves to be female or male on the basis of our personalities fitting better into a female or male identity than into the gender that we’d been assigned, and that therefore we “ought” to be the sex that matches our personality.

That is not how it works, how we came to realize our gender identity, or why we transition.

From this basic misunderstanding a whole host of common confusions and misconceptions arise. This is what motivates people to say that we ought to simply learn to accept ourselves instead, or that if we lived in some kind of post-gender utopia without rigid binaries there would cease to be any need for transition, or that trans people are buying into or enforcing gender binaries and stereotypes, or that trans women are “appropriating” female stereotypes and trans men are simply experiencing “internalized misogyny”, or that we ought to learn to simply be happy with being feminine men or masculine women.

(via blickblocks)

1 week ago - 200

For some reason, it is entirely OK for a strange man I don’t know to approach me in the street and tell me he’d like to violently stick his hard cock in my anus. If I turned around and say, spat on him or stabbed his eye out with a fork, this would not be OK. Moreover, if I tried to press charges, I have the stinking suspicion that without a physical assault my complaint wouldn’t be taken entirely seriously. And yet the same man gets caught taking a piss in a public place and he’s a sexual offender in the eyes of the law. ARE FERAL LANEWAYS AND BRICK WALLS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WOMEN?

Kat George, Things I Wish Were Not OK But Are Definitely OK (via pussy-envy)

(via glitterencrustedbunghole)

mcgoats:

sensualpegging:

mailmetrash:

feeldoe

The Tantus Feeldoe

i just really need this
i really, really need this


Once I have a vag I&#8217;ll probably end up shoving one of these in it and just jerkin it like I&#8217;m 14 again everyday

mcgoats:

sensualpegging:

mailmetrash:

feeldoe

The Tantus Feeldoe

i just really need this

i really, really need this

Once I have a vag I’ll probably end up shoving one of these in it and just jerkin it like I’m 14 again everyday

(via fycuntdiversity)

vikki is a gender neutral name: hey cis assholes

vikkiisagenderneutralname:

(trigger warning; implicated suicide)

just remember that if a trans person hurts your feelings because they were what you deemed “too angry,” if you want to get away from that you can walk the fuck away. you can log out, you can walk away, you can shut your computer. if you think ‘hey i never…

2 weeks ago - 19

craw101:

intothekawoosh:

ourafrica:

The Gentlemen of Bacongo” is a book Released in 2009, by Photographer Daniele Tamagni. The book features a subculture in the Congo where men express their creativity through their clothing. They are part of a cultural movement called Le Sape “a clique of extraordinarily dressed dandies from the Congo. Despite years  war and abject poverty, these men dress in tailored suits, silk ties, and immaculate footwear

This is Africa, our Africa

woah this is awesome

Very dapper, gentlemen. <3

(via my-little-eunuch)

Angry Banette: lyricalpun: angrybanette: nonsensicalnoises: angrybanette:...

blickblocks:

lyricalpun:

angrybanette:

nonsensicalnoises:

angrybanette:

withlovethelavendermenace:

angrybanette:

withlovethelavendermenace:

inflateablefilth:

zladkohasaboaraffe:

I think I’m coming to the crux of my dislike of falling in with the…

I really hate when people think I’m cool or edgy or TRYING to be cool or edgy for being genderqueer. Yeah I like being fashionable often but, fuck, I experience so much bullshit for being transsexual and genderqueer, how the fuck is that a fashion?

2 weeks ago - 61
blickblocks:

Saw this while shopping…wtf?


I wonder if it jizzes ketchup

blickblocks:

Saw this while shopping…wtf?

I wonder if it jizzes ketchup
femmeswithstrapons:

Given the frequency with which I see Barbies with strap ons on my dash, it makes me think that it could be its own subgenre. 
(Sidenote: I was one of those kids whose Barbies were always fucking.)

femmeswithstrapons:

Given the frequency with which I see Barbies with strap ons on my dash, it makes me think that it could be its own subgenre. 

(Sidenote: I was one of those kids whose Barbies were always fucking.)

(Source: bi-strapon-bondage)