Janet Fitch, from White Oleander
Here's to the people who weren't abused by their parents, but whose parents sucked anyways. Here's to people whose parents fucked up raising you out of ignorance and not malice. Here's to the kids whose parents didn't know what to do with you so they did nothing at all. Here's to people whose parents are getting better and growing as people but still hurt you. Here's to every mean comment that wouldn't have been so bad if it hadn't come from your mom; here's to awkward family dinners because you're all trying to forget;
here's to you, survivor of a thousand 'not as bad as it could have been' hurts. I see you. You aren't alone.
"Aphrodite loves terfs" do you really think a goddess of love formed from a literal penis and the mother of Hermaphroditus, an intersex god who was associated with androgyny and feminine men, fucks around with transphobia?
she is a literal trans icon and to deny that will get you smited by all the gods
Hesiod literally wrote in Theogony that Aphrodite was born from Ouranos's severed genitals mixed with seafoam.
...were carried over the sea a long time, and white foam arose from the immortal flesh; with it a girl grew.
According to the version of her myth written by one of ancient Greece's greatest poets and chroniclers, Aphrodite wasn't even born out of a womb. And an aspect/form of hers, Aphroditus, is a trans woman.
Fuck outta here with the transphobic bullshit and leave gods and goddesses out of your toxic fake feminism!
“I am not ‘half Japanese’ and ‘half Lithuanian Jewish.“ When I’m singing a Japanese folk song, I don’t sing with half my voice, but with my whole voice. When I’m taping together my grandparents’ Jewish marriage contract, worn by time but still resilient, it’s not half of my heart that is moved, but my whole heart. I am complete, and I embody layers of identities that belong together. I am made of layers, not fractions.”
— Yumi Tomsha
