Tamago in #japan town to ease my sore throat. (at The Peace Pagoda)

Fancy pants dinner party.

#bonfire #fire at the pajama party

No one’s desk chair is safe from Sheba the #pug. Guess we’ll share.

Just hanging out. #cat #cats #catsrule #instacat #catstagram #crazycatlady

transpoststatement:

TRANS POST STATEMENT:

My boyfriend is happy, too.

One day soon, I hope. 

T shot in T-minus (heh) one month.

Surgery hopefully near the beginning of the year.

Boyfriend? Whenever the right person comes along.

itsevonhere:

floacist:

People really don’t believe Ancient Egyptians were ethnically African?

Perri: It’s sad but true, so many people don’t believe it. :(

Yup and if you ask the average American they will automatically say The Middle East…

…

but…

how—

Look at their lips!

This man up there favors my great great granddaddy (I’m of African descent, just so you all know)

EYES, NOSE—LIPS AGAIN.

I MEAN.

OMG. SERIOUSLY.

LIKE.

IT SHOULDN’T BE THIS HARD TO GRASP.

White denial.

Remember, around the time white people became obsessed with Egypt and began romanticizing its history, they still were allowed to openly hate POC. They refuse to believe that so much power, grace, and beauty could come from people they despised(read: were jealous of).

It’s all just a superiority complex to mask their innate insecurity. It’s why they happily lump Egypt in with the Middle East and completely erase Black Egypt from the picture and instead focus on Arab Egypt.

It’s also why they have taken to dividing Africa into North Africa and “Sub-Saharan Africa” as if everything that is not of the “exotic desert” is inferior and savage.

Taxonomy and classism are just a few of white people’s favorite things to do to make themselves feel like they run shit.

The term “middle east” didn’t even exist before the 1960s.

Bless this fucking post you have no idea the shit I had to go through as a child when I told them I was from Egypt. They’d be like “but you’re black” or the most ignorant of them all would say “Egypt is not a part of Africa, because Africa is full of black people.” I literally got into fights with people about this.

Just as a note from someone who studied ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian cultures pretty extensively in university, nothing in my studies implied ancient Egyptians were anything other than African/Black. They DID depict the Nubians to their South as way more dark-skinned (a lot of Egyptian artwork seems to imply they felt superior for their lighter skin tone and differing features) BUT they also distinguished themselves from cultures in the Middle East who often were referred to as Asiatics and depicted with white/yellow skin.

It wasn’t until the Ptolemaic dynasty when Greek and later Roman rulers were installed as pharoahs that people began seeing depictions of Egyptians as white or whiter (because those rulers were from the Mediterranean countries to the north originally).

Just thought I’d supplement.

(Source: thehereticpharaoh, via ayantiel)

sour-blue:

Cooper Thompson has a very distinctive look, like the lovechild of a porcelain doll and a Greek god statue.

Wow. I approve. Yay, androgyny.

(via here-comes-heisenberg)

My first blog post for work went up today.

It’s on transgender inclusive healthcare laws.

My work is really cool, the end.

I’m a big believer in supporting our LGBT community members in times of need. This is one of those times.

My friend Elliot is transgender, but this isn’t about a top surgery fund.

Last November, he was diagnosed with a congenital spinal defect that has been causing him severe back pain, nerve damage, leg weakness, and more. An avid pet lover (with a dog and two cats of his own), Elliot had to go on leave from his job at an East Bay humane society facility a few weeks back. 

THANKFULLY, I was just told he was finally scheduled to have his back surgery next week (initially he’d been told it could take up to 3 months to get off the waitlist).

The problem? Recovery time takes awhile, and he’s without substantial income from now until he can return to work.

If you’ve ever gone through a stressful time in your life and you have pets, you probably know just how wonderful it is to have company around that loves you unconditionally. Yet due to his financial situation, Elliot has the added stress of thinking he may need to give up his animals in order to simply pay his rent and food in the coming months.

Elliot rescued Gideon (AKA Giddy!) when she was just a pup.

Turtle and Dill have been in Elliot’s life for the past 8 years.

Please, please donate if you’re able to help him out. Please share on Facebook, Twitter, or here on Tumblr if you can’t spare money. I know some of you have a lot more followers than I do, and spreading this far and wide is the best way I know to help my bud out.

Elliot has been a wonderful friend and advocate for me as I myself have been transitioning and coming out to family members these past few months. He’s sweet, caring, and a fellow Midwesterner (you’d know in an instant if you overheard us you betcha-ing in passing conversation). I hate to see him going through unnecessary stress about his finances and beloved pets with a surgery now upcoming.

Donations can be made HERE.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ping me in the ask box.

Thank you in advance!

Andrew
P.S. I’m sure he’d also love to receive comments and well wishes on his donation page, whether or not you’re able to send funds yourself. :)