woah

queerkhmer:

let’s get something straight,

This is a kimono. It’s worn by Japanese people.

This is not a kimono. It is a hanbok. It’s worn by Korean people.

This also not a kimono. This is a Hanfu. It was worn by Han Chinese people until the Qing.

This is also not a…

neutrois:

I’m loving Thomas McBee’s writing. 

The thing is: outside of cities where masculinity is a spectrum, your San Franscicos, Los Angeleses, New Yorks: I often do get read as gay. Me, of the studied aesthetic and seersucker shorts; me of the neat hair and fast speech. As promised, I can only be myself: my evolving body holds the same gender. I pull on an old T-shirt and fulfill a promise I made to the me who bought it. I get cruised, I get flattered. I shed internalized transphobia. I try.

And when the hick in the pick-up truck this weekend stared me down with dead-eye aggression, I remembered that I’m still queer, even if I’ve never been gay.

neutrois:

New York Times: What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?

Finally getting around to reading this article. So well written, so many good points. Here are my favorite.

After speculating a little on the biological causes, the author throws a curveball:

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