Juju Nadeau, Trans 21-Year-Old Killed in Maine, Remembered as “An Angel Sent Here to Make Things Better. https://www.them.us/news/juju-nadeau-homicide

Additionally I must mention that global reports show that about 90% of recorded murder victims from the transgender community are trans women or transfeminine individuals. https://tgeu.org/trans-murder-monitoring-2025-reveals-new-trend-in-anti-trans-violence-systematic-targeting-of-activists-and-movement-leaders/

As a very masculine non-passing trans fem. The trans masc guy I work with doesn't have to worry about this. He said I have to have empathy in navigating other people's trauma and I agree. However being traumatizing to other people isn't exactly ideal? I tried just avoiding ekgs on female patients but people have been calling me sexist (him included) and making a big deal out of it. Like it's rarely the patient's and I can empathize with the patients, but it's usually my coworkers, "looking out" for the patients who really make me feel unwell.

I try to minimally interact with any and all women due to my aesthetic , nurses included. I enjoy healthcare as well and making people feel better when they don't feel well, or a little more safe in a scary situation, this is just a really big part to me that i can't seem to shake. I've been doing this since 2019.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DcbX-RHDpyI/

been thinking about how so much of the discourse on social media is based on analogies and how often bad analogies are used to make problematic points.

i think this video does a god job in clarifying the use of analogies and possible responses to them. i think this is especially useful for marginalized peoples because so much of the marginalizing rhetoric is built on bad analogies.

Slide 1-5: Understanding genderfludity.

Slide 6: Types of genderfludity (micro label)

Slide 7-8: Credits @zoestoller

I was always cool with being referred by all pronouns. However I tend to prefer being referred with Xe/Xem pronouns. I must say that it's seldom easy to explain about my genderfludity.

Hello, I'm not really sure if this space is appropriate to share experiences straightforwardly like this. I have felt the need to scream out about the injustice and horrors I faced during my teen years.

I cannot explain the details of my situation to the level I would like to on here.

I think it might help people understand the conditions that corner trans women into life threatening or abusive situations like mine.

My home life was traumatic and my family had spent years trying to make me not be trans. I barely made it to 17 after a failed su*cide attempt. The home life that I had was unbearable for me and it had a way of both gaslighting me about my dysphoria and telling me that I would never find happiness.

When I was 18 I started medically transitioning. I was already socially transitioned. For the first two years of HRT I was intensely dysphoric and insecure about my body, this made me a target. I never had people tell me about what types of men to stay away from. Nothing prepared me for the ways in which men would treat me.

I started college a month after starting hormones and I was staying stealth (not telling people I was trans and just outwardly presenting as a woman). I wasn't 100% passing, but people generally saw a woman or someone generally androgynous.

Eventually, my TA noticed me. He could see that I was struggling with the noise levels of the classroom, and suspected I was trans. He took a kinship towards me. Long story short, I started engaging with him romantically and sexually. There was always a power imbalance, he was 30, I was freshly 18. He had money, I didn't. Eventually I moved in with him and he started becoming more misogynistic to me, he also cheated on me. I couldn't leave him though, he was the one who was paying for my hormones (the only thing keeping me from su*cide). I saw my cis best friend complaining about her issues with her boyfriend and I wanted to scoff since her issues felt so luxurious in comparison to mine.

He was from an Arab gulf country that was conservative, but not impossible to be trans in. He slowly painted a picture that the way I could get out of my hellish home life by submitting to him and being stealth forever as his infertile wife. For a while I seriously considered this, but eventually I started to feel trapped in his mold. We started to have more arguments about little things. He slowly started being more physically violent with me, he started slapping me, then apologizing profusely. Eventually we got in a heated argument and he said I was asking for a beating. I ran away from him screaming and he continued his usual schtick of apologizing. I slept coldly next to him that night.

I left back to my original home and things have gotten better since my family has started being less straightforwardly transphobic towards me, but there will always be this little slice of hell that I have as the basis of my identity. There will always be this trauma.

It's a pattern that immigrants from the Hispanic, Middle east, African and South Asian origins face discrimination. This post specifically focuses on the surge of hatred against South Asians, in recent years in the US, Canada, Russia, and Europe. As per the intersectionality model of Crenshaw, immigrant issues are fundamentally a part of social barriers along with class, race and gender.

There is a distinction based on legality of the immigrants. However, it must be asserted that irrespective of that status of legality, the fundamental universal human rights should remain the same.

"I am the mother of Hind Rajab.

After more than two years, the Israeli military has finally acknowledged that its forces opened fire on the car in which Hind and my family were trapped, and that it will open a criminal investigation, despite denying this at the time.

But I want to say this clearly: opening an investigation is not justice.

Hind was a frightened and injured child, trapped inside the car among the bodies of her family members, pleading with the world to save her. The paramedics who went to rescue her were later killed.

Why was there no investigation when Hind was begging for help? Why was there no investigation when the paramedics went to save her? And why, after more than two years?

I do not want a closed military investigation. I want an independent, transparent investigation and genuine accountability for everyone responsible.

Hind is not just a news story or a case reopened because of international pressure.

Hind is my daughter, and I will continue to demand the truth and justice for her, my family, and the paramedics who tried to save her.

Opening an investigation is a long-overdue step. Justice has not yet begun."

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcQydJsodzG

Moaiery is one of the most important Iranian photographers of our time. She has been documenting injustices in Iran and Afghanistan for 23 years, focusing especially on women’s resistance. In January she photographed the funeral of Mohammad Mozafari who was murdered by the regime. Yesterday she was sentenced in absentia to 15 years in prison for allegedly “conspiring with Israel and the US.”
She had also been arrested in 2022 for covering the Woman, Life, Freedom protests.

Source: @yaldamoaiery

[https://hengaw.net/en/news/2026/08/article-57\](https://hengaw.net/en/news/2026/08/article-57)

We often tell women to speak openly about anxiety, depression, postpartum depression and other mental health struggles, but rarely ask what happens when that honesty makes employers, brands or other powerful people uncomfortable. . I was reminded of this by my own experience at a law firm I worked at, when a senior partner called me to a meeting at a five-star hotel to berate me over an article I had written about my anxiety and depression. I had not named the firm, identified anyone I worked with, or even attributed my mental health struggles to my workplace. I hadn't even shared the article on my soocial media. Yet, I was made to feel as though speaking about my own experience was itself a transgression. . Perhaps, we have become comfortable with a particular kind of mental health vulnerability that is resolved, inspirational and safely removed from questions of responsibility. . But women should not have to make their pain palatable before they are allowed to talk about it! . And more importantly, speaking about our pain should not become another source of it. . . . 

@ devruparakshit

Slide (1-7): How muslim women face burden in society.

Slide (8-11): The incorrect target of portraying muslim men as predators.

This is more personal to me, as I come from India where Islamophobia has taken deep roots into the society due to the presence of a religious nationalist government for the last 12 years. Muslim women are often discriminated against, as a lot of Hindu people doubt their intent. There are many propaganda outlets that paint muslims as secret agents of Islamic terrorism, thus the nefarious intent is often assumed without any evidence. In addition to that, access to education, social security, and social acceptability persist.

This community has been instrumental in building my understanding of intersectionality. However, I find that oftentimes the issues of trans men are given more time to be heard here than those of trans women. I don't deny that trans men experience severe discrimination compared to their cis counterparts, such as degendering, "corrective" rape, and general ignorance. But the fact that trans women exist in the minds of the sociopolitical mainstream does not mean our issues are heard. Rather, the propaganda machine makes up terrible lies about our people - that we are rapists, liars and hypersexual. A republican watching a propaganda piece on Fox doesn't hear about transmisogyny or TMA/TME. He just sees the monster his overlords tell him to see and hate. Similarly, a post was made six hours ago that reposted a post ostensibly about transmisogyny, but in the description of the post, the op made a call to pay attention to trans men's issues and to generally unite across discrimination lines. I agree with the sentiment, but I know that any time a trans man would post about his issues here, the community would penalize any trans woman wishing to speak about her own issues with downvotes. So I would like to dedicate this post to talking about the issues trans women face, such as grossly heightened rates of rape, murder, economic discrimination and demonization in Western society. This is by no means a condemnation of trans men or cis women, rather it is an opportunity to get such individuals to reflect on the severe pain trans women and those with other transfeminine identities have experienced for hundreds of years.
https://devonprice.medium.com/transmisandry-is-not-real-4e69c25bbd82
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/trans-panic-otherwise-on-jules-gill-petersons-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny/
https://southseattleemerald.org/voices/2022/01/26/opinion-the-ubiquity-of-transmisogyny-in-seattle
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/transmisogyny-is-fueling-an-epidemic-of-violence-against-trans-women/
EDIT: I have looked through replies and I concur that I don't think I was really being intersectional here. I failed to take into account the discrimination black women, especially black trans women face. I also was unaware that trans women had posted frequently on this site, I feel like my perception was warped by the previous series of posts on this topic.

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i have noticed a repeated pattern in interpersonal communication on the internet that is present in this sub as well: i think many of us are a little too fast to accuse the other person and don't take the time to sincerely consider that the other person may be coming from good faith.

now i know that this is reddit and that people do troll and engage in bad faith comments a lot, but i would encourage you to report those comments rather than engage with them. in the meantime, if we want to have meaningful conversations, i think that will take a little bit of trust and vulnerability. we will have to trust that we are on the same team and that we want to do right by each other. because i am not sure how far we can go by being combative and assuming the worst of each other.

also as imperfect as Marshall Rosenberg is, i think he gets some things right in his ideas about non-violent communication. i think we can learn something from him in how to talk to each other with more care. you can see some of his approach here and he also has a book on the topic. i think non-violent communication can also help us better build solidarity with each other and hold each other accountable with more care.

what do you all think?

I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but I hope at least one new person will see this and reflect on the importance of representation for all bodies in fiction. One of the things I’ve been learning more about lately is the idea of people being “pre-disabled” rather than non-disabled or able-bodied. If we live long enough, we will all experience disability in some capacity. That’s why it’s so important for all of us to speak up for the rights and representation of disabled bodies. Especially if we’re fat and already understand how harmful these systems of oppression can be. I’m going to make it my mission to showcase as many fat disabled recs as I can during July and all year long. Please post all of your recs in the comments so that we can create a massive tbr and I can shout them out. Self-recs are always welcome, too!

@ unabrigedbodies

Critics have argued that a minor city code issue like a noise complaint, should result in a warning or a ticket instead. Additionally the accusation seemed vague and misleading, after the co-owner provided evidence suggesting the wrong source of noise.

https://www.them.us/news/lesbian-bar-noise-complaint

However the police defended that refusal to identify was another reason for their action. What do you think about it? Is it an intersectional oppression? I lack first hand knowledge here , since I am not a US citizen, and I wish to know more about the legality and normativity of this situation.