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practicalandrogyny: Web comic: Poly In Pictures 83: Cold Confused Caller Caption: I like to confuse cold-callers. Caller: Is this the lady of the house? Stick figure: Um. No; who’s calling, please? Caller: May I speak to the lady or the man of the house, please? Stick figure: There are no men or women living here. WHO IS THIS? Caller: Oh… I— er. *Beeeeep* The alt text says “This really happened.”

practicalandrogyny:

Web comic: Poly In Pictures 83: Cold Confused Caller

Caption: I like to confuse cold-callers.

Caller: Is this the lady of the house?

Stick figure: Um. No; who’s calling, please?

Caller: May I speak to the lady or the man of the house, please?

Stick figure: There are no men or women living here. WHO IS THIS?

Caller: Oh… I— er. *Beeeeep*

The alt text says “This really happened.”

Filed under comic humor humour non-binary nonbinary webcomic phone conversation funny

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lost-in-transition: I think my voice dropped a bit again a few weeks ago. I’ve been playing guitar and singing tonight to try to test my constantly shifting range out a bit and discovered that while singing lower is getting easier, singing in tune is getting more and more difficult. Of course, this could have more to do with the fact that I’ve had a bad cough for about three weeks now, but still.  A Softer World comic strip transcription: It was a plague nobody expected. / puberty again, instead of death. / cracking voices and new bodies we can’t understand. (alt text: the ravages of puberty leave nobody unscathed)

lost-in-transition:

I think my voice dropped a bit again a few weeks ago. I’ve been playing guitar and singing tonight to try to test my constantly shifting range out a bit and discovered that while singing lower is getting easier, singing in tune is getting more and more difficult. Of course, this could have more to do with the fact that I’ve had a bad cough for about three weeks now, but still. 

A Softer World comic strip transcription:

It was a plague nobody expected. / puberty again, instead of death. / cracking voices and new bodies we can’t understand. (alt text: the ravages of puberty leave nobody unscathed)

Filed under comic webcomic puberty hormones

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ieightnine: Logic: There needs to be none [Image header says “Logic”. A straight couple is pictured underneath; the girl is being told, by someone outside the frame, “You have short hair. You must be a lesbian”. The boy, similarly, hears “Your girl has short hair, like a boy. You must like boys. You are gay.” Underneath this image, the couple is pictured again, kissing passionately and saying “Mmm, kiss me gay boy!” and “Mmm, tastes like lesbian!”]

ieightnine:

Logic:

There needs to be none

[Image header says “Logic”. A straight couple is pictured underneath; the girl is being told, by someone outside the frame, “You have short hair. You must be a lesbian”. The boy, similarly, hears “Your girl has short hair, like a boy. You must like boys. You are gay.” Underneath this image, the couple is pictured again, kissing passionately and saying “Mmm, kiss me gay boy!” and “Mmm, tastes like lesbian!”]

(Source: irrelevvant, via slytherinsdragqueen-deactivated)

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spaceykate: I’ve been rereading Rachel Pollack’s run on Doom Patrol recently, and OMG I just never get tired of it. One of the main things I love, of course, is the lady in the picture above: Coagula, the world’s first transsexual lesbian superhero. But the whole comic is full of wonderful little trans themes and in-jokes: Cliff Steele talks about his issues fitting into society (or not) as a human brain in a robot body in terms of passing, there’s a storyline featuring forces terrified of change fighting genderqueer mystical beings whose preferred pronoun is “hir,” and the Doom Patrol’s headquarters are haunted by ghosts called “Sexually Remaindered Spirits” (or “SRS” for short).  Really, I wonder sometimes if the comic’s lack of commercial success and mixed (at best) critical reputation isn’t because it just wasn’t aimed at a cis audience. It’s really amazing that DC Comics (one of the “big two” comic publishers, for the non-comic-readers in the audience) was publishing something so fantastically trans almost 20 years ago. More than that, it wasn’t even the only trans-themed comic by a trans woman DC published at the time! Under the Milestone imprint they also published a miniseries called Deathwish written by the late Maddy Blaustein (best known as a voice actress for Pokemon) with art by the amazing JH Williams III (who actually made his debut on the comic), which starred a pair of non-op trans women. The comic itself was just a standard 90’s shoot-em-up grim-n-gritty action comic, mind you, but it’s still a fun read as a historical document — the characters grope to find language for their transition path, for instance, because the phrase “non-op” wasn’t really around yet. There was a followup storyline in another Milestone comic called Hardware which was actually quite bad, but did have a nice escapist fantasy moment at the end in which (SPOILER) a trans woman ends up pregnant. Both of these comics were coming out around the time that I was entering the full swing of puberty and had begun to very clearly realize and (privately, to myself) name what I was, and they meant so incredibly much to me. There was a recent article making the rounds about the importance of introducing children to the reality that transgender people exist, and I so agree. In a rural area where I would never in a million years have heard the voices of trans people otherwise, these comics told me that I was normal, that I wasn’t alone, that as a trans woman I could be powerful and strong, and that somewhere out there, there was a place where I was going to be able to grow up to be myself. And so I did.

spaceykate:

I’ve been rereading Rachel Pollack’s run on Doom Patrol recently, and OMG I just never get tired of it.

One of the main things I love, of course, is the lady in the picture above: Coagula, the world’s first transsexual lesbian superhero. But the whole comic is full of wonderful little trans themes and in-jokes: Cliff Steele talks about his issues fitting into society (or not) as a human brain in a robot body in terms of passing, there’s a storyline featuring forces terrified of change fighting genderqueer mystical beings whose preferred pronoun is “hir,” and the Doom Patrol’s headquarters are haunted by ghosts called “Sexually Remaindered Spirits” (or “SRS” for short). 

Really, I wonder sometimes if the comic’s lack of commercial success and mixed (at best) critical reputation isn’t because it just wasn’t aimed at a cis audience. It’s really amazing that DC Comics (one of the “big two” comic publishers, for the non-comic-readers in the audience) was publishing something so fantastically trans almost 20 years ago.

More than that, it wasn’t even the only trans-themed comic by a trans woman DC published at the time! Under the Milestone imprint they also published a miniseries called Deathwish written by the late Maddy Blaustein (best known as a voice actress for Pokemon) with art by the amazing JH Williams III (who actually made his debut on the comic), which starred a pair of non-op trans women. The comic itself was just a standard 90’s shoot-em-up grim-n-gritty action comic, mind you, but it’s still a fun read as a historical document — the characters grope to find language for their transition path, for instance, because the phrase “non-op” wasn’t really around yet.

There was a followup storyline in another Milestone comic called Hardware which was actually quite bad, but did have a nice escapist fantasy moment at the end in which (SPOILER) a trans woman ends up pregnant.

Both of these comics were coming out around the time that I was entering the full swing of puberty and had begun to very clearly realize and (privately, to myself) name what I was, and they meant so incredibly much to me.

There was a recent article making the rounds about the importance of introducing children to the reality that transgender people exist, and I so agree. In a rural area where I would never in a million years have heard the voices of trans people otherwise, these comics told me that I was normal, that I wasn’t alone, that as a trans woman I could be powerful and strong, and that somewhere out there, there was a place where I was going to be able to grow up to be myself. And so I did.

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Filed under comic history vintage trans woman

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Submitted by trampsandteacakes. In the first comic strip, a doctor says “We’ve isolated the cause of your gender confusion, Mr Gingerbread Man… It seems you have unusually high levels of sugar and spice and everything nice…” In the second one, someone hands an androgynous person a form, saying “If you want, you can just leave the gender box blank.”

Submitted by trampsandteacakes. In the first comic strip, a doctor says “We’ve isolated the cause of your gender confusion, Mr Gingerbread Man… It seems you have unusually high levels of sugar and spice and everything nice…”

In the second one, someone hands an androgynous person a form, saying “If you want, you can just leave the gender box blank.”

Filed under comic holidays submission

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gaywrites: Because Santa Claus loves everybody just the way they are.  “Mom says Santa wouldn’t want me telling people about out uncle who will sometimes dress as Mrs. Claus and sing Christmas songs. I think Santa would love him as much as I do.”

gaywrites:

Because Santa Claus loves everybody just the way they are. 

“Mom says Santa wouldn’t want me telling people about out uncle who will sometimes dress as Mrs. Claus and sing Christmas songs. I think Santa would love him as much as I do.”

(Source: gaywrites, via genderfork)

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