Tag: Theme: Transmasculinity
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Looking For 🍑🍆💦: A Beginner’s Guide to Grindr for Trans Men

Repost from Medium, originally published November 2022, which is why I look so young and fresh-faced in the pictures, unlike today. Evidently I missed this one in my original porting over. Approaching Grindr (and cruising culture) as a trans man. As a trans man I’ve been using Grindr for years, and especially in the past year…
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I Am Bad Representation

And I could not care less. Yesterday, I went to my GP and got my testosterone injection administered. It’s an intramuscular injection generally administered to my backside, where the fattier, softer flesh makes the intramuscular penetration of the needle less painful, and also gives it space to settle in the flesh and slowly be assimilated into…
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Woe, Boypussy Be Upon Ye: Transing Characters in Fanfic & Fanart

What’s the deal with envisioning your blorbos as transgender? Originally published in Prism & Pen. It’s been unbelievably positive for me as a trans dude, the change in approach to trans characters in fandom and subsequently in media in general, and I just wanted to write a bit about my experiences with the cultural shift…
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Yentl: A Trans Man Studying Talmud is Distracted by Gay Thoughts

Yentl (1983, dir. Barbra Streisand) and Yentl the Yeshiva Boy by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Any of us would be distracted from study by Mandy Patinkin. Via IMDb. It’s a sad thing, hearing cisgender people talk about Yentl — especially the short story — and think they understand it, that they’re getting everything from it, while at the same time, they can’t…