-shitty fedora man asking “CAN I HAVE YOUR PHOTO, MISTRESS” when i was wearing something kind of revealing and passed well besides for my voice (he clearly had no idea what fandom i was from and just wanted to get off to the photo later). i said yes and once he clocked me he went “it IS a MISTRESS i am talking to correct” and i said yes again. he asked me like three more times throughout taking the photo before he finally went away
-snapback-wearing trans bro and his friend at a meetup asking me if they could “borrow my dick”
-second trans man, this time my roommate, going off on a tangent while i was in the room about how much easier it was to be transfeminine
-this one actually hurt
-someone’s friend apologetically telling me, without me asking, that the only reason she clocked me was because of my voice and what i could do to improve it
-thank god i wasnt cosplaying a girl when this happened but this shitty dude in a Teemo hat at ACEN last year started complaining about “traps” and asking this other (presumably cis) girl next to me if she was a trap and he eventually stopped after someone nearby was like “transgenders cant help it”. afterwards teemo hat man gave an excuse about how we trick people and need to be “watched out for”
anyway!! this is probably why i’ve only met four other trans women over my entire time at conventions (and only two of them actually cosplay) and no one wants to fucking talk about it but us so i figured i’d at least raise awareness
[IMAGE: Members of the Ainu delegation perform during the powhiri to welcome them in Taranaki.]
A delegation of Indigenous Ainu people from Japan is in Taranaki this week to share experiences and learn from local Māori about language revitalization.
The group from Hokkaido, the northern most of Japan’s main islands, was welcomed at Puke Ariki in New Plymouth last night and will attend Poukorero, a two-day language revitalization conference at Parihaka.
Delegation spokesperson Kenji Sekiner said the Ainu began to lose their language as a result of the mass migration of Japanese in the late 19th century.
“Many, many Japanese coming to Hokkaido and after that suddenly Ainu were a minority people and kind of we were forced to speak Japanese. We were a so small group of people and discrimination against Ainu was so harsh.”
Mr Sekiner said the Ainu language was no longer in common use.
“You know basically we don’t converse in Ainu so it’s very, very hard. It’s a long way to revitalise (the language) for us to speak in daily life our language. ”
Mr Sekiner has been coming to New Zealand since 2013 and said by comparison the invigoration of Te Reo Māori was very advanced.
He said it was an inspiration to hear Māori being used and he hoped the visit would make a huge impact on the young people he had brought with him to New Zealand.
I can’t believe I never posted this to Tumblr. So here ya go, why Steven universe is totally DBZ… and let’s be honest, this is part 1.
crystal gems will go to homeworld like dbz crew went to namek
there was like a period where everyone was like “Peridot is coming” was the new “the saiyans are coming” which just became that much more real when fuckn Jasper showed up looking like the Nappa of the group and Peridot was a stone cold bitch who just sat back and used technology rather than fighting directly herself. but then 10 minutes later, the next episode aired, Peridot got her ass kicked off screen while Garnet defeated Jasper by herself we were like “oh, well then”
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