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Long before gender was policed and queerness was punished, they were sacred. In the Philippines, trans and gender-diverse people once stood at the centre of spiritual life. Precolonial Filipino societies recognised figures known as babaylan, ritual leaders primarily in the Visayan region who served as healers, spirit mediums, historians, and political authorities.  Many babaylan were women, while others were asogor bayog, who were described by Western accounts as effeminate men or transgender individuals. Their gender variance was not only accepted but revered. Their authority did not exist despite their gender expression – it existed because of it.

In the history of Latin American art, women were used as muses by artists seeking, generally, white women with Western parameters of beauty. In art, through their different expressions, indigenous muses were rarely or hardly ever shown. The indigenous woman was delegated to the figure of serfdom, mainly. The Bolivian woman in a skirt, also called “cholita”, was discriminated against for many centuries by her very society, which preferred the white muses as a reference of beauty. This series of photographs aims to reclaim and give place to these women in skirts, muses that inspire to break preestablished schemes. They are strong women who fight to enforce their rights every day and in the different areas of Bolivian society.

looked a cool artist i found and instead of her actual art the first result google showed me was AI art made with her work. i hate it here!!!!!!!

well anyway. my discovery of the day is the art of Jeffrey Catherine Jones! she was a trans woman who painted a huge amount of fantasy & scifi cover art for books and magazines, among other things :)

If the official Legend of Zelda timeline is to be believed, the same exact Ganon has done the "calamitous final transformation that can only ever be used once because it burns away your humanity" thing on like four unconnected occasions, which suggests that for evil wizards humanity is a renewable resource.

The lesson of avatar was never “killing bad people makes you just as bad as them” it was “you cannot be letting fascists dictate what counts as a win or loss” guys like come on it’s been 20 years