Tumbling Like Alice

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I am female. I was born that way. I have had those feelings, those longings, all of my life. It is not unnatural. I am not sick because I feel this way. I do not need to be helped. I do not need to be cured. What I need, and what all of those who are like me need, is your understanding. And your compassion. We have not injured you in any way. And yet we are scorned and attacked. And all because we are different. What we do is no different from what you do. We talk, and laugh. We complain about work. And we wonder about growing old. We talk about our families, and we worry about the future. And we cry with each other when things seem hopeless. All of the loving things that you do with each other, that is what we do. And for that, we are called misfits, and deviants, and criminals. What right do you have to punish us? What right do you have to change us? What makes you think you can dictate how people love each other?

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 5, Episode 17: The Outcast

damn star trek. damn.

(via beverly-soong)

For context: 
The character who is talking is a character who belongs to a race that has no gender. Or… at least is “supposed” to have no gender. She however, does. She feels female.  
When she gives this speech she is in front of a court who plans to send her to psychotherapy to “fix” her as they do with other “deviants” who have decided they have gender in her society. 

This episode is one of the most important and moving episodes of Star Trek I have ever watched.  

(via nightvaletrekkieamazon)

This is one of the episodes we watched in the Star Trek, Law and Ethics class I took my last semester of college and like, half the class didn’t get it was an obvious allegory for LGBT people. They were like “but how is it gay? She identifies as female and is in a relationship with Riker” and the other half is like “IT’S A METAPHOR OMG”

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Thank you!

I wanted to take a moment to thank all the artists I follow on here who constantly inspire me. Please visit their pages and marvel at the beautiful things they draw:

The Orator

Ancalinar

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Comfort and Adam - These two are incredible people I’ve met in real life. <3

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Ricardo Bessa

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Kaciart

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V6 Studios - Brace yourselves. I know this person in real life and I don’t know if you can handle this much awesome. ;)

TheDevilsPanties - I also know this incredible woman who has made a life out of running a very popular web comic. She’s amazing and inspiring. Go look. Also, I occasionally show up in her comics…which is so fucking cool.

Please go take a look at these guys. They are incredible and they inspire me every day to want to be better at my own art. 

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