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you can wear a binder

it doesn’t matter who you are, how you identify, or what your body is like. there is no shortage of binders, buying a binder does not deprive a transmasc person from getting one.

cis women can wear binders! trans women can wear binders! you can wear a binder even if you don’t have anything there to bind!

i know more than one person who is closer to a cis woman than they are to anything else, who would sometimes like to not have boobs for the sake of certain outfits. that’s cool and they should get binders. binders are cool, and it is not appropriation to buy and wear one.

that all being said, if you’re cis and you’re gonna wear a binder, please do your best to avoid making it a tiktok trend that ignores and erases the history of binding by trans people. i think i would be very upset if binders became a commodity fashion item, devoid of meaning. binders are for trans people first, and cis people second. in a perfect world, it wouldn’t be that way, but we have seen what happens when the clothing and styles of marginalized people, particularly black people, are co-opted by their oppressors.[1] we should seek to first avoid that with all marginalized communities, and reverse it when it happens.

and of course, always bind safely if at all possible.

[1]: to be absolutely clear, i am not trying to say that capital co-opting war bonnets, durags, saris, or tā moko is the same thing as co-opting binders. the history is completely different. what i am saying is that the trans community is also vulnerable to having our culture co-opted and turned against us it has been with people of color.
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thoughts on cover me in leaves (2020)

10mg: Cover Me In Leaves Review
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cover me in leaves is probably, if i had to pick, the game that had the greatest effect on me. ever.

minecraft certainly shaped my life more than cover me in leaves, but not so much because of the game as because of the time i spent with it and who i spent it with.
cover me in leaves did it all by itself.

it was probably 2am. i was huddled up on my shitty desk chair, knees at my chest. it was the first summer of covid. it was hot in my house. i had a fan blowing at me, sitting on my desk. it was far too big to be there, but it was my only option.

"On bright minds, and the end of all things."
a wailing lament echoed across a frozen, snow-covered lake.

"And then we kissed."
it was all over from there. as soon as i clicked that dialogue, my fate was sealed. i no longer had any choice in the matter.

that sounds ominous, but i mean it in the best way. it took all of 10 minutes, but it felt like hours. cover me in leaves held my cheeks like a mother and whispered to me, "you have to live. whatever you do, it doesn't matter. you have to live."

i cannot possibly explain more. i'm 18, now. i'm going away to college come fall. i'm going to get a tattoo. "A leaf -- just a single leaf -- traced out on the soft side of my wrist."

p.s. i've spoken with elliot, the writer, a few times and she's absolutely lovely.

elliot herriman is on cohost here: @ellie. i don't know if the timeline in this is 100% accurate? i think a lot of people can relate when i say that march 2020 through like. june 2021 is a complete blur in my mind and it might have been later in the year that i played it first. but i can tell you for sure it was hot in my house.

 
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