If you exclusively focus on the hammercar explosion meme, you are missing the point, and you are making it easier for others to engage with this only from afar, where its funny and silly and comfortable
If you exclusively focus on the harassment devoid of its blatant transmisogyny, you are actively erasing our oppression from this conversation and how it disproportionately affects transwomen
Stop sharing memes and jokes about this as if they were separate from transmisogyny, as if this was just about a CEO taking looney tunes violence as a serious threat. It’s about him, staff and other users in here seeing a trans girl as a threat
I’ve already seen people move on, forget about this, and return to normalcy. It’s a mistake we’ve made before. Black people have talked about mass reporting and wrongful terminations being weaponized against them at great lengths and have done so for a really long time. They were targeted, harassed and wrongfully banned. They warned us. We didn’t listen and we didn’t do enough.
We have to continue to be as vocal as we can about this continued campaign of harassment and unfair treatment towards transwomen. It needs to stop. We need concrete changes in the reporting and moderating systems, as well as holding tumblr’s staff accountable for its actions, their silence and their lies
Please, take action now. For the sake of transwomen, for those who were unjustly terminated before us, and for those who could be harassed next
Choose care, kindness and love for your trans sisters. If you want to show your support, show it now. Don’t turn us into a joke
Take this seriously. Don’t let tumblr die. The livelihood and well being of a lot of transwomen depends on staying on this site. Be it because they are able to receive money from donations, commissions or sex work, and/or by having a safety net in the form of our communities and close friends in here
We have made and met friends, lovers and partners in this site. Don’t let them take that away from us too. Some of us have a long history here, some have accounts that are more than a decade old. Some people have had those blogs terminated and completely wiped
Show support, reblog our posts, amplify our voices, keep talking and posting about this, demand change, and don’t fall into indifference and despair. Don’t be comfortable with our erasure. Have conviction and continue to take action