#passing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #passing, aggregated by home.social.
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The One-Way Drop: Why a Drop of White Blood Never Made Anyone White
American race law rests on a piece of arithmetic no mathematician would sign: one drop of Black blood makes a person Black, and a flood of white blood makes nobody white. The formula runs in a single direction, and it has run that way for more than three centuries. Ask why the obverse rule never existed, why no statute, no census, no courtroom ever held that a drop of white blood confers whiteness, and you have asked the question that unlocks the whole machinery, because a rule that only works one way was never measuring what it claimed to measure. […] -
Turning 49 years old in late August, but feeling like 490
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In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I just choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to our world.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer
East of Eden, ch. 34 (1952)More about this quote: wist.info/steinbeck-john/84523…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #death #deathbed #humannature #loneliness #love #meaningoflife #mementomori #mortality #passing
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Rebecca Hall
English actress, director, producer has received several nominations for her acting roles including for her performances in the BBC series Parade's End + the 2009 film Vicky Christina Barcelona. She was also recognized for her directorial debut with Passing, based on the 1929 by Nella Larsen. Hall wrote the screenplay which was inspired by her own mixed-race heritage, and her African-American ancestors who passed as white. Her great-grandfather John William Ewing, had been born into slavery. After the American Civil War, he became a prominent figure in the black community of Washington, D.C.
I recently admired her performance in Peter Hujar's Day in which she plays writer Linda Rosenkrantz. She is absolutely One To Watch
#rebeccahall #passing #onetowatch #peterhujarsday #greatperformances #actor #director #actress #writer #film #filmworld
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A trans woman, not quite #passing, is at a café. She wears a off-the-shoulder top, showing bare shoulders and bra straps.
Someone: "Your bra strap is showing."
Trans woman: "I know. It's a reminder to everyone that I'm a woman."
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David & Allan, boomerang passing
David boomeranging in a club passing pattern with Allan, at Catch juggling convention 2018.
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https://tlmb.net/blog/david-allan-boomerang-passing/ #boomerang #Catch #clubs #convention #juggling #passing -
When thou dost hear a toul or knell,
Then think upon thy passing-bel.James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/84011/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #bell #death #deathknell #funeral #mortality #passing #proverb #tolling
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Comet to delight New Zealand stargazers, if it survives close encounter with the sun
The website earthsky.org reports that R3 will be at its closest to Earth on April 26, when …
#NewsBeep #News #Space #(month) #around #AU #Australia #chance #close #comet #could #delight #edges #encounter #Extraterrestrial #from #hurtles #If #it #New #Outer #passing #planet #Science #solar #stargazers #Sun #survives #system #the #this #To #visible #visitor #week #with #zealand
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/620393/ -
If I hear one more person say, “Well, as long as they’re passing, I don’t really care.” Really? YOU??? You’re the grand arbiter of all things someone else needs to do to their body in order to use a PUBLICLY PAID FOR throne room? REALLY????
https://medium.com/prismnpen/trans-people-shouldnt-have-to-pass-79be68b46cda?sk=d3ca0c68efc2035f7584240eeb164815 -
If you have to "pass" as a woman or a man for safety reasons then do so. It undermines nothing about your true nonbinary self.
The world is vast and often hostile. As a nonbinary person, the threats to your life are greater than many.
Do what you must to survive.
#NonBinaryPositivity #NonBinaryPride #NonBinary #passing #GenderBinary
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956. Bragging (Week 315 – Saturday; 3/21/2026)
My onion security system.https://breakfastclubtx.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/956-bragging-week-315-saturday-3-21-2026/
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#Passing is a myth. Or, rather, the concept that one exists in a state of passing or not is a myth.
I can be walking down the street certain that the leering eyes aren't clocking me. Ten minutes later a clerk accidentally misgenders me.
Consider that there are ~0% of the world I would "pass" for if I were naked in front of them.
Yet, also, even before I started my transition I would get people referring to me by she/her sometimes.
There's no point at which suddenly "you pass". There are always going to be situations where any trans women who's put in a modicum of effort will pass.
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I was trying to sort out an issue with an old account. The man behind the glass looked at my old statements, saw my old name — a distinctly male name — and then looked up at me. He looked utterly confused. He didn’t see a trans woman; he saw a woman holding a man’s paperwork.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/i-finally-passed-as-a-woman-it-broke-me-7428e38c586f?sk=79a8ea0259eaf0ba7a9148f30e1e31de -
Season 2 of #Frieren started airing yesterday 🎉
If you don't know about this wonderful anime, do yourself a favour an go watch it 😉
It's a pleasure to look at (drawings and colors are stunning) and, though it touches on the theme of grief and passing, it's really mostly a warm and cozy slice of life, with really nice and touching scenes about human relationships.
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hey chat #remember that you don't have to worry about whether or not you #pass! #gender roles are stupid!!!! if #passing is important to you, that's a-okay! but don't let #people pressure you into feeling like passing is the key aspect of your #identity. you don't owe anyone anything when it comes to how you outwardly present
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Tag beginnt mit:
Junge Frau, könnten Sie bitte meinen Einkaufswagen zurückstellen?
(trans* joy of #passing :neocat__w: )Tag endet mit:
Eine breitere Rezeption bzw. Anerkennung in der Kunstproduktion ist dem gegenüber abträglich, und riskiert mit ihrem wirtschaftlichen Erfolg den eigenen künstlerischen Stellenwert. Gleichsam verhält es sich mit dem gesellschaftlichen Status (Hierarchie) in Bezug auf die Rezeption: Je niedriger in der gesellschaftlichen Hierarchie, so auch der künstlerische Stellenwert. #Bourdieu
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You know, the thing about masking is that you are at a double disadvantage
In the first place, you are required to play by all sorts of rules, arbitrary, unwritten and changeable...none of which are your own
So there is never any real success except in dealing with whelm better so it doesn't take over.
You may do a good job faking it
Great, now you're a faker..AND stressed
Or more likely, that in addition to the stress.thst would be there regardless, the cracks in the mask separate you in a way to facilitate an atavistic alienation cycle
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I just heard that an old friend and colleague with whom I’d lost touch has died. There are lots of things to be said by people closer to them than I had become. But this person was kind, and classy, and creative. And by being all of that, they made the world, and so many other people’s lives, far better. If you know anyone like that, tell them so.
#inmemory #inmemoriam #absentfriends #tribute #tellthem #eulogy #elegy #sorrow #passing
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CW: USPOL
A fair obituary on VP Dick Cheney.
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Not sure how I feel about this news.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/dick-cheney-death-obit
I have plenty of conflicted feelings.
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