wlwromance:

would just like to thank life for girls and pasta

fireable:

i hope everyone finds softness & love soon

punlich:

You know what’s interesting about Erasure/Hypervisibility dichotomy? 

It goes beyond the fact that no, hypervisibility isn’t a privilege, it’s not a privilege to be made into a target and to have your entire group slandered in the media and in society.

The really interesting thing is that hypervisible people are erased too? Hypervisible groups of vulnerable people are still erased, the erasure is present in the complete lack of any Real and Authentic depictions of those people. The erasure is present in how their/our voices are pushed aside and ignored, even about their/our own problems. How their/our presence and accomplishments are pushed aside in favor of feasting on their/our pain and suffering to assuage liberal vulture guilt and the roman holiday fascination with suffering this society has got.

Hypervisible groups (like say trans women) are simultaneously hypervisible and erased. Because the hypervisibility is of a constructed slanderous monster target, a strawperson, a caricature. Everything else, the reality of these people’s lives is erased.

So when invisible and erased groups complain about their erasure and claim that hypervisible groups are somehow in the green for “representation”, they’re ignoring the fact that there’s just as much erasure present for those hypervisible groups.

It’s just selectively erasing our humanity to leave behind a monster that’s easier for people to want to destroy.