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Ägyptens neues Riesenmuseum: ""Gigantisch", "pompös" - und milliardenteuer

Nach langer Verzögerung wird heute das Grand Egyptian Museum bei Kairo eröffnet. Der monumentale Bau mit mehr als 100.000 Exponaten ist auch ein Denkmal für die ägyptische Regierung. Von Anna Osius.

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So, my beauties and handsomes and pulchritudinous enbies, and everyone else who thinks of themselves as trans in some way. It's Monday, and that's the day we specially pick to post to the hashtags and .

TransGEM is for your Trans-related Gender Euphoria Moments: the happy things that you experienced this past week from your gender.

It can be as small as "I got ma'amed by the cashier at my bank!" or "my chest hair started growing in!" or "I totally confused someone who was trying to guess my gender today!" It could be huge. Whatever made you happy.

The hashtag is specifically for everyone who isn't trans, or doesn't vibe with the trans label. So yes, you cis people, this one deliberately includes you. So think about it. What moments did you experience this week that made you feel good about your gender?

Women: did you get unusually listened to in business meetings by men? Or got a nice compliment from a stranger that made you feel good? Or just felt really pretty one day, or smart, or whatever makes you happy about being a woman?

Men: did you have a great workout and felt joy in your body? Did someone call you handsome and it felt good? Get your beard trimmed by a pro, feeling like you look your best?

Share your joy, my friends. Show everyone that cis people experience gender euphoria too, and that trans people's lives have regular moments of sheer happiness just from being ourselves.

@oldladyplays@wargamers.social avatar oldladyplays , to random

Alright, my loves, it's time for another day!

Share your Trans Gender Euphoria Moments under the hashtag , or if you're not trans/non-binary/two-spirit, under the hashtag .

Then follow the hashtags and enjoy the sweet, sweet joy that rolls in.

My GEM for this week is from last Thursday, when I stood at a Women of the Year awards ceremony to cheer for my friend who won in my category. She beat me, sure, but she's pretty amazing and I'm happy. But I, an out trans woman, was nominated for Woman of the Year in my city.

Come a long, long way in 33 years.

@oldladyplays@wargamers.social avatar oldladyplays , to random

I have a new idea, and I want your help to spread it. We are in need of something positive for our community. Something reminding us of what makes us who we are.

It's for tomorrow, really, but I want us to prep tonight so we're ready for it tomorrow.

Here's your prep work: think of something in your weekend that gave you gender euphoria. Anything. Whatever made you glad you are who you are, whatever gender or genders or lack of gender you are.

Now, initially, I'm thinking of calling this , for Trans Gender Euphoria Mondays. But if it catches on, I want there to be a bigger version of it, just called , which has room for anyone to post their Gender Euphoria Moments, whatever and whenever their (lack of) gender(s) brought them. But let's build the smaller version first, get people in the habit.

Can be something tiny. "I saw her in the mirror today for a moment."

"I found my first facial hair Saturday morning on my way to shul."

"Someone didn't know how to gender me yesterday!"

Could be something huge. Whatever. Just spread your joy, once a week.

We aren't defined by our suffering. Let us define ourselves by our joy. Let them know us for that, if nothing else. Let us all see what a huge range of experiences can bring this kind of joy to a huge range of people.

Boosts encouraged. Translation and adoption by other language communities too!

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“Time Alone 5”

Tall gray rectangle with multicolored pastel background & a faint image of mountains at lower left. Near center: giant shell pink 1960s clock with several thin colored rings around it. Two pink strips with moonstone-like oval shapes stuck to its left side. Trim: trio of three-sectioned green leaf cutouts and two additional rings.
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Colors suggest plastic “tortoiseshell” hair ornaments, hence the title. :)

Square, blotchy, bronze-yellow canvas. Big round cutout circles layered to make wiggly lines in more yellows and red-brown tones. Shapes suggest a pair of cartoon cats at center with paint-squiggled, slightly crossed gold eyes at top and bottom. Trim: big red-brown round stone at center and four fuzzy seven-pointed-star paint marks at the corners.
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    Fat horizontal rectangle with blue Lapis Lazuli background. Center has a three-section Medieval arched gold frame with a carved 1980s pearl-and-diamond mermaid figure with a curved gold tail. She faces right with one upraised arm. At upper right corner: the upside-down half-head of a young 1950s man looks at her. Behind the frame: a thin pink curved line resembling a cat’s or fox’s head and shoulders. Several segments of opaque text inset against it. Trim: several scattered diamond balls, three gold nuggets, and two swimming sardines. Main text below in white: “The big one that got away.”
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