Cozy Storm

27/She/her - - - o/ Doors Open!

[therapatical]

okay, I think it's time to start collecting responses for this

Social Disposability

The queer community is far from immune to injustice, anti-Blackness, racism, fatphobia, ableism, sexism, intersexism, misogyny, etc. and tho

[sumikatt]

Kerry Guinan

Artists, 2019

Series of six blank canvases (70x70cm) signed by the factory workers that made them in Daler Rowney, Free Industrial Zone, La Romana, the Dominican Republic.

Images: Photograph of 3 canvases from the series in the solo exhibition 'Our Celestial Sphere' at Pallas Projects, Dublin, 2019.

Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Limerick Institute of Technology, and Fingal County Council. Images: Pallas Projects/Studios & Kerry Guinan.

(Original caption from artist’s website)

Series of six blank canvases (70x70cm) signed by the factory workers that made them in Daler Rowney, Free Industrial Zone, La Romana, the Do

And after contacting the Irish Museum of Modern Art and being referred to a curator (!), they provided me with the caption information that was used when displaying the work for the Staying With The Trouble exhibition in 2025 (thank you so much IMMA staff!!)

Artists is a series of blank, square canvases, each signed by a staff member in the manufacturing facility that produced the canvases in the La Romana Free Trade Zone, the Dominican Republic. The manufacturer, Daler Rowney, is a popular supplier of art materials in Ireland. The artist coordinated the project remotely by contacting the facility manager. The signatories volunteered to take part in the project upon invitation. They are Johan Rivera, Carlos Roa, Aneury Rondon, and Orlando Saldivar.

Anyways, I’d spent about the last 6 hours of my life trying to find out this information after some discussion on artist supply chains came up on the dashboard. Hope you enjoy the work as much as I do.

[celestial-fang]

Does my sculpture go hard so far

[1-rain-1]

*Scrolling through my own blog* This freak has good taste

[1-rain-1]

The other evening I tripled the number of genders and people I've had sex with, and doubled the number of genders I've had sex as.

Never kill yourself

[1-rain-1]

Thinking about the time I went into a women's portapotty and my coworker said to me "you're gonna go into the women's?" as if the plastic shit house peers deep into my being and knows of my crimes

[1-rain-1]

I forget sometimes that this is how the people around me see gender.

Not just as this real, biological, ontological facet at the core of humanity but as if drawing the very word "women" on a piece of paper with a Sharpie and sticking it on a door makes the space behind it intrinsically feminine.

[1-rain-1]

Like gender is some cosmic force and pushing against its boundaries is... strange, and alien if not outright Wrong.

[1-rain-1]

My guy, it's just a portapotty.

[1-rain-1]

The other day I was in a new place, chatting with a new person as we walked to the bathroom. When we get to the doors I hesitate, already doing the calculus on which door to enter.

How progressive is this space? How progressive is she? What does she see me as? Will my choice change how she looks at me? What if I choose wrong? Before I resign myself to the same decision I always make, she goes

"Something I've learned about this place is that anyone can use the men's bathroom but only people who identify as a woman can use the women's"

And... what a clever framing and phrasing - offering an opportunity to self identify while making it clear that making one decision isn't necessarily a rejection of the other.

Sheepishly I responded "... what if I identify as a woman?"

She asks "Do you want to come in with me?" and shepherds me in.

[mellointheory]

Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.

[the-haiku-bot]

Who makes the porn bots.

Where do they come from. What do

they hope to achieve.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[mellointheory]

and what about you, little haiku bot? do you feel kinship with your brethren? do you understand them? they speak words of enticement and seek love, but are met with disdain. you only parrot the words that cross your screen, but we all love you. or rather, since all you do is reflect us, maybe we simply love ourselves through you.

do you understand them, do you wish you could speak to us like they do? if you found your own voice, would we still care for you?

[the-haiku-bot]

My voice repeats what

you all say: I love you I

love you I love you.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[solkorolevaa]

[thenewborndeity]

This. This is the first time. The only time. That it was not an echo. It was not found. Oh god.

[russenoire]

GO HARD OR GO HOME.

[omtai]

there is nothing lemon squeezy about any of this

[kittenscratches]

But trans men are female. That’s why we’re trans. Sex and gender are different. Female and women are different.

Uh no. No we aren't. Maybe some transmascs identify as such. But no, trans men at large are not female. This is also disgustingly transmisogynistic and intersexist.

[1-rain-1]

This one's so... soupy. It feels like anon is hitting on something interesting that I think is worth dissecting a little further.

Sex and gender are different, but both categories are equally socially constructed. Compared to the deeply abstract 'gender', "Male" and "Female" feel more concrete. Gender is this thing that you do and you embody, but sex is this thing that you physically are.

It grounds itself in biological realities like genetics but in reality the boundaries between the sexes are as arbitrary as the boundaries between genders.

I think on its own this wouldn't be so bad. No one is denying biological realities, but sex categories are still so deeply intertwined with gendered categories that they inevitably carry all the same baggage.

Saying all trans men are female is intersexist because it doesn't account for the blurry reality of physical biological characteristics. You can only say that if you pretend that the people who don't fall neatly into "male' or "female" don't exist.

I'm less able to articulate why it's transmisogynistic, so anyone please feel free to correct me. I think it's because it's not all that different from the garden variety conflation of sex and gender that's already so common, and is being aimed at trans men. It's still enforcing this rigid binary. It's denying people their right to self identification because you think you know more of their ontology than they do.

[kittenscratches]

Yeah, that's exactly it. Sex is also a completely mutable characteristic. I've been on HRT for a decade. If I'd also had top & bottom surgery, there would be nothing to even place me into the category of "female". Even now without surgery, my genetic makeup is not that of someone "female". And also, these types of categories are truly arbitrary as much as gender is. It's also truly just much easier to say "I have these types of characteristics", like we do with every other biological difference (eye colour, hair colour, height, etc etc etc) than to try to broadly squish everyone into a category based on them. Saying someone is "female" is as arbitrary as making up something called "blargle" and saying "everyone with green eyes is blargle".

Also, it's transmisogynistic because the other implication is that if trans men are female that would imply that trans women are male, which is obviously also untrue for all the reasons stated above. But yea that's also transmisogyny

[kittenscratches]

But trans men are female. That’s why we’re trans. Sex and gender are different. Female and women are different.

Uh no. No we aren't. Maybe some transmascs identify as such. But no, trans men at large are not female. This is also disgustingly transmisogynistic and intersexist.

[1-rain-1]

This one's so... soupy. It feels like anon is hitting on something interesting that I think is worth dissecting a little further.

Sex and gender are different, but both categories are equally socially constructed. Compared to the deeply abstract 'gender', "Male" and "Female" feel more concrete. Gender is this thing that you do and you embody, but sex is this thing that you physically are.

It grounds itself in biological realities like genetics but in reality the boundaries between the sexes are as arbitrary as the boundaries between genders.

I think on its own this wouldn't be so bad. No one is denying biological realities, but sex categories are still so deeply intertwined with gendered categories that they inevitably carry all the same baggage.

Saying all trans men are female is intersexist because it doesn't account for the blurry reality of physical biological characteristics. You can only say that if you pretend that the people who don't fall neatly into "male' or "female" don't exist.

I'm less able to articulate why it's transmisogynistic, so anyone please feel free to correct me. I think it's because it's not all that different from the garden variety conflation of sex and gender that's already so common, and is being aimed at trans men. It's still enforcing this rigid binary. It's denying people their right to self identification because you think you know more of their ontology than they do.

[superhelldeactivated]

I've realized recently that every time I'm asked for socials my response is sorta "oh i don't have twitter" "I'm not on Instagram much" "i uninstalled TikTok a few months ago" and this has led people into believing I'm just someone who doesn't do social media but in reality you can find me in here lets get it on cunts monday through shawty like a melody sunday, 9am to 12am, posting blorbo.

[televisionenjoyer]

I was going to be like "well that certainly was not true cause you deactivated" and then I looked at the blog and. that's literally my old blog.

[fullmetalfisting]

Okay okay we all know Johnny cash did his cover of Hurt and we were all like “ok he owns that now” but I watched the music video he made and I’m like “oh he OWNS it owns it”

[fullmetalfisting]

It’s totally wild to me because most people agree that Trent Reznor is a master of his craft and Hurt is considered one of NIN’s best songs. Imagine having this great hit and 8 years later a musical legend who hasn’t done anything great in a long time and is ostensibly dying takes your song and fucking. Just fucking obliterates you

[wrenchinator-central]

Taken from the Wikipedia page. Even Trent Reznor said it's not his song anymore.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

in case you hadn't seen

[anais-ninja-bitch]

in my notifications again. good for the soul to watch.

[wifehaver103947]

imagine cloth mother and wire mother in family court competing for custody of the baby monkey

[clothmotherofficial]

I Have Softness For You

[officialwiremother]

i have milk for you

[babymonkeyofficial]

Stop.

[kingsolomonofficial]

Cut the baby monkey in half

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I think it's really funny how the practice of bleeping out profanity is not only completely ineffective as a censorship tool, it's had the opposite effect of creating an environment where it's ridiculously easy to edit apparent profanity into footage that doesn't actually contain it. Like you can just grab any audio or video clip and bleep out anything and people will automatically mentally insert profanity in there it fucking rules.

[kyleblackpaw]

my favorite example of this is the count's song from sesame street where they censor the word "count"

[alteredpanel]

what defines 'you' and 'me' can always change! we aren't stuck in place

[herpsandbirds]