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by debbiekewish

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

ceevee5

sizvideos

This campaign defies censorship in social media to raise awareness for early detection of breast cancer

iamanemotionaltimebomb

this is actually super fucking smartass of them

snake-lady

Reblogging as this is so important everyone! My mum had breast cancer and that shit is not nice so please check yourself ladies and gents! 💕💕💕

tkthegoddess

Always a reblog. 💋

lyra-invisa

I will forever reblog this when I see it because its so important

enba-and-luka

mokopirirakaugalaxias

we have more than two green parrots.

We have Kea, Kākā, Kākāpō, and Kākāriki (of which there are 3 species).

Kākā are more olive brown than green but are really neat and beautiful birds and are growing in numbers thanks to conservation efforts.

Kea are mostly green with red underwings and b will pickpocket you, but then again so will weka. The bit about them stopping traffic is absolutely true - I have a friend who has witnessed this.

Kākāpō are, in the words of my ecology professor, “really bad at being parrots”. They suck, but endearingly so. They are so bad at being alive and climbing things and reproducing but you cannot help but love them. Again, they are green, but in a shambling moss pile sort of way.

Kākāriki are much smaller and are kept as pets internationally. The three kinds are the red crowned, the yellow crowned and the orange fronted. Of these, the latter is the rarest (currently critically endangered).

There are also several other species endemic to various outlying islands. We have, in total, nine surviving endemic parrot species and several subspecies of those.

If you see ANY of these at all, regardless of whether or not they pickpocket you, all of them are are very cool and very worthy of respect.

many-bees

Kakapo is the one that tried to mate with a reporter's head and kea is one with hundreds of videos of it destroying cars online

lummox-exe

god I love this country

transfemmerobinbuckley

ronance will always be the biggest fumble in television history. like u had maya hawke and natalia dyer ready to kiss eachother and you just. didn't let them?

sneakysnek1123

Can we be nicer to people who are on the aro/ace spectrum who aren’t aroace please? Aroallos and alloaces and aplatonic folk and cupioromantics and those who want queerplatonic relationships and those who don’t and aros who date and aces who have sex and people who don’t fall on the “sex-favourable to sex-repulsed” line because they feel like it doesn’t describe them well enough and greyromantics and demisexuals and those in polycules and selfshipping communities and those who fight for aro/ace visibility and those who don’t and those who haven’t fully come to terms with their identity yet and this community is such a beautiful place can we see it beyond “uwu innocent aroace doesn’t know what sex is” please god I am begging you

hopecel

Will it be the same?

When you build your family

With your next enemy

Tell me who'll be next to blame

Or could it be the start

Of something beautiful for you

Where you can see it too

Either way we’d be apart

Either way it would break my heart

animentality

fuckyeahchinesegarden

Siguniangshan, Sichuan Province, China (photos by 哇塞好厉害)

cardboardlife

Hot weather drawings

cardboardlife

In case you didn't already know.

paranormal-paracosm

Humans should cuddle pile. It’s actually CRAZY that we don’t cuddle in groups for warmth or comfort like so many other species do. What do you MEAN sleeping together is only for monogamous sexual couples?? We’re biologically coded to DIE in infancy if we aren’t held. We need to be held more. This is so stupid.