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Moira (Aspera) 20s - She/It - 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇮🇦🇺 hiiii I like to draw nuns, gore and naked trans people. ANY MINORS READING I DEMAND U GO HOME AND TAKE CARE, here is not for u.

[srdcovka]

WHAT

[tonysopranoproskater69420]

[theauspolchronicles]

Coalition and One Nation's immigration policy will ruin Australia economically and paints a delusional, false, and subtextually racist idea about immigration.

The idea that migrants are unskilled economic opportunists who come here to take welfare is a lazy lie. Framing them as a drain or a burden is entirely the opposite.

Over 70% of Australia's migrant intake are on skilled visas. Over half of Australia's age care sector workers are migrants. Internationally qualified nurses make up about 20% of the nursing workforce (35% for aged care). We're facing a shortage of healthcare workers in the coming decade - which we literally CANNOT make up the shortfall without skilled visas. They're not taking away jobs from us - we need them to fill vacancies that cannot be filled otherwise.

Over 24% of the construction industry is made up of migrants, meaning a huge amount of the homes built in Australia are because of migrants. Again, there will be a skills shortage if we decrease immigration levels to the radically low amount that the likes of Angus Taylor and Pauline Hanson want.

Universities rely on foreign students fees to operate. If the Coalition listens to experts and doesn't cull the much-needed skilled labour visas then the easier option would be to cut down on foreign students, which would cause massive instability and financial damage to universities, cost the economy $55 billion and a loss of jobs and skills.

You may have noticed that during the height of the pandemic when Australia's overseas migration went into the negative that housing did not become cheaper. Migrants aren't causing the housing crisis. They're enriching Australia. They're contributing to the economy, they're building things, they're looking after the sick, they're not just doing vital jobs but creating jobs for the community.

But also: migrants are literally just people! Like everyone else! Not an abstract economic concept. These are real people's lives that are going to be negatively impacted by Coalition/One Nation policy and it's our duty as fellow human beings to stand up for the wellbeing of those who are powerless to protect themselves because they lack voting rights to keep right-wing racists getting into power and harming them.

The anti-immigration rhetoric is not about the economy. Any expert will tell you it's not. It's a racist dogwhistle designed to throw people who can't vote under the bus to win over the support of racist idiots who can vote, but don't bother to do any research into policy. It's lazy. It's cheap. It's damaging.

Fuck the Coalition/One Nation.

[elfsidian]

Cynder the dragon! for my inner child :>

[solarprominence]

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

[muzzlesbian]

While often different in practice, cissexism, transphobia, and homophobia are all rooted in oppositional sexism, which is the belief that female and male are rigid, mutually exclusive categories, each possessing a unique and nonoverlapping set of attributes, aptitudes, abilities, and desires. Oppositional sexists attempt to punish or dismiss those of us who fall outside of gender or sexual norms because our existence threatens the idea that women and men are “opposite” sexes.

Julia Serano, Whipping Girl

[praziluk]

sweatpants and tanktop is the lingerie of the proletariat

[druidshollow]

i thimk trans women and trans men and nonbinary people and everyone whos not cis should all love eachother forever and embrace eachother and listen to eachother and protect eachother. we should all be eachothers' shield

[soup-mother]

Paw patrol -> Copaganda

Bluey -> Imperialist apologia that serves to treat the colonial fiction of "Australia" as something charming and harmless

Moral of the story? You need to start killing dogs

[hagiomoto]

Israel is not an exception to history...it is the latest manifestation of white supremacist colonialism and imperial conquest.

[pink-cheese-puffs]

As an aboriginal australian myself, I really wish more people knew what happened here. Most people I mention to online, dont even know what an aboriginal australian is. Our history is awful. There is no words to describe what happened here. It was a wipe out. They tried to eradicate us. Our bloodline was so destroyed, there is no way to trace us completely by DNA anymore. Please people read and learn about what happened to us. And how to this day it is still affecting us.

[noneedtofearorhope]

this is a map of the languages of australia. it's estimated that there were over 250 languages before contact. you can take a closer look, and explore the rest of the world, here

Native Land is a resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life. We welcome you to our site.

[brofisting]

U.S. Catholic Bishops Launch Attack on Trans Healthcare; It’s Time To Fight Back

While headlines were giving the Catholic church hierarchy plaudits for symbolic gestures in support of immigrants and a papal lunch with tra

‘It’s a Nightmare’: The Human Toll of the Catholic Church’s Trans Healthcare Ban

Missing hormones. Canceled surgeries. Bureaucratic denials. Late last year the Catholic Church banned all trans healthcare across its sprawl

Quick summary on why this is significant:

There are many states (including states with progressive governments) where over 1/3 of all total available hospital beds/clinics/doctor office practices are in Catholic institutions (map here from 2020).

The ban is for all transgender healthcare: HRT, surgery, adults as well as children.

It is a new ban; many of these places previously provided trans healthcare and people have lost their coverage, often the only available coverage in their area.

The ban voted on by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, was passed with 206 in favor and 7 against, and they specifically quoted Pope Francis saying, "I want you to fight gender ideology, which is repugnant to the Bible and our tradition," as the reason why it was necessary.

More information on the Catholic Church being a huge driver of international transphobia can be found in Judith Butler's "Who's Afraid Of Gender?", chapter 2, "Vatican Views".

[largishcat]

jd vance getting called a moron is always funny but ☝️🤓 we can’t be forgetting the catholic church is literally evil

[todaysbird]

How are you celebrating?

(ft. Roseate Spoonbill)

[evergreensounds]

I'm celebrating by looking at this lithograph from Alexander Wilson's Birds of the United States. Thank you for asking

[euritsua]

[anguilliforme]

really big extra-large size moth found on malgana and nhanda country in wa if you even care

[romehbo]

a misogynistic society is so threatened by the concept of trans women - women that "had the opportunity" to be privileged men and chose not to - that they start making up privileges women have in order to explain why trans women exist. going into womens restrooms isnt a privilege, playing womens sports isnt a privilege, yet they present them as such to try and explain why trans women are women for nefarious reasons. a misogynistic society will never understand that trans women have no ulterior motive for being women

[hadesisqueer]

"Tattoos are becoming unpopular", "piercings are unpopular again", "keep your hair natural never dye it again, it's the trend now" literally fuck off I know what y'all are doing

[amyblue]

MAY (2002) dir. Lucky Mckee

[bearballing]

oh my gooooddddd fucking kill yourseeeeelllvvvveeesssss

[bearballing]

entire article makes me homicidal

Women's Olympic sports limited to biological females from 2028 - IOC

The women's category of Olympic sports will be limited to biological females from 2028, says the International Olympic Committee.

"this will keep out pretty much all intersex people and a lot of black women but oh well! btw men don't have any such test to go through"

[goldenzingy46]

[Image ID: A notification from the BBC. "Breaking News: Olympic women's events to be limited to biological females only from 2028 games" /End ID]

[bearballing]

tags from @librarycards:

#has anyone mentioned how this opens up every woman competing to even more sexual abuse than #she would have most likely already experienced in the process of elite athletic training? #like any woman who wants to compete is being told that the price of going to the olympics is being molested like #this is a structural component that is now part of the rules #misogyny#transmisogyny#sexual abuse#we need to talk about these 'exams' as sexual violence bc they are

[charnel-grounds]

Julia Soboleva, “Self consuming attraction to light,” 2024