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A blog about chronic illnesses and social justice. A very bi, neurodivergent, physically disabled, non-binary, Jewish college student. (Side blog, but basically a personal blog) I queue everything.

[charl0ttan]

my big tip is if you think you might be trans but a relationship is keeping you from transitioning it is always worth it to just break up with them/burn the bridge. i officially Realized i was trans in october 2021 but i was so obsessed with my partner at the time, who didnt want me to transition, and also scared of not actually being Trans Enough that i stayed with them until june 2022. the relationship wasnt even good by that last year or so i was just so scared of the unknown. i was so scared. but everything you want is on the other side of fear. my transition has been the most beautiful era of my life. ive become a happier person, someone im happier to be, warmer and kinder. being happy does wonders for your personality, and transition does wonders for your mood. its all hand in hand. it can happen to you. just break up with them. heart

[bad-able-bodied-advice]

My pal sent me this and I wanted to add on that it is totally worth losing the relationship over. My ex-spouse of several years is divorcing me because I’m trans. It’s scary to lose someone that has been so central to your life for so long, but it is so worth it. I love being trans, I love being on HRT. I am so much happier not wondering about the what-ifs on if I could transition or how I could I live pretending to be cis just to stay in my marriage. You are worth so much more than a relationship. Someone who doesn’t encourage you to find your best self is not someone you should be with.

[magical-girl-coral]

One day I will let this go but it is insane how Jews nowadays say "my political take is that I don't want my entire family and I to die" and the general response was "god, you're so fucking selfish. this is exactly why your entire family and you deserve to die"

[homochadensistm]

"If I was a German in the 1940s I.." girl ur an antisemite in the 2020s its ok u didnt miss ur shot!

[meangirlnurse]

hot take but sometimes Struggling To Focus and Do Things disorder will make you Struggle To Focus and Do Things in a way that not everyone else can fix for you

like i am very significantly impacted by my ADHD, i'm sympathetic to this experience. but whether it's fair or not, having this disorder will sometimes inherently make you have a harder time with things even with reasonable accommodations.

and yes, sometimes that's going to mean that we fail at higher rates than people without ADHD. it sucks!!!! but it doesn't mean that it's everyone else's fault

[shenanighenz]

Ok but why are they failing? What are the reasonable accommodations that are being offered? Are they being offered equally? Are the accommodations being enforced? Like I get what you’re saying but are we actually at a point where we can say students are getting reasonable accommodations across the board? That we can say the faculty can do no better? Are the test they are supposed to pass make people better professionals?

In a perfect world I would agree with you but this isn’t a perfect world and our institutions that are failing these kids aren’t exactly putting out the best either

[meangirlnurse]

this post isn’t an evaluation of every individual’s personal situation as opposed to a general statement about living with ADHD.

hence the word “sometimes” being used no fewer than three times in the above post….

[bad-able-bodied-advice]

I work in disability services (as an autistic person) for a university and a common misconception that we see is that people think accommodations at the higher education level are success-based, meaning they’re put in place to make you successful. That’s true of K-12 schools in America (if implemented correctly) but not true of higher education. Accommodations at the higher education level are purely access-based, meaning it’s to make sure you have the same access to participate as others. It’s up to you to determine the level of success you have with said accommodations (and often relies on utilizing other non-accommodation resources like tutoring, student learning centers, etc.).

[slangtasy]

“Gay sex life, unlike straight sex life, is never a private matter. When a man and a woman walk hand in hand, it is their love that they make public. When two men walk hand in hand, it is their sex life that they make public… Our words are acts; our privacy is public. This reality stems from the nature of homophobia.”

—

Rabbi Steven Greenberg

“Wrestling with G-d and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition” (2004)

[doberbutts]

"men don't need to be afraid walking around at night"

Unless they're black

"men make more than women in jobs"

Black men make less than white women on average

"men don't get followed around by people who mean them harm"

Black men are heavily policed and regularly jumped and killed for just walking down the street

"no one tells a man what he can and cannot do with his own body"

Black men are repeatedly assaulted and have their hair forcibly shaved or cut for wearing their hair natural and in culturally important styles. Black men who choose body modifications like tattoos or piercings are branded as thugs. Black men who have children and black men who don't have children are both regarded as players, hounddogs, absent fathers, and baby daddies, as if the logical answer is that no one's first choice of partner and father of their children would ever be a black man.

"no one judges a man's worth based on his clothes"/"a man isn't ever in danger no matter what he wears"

Black men are required to look presentable and professional according to eurocentric standards, push themselves into clothes not made for their bodies, and be highly uncomfortable in their daily lives or else risk 'fitting the profile' or 'matching the description' and getting detained by police AT BEST for the crime of existing in public. Black men wearing comfortable clothes are seen as sloppy, thugs, gangsters, street rats, hood and ghetto.

"no man fears rape"

The rape and sexual assault of black men ties directly to black buck stereotypes and black fetishization to the point where liking a black person or having your dating pool be open to black people is treated like a sexuality much like being gay. People are both threatened by and aroused by our bodies and that leads them to perform extreme acts of violence on us, including rape, SA, coercion, trafficking, and more. Much like how "tranny" and "lesbian" is a porn category, so is Big Black Cock. Sometimes with us featured as the rapist. Sometimes with us featured as the victim. Almost never with us featured as intimate, passionate, loving, tender. Black men are either to be feared and reviled, or to be broken and forced to submit. Direct ties to slavery with white people still getting off to our suffering.

Just say you don't care as much about black people's suffering and go, jesus.

I have privilege because I sometimes pass as a man? Try walking in my shoes for a while. Turns out being a black man vs being a black woman isn't always so different.

[doberbutts]

I do think it's really interesting that I have a lot of black butches and trans mascs on this post verifying in their tags that yes they've lived both as 'black woman' and as 'black man' and 'black man' is really not the improvement it's advertised to be and in the mean time I have also a bunch of nonblack people and especially white europeans saying this post is stupid and no one who agrees knows anything about what it's like to be a black woman and I'm just wondering out of the two options who do you think is more knowledgeable about what black people go through? 🤔

[doberbutts]

My nephew was 6 years old when his mother sat him down and explained to him very plainly what happens to black boys and black men who are out at night.

Both of my parents worked in education. My white (passing) mother was a special ed teacher in a middle school. My father was her district's administrator. She was paid more than him. Significantly. They both have Master's Degrees.

My nephew was 13 when Trayvon Martin was killed. His mother asked him to please make sure he came home before the streetlights came on, and if he couldn't make it to not wear a hoodie and certainly don't wear it up. No matter how cold.

My nephew and my father were both pinned down and had their afros shaved/ruined by teachers, people they should have been able to trust. My nephew, my cousins, and more than one of my uncles have had the same happen to their locs. When my mother became pregnant very early in my parents' marriage, no one believed that she actually *wanted* to marry my dad but that she'd accidentally become pregnant and married him to not be ashamed. When my parents adopted my sister who is much darker skinned than my other sister or myself, the assumption was that she was a child from one of dad's previous marriages (he's only ever been married to one woman: my mom) and that my sister was only there because of a custody battle. The first time my dad came to pick me up from school, the office refused to let him in the building and called the police on him for trying to abduct me, because everyone knew my mom was white and the logical conclusion of a black man picking up his black/mixed kid from school was that he was a kidnapper and not that he was my fucking father.

My father arrived home late one night after flying in from Japan and was understandably in comfortable clothes after being exclusively in suits in Japan in the middle of summer for 6 months. Our neighbor saw him pull into the driveway, let himself in the back door... and called the police saying a black man in a hoodie was breaking into our house. We'd lived there at that point for more than a decade. My nephew and I have been followed around in stores for wearing beaters and basketball shorts in the middle of summer. My cousin was harassed by cops while sitting at the bus stop because he had his hood up and was listening to music on his ipod. My uncle was cornered by airport security and ended up missing his flight because someone gave a 'tip' that he 'looked suspicious' in his jeans and a t-shirt.

Every single one of my older black relatives, male and female, have been raped. Every single one. Some of the younger ones too.

This is not a 'what if' post. This is not a 'higher discussion of systemic violence' post. This is a 'stop erasing the experiences of black men because you think there is no way on earth a black man can suffer outside of [just racism]' post.

[doberbutts]

Once again black people are always the authorities of their own experiences and I think anyone who questions this post should read what multiple MULTIPLE black butches and trans mascs have been saying that their lives did not gain privilege and actually frequently became dangerous in ways they didn't expect when they started being read as black men.

A frequent thing I say to my nonblack friends is 'I'm too black for that'. My black friends don't even ask me to do these things. My nonblack friends don't get why my race and perceived identity affects what I'm willing to do in public.

[autumnyte-old]

When I was younger, I wish someone had told me straight-up that not all adults experience “a calling”. That many of them never find particular purpose in a career. That sometimes, their job is just what pays the bills and they have to seek satisfaction and fulfillment elsewhere. 

Because as an adult, this pervasive notion that there exists a perfect path for everyone, that people should love what they do, and that work is meant to function as a vehicle for fulfilling a person’s grand life destiny is not only inaccurate for many of us, it can be toxic.

The ideal is so ingrained that I have to remind myself constantly I’m not a failure because I don’t adore my job, and because I’m not rocking the world with my work. That is okay. 

Sometimes, work is just work. There isn’t always a perfect career path, magically waiting to be discovered. There might not be this THING you were born to do. Sometimes, you discover that what you really want to be when you grow up is “paid”.

[stayingmachine-moved]

and something else: your career doesn’t have to be your calling. you can do what you love (writing, music, drawing, knitting) as a hobby. it doesn’t have to pay the bills. it’s okay to do an office job and then go home to your hobby. there are different paths to passion.

[didyoumeanxianity]

Your friendly Black History Month reminder that Black Jews are JEWS.

Born Jews, Jews by choice, Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Ashkenazic, Sephardic, Mizrahi, Israeli, diaspora…they are an integral part of all of our communities and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.

We still have work to do as a community to uplift Jewish POC, particularly Black Jews, but to my Black Jewish friends out there know that I see you and I will keep trying to do the work.

Happy Black History Month. ❤️

[irenydraws]

so quite a lot of people expressed interest in a guide to lion dance! and since the lunar new year is coming up in a couple weeks, which means everyone’s exposure to lions is probably going to increase, i figured i’d go ahead and make it! right click + open in new tab to fullview, etc etc, i hope it’s helpful, although if you only take one thing away from this powerpoint, it’s this: lions are not dragons

disclaimer: i learned fut san style at an american university, and the senior members of the troupe were almost all from hong kong and taiwan, so most of my knowledge is drawn from what they taught me. lion dance varies widely depending on the style and the country of origin, and many schools do things differently! this is just an attempt to establish a baseline and give you a really basic intro to one of my favorite art forms. :)

[flappyhappystim]

FlappyHappy is a small business that has been started. It is run by autistics. Our goal is to make stim toys affordable and accessible to those that need them.  Many places that sell stim toys are focused on the needs and experiences of parents of young autistic children.  Here at FlappyHappy, autistic needs and voices are centred over caregivers. Our stim toys are also great for people living with trauma, ADHD, chronic pain, anxiety, or other needs! 

As a small business, we could use your help to get the word out and get started. 

If you can’t afford to purchase from our shop, you can still help by tagging us in social media (the links to all of them will be at the bottom of this post). You can also help us by sharing our social media posts whether that be on our Tumblr platform or other ones like Twitter, Facebook and TikTok. 

A lot of our success will depend on being able to get the word out. 

We will be using the proceeds of sale to expand our product line to bring you a variety of quality, affordable stim toys. 

Links here:

Our Website | Our Facebook | Our Twitter | Our TikTok | Our Instagram

[flappyhappystim]

I forgot to put this in the post but we do offer free shipping on orders of $50 CAD or over worldwide :)

[traumasurvivors]

This is the business my friend and I have started. We are trying to make stim toys affordable for those who need them. A lot of people keep asking about Stimtastic and you can really help us by mentioning us. You can also help us by reblogging our posts, or tagging us on social media. We started with ten products and we now have 15 with more on the way. Any profits we get are going into expanding our products so that there’s more variety for everyone’s needs.

[flappyhappystim]

Thank you to everyone who has shared. We appreciate it so much! Please keep sharing because your efforts are paying off. We’ve now added another product to our site and two new ones are coming within the next week!

[theselfcarelifestyle]

Fantastic!!!

[sixtynineinchnails]

heyo! here’s a list of all the brands owned by Nestlé, Mars, and Hershey

Nestlé:

Cerelac (baby food)

Gerber (baby food)

Naturnes (baby food)

Nestlé Pure Life (drinks)

Perrier (drinks)

S. Pellegrino (drinks)

Blue Bottle Coffee (drinks)

Nescafé (drinks)

Nescafé Dulce Gusto (drinks)

Nespresso (drinks)

Starbucks Coffee At Home (drinks)

Milo (drinks)

Nestea (drinks)

Nesquik (drinks)

Carnation (drinks/dairy)

Coffee-Mate (drinks/dairy)

Nido (drinks/dairy)

La Laitière (drinks/dairy)

Cheerios (cereal)

Fitness (cereal)

Lion (cereal)

Nesquik Cereal (cereal)

Aero (confectionery)

Cailler (confectionery)

KitKat (confectionery)

Milkybar (confectionery)

Toll House (confectionery)

Smarties (confectionery)

Quality Street (confectionery)

Orion (confectionery)

Nestlé Les Recettes de l’Atelier (confectionery)

Dreyer’s (ice cream)

Extrême (ice cream)

Häagen-Dazs (ice cream)

Mövenpick (ice cream)

Nestlé Ice Cream (ice cream)

Buitoni (food)

Herta (food)

Hot Pockets (food)

Lean Cuisine (food)

Maggi (food)

Thomy (food)

Stouffer’s (food)

Chef (food)

Chef-Mate (food)

Minor’s (food)

Sjora (food)

Boost (nutrition)

Nutren Junior (nutrition)

Peptamen (nutrition)

Resource (nutrition)

Alpo (pets)

Baker’s Complete (pets)

Beneful (pets)

Beyond (pets)

Cat Chow (pets)

Dog Chow (pets)

Fancy Feast (pets)

Chef Michael’s Canine Creations (pets)

Felix (pets)

Friskies (pets)

Gourmet (pets)

Lucky Dog (pets)

Purina (pets)

Purina ONE (pets)

Pro Plan (pets)

Spillers (pets)

Mars:

3 Musketeers (confectionery)

Bounty (confectionery)

Dove/Galaxy (confectionery)

Life Savers (confectionery)

M&Ms (confectionery)

Mars (confectionery)

Milky Way (confectionery)

Snickers (confectionery)

Twix (confectionery)

Celebration (confectionery)

Ethel M. (confectionery)

Flyte (confectionery)

Maltesers (confectionery)

Munch (confectionery)

Revels (confectionery)

Topic (confectionery)

Treets (confectionery)

Flavia (drinks)

Ben’s Original/Uncle Ben’s (food)

Kind LLC/KIND Snacks (food)

Combos (food)

Dolmio (food)

Kudos (food)

Promite (food)

Tracker (food)

Seeds of Change (food(?))

CocoaVia (nutrition)

Eukanuba (pets)

Iams (pets)

Pedigree (pets)

Whiskas/Kal Kan (pets)

Catisfactions (pets)

Buckeye Nutrition (pets)

Cesar Canine Cuisine (pets)

Dreamies/Temptations (pets)

Crave (pets)

Dine/Sheba (pets)

Exelcat/Exelpet (pets)

Frolic (pets)

The Goodlife Recipe (pets)

Greenies (pets)

Chappie (pets)

James Wellbeloved (pets)

Nutro (Max, Ultra, and Natural Choice)(pets)

Royal Canin (pets)

Techni-Cal (pets)

Natura (pets)

Optimum (pets)

PrettyLitter (pets)

Advance (pets)

Chum (pets)

My Dog (pets)

Nature’s Table (pets)

Schmackos (pets)

Winergy (pets)

Mars Fishcare (API, RENA, AQUARIAN, PondCare) (pets)

and anything owned by the Wrigley Company:

5 (gum)

Airwaves (gum)

Altoids (confectionery)

Big Red (gum)

Doublemint (gum)

Eclipse (gum)

Excel (gum)

Extra (gum)

Freedent (gum)

Hubba Bubba (gum)

Juicy Fruit (gum)

Life Savers (confectionery)

Lockets (confectionery)

Orbit (gum)

Ouch!

Rondo (confectionery)

Skittles (confectionery)

Spearmint (gum)

Starburst (confectionery)

Tunes (lozenges)

Winterfresh (gum)

Hershey

Hershey Bar (confectionery)

Hershey’s Kisses (confectionery)

Reese’s (confectionery)

Brookside (confectionery)

Ice Breakers (confectionery)

Breath Savers (confectionery)

Jolly Ranchers (confectionery)

Twizzlers (confectionery)

Good & Plenty (confectionery)

York Peppermint Patties (confectionery)

Almond Joy (confectionery)

Payday (confectionery)

Bark Thins (confectionery)

Lily’s (confectionery)

Dagoba (confectionery)

Bubble Yum (gum)

Skinny Pop Popcorn (food)

Pirate’s Booty (food)

Dot’s Pretzel’s (food)

Paqui (food)

ONE (food)

it would be awesome if we could buy less from these brands, and encourage friends and family to do the same :)

instead of buying from these brands, try:

buying from local brands/small businesses

buy from store brands: most grocery and box store chains have their own food brands that are more affordable than other name brands

buy from brands you know make ethical choices

make things homemade (some of the items on this list are things you can find recipes for online and learn to make yourself)

[daloy-politsey]

[Images ID: An 18 part Twitter thread by Michael W. Twitty (@KosherSoul) that reads the following:

1) How does someone like me experience #Antisemitism? Anti-Jewish sentiments and behavior can reflect the different variants of people expressing their displeasure with Jews as a people, sub-ethnicities and as a sect of religious practices of cultural or social stances.

2) Wearing a kippa, having a beard or wearing tzitzit...or fringes intended to remind me to observe the commandments often signify my Jewishness but that's not the only way people might identify me as a Jew and treat me differently in a negative way.

3) I was slapped in a grocery store by a man who grinned as he said "oh sorry didn't see you there..." and my kippa fell off. I was so shocked I didn't know what to do.

4) A white woman called me a "kike" in a parking lot dispute and when I called her out on it, the cops threatened me with arrest for "escalating," for calling her anti-Semitic. They were Black and no help to a fellow brotha.

5) A former landlord demanded I let workers in and around on Saturday and demanded that I be there to let them in even though I reminded her it was Shabbat. The city gvt of Rockville. Md didn't care.

6) I was attacked on the metro by a large group of fundamentalist Christians and their children mocked me and attempted to spit on me and my prayerbook. They preached about how awful Jews were...over they figured out I wasn't Muslim. Nobody intervened.

7) People might think I am Muslim if I wear an African or Asian style kippa which might resemble the kuffi. I desperately needed to charge my phone at Union Station & a very rude older white man who worked there demanded to know what I was doing & he told me to get me "fuckn terrorist ass" out

8) Getting my ID for research at the library of congress...the woman taking care of me demanded to know why I was Jewish. She then said, "I bet you're a damn Republicans too..." and shook her head with pursed lips.

9) The first and last time I prayed at a station with my tefillin I had more than one person with a walkie talkie come up to me and ask what I "thought" I was doing and why I had strange things on me and if they were dangerous.

like you would you even bother to ask...

10) I mentioned during a presentation for the Folklike festival that the folks in my synagogue made the same dish but with different ingredients and context & the curator for food ripped the mic out of my hands & told the crowd they were misinformed & that it had nothing to do with the Jews

11) Antisemitic and Anti-Jewish in my world is having a cop pull us over on Tisha B'Av & hold a gun to my head, its being told not to "bring up that Jewish angle" or having an editor turn down The Cooking Gene because I mentioned I was Jewish & them telling me "America wasn't ready"

12) Its being harassed and questioned on the train about why I am not a Christian or people hoping that I'm really "Messianic." Or ppl thinking they are funny at work calling em "Little Amish boy."

13) Its having another landlord threaten you over building a Sukkah. Its having a kippa off and being perceived as just Black while some white dude talks about the "the fnn Jews..." are the problem behind everything...

14) Its being asked "Do you have to wear that here?" (Kippa)

Its people seeing this beard and a headcovering and experiencing intersectinal isht at an airport...

Its people questioning my Jewish identity because they only frame Jewish identity as one identifiable type.

15) Its saying "I'm Jewish," and having people burst out laughing.

That one...

They can't hide the fact that bc I'm not a caricature that they think I am ridiculous in my current incarnation as a complex and nuanced American.

It hurts really bad.

16) Its people coming into my social media saying "I heard you were a Zionist. Are you a Zionist? Explain yourself." I never said a word about the matsav but I say Jewish and they say that.

17) Its people assuming that Jewishness takes me out of my consciousness as a person of color. Its people assuming real Black ppl can be Christian or Muslim but not Jews. Its people trying to tell me what Jewishness is about to justify de-centering me as a Jew.

18) I 'm going to close it here. Shver tzu tzayn a Yid.

/end ID]

[politijohn]

Solidarity with Kroger workers

[osvobodi]

Romani Embassy is an ongoing installation and performance by Delaine Le Bas, conceived as an idea for Gypsy Revolution at HIAP Residency Suomenlinna Helsinki Finland in 2012, first embodied as performance for When The Fuel Runs Out People Will Need Horses in London June 2015. It is embodied within the artist and or within the space that the artist occupies.

As a community we have no “one homeland”, no one country, no one nation state as such. We are in many lands but never fully accepted, at any time we can be purged from the general population. We are an embodiment of an international population, we have many religions, we speak many languages and speak many versions of our own language. We have little self-representation politically and no Embassy anywhere to run to in times of trouble.

Romani Embassy is an information point, a living archive, an embodiment of reclaiming the stolen artefact that we have become.

It can morph in size, change its appearance, appear and disappear. It is not contained within one building, it is a moving, flexible structure. It is cardboard sign made on the move. It exists within real and virtual space and time. It can be one person, it can possibly be more. It can be a distribution point to question majority societies opinion and ongoing mistreatment of us. It can be a silent act of resistance. Romani Embassy is an ongoing performance, artwork, activism.

[will-o-the-witch]

There's been a lot of hubbub lately about Kabbalah being a "closed" practice, and saying that Christians/Pagans/other Gentiles shouldn't touch it because they don't know what they're doing. Anyway, local Jew here to share a helpful guide all about how to practice Kabbalah as a Gentile! Enjoy. :)

[frustratedasatruar]

#i knew roughly what it would be#but the actual image made me laugh

[meangirlnurse]

anyway. anti-vaxxers dying of COVID is really fucking funny

[meangirlnurse]

this really isn’t a criticism in that i don’t….particularly expect gentiles to understand my relationship to the Holocaust, but the idea that i would be excited or comforted to see myself in a Holocaust victim is so incredibly alien to me

i remember the unit in school where we read Anne Frank’s Diary and Elie Wiesel and some other Holocaust lit and i remember being distressed and agitated and, therefore, due to my personality, passively recalcitrant about all of it – i didn’t want to keep reading about genocide against Jewish people 

i do not feel pleasure in sharing space with a young woman who died in a concentration camp for being Jewish. i don’t have words for how viscerally i react to this, but thinking about it makes me feel like i’m choking  

[meangirlnurse]

which i guess is an angle on my discomfort with all this

because LGBT gentiles have generally reacted to the idea of Anne Frank being bisexual with excitement about being Represented, and have then accused me of trying to take Representation from Young LGBTs Who Just Want To Think Of Anne Frank As Someone Like Them

and i, in fact, have spent my entire life with the knowledge that Holocaust victims are Someone Like Me and have consistently reacted to that experience with distress 

[meangirlnurse]

i can’t stop thinking about how eager non-Romani gentiles are to picture themselves as Holocaust victims when i feel like i’ve been running away from exactly that since i was a child

[sailorbluemoon]

The difference is you have representation. Not all of it is good representation, not all of it is something you want to be associated with, but you have it. In fact, you have so much of it that you can cherry pick which representations of yourself you want to hold on to. Maybe not everyone has been nice to you about being Jewish, but no one tries to say you don’t exist.

LGBT+ people- specifically the non-LG identities- are told constantly that we DON’T EXIST. We’re a phase. We’re a newfangled trend. And what is happening now is the same thing we’ve heard every time we have proof that some historical figure was bi or trans or ace. “It was a different time. A different culture. They weren’t really LGBT. They weren’t like you freaks.”

We just want to exist and have people admit that we exist. We are desperate for any representation we can get, because we don’t. have. any.

We don’t grow up in LGBT families, going to LGBT religious and cultural activities, watching LGBT made media. A lot of us, myself included, grew up without knowing a single other member of the LGBT community. Maybe you wondered about Mr. Soandso, but you couldn’t ask and they would never tell. It wasn’t just a military order, it was the only way you stayed safe in a rural community.

And let’s not forget in the wave of pride that it is very dangerous to come out as LGBT. It’s still illegal for us to exist in some parts of the world. We get murdered at higher rates. We get kicked out of our homes, disowned by our families for admitting who we are. Is it really so shocking that we could feel a connection to someone who had to hide because of who she was?

I won’t claim to understand what it’s like to be Jewish and seeing holocost victims. But everyone we have to look up to was a martyr of police violence or a victim in the aids epidemic. And even within our own community, these people are denied as bisexuals regardless of the evidence. We’re trying really hard to flip the script so that the next generation can have something better. But first we have to get people to admit we exist. And for that to happen, we need people to stop erasing the LGBT status of historical figures.

I don’t want to be a part of some pissing contest about what minority group is more oppressed. Jewish people are absolutely facing a lot of oppression in modern society. But you have to understand that the forms of oppression are completely different, especially for the BT+ end of the acronym. We just want people to stop telling us we don’t exist.

[meangirlnurse]

wow thanks so much for your condescending explanation of what it’s like to be LGBT! it’s really interesting how you think Jews are so fundamentally Other that someone speaking about antisemitism couldn’t possibly also be LGBT (spoiler alert: I AM)

and just to be clear? “one third of your population were wiped off the face of the earth in a mass-scale genocide but at least you got ~representation~” is APPALLING rhetoric.

i have been reasonably polite to LGBT gentiles for days now but i just am absolutely reaching a breaking point with you all. FUCK YOU.

[meangirlnurse]

“maybe not everyone has been nice to you about being Jewish” yeah i guess it was a little mean when y’all murdered us for thousands of years. somewhat impolite, really!

[the-library-alcove]

“and just to be clear? “one third of your population were wiped off the face of the earth in a mass-scale genocide but at least you got ~representation~” is APPALLING rhetoric.” I want to cry.

[bad-able-bodied-advice]

“Is it really so shocking that we could feel a connection to someone who had to hide because of who she was?”

Anne Frank had to hide because she was Jewish…