a gay mess

Courtney, 25, she/her. I like skam (&remakes), anything gay, dogs and music

[persianmom-deactivated20250117]

[epidemicpandamonia]

[baggebythesea]

Grieve AND organize.

Good article by David Hunter on how to survive the Trump presidency, both on the personal and on the political plane.

There is hope — 10 ways to be prepared and grounded for another Trump presidency

The key to taking effective action if Trump wins is to avoid perpetuating his goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

This is an excellent article. It talks about the psychology of tyranny, the history of resistance and the paths we have to take to rescue each other and recover.

[luulapants]

I rambled about this in tags on another post but I can’t emphasize enough how only focusing on large-scale issues WILL lead to hopelessness & burnout. Activism must include small-scale, achievable works. If you don’t have something you can get your hands around and look at directly, despair will eat you alive.

[luulapants]

I want to elaborate here for people who don’t think they’re capable of practical activism due to disability: what a LOT of volunteer groups need most is clerical and logistical support. Maybe you can’t get down to the river to pick up trash, but how about working the sign-up table? Or sending out email reminders or creating promotional graphics? How about making calls to the city to get funds for supplies?

Many volunteer groups rely on retired people to run their day-to-day functions, so as the economy worsens and retirement ages go up, charities are feeling the squeeze as their aging participants aren’t replaced. If you’re unable to work full-time due to disability but have the means to attend a zoom meeting once a month and take minutes, there’s an activist group that needs you. If you don’t have the financial means to donate to charities you care about, there’s a local advocacy group that needs help deciding how to allocate donation funds.

If you’re not sure how you or your disability can fit into a group, call and ask. My prison book group works from a basement that isn’t wheelchair accessible, so when I was unable to do stairs last year, I built them a database.

You can help and you are needed.

[beautiful-excuses]

Real sick of hearing that kamala didn't run a good campaign or should've done x y z better. She was running against an 80yr old convicted felon, rapist, racist etc etc, why on earth should she have needed anything more than a decent&normal campaign to beat THAT??

[nyancrimew]

no matter the outcome of this election: organize, build local community, build strength in masses. elections aren't the only time politics happen, it also happens on the streets, in the community and by mutually supporting each other.

the way forward is together. we build power from the ground up. in the US and everywhere else in the world.

a better world is possible and we can start building it now, by ourselves. anarchism starts in the now.

hack the planet

[nyancrimew]

ANARCHISM STARTS IN THE NOW

[toodotnil]

please enjoy Poki as he found the meat I'm defrosting

[nap-hime]

Oh defrosting meat, we're really in it now

[markv5]

[modern-politics111]

Infant deaths surge in Texas after abortion ban

The increase in deaths reverses a nearly 10-year decline.

[hachama]

So it can't get lost in reblog tags:

This article pulls zero punches. Incomplete list of potential triggers: miscarriage, medical neglect, loss of fertility, infant death, vomit, maternal trauma, mention of genetic and birth defects, and forced pregnancy.

The women named in this article have suffered, terribly, unnecessarily, because state law makers meddled in matters they didn't understand.

[xochihuacoyotl]

article published July 21, 2023

[cannibalchicken]

[cannibalchicken]

[varijacija]

[floorsalad]

[emwheezie]

IT'S ALMOST HALLOWEEN

[sebbgod]

Is he wrong, tho?

[uaeveggies-blog]

Pumpkin garden

[elizabethrobertajones]

If these all fell on you…. you… you’d….. get squashed……….

[beautiful-excuses]

Also, I'm so curious about how men seem so comfortable just watching women do housework?? My dad standing in the kitchen, watching my mom cook dinner. My boyfriend coming over trying to cuddle while I wash dishes. When I notice him doing something (rare), my instinct is always to offer to help, I feel almost rude to not join in, but it never seems like they have that

[beautiful-excuses]

Annoyed/confused/angry about the fact that men seem to think that saying "just tell me what you want me to do and I'll do it" is at all a decent answer when a woman says she's tired of doing all the housework. Completely missing the point! I don't want to have to instruct you to do things! I want you to just do them! Because we live here together and I'm not your mother/housekeeper?? Got so frustrated today that I cried because I'm feeling kinda sick and my bf still asked me what we're having for dinner. I don't want to have to respond to that "can you please make dinner because I don't feel well?" you KNOW I don't feel well, yet you still assume I'm going to make the food.... ended with me crying that I just wanted some bread and soup (from a can...) and him making it for me. But then, what would be a nice gesture is basically ruined by the fact that I had to spell it out and cry before he did it.... Like........ I don't get it. Maybe I just won't enjoy dating men, in terms of this being the level of care given. It seems like this is just *how it is*

[yourenotgettingthisusername]

[castledock]

Image description: a screenshot that reads the following;

“Nobody:

Girls that bullied goth kids in high school:”

Attached images are of Taylor Swift, a white woman with sunglasses, blonde hair, a black tank top reading “this is my fight song”, and green shorts. She is wearing a leather bondage harness. It is backwards.

[betazoidpantsuit]

my favorite genre of humor is alt text being just completely factual and somehow reading the image for filth

[dknightlight]

Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread