Benjamin

He/him🏳️‍⚧️, Page of Heart, Heart-Player Enjoyer

[kianamaiart]

Ceasefire In Gaza NOW!

Resources and action items to call for an end to the violence in Gaza.

[scarecrows-of-roses]

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Image 1: A watermelon slice with the words "Free Palestine" written in red capital letters underneath.

Image 2: A four-square table from the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement with the heading "Act now against these companies profiting from the genocide of Palestinian people"

Square 1 is labelled "Consumer boycott targets" with logos for Puma, Carrefour, Siemens, HP, AXA, Soda Stream, Re/Max, Ahava, and a Palestinian flag that says "Boycott Israeli Goods"

Square 2 is labelled "Divestment targets" with logos for Elbit Systems, JCB, HD Hyundai, Volvo, CAT, CAF, Barclays, Chevron, HIK Vision, and TKH Security.

Square 3 is labelled "Pressure (non-boycott) targets" with logos for Google, Amazon, AirBnB, Booking.com, Expedia, and Disney.

Square 4 is labelled "Organic boycott targets" with the logos for Domino's Pizza, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's, Burger King, and Wix

/End ID] Some of these have changed since posting! For example, Chevron is now also considered a consumer boycott target. Texaco and CalTex has been added to that list as well. Here is the BDS movement website, so we can stay updated! :) Their website also explains the difference between each of these categories, and the reason why each of these companies is a target.

https://bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Against-These-Companies-Profiting-From-Genocide

[yamujiburo]

I didn't mention here, but it's strike week once again (18th-25th) and I've been limiting any social media usage outside of uplifting Palestinian voices and boosting resources and I encourage you all to do the same! Double down on those boycotts, donate if you can, call your reps! This is the least we can do 🍉

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[helenvaughans]

likes to charge, reblogs to cast

[mudaship3]

Happy fucking pride Jonathan was murdered for being queer AND native It was a hate crime His death wasn’t by natural causes Jonathan Joss being queer and also native is a big thing as to why he was targeted in a hate crime That’s being left out of this conversation by non natives esp white non natives right now We know why They erasing that part of this During pride and indigenous month no less too His queerness and being indigenous are linked in this

“Why was he living in Texas In the South We didn’t he move to a blue state?” He was a Comanche Native in Texas He was already fucking home I know what white people are doing in posts like these But natives queer people Black people disabled people and people of color also live in the fucking south Where is that meme about white people acting like the north doesn’t also have bigotry cuz they have pizza ovens Happy fucking pride Remember that bipoc and qtipoc exist

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

it is very interesting to see the language of contemporary book criticism co-opted by Christian Nationalists to remove books from classrooms and libraries.

One recent example: My novel Turtles All the Way Down was banned from being taught in English classes because one school board member claimed it "romanticizes mental illness."

(It does no such thing, of course. TAtWD makes mental illness seem really unpleasant and not at all either lowercase-r or capital-r romantic. To acknowledge something's existence is not to romanticize that thing. But part of co-opting this language is misusing it for the end of removing books thematically centered on mental illness, or physical illness, or sex, or anything else that might be deemed insufficiently inocuous for Educational Literature.)

But the question of when writing about something veers into romanticizing it IS actually a very important question for contemporary literary criticism, and one that's been explored a lot (sometimes with generosity and care, sometimes not) in book discourse online. So the Christian Nationalist Right is using the language of analysis that we are using in ways that are at best misguided and at worst disingenuous.

It's really discouraging--I mean, on a personal level obviously but also just as an American who believes teachers should be allowed to teach--to see such widespread book bans in American high schools and libraries. But it's not surprising, really. Books retain a lot of power--to deepen our empathy with those who are suffering, to connect us to ourselves and to others, and to see the full humanity of those who might be dehumanized or marginalized by the social order.

On that front, the Christian Nationalists are right to worry. Books can be a path into loving one's neighbor as one's self, and seeing the full light of the sacred in the experiences of the marginalized. God forbid.

[drarry]

Imagine being the gays at a pride event in 2004 living their lives when someone grabs the microphone and announces to the room that Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Can you even imagine the hype, the celebration, the pure elation

[drarry]

This is the Pride Month that It will happen. I feel it in my gay bones

[broken-horn-of-equius]

[cobaltspartan]

fascinated by jeff the killer tbh. everyone in that creepypasta has generic white usamerican names (jeff, keith, barbara, billy, etc.) except for jeff the killer's doe eyed little brother liu. why is he liu. is liu chinese? it's okay if he's chinese. is jeff also chinese? has jeff the killer been chinese this whole time? am I a bad person?

[tarh00n]

happy purride month yay!!

[guardianska]

people are so ableist to mituna i actually can't scroll his tag.

a bunch of weirdddddddd shit about him having affected speech and they act like that makes him stupid. i cant explain to you enough that him having slurred speech and difficulty communicating sometimes does NOT say shit about his intelligence.

so so much infantilising as if he isnt a fully grown adult. he's 19, not 3.

and then random ass full attacks on latula out of nowhere that accuse her of being with mituna just because she wants to be needed or because shes preying on him. (mituna is a full grown adult the same age as her) or like saying why would latula want to be with him if he's disabled. (a fact that has no bearing on anything. really just a sign of massive ableism) (also people are being misogynist to latula) (also people are so weird about the fact mituna and latula two grown adults might have sex because, again, ABLEISM)

also so many people reducing mituna to his disability and its like, he has character outside that.

he skateboards and is dating latula and generally a very fun guy, he's the only dancestor man that isnt a raging bigot. and like, i feel like he'd definately be one of the few dancestors that would actually be nice to the beta trolls and fun to write interacting with them. (unlike cronus or rufioh or meenah or some others) like where's the fic where he's a mildly assholeish mentor to a doomed! sollux.

im just going to go make mituna content in my corner peacefully.

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[willow-does-stuff]

romantic relationships blah blah blah okay but what about risking everything for your sibling. what about the unwavering love and care that can only come from a parent to a child. what about someone who just wants their best friend back. ever thought of that.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[meiiknifelover]

NEIGH8OURS

happy pride month!

[alzalupa]

[haaarpb]

well.......... here we go

part 1

[daughter-of-sapph0]

happy pride

[lindleland]

[learningtogirl]

I've seen this clip many times, but never really appreciated the power of "what was her problem?" Just casually assuming that lesbians come in a wide variety of shapes and being inclusive. As a transbian who is probably still closer to Homer shaped than to my ideal, that's huge!

[soyalexnajera]

[rogdona]

[cosmicityyy]

Arturo shenanigans