gay in dog years

ariana • she/her • about

[navyasarchive-deactivated201905]

every lgbt person of color can relate to feeling alienated from mainstream lgbt narratives because we don’t get to participate in so many of the things that white lgbt kids sometimes get to do. joining GSA, going to prom with a gay date, going to pride with friends….. i never reached those “gay milestones” the way my white lgbt peers did. 

[blklesbian]

i haven’t been oh here in awhile but here’s what’s up with me

i graduated high school!!!

i (accidemtally) came out to my parents

i thought i’d be leaving for college in the fall

i became super sad because i’m actually staying where i’m at and going to community college for two years

i bought a ton of books so i feel better now

i need to practice driving more because i’m gay and still don’t have my license

[blklesbian]

honestly hearing xxxtrash is xxxpired makes me so happy

[theshitneyspears]

xxxtentacion almost beat a man to death because he was gay and now he got shot during pride month

[medusabraids]

i cannot find it in me to feel any emotion abt the possible death of someone who beat the shit out of a gay man and nearly killed him bc he looked at him in a way he thought wasn’t right and abused his ex girlfriend so bad she needed surgery on her eye and if that makes me a monster then fine

[blklesbian]

hey bitches i’m back!!! watch 3% on netflix

[tariqah]

There is no biological reality surrounding race and there exists no “pure” race… race was created as a way of legitimising the oppression of people, especially Africans, that was already underway through the forms of colonialism and slavery.

[scorpioschemes]

https://twitter.com/michaelacoel/status/975632279283347458?s=21

[funkybug]

i am so tired and so gay

[sift]

[sexanax]

it really be light outside until 7pm now, goodbye seasonal depression u dumb bitch

[wlwellbutrin]

i’m so gay for women who take up space and wear stompy boots and flannel and are loud and i think more of them should make eye contact with and then marry me

[la-laborista-republiko]

From Conrad:

I remember when I first discovered that being poor in the US is a prosecutable offense. I was living in a tiny rent house with my young daughter when I happened to look out the window and saw a uniformed woman on her hands and knees in my yard with a ruler. She was measuring my grass, which was about an inch higher than the legal limit. She issued a citation and told me to appear the following Wednesday afternoon in “Environmental Court”. Now, ‘environmental court’ sounds like a court that would prosecute businesses that pollute and destroy the environment, but imagine my surprise when I appeared in this courtroom and found nothing but poor people being prosecuted for a wide variety of ‘crimes of poverty’. There was an elderly black couple (nearly everyone there was black) who were guilty of raising a few chickens in their backyard. Another person was in trouble for building a brick BBQ pit in his backyard. But the majority of these impoverished souls were appearing before a judge (who was earning $75,000/year for working one afternoon/week) because they had one or more utility disconnected due to inability to pay. I discovered it’s actually illegal to get your lights turned off. And instead of trying to help these people pay their bills and get their lights and water on, this court was FINING them several hundred dollars for being so fucking poor they couldn’t pay the light bill. I was shocked, horrified, and outraged.

Since then, I’ve noticed countless ways poor people are given various fines for being poor. At that time, in Little Rock, if you were caught driving with no insurance, your vehicle was towed and impounded on the spot. You had to purchase insurance, pay the tow fee, and however much in impound fees as had accrued during the time it took to get insurance. You were given a couple of months (and ever-mounting charges) to retrieve your vehicle and if you didn’t get it done, the car would be auctioned off. After several years of this, it came to light that the traffic judge’s brother ran a used car lot that bought up all these cars that were stolen from the poor.

And now, for the past decade or so, not only is it illegal to BE poor in this country, it’s also become illegal everywhere to HELP the poor. Do-gooder bleeding heart types are now fined for feeding the homeless, or for giving money to panhandlers. Panhandling itself is now illegal in many areas, (how dare anyone ask for help!) as is sleeping in one’s car, (how dare anyone seek shelter) and the system will extract as much money as possible in fines for all these crimes of poverty and crimes of aiding and abetting the poor. Is this a great country, or what?

[wlwellbutrin]

we train young girls to ignore their hunger, to walk and stand and sit like ladies, to paint over or cover their pimples and stretch marks and cellulite, and then we are shocked when they grow up and become women who are alienated from their own bodies

[sofitheoncer16-blog]

People can do this if they want but no one should be judged for not doing it

[wlwellbutrin]

this is not an appropriate time for choice feminism.

[sofitheoncer16-blog]

What I mean is that girls can fill up and wear make up if they want but they should always remember to live the life they want and ember that no one has claim over their bodies other than them

[wlwellbutrin]

and what i mean is that these behaviors are enforced as part of beauty rituals and “wanting” to engage in them arises not from some intrinsic desire on the part of the girl but from the social rewards she knows she will be deprived of if she eschews them; to frame any kind of female beauty ritual as “chosen” is to obscure the social forces creatig and enforcing it; these pressures are potent and not in need of reinforcement via choice feminism; and furthermore, the behaviors cited in this post are inherently unhealthy and really don’t have positive, fun aspects we ought to be encouraging.

[musaafer]

Stupidest thing ever is this infantilization of patriarchy like, “it’s boys who do those things; a ~~real man~~~ would never be that way” no listen to me, it is not little boys who crack jokes that make up patriarchy but actual grown-ass men engaging in actual physical, systematic, structural, emotional, verbal violence against women. Patriarchy is not puberty you grow out of but a backdrop wired into the fabric of our society. 

[blackgrlsaremagic]

@chelsemonet

[tenderlesbian-deactivated201807]

every dumbass whos been living under a rock whenever a man comes forward about sexual assault: now if a woman came forward about this everyone would believe her and support her and cherish her hmm makes you think :/ misandry is really alive and well

every single woman in the world whos ever experienced sexual assault/harassment: