Here Be Stuff

The stuff I think is cool. Here it is.

[hellyeahscarleteen]

Looking for accurate, truly comprehensive, queer and trans-led sex ed? Start with Scarleteen’s seven must-reads for the first week of Pride.

Scarleteen has been providing accurate, inclusive, joyful, sensitive, trans and queer-led sex, health, and relationships education since 1998. Here, we celebrate Pride 365 days a year, with our thousands of articles written by and for queer and trans folks, rooted in the diversity, joy, and real life experiences of queer and trans communities. Celebrating Pride year-round means not treating queer and trans experiences as a sidebar or a “special topic.” They’re woven into everything we offer, from anatomy and safer sex deep dives to dating advice and content on consent, dysphoria, communication, and mental health. “Queer sex ed for all” isn’t just our tagline, it’s our whole approach.

If you’ve ever wished sex ed talked about things like, “Do asexual people have sex?”, “Could I be intersex?”, “How do I subvert or opt out of crummy gender roles?”, “What’s gender all about?”, "How do I know if I'm queer?" or “Is what I’m feeling something someone else has experienced?” these articles and series are a solid place to start:

Genderpalooza! A Sex & Gender Primer The Rainbow Connection: Orientation for Everyone Axis of Autism: Being Autistic, Lesbian and Genderfluid Unveiling Amatonormativity: Notes From the Books and the Field Could I Be Intersex? Just the Basics, Ace: An Asexuality Primer Hi, Bi Guy (Series)

The seven must-reads are a good on-ramp, and then you can go down whatever rabbit hole you’d like on our website <3 Save this for later, share it with a friend, and tell us, what topic do you wish you had found sooner?

[hellyeahscarleteen]

Happy Pride month, besties!

[maidthings]

no one is worth not transitioning over

[longseasons]

[gwydionmisha]

Bonus: If I buy a book I get to keep it! The publisher can't turn up at my house at random and confiscate all the books I bought.

[brandonlees]

THE PRINCESS BRIDE 1987, dir. Rob Reiner

[ymutate]

Filippo Palizzi (Italian painter 1818–1899)

Excavations in Pompeii, 1870

Oil on Canvas

119.5 × 86 cm.

Private Collection

[rabid-transcendentalist]

@anthropologist-on-the-loose get peer-reviewed because your shared experience with the subject of the painting really heightened the emotional impact of this artwork for me ( An impact which was already high tbh. The idea that Pompeii was built by generations, buried by generations, uncovered by generations. What if I just started screaming and never stopped. )

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

"Built by generations, buried by generations, uncovered by generations" is ruining me, thanks

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

But it was buried by generations! Yes, it was buried in a volcanic eruption, but it was also figuratively buried. Over the centuries the location of Pompeii was lost, and it was found again by accident during construction projects. The ruins were not conclusively identified as the city of Pompeii until the 18th century (more than a millennia and a half after the eruption!) and it has been excavated ever since. People have been digging there since before the formation of the United States.

It's truly an incredible, one-of-a-kind site.

[specialagentartemis]

Aro and ace activism is housing reform, is well-funded public housing, is an expansion of affordable housing, is allowing single people to get affordable and public housing, is rent controls to make it possible for single people to be able to afford to live alone on a single salary.

Aro and ace activism is healthcare reform, so that no one needs to rely on a spouse for health insurance, so that healthcare is available to everybody regardless of income, so that no one’s lived experiences or basic dignity are dismissed or overridden by doctors

Aro and ace activism is well-funded and expansive public transit, so that you don’t need to have someone on hand to drive you places if you are incapacitated, so that you don’t have to pay for an ambulance if you need to get to the hospital quickly

Aro and ace activism is disability and elder care services, so that no one needs a spouse to care for them, so that no one needs children to care for them, so that marriage is not a bind for disabled people, so that people on disability who want to and can live alone can

Aro and ace activism is community-building, it’s public events, it’s free social activities, it’s mutual aid, it’s activities that bring community members together without socializing relying on just a romantic partner

Aro and ace activism is developing a culture of believing when people tell you who they are and what they want rather than assuming you know them better than they know themselves

Aro and ace activism means a better world for people without “normative” desires or “normative” social support, which means a better world for everybody

[specialagentartemis]

#isn't this just aro activism? like op is right but this is like. about relationships

Quick question do you think ace people don’t have a complicated relationship to relationships. Do you think ace people don’t have a significant incentive to not tie basic quality of life things to having a partner and children. Do you think ace people are respected by doctors or society.

[machinot]

Scientists have found that if you get 8 hours of sleep and are still tired during the day it’s because your soul is cursed and your body doesn’t think you deserve happiness. There is no cure or treatment

[aidashakur]

[theartofmadeline]

happy pride! this dragon is gay <3

[remanence-of-love]

[txttletale]

the worst thing about 90% of adaptations of alice's adventures in wonderland is that they mistakenly write alice as a mild-mannered everywoman, when part of what makes those books so timeless and treasured is that alice is able to tell when adults around her are full of shit and is nearly always able and willing to articulate that frustration. she is proud and headstrong and contrary and, yes, polite--but not at all his meek wishy-washy wisp of a girl that adaptations love to turn her into!

[artmagine]

The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II

[kingfucko]

i went to his website and saw even more great art! sharing some more which i particularly appreciated

[ruinedchildhood]

[depsidase]

[do-not-u-dare]

Stole this from somewhere but i think it’s appropriate

[fipindustries]

I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they're overdone and simply not as good as the original. They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.

And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.

The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!

[unorthodoxchronicles]

[fuer-diesen-sommer]

Information

[arsonist-chicken]

[ID: An information box at a train station. The only thing in it is a big rainbow flag.]

[knitmeapony]

letter from a mother of a gay man. sent to ONE magazine, 1958.

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This post was flagged as adult content and the original poster was deactivated so I'm bringing it back.

[foreign-dorian-deactivated20250]

“Mrs R” was the pseudonym of Phyllis Shafer, a Kansas City local who helped found the Phoenix Society for Individual Freedom in 1966, a full three years before Stonewall. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, she and her son Drew operated the Phoenix House, a safe haven for queer people in the city, and a hub of national queer activism. Drew passed away due to AIDS related complications in the 1980s, and his lover, Mickey Ray, spent the rest of his life fighting to keep his memory alive, largely contributing to the creation of the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America.

Before Stonewall, this Kansas City activist helped unite the national gay rights movement

Years before the Stonewall uprising, Drew Shafer started Kansas City's first gay rights organization and published the first LGBTQ magazine

[consistentlycontradictory]

“We tend to view American history as this constant march toward progress, which is total crap,” he says. “You gotta fight for that stuff. And if you don't fight for that, you can fall backward. Like it's not just this linear history."

Good quote from the article which may be relevant right now.

[knitmeapony]

Bring this bad boy back with some delicious context for pride