[clhampir]

nah i'm feeling petty tonight, if you think he/him lesbians aren't valid lesbians and are just trying to "shove men into lesbianism" then you're stupid stupid

pronouns do not equal gender. y'all are out here calling yourselves nonbinary lesbians and still somehow not grasping how someone can call themselves he/him and still be a lesbian. grow up. you're full adults acting like babies about somebody else's preferred descriptor *of themself*. yall can fuck with neopronoun lesbians but he/him is too far? get a fucking grip

[clhampir]

people are fucking dying. trans people are in more danger now than they ever have been in recent memory. disabled people are being killed en masse for a sense of normalcy. your siblings are dying. infighting about personal descriptors is a distraction and you are falling for it. we all need to stand together, not apart. we are going to die if we keep falling for this "tearing each other apart from the inside out" bullshit. so many of us already have.

[practicalsolarpunk]

Is your landlord invading your privacy? Is your apartment heated inadquately? Do your utilities keep getting shut off because your landlord isn’t paying? Have you been trying to get them to repair your dishwasher for five months and they won’t replace the spray arm part even though it’s visibly broken?

You’ve heard of employee unions using collective bargaining to force the bosses to provide better pay and better working condiditions. But did you know if you rent an apartment in an apartment complex, you can do something similar?

It’s called a Tenant Association, and it’s basically a union for renters.

Here’s an overview of the why and how of forming a tenant association

Here’s a more thorough organizing manual

When it comes down to it, you and your fellow tenants are the ones paying your landlord’s salary. Go remind them of that.

[songs-of-the-east]

"Scene of a Romani bride and family celebrating and singing during the traditional prenuptial rite of bridal kna (henna) preparation • Skopje, Macedonia"

[contemptible-scoundrel]

fuuuck I could use a mysterious benefactor right now

[aetherixs]

i have never seen a single 'pirates of the caribbean' film so my friend insisted that i watch the first one with her and i'm obsessed.

the villain’s origin story is that he can’t eat apples anymore. every fight scene plays like a slapstick comedy. two key combat sequences end with our sexy leading men getting boinked on the head. the climax is initiated by one ship firing forks at another ship. everyone is unreasonably hot. plot armor made only of the word “parlay”. the Redcoats are more useless than you could possibly imagine. Elizabeth almost drowns, gets held hostage, and then her entire village is destroyed but the worst part of her day is that a man proposed to her. a crew of skeleton pirates do drag to trojan horse their way into the final battle. truly insane stuff can't wait for more.

[drunkvanity-deactivated20161113]

shout out to the girls that hate their bodies but are trying really really hard to find the beauty and comfort in them because that shit is hard and takes a lot of time and is emotionally exhausting. i’m proud of y’all.

[biglesbiandragon]

What every transition timeline on my dash looks like

[captain-price-returns]

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

[transcyberism]

by the way, if you ever want to actually be on a jury and actually participate in the judicial system, you need to not say this kind of shit during the selection process. they will not select you. you will not get to convict. you need to be the most wishy-washy, "I don't know, I think there's many sides" austerely "I believe in the letter of the law" type motherfucker to get selected. you have to come off as someone who is profoundly disconnected from politics etc. You can't lie, obviously; that's perjury. But you can be kinda vague and noncommittal and that's not a crime.

Most especially, if you feel the temptation to "expand" on your views, as this prospective juror put it, DON'T. Do not discuss anything but the direct answer to the questions - don't discuss your feelings, motivations, or do any other pontificating unless you are directly asked, even if they use long uncomfortable silences to make it seem like you have to keep talking. If they ask you a yes or no question, answer "yes," "no," or maybe "I don't know" or "it depends," full stop, without elaborating unless they ask.

Give this a read if you'd like to be a jury to your peers some time:

Questions to Consider before Jury Selection

A resource to help prospective jurors prepare before going to the courthouse to answer questions truthfully but neutrally so as not to be ex

[sewer-swan]

What a gift are the mistakes of others! So many times I have only seen my own mistake clearly when someone else makes the same mistake with me. Or my self-led learning has come only from lengthy observation of other people's failures. If everyone around me was uptight and prized perfection too much to make a move, I swear I would do nothing, know nothing at all, get nowhere. What a gift, for somebody to make mistakes with me.

[gatheringbones]

[“One afternoon in August 1913, Big Cliff Trondle was hanging out in the back of a café on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, having a smoke, wearing one of his nattiest outfits: a blue serge suit, silk hose, tan oxford shoes, and a newsboy cap. For some unspecified reason, he came to the attention of a passing police detective, who realized he was transgender and arrested him for “masquerading in men’s clothes.”

Prison records are full of “mannish” or “masculine” women, who may have considered themselves “normal,” butch, lesbian, trans, invert, intersex, or something else entirely, but Cliff was the rare early twentieth-century transmasculine person who had the chance to articulate his gender more specifically to the world.

Cliff caused a spectacle in court when he repeatedly refused to give his birth name or change into a dress. On the steps of the courthouse, Cliff told the press, “I’ve always been more boy than girl,” and he sent a letter to President Woodrow Wilson asking for permission to dress that way, though the president doesn’t seem to have ever responded. The first judge to hear Cliff’s case threw out the arrest, accurately noting that it was legal for Cliff to dress however he wanted. Although many people would be arrested for cross-dressing over the course of the twentieth century, the actual 1845 New York State law criminalized “masquerading” only if it was done as a disguise while committing another offense.

Unfortunately, the legality of Cliff’s clothes made no difference. While he was in pretrial detention, a court-appointed probation officer discovered Cliff’s birth name. With that, she found that Cliff was seventeen (not twenty-four as he claimed). He had been thrown out by his well-off family and had passed through a number of institutions for “wayward girls.” The probation officer took it upon herself to ensure that Cliff would be incarcerated and thus, in her eyes, fixed. When the judge threw out his original case, she immediately had Cliff rearrested, this time under a charge of “associating with idle and vicious persons”—aka smoking with men in a café.”]

hugh ryan, the women’s house of detention: a queer history of a forgotten prison, 2022

[nitashinori]

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

[despazito]

It's actually super unethical to keep a peeve as a pet

[doyoulovethewayzeylily]

you are required to accept that there is a vast conspiracy at all levels of power that has worked for hundreds of years to make you, and everyone you have ever known, more racist. you are required to accept that it has been extremely effective, it worked, you are racist.

you are required to become less racist.

when you are told that you are being racist, you are required to understand that as being offered assistance in resisting this vast conspiracy. say thank you.

you are required to cope with feeling guilty about being racist. your shame is only important to you, its only value is that it motivates you to be less racist.

[bugdotpng]

absolutely boggles my mind how so many social media sites do NOT want you scrolling without an account. can't even click on an instagram profile while not being logged in without it blocking you. even if you put it in the url, it only lets you scroll like twice before it prompts you to log in. fucking youtube won't let me watch videos on my phone anymore because i use firefox focus and don't want to log in every time i wanna watch a video so it's instead flagged me as a bot. i also think social media sites are drastically overestimating how badly i "need" to use their sites. if you won't let me browse someone's profile or watch a damn video on the Browsing Profiles and Watching Videos social media sites then i will simply leave. the power of chucking your phone into the metaphorical ocean. i hope i hurt their metrics every time i close out of a tab <3

[faerevolution]

personally I think if your first response to "have you considered transitioning" is to list the ways women are expected to perform in society that you don't want to be expected to comply with, what you need is estrogen plus feminism, not more experience with makeup

[faerevolution]

like girl let's be be so for real right now none of the dykes I know are shaving for anybody. that is not a mandatory task. you could be so free all you have to do is reach out and take it my friend

[sailor-crusader-deactivated2025]

You have GOT to stop acting like "criminals" are a different breed of human that are more violent just because.

[faehaseul]

criminal is not a state of being it is a relationship with the state!

[clowncarpool]

cheese sits on the toilet while we take showers, and i like to stand on my tip toes and draw his silhouette in the steam from a high angle, then stand back to see how warped it is from his actual shape

oil and acrylic on masonite