roshi

he/him minor

[didiwithdiscourse]

Welcome :)

Hi, welcome to my discourse/politics blog.

My name is Roshi or Riri, I am an english teenager with an interest in politics, current global events and queer issues. I am a trans guy as well as neurodivergent and disabled. I don’t list these attributes to gain pity or “oppression points” but to show you my own personal experiences and how they effect my beliefs and statements.

This blog will talk about/reblog things about

| Queer issues and topics | Pacifism | Anti-colonialism | Anti-imperialism | Anti-Racism | Vulnerable minorities rights | Political history | Environmentalism | Feminism | Anti radical feminist and radical queer ideologies | Pro-Palestine, and anti-genocide in general, content | Anti-Eugenics | Anti-Ableism | Anti-Capitalism |

I will try my best to tag things appropriately.

Respectful asks are welcomed. If you can’t make an argument without telling people to kill themselves or cussing them out then maybe your argument isn’t that great! I am trying my best to be educational and ethical, if I get something wrong please tell me, although I certainly don’t expect you to educate me for free. I am also a minor so keep this in mind :)

Thank you for reading, I hope you like your time here and learn something or get something out of my blog.

Note: i don’t like my username and I don’t really like to boil serious topics down into “discourse” but it was the best one I could think of because I’m stupid :’)

[this-is-transandrophobia]

From @sisconfreak

ew????

This is transandrophobia

[fujokafka]

we need to bring back old school tumblr communication and im so serious. sending an ask to a mutual just to say hello. seeing three different asks in your inbox all asking how your dentist appointment went. seeing a post you think one of your mutuals would enjoy and tagging them/sending it to them in the dms. nowadays its just silently liking a post or (if youre feeling extreme) replying under posts. WHAT HAPPENED TO US!! we used to be a proper community!!!! #LetsBringWhimsyBack

[andthelaw]

reblog if you want ppl to send you random lil' asks

[choppun-kun]

Yeah

[sua-sponte-deactivated20200331]

I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.

[is-the-post-reliable]

RATING: RELIABLE

you can listen to the clip of the 1954 interview here and find him on wikipedia here

[jay-rayart]

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[creatingblackcharacters]

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[ratantics]

When grannies are protesting against genocide this Labour government will literally treat them as terrorists, but when we have actual white nationalists out on the streets causing chaos, burning down houses, going door to door and stopping cars looking for anyone who isn't white, the government response is to politely ask them to calm down.

The world's richest man is amplifying dangerous disinformation about the country to create hate and division whilst his new pet Tommy Robinson is literally sitting with his nonce dad in Moscow trying to cause a fucking civil war and all Keir Starmer can do is write a strongly worded letter.

Didn't think we'd get worse than the lettuce but here we fucking are.

[trans-unity]

If your transfeminist theory only has room for certain types of trans people at the exclusion of others, then your theory is by nature incomplete and inaccurate. All trans people regardless of their specific gender are impacted by various feminist issues, and to act as if trans men and nonbinary trans people who don't meet some arbitrary standard of "woman-adjacent" enough don't belong is to willfully water down your feminism. What is the point of a transfeminism that uses gender-based divides to determine which trans voices are worthy of listening to, and which ones need to sit down, shut up, and listen? We all deserve to be heard, and we all deserve to be listened to. There is more than enough room in transfeminism for every kind of trans person, and we are only made stronger for it. Excluding certain trans voices from transfeminism for being the "wrong kind" of trans makes your activism weak and your theory biased and incompatible with the lived experiences of the trans people you choose to ignore.

[uni-vent]

gender is weird

[imjunebitch]

if u call urself a misandrist I'm going to assume ur homophobic. I'm gonna assume that ur at the very least weird about trans women like me, that you're going to judge them based on how they pass, on how out they are, on what level of transition they are at. I'm gonna assume ur racist too. like. idk "misandry" very feels like the sorta "feminism" someone is really into when they're in high school and carefully making sure to never think about anything.

[imjunebitch]

yk I actually don't give a fuck what someone has to say about gender in any way if they aren't normal about intersex people

[guerrillatech]

[audible-smiles]

People die on the job every summer. Remember that water and shade breaks are crucial when working in the heat, and calling emergency services for signs of serious heat illness (fatigue, nausea/vomiting, headaches, dizziness, clammy skin, confusion, agitation, slurred speech, high body temperature, rapid heart rate, etc.) is entirely appropriate. If you’re afraid to call 911 for reasons such as being undocumented, you’ll need to get very familiar with how to prevent, recognize, and treat heat illness. If you are symptomatic and not allowed a break, water, or medical treatment, walk out. No matter how broke you are, your job is not worth your life.

[ominous-signs]

Official please put yourself first sign

[turnways]

I am aware the terminology doesnt exclusively refer to one thing but I lowkey hate how "purity culture" has been watered down to someone hating sex scenes and shipping drama when a lot of it is shit like being told youre going to hell for masturbating or children being afraid to speak up about sexual abuse.

[gr3at-s4ge]

wait you're nonbinary?? are you afab or amab- sorry, transmasc or transfem?? ....oh you're neither?? okay, are you tma (harmless and innocent and 'one of the good ones') or tme (annoying and therefore evil)?? these ones arent gender-based, so they're better- oh you dont like the new boxes we came up with because they still slot you into a gender binary? okay youre an icky evil tme then, because you dont like them. die.

[this-is-trans-joy]

I am planning on making a trans man and non-binary version at some point but here’s another poster I made for my girls <3

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

"children and cis women need to be protected from trans women" and "it's women's fault if they're raped because men can't help themselves" are two sides of the same coin, and that coin is the erroneous belief that having a penis inherently makes you a predator

[didiwithdiscourse]

It’s genuinely so gross how common the phenomenon of dark skinned characters being whitewashed in order to be depicted as soft/innocent/feminine is.

[didiwithdiscourse]

It’s genuinely so gross how common the phenomenon of dark skinned characters being whitewashed in order to be depicted as soft/innocent/feminine is.