woof

not a man not a woman just a dog

[dogdykesdoitbetter]

→ 21 y/o, they/thon, abinary nb4t lesbian, yeehaw-adjacent (ky).

→ all 18+ lesbians and sapphics welcome.

→ twerfs aren't welcome!

previously known as abinary-lesbian

[soup-mother]

But like genuinely. "humans have an innate need for spirituality" should be pretty transparently a reactionary opinion. It's simply not true and equates something that some people get benefit from with it being a fundamental aspect of being human (and one that is missing it most people today). You gonna start arguing "children *need* fathers or they grow up broken" next?

[dogdykesdoitbetter]

I remember being a kid in middle school and high school taking financial literacy classes, and they were basically summed up as learning to fill out a check and credit cards/credit lines are the devil. And now that I'm an adult basically living paycheck to paycheck, I'm so fucking pissed at how hard my school fearmongered credit cards. They're definitely difficult to manage, and their advertising is really predatory towards young and impoverished people. But as a young impoverished person myself, my credit card has genuinely been a lifeline. It's been the difference between food for the week and keeping my car from getting repossessed. And something my financial literacy teachers took for granted was that it's incredibly privileged to be able to say no to credit, or to live your life debt-free. Rather than teaching us how to properly use one, they were just dismissed altogether, which is way more fucking dangerous for us poor folk!!

[dogdykesdoitbetter]

It also feels very very isolating for every other queer person I meet to tell me that their goal is to leave our state forever. How are we supposed to fix the problems we have if everyone keeps running away? Especially when the people who are actually in positions to flee the state are in such a position because of immense racial and class privilege. Meanwhile the BIPOC and the poors get left behind to do it by ourselves. But we're the backwards ones, we're just too ignorant to leave our homes and communities behind.

[dogdykesdoitbetter]

Even within Bible Belt states, people from bigger cities often look down at people from more rural towns as being primitive and backwards. Telling them about your hometown, or god forbid going to a small town with them, has them acting like you're talking about a nuclear wasteland.

Also some of them have a superiority complex about moving out... Like you do you but you're not more enlightened or progressive or safe from all harm just because you're moving to a blue state/city. If anything you're a coward if you have to completely detach yourself from the rest of us to feel secure in your queerness.

[thesituation]

like why do people act like the south is a lawless christian wasteland where anyone who isn’t cishet and white gets beat to death for existing. yes bigotry is worse in the bible belt but for the love of god you know people exist there just fine being lgbt and gnc. southerners aren’t all mindless conservative apes, most of them are just normal ass people. you ever seen the average woman walking around a walmart in georgia? braless makeupless and not conventionally attractive but existing just fine and peacefully. like cmon humans are more complex than that. you’ll be fine

[cowboyhatesithere]

250 years and most native tribal groups continue to not be federally recognized. Embarrassing!

[cowboyhatesithere]

Hey so a small thing that literally everyone who sees this is capable of is correcting any “used to” statements about native people in this country.

“Native people used to live in this National Park” No. They still do.

“Native people used to tell these stories-” No. They still do.

“Native people used to use this plant as a natural remedy-” No. They still do.

Better yet, familiarize yourself with the tribes local to you. Odds are, they do not yet have federal recognition. You can still read the stories they have to share, you can share their ongoing battle for recognition with others, you can sign petitions and spread the word to others to do so as well. But do something.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

The first photo is from 1956. It shows a Black woman watching members of the Ku Klux Klan (a terrorist, racist, far-right organization focused on white supremacy) walking along a sidewalk in Montgomery, Alabama (USA). I couldn't find the photo's author, but most sources state that it was taken in 1956.

The second photo shows members of the Patriot Front group (a white supremacist and nationalist group, formed in 2017, that openly advocates what they call "American Fascism") traveling on the subway during the 250th anniversary of the U.S. independence in Washington D.C., while a Black woman watches them. The photo is by photographer Cheney Orr, taken on July 4, 2026, 70 years after the first photo.

Via Jurunense

[adachi]

I had someone ask me "where are the pokemon cards" and I tried to direct her to the kids section and she got really indignat and went "no. Pokemon cards. Theyre like, collectibles" and I had to go No I know what those are. Those are kids playing cards. Kids section

[adachi]

She was trying to look behind the counter where we keep Gold Jewelry and Gucci Purses for pokemon cards

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

WHEN THE MODERN FRAMEWORK OF GENDER, SEX, AND SEXUALITY WAS LITERALLY BORN OUT OF 19TH CENTURY RACE SCIENCE YOU CANNOT DISCUSS FEMINISM OF ANY KIND WITHOUT HAVING TO FIRST DISCUSS THE RACIALIZATION OF GENDER ASSIGNMENT/PERCEPTION

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

like i cannot stress enough that when "man" and "woman" got codified "scientifically" in the 1800s as intrinsically seperate categories within western society THEY EXPLICITLY STATED BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE WERE TOO PRIMITIVE TO DEVELOP THIS DISTINCTION. WE WERE QUITE LITERALLY SEEN AS A THIRD UNDIFFERENTIATED CATEGORY BELOW (WHITE) MEN AND WOMEN.

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

Like you CANNOT divorce gender as a construct from race as it was literally born out of the social construct of race. Black/Brown Trans Woman and White Trans Woman are, for all intents and purposes, discrete gender identities historically speaking. And the worst part is that this way that both Black/Brown women of ANY gender have had to fight to be recognized as people - much less women - should be a point of solidarity between white trans women and black/brown women. but every time we try to have this discussion it turns into a fucking flamewar bc of white fragility

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

South American Feminist Maria Lugones discusses this in The Coloniality of Gender.

[lesbian-sweeney-todd]

also good reads (both admittedly quite dense) are

mama’s baby, papa’s maybe by hortense j. spillers

black on both sides by c. riley snorton

[morganitism]

So are we noticing a pattern yet

So are we noticing a pattern yet

So are we noticing a pattern yet

Do I need to spell it out more

[morganitism]

I just don't think it's transfeminist at all to only engage with something when it pertains to you or mentions a group that you're a part of! It feels like a betrayal and it aches to know that transfeminist spaces aren't safe for people like me. I want to have a sisterhood with you girls, but is this what sisters do? Not help the girls that they have the social power to step on?

I've lost count of how many instances I've seen one of my white followers obviously going through my blog and liking/reblogging posts about trans girls, but skipping over posts about racialized people! It doesn't stop hurting.

[saintysauce]

i think its telling that a lot of people see a "racist phase" as an unfortunate little character flaw like its not bizarre as fuck to have a phase where you hate Black people or downplay their suffering bc its funny to you.

like i firmly believe people can change and grow, but the way that nonblacks are so quick to go "its not a big deal" to every instance of someone having a history of racism is frustrating. especially because they'll see it as a single instance, just petty drama, and never stop to think about how tiring it is to find out over and over with different people that someone you thought was a decent person had a phase where they thought your oppression was hilarious, exaggerated, or even deserved.

(and as a side note, a lot of you need to realize that racism isn't solely saying "i hate Black people!!!" overtly- its much more pervasive and seemingly innocuous than yall seem to think and people point this out over and over but it seems to be a brand new idea every time this rolls up again.)

and like, people always get to grow out of these phases and laugh about them like its a piece of silly trivia, meanwhile the people affected by these phases then and now are told to be quiet about even just being disappointed. and a lot of the times nonblacks will exaggerate a mild expression of disappointment as a violent "cancelling" or dramastarting.

just stop treating racism like a accident to giggle at :/ people aren't perfect, but racism towards Black people more often than not is deliberate, and people are allowed to be disappointed by it

[dogdykesdoitbetter]

My unpopular cashier opinion is I generally don't give a fuck if people are on their phone because 1) it means I don't have to talk to them, and 2) sometimes I get to overhear their gossip

[warcrimesimulator]

[the-bi-wonder]

When I was diagnosed at age sixteen, after having one period in the eighth grade and then never again till a medically induced one my junior year of high school - my uterine lining measured in centimeters because it was so thick, my mother turned to me in the car. She was upset. Literal tears in her eyes. And she told me her friend had PCOS, but was still able to have kids. That this was still a possibility for me if I did injections and fertility treatments, etc. My mom had never asked me if I wanted kids, she just assumed.

My first conversation about PCOS with my new endocrine/OBGYN was about weight management and how that could improve my fertility when I eventually wanted kids. It wasn't asked what my goals were for my health or if I wanted kids, just assumed.

I was a hormonal, depressed mess. I hated my body. My body dysmorphia was so bad that I cloistered myself away from so much. I wore hoodies and jeans in the 90°F, 80% humidity summers. This was considered fine. I was given metformin and birth control pills and told this was all that could be done. That PCOS wouldn't affect my life until I wanted to be pregnant. I wasn't asked if I wanted to be pregnant, just assumed.

I don't know how many PCOS groups I joined on my early 20s hoping to find community and commonality for body dysmorphia and symptom management, only to be bombarded with fertility treatments and tips and 'inspirational conception' anecdotes. They never asked if I was attempting to conceive, just assumed.

It's a problem. It's been a problem. And thank god I learned to speak up and find medical professionals that would help me with *MY* goals. I shouldn't have had to, someone should have recognized the needs of that sixteen y.o. and protected her, but I can only hope the conversation changes as awareness increases.

[marxistlesbianist]

The thing that really fucking drives me insane is that the Stonewall uprising is absolutely something that should be celebrated, in the same way that May Day celebrates the 1886 general strike for an 8-hour workday, or that International Working Women's Day celebrates the 1917 Petrograd textile workers' strike.* In a just world, June 28th would be celebrated—in Amerikkka, at least—as the day that (lumpen-)proletarian queers in general and trans women in particular rose up to play our part in the revolution! But unlike in Chicago 1886, or Petrograd 1917, the opportunists out-organized the revolutionaries in New York 1969, and swiftly transformed this date into a pagent of imperialist indulgence. Oh fucking well. If we (the dolls that Stonewall actually stood for) want the anniversary of our cry for freedom to actually mean anything, the only thing we can do is lead more riots

*Yes, the notion of International Working Women's Day predates the February revolution, but the date originally floated until March 8th was decided upon in celebration of the women of Petrograd.

[usefuljesbian]

i don't understand why people can't get it through their thick little translesbophobic skulls that when we assume that an amab cis identifying person obsessed with Yuri is an egg, we are being very charitable. magnanimous even. people understand that the other option is that they're fetishizing lesbians right? like we have thrown away any reflex to shame men for being predatory and fetishistic on the off chance there might be a trans woman there, and that such a hypothetical trans woman would be heinously damaged if we didn't at least give her the benefit of the doubt. can someone please confirm they understand this? that this is the morally correct choice in that dilemma?

[dogdykesdoitbetter]

Really wild to open carry at a Dollar General but you do you I guess 😭