dogwood divinity

[theartistrans]

"What it took for the artist to be able to start transitioning"

[official-lucifers-child]

[gay-for-frog]

Rapists, and killers, too? Really? (Those on death-row?) The drug/prostitution problems are just a portion of USA criminals.

[official-lucifers-child]

yes, all criminals. the moment you say “except X criminal” is the moment that people will try to convict their opponents as having committed X crime.

it’s the same thing as what’s going on right now with people equating drag to some sort of child exploitation. “but the children!!” they wail, and people listen because oh, if drag is harming children, then drag MUST be BAD, so we HAVE TO BAN DRAG.

do you understand what i’m saying? you can’t take away the rights of any category of criminal, because suddenly that category will be overflowing with people who totally 100% definitely committed that horrible crime.

[captain-acab]

Just to look at this from one step further back, let's accept the premise. Let's imagine that there is a type of crime that is 1) horrible evil irredeemable universally-agreed-upon bad, and 2) could somehow be prosecuted with 100% accuracy and 0% bias. Yes, even then, those criminals deserve a right to vote.

Do you they're going to like vote themselves out of jail? Vote to make murder legal? What exactly are you afraid of.

Realistically they'll just... vote just like anyone else. They'll help elect city councilmembers they think will better their hometowns, and presidents they think will best serve the country. They might even vote in their own interests! To reform prisons, fund rehabilitation programs, and outlaw predatory practices by telecoms. Are you saying you don't want any of those things?

And even if there were one of those super-duper-unambiguously-evil totally misanthropic death-row convicts, who's scheduled to be execute the very next day and just wants to sow chaos and watch the outside world burn however they can... what's the worst they could do, vote republican?

Taking people's rights away isn't bad because it might happen to someone you like, it's because taking people's rights away is bad.

[heartspocky]

do people think that convicted serial killers are going to vote to legalize serial killing

[storyweavingspider]

Legalized serial killing is just called being a cop

[ascii-rabbit]

now consider what it means to have a large enough voting block in prison to change the outcome of an election (such as to benefit the prisoners themselves materially)

[anarchistmemedistro]

This Dull-Sounding Electoral Practice Fuels Mass Incarceration

“Prison gerrymandering” is a major issue.

[spiltlove]

what’s left of me?

[desultory-suggestions]

It turns out that you can become the person you’ve always envisioned but you’ll still have the person you were before inside of you and you have to treat them with as much forgiveness and love as possible

[mourningkite]

Underground is a weird place

[tonysopranoproskater69420]

lying in front of the street cleaner

[nic0las-uncaged]

did the street cleaner believe you?

[tonysopranoproskater69420]

it is like talking to a fucking genie with you people

[diana-andraste]

White Gauze, Robert Mapplethorpe, 1984

"[These images depict] two figures wrapped in white, blanched gauze, their heads bound together into a cocoon like, sculptural form. Like many of Mapplethorpe’s photographs, a careful balance is created here between bondage and freedom, ecstasy and pain."

[dykeferatu]

does anyone wanna come over and play violence

[geryone]

Spells of My Name, I.S. Jones

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

no one ever told me that healing would feel like nostalgia arguing with hope.

[omtai]

[thememedaddy]

[sapphling]

i'm something of a service dog myself

[bigsupernatural]

[geryone]

Kitchen Hymns, Pádraig Ó Tuama

[papayajuan2019]

i just separated the art from the artist but all that's left are bones

[seraphinesaintclair]

Lola Ridge, “Secrets”