I'm Not Evil, I'm Wicked

Little of my own, mostly echoes of lovely things on the interwebs

[prinnay]

This month's sticker drop + postcard choices :)

I don't mention it enough lol but I have a sticker club! Joining is available thru Patreon or my Website

[prinnay]

today is the final day to join for these!

[h4ganah]

I've been staying off social media because I'm super sick and can't deal with the anxiety. This is the first thing I was met with when looking up what's new in Sweden.

This is not that far from the synagogue, mind you.

Can't believe I somehow let myself forget that I live in the country home to the "antisemitism capital of Europe."

[h4ganah]

How much do you want to bet that at least one member of Vänsterpartiet (the left party) or Miljöpartiet (the green party) were at this thing?

[flyingscanian]

Not sure I’d find anyone stupid enough to take that bet

[tarannonfalastur]

The British Museum has been forced to postpone a lecture on Ancient Israel and Judah, as part of a newly established Jewish culture month, after finding that "a significant proportion of registered attendees were individuals intending to deliberately disrupt the event".

What exactly are we to believe motivated this 'significant proportion' to plan to travel to the British museum (in central London, presumably at their expense), to disrupt an educational lecture?

It seems unlikely that any would-be protestors cared much about the content or veracity of the lecture. Likewise for the speaker: Dr Paul Collins is a well-regarded scholar and curator in ancient Near-Eastern studies, and to my knowledge all his previous talks, including on Iraqi, Syrian and Kuwaiti history and archaeological heritage, proceeded uneventfully.

So, what then about this particular event provoked a response?

The key is the symbolic aspect of the lecture - namely, the fact that the British museum chose Ancient Israel and Judah as a topic to mark Jewish Culture Month.

The prospective demonstrator finds the association of Jewish culture and history with Jewish sovereignty and self-governance entirely unpalatable.

The reason for this is self-evident; they are opposed to Israel in the present, and so they extrapolate an ahistorical and pathological opposition to 'Israel' in the past.

To be charitable, the intended message of the planned protest is that British institutions should limit themselves to certain acceptable topics when discussing Jews - coincidentally, the times and places when Jews were powerless and vulnerable. (Less charitably, the message is that institutions in Britain should refuse to acknowledge Jews at all).

But the unintended message is much more revealing. The ideology that instigates and drives actions like this one is hollow, reliant on ignorance, and unable to hold up when faced with the truth. If the arguments of antizionism are valid, they would be no less valid for encountering and incorporating history. Only by censoring and restricting what history is permissable to teach, can antizionism dogma preserve itself.

The choice now facing the British Museum, and wider British society is simple: to give in and allow the ideologues to have their way, leaving us all more ignorant and intellectually poorer for it, or to rise to meet the challenge by raising the priority of teaching about Jews and Jewish history to the public. It's clear enough now that Britain is in dire need of it.

Statement on the Jewish Culture Month event

A statement from the British Museum regarding the Jewish Culture Month event.

[iamnmbr3]

were they “forced to cancel” or did they want to cancel and use this as an excuse? Given the cases of biased/antisemitic descriptions in the museum I am inclined to believe the latter.

also this is further evidence that antizionism is antisemitism. This isn’t activism. It’s a nazi hate movement. The UK has a Nazi problem.

[yuiwrong]

SGO - "Boomer Comics"

[makingqueerhistory]

“What would it do to someone, to survive the Holocaust only to realize that the other side wasn't going to save you? To understand that you were as subhuman under the stars and tripes, or the hammer and sickle, as you had been under the swastika? That everyone else was going to the biggest celebration in the history of the world while you died of hunger because people found you uncomfortable to think about?” ― Gretchen Felker-Martin, Black Flame

[netherworldpost]

Pride month is nearly here and the queers need the money you were going to spend anyway on bits and pieces

If you are going to buy pride merch, consider going to that web shop you have bookmarked that you've been meaning to shop at but never got around to it.

"Will they ship it in time?"

it does not matter

look into my beautiful blue gray eyes and notice the way the subtle wrinkles accent my middle age and listen to my gentle, wispy voice when I tell you

it doesn't matter when it arrives

your support of somewhere between pocket change for a sticker to the equivalent of lunch at a restaurant that you spend in an independently owned shop is the line between:

them closing

them celebrating in a tiny way

them surviving

them doing well

them thriving

them building queer spaces in the economy

this is not a guilt post

this is not a "you should spend money--"

from the title of the post

"...money you were going to spend anyway..."

Your choosing a small business and saying "hey this may not arrive in time quickly" is a significant portion of supporting that business, becuase they do not have Big Box Retail mechanics

Your choosing a small business and saying "costs a more but is still comfortably affordable" similarly so

I am a cold hearted business person whose love for money is only secondary for my love of happy, thriving people in an enriched environment that serves and protects the entire population always in every form and structure

(which is honestly the source of my love for money, because it directly leads to people happy and thriving, protected and supported)

(if i could waggle my fingers and live in Star Trek I would but I cannot)

(I tried it) (it didn't work)

so the economic incentive

to this post is quite simple:

happy, thriving people doing business is good for the world

If you want to show your support and/or identity

and planned on doing that with a bauble sticker shirt pin keychain art print whatever

the queer shop you have bookmarked in your computer is a great place to look

If you want to read about your support and/or identity

the local bookstore in the queer neighborhood of your community is a great place to go browse

and/or the library, leave us never forget that these are for some fucking bullshit reason under attack, too, okay sticking to the point lest I start coughing up blood and/or throwing bricks

If you want to see your support and/or identity

the local theater in your community that shows queer films is a great place to start

etc. etc. etc. etc.

Paying a a few cents or dollars more at a store that directly aligns with the values you have in your heart for something you were going to purchase anyway -- listen to me -- is a direct action support to keeping their lights on in hard times and allowing them to grow from "survival mode" to "thriving mode" in good times

i know that it sounds simple

maybe even too simple

and it's literally this straight forward

"I can't because--"

solid

i'm not here to guilt or request or demand justification

from anywhere about anything

live your life

this is a discussion point me @ me me @ you

"Big box ships faster. Do I need it faster? Big box offers free shipping, and is cheaper. Can I spare the extra few bucks?"

sometimes yes

sometimes no

thems the breaks to being alive

I say this as someone who loves money (see above qualifying statment) and whom loves Doing Business (my current job is extracting cash from rich people for queer art, great gig, highly recommended)

at least 1/2 Doing Business is "I am here, right now, with the thing you're looking for, with agreeable terms."

literally that direct and forward

WHEN you can bend what you consider agreeable terms to the realities of small business -- slower shipping, a drift towards higher prices, they have to special order it rather than it be in stock etc. --

you are directly creating a change in the world towards the shifts you want to see

this is the "doing your own dishes, folding the towels everyone uses in the house laundry" version of buying things btw

"okay again I can't because--"

:)

it doesn't matter

there is no permission slip needed to sign

you're not in trouble

there is not a list I'm going to check your reasons against

there is not a reason to have a reason

this is exclusively meant to seed the thought of "when I can, I will"

it doesn't sound like much

it is being intentional

this s AT LEAST 1/2 of changing the world

[covid-safer-hotties]

Oregon Hospitals Didn't Have Shortages. So Why Were Disabled People Denied Care?

The fight to save the life of one woman reveals a grim pattern: In Oregon, people with disabilities were denied health care during the pande

Also preserved in our archive

From December 2020, but an interesting read.

[imyourbadjew]

Jews did not need a state because it was “promised” to us. We needed a state because all your grandparents were happily killing us.

Our ethnic ties to the land influenced the location of our state. But they were not actually the reason that we decided to build one.

[sparrowlucero]

its kind of distressing how you can tell a lot of people see popular indie artists and writers and such as like "a Celebrity but one which i stand a half decent chance of bullying to death"

[wordcubed]

[thequeenoftheentiregoddamnworld]

Hey, hey, look me in the eyes when I tell you this okay? The whole "do trans women or trans men have it worse?" debate going on right now is the most obvious CIA bullshit on earth cause honestly we've both got it pretty shitty and fighting each other isn't helping anyone

[bigbossterone]

Trans men can have discussions about the unique transphobia they face and spaces to find community with each other without being accused of speaking over trans women. Trans women can have discussions about the unique transphobia they face and spaces to find community with each other without being accused of leaving out trans men. Trans women don't have "male privilege" and never will, even if they were hypermasculine in the closet they are not going to internalize it the same way as a cis man. Trans men don't hold the same societal status as cis men unless they're deep stealth and never found out. Though there will always be exceptions, trans men on average have an easier time passing as cis due to testosterone's "adding" effects, and if we do so we have the ability to use it for good. Trans women have a harder time going stealth due to hypervisibility and estrogen's subtler effects, and even when they do, they still have to deal with misogyny. Radfems love to fetishize trans men as "safe men who I still think are women underneath" and show disgust towards anyone they think is too close to manhood for their liking. Trans men are repeatedly erased and categorized as butches or masculine women after their deaths, and while in recent years we have been able to begin stepping up, we have historically been swept under the rug. Trans women were historically lumped in with drag queens and crossdressers, whether they ever began their journeys as one or not - and seen again in recent years with the craze around femboys. In almost every murder or hate crime of a trans man, rape is involved due to the bodies we inhabit. Nearly everyone can clock top surgery scars. Third sexing affects all of us in different degrees and ways. Malgendering affects all of us in different degrees and ways. Both of our puberties can warp our bodies in ways we can never be rid of. Trans womens' visibility can be a blessing but also a massive, deadly curse - more public figures to look up to, more practiced surgeries, and rich historical culture, but more victims of hate crimes, mockery in pop culture, and public transphobic scrutiny than any other demographic in the LGBT community.

Trans men and womens' struggles are not going to be perfect mirrors of each other. I can't cover every way we differ and every way we overlap. And intersectionality is always, ALWAYS at play. We need to have each other's backs more than ever right now.

[makingqueerhistory]

How Queer Bookshops Changed the World

For over a century, LGBTQ+ bookshops have been the unsung heroes of queer liberationHome not only to books but chaotic community noticeboard

"For over a century, LGBTQ+ bookshops have been the unsung heroes of queer liberation"

[mxjackparker]

This is my last chance to tell you about Warped, a sci-fi and horror anthology with all trans writers and a priority towards trans women of global majority. If we're not funded within the next 30 hours, the project will have to go on permanent hiatus and we may never have the money needed to create it.

We've raised £3396/£11,000 so far, but no-one will be charged for their pre-orders unless we hit the full minimum goal to pay all writers.

Gore, smut, space, and sex worker lunar colonists.

Warped

A trans+ horror and sci-fi fiction anthology.

[strangehorse]

Is anyone else starting to feel kind of wary about the increasingly common narrative that "women's bodies are so different to men's that modern scientific recommendations do not apply to them"?

Like. There is a significant gap between 'a lot of studies do not take into account variations caused by things like female hormone cycles, which can limit how generalisable they are' and 'medical science does not apply to women', and the latter just seems to create a situation rife for bad faith actors and snake oil salesmen to reassure you that actually, THEY have the answers, because THEY listen to women, and if you simply pay them for their online subscription service-

[strangehorse]

like. female and male bodies are not different species. the traits you consider inherent and unique to Female or Male can often be changed by hormone therapy and other interventions, and many traits fall on a bimodal distribution, not a binary one. you can apply the findings of 'Invisible Women' without implying that female bodies are like, Startouched Special Moon-Tied Nature Creatures that are immune to all known scientific phenomena

[monsterbutch]

this is one of my favorite reddit posts of all time

[formlessdemi]

God forbid Chippy do anything

[randomdeinonychus]

You absolutely must unmute this video.

[chutzpahchesed]

I wish this was a surprise.

JVP doesn’t care about peace. nor Jews, for that matter.

there’s no excuse for people to not know this by now, which means it’s reasonable to assume malice rather than ignorance in this case.

[entomologist-of-abraham]

Mamdani has made it very clear that the only type of Jews he entreats with are ones like JVP and their ilk. Ones that would see the rest of us dead before they are inevitably betrayed by the very antisemites they've allied themselves with.

[lunathehound]

Actually learning more in depth how so many people have used the real horrors of war and the deaths of civilians who are oppressed by their own government that wishes to genocide Jews as well (Hamas is also oppressing Palestinian civilians)- as an excuse to justify horrific antisemitism and side with Hamas has been horrific.

In the past few months I have gone from one of the many who was proudly and loudly "pro-palestine" and "anti-zionist" to properly understanding what these movements are and what Zionism actually is. I've realized my ideals, my wishes, and my opinions are and have always been Zionist- that there are so many who truly despise Jews in these movements.

I am horrified to learn this about JVP which I have heard support for in the past.

Jews deserve to live. Terrorism is not a virtue and these people are not Martyrs they are vile and have chosen to do horrible things for their own gain.

[chutzpahchesed]

@lunathehound I just want to thank you so much for taking the time to learn and to understand more about all of this. I know it’s difficult and complicated and often heartbreaking, but the fact that you were willing to keep an open mind and to change your perspective with more information is monumental, many people have been unwilling to do that and instead have contributed to making all of this worse. it speaks to your character and compassion that you chose to find out more, and you are truly appreciated. 💙

[noshamehustle]

[formerglory25]

reblog if you too are bi and confused or support others’ right to be bi and confused

[mayakern]

Here’s my divine soul sorcerer Vanetta! She’s a fictional character that got yeeted into the real world by time portal shenanigans… or something. she’s heavily inspired by villainess isekai webtoons and she’s a ton of fun to play. She’s the last Out of Time party member… for now! We have someone new joining soon 👀