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[foxciferous]

Donate to Help Youssef and his family escape the occupation, organized by Osam Lolo

‏Imagine that you lose everything you have in the blink of an eye, you che… Osam Lolo needs your support for Help Youssef and his family esc

I've never been good at this sort of thing, so I'll get right to it. I've been speaking to Youseff for several months now, almost since the war started. To put things mildly, things haven't been easy for him. He has lost his home, and his wife and son had to endure risky surgeries. Most recently, he has lost several close friends in a bombing and his brother in law sustained a grave head injury. On top of everything, Youseff has been forced to make multiple evacuations, which are costly, time-consuming, and deeply exhausting.

I know times are hard. I'm looking at more than a few lean months myself. But if there's anything you can donate, please do and share Youseff's campaign.

[foxciferous]

Winter is coming up, and Youseff needs a new tent pretty badly. Anything you could send his way would be a big help.

[loathsomespider]

[kriosv]

[batshit-auspol]

Here's our most requested item: Bob Katter's same-sex marriage speech, in all its unhinged glory

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[idrawsnoopyeveryday]

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[mousidy]

a lot of my disillusionment with the trans "community" comes down to the fact that too many of you take "gender is different from sex" and go "ah ok, so instead of saying women are fragile and men are strong, I should say afabs are fragile and amabs are strong. to be Inclusive"

then you just treat gender like a surface level aesthetic draped over what someone "actually" is. really is indistinguishable from terf rhetoric

[mousidy]

you all need to unpack your bioessentialism, but we also need a better theory of gender than "it's just dressup." I will pick my words carefully here, but the word "gender" itself refers to so many different phenomena that have been lumped together, and we need to un-lump them

[mousidy]

in a feminist context, "gender" has historically referred to externally imposed categorization and the internalization and performance of said categories. in a paper I wrote on this subject, I called this sense of the word "extrinsic gender"

"intrinsic gender," on the other hand, is what I used to refer to the sense of the word "gender" that a lot of trans people are talking about when they discuss social gender dysphoria and euphoria. it's the internal sense of category that's resistant to external impositions

but then we also use the word "gender" to refer to subconscious sex, which is the term Julia Serano coins in Whipping Girl to name the phenomenon we're talking about when we talk about bodily dysphoria. it is the "gender" being "affirmed" by gender affirming healthcare like HRT and bottom surgery

so, "gender" is: a social classing system, a performance, and at least two internal phenomena as well. and I really don't know if it's doing us a service to conflate all of these things!

[mousidy]

a lot of people lately seem to be going heavy on the "performance" use of the word, ignoring (intentionally or otherwise) social classing, intrinsic gender, and subconscious sex. this seems to have led to a lot of "progressive" people treating trans women like men "amabs" who wear womanhood as a costume, and nobody understands why that's wrong because they also think gender is just a performance

[mousidy]

see also "why can't you just be a femboy/feminine man/etc"

[foxgirlmindcrank]

You'll never guess who this is about

[foxgirlmindcrank]

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[cutecipher]

whether or not men benefit from feminism has no bearing on whether feminism is worthwhile

[cutecipher]

put another way. i dont care about how men are impacted by feminism

[cutecipher]

already have people mad about this. okay here's another take. men should be feminists for no benefit.

[mantis-lizbian]

just as white people should be anti-racism for no benefit, and cis people should be pro-trans for no benefit. the only "benefit" that should be required is the creation of a more just world, not because you, personally, actually do get something out of it.

[blackdykegirlblogger]

ik pride is all ppl think of when june hits but i also wanna say HAPPY CARIBBEAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH BITCHES ‼️‼️‼️

[tumbwr]

+ suriname!! 🇸🇷

[captain-price-returns]

[captain-price-returns]

[hadalstims]

So deeply moved by this puppy eating raspberries I had to make it a gif I felt compelled

[hagiomoto]

[cloevr]

[agender-witchery]

I just find it really weird that all of my trans focused posts EXCEPT for the nonbinary focused posts tend to pop off. Like the fact that I'm trans is negated by the fact that I'm nonbinary to some people.

[agender-witchery]

People will say TMA and transfem to mean trans woman when those terms very explicitly are designed to include nonbinary people who are marginalized along the same lines. Enbies can experience transmisogyny. Enbies can be transgender and feminine.

I'm tired y'all.

[saejima-nyan04]

we all had a pjackk dead wife flashback today

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”