fuck the police

Rain • 29 • they/them • etsy shop • viola da gamba professor and primary school music teacher • other blog : queerstudiesnatural ♡

[queerstudiesnatural]

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[queerstudiesnatural]

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[redavexat]

[queerstudiesnatural]

hiiiii things are really bad for me financially again, and we're entering the summer months where i earn less (i'm a teacher and some of my pay only comes through during the school year - i earn 400€ less in july and august) so

please consider ordering from me either on my website (we're having issues with paypal so i recommend checking out some other way) or on etsy

i also have a ko-fi and a PayPal if you'd like to help me that way

i really appreciate you guys <3

[queerstudiesnatural]

hiiii, panicking just a little bit here 😬 everything is so expensive and i just lost 5 hours at work which means my paychecks are gonna be even lower. if you've got anything to spare please consider helping me out by buying me a coffee or checking out my shop!! ❤️

[power-chords]

This Dan Piraro comic always makes me cry.

[nemfrog]

The crickets' party. St. Nicholas songs. 1885.

Internet Archive

[kosmogrl]

[nourishingbroth]

torngat mountains | unknown photographer

[gremlininho]

A butternut woollyworm ♡

[queerstudiesnatural]

hiiiii things are really bad for me financially again, and we're entering the summer months where i earn less (i'm a teacher and some of my pay only comes through during the school year - i earn 400€ less in july and august) so

please consider ordering from me either on my website (we're having issues with paypal so i recommend checking out some other way) or on etsy

i also have a ko-fi and a PayPal if you'd like to help me that way

i really appreciate you guys <3

[queerstudiesnatural]

hiiiii things are really bad for me financially again, and we're entering the summer months where i earn less (i'm a teacher and some of my pay only comes through during the school year - i earn 400€ less in july and august) so

please consider ordering from me either on my website (we're having issues with paypal so i recommend checking out some other way) or on etsy

i also have a ko-fi and a PayPal if you'd like to help me that way

i really appreciate you guys <3

[thewoodbetween]

Mark Hearld

[unaliveish]

pavel nechaev

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[kristina100000]

awesome picture how do i move on now from this moment

[heartpeacenquiet]

[sillywuv-deactivated20230214]

[queerstudiesnatural]

i think there is something to be said about this wave of white women made media that is so surface level with an underlying racist and/or insensitive bias and that refuses to engage with criticism. i'm talking taylor swift's the life of a showgirl, emerald fennell's wuthering heights, colleen hoover, the acotar series and booktok in general, etc. whenever you dare to raise concerns about the superficiality or the questionable writing or the treatment of poc in those pieces you get shut down with a "it's not that deep" or "let women have fun". this weaponisation of misogyny to justify slop made for mass consumption, especially considering how wide spread it is becoming, scares me quite a bit. to quote princess weekes, "the girlypopification of anti-intellectualism" is truly concerning, and i do believe it is linked to the rise of far right movements worldwide. if you refuse to engage with what you are being presented with, and exclusively consume brain smoothing content "for fun" then yeah you do become more susceptible to propaganda. it is that deep.

[queerstudiesnatural]

to clarify, because a lot of people are taking this post to mean "fuck all silly fluffy media made by women that isn't deep". no. women can, in fact, have silly fluffy fun. they can even have sexy fun. the issue is when that fun infringes on other (non-white, non-cishet, etc) people's fun, and refuses to acknowledge it or learn from it.

my issue isn't women creating un-deep fiction, or even making mistakenly offensive/"problematic" content. the issue arises when they refuse to listen to criticism about it and hide behind "misogyny" to claim that they should be allowed to make anything they want without repercussions.

the same way that "freedom of speech" doesn't mean "say what you want all the time with no consequences", being a woman doesn't mean you can be racist or perpetuate stereotypes without being called out. "but i'm just a girl" mentality is so so lame and is both born from and feeds into patriarchal values.

and yes, men make bad and harmful content all the time, too. they've been doing that. i'm specifically talking about rich white women who benefit from their wealth and whiteness, and hide behind their womanhood to claim impunity. who would rather align themselves with rich white men than poor and/or non-white women, because they profit from that hierarchy.

basically, it's time we created art that kicks a hole into our oppressive social structure, instead of trying to have fun within its confines.