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Actually when I say “fuck all billionaires” I particularly mean Taylor “having my wedding in the middle of the busiest city in the world on the busiest weekend in the world in the part of the city the majority of commuters need to get through because fuck working people” Swift
i don’t think i’m exaggerating when i say that the average height for women in the US would increase by at least an inch if teen girls were allowed to eat as much as teen boys are
and not to bring my own clocky bitch ass into this but if cis women weren’t so consistently starved their entire lives you’d see a lot more cis women with the kind of bodies that we currently associate closely with trans women. the amount that the standards of feminine presentation are culturally defined by malnutrition is crazy
if your disability came from something you did voluntarily, like driving a car, or having sex, or doing BMX stunts, then guess what???
you deserve respect. you deserve to have your needs met. you deserve to live
the desire to pretend white women are simply always victims and groomed into fascist movements instead of being willing participants is by design, u have been taught ur entire life that white women are dainty angels that have to be lead and protected and no harm they do is fault of their own, thats why u think literal nazi women are just confused harmless babies, it’s designed that way on purpose
free healthcare should include teeth actually
AND FUCKING VISION
AND MEDS
AND DR VISIT TRANSPORTATION
AND SURGERIES
AN----
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.
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i do wish the response to the ai water usage concern debate (umm actually the water and mineral usage is roughly equivalent to all of our other constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction etc etc etc) was less of a "haha checkmate luddites" and more of a "hmm maybe we should reevaluate our usage of constantly growing massive distributed information systems that require enormous amounts of resource extraction" but idk
JUSTICE FOR TONEA MILLER!
a couple articles that give more details. the tl;dr is yes it is only because of social media that a single reporter put the effort in to investigate Tonea's death, and get any coverage on it. the police had simply ruled it a suicide. Tonea's sister firmly refutes this assertion. she also clarified that Tonea was not in Miami for Juneteenth but has been living there for quite a while now. she also doesn't agree with the online discourse that assumes tonea's death is related to race. her family is pursuing an independent autopsy now.
tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.
1. Europeans using Egyptian mummies as medicine
2. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard
3. "Abolitionists turned the tables on Europeans by accusing them of being cannibals when they ate sugar tainted with the flesh and blood of slaves."
4. Zombies (which I would class as cannibals, since they were human and need to eat humans to live) have a root in Haitian folklore and represented enslavement.
adding that, if you can find it, cannibal culture by deborah root is about exactly this. the way the white western world is a hungry, destructive force that cannibalizes non-white cultures and creates wealth and status through the cannibal colonization of those cultures.
here's the intro
i almost think there's an essay in bell hooks' black looks about this too? yes! just checked, there's an essay called "eating the other"
99% of queer discourse stops right before they define the true difference between bisexual and pansexual!
FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME
BISEXUALS GROW FROM THE GROUND
PANSEXUALS GROW FROM THE CEILING
Happy Pride, cave dwellers 🦇
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We are never making it out of the androcentrism mines so long as you fandom people refuse to examine your own biases
"i use guy as default", "dude is gender neutral for me", "most stories i read don't have women in them"
you are essentializing the human experience as male and prioritizing male stories and feelings above all others. by considering maleness to be the default, you are othering all forms of nonmale existence and expression. men are not the only people who experience complex emotions nor are they the only people who can be interesting characters you can relate to. please for the actual sake of your own ability to feel empathy and compassion, diversify the things you read, watch, play, and contemplate.
No one is doomed to abuse people. There isn't an "abuser gene" or "evil chromosome". There aren't "cursed bloodlines".
There's a culture that frequently enables, romanticizes and eroticizes abuse, and individual human beings who choose to take advantage of that, or not.
Even someone who has abused others in the past has a decision about whether or not to continue that harm. Further abuse isn't inevitable, it's a choice.
The idea that abusers can't help it just further enables abuse culture. If someone is abusive, they are making a choice.
Yet again, transphobia is the lifeblood and binding force of modern fascism.
They're literally obsessed with us.
The Nazis were also obsessed with transgender folk, and everyone else they considered an offense to their "delicate" sensibilities. Or to put it simply if you weren't a blond-haired blue-eyed cisgendered heterosexual German you were going to die…someday. Here's a webpage with a short summary and a connected video:
Before 1933, Germany was a center of LGBT+ community and culture, with several renowned organizations serving and supporting trans and gende
And here is a very short summary:
I wonder if the other members of the Axis Powers ever processed that. Because the various Slavic nations, the Italians and the Japanese were also on the list of those to die.
The first target for Nazi book burnings was the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, which was a pioneering clinic for gender affirming care and where the first gender affirming surgeries were performed.
In May 1933, the Institut was raided, those in the clinic were arrested and most were executed. The library, with countless books on trans healthcare and queer social research, was declared "pornographic obscenity" (sound familiar?) and burned shortly after.
Most people are familiar with this image:
But very few of them have any idea it is of the burning of the library of the Insitut and of its association with an explicitly homophobic and transphobic pogrom. It's history has been actively erased by those with the same belief on queer people in the west to make it easier to persecute us now and make it more difficult to spot fascism.
This was the burning of Alexandria for queer people, but most either don't know or don't care.
We absolutely cannot forget the racism that informs this sort of position, especially with Michelle Obama (but also what Scotland tends to represent to people in a greater white supremacist context. There is a separation between the preservation of a culture that was nearly wiped out and the valorization of a "white" culture--same for vikings, etc.) White female politicians that these bozos hate have gotten such unspeakable slews of misogyny, but never this sort of accusation. Why is that? It's the racism.
Black women, trans and cis alike, are held to a standard of femininity that none of the rest of us are, and while yes it absolutely is transphobia, the assertion she is a man is not just the conspiracy that she is secretly trans, but is the type of masculinization and un-personing of Black women "failing" to meet a white standard of womanhood.
Serena Williams. Imane Khelif. Michelle Obama (during the Obama admin and now again). Leslie Jones. Megan Thee Stallion.
It is a pattern that we absolutely need to be explicit about.
The masculinisation and defeminisation of black women/girls contributes to the societal acceptance of violence against us. It demonises bl
When Black women are seen, respected, and held as full humans with all the complexities and multiplicities therein, all peoples are afforded
The Masculinization of Black Women in Pop Culture
Are you meaning Scottish Gaelic culture or …?
I only vaguely referenced it because I think the anti-Black element is more pressing, but Rowling's continued lean into white supremacist imagery is not exactly a secret anymore.
On the one hand, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland have long histories of being victims of colonization and the effects are still tangible today, be it the fight to preserve language or the fight for independence/reunification and then emancipation.
On the other, white supremacists have adopted Celtic imagery, symbolism, and specifically the romanticized retelling of the fight for Scottish independence: the film Braveheart. They love to reference Romans or Vikings to create a sense of culture from conquest and domination, but when they want to be seen as martyrs for common sense, they gravitate towards the Celtic: specifically Scotland.
There are certainly folks in the reunification and independence movements who think the UK has become "too multicultural", or side with these movements out of a sense of ultranationionalism, and there are plenty of unionists who are part of that movement out of fear that leaning away from white English-speaking dominance will distance them from Western supremacy or more overt desires to "return" the UK to the white paradise it never was.
It's not any surprise that Rowling would take a potshot at trans people in any context, as I have no doubt she spends all day every day searching for trans tweets to reply to in between bursts of searching her own name for critics to sue, but her specific obsession with Scotland becomes more and more intertwined with the white supremacist caricature of "Scottish" being synonymous with "martyred rebel", and who laments about being martyred more than JKR?
Christie, breeder of racially pure children for the Aryan Nation, recommends use of the Celtic cross.
"It all gained momentum with Braveheart. That film is on the shelf of every white supremacist in America," says Mr Potok.
Whiteness, Multiculturalism and Nationalist Appropriation of Celtic Culture: the Case of the League of the South and the Lega Nord (pdf)
Its not summer yet but. Its summer
Its the second high 90s heatwave of the season already, and some of our reservoirs are so low they've opened all fishing - they'll die if they remain.
I add more layers of compost and straw, put my potted plants into bin lids to catch water, wonder where I can get shade cloths for free or cheap when everyone needs them now.
Even after the hottest days pass, its staying in the 80s. No rain in the forecast. Barely any this past spring. Not enough snow, not enough snowmelt. I wonder what the reservoir I've only seen as a vast lake looks like... emptied. Drying out in the sun.
Lots of trees have died this year, already. Too many years of stress in a row, it weakens you in ways you can't see. Until, all at once, brown crowns sweeping the landscape where evergreen once stood. They say we'll lose all the ash trees within a decade or two, to another pest. Another pressure point pushed to fault.
I gather rain barrels on the sides of the road and stack woodchips around the young trees and I teach people about native landscaping and how the plants built to grow here thrive. Or, they did, before the days on weeks of killing heat became the norm.
And then there's the fires. The smoke blocking out the sky, the ash raining down and covering everything. I wonder if it'll help, in the places where the land still holds memories of frequent fires, ones that restored as much as they took. I wonder how many summers I'll spend taping clingwrap over my windows and choosing the heavier option for the trailer because, well, metal siding is less likely to catch from an ember. I wonder how much will be lost to the flames.
I water deep into the clay ground, grateful that it will hold the water instead of let it sink away. Asking once, twice a week to be enough. I plant more than I ever have, desperate to outrun the hikes in food costs I know are coming. I try not to flinch when people complain to me about gas prices, who've been silent on the war and the administration of terror who drove them up.
I plan for a future where things will continue to grow, because I have to believe it will happen and because I could not bear the alternative - to give up and be part of assuring they will not.
I share flowers and bushes and I hope they will survive what's coming.
I plant seeds and hope that doing so creates a world where I will get to see them grow.
