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hyper-red-girl

TME trans people will immediately throw trans women under the bus and they continue to.

Yet when trans women and their allies call this trend out they're attacked.

No wonder trans women don't want to be in the same community as you all

They will throw trans girls under the bus, falling into the sports bs, and deny them healthcare

Truly evil

miyoria

duckduckgo fuck yourself

miyoria

trying to search for like the one thing that treats us like any other girl for once!! only to be met with a reminder that we are considered a porn category first. it makes me so very sad and upset.

miyoria

(via @transfem-tomgirl)

imagining a world like this is the first step in making it real. i want to see a world like this become real in my lifetime because tgirls deserve to be girls when they are young.

hope-for-the-planet

Engineering teams around the world have been attempting to develop new methods of seawater desalination.

Scientists in China have developed a more efficient form of solar desalination that uses 47.4% less energy than alternatives. After the first year of testing, the scientists believe that at scale it would be able to desalinate water more cheaply than producing bottled water.

The goal is now to scale the technology for use in coastal areas and islands experiencing water insecurity.

gallade-x-treme

>wearing each other's default fits

just get married already.

storyweavingspider

YOU. GET MORE ANTI-SLAVERY NOW.

storyweavingspider

Californians voted not to abolish slavery in 2024 because it’s “not economically feasible”

But also beyond that and prison abolition, unofficial (and in some cases official) slavery still exists both in the US and globally. I’ve met multiple Black people, myself included, who have been “functionally” enslaved to specific individual whites even if there wasn’t a legal contract making us their property. In my case, she not only raped me, beat me in public and private, otherwise abused me, controlled my finances so I couldn’t escape fiscally, but also literally hunted me down when I tried to escape her on foot with nothing but my clothes and would use threats of police violence to coerce me into sex and other shit with her.

It’s not just prisons. It’s not just human trafficking. It’s not just capitalism. It’s not *just* colonialism/imperialism/white supremacy. It’s all interconnected and built off the backs of systems that enable slavery and genocide NOW and people simply won’t care unless it makes them sad or affects someone they know personally.

moebutcher

people who are shocked that slavery is still common and widely supported also seem to have a very narrow idea of what being pro-slavery means. it isn’t just “slavery is good we should bring it back!!!” although that sentiment is also WAY too common.

being pro-slavery is also when:

- people believe criminals do not “deserve” to be paid for their labor or do not “deserve” to be paid ENOUGH

- when multiple of my teachers throughout my education since i was very young taught that slavery was a “necessary evil” because it was integral to the southern economy (in a school in a reliably blue state in the late 2010s! i am twenty and they were still teaching that shit)

- when people say we shouldn’t criticize sweatshops because then the employees will lose their jobs

- “the civil war was about states’ rights”

- white people getting angry that some black people mistrust, fear, or hate them because “it was so long ago!!!” (no it wasn’t. my dad was born before black people could vote [they could vote on paper but voting restrictions practically banned black people from voting in many places]. once again i am twenty. even after slavery was abolished many people were not freed. people who experienced or remembered slavery in the united states did not die that long ago)

- glorifying historical figures that enslaved people

- elementary school (in a northern state circa like 2012-2016! !! my southern friends experienced much worse pro-slavery propaganda!) being taught that some people were nice to their slaves :) !!! (translation: “some people didn’t torture the people they kidnapped and trafficked as badly as other people did!”) i remember being told specifically that george washington enslaved people but it was okay because in his will he said to free them after he died

- calling the abuse of sally hemings (starting at FOURTEEN!) at the hands of third president of the united states, thomas jefferson, an “affair” or “forbidden romance”. in 8th grade (which i think was 2018) i went on a school trip to washington dc. on that trip we toured thomas jefferson’s house. somewhere along the tour we watched a short film glorifying the rape of a 14-year-old. literally the age of the 8th graders on the tour

- northerners refusing to take accountability for slavery and trying to pin it all on southerners as if most northerners were not willing to let slavery continue indefinitely because they didn’t want to cause trouble. the north abolished slavery faster because it was less useful to us. that’s the only reason. lincoln didn’t want to abolish slavery at the beginning of the civil war. when he did it, it was NOT because he loved black people

the same people who don’t understand how anyone justified it at the time would’ve been the people who did not care. people in my community don’t want to acknowledge slavery because they feel guilty. thinking about what happened makes them uncomfortable. it isn’t their problem

depsidase

theaceofwords

It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

storyweavingspider

Rare white woman win free my girl she ain’t do nothin wrong

She was just doing the coke that gives you the executive function to torch a misogynist

soup-bubbles

Seeing the article saying she did it because "he made a joke about scones." Like no she did it he made a joke about how she should be enslaved to a man

fakefreshdeadfish

White woman are horrifying, or maybe it’s common in Australia to go to lighting someone on fire and skip the whole “beat their ass” part of it?

storyweavingspider

I mean tbh if you doubt your ability to physically beat someone’s ass, they can’t exactly punch you AND try to extinguish flames at the same time.

vullen

future archaeologists will know you were (not) a boy

vullen

i've seen countless kind and emotional replies in the year or so since i posted this comic, but this particular tag set has squeezed me unlike any other. thanks

lx-mobageshiki

cute-girls-from-anime-manga-vns

dear-ao3

tallspookylady

teamwork makes the dream work

raccoonmilf

Actually I’m incredibly upset about how tween fashion has essentially vanished from the market. I think that the tween period is wildly important for childhood development and developing personal sense of style. Like??? I was slathering myself in green body glitter every day and wearing purple eye liner. That shit is highkey important