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hey, solidarity to everyone out in philly tonight protesting the police murder of walter wallace jr. i know the story’s probably gonna get buried by all the supreme court stuff, so if anyone out there has a specific bail fund or mutual aid org that people trust out there please let me know about it so i can boost it. i’ll be keeping an eye out in the coming days

legallyhermione

The two Philly bail funds I know of are the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund (https://www.phillybailout.org) and the Philadelphia Bail Fund (https://www.phillybailfund.org)

The Philadelphia Bail Fund is a community bail fund based in Philadelphia that posts bail for people who are indigent. We work with the comm

The mission of the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund is to end cash bail in Philadelphia. Until that time, we post bail for those who cannot

My heart is so broken for Walter Wallace’s family and for Philly.

digitalmirth

Idk but this series of Mary Magdalene paintings is a big 2020 Mood.

fandomsandfeminism

Look, I dont know a lot about saints and Catholicism, but I know St. Agatha is always depicted with her breasts on a plate, and that’s sure something

fandomsandfeminism

Just a few more. This is a big trend.

royalturkeyz

Things I learned from the comments

She’s a patron saint of rape and abuse victims

She took a vow a chastity

A low born guy demanded her to be with him and she turned him down

For this she was imprisoned and tortured. This is how she lost her breasts (details not required)

She was repeatedly raped.

The Catholic Church regards her as a virgin for her peity despite the rape. (No matter your views on virginity this is a pretty interesting statement)

She was sentenced to death to burn at the stake but was saved by an earthquake

In her holiday people make titty cupcakes

I didn’t know she existed and now I think she’s a pretty rad woman. I would hesitate calling her a protofeminist as some often do with amazing women in history but she is pretty cool. Also she’s still very relevant today as women are still treated the way she was.

bernardberniebern

other things i learned: damn historic artists drew a woman with her own tits on a plate with Cleavage and prominent nip nops???

fatal-pedestrian

When is titty cupcake day?

fandomsandfeminism

Today!

#st. agatha #st agatha #rape #sexual assault #survivor team go #stg #saints

eyetosky

THROW OFF THE JANGLY YOKE OF OPPRESSION

thefingerfuckingfemalefury

“WE ARE THE FUTURE RUDOLPH, NOT THEM”

dr-archeville

M: “What’s your name?”

R: “Rudolph.”

M: “What’s your real name, Rudolph?”

R: “… Red-Nose.”

M: “Quite a talent you have there, Red-Nose.”

dr-archeville

miscreant-side-puffs

The only holiday post worth the season

alarajrogers

Some member of the Brotherhood, whining: You recruited Rudolph? Now Santa can’t pull his sleigh in bad weather! Christmas is ruined! I hope you’re happy!

Magneto: I’m Jewish. And yes, very.

henstomper

very interesting how lgbt rep always stops after the first 3 letters. really weird. really really curious how that works.

jabez-dawes

or after the first 2!! they love 2 pit bi & trans ppl against each other like we’re fighting over a “third seat at the table” but the reality is there’s only 2 seats to begin with. or something. it’s kind of a tortured metaphor. but it’s always easier for the mainstream to empathize with you the more you assimilate, so if you’re “””too””” “””queer””” then it’s fine if you’re being harassed or killed or sexually assaulted or fired or never hired to begin with or denied housing etc etc - YOU are the one making other ppl uncomfortable. you’re the troublemaker. stop doing that shit and we’ll let you in. maybe.

bi and pan and polysexual people make up about half of all lgbt people, according to reasonably reliable statistics. but bi representation is in a very similar state to trans representation: it’s there sometimes, once in a while it’s nuanced and good, but on the whole it’s absolute garbage and reinforces a lot of attitudes that contribute to real life violence against bi and trans ppl.

god I’m super derailing this post but as a bi trans person I’m like really mad about this and I think the bi thing gets overlooked because bi ppl “””aren’t really part of the community””” or “””don’t face the same amount of discrimination””” and tbh if we’re comparing bi to trans ppl I think that’s incontestably true. but bi ppl face a hell of a lot more discrimination, violence, abuse, etc than gay and lesbian ppl. like fact check that if that sounds controversial or iffy to you but I remember reading suicide attempt percentage breakdowns among the lgbt community compared to average and it was like 2% for people as a whole, 10ish% for gays and lesbians, a crazy high number like 78% or something for trans/nb ppl, and 30 or 40ish% for bisexuals i think? it’s nuts!!! it’s absolutely nuts!!! but there’s approximately 0 (zero!) resources for bi ppl specifically. I hate it.

whiteadora

compilation of people treating genderqueer like it’s not a legitimate identity because it has the word “queer” in it, and everyone knows you can only be queer if you’re gay or binary trans //s

@dreamyluigi-discourse @lesbie-vague @anna-of-course @ace-leafeon @feminismandmedia

genderqueerpositivity

A collection of people who have zero knowledge of trans history.

Genderqueer is an older term than nonbinary and has a specific history of promoting the liberation and visibility of those who are outside of the gender binary.

Let me say that again: the term genderqueer existed before the term nonbinary…and well over a decade before the creation of tumblr.

I love my genderqueer identity for it’s history, it’s inherent inclusiveness, it’s power. Genderqueer defines my gender by what it is, rather than by what it is not.

And personally, I love the fact that my gender identity is a jackass repellent. 👍

jabez-dawes

I love the word nonbinary and it works for me and I use it to refer to myself but before I learned the word nonbinary I learned these words: genderqueer, bigender, agender, trigender, etc. I identified as genderqueer for a few years before fairly consistent dismissiveness and fear of not being able to get hormones pushed me to identify as a binary transgender man for several years. Now I’m back to acknowledging my genderqueer/nonbinary sense of self, this time more equipped to handle the eyerolls. Genderqueer has been an important word for me.

I love the word pansexual and I use it to refer to myself but before I learned the word pansexual or any other word to describe attraction to more than one gender I learned the word bisexual. In fourth grade. I came out as bi when I was fourteen. I do like the deliberate inclusiveness of the word pansexual (or polysexual or multisexual, etc) but I have always been more comfortable with the word bi. It’s short and easy to understand. Language changes. October is the tenth month, not the eighth. I’m bi, and I am attracted to many genders. I’m pansexual, but I don’t use that word very often.

I love the word queer maybe the most. It starts with a q. It’s used as an insult, a slur, which makes it all the more confrontational to heteronormative society when I use it about myself and my friends and my community in a defiantly positive way. I am and always will be enthusiastic about queerness, about queer culture, about queers. I am queer. I love being queer. I love the deliberate inclusivity of it. I love how it makes the peculiar Other into a diverse coalition of “we.”

Nothing is unproblematic. Nothing comes from nothing. These are words that are important to a lot of vulnerable people.

#genderqueer #bisexual #queer

gaydiationpoisoning-deactivated

The biggest, most obvious hole in the “cis” concept, for me, is that it demands everyone have a gender. It assumes that everyone who is not-trans is comfy in their bodies, which can be untrue for a number of reasons, but it also assumes that everyone who is not-trans actually, strongly identifies with the gender forced upon them at birth. I know no one like this, even among able-bodied men, who benefit from their gender assignment.

Gender is restriction at best and violence at worst. Let’s not pretend it’s good for anyone by telling other people that expanding it will liberate us.

neeea

#plus #if there is no male or female body what makes a person cis? #if biological sex isn’t real how could the concepts of cis or trans exist ?? #that’s what i dont get

That’s exactly what I’ve been wondering as well.

jabez-dawes

everyone is trans/nb, gender is a trap, let’s all liberate ourselves from the multiple hierarchies crushing us and walk hand in hand as human beings strongly into the future.

#literally something i think about all the time #ever since i read this essay by dean spade #that was like ‘the gender dysphoria we all feel’#that line really blew my mind #i was like ‘oh!!!’ trans ppl have something really valuable to offer the world!!!#we can liberate the cis!#anyway all i want is a world that really understands that race and gender and all these things are just constructs #created to divide us and keep us weaker by fighting with each other #instead of working together to make a stronger coalition

yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20

remember when you could say stuff like “the earth is round” or “nazis are bad” and be absolutely certain everyone who heard you would agree

yyyyddmmsupremacy-deactivated20

remember when you could say “we shouldn’t attack children with tear gas” and be absolutely certain everyone who heard you would agree

rintezukas

chimpanzees are the closest thing to demons in this world i am very harsh on chimpanzees considering my huge love for other apes but they are so fucking mean and they are capable of knowing better

rintezukas

if i got mauled by an animal and killed theres a part of me that would be able to become serene and sort of deal with it as like. law of the wild or whatever, humans are the ones out of tune

if i got mauled by a chimpanzee and killed i would be angry at the chimpanzee for being like. i dont know being able to conceptualize pain in others and still deciding to pull me apart with its huge hands until i die

rintezukas

if i got mauled by an orangutan i would feel absolutely no pain as my body was gently opened along inbuilt seams to release my soul like carbon dioxide from a coke can

#weirdly #relatable

whitepeopletwitter

partychance

hey trans people

yknow when you’re trans and you are just having a trans time and transitioning all over the place ok the cis people have stopped reading at this point. at 9:45 change into your insect costumes

foxflightstudios

Cross posted from my twitter: I hear you, I see you, I believe you. 🏳️‍🌈

petymology-deactivated20181211

If it’s hard for you to vote ...

In the town I live in, there’s only one place to get the state-required voter ID. It’s way out beyond the end of the bus line, and its hours are inconvenient and unpredictable. Also, the IDs cost like $30; the people who passed the voter ID law obviously didn’t think that was a budget-breaker for anyone who MATTERED.

If you have difficulty getting a voter ID, here are some thoughts:

- Contact a church. (I wish I could say contact ANY church, but to be honest, if you look unconventional, and you don’t know which churches in your town are the progressive ones, look for a Unitarian church. I suspect most synagogues would be more helpful than most evangelical churches, but I don’t know that from personal experience.)

When I was a church secretary, if someone had called and said, “I want to register to vote, but I don’t have a car and I don’t have $30 for an ID,” I’m pretty sure our entire governing board would have been lining up to help you out.

In this part of the country, nuns are a good bet, too.

- Contact the local Democratic Party office.

- Contact a YMCA or a YWCA. Did you know that fighting racism is actually part of the Y’s charter? Pretty sure somebody in that office will be able to help you get the ID you need to register.

- Go to your town’s website and look for a pro-diversity organization – a Multicultural Awareness Center, something like that. Give them a call.

- Call your library reference desk and ask if they know of anyone who could help.

I don’t actually think this would help, but it would be interesting: Call the local office of your senators and your representative, and ask if they can help you get a voter ID. At least it might be entertaining to hear them sputter.

vastderp

They people who pushed voter ID absolutely knew about the prohibitive cost of the IDs and the difficulty of getting them. They’re counting on it, because they while point is to stop poor people voting. It also disproportionately affects Black voters and that’s also on purpose. It’s a barrier they can legally throw up between poor and/or Black people and the polls, packaged as concern about voter fraud.

There’s nothing accidental and nothing new about voter suppression. The states that passed voter ID can pretend it’s a bug, not a feature, but all of them vwere made very very aware of the issue when these laws were being talked about by p much every civil rights organization in existence. A huge outcry went up, and they still passed the laws. If conservatives could bring back the poll tax and literacy tests they absolutely would and they would pretend later that they had no data and no clue it might suppress votes from minorities and poor people, aw how sad for you, unfortunately there’s nothing we can do about it now… It’s the law :( :( :(

I hate seeing them win. It’s vile.

the-real-seebs

at least one of the early advocates since deconverted from the ideology, and has stated directly that it was absolutely premeditated intent that it would disenfranchise historically-Democratic groups from voting, that is the exact point, that was the sole consideration.

this is really obvious if you look at the arguments presented in favor: if you look over all the “but look at this vote fraud” examples, you will find that none of them are “fraud” that would be prevented by requiring voters to have ID. it’s all stuff like allegations that felons were voting, and the investigations i’ve seen have usually found that less than 1% of the reported “fraud” was actually illegal voting.

during the last election, one of the groups that does this circulated a thing about how the MN secretary of state was giving election judges instructions that would require them to accept illegal votes. well, yes; the actual laws in MN are 100% clear, you ask a person to swear/affirm that they believe they are eligible to vote, and if they do so, you must let them vote, that is what our laws say. if you do not like the laws, you are welcome to say the laws should be different, but claiming that the secretary of state is telling people to break the law, when the law is quite clear on the topic and the instructions were to follow it, is sleazy at best.

and i honestly don’t believe it’s a misunderstanding. no one who put in the minimal time and effort to understand the issue should have made that mistake. the law is fairly clear, and the secretary of state’s instructions are clear and specific enough to eliminate any reasonable misunderstanding.

(and in MN, the attempts to push this failed, around the same time that the attempts to make us have a state-wide ban on legalizing gay marriage failed. yay MN.)

lauralot89

Because I remember disinformation being spread around the last election and I’m sure Russia will bring it back:

YOU CAN’T VOTE ONLINE.

YOU CAN’T VOTE FROM YOUR PHONE.

IN MANY STATES THERE ARE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES FOR PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR BALLOT.

DO NOT WEAR CAMPAIGN GEAR TO THE POLLS.

DO NOT TRY TO PERSUADE PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR A CANDIDATE AT THE POLLS.

DO NOT ENGAGE IN ANY KIND OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE AT THE POLLS.

NO ELECTION IS EVER A SURE THING, EVEN IF YOU’RE IN THE BLUEST OR REDDEST OF STATES. IF SOMEONE TRIES TO TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN SIT THIS ONE OUT, THEY ARE EITHER IGNORANT OR MALICIOUS.

VOTE.