Gays Into The Iris

33 - they/them - I lived bitch

[jake-clark]

[meiiiwaku]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame @worldheritagepostorganization

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

is this the ORIGINAL?!???

[laughconfetti]

[creepymutelilbugger]

oh holy shit i didn’t even know where this meme came from

[roses-blog-of-things-deactivate]

OH MY ACTUAL GOD THE ORIGINAL

[thenumberonevelvetcake]

ORIGINALS ON THE ROLL

[psychotic-gerard]

i have understood so many things about online leftist culture by the fact that when i said "your local community has people you will morally and politically disagree with but you cannot lock them out of accessing any tangible service you’re organising" one of the tags responding said "this isn’t about proshippers in here you’re not welcome" like. folks. focus with me. some of us are homeless here.

[orchidvioletindigo]

There's a disconnect happening here because the primary function of social media for most casual users is to form a circle of friends around the usual things that friendships are built on: shared interests and lifestyles and ideas of what is important and what is unacceptable. When people are mainly doing leftism on social media, this encourages thinking of leftism as centered around establishing high-minded social clubs.

For anyone who still isn't getting it from someone who helps people IRL: There's a difference between whom you're helping to feed at the mealshare and whom you're choosing to hang out with for fun after the mealshare. You don't have to invite a hungry person with opinions you don't like to play board games with you, but you do have to help keep them from starving if you're serious about leftist organizing.

[trials-era-sam]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr reply with username blocked out reading: *volunteering at the soup kitchen, holding a bowl hesitantly to my chest* what do you think about age gaps in ships /End ID]

[parakavka]

We took Cosmo to our local Pride festival today - He won two prizes in their dog show : r/shiba

[suncaptor]

linked tree (includes options to donate to Ghanaian projects)

petition to show support

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[wormkink]

do yall remember when the skies turned orange here and everyone was freaking out about how bad the air was to breathe in?

two weeks ago, the same thing happened in Gaza with a huge sandstorm kicking up all the debris and toxicity into the air, except no one had anywhere to go. this storm destroyed tents, literally ripped through the little between families and the harsh weather. people are still trying to find the means to fix what has been destroyed. and just yesterday, another rainstorm hit.

[wormkink]

my fiancé hammad (vetted @gazavetters #625) and his family, have been living in these circumstances like so many others for so, so long.

but there is really, really good news. my fiancé was able to find an apartment to rent — real walls and floors and a roof, with real beds, a real place for his little nieces to run around and actually be sheltered. how many of us take our homes for granted?

hammad signed a contract promising to pay $5000 in three months for a down payment and rent during that time. if we don’t raise these funds in time, they’ll be evicted.

[wormkink]

we’re 3k away with one month left.

i’m afraid. i don’t know how or if we’ll make it in time.

we’d need ⭐️ 30 generous people to donate $100, 60 of you to donate $50, and 120 people to come together to donate $25. ⭐️

please help my fiancé and his family. they don’t deserve any more bad news.

[wormkink]

no donations in days.

[deltaomicronfive]

Hi. I'm Deejay, a black trans writer who is housing vulnerable and I'm just tryna survive a weird change of income after turning a job down for lack of accommodation for my disabilityand schedule.

I'm hyper focused on rent. Especially after some fatigue spells after a ptsd episode.

It is due June 7th.

My fee is 432 before I renew.

Cash and pay are both agenderdread.

V_nmo is deejwalker365.

Kofi is forwardalways21.

0/432

[deltaomicronfive]

No help in 3 days

[deltaomicronfive]

Black agender poet from the Chicagoland area Individual poems on the posts section!

Donate to Support DJ's Fresh Start After Leaving an Unsafe Home, organized by D'Wight Walker

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Please help bruh. Nothing makes any sense anymore. Im in a food desert, I need money for milk bread and eggs and I feel like every other need is gonna push me behind. Im busy with my case manager handling a stalker this week. Please help me stay secure?

[deltaomicronfive]

30/435

[oneheadtoanother]

idk anything about this but I love it

[lynati]

If any competition needed to be on Tumblr, it's this one.

[scarlettohairdye]

Zelda puzzle training simulator

[the-catacombs]

Leather Teddy by Mr. Red. (Circa 1980)

[thyfl3shconsumed]

Another photo of our furry friend and a little bit about his maker, via The Leather Archives

[forsapphics]

Happy Disability Pride Month! 🩶💚❤️🤍💛💙🩶🌈 (x)

[gothmessi]

urgent help!

as you guys know my grandparents got scammed months ago, some man told them he was going to send them medical equipment they needed for $500 dollars, we were desperate, not only they lost all the money they had, my grandpa has gotten significantly worse, he's starting to lose vision in his good eye and my grandma is losing mobility as well (evidence), I know I sound annoying always coming here and begging for money for my grandparents and for my college, I don't know how to anticipate the grief, losing my grandpa everyday to his illness, losing my college education cause I can't afford it, in México the situation it's just getting worse and even though I feel lonely I have found a community here and I'm forever grateful for that, even a dollar goes a long way and all the money will go to their medical needs since I'm very sure I won't be able to cover college expenses, please share and donate if you can, you can help via p*ypal or any way you want through ko-fi, here's the link! 💕 thank you sm

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[gothmessi]

may 31th 2026

last donation was 3 days ago!

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[aropride]

if your animal is lying on the floor, furniture etc, it’s important to take a picture of them. then, if they move or shift in any way, it’s important to take another picture. with this technique, you can take many pictures of your animal

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[mixedindy]

[parachim]

Watch out

[natalieironside]

Shout out to trans women who aren’t computer scientists or musicians or avant-garde artists or whatever.

Shout-out to tgirls who work at Taco Bell. Thank u queen, society would collapse without you

[snkrfnd]

Over twenty years ago my big brother got me a job at a Taco Bell in the St. Louis suburbs-West County. He warned me that it was the “gay Taco Bell”, but since I was coming from the “gay Howard Johnson’s” I wasn’t shocked. It turns out it was the black trans women Taco Bell complete with black trans women in management. And they’d worked out an arrangement with the local teen Narcotics Anonymous group so that twice a week we would shut down the drive thru and the dining room and exclusively serve 60+ teens in various stages of recovery. And many of the women I worked with were in various stages of being out or transitioning and they were from all generations from teens to over 50. One woman I worked with had a regular corporate job presenting as a man 9-5 Mon-Fri and then came to Taco Bell and worked 6pm -2am Friday and Saturday night so she could be herself surrounded by other black transwomen in those stolen weekends. And we had customers come from all over the metro area because they knew they could be themselves in the dining room. I only worked there from 1999-2001 but for young me, this was a vital, formative experience. Some of the girls came from north city all the way out to the “gay Taco Bell” on Manchester in west county because they heard it was safe to work there. Like- I know times have changed but they haven’t changed much in 20 years. I’m still convinced that for lgbt youth, finding a job at your city’s version of the “gay Taco Bell” is key to survival.

[natalieironside]

Thank u for sharing this with us

[ackee]

finally bit the bullet and made a gfm..

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