Queer Comfort Space

Welcome everyone to my eclectic LGBTQ+ blog!  I'm Kels and my pronouns are they/them! (: Personal tumblr/insta: indigo1411

[hansdampfinallengassen]

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance.

[ashlgcostumes]

“A child/student/young person asked me how to do X why does nobody get taught anything these days!!!” It’s you, buddy, you’re the teaching, this may legitimately never have come up before, why do people think education is exclusively some kind of abstract preemptive measure, most importantly done by other people so the rest of us only get the benefits and don’t have to do the work. Sometimes the person who is going to teach this is you. Fucking step up

[televisionenjoyer]

ok repeat after me: gluten free is not "diet culture". gluten free is not meant to "take the joy away from carbs". gluten free is a diet that allows people with an autoimmune disease to eat without inflicting further damage upon their bodies. we don't have to be condemned to eat the most disgusting and basic shit ever because we have celiacs. we deserve options too.

[identitty-dickruption]

nobody ever believes me when I list off all of the ways that humans are significantly less sexually dimorphic than people seem to believe and it drives me batshit insane. “you’re denying the biological reality of sex” well you’re sticking your fingers in your ears and saying lalalala every time anyone presents you with data that confirms that women and men aren’t really that different. and refusing to come to terms with the two-way relationship between the “biological” and “social” worlds. I think one of us is ignoring the biological sciences here and it isn’t me

[ryan-sometimes]

I’ve realized that my family doesn’t respond well to me pointing out their racism or body shaming by saying it’s “rude” and “a shitty thing to say” because those are things they don’t care about, so instead I’ve resorted to saying it’s “classless” and “not elegant.” It’s turned out to be surprisingly effective

[pocket-deer-belly]

i genuinely believe it's best when children are taught age appropriate lessons about sex and sexuality and consent basically as soon as they can string together a sentence. kids at any age can experience sexual feelings that are weird and confusing and leaving them in the dark just leaves them so vulnerable to having precocious sexual feelings exploited by adults

[catboynutsack]

ppl on this website will say that those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it and then recycle the same "This Marginalized Queer Group Is Actually Bad And It's Actually Okay To Bully Them And Harass Them" discourse every year like clockwork

[strollgeant]

we saw you from across the bar and you looked really anxious. can you tell us five things you can see, four things you can hear. okay good, we’re glad you’re okay. do you wanna come home with us and have a threesome?

[qqchurch]

[fagsromana]

in film school they’ll tell you that actors stand close to each other in old movies because the aspect ratio is different and they have less room. however, this is not true. they stand close to each other because they’re all playing closeted gay men who want to kiss

[our-queer-experience]

[mysticorset]

Alleviating gender dysphoria, not with binding or packing, but a secret third thing (padding your waist and ribs until they are the same size as your breasts)

[knittingserpent]

I’m sorry but this comment is sending me

[tjmystic]

Rofl -- I did this, too. None of my Kens looked twinky enough to be Jack from Titanic, so I lobbed the hair off of one of my Barbies, cut off her boobs, and used acetone to take off her lipstick. Voila, I had a Jack to play with.

[elierlick]

Lesbians dressed as clowns disrupted a "gender-critical" panel last month at University College London. Participants were surprised when trans and cis dykes from The Dyke Project obstructed the proceedings while in cheerful clown attire. Julie Bindel, one of the panelists, has been a major voice against trans, bisexual, and SWer rights. The protesters chanted, “you’re not feminists, you’re all clowns!” while interrupting her. More of these protests, please! Read the full story on Dazed.

[nateconnolly]

At 0:19 you can see them fully assault a protester. Not "just" escorting them out the building, but shoving them onto the ground hard

[nateconnolly]

Per the Dazed article, these protesters did the smart thing: rather than all begin shouting at once, the protesters took action in different groups. While the first group raised a banner, the remaining three groups pretended not to be protesters. Then, once the event organizers had removed the first group and begun the presentation over again, the second group of people (the ones in the video) began their disruption. Then the event organizers got everything in order and the third group of protesters interrupted them all over again. There was four groups in total!

The tactic has two benefits: first, they were able to make chaos a lot longer than they would've if they'd all protested all at once. But also, they got the TERFs to stop trusting each other. The protesters created an air of paranoia amongst the bigots and I hope it fucking haunts them until they're in the ground

[alleycatboy]

being smart has never stopped me from being a complete fucking idiot

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[daily-reminders-that-ur-enough]

You are valued on this earth. Your presence matters to people. The people who love you love you dearly. You might not notice the impact you have, that the delivery person is glad to see your plants, that a stranger on the street smiled because you passed by, the person who follows you is excited to see your posts, that your coworkers, classmates, and community members are grateful for your life in more ways than they express.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Museums not giving stolen artifacts and bodies back is bonkers. Like what if someone from China went into Arlington cemetery and dug up JFK’s dead body and took him and his eternal flame back to China and refused to give him back like that would be pretty messed up and kind of weird right like put John back that’s not where he goes but that’s basically what the British museum does every day

[what-even-is-thiss]

Imagine if somebody went into all the Catholic Churches in your area and cut out all of their stained glass windows to display in a sterile white room 5,000 miles away like that’s the level of ridiculousness we’re dealing with here. Those aren’t your windows, man. What the fuck.

[emeraldwhale]

Fermenting in a butch honoring way

[emeraldwhale]

I MEANT FEMME NOT FERMENTING

[thesexiestselkie]