take this car, drive downstate

Hey I'm Lexa, from Houston, in Queens. I'm 22, an illustrator, a borderline deist, a humanist, white, cis, ace and I have an unhealthy obsession with robots and I guess homestuck and welcome to nightvale and stuff. Have some tags art tag transformers wtnv homestuck yeah I suck at tumblr i'm sorry :U

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ZAINAB JIWA AS GERALT OF RIVIA

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netflix’s 3%, episode 2 (2016)

it’s a common thing in scifi and fantasy stories to put a disabled character in their narratives or give a physically abled character a (mostly physical) disability for the purpose of offering them the chance to “cure” themselves through the story. of course it’s bc most of these stories are written by people who didn’t experienced some kind of situation like that. in this scene of 3%, fernando is telling michele that he felt his legs again bc he was given an opportunity to taste what the “better” place - the one they’re trying to go to - can offer to you; in other words the opportunity to be physically abled like most of people. usually they don’t put in these characters all the years or months or days that they had to deal with their disability and try to accept it as hard as they can bc that was their reality, that was how their lives would be for the rest of their lifetime. and here you have fernando, a brilliant black boy, who grew up in a poor and fucked up place, dropping truth bombs. it’s something we all should think more about, even more and more if we’re writing similar characters at some point. watch 3%, btw. 

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steph

stephanie

jeff

jeffanie

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tim

timothy

jim

jimothy

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nick

nicholas

rick

richolas

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harry 

harold

larry

larold

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Zack zackary Jack jackary

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Jon Jonathan Ron Ronathan

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Greg

Gregory

Craig 

Craigory

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ben benjamin gwen gwenjamin

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Phil Phillip Jill Jillip

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Frank Francis

Hank Hancis

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Ed

Edward

Ned

Nedward

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Dan

Daniel

Stan

Staniel

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Meg

Margaret

Greg

Grargaret

[alienoakley]

Carry

Caroline

Gary

Garoline

[lonelymentality]

Al

Alphonse

Val

Valphonse

[danisontnonfire]

Jen

Jennifer

Ken

Kennifer

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Molly Margaret

Holly Hargaret

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Harry

Henry

Larry

Lenry

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Mick Michael Dick Dichael

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Vlad Vladimir Chad Chadimir

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Connie Constance

Donnie Donstance

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Randy Randall

Sandy Sandall

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Is this how George R.R. Martin creates character names?

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Will William

Phil Philiam

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Jim

James

Kim

Kames

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Beth Elizabeth Seth Elizaseth

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Sal Sarah Val Varah

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Rick

Richard

Dick

Dichard

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Bob Robert Barb Rarbert

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You are LGBT if..

You are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. That’s it. Aces aren’t LGBT.

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I mean for one your forgetting a bit of that. Like the Q+.

Mod Bethany

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The full acronym is LGBT.

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I love me some ahistorical bullshit

The “full” acronym at one point was “GL”, after lesbians fought against male homosexuality being the “face” of the movement (i.e., the Alliance for Gay Artists (AGA), founded in 1982, was renamed the Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists shortly thereafter; and the Gay Activists Alliance never included “Lesbian” in their title).

The “full” acronym at another point was “LGB”, only after bisexual activists campaigned fiercely to be included, and is often still not even included in acronyms

The “full” acronym at yet another point was “LGBT”, only after trans activists campaigned fiercely to be included

Queer was added to the acronym after it was reclaimed and re-politicized by ACT UP off-shoot Queer Nation in the early 1990s. LGBTQ has been a thing since the 90s.

ONE Archives, which is the largest repository of LGBTQIA+ materials in the world and was founded by some of the principle members of the early (1950s-60s) homophile movement, which led to the gay rights movement post-Stonewall, uses the full acronym LGBTQ on their website and also freely uses the word “Queer” interchangeably.

As of 2014, NOW (National Organization for Women) agreed to switch to use of the full LGBTQIA acronym, and it likely isn’t the only large social rights organization to have done so

Many LGBTQ+ magazines use LGBTQ, including One (which has existed in some form since the 1950s) and The Advocate, use LGBTQ or LGBTQIA as the full acronym and regularly use “queer” as a phrase (and, in fact, some articles have welcomed asexual people and their narratives as part of the queer experience).

The acronym is constantly evolving. It’s not static. To claim otherwise is blatant ignorance. The modern-day LGBTQ+ community is a result of decades of political activism, social inclusion, and community outreach. It’s not a rigid structure that operates by a strict set of rules about who can and cannot join.

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The full acronym is LGBT. Cishets don’t belong in the community. Aces aren’t inherently lgbt. We don’t want our oppressors in our community.

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“we don’t want our oppressors in our community” 

as if trans people don’t already have to deal with their oppressors (cis people) being in their community

as if LGBTQIA+ people of color don’t have to deal with LGBTQIA+ white people in the community

as if LBTQIA+ women don’t have to deal with GBTQIA+ men in the community

as if disabled LGBTQIA+ people don’t have to deal with able-bodied LGBTQIA+ people in the community

the LGBTQIA+ community is huge and consists of people with multiply-overlapping identities and privileges. we all (unless you’re a cis, able-bodied, wealthy, white gay man) have to deal with a member of our oppressing class in the LGBTQIA+ community

ETA: “Straightness” is a position of power. Ace people, even if they are in heterosexual relationships, do not necessarily perform “straightness” in ways that are acceptable to the Straight class. 

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Reblogging because osirisjones is completely hitting the nail on the head.

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Reblogging because this is the reason most of us switched to “Queer” in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. This is the reason it’s “Queer Studies” and “Queer Community” and “Genderqueer” and all the rest.

Decades ago when I was a child, I watched this battle be fought over and over and over as each group sought to be recognized. As a teenager, I rejected it and went to “Queer”, because I was so done with all of this infighting. There is privilege within the community, absolutely, but ace and intersex and nonbinary and poly people are not the ones who have or exercise it. I say this as a person who is not any of those identities. I say this as a human being who feels that my own humanity can only be recognized when the humanity of my fellow humans is.

Calling an ace person cishet is a deliberate act of verbal violence intended to isolate vulnerable people and make them targets. I know this because homosexual people did the same type of thing to me when I was a teenager, before “B” got into the acronym, because they said I could “perform straightness”. (Protip: So can any other deeply closeted person.) We have been over and over this. Please stop assaulting queer people from within the community. If you don’t want to share a community with other queer people, you are welcome to pack up and leave for some imagined greener pastures. But this is not and never has been a homosexual-only community, a “respectable” community where everyone is just like picket fence straight people but with partners of their own gender. That is ahistorical and a deliberate erasure of the rest of us who’ve been fighting for decades for genuine acknowledgement of who we are.

I call on my fellow bi/pan peeps to stand up for our trans and aspec and intersex and nonbinary and poly and queer siblings. And to stand up for the next group to begin articulating their identities more clearly in our midst, whoever they may be. Because unless we do, our community will not be a community but a ladder with some people on top and others never getting support but being expected to hold the ladder up anyway.

The purpose of our community is to provide both social and political support across the board. We all gain from breaking down the gender binary in various ways and from extending civil rights and social acceptance across different sexualities and gender expressions, nuanced by the struggles our community members face due to their full identities. (For example, decreasing medicalization of intersex people’s bodies would help break down medicalization of my queer disabled body by highlighting how the medical community pathologizes variations from imagined norms.) When we support the most vulnerable among us, we support ourselves. We become strong. We become a real community.

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Queer is an important umbrella term, but the ever-expanding acronym is powerful too. The thing that finally made my mum stop fretting that I was going to miss out on an essential human experience and die loveless and alone was when I casually mentioned that the LGBTQIA acronym existed and that the A stood for asexual.

That was the first time she could imagine my sexual identity as something that could make me part of a community instead of isolating me. She was really happy about it.

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there are no doors at the bethesda offices you have to clip through the walls to get in

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Almost choke to death on water Immediately check eye makeup Tell tumblr about it

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I'm trying to prove a point that there is a fan base for a solo Black Widow movie. Please reblog if you'd watch it.

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Aahhh my sister made a horror game about bacon Now I'm having all these conflicted food feelings

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On May 28th, my sister, Edna, turned 31.

Her mental age is about three years old. She loves Winnie the Pooh, Beauty & the Beast, and Sesame Street. Even though the below picture is unconvincing.

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My Parents are Dead and My Sister is Disabled

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"is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? no, says the man in washington - it belongs to the poor. no, says the man in the vatican - it belongs to god. no, says the man in moscow - it belongs to everyone. i rejected those answers. instead, i chose something different. i chose the impossible. i chose rapture; a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small. and with the sweat of your brow, rapture can become your city as well.”

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A scene from The World's Translated Thus

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for the record, this is the exact moment I’m going to tear myself away from the internet to do my psych midterm

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update: NAILED IT