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Guys, once again, if you're a real person having a real blog, please change the default profile picture so that people don't accidentally block you
“They asked me to tell you what it was like to be twenty and pregnant in 1950 and when you tell your boyfriend you’re pregnant, he tells you about a friend of his in the army whose girl told him she was pregnant, so he got all his buddies to come and say, “We all fucked her, so who knows who the father is?” And he laughs at the good joke…. What was it like, if you were planning to go to graduate school and get a degree and earn a living so you could support yourself and do the work you loved—what it was like to be a senior at Radcliffe and pregnant and if you bore this child, this child which the law demanded you bear and would then call “unlawful,” “illegitimate,” this child whose father denied it … What was it like? […] It’s like this: if I had dropped out of college, thrown away my education, depended on my parents … if I had done all that, which is what the anti-abortion people want me to have done, I would have borne a child for them, … the authorities, the theorists, the fundamentalists; I would have born a child for them, their child. But I would not have born my own first child, or second child, or third child. My children. The life of that fetus would have prevented, would have aborted, three other fetuses … the three wanted children, the three I had with my husband—whom, if I had not aborted the unwanted one, I would never have met … I would have been an “unwed mother” of a three-year-old in California, without work, with half an education, living off her parents…. But it is the children I have to come back to, my children Elisabeth, Caroline, Theodore, my joy, my pride, my loves. If I had not broken the law and aborted that life nobody wanted, they would have been aborted by a cruel, bigoted, and senseless law. They would never have been born. This thought I cannot bear. What was it like, in the Dark Ages when abortion was a crime, for the girl whose dad couldn’t borrow cash, as my dad could? What was it like for the girl who couldn’t even tell her dad, because he would go crazy with shame and rage? Who couldn’t tell her mother? Who had to go alone to that filthy room and put herself body and soul into the hands of a professional criminal? – because that is what every doctor who did an abortion was, whether he was an extortionist or an idealist. You know what it was like for her. You know and I know; that is why we are here. We are not going back to the Dark Ages. We are not going to let anybody in this country have that kind of power over any girl or woman. There are great powers, outside the government and in it, trying to legislate the return of darkness. We are not great powers. But we are the light. Nobody can put us out. May all of you shine very bright and steady, today and always.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I don't know how to elaborate on this, but i just watched Mamma Mia! for the nth time and there's this grief that comes with seeing someone finding their happy ending in another person. My god, I feel like that's not my version of a happy ending, but still it makes me sad that I'll never be able to experience that. You know, with being aroace and all. Wouldn't that be so easy?
Totally F***ed Up (Gregg Araki, 1993)
the humanity of the AIDS crisis: the ward by gideon mendel
colorized by me
It is sobering seeing these too too young men, who when these photos were taken, would have been only a few years older than me.
But thanks to government indifference to AIDS and HIV, never benefitted from safer sex information programming that I did in the late 80’s.
A few years is all it took to go from men dying alone and uncared-for, ignored by an ignorant and hateful government, to our community angry and outraged, launching the safer sex and AIDS awareness campaigns that saved lives like mine.
Forever in the debt of the gay men who went before me, and forever in the debt of the lesbians who cared for them when families and medical professionals wouldn’t.
these women did wonders for the “i’m single and i like it that way” community… i’m having a sexy ass life!
I loooooove getting rejected. People should reject more. It's the "maybes" and ghosting that's just like too much. A firm but polite "no" is infinitely more respectful of everyone's time and feelings. Can we just do that?
You guys know this is a pretty normal human want and not a special accomdation to be saved for people with autism right?
I love you aro men, i love you aro transmascs, i love you aro sapphics, i love you aro enbies, i love you heterosexual aros, i love you cishet aros, i love you aro fems, i love you butch aros, i love you gray-aros, i love you demi-aros, i love you aros who have treated as predators by the rest of the queer community, i love you aroallos, i love you aromantic people đź’—
I feel like fated lovers is romance horror
"everyone should get more aromantic" can appeal to tumblr's sensibilities but I genuinely think everyone should also get more asexual. I don't mean everyone stop having sex, what I mean is
Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.
Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.
You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.
Sex is not what makes someone an adult.
Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.
Sex is not equally important to everyone.
You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.
You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.
Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.
The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.
Anything can be sexual but not everything has to be sexual.
Im like if a fuckboy was raised catholic and touch averse
“bits to use in everyday conversations”
ayesha is the realest motherfucker who ever liveddddd
Alloplatonic aro culture is being so in love with my best friend. Not in a romantic way ofc but that is the love of my life and no one will ever understand me like they do
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