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Mark Hartman, Islands

[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.

[orpheuslament]

not trying to put anyone on blast but why am i seeing people being like actually rainbow capitalism is good & you should not criticise it because now we dont even have that like. yeah? thats what everyone who has ever complained about rainbow capitalism has been talking about? we are aware that the clothing brand mass producing tshirts that say love is love in a sweatshop somewhere & the bank throwing people out on the streets handing colorful pens at a parade are not & have never been our allies? that the moment they think "supporting" us is not gonna make them enough money theyre gonna drop us without a second thought? that their catchy slogans & social media posts are empty & mean nothing? youre not gonna find allyship & community in a corporation theres no pride in buying a rainbow headband from a usamerican supermarket chain. like i understand how it can be nice to feel pandered to for a little but lets not fool ourselves please

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[fromsomeware]

[wuntrum]

realized i've never posted the paintings from my utility calendar by themselves! here's january through april :-)

[whyenn-reader]

im doing good! you know. besides the underlying feeling that I'm fundamentally incapable of fitting in in a society. besides that i'm chillin

[seanklingelhoefer]

PAN-O-RAMA

Großglockner Hochalpenstraße, Heiligenblut, Austria 2018.

CONTAX G2 | Zeiss Biogon 28mm f/2.8 | Kodak Gold 200

[vash-the-trans-catboy]

Cute little rainbow heart for pride month tumblr but how about you stop disproportionally banning trans women and marking sfw queer posts as mature

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[aenreth]

[…] The moon of Nokstella was the guide of countless stars.

[…] It is said that, in the Eternal City, now lost in ruin underground, meteorites held the same import as stars.

[huariqueje]

Night Swim - Mia Bergeron , 2026.

American, b. 1979   -    

Acrylic on flat panel , 8 x 8 in.

[mobilesuit]

caved and preordered the bell pepper. really don't want to miss out. though it'll be hard to wait till nov to build her...

[vane-bnt]

is this a butterfly ?

[chainsawpunk]

Zhang Peili, Uncertain Pleasure II, 1996. Six-channel, twelve-screen color video installation, silent, 30 min., , Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchased with funds contributed by the International Director’s Council, 2017. © Zhang Peili

[meow-nepeta]

*person whos never been loved voice* yeah its so cool when people tolerate my presence without making fun of me