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[nepenthean-sleep]

straight white people making a romance movie: haha what if it was illegal to have sex? wait what's lawrence v texas. wait what's mclaughlin v florida. wait what's loving v virginia

[ninewheels]

As preposterous and stupid as this fucking movie's premise sounded (for a light-hearted rom-com, and not The Handmaid's Tale) I didn't want to think about it too much until the movie actually came out, and then I could see if it was somehow more intelligent and subversive than the trailer let on, but guess what, it's even worse!

One Night Only review: Pull out from this sex-negative rom-com

If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.

Sex workers are thrown under the bus, shown only as thieves who fleece men in the woods at night, while queer sexuality is relegated to a few scenes with Allie’s roommate (a woefully underused Quintessa Swindell) and a handful of pans past blurry same-sex extras making out in the background. “This night is for the straights,” Swindell’s character says to Allie, before saying that queer people have worked around straight laws for centuries.  This is supposed to be a nod to queer resilience, but largely comes off as straightwashing the history of anti-LGBTQ legislation in this country that led towards raids of queer clubs and incarceration of queer people in the not-too-distant past (let alone the current barrage of anti-Trans and LGBTQ legislation currently in the works and on the books). It’s also ignorant of the long and fraught fight for the normalization of age-of-consent laws, which, by the way, did not happen in all states in this very country until 2003. Yes, that’s not even thirty years ago.  By the end, our intrepid protagonists have not had sex with anyone, because this is a film about Romance with a Capital R (and I guess sex is not part of romance!) and for that very same reason they ultimately embrace the fascist state of things. They aren’t the only ones who refuse to fight back. No one in this cursed film is protesting this mandate beyond “repeal” signs in various windows and some creative graffiti (...) (...) If we are supposed to believe that the film is making some subversive statement about the state of sex and bodily autonomy in this country, it cannot end with its leads embracing their chains. That’s just warmed-over conservatism running around in sheep’s clothing.

[nepenthean-sleep]

yeah i wrote this post having only seen the trailer, but jesus christ. was this movie a psyop LMAO??

also, for the unaware: mclaughlin v. florida was a 1964 supreme court case that struck down a florida anti-miscegenation law that criminalized cohabitation (and thus, as implied, sex) between white people and people of color of opposite genders. anti-miscegenation laws made marriage and sexual relationships between white people and people of color, most often specifically black people, a FELONY in several states in the united states up until the 1950s and 1960s. though it was already struck down by the supreme court, the state of alabama didn't repeal their law until 2000! there were THREE ATTEMPTS at codifying anti-miscegenation into the us constitution!

like yes, the issue here is partially straight white people's ignorance on the united states's history of homophobic policy, but it's also really important to recognize that arguably the majority of the issue here is straight white people's ignorance of the united states's history of codifying eugenics and antiblack racism.

the premise could have been interesting as a serious dystopian story, especially taking that history into account, but it wasn't written that way at all. this movie should never have been a fucking romcom making light of the violence the united states (and many other countries) has enacted on any kinds of sexual relationships it deems undesirable.

[nepenthean-sleep]

can y’all maybe reblog this version i feel like people are forgetting about the racism and just focusing on the homophobia

[storyweavingspider]

The idea that non-police lynchings ever stopped in the US instead of whites just becoming craftier (evil) about it is so weird to me like

Sure they ain’t picnicking at a public hanging anymore but you seen how many more missing posters there’s been the past few years in particular right? How so many Black and Brown children are just fuckin disappearing too and never making anything more than a Facebook missing post?

We just only hear about them when someone cares about them enough to set fire to everything until it gets noticed.

[storyweavingspider]

Yes. Mainly by law enforcement or people working with them. We watch us disappear into human trafficking and mass graves and we can do literally nothing about it besides hope one of our loved ones wasnt one of them when we get news they’ve disappeared.

The law doesn’t exist to protect Black people, it exists to kill us.

215 people have been buried behind a Mississippi jail since 2016, attorney says

The issue became national news when families said they waited months for word about missing loved ones — only to learn their relative had be

[schrodingers-slut]

“If these so called ‘sundown towns’ still exist–”

Sundown Town Map | History and Social Justice, inspired by James W. Loewen

A database contributed by people across the nation underlies these maps and the tables you can generate.

[aetherograph]

The Greenbook was a travel guide for Black people; it still exists, there's even an app!

Green Book Global - Black Travel Made Easy - Tips for Travel

Green Book Global is the first Black travel review site. Black Travelers, write/read destination reviews, book trips AND earn cash

[aetherograph]

Hey! Are you looking at the map above and thinking "there's some places missing that I know about"? Then please ADD INFORMATION TO THE MAP. It is an ACTIVE map that you can contribute to!!! If you are a BIPOC person who travels, please make use of and contribute to Greenbook Global's city review information! These are not static, these are active maps that don't work if people don't contribute!

[nemfrog]

Feather öaöa of the Roro-speaking tribes. Papua New Guinea. 1910.

Internet Archive

[eldritchbauble]

If you think intersex, trans, or other androgynous or mixed body types or traits are "gross" then you have serious unpacking to do.

I do say this from a position of white privilege, but "othering" of these body types is very much rooted in white supremacy and Christofascism.

Some of you are fine with that (fuck yourselves), a lot of you have no idea what you're naively playing into and supporting (fix that and stop).

[eldritchbauble]

You can't be a leftist who supports autonomy and human rights and support bigotry. End of.

The Gender Binary is White Supremacy

A Framework for Intersex Justice

Measures of Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism, and Gender Binarism for Health Equity Research: From Structural Injustice to Embodied Harm—An Ecosocial Analysis

The Christian Nationalist Playbook

Attacks on Trans Youth Are a Fascist Moral Battering Ram

[liberalsarecool]

"I want children to suffer" is the ultimate flex by red-pilled conservative anti-feminist dorks who are equally racist when screeching about birth rates dropping.

[starlitbeetle]

Hey all, while we're busy normalizing women with hairy legs, hairy armpits and bushy pubes, let's also normalize women with hairy upper lips, hairy chins, hairy side burns, hairy chests, and all the other places where women are supposedly magically hair-free.

[rejectingrepublicans]

[subjectedvanished]

The Black Panther, November 8, 1969 

The Black Panther, August 9, 1971 

Artist : Emory Douglas . A revolutionary and minister of culture for the Black Panthers from 1967 to the early 1980s .

[zmpl]

Compulsory Aliveness by Tabitha Lean

[oaluz]

these images are making me emotional lol even just the image of the hands. kind face strong hands. it is interesting to me that patriarchy is predicated on the idea of women as weak and also inherent caregivers when ethical, effective caregiving is an integration of kindness and strength. the strength tells the little one being cared for that they don't have to worry about the caregiver and they can focus on processing what is inside. but that strength is not something that can be summoned out of nothing - "to stay bigger, stronger, wiser, and kind, you need to talk with another adult and let them help you"

[sibirsibir]

Conjuring Mongolian deer stones: biographical statuary of Bronze Age Central Asia and south Siberia: Deer stones continue to play an important role in rural Mongolia, reminding herders of their ancient heritage and serving as ovoos, ‘altars’, for display of combined Buddhist and shamanic belief, seen in these blue silk prayer khadags and horse skulls.

[derekscorner]

[kropotkindersurprise]

July 31, 2026 - A cannabis dispensary in Michigan, USA, responded to the Flock camera that was put up facing their parking lot by blocking it with a "NO FLOCK ZONE" sign. [video]

[noneedtofearorhope]

apparently, this is in response to a wisconsin man who frequented the shop being arrested after wisconsin jackboots noticed his frequent trips to a legal state

Thanks to Flock Cameras, “Drove Across State Lines” Is Now Justification for Police to Search Your Car

Police in Wisconsin searched a man's car for cannabis because Flock cameras told them he often traveled to Michigan, where weed is legal.

[batboyblog]

Hi! I want to thank you for your hopeful political posting and encouragement to stay engaged. You were a real bright spot on my dash during the last election and I really enjoy seeing your thoughts.

I’m new to calling my representatives about things (shout out to 5 calls) and I was wondering if I could get your take on something. Is it possible to call reps TOO much? I know you should only call once for a given issue, but everything is happening so much I could probably call about three different issues every day of the week and never run out of things to talk about. What are your thoughts?

hello and good morning

I think part of it is for your own mental health, that it's better to focus on a few key issues, but clearly there's A LOT going on. Upside everyone has 3 members of Congress (two Senators and a Representative) so you can make a rotation of calling their different offices if you want to mix it up

However, it is the most magical time of the year, election time! So you and really everyone should check out https://www.mobilize.us for opportunities to volunteer with candidates from statewide Senate and Governor candidates down to local state house candidates and many many campaigns are doing virtual from anywhere phone banking

if people are shy about canvassing or phone banking, maybe live somewhere where they're far from any competitive races, there are LOTS of groups sending post cards to voters and nows the time to get signed up for that

Postcards to Voters

Progressive Turnout Project 2026

Center for Common Good

Active America

any ways I'm gonna be out and about knocking door this weekend and if any of you live in Alaska, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, or Texas you better be out there too, this is ours to lose kids

[fatliberation]

I saw a comment on your blog that says 'the way you eat does not cause diabetes'...are you able to expand on that or provide a source I could read? I've been told by doctors that my pre-diabetes was due to weight gain because I get more hungry on my anti psychotics and I'd like to fact check what they've told me! Thank you so much!

You Can’t Sweets Your Way Into Diabetes

There are a lot more factors at play in diabetes — more complicated than “I had a cupcake at lunch.”

Pre-diabetes was rejected as a diagnosis by the World Health Organization (although it is used by the US and UK) - the correct term for the condition is impaired glucose tolerance. Approximately 2% of people with "pre-diabetes" go on to develop diabetes per year. You heard that right - TWO PERCENT. Most diabetics actually skip the pre-diabetic phase.

There are currently no treatments for pre-diabetes besides intentional weight loss. (Hmm, that's convenient, right?) There has yet to be evidence that losing weight prevents progression from pre-diabetes to T2DM beyond a year. Interestingly, drug companies are trying to persuade the medical world to start treating patients earlier and earlier. They are using the term “pre-diabetes” to sell their drugs (including Wegovy, a weight-loss drug). Surgeons are using it to sell weight loss surgery. Everyone’s a winner, right? Not patients. Especially fat patients.

Check out these articles:

Prediabetes: The epidemic that never was, and shouldn’t be

The war on ‘prediabetes' could be a boon for pharma—but is it good medicine?

Also - I love what Dr. Asher Larmie @fatdoctorUK has to say about T2DM and insulin resistance, so here's one of their threads I pulled from Twitter:

1️⃣ You can't prevent insulin resistance. It's coded in your DNA. It may be impacted by your environment. Studies have shown it has nothing to do with your BMI.

2️⃣ The term "pre-diabetes" is a PR stunt. The correct term is impaired glucose tolerance (or impaired fasting glucose) which is sometimes referred to as intermittent hyperglycemia. It does not predict T2DM. It is best ignored and tested for every 3-5yrs.

3️⃣ there is no evidence that losing weight prevents diabetes. That's because you can't reverse insulin resistance. You can possibly postpone it by 2yrs? Furthermore there is evidence that those who are fat at the time of diagnosis fair much better than those who are thin.

4️⃣ Weight loss does not reverse diabetes in the VAST majority of people. Those that do reverse it are usually thinner with recent onset T2DM and a low A1c. Only a tiny minority can sustain that over 2yrs. Weight loss does not improve A1c levels beyond 2 yrs either.

5️⃣ Weight loss in T2DM does not improve macrovascular or microvascular health outcomes beyond 2 years. In fact, weight loss in diabetics is associated with increased mortality and morbidity (although it is not clear why). Weight cycling is known to impacts A1c levels.

6️⃣ Weight GAIN does NOT increase the risk of cardiovascular OR all causes mortality in diabetics. In fact, one might even go so far as to say that it's better to be fat and diabetic than to be thin and diabetic.

Dr. Larmie cites 18 peer reviewed journal articles (most from the last decade) that are included in their webinar on the subject, linked below.

Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes

Available to buy on SendOwl

[canadianwheatpirates]

The link to “Prediabetes: The epidemic that never was, and shouldn't be” goes to the wrong article, here’s the correct one:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-prediabetes-diabetes-pharma-epidemic-perspec-0801-jm-20160729-story.html

[fatliberation]

Oops! Thanks for this!

[awfulpunk]

this is insanely racist and I haven't even seen much about this online yet

[checkyourasianbias]

after Bad Bunny won they added a Latin song category and after Rosé got three nominations the grammys added a k-pop/c-pop/j-pop category they have always been afraid of well-performing artists of color challenging white artists in mainstream categories