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unclefather

can’t risk it

bentejam

THIS PIECE OF PICTURE WORKS.

fakesurgery

Gotta take all the chances…..

fit-beach-tea

Never risk it

bbylilithian

Too close to final’s week

maggierobots

I could use it.

mythical-illustrator

Why not, spread the luck

dduane

Could use some of that. Why not? :)

makingqueerhistory

Okay, so I try hard to cover global queer history, and this isn't marking a stop to that, but I am aware that most of my audience is American, and I want to address them very directly right now.

Google Removed Pride Month From Its Calendar App, and Stonewall National Monument's "LGBTQ" status was changed to "LGB" on the government website. This is the beginning of the erasure of queer history, not the end. I don't know what the future of the United States looks like, as someone who studies queer history and has done so for many years, I want to share some tools with you.

Now is a good time to prioritize local queer history, Making Gay History is a great project, so is the Digital Transgender Archive, but also check your city and see what resources there are.

Read and buy books about queer history. I have an affiliate list with some of the books I personally recommend.

If you use Google Calendar, repopulate that resource with so much queer history with a free queer history calendar plug-in, it has names from queer history that you can also learn more about for free when they come up. As the author of these articles, feel free to save them, print them off, whatever makes them freely accessible as suppression get's worse.

Use your local library. Email the board about book bans, request banned books, request queer books, and make your voice heard.

Make queer art. Share queer art. Protect queer art. Here is some public-domain queer art to use as you wish.

Keep up with queer news, THEM is a great resource.

All of these tools are currently freely accessible with an internet connection. Queer history is a community responsibility, do your part.

2spirit-0spoons-deactivated2024

3 transphobic arguments to be aware of (so you don't go down the alt right pipeline)

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Easily one of the most important videos I've seen since the election.

krellion

Video transcription:

My fellow cis ladies, here's three transphobic arguments I want you to know now so you don't fall for them later because this is the hot topic gateway into conservatism for women.

Just to be clear, it's-it's-it's the Nazi kind of conservatism as well.

Remember "divide and conquer" is the name of the game, so don't be divided!

First thing transphobes are is they're gender essentialists, so they will tell you "men are inherently bad and evil and it's in their DNA, and women by contrast are good and fragile and precious." And it's the same logic as like "oh, women are more sensitive and nurturing, which is why they should stay at home." It's bullshit because women are not inherently anything, women are human beings with free will and idolization is just dehumanization with better PR [public relations]. I, as a woman, have capacity for evil, which makes my choice to be good that much more important.

Number two thing, and you will notice if you listen to TERFs [trans-exclusionary radical feminists] long enough is that they hate being women, they have a lot of internalized misogyny, they think being a woman is about pain and suffering. The attitude that women are predestined to suffer and men are predestined to make us suffer is a very defeatist attitude, it means that you can never see a future without misogyny in it.

And the number three thing, and this is the stupidest argument: They will tell you that cis men are pretending to be trans women to go into women's bathrooms. Men just simply don't need to do all of that. This is stranger-danger rhetoric which is based around this fear of "oh, strangers are the most dangerous thing to your child or to you" when it's statistically not true. Abusers are more likely to be people that you already know, which is bleak, I'm sorry, but that is the truth. Abusive men simply don't need to go to that effort.

Trans women are our sisters, they're our allies, and a world where a trans women is free and safe to express herself and her gender presentation as she wants to is a world where all women get to do that.

pallettown

genuinely so scary that you can't access the page on the ssc website that guides you through changing your sex designation. so so fucking scary. they are already making our lives harder. they are already taking what little resources we have.

pallettown

update on this, if people want to reblog this to spread information to any trans person who is getting their gender marker changed with social security after the executive order:

today i went and was able to change my gender marker along with my name with social security. even though the page that guides you has been taken down you are STILL ABLE to do so. here is a link to the way back machine for the page and here is a link to the form you will need and here is another source that can help you prepare for federal crackdowns

don't be deterred by the removal of the page. there is still time, but possibly not a lot of it. if you can do this fast, do it.

it's worth noting that it's FREE to change your gender marker with social security. when you change your gender marker with social security, what you change it to does NOT have to match your other current IDs.

double check your state policies, and what you will personally need, but the overall message of this post is that there is STILL TIME despite the executive order. don't give up hope.

nessa007

Beyoncé, P!nk and Britney Spears appearing in Pepsi's Gladiator inspired commercial (2004)

#My wife would divorce me if I didn't reblog something that had P!nk in it

qvert

#this is so gorgeous #Beauregard Lionett #Critical role #mighty nein

Wow it seems like Sam might have actually watched content that he wasn't in. Amazing.

#Critical Role

dawning-skye

"Is she your favourite?" still lives in my head rent free

#This is fuckin gorgeous #Imodna #Imogen temult #Laudna #Critical role

merrigel

Harrow the Ninth | Harrow the First | Nona the Ninth

adventures-in-poor-planning

Everyone else talked about outdoor cats, it's time for me to talk about offleash dogs

adventures-in-poor-planning

Reasons not to have your dog offleash at a public park:

1) roads (this one is self-explanatory)

2) it makes the park inaccessible to like, entire swathes of the population. If you have experience with police dogs or guard dogs in your neighborhood, or you're a new immigrant from somewhere with a large population of feral dogs, it sucks ass going to the park and having someone's massive lab bound up to you!

3) If, for example, you are in a protected wetland area plastered with friendly signs asking you to please leash your dog to avoid causing an ecological impact, having your dog offleash might cause an ecological impact! "Oh no, my dog is well-behaved, they would never bother the wildlife" wrong! your dog is in the pond trying to eat the endangered Blandings' turtles!

4) Non-zero chance of a jokerified park guide (me) just clipping your dog to a leash and stealing them

nentuaby

5) Other people with dogs! It sucks total ass having to constantly watch whether your totally uncontrolled ~furbaby~ is about to Start Shit with my properly leashed pet. It sucks even more ass when they do, which seems to happen about 25% of the time frankly!

other-romantic-verbs

Person on the sidewalk with their unleashed dog, seeing me scrambling to pick up my leashed 35lbs ball of muscle with selective dog aggression: Don't worry my dog's friendly!

Me: Well mine's not!

thefirsthogokage

The CDC is trying to limit the new COVID booster to only people 75+, pregnant people, and the immunocompromised.

We have two days (as of September 6th, 2023) to let them know this isn't acceptable.

Direct link to the page to submit your comments: click here!

Please, PLEASE fill this out and boost this post!

#Just commented

laurasbailey

#The parallels #Critical Role #cr spoilers #Spoilers

parliament-of-owlets

Imogen not being able to hear Laudna’s thoughts is the best thing that ever happened to them.

Without that reliance on just knowing how Laudna feels, she has to be confident enough to ask.

To really acknowledge her feelings for Laudna and ask her how she feels in return, to have the courage to take that leap and hope Laudna truly feels the same way.

And she did!

And Imogen finally got to kiss her girl. Her incredible, wonderful, scary beautiful Laudna.

And Laudna kissed her back! Her beautifully capable Imogen.

Imogen finally spoke her heart and it allowed Laudna to speak hers. To share her heartbreak and her guilt and her worry. And the fear, that she needs Delilah to be strong enough for the coming days.

#imodna #critical role #cr spoilers #spoilers #critical role spoilers

As someone who also fell in love with their best friend the awkwardness after the first kiss is so real y'all. Like you're the same two people but also everything is different and where do you go from here?

Anyways, my best friend and I got married, so #imodna goals.

#Critical role spoilers #Imodna #Imodna spoilers #Lesbians win #Critical role

vitariesocks

Approximately 130,000 - 260,000 Americans have been forced to flee their homes because of legislation criminalizing trans existence.

A growing refugee crisis is occurring in the United States, and it is getting very little coverage. I highlight the growing migration crisis

That’s 8% of transgender Americans. An additional 43% of transgender Americans are seriously considering moving due to laws criminalizing our existence and healthcare.

“So many people are completely helpless to get out, even with all the bumps and roadblocks, the fact is I'm still one of the lucky ones.” Said Sheena, a trans woman who fled from from Florida.

“it's evident that the United States is in the throes of a swelling crisis of internally displaced political refugees. Over a million people, themselves contemplating relocation in the coming months, remain in a state of apprehensive vigilance, awaiting the potential signal that they too must bid farewell to their homes.”

Via Erin Reed, a professional policy tracker of transgender legislation. June 13, 2023.

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for those fleeing to Minnesota, a trans refuge state, there is this resource list: https://linktr.ee/mntranshousing

Housing+clinics+ community+support groups and more for trans ppl moving to MN

And for those fleeing FROM FLORIDA there is THIS resource compilation: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19kSzBLo_hjpiBjHN8tvK73sVHU25NKWjMau2vNl8uuM/htmlview#

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19kSzBLo_hjpiBjHN8tvK73sVHU25NKWjMau2vNl8uuM/htmlview#

Stay safe! We protect our own!!!