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They/them, 23, health journey on @live-to-100

[mangled-by-disuse]

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

[lgbtlaughs]

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

[cathkaesque]

My understanding is that the cut funding from Durham council was £2,500 - the trade union donations raised in response were worth £25,000

[skweebs]

Made this guy from my favorite Gerard Donelan comic

[baraphalloplastyclinic]

I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?

Don't become a housewife.

[ladyfoxfire]

And if you do become a housewife, take steps to protect yourself. Make sure you’re legally married, for starters; stay-at-home girlfriends have very little legal recourse to claim their partner’s assets in a breakup. Make sure your name is on the house deed/rental agreement, and have your car in your name, even if your spouse is paying for it. Have your spouse transfer money every month into an account solely in your name, so you can buy yourself things without needing permission, but also so you can save up to leave if needed.

If your spouse fights you on any of this, then don’t quit your job. The tradwife to poverty pipeline is real, and so is financial abuse.

[dressedupliketheking]

also, many women/people experience controlling behaviour and domestic violence from their partner for the first time during pregnancy. don’t risk thinking “he’s just stressed, it’ll get better when the baby comes” because it won’t. neither you and your child will ever be safe with that man. get out as early and safely as you can

[gremlininho]

[haleyusesherwords]

[unhinged-soapbox]

Great things happening on my YouTube recommended page today

[herpsandbirds]

Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus), males squabbling, family Picidae, order Piciformes, Boulder, CO, USA

photograph by Rob Palmer

[queeranarchism]

If you're a leftist who finds inspiration in the stories of the anarchist and communist revolutions, you also need to find wisdom in its excesses, it's cruelty and it's vulnerability to corruption. If you find pride in the history of the resistance movements against nazism, you also need to find introspection in the fact that many resistance members ended up raping the wives and abusing the youngest children of nazis the moment the power was reversed.

I don't trust people who only explore the pretty parts of leftist history. It doesn't lead to a realistic understanding of our past movements and it doesn't make us prepared to see the flawed, vulnerable and ugly in our current movements. Will you recognize and confront the rapist in your local group? How can you, if you won't even recognize and confront him across 80 years of distance?

[nobrashfestivity]

David Hockney The Boy Hidden in a Fish 1969 Illustration

[lainpsx]

[earhartsease]

[pavlover-boy]

[feldfrog]

Body parts are often metaphors. Guts are Courage. Spine is Courage. Balls are Courage. Toes are Little piggies :)

[canvasoul]

in the midst of all this noise - a clearing, a way out

[bubz2whimsical]

Hangout idea: you buy baking ingredients for me, and then watch me bake and touch nothing and maybe say nothing also

[pessimism-central]

[busket]

you cant appropriate gender btw. gender is not like an ethnic culture that you are born into and if you are not a part of that culture its disrespectful to wear the costume of it. gender is a fully human experience that belongs to everyone. anyone can be a woman, anyone can be a man, anyone can be both or neither and there is masculinity and feminity within all of us.

I see folks say stuff like "trans men weaponize their agab or access their feminity/womanhood only when its convenient or to attack women" and obviously no one should be attacking women or anybody. but is this trans man actually "weaponizing his agab" or surreptitiously accessing his "womanhood" to gain social favor, or is feminity just a part of him the way feminity is a part of every human being, and masculinity too?

believing that men or masculine people, trans or cis, are conniving by infiltrating womanhood or taking advantage of femininity is a terf mindset. terfs belive that womanhood is a closed practice that only select people are allowed to access. if you think that trans men are not allowed to tap into that femininity or even keep in touch with their female side, thats terf shit. masculinity and feminity, maleness and femaleness belong to everyone. there are no borders to gender and expression and I think this comparison to cultural appropriation where people think they can gatekeep who can or cannot access gender expression in the same way that some people can or cannot access certain ethnic and cultural practices is extremely harmful.

[egglongatedegg]

Desserts you see online for the past couple of years for some reason: sourdough brown butter papaya upside down cornmeal banana bread cake with sweet potato goat cheese cream cheese filling, topped with a thin layer of miso vanilla bean almond butter infused white chocolate ganache, a rum lavender squid ink swiss meringue buttercream frosting, flaky sea salt, and extra virgin olive oil.

[fivetrench]

Shit just happens to you when you're a tuna crab

[saturnmortis]

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