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they grow from one another, they do not begin, or end; a cycle . tamsin. 33 . australia . bi . futurism . feminism . fashion . blue blog. author. original tag: Kodak is dead. icon is Tilda Swinton photographed by Tim Walker

[post-futurism]

As a queer person online who is not from the dominant cultural powerhouse in the world, the most common phrase I see is "know your queer history". I was always annoyed by this mantra not because I didn't want to take the time to understand the evolution of queerness through time but because that statement was always silently referring to North American queer history.

Australians. We now have an incredible new LGBTIQA+ documentary about queerness in Australia's colonial and Aboriginal history and it's written by gay comedians. Wins all around. If you want to learn about YOUR queer history, the three part documentary Queerstralia is now showing on ABC iView. Go go go!

[scytheos]

Bill Viola | The Veiling | 1995

[formlab]

Design Process Olivetti 1908-1983

[scavengedluxury]

Sampson House. London, September 2015.

[post-futurism]

Part of growing up is acknowledging that sometimes really good people with really good morals work in the private industry and they aren't actively trying to make your life worse by virtue of not working in the public service. Sometimes they're really trying to do the best that they can and are challenged with working to budgets, timelines, project scope limitations and so on that prevent them from being as holistic as you'd like them to be. And at the end of the day they're just people trying to do their job. Treating them as an adversary isn't going to do you any favours.

[post-futurism]

I love when the community refers to the heritage department. It's just me. I'm the whole department!

[20thcenturywomen2016]

I love the word queer so much. Yes, I use bisexual just as much if not more as a self-descriptor but there’s also something so perfect about queer

[90percent90s]

‘Tokyo 1993′ by Andrea Giacobbe - Citizen K Magazine (Winter 1994)

[icecream-noodle]

Australia's latest Federal Anti-trans bill

On Monday Nationals MP Alison Penfold introduce this private bill to federal parliament in an attempt to reshape the Sex Discrimination Act to target trans people while claiming not to target trans people

Sex Discrimination Amendment (Sex-based Rights) Bill 2026

Helpful information Text of bill First reading: Text of the bill as introduced into the Parliament Third reading: Prepared if the

Transcript of second reading

[icecream-noodle]

Please help spread this petition far and wide for visibility The above reactionary bill was made in retaliation towards a trans woman winning a case in federal court against transphobes so now they're accellerating to hurt us all (Giggle Vs Tickle)

Hands off our protections

Hands off our Protections Our communities are facing some of the most serious attacks on our rights and protections in many years.  Right no

[cerisery]

Please sign that petition if you can, this bill is worse than it seems. Its primary purpose is to exclude trans women from women's spaces, including bathrooms, prisons, homeless shelters, and sports. It also cements transphobic, intersexist, and acephobic beliefs that are already somewhat present in Australia's law.

It is worth noting that this bill is being pushed by the National party, one of Australia's main right-wing parties. The party currently in power is the Labour party, our biggest left-wing/centrist party. The party pushing for this bill does not have the votes needed to pass it, and thus either needs to convince centrists to agree with them or are doing this to curry favour for the next election or some other goal.

When it comes to the bill itself, they are defining anything relating to one's sex in terms of the sex binary in a way which excludes intersex people in many ways. They also are changing the definition of sexual attraction, and the main change this makes is an exclusion of non-binary people in attraction. However, it is also worded so a trans woman lesbian is considered straight, and their definition also doesn't properly include asexual people. Those wording issues are already present in the original law, however.

They are also explicitly stating that it's okay to discriminate against transfems in women's spaces of any kind, including prisons, bathrooms, homeless shelters, and sports. That is the main change being pushed for.

[icecream-noodle]

(Source) and (Source) ^ This

[icecream-noodle]

Keep reblogging this please to help gain attention to the issue! Labor, the majority government, have been especially quiet about this issue while right wing media has pumped out tons of anti-trans political puff pieces while only one Greens member and one Independant member have spoken up!

Email or call your local MP if you can and tell them they need to publically push back and press them on the harm this bills mere existence is causing! Lately Labors silence on issues is not a good one and they are far from being functional enough for the people since doubling down on right wing policy. A simple reminder: Labor is not your friend, they're bought out and working for someone else

[justmaghookit]

You can also email and call your state member, not just your federal one as if they get enough complaints they may additionally bother the federal MP on your behalf! Make noise at all levels of government!

If you don't know who your member is you can use this link to look up both state and federal members, just use your postcode or suburb to check.

https://www.reignitedemocracyaustralia.com.au/findmymp/

[lethalwizard]

hold on. im shifting into auspol mode.

do not get stressed about the newspolls saying one nation are toootally going to win the next election. first of all those newspolls are straight up propaganda, and second - if we're pretending that theyre credible (which theyre not) but if we pretend, the most they mean is one nation might have overtaken the liberals in the 2 party preferred, so an election would be between labor and one nation , not the liberals. but i also wouldnt get stressed about that fact because, lets check, labor currently hold Ninety Four seats, one nation have two.

[woollenpharaohs]

Adding into this as an FYI to all aussies.

One Nation repeatedly uses cooked election poll data to present an over confident vote towards them. They have done it for at least the last two federal elections and the results have NEVER been reflected in the actual polling numbers.

The ABC has recently run a news story on their Instagram which i weirdly can't find on their website as an article but it might pop up tomorrow. The AFR article they cite can be read behind a removed paywall here.

Anyway here's the data the ABC is presenting:

The catch is that they are not citing two seperate poll sources, they are citing the Australian Financial Review which is a news site that uses Redbridge Group and Accent Research as their OFFICIAL poll strategists, as in an Australian newspaper owned by Fairfax Media with Rupert Murdoch (News Corp) as one of their major shareholders, PAYS these poll strategists to generate opinion polls to share to their right wing readers.

On top of that, they actually cited 1005 people lol. That is NOT a reliable representation of the Australian population.

Because of this I'm adding Redbridge Group and Accent Research to the growing list of conservative right wing poll strategists that we should be wary of. The other is Freshwater Strategy which was data that the liberals relied upon for their legendary total bust in the last election.

[plutorichh]

[dsunearthed]

Japanese Garden, Portland, 2006

[polkadotmotmot]

Maude Corriveau - Elusive Edge, 2026 - Oil on linen

[etchif]

Isn't it fucking insane that so many people think that IQs are real. Like people genuinely believe you are born with one set level of intelligence that can be measured on a scale from 1 to ~200. As if intelligence wasn't extremely nuanced and completely subjective. And the fact that the majority of scientists that have advocated for IQ tests in the past have been eugenicists doesn't seem to concern anyone either

[vaporfunk-archive-blog]

no matter how many followers you have the same 10 people will reblog posts from you

[creekfiend]

in general I find that "why did someone behave this way" is almost always answered by "behaving otherwise was too difficult and frightening for them at the time," and then you have to dig into why that is. people behave in ways that feel 1. easy for them (do not require much thought or effort) 2. accessible to them (patterns that have worked many times before) and 3. safe for them (apparently predictable outcome)

this is true even for behavior that is absolutely horrific and totally unacceptable. which can be a tough thing to accept, I think.

[post-futurism]

My SIL is about to have her first baby and I'm literally so glad I am a) not close to her emotionally and b) physically not close to her because her personality and decision making is so far from my own that anytime I hear about something that she's done or said I freak out man like she doesn't make decisions based in logic and what seems reasonable to me is like something she hasn't even thought of??