Revenant Scholar

a cynical overeducated and underpaid historian's thoughts on languages, eclectic magic, politricks... Always pro-refugees and migrants. Black lives matter. Indigenous lives matter. Palestinian lives matter, Jewish lives matter. Poor people matter. Disabled people matter. Homeless people matter. Pronouns and gender fluid and queer: he/she or she/he, toss a coin, both and either, reliably bisexual and neurodivergent. Switchy. 21+. No racists, no terfs.

[revenantscholar]

genderfluid and queer

I was genderfluid when I was pregnant, and when I gave birth to my first child, past the age of 40, entirely by myself, after more than two days and nights of labour.

I was genderfluid when I breastfed for a few years.

I have rarely seen a woman with larger breasts than mine, and I am still genderfluid.

I was genderfluid when was a stateless refugee.

I was genderfluid when I got my Ph.D.

Deal with it, motherfuckers. I am both and always have been.

Also: I was always bisexual, and I always will be.

[otabekisautistic]

sorry since realizing my gender i have zero tolerance for the whole “man hating” angle of being queer i hate i hate it i hate you. stop. you are hurting people.

[otabekisautistic]

i just. speaking up for trans men and getting hit with “imagine defending men” as a reply has enraged me deeply on this day

[otabekisautistic]

it’s very “yall only consider trans men real men when it hurts us.” we experience misogyny until we try to speak on it, and then we’re invading women’s spaces. we’re not men when we don’t pass well but we’re men the second we’re looking for queer community and are faced with “men and mascs not allowed” i’m tired

[otabekisautistic]

@bookslutskye’s tags:

literally this. when i replied to “imagine standing up for men” saying that trans men deserve to be fought for too, i got hit with “nobody says trans men don’t belong in queer spaces” except a lot of queer & feminist spaces, especially online, actively villainize being a man and dump you the second you transition. it’s gross.

[vaspider]

Jesus fuck.

Imagine saying something like that to someone and thinking, "I am a good person who is definitely contributing to a better world."

Queerness is not a license to play Mean Girls without consequences & some of y'all need to really internalize that. Trans men & mascs deserve community support. The bullshit spoken about above is just high school bullying wearing a rainbow cape. It's not cute or justified just because y'all painted a fucking pride flag on it.

[the-concrete-sage]

How to kill a friendship in three quick and easy steps.

Believe in yourself

Stay true to yourself

Ultimately, just do you

[bugdotjpeg]

[crowbone]

[digitaldiscipline]

Every single spicy autocomplete pusher:

"Remember Clippy? We've made it actively worse and more intrusive, AND it wastes more electricity and water than several small nations."

[alvie-pines]

extremely well kept and liked teenage serial killer x disheveled autistic detective trying to catch him really IS such an iconic pairing. like they really hit gold with that

[psikonauti]

James Jean (Taiwanese-American,b.1979)

Seasons, 2014

Acrylic on 4 wood panels

[yidiyada]

Going from “celebrations on the streets of Rafah as Hamas accepts ceasefire deal” to “Israel chooses to continue offensive in Rafah and is currently carrying out targeted attacks” within the span of an hour is the most viscerally heartbroken I’ve been throughout the past months

[sharkgirldick]

Also. Treat fat people with respect or die by my blade.

[sharkgirldick]

Very important addition.

[mudboyman]

Light answers a tough question

[kosmogrl]

[communist-ojou-sama]

Like, this may come as a shock to people like Tumblr liberals who are totally stuck in the Western anglophone neoliberal ideology echo-chamber but like, outside of the west, out there where the majority of the worlds people live, Kwame Nkrumah's thought is taken more seriously than Milton Friedman's. So why will left liberals engage with Friedman's thought, even if only to debunk it, but not engage at all with Nkrumah's writings on neocolonialism, and just write it off?

There's a common charge leveled by supposedly "open-minded" liberals toward anti-imperialists, that we just 'blindly' support any force that's contravailing US the US on a regional or global scale, but how am I supposed to take this seriously as anything but projection?

We anti-imperialists often make specific, verifiable claims about happenings in global geopol, such as that the so-called "Free Syrian Army" consisted mostly of salafi jihadists allowed into Syria through their northern border with Turkey, and that it doesn't make sense that a civil war could simply Materialize in a country like Syria which right before the war started had one of the lowest ratios of guns to people in the world, or that the Maidan coup regime that swept into power in Kiev in 2014 was heavily infiltrated with fascists, and would not have been able to consolidate power without the instrumentalisation of fascist gangs and paramilitary organizations.

The liberal response to these specific claims, then, is to point to reports from corporate media with every incentive to lie, themselves doing no independent investigation but instead parroting verbatim the word of the State Department as fact, and dismissing all independent media investigations out of hand with no further thought.

In a situation such as this, can that response really be considered "open-minded"? It seems that time and time again intellectual rigor is reserved for discussions of technocratic tinkering within the west's iron curtain, and not the lives of people outside of it.

There's plenty of brain-juice to be expended on justifying why the US economy is actually in good shape and the people saying they're struggling more than before are just stupid, but when it comes to considering why African heads of state choose the China Development Bank over the IMF as an economic partner or Russia over the NATO states as security partners, these leaders of millions are dismissively written off as histrionically anti-Western, paranoid, and too mentally weak to see through Russian and Chinese propaganda. Is it this really a 'rational' way to look at the world?

Personally, I think not.

[slipping-into-madness]

[luxmundi-i]

[ID: Tweet by @\ecomarxi that says, "Never forget that the same politicians who are helping murder Palestinians because it benefits their career would also murder you if it benefitted their career and they could get away with it". End ID]

[cutemothman]

i loveeeeeee nonlinear storytelling. show me where we are. now show me how we got here. the end before the beginning. show me how it was inevitable or how many chances we had to change things(nothing was ever going to change). let's meet in the middle as all the puzzle pieces slide into place hell yeah that's the good shit.

[sayruq]

[troythecatfish]

Irish MEP Clare Daly calls for tangible action against Israel

Pointing out that formal Irish recognition of Palestine is already decades late, the Independent MEP proposed that more needs to be done. She suggested an arms embargo and the suspension of Irish trade with Israel.

Source: Mintpress