How Y’all Doin’?

Partner’ I’ve got a hankerin’ for a fine cowpoke 🤠 come check out the Queer Cowfolks discord server: https://discord.com/invite/Q8xY5kFV

[roancowgirl]

Howdy y’all! I made a discord server for queer folks in the western equine/rodeo industry to hang out.

It’s friendly to all queer folks, and allies interested in the queer side of the western industry. Please dm me if you’d like a link to join.

We have a section that’s still a work in progress for queer associations such as gay rodeo, along with a calendar of upcoming events that these associations put on. If you know of any queer organizations or events, such as rodeos, trail rides, barrel races, etc that you think could be added to the list, please dm me!

For those unfamiliar with queer folks in western spaces, here’s some articles. We’ve always been here and there’s space for us in the industry

Gay rodeos are queer spaces in rural places - OPB

The Renewed Importance of the Texas Gay Rodeo

As conservative politicians try to control expressions of gender and sexuality, a rural haven from hostility offers competition and comfort.

Me and my gf at the gay rodeo in texas earlier this year

[rootin-n-bootin]

Super cool server that is 100% worth checking out!

[postcard-from-the-past]

Gaucho and his dog in Argentina

Argentinian vintage postcard

[myselfandsomeotherbeing]

The coin don't have no say. It's just you.

Kelly Macdonald as Carla Jean Moss

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, dir. Ethan and Joel Coen, 2007

[rootin-n-bootin]

*scrolling through the internet searching up No Country for Old Men after watching the film*

Huh y’know I wonder what tumblr thinks about the movie-

Oh

Oh okay

Alright

That’s enough tumblr for tonight

[vinegarss]

captchas are getting way too hard man I can't do this

[just-deer-things]

what a beautiful time of year everyone is growing veegtables for me spacifically, one problem though you need to make fences shorter im sure its a mistake but i cant reach some of them

[just-deer-things]

hello imptortant message from deer youyr doing it agen. i cant eet the vegbals you are growing for me like this

[cowboy]

A girl can be a handsome fella. This is obvious

[eclipticle]

grazing with mama

[labelleizzy]

[eriyu]

[dogger38]

Also might need a no Life Guard on Duty sign🤣

[just-deer-things]

what a beautiful time of year everyone is growing veegtables for me spacifically, one problem though you need to make fences shorter im sure its a mistake but i cant reach some of them

[just-deer-things]

hello imptortant message from deer youyr doing it agen. i cant eet the vegbals you are growing for me like this

[youdonthavetogotocollege]

Most intriguing sentence ever

[whatthefluffnightvale]

Reaching out into the void here but with the news on Trumps new “counter terrorism” strategy-

Just straight up, the fuck are we going to do? Is anyone making any efforts for staying in the loop as a community? Setting up to keep track of who, when, where people are getting rounded up and/or killed?

All I’ve been seeing online is “take care of your own” and yapping about being in solidarity. Solidarity is great and all but if the government is going to be keeping tabs and becoming more proactive in genociding LGBTQ folks and targeting anarchist and antifascist- now would be a great time to start keeping tabs right back. If anything it’s overdue. Should be more than just words

I went and poked around at trans resource discord servers but the biggest ones require registering your gender, pronouns, sex, etc to enter and I just???? Now is not the fucking time for that. Feels like a trap but maybe that’s paranoia talking.

I guess what I’m looking for is guidance and staying informed. A few months back when those letters (supposedly…?) went out to some publicly open trans activist it was bewildering trying to get info on the hell was going on. Seemed like the line of thought was to shut down, shut up, and protect yourself? Is that what we’re doing?

I’m at a loss

[depsidase]

[mumble-bun]

“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

[rootin-n-bootin]

Where I live in the southern plains, there are 3 common berries: the little leaf sumac, chaparral, and the lotebush.

Farmers and ranchers are told these bushes are a nuisance. The bushes are fond of growing in fence lines, and as they mature they destroy them. The bushes aren’t very good grazing for cattle or deer, but ideal for birds and small mammals alongside being nesting habitat for quail.

So in order to keep over grazed pastures, fence lines, and agriculture fields from becoming overrun with woody shrubs- chemical companies sell the landowners herbicides. Thus bermuda can be replanted, refertilized, and cattle kept in.

But when droughts get worse, cattle market falls out, chemicals become expensive- farmers struggle and farmhands suffer.

I’ve been struggling to afford store bought food, so I eat less. The less I eat, the more food prices increase. There is no winning. Except, the berries are back in season. I go out and find the fence lines where the fruit bushes grow and haven’t been sprayed. I pick berries, I roast seeds, grind out flour, make my own yeast from the skin of the fruits, I bake.

Free food. But I am angry. These foods can feed many people, but instead companies say to destroy it- else it’ll damage yields.

Plant the wheat, grow it, pay someone to harvest it, go buy a loaf of bread at the store, go buy more herbicides/pesticides/fertilizers, underpay your farmhands.

What I’m trying to say is, it’s not just watching a mountain of oranges burn. It’s watching the burning of the land, burning of money , burning workers, then burning the crops. Everything, all of it burns, for the monetary benefit of the wealthy.

[omegasmileyface]

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling

The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

HOLY SHIT

[definite-human]

"The Montana court separately declared that transgender people constitute a suspect class under the state's equal protection clause. In legal terms, a suspect class is a group that has historically faced such severe discrimination that any law targeting them must meet the highest level of judicial scrutiny to survive—the same standard applied to laws that discriminate on the basis of race. [...] The practical effect is sweeping: any Montana law that singles out transgender people will now face strict scrutiny, meaning the state must prove the law serves a compelling interest and is narrowly tailored to achieve it—a standard that laws almost never survive.

"Because the decision rests entirely on the Montana Constitution, it is insulated from the U.S. Supreme Court. Under the principle of adequate and independent state grounds, the federal Supreme Court cannot review a state court's interpretation of its own constitution, so long as that constitution provides more protection than the federal one. [...] What this means in practice is that Montana's transgender residents now have a constitutional shield completely independent of the Supreme Court of the United State’s decisions."

(emphases mine)

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

[aplpaca]

PSA for anyone in Florida who likes animals and can reasonably access nearby beaches: Florida Audubon and the Florida Shorebird Alliance are looking for volunteers to sign up for timeslots as shorebird stewards! As a shorebird steward, you can take shifts monitoring the nesting areas of shorebirds like terns and plovers to make sure that random beachgoers don't disturb the nests (these areas are generally roped off) or accidentally harm the chicks.

So you would get to hang out on a beach for a couple hours and see some of these guys and also help keep them safe! (And also get something volunteering and wildlife-related to put on a resume if you need/want that)

(Least Terns, photo by Dann DeBlois)

Shifts are whatever you can sign up for, so you don't need to have the same time available every week (or even take a slot every week) and Audubon provides training, so there's no prior experience needed!

You can sign up here for more info if you're interested!

Pls reblog if you can, since they're really in need of volunteers atm

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Voting ended onMay 8