Slime Time

Rose. 22. She/Her.

[pukicho]

Love how liquid comes out of sooo many different types of holes on this planet

[theconcealedweapon]

[fish-to-male]

one day some of you will actually go outside and go to pride and you’re going to meet old black queens who refers to themselves as femme, you’ll meet people from small towns who still use the word transsexual, you’ll see that your local activist organization set up a stall about your local LGBT history that includes leather bar’s history, you’ll see lesbians in groups refer to themselves as “guys” and “boys”, you’ll see someone with breasts and pasties and little else have “he / him” painted on his chest, and you’ll be so caught up with your terminally online attitude that instead of appreciating the wide diversity of people who exist in the LGBT community who are brave enough to share themselves you’ll just be formulating posts and tweets in your head for when get home about how “problematic” it all was and it’s honestly tragic

[saturnialsapphic]

Once, back when I worked in an LGBTQIA dungeon, I encountered a significantly older person who remarked to me that they hadn’t been to “this type of place” in decades. They struck up a conversation with me and told me how amazing it was to see an openly transexual youth such as myself. I asked them about their experiences with gender and they said “oh, well, I’m a bit male and a bit female. Men’s and women’s clothes, sometimes makeup in a suit, sometime fresh faced in a dress when I’m at home. You know, bisexual” Obv this puzzled me at first until I realized this person was using bisexual in a very, very, literal and old fashioned sense, as in, dual-sexed. Non-binary.

Y’all gotta understand there are generation gaps in the language we use and you open yourself up to a LOT of very interesting stories if you stop blocking off the past.

[ittybittytatertot]

One of the biggest problems with modern community is the idea that (white) western, post 2000s LGBT vocabulary is the only correct way to speak about sexuality and gender.

Like the freak outs under pictures of protests from the 70s-90s because signs and shirts say faggot and dyke and queer, as if these words weren’t a key part of identity and activism.

Beyond just English, I saw a couple people making fun of the term “gender x” in an anime…but why would a Japanese production adhere to English standards?

Or the way people talk about pronouns as if every language uses pronouns the same way as English.

It’s just…it indicates a mindset that these words are objective and written in stone and western youth culture is always the most correct in a way that…feels icky. Diversity in people includes diversity of language.

[scottishwobbly]

“Speak not of what men deserve. For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”

— Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed. (via outlawpoet)

[parkchanwoohoo]

You can tell when someone doesn't really have a strong ethical framework beyond a shallow "Listen To [Oppressed Person]" because they'll hear one person go "Healthcare should be universal" and another go "Racism is great" and they'll be like "Well they're both trans... :/"

[parkchanwoohoo]

I need you people to understand that there is not a single marginalized group that doesn't contain members with heinous, regressive beliefs, and trying to determine who to believe based on the ""validity of their experiences"" is no way to make political and ethical judgments

[baeddel]

Ireland adopted the Nordic model in 2017, making the purchase of sex illegal and criminalizing “brothels” (defined to include two or more sex workers sharing an apartment). Sex Workers Alliance Ireland conducted a survey in 2020 to monitor the effects of the law on sex workers. The findings were, unsurprisingly, that it made sex work more dangerous, screening clients more difficult, and so on.

In response to one question, “What have been the major impacts of the change in the law on your work?”, the answers:

83.33% said “I cannot live/work with another sex worker for fear of arrest for brothel keeping” 75% said “I worry that the police will arrest my clients” 70.83% said “I worry that the police might arrest me” 62.50% said “I am now more worried about violence and abuse” 54.17% said “It is now more difficult to screen clients” 33.33% said “It is now too difficult to keep regular clients that I trust” 29.17% said “I feel pressured into performing unsafe sexual practices” 20.83% said “I have had to drop my prices to get clients” 12.50% said “I don’t have time to negotiate with clients”

Only 8.33% (2 respondents) said “I am more likely to go to the Gardaí [police] if a crime has been committed against me”, and 0% selected the (humorously sarcastic) options “I now have too many clients to deal with” or “I feel more empowered.”

To explain why the law makes screening more difficult, SWAI write that it “may be because it is now the client who is breaking the law, not the worker, so clients are more reluctant to submit to screening processes as they are the ones taking criminal risks.”

In response to the question “Do you think sex work is now more dangerous or less dangerous since the law was introduced?”, 70.83% of responders gave the maximum option, “It is a lot more dangerous now.” On pg. 19-20 they review crimes against sex workers and find that all categories of crime have increased since the law was introduced, some quite drastically.

[radical-eve]

[ironbound-oberon]

I have cochlear implants and I can only buy parts to fix them or upgrade then from 1 corporation bc of tech exclusivity. upgrades to get new processors for both ears cost $23k & insurance only covers 90% (and it’s “good” insurance)

cyberpunk dystopia is already here for the disabled. fight for universal healthcare, fight against capitalism NOW.

[dovewithscales]

I want all the abled people reading this to go price check a power wheel chair.

The future people fear with subscription fees for body parts is already here. The plot of Repo! The Genetic Opera is already here. Disabled people are already facing impossible prices for aids and treatments they need to live.

[knifefightscene]

[cyborg-furby]

Ratatouille is a good movie and all but can we stop ignoring the weird sub plot about how it's wrong for rats to steal? Like. What are they supposed to do then? Buy food? From the grocery store? With WHAT MONEY ratatouille?

[cyborg-furby]

I feel like I'm crazy. They make such a big deal about rats stealing? Like they have options? What do you think would happen if a rat shows up at the food bank to feed his wife and kids? He'd be killed remi.

[glumshoe]

I am still thinking about that person who was like “by trying to enunciate clearly in educational videos you are probably doing a net harm to accessibility and social justice”

like, whatever other points they had, I do not understand that one at all

[sexhaver]

obviously you should always take into account the viewpoints of people more affected by an issue than you are before forming an opinion on it, but there are two important caveats to this:

no group is a monolith with identical views on everything. it is always possible to find two people from a given group with opposite and incompatible views on any given subject.

at a certain point you have to actually form your own opinion. if you try to be Woke by serving as an uncritical mouthpiece for minorities then you're going to look like an idiot when one of them shows up with the aforementioned opposite and incompatible view.

you should hold opinions because you sincerely believe them and have researched the relevant facts and, yes, consulted with members of minorities affected by them. you should not hold opinions because you're "listening to [x] voices" and nothing else.

[arhelius]

[lettering-is-my-music]

I made a rainbow ring that glows in the dark! check out on my tik tok and pls click share it helps boost number of views, although I totally get if u don't want to so heres the full video

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJ4BrX9Q/

Gabby on TikTok

loved how this 🌈 🏳️‍🌈 ring turned out gays also glow in the dark #lgbtq #lgbt🏳️‍🌈 #CashAppInBio #HappyHolidays #fyp #viral #GiftOfGame #dice

rainbow ring!!!

[bemusedlybespectacled]

TURN THE SOUND ON

[thefollow-spot]

[Audio Transcript]

“A bit of over-simplified queer history: there is a reason why queer people wanted marriage so badly, and it wasn’t because we just needed to be equal to the straights.

So, since time immemorial queer people had been living in, like, domestic partnerships that some people called marriages, some people called ‘unions.’ Some people would be like ‘oh, those are confirmed bachelors or spinster aunties.’ And people were okay with it.

But then, the AIDS pandemic happened.

All of a sudden, your loved one is in the hospital dying—you can’t go visit them, you have no rights, you’re not on their insurance. Their family, who’s kicked them out and doesn’t ever want to see them again swoops in, makes all their medical decisions, takes all their stuff, takes all their money, and bans you from the funeral. And, if they’re trans, put their deadname on their headstone, and takes them ‘back home,’ to be buried. You have no rights. God forbid there’ any kids involved in this situation, because you’re fucked.

Marriage isn’t just about love: it’s about being respected by the law. That’s what’s at stake here.”

[radishreader]

Children caused landlords headache. Fearing street violence, many parents in crime-ridden neighborhoods kept their children locked inside. Children cooped up in small apartments used the curtains for superhero capes; flushed toys down the toilet; and drove up the water bill. They could test positive for lead poisoning, which could bring a pricey abatement order. They could come under the supervision of Child Protective Services, whose caseworkers inspected families' apartments for unsanitary or dangerous code violations. Teenagers could attract the attention of the police.

It was an old tradition: landlords barring children from their properties. In the competitive postwar housing market of the late 1940s, landlords regularly turned away families with children and evicted tenants who got pregnant. This was evident in letters mothers wrote when applying for public housing. "At present," one wrote, "I am living in an unheated attic room with a one-year-old baby. . . . Everywhere I go the landlords don't want children. I also have a ten-year-old boy. . . . I can't keep him with me because the landlady objects to children. Is there any way that you can help me to get an unfurnished room, apartment, or even an old barn? . . . I can't go on living like this because I am on the verge of doing something desperate." Another mother wrote, "My children are now sick and losing weight. . . . I have tried, begged, and pleaded for another place [it's] always 'too late' or 'sorry, no children.'" Another wrote, "The lady where I am rooming put two of my children out about three weeks ago and don't want me to let them come back. . . . If I could get a garage I would take it."

When Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in 1968, it did not consider families with children a protected class, allowing landlords to continue openly turning them away or evicting them. Some placed costly restrictions on large families, charging 'children-damage deposits' in addition to standard rental fees. One Washington, DC, development required tenants with no children to put down a $150 security deposit but charged families with children a $450 deposit plus a monthly surcharge of $50 per child. In 1980, HUD commissioned a nationwide study to assess the magnitude of the problem and found that only 1 in 4 rental units was available to families without restrictions. Eight years late, Congress finally outlawed housing discrimination against children and families, but as Pam found out, the practice remained widespread. Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches.

--Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2016)

[luntfontanne]

jesus fucking christ… literally any desire for gender nonconformity broadly speaking……

[fiddleabout]

[incidentally-its-nonsense]

A couple of other really important things about this bill:

It defines a minor as someone under 21, despite North Carolina’s age of majority being 18. (pg 3, line 3)

It bans state funds, directly or indirectly, being used for any trans healthcare. This means anyone on state Medicaid/Medicare and anyone who gets their insurance through their state job will not be able to get their trans healthcare covered even if they are over 21. I also think the wording is broad enough that it could be used to threaten clinics/hospitals that provide transition care with defunding if that clinic/hospital accepts state funds for other reasons. (pg 5, lines 24-27)

It legalizes conversion therapy under protection of religious freedom. (pg 3, lines 48-50 through pg 4, lines 1-2)

While this is directed at trans youth, it will harm trans people who are already adults and cis LGB people as well, particularly gender nonconforming LGB people. It works to push trans people out of the government or any state institution (which includes public universities), punish trans people who can not afford to pay for transition care out of pocket, and emboldens religious cisheterosexism.

[glumshoe]

your assassins will have to do better than old nasty unrefrigerated pizza if you want to see me croak

[totesmgoats01-published-author]

Would you say that you could easily recognize the belladonna flower buds in your tea before you put it to your lips?

[glumshoe]

yes. BUT death by belladonna poisoning would be much sexier of me than death by old crummy pizza bacteria. so I might drink the tea and feast on the fruits anyway if I knew the pizza was coming.

[totesmgoats01-published-author]

How about a kiss? I imagine a lipstick laced with something. Then again, that would probably kill me too.

[glumshoe]

rubber lips are immune to your charms

[transperceneige]

in much more interesting news, today at work I got to explore an abandoned 500-year-old castle, seized by the state because of the owner's massive tax evasion

we spent an hour and half going all over the grounds, I'd never felt so #urbex

[transperceneige]

just want to point out that we found this door at one point