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BABE WAKE UP LIL NAS X JOLENE COVER JUST DROPPED
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Get you one who can do both 😍
That video still nearly brings me to tears from laughter
Tweet by dumbbeezie: Gif your birth year and that’s your Met Gala outfit
Leonard Nimoy, beatnik economist who stayed home from the Met Gala to be comfy in a turtleneck? Hell yes.
I’m okay with this.
Oh hell yeah. Zoya the Destroya or Liberty Belle. The last one even fits with the theme this year.
Hi, I saw you mention being a queer teacher in Ontario and I wondered if I could ask for advice. I'm going to start applying to public school boards in Ontario soon, but I'm a pre-everything trans man. Every school board I've looked at says they want to encourage diversity and actively encourage applications from people with marginalized genders, but is that a trap? Would I have better luck pretending to be a cis woman at least until I'm on the supply list?
This has taken me a really long time to figure out how to write, then I tried to write it and lost the post and gave up for a bit. I'll try and be clear, but brain fog plus a paint fumes modifier makes it hard. I'm a femme cis woman who is pansexual, but in a relationship with a man. Most perceive me as straight. While my public board (or at least my school - might just be my school) actually acknowledged Bi Visibility Day, it was noted on the calendar. There haven't been conversations about it at staff meetings. Last year, prior to a retirement, we had three out queer teachers at my school (myself included, though how "out" I am to others depends on how much I want to share, which is not a lot, out of preference for keeping my personal life separate as much as possible). Like, not Rosa Diaz levels of not talking about my life, but I have a small circle. But one staff member gushes about his husband, and it's just normal.
We had a trans kid last year (in Grade 9 now), and this year we have five genderfluid and/or nonbinary kids this year. There are signs up that say "Hate has no home here" with hearts featuring the inclusive pride flag, multiple religions, disability advocation, Every Child Matters, and the Black Pride fist. There are meetings about inclusivity, and unlearning things, and lots of positivity about it at my school. Though, my school is a mostly young staff (four out on maternity leaves right now), and progressive, and supportive. It's the best school in the board, and I've been to a lot of schools so I'm certain about this.
And yet. I'm not really, truly out to my staff. I have my mini pride flag in my office. I have the Safe Space poster. And I make sure to include BIPOC and LGBTQ artists in my lessons. But I don't talk about my bisexuality to the staff or the students. I'm not trans, so I can't speak to that experience. However, I don't know of any trans folk working as teachers in my area at least. As much as the board preaches inclusivity and makes PowerPoints and has PD sessions, it's also a nonverbal but understood "don't make a big deal about it." And that's aimed at cis folk. It may vary by region. The Niagara Region is pretty conservative, and there is one cafe that hosts mixers for gay men, but the last gay bar closed 10 years ago, and the last bar that did drag nights closed prior to the pandemic. Your mileage may vary, as it is.
I honestly wish you the best of luck. It's a difficult situation you have, and I do not envy you. I want to say "go for it" but as you said, it might be a trap, depending on your region. Definitely not for rural boards. Maybe Toronto region. My heart goes out to you, dear anon.
I am in TOTAL support of the film, television, and theatrical stage crew going on strike, and you should be, too. No form of art is worth unsafe and unfair working conditions. Crew deserve all the respect in the world. I don't want to hear one fucking word from anyone complaining about delayed productions or interruptions to your comfort shows and films. Your entertainment is not worth someone's life or livelihood! Support your unions, your crew, and the people who work hard to make the shows and films and plays you create all your Tumblr content for. Your faves would be nothing without the crew!
I believe the disruption will be worth it. For these people, this is a very vital strike. I am hoping that a few days or hours after the strike starts that the networks will crumple and make the necessary deal. Three days at best.
Read the stories being sent to their instagram. I support the strike. The personal accounts are horrifying.
From my friends who work tech, things need to change. Support workers, support unions. Fair wages and safe working conditions are human rights.
so let’s chat about IRON WIDOW
We interrupt our regularly scheduled aesthetic posting with a special message about the upcoming science-fiction YA novel IRON WIDOW by non-binary cosplayer, history buff, and YouTube sensation Xiran Jay Zhao (links to their website in the next post)
I have a longer, more formal “review” of this book scheduled for the release date (September 21st, 2021) but I really, really want to hype this book up as much as possible as early as possible to encourage people to pre-order it. I haven’t been this excited about a YA book in quite a while. Let me tell you why!
- It was pitched as PACIFIC RIM meets THE HANDMAID’S TALE in a world inspired by Chinese folklore and history, where boy-girl teams pilot giant mecha to fight alien monsters – but the psychic strain usually kills the girls. But only the girls….hmmm…something fishy is going on here…
- The main character is a reimagining of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor of China, who decides she’s going to assassinate the boy who murdered her older sister by volunteering to be his next co-pilot. She assassinates him so well that she kills him through their psychic link and becomes a dreaded IRON WIDOW!
- This makes her very interesting to the government, which would really prefer to make her disappear, but can’t afford to waste that kind of psychic power – so they pair her up with a ~dangerous criminal~ to pilot a new mecha, confident that he will be psychically strong enough to overpower her
- This backfires spectacularly, and suddenly Wu Zetian and her co-pilot have to manipulate both pop culture and the government just to stay alive.
- Plot ensues.
Why should you read this book?
Go back and re-read that plot summary until you understand why BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!!
- We have a polyamorous F/M/M mutual relationship, I repeat, we PRE-EMPTIVELY SOLVE a LOVE TRIANGLE with POLYAMORY
- Wu Zetian is an amazing anti-hero and I mean that with all my heart. She is constantly doing stuff in this book that made me go, “Wait, can you do that?” She WILL cut a bitch. Also, she uses a cane or wheelchair because she has bound feet, and you can tell that Xiran really went the extra mile to think about how to portray this and how it affects the character. A lot of YA protagonists can start to feel “same-y” after a while to me, but Wu Zetian REALLY stands out.
- The world is really, really cool? There is SO MUCH going on with the aliens and the mecha and the world they’re living in which I cannot spoil except to say that your primary emotion through the third act will be “?!!!?!!?!!?!!!” AND even outside of the meta plot, there is so much thought and detail put into the rest of the setting, it is so beautiful and it feels like you’re really there. Plus every character is a reimagining/reference to a historical or folklore figure and it was really neat to go on a little scavenger hunt of “Oh! I recognize that name!”
- IRON WIDOW will do for YA sci-fi what CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE did for YA fantasy – if it gets support. Xiran has talked about how they couldn’t get an American publisher to even consider publishing this book because publishers didn’t think American audiences would be interested in Chinese folklore or idol culture or a story about giant mecha, which?? Have they MET the internet?? They were also told that schools and libraries will be reluctant to stock IRON WIDOW because of the polyamorous romance. BUT that is why I really hope people show up for this book because it is SO DESERVING OF SUCCESS and it could open so many doors for other writers and for the whole YA landscape
- Xiran Jay Zhao is a really cool non-binary author and their writing is as charismatic and entertaining as their other content. I just think they’re neat!
- And one more thing? The cover looks like this:
Something I made while dealing with my own stuff and hoping drawing this would pick me up somehow. Maybe it worked.
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Concrete, 100% effective way to tell if someone doesn’t belong in a LGBT+/queer space:
They openly and actively hate/ want to hurt the people in that space
Controversial opinion here, I know, but just because you’re in a safe LGBT+/Queer space doesn’t mean you have to disclose their identity to everyone there. And people are allowed to bring their partners, regardless of their orientation, to those same spaces.
Obviously there are certain spaces that are for specific people, but at the same time, y’all are so obsessed with micromanaging queer spaces. The only thing that should be a litmus for entry into those spaces is: “does this person want to hurt someone else in this space and I know that? Yes? Then they aren’t fucken welcome. Regardless of identity.”
I volunteered in ine of the biggest queer youth clubs as an educator / guide (there isnt a word in english for these stuff).
We had so many queer kids that brought cishet friends and some of them didnt come out later, some of them really were cishet and that is fine.
They did no harm to the queer atmosphere and when someone new joined for the first time we gave them a little tour of the club and invited them to a one on one talk with one of the volunteers.
Ive had many of these conversations with teens at the ages of 12-19 and everyone calmed down when we told them there is no criteria to being there that this is a safe space and after a short explanation and some questions where many of them just blurted out their stories.
The non queer identifying people came for years either because they just met some friends from different places along the country and it was their usual hangout or because they really needed a safe space with no judgment in their lives.
Cishet people also need safe spaces where there are no gendered expectations of them and they can play with makeup and dresses and just be calm and learn about safe sexuality and consent.
Why in the world would you kick people who need safe spaces and benefit from them out???
Queer people seeing cishet people in queer spaces not acting weird and for once seeing the atmosphere is queer and the cis person has to adapt does marvels to one’s sense of how real it feels, how you could bring this safe space outside and this culture to other friends.
Introduce some of the stuff you learned to your friends and family maybe to some willing coworker idk.
The point is that our way to smash the patriarchy, gender roles, rape culture and more shit is too bring it outside and allow allies to be there cus why the fuck not
Thanks for sharing! This really highlights a collection of reasons why it’s important to not create these arbitrary rules to who can and can’t come in.
Also?
When I was in college, I had a cishet friend who was Christian and quietly felt homosexuality was a sin. I never heard her say so out loud….
…..which is why it STUNNED me when last year, she admitted she felt that way in college. But, she said, spending time with me in what we called the LGBTQIA+ group, to support me through a time when I was on and off suicidal, she discovered that queer people were, well….people. Who just wanted to be allowed to live. That might sound like “wow, the bar was belowground and she was doing the limbo with Satan,” but you must understand: this was 2006 in a very tiny town. Our senator had just compared homosexuality to both bestiality and pedophilia and there was a concerted push going on to write “one man, one woman” into the Constitution. Allison’s position (“I feel a certain kind of way but I’m not going to say it aloud”) was actually KINDER than most of the people around me.
And just spending time in our spaces, being around queer people, she realized “hey, what I have been told my whole life is a lie. These people are just people. Telling terrible jokes, having cookouts, fighting for basic human dignity, arguing over whether or not face painting is an appropriate college activity. There is no difference between them and me.”
Without a welcome into queer spaces, Allison might still be part of a homophobic church. Instead she helped organize her town’s first Pride parade in 2019.
“The queer kids, whether they’re gay or straight, need to stick together.” — Tim Miller, gay performance artist
Gatekeeping kills. STOP THAT.
Healthy people who say stuff like “they’re still doing things so they can’t be in THAT much pain” need to understand that after a certain point pain becomes boring. No, you never get used to the pain, but you do gradually become bored. After months or years of mindless suffering in bed eventually you learn how to watch TV, do a light hobby, etc. even while in extreme pain, simply because chronic pain is incredibly dull and humans need entertainment.
As someone with a chronic pain syndrome this is true
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idk how this "prev tags" nonsense got started but i promise you i am not following a breadcrumb trail to find out what those tags were. if they're that funny then share them with the class in a reblog like a normal clown this isn't twitter
There are angry Tumblr users screaming their tags were stolen. I have been here for a fricking DECADE and this is the first time I've had to say #notmytags. #notmypost.
This is a big reason for Tumblr reblogs falling. Twitter, instagram users migrants think REBLOGS ARE SAME AS REPOSTING. THAT USING OG TAGS IS STEALING.
wow can't believe i just made this meme and already got to use it twice
we talk in the tags and then the tags go to peer review and if they're deemed Good Content somebody ELSE will put them in a reblog and publish them
replies also go to peer review and get added to the main post if they pass the board
How could you leave this in the tags, etc.
had to go through peer review. the applicant thanks the board for its approval
"adults trying to stay "hip" and keep up with youth culture and being years late is so cringey"
adult secret: its all intentional. nothing will prepare you for how fun it is to watch a teenagers face as you dab at them. i will floss when they least expect it and I will love every second of their horror.
fond memories of how one my shipmates would very earnestly ask the youngest deckhand ‘was that yeet? was that a yeet?” every time he tossed docklines
My favorite tik toker strikes again!
Fifty-five years on… remembering the woman who, almost single-handedly, made it possible for Star Trek to happen: Lucille Ball, the brains of Desilu Productions.
Love ya, Lucy!