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28 // she/her // femme lesbian // no terfs

[free-my-mindd]

[wyrm-boy]

[prodomius]

[ninanation]

Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people

[ninanation]

please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.

[creacher-art]

USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116°-118° (47°-48° C) for a week straight.

This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

Raise India (Project Tapan)

[boitterfly]

it’s so special to me that so much of fan culture is textual analysis for the love of the game. like thank god there are people in my phone who are also thinking about this thing i love so much that they are writing transformative fiction as character studies and setting clips of the show to music with theme-relevant lyrics and writing long text posts analyzing every line of dialogue like!! yay!!!

[ziijsh1]

"Why do you talk so much about being intersex?"

Over 90% of parents of visibly intersex children opt for cosmetic surgery on their infants.

The ones that don't experience medical violence then, likely experience it as a teenager.

I didn't.

I am very rare in that I did not experience medical violence.

Why? Because I learned what intersexuality was as a young age, and I actively fought against what doctors wanted to do to me. All the way down to legal research on what medical care minors can be forced into. I remember walking into that doctor's appointment with the state law written down that proved that if I did not consent they could not do surgery.

That is why intersex activism is important. It saved me and it will save more.

[isuggestrevolution]

i have a suggestion

[loveridden1999]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[aichu-dechu]

[s-n-arly]

Apparently my favorite picture books as a child were written by queer authors.  This brings me joy.

[down-sizing-redux]

Look, most of the queer people I know, myself included, had pretty rough childhoods (for a variety of reasons, but being recognizably queer was part of it) and as a result, we are fiercely protective of kids. Not protecting kids in a walled-garden sense the way conservatives want, but celebrating the wonder and whimsy and weirdness of being a child, and treating children as people - people who might need more supervision and care, but people with opinions and thoughts that really do matter. So of course the most beloved children's books of the last 40 years are written by queer folx. It makes perfect sense.

[dancinggrimm]

There are far more besides!

Hans Christian Andersen was gay, and in between writing such heartrending masterpieces as The Happy Prince and The Little Mermaid, along with some beautiful works of satire, had a fairytale romance with a German nobleman, and successfully annoyed the fuck out of Charles Dickens.

The Ugly Duckling is a fable about his acceptance of himself as a gay man, after a struggle to see his own value as a person who didn't fit expectations.

Then there's Tove Jansson, who wrote the Moomins, internationally popular for over 80 years. She and her partner of 45 years at one point lived down the street from one another and built a secret passageway through the attics of houses so they could visit one another in secret. The stories are rich with the accepting and loving compassion of the Moomin family, in spite of their own flaws and those of the people they meet.

And how about a modern one? Julian Clary, groundbreaking gay comedian and presenter, created a series of children's novels called The Bolds, about a family of hyenas who have taken on the identity of a couple of human tourists who died while on safari, and live in a house in an English suburb, raising their twin children and working in a factory that makes jokes for Christmas crackers, keeping the fact that they are hyenas secret from the humans around them through cunning disguise. They become aware that others around them are also animals disguised as humans, and gradually form a supportive and caring, secret community. At a glance it's a sweet and funny tale of a ridiculous situation, but to an adult, it's a clear parallel of queer subcultures, written by a man who lived through the aids crisis as a figurehead of his community.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

I'd like to give a shout-out here to one of the staples of my childhood, Jan Pieńkowski! He was a writer and illustrator, most famously known for illustrating the Meg and Mog books.

Jan was a Polish writer and artist. He survived and escaped the Nazi invasion of Poland as a young boy, and said that his interest in the paper cut-out style came from an experience hiding in an air raid shelter when a soldier kept him entertained by making paper cut-outs.

He and his partner, David, were together for 40 years before getting a civil partnership in 2005 (on the day the civil partnership legislation came in). He died in 2022.

[ozempicofficial]

[erzvolnes]

immortal words

[koko2unite]

me and who

[politijohn]

Source

Happy Pride Month!

[reasonsforhope]

Holy shit!!!!!!! HUNGARY DID IT!!!!

-via the Los Angeles Blade, June 1, 2026

[queer-as-city-folk]

Happy Pride everyone, today is the tenth anniversary of the nationwide right to gay Marriage in the United States and the 22nd anniversary of nationwide legalization of Gay Sex. In 2 days is the 56th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising.

[queer-as-city-folk]

We have won nothing without fighting and we have everything to lose, there is no gay liberation without trans liberation, none of us are free till all of us are free, we have won so much and come so far but the road ahead is still long, we must continue to fight for both our liberation and the liberation of all people

[queer-as-city-folk]

The gay liberation movement is young, everything we have fought for and won happened over the course of less than a human lifetime, and there are forces at play that wish to claw back at these hard fought for rights, we must be prepared to defend what we have fought for and we must continue to fight for improvement

[queer-as-city-folk]

We have to celebrate how far things have come, because we never would have made it this far without joy and hope, and while we can and must fight, we also must remain hopeful

[queer-as-city-folk]

This year is:

11 years since nationwide gay marriage in the US

23 years since sodomy was legalized

57 years since Stonewall

[probuccalfat]

dead serious normalize having an average boring ass life where you have enough to meet your needs we do not need to be remarkable we just need to be alive

[hymneminium]

Not that there's anything wrong with having something wrong with you

[probablyautistic-definitleygay]

[pointnclick]

"No one wants to work anymore." Damn right brother. If I could sit in a beautiful field for 40 hours every week of my singular precious life I would

[identitty-dickruption]

nobody ever believes me when I list off all of the ways that humans are significantly less sexually dimorphic than people seem to believe and it drives me batshit insane. “you’re denying the biological reality of sex” well you’re sticking your fingers in your ears and saying lalalala every time anyone presents you with data that confirms that women and men aren’t really that different. and refusing to come to terms with the two-way relationship between the “biological” and “social” worlds. I think one of us is ignoring the biological sciences here and it isn’t me

[dykepuffs]

I strongly remember being a small child and saying to a teacher that it was weird that lions had manes and deer had antlers but the only ways that humans had to tell apart "male" and "female" was just how they dressed and they got absolutely furious, going "But men are taller than women" (but Mr Black is shorter than Miss Smith, and my Dad is shorter than my Mam, and...) etc etc etc ... this continued until I was in detention. But, I am sure this is a relic of me remembering the process of being taught how to gender people, and that Gendering was mandatory...

[podcastwizard]

sorry boss can't come in today i was on my way to work and then a gentle spring breeze kissed my cheek and reminded me it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world