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jen ★ she / her ★ australian ★ 18 ★ sapphic ★ english / education major

#intro post #dividers from @saradika-graphics #hi this makes me seem a lot more organised than i actually am. this is mostly a bullshit blog #from jen #Spotify

pointnclick

does anyone else remember grass. the warmth of the sun

#i am not surviving winter

deusben

theres something sexual about guitar solos

#this is true btw

precalamity

Jacob Anderson being the most locked in person at the Vampire Lestat concert

sailermoon

having unwashed hair will have you believing shit like i can’t be saved

w0nderland42

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

batrachised

love the phrase "but I digress." yes I temporarily got lost in the moors I wander in my mind but don't worry I'm self-aware about it

slaughterhousebrutality

i'm like if a hedonist didn't derive pleasure out of anything

beforeyouijustforget

FONTAINES D.C. for Partisan Records, 2021 Ph. by Lillie Eiger

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allbornscreaming

FONTAINES D.C. — Skinty Fia (22 April 2022)

"Skinty Fia” is an expression that our drummer’s great auntie used to say. She was an [...] exclusively Irish-speaking person. [...] It roughly translates as “the damnation of the deer.” I don’t know, it sounds like mutation and doom and inevitability and all these things that I felt were congruous to my idea of Irishness abroad. Like if you go to Boston, that expression of Irishness. That’s skinty fia to me. That’s that mutation. That’s a new thing. It’s not unlicensed and it’s not impure. [...] It’s just a completely new beast. — Grian Chatten ☘︎

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azspot

“When I speak of Indigenous peoples surviving an apocalypse, I’m not speaking metaphorically. The colonization of the Americas represents the largest genocide in human history. Indigenous populations declined by an estimated 90% in the century following European contact, which was about 1/5 of the world’s population at the time. This over just a one-hundred-year period. Entire civilizations vanished. Languages died. Sacred sites were destroyed. After that culturally genocidal policies were enacted like banning religious ceremonies and children being stolen and forced into boarding schools designed to “kill the Indian, save the child.””

— Randy Woodley