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@sheepybee
consider: liu qingge in this t-shirt. that is all.
immediately yes
Ad blocking in Melbourne
For educational purposes only, obviously.
i really like this thing where websites will have separate "log in" & "sign up" buttons and if you click "log in" it takes you to a sign-up screen anyway so you have to click "i already have an account" and then it will ask if you want to sign in with your facebook account or with instagram or linkedin or deviantart or whatever, and if you choose "username & password" it asks if you want to put in your username or use your thumbprint, and once you put your username & password it emails you a confirmation code, and once you put in the code it says "do you want to give us your phone number for future sign-ins? do you want to sign up for facial recognition? do you want to give us your bones? give us your fucking bones?
websites prior to like the 2010s: sign in with your username and password
websites now:
Longtime readers may be aware of how much I relish an excuse to bully a company, so I'm sharing the wealth;
Clothing company Patagonia is currently sueing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.
To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.
So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.
I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because sueing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.
They're claiming they're sueing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.
In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.
Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'
I think they have a twitter and tiktok too!
PONYO 「崖の上のポニョ」 (2008), dir. Hayao Miyazaki
The worst-sounding piece of advice I've ever been given that does actually work is to frame your health concerns as coming from someone close to you, whom you do not believe. Tell your doctor that you've been having pain and your mom/friend/partner thinks it might be an ovarian cyst, but you don't think so because the pain is much more intense and it has to be something else. This gives your doctor an unseen third party to fight instead of you. They can't just tell this third party, who isn't present, that you pulled a muscle, they now need to prove to this third party that it is not an ovarian cyst.
At which point they will find an ovarian cyst, but they now get whatever fucked up satisfaction they derive out of proving you wrong, because you didn't believe it could a cyst at all, but guess what? They did find a cyst! It's such a good thing you didn't listen to your intuition and came to them to verify your lay diagnosis from that third party! Bonus? Doctor doesn't have to feel like they look stupid in front of a patient, which is really what all this is about. Not your health, why would you think your medical diagnosis is about your health? It's obviously about a doctor's potential ego.
And apparently this works. Apparently you just need to be able to always play 4D chess with your medical professionals in order to find an avenue of advocating for yourself and getting you medical needs met. Isn't that great?
I hate it here, actually.
Hab als einzige trans Person in einem gender studies Kurs kürzlich gesagt, dass ich das Akronym FLINTA nicht mag und FLINTA events vielfach genau aus dem Grund meide weil die organisator*innen könnten gleich so gut schreiben "nur menschen willkommen, die wir als non-threatening interpretieren und vage feminin aussehen" und sagen wirs mal so... Den cis 2. Semester studis hatts nicht so gefallen. :)
Juhu dachte ich erklärs kurz für alle, dies nicht verstehen:
FLINTA = Frauen, Lesben, Intergeschlechtlich, Nonbinär, Trans, Agender (if anyone says Ally i will throw hands). Wieso ist Lesbe dabei? Für Sichtbarkeit, vor allem historisch wurden viele "Flinta" Räume von Lesben geschaffen und weil Lesbe mehr als eine Sexualität sein kann: eine Geschlechtsidentität, eine politische Identität, Ausrichtung von Lebensstil und so weiter und so fort. Und es gibt ja auch ganz viele nonbinäre und trans lesben, like yours truly. Aber Ich belasse mal mein intro to queer studies hierbei :)
In der Theorie ist das Akronym toll, weils ja "alle ausser cis Männer" einschliesst. Und ich will keiner Person diese Räume absprechen. Wenn sie euch gut tun und ihr euch wohl fühlt - super, freut mich von Herzen für euch. Ich will aber in diesem Post auf die Kritik eingehen:
1. Die Absenz von cis Männern bedeutet nicht gleich, dass Räume sicherer sind. Besonders für mehrfachmarginaliserte Personen (queere BIPoC, Personen mit Migrationserfahrungen, Menschen mit Behinderungen, ...). Oder ein anderes Beispiel: terfs sind ja als "flintas" immernoch willkommen. Ist das dann ein safer space für trans* Menschen?
2. Die Definition "alle ausser cis Männer" führt automatisch zu einem gender policing. Denn bei solchen Events werden nicht alle beim Eingang gefragt "äh sorry bist du ein cis Mann oder nicht". Das heisst, das Ausschlusskriterium wird dann das Aussehen. Geil für alle, die "wie ein cis Mann aussehen" (was auch immer das heissen soll) ohne dass sie es sind. Das betrifft zB (vereinfacht gesagt): nichtbinäre und transfeminine Personen, die nicht medizinisch Transitionieren, nichtbinäre und transmaskuline Personen bei denen das Gegenteil der Fall ist und natürlich auch teils intergeschlechtliche Personen. Das heisst alle, die nicht "vage feminin" aussehen müssen sich extra outen, um zu safer spaces Zugang zu erhalten obwohl sie eh schon aus so vielen Räumen ausgeschlossen werden. Hackts eigentlich?
3. Es werden auch cis Männer ausgeschlossen, die genau so einen safer space brauchen könnten/würden. Queere Männer, rassifizierte Männer, disabled Männer, ....
Ich denke, wer anderes kanns sicher besser im Worte fassen und ich habe sicher auch noch Kritikpunkte und Perspektiven vergessen. Ich spreche nur von Konversation, die ich darüber hatte und von meiner eigenen Erfahrung. Ich finde die Motivation dahinter gut, wies aber in der Realität ist halt nicht so. Es fühlt sich einfach wie Bioessentialismus mit nem woken Makeover an.
Juppp deswegen mag ich den Begriff auch nicht. Manchmal denke ich, Leute benutzen den nur, weil er ein einfach auszusprechendes Akronym ist.
Hab vor ein paar Jahren mit Leuten von der Uni Flinta-Bibliothek gesprochen. Auf die Frage, wie sich cis Männer dann über Themen wie Feminismus, Gendertheorie, Intersektionalismus etc etc informieren sollen (weil die Unibib sicher weniger Bücher dazu hat), kam ein panisches "dann geben wir das Buch einfach durchs Fenster durch" zurück. Sag, hörst du dir eigentlich zu?
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“I don’t put politics in my stories” is the literary equivalent of a cishet guy going “I don’t have pronouns”
#if you aren't conscious of the politics in your art#your art will reveal your values in ways you're completely oblivious to#writing
art by Tima Lotah Link (Chumash) for the Native Voices 16th Annual Short Play Festival
"merciless indian savages" is a direct quote from the US declaration of independence, and this is referencing the art of "manifest destiny" as a white woman standing over the us countryside
extremely fucking cool. this is the art that’s being referenced most directly btw:
I can’t right now, my show is on
re-learning how to ask for help before it's an emergency will help you get rid of the feeling that you're always having to drag other people into your emergencies btw
if you really think it's not fair to keep asking people to step in when things have already gone to shit and it's gonna be super stressful to them, the realistic solution is to ask for help before things have a chance to turn into a crisis so that the help needed is more minor, not to magically become the one person on all of planet earth that never needs help
and if people get mad at you for asking for help on something minor, that's a sign you need different people in your life. I promise there are plenty of people who are not just willing to help a friend, but excited at the opportunity to feel helpful and like you want them in your life!
all babies are baby gender. you dress them stupid, in pumpkins and teddy bear suits
not to be a dirty commie or anything but i don't think any one person should have enough money to solve world hunger and then get to decide not to