(i cant follow back my main blog is @encouragink) Sam, 20, any pronouns are fine. i eat dice. socialism is sexy and no i havent read theory. Ask me about Black Sails.
Never forget that not only did she get banned because of staff's transphobia, the CEO of this site followed her to Twitter and posted her account information publicly.
As much as we meme about the hammer car thing, this was a real instance of staff personally terrorizing a trans woman.
i apologize if this triggers anyone but this is too important for me to NOT share, especially with it being so close to where i live. it’s really sad to hear that something like this has happened and i haven’t heard a single person talking about it, sad to say i probably would’ve never known about elisa without tiktok.
to any trans and nb people who may see this post, I SEE YOU. i see you, i acknowledge your existence, and i love you. and that will never change, no matter what people say or how many laws the government signs into order. I LOVE YOU and i admire your courage to be unapologetically you. nobody can erase your history, we won’t let them!
"That I have experienced my share of traumatic experiences, have survived abuse of various kinds, have faced near death from accidental circumstance and from violence (different as the particulars of these may be from those around me) is not a card to play in gamified social interaction or a weapon to wield in battles over prestige. It is not what gives me a special right to speak, to evaluate, or to decide for a group. It is a concrete, experiential manifestation of the vulnerability that connects me to most of the people on this earth. It comes between me and other people not as a wall, but as a bridge."
Everybody's hurt. What is important, what corrals you, what bullwhips you, what drives you, torments you, is that you must find some way of using this to connect you with everyone else alive. This is all you have to do it with. You must understand that your pain is trivial except insofar as you can use it to connect with other people's pain; and insofar as you can do that with your pain, you can be released from it, and then hopefully it works the other way around too; insofar as I can tell you what it is to suffer, perhaps I can help you to suffer less.
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the quotation comes from a talk Baldwin gave in 1962 which was titled (maybe by the broadcaster?) The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity
Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust?
She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a ‘temporary’ detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps. She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn’t realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn’t handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn’t care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded.
And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration.
Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State’s detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A. Single. Difference.
So unless you want to fucking tell me that Anne goddamn Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y’all can shut the fuck up with that “stop making concentration camp comparisons, you’re diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust” bullshit.
Its also worth noting that her family TRIED to flee to the US and was denied. She was in that camp partly because the US refused to let her refugee family immigrate.
also everyone saying oh burt and irving are over is crazy. are you not seeing what i'm seeing. they're rival spies with insane sexual tension and now one of them is evil and that's not making you guys go yay yippee??????
iedereen ga nu naar Droom Dit luisteren!! en als je denkt wow dit is nice ik wou dat het nog nicer was dan heb ik een tip je moet naar een Droom Dit concert gaan
the craziest part about the backlash this post gets is that i used the word starving. i can understand my anti ps sentiment being controversial (pussies) but the fact that you'd defend a woman's right to starve herself in the name of empowerment because that's what she wants is soooooooooooo wild to me i cannot comprehend it at all lol self destructive behavior is not empowerment. prommy
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saw this very [ben affleck depressed smoking image] comment and thought why does blue job / pink job sound like an established concept so I looked it up.....
what's next?? having a bank account is a blue job 💙🏦☺️ not being legally recognised as a person in your own right is a pink job 🩷🥰💅
Being on this site when The Ace Discourse was in full swing was mad weird. It felt like I just woke up one morning and all of a sudden everybody hated me and thought I sucked shit for not being as interested in boning as they were and that went on for like 4 years until one day it just kinda petered off and now we pretend it didn't happen
#ok dont shoot me this is my personal opinion as an ace person but i feel like there is a real discussion to be had about how much#an individual ace or aro persons experience lines up with broader queer experiences and imo it's up for that individual to decide#HOWEVER that is not what was happening during the ace discourse#it may have started out that way as people feeling like we didnt belong and wanting to keep their own space#but it devolved into genuine vitriol and hatred for ace and aro people on principle#it kind of reminds me of terfs who start out just asking questions or having concerns etc#and then going down the rabbit hole and just fully hating trans women as a concept
Hey, do you see how the second part of this soundly refutes your own preliminary comments? It ain't a real discussion to be had because you really gotta stop giving the time of day to motherfuckers who are just asking questions. Motherfuckers who say shit like "But what's the problem, I'm just asking questions" are a plague and a pestilence.
a wizard is going to turn you into a random animal! whether you like it or not! how nice of them!
spin the wheel to find out which class your new species belongs to (and then probably do a google).