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21, this blog is 17+, ran by a queer POC in the global south.
not a safe space for most people but especially radqueers, transids, anti endos, terfs/"radfems", casual progressives, and zionists.
this is a sideblog.
(#- ns) is for my own original posts. (#- nr) is for reblogs. (#- nsr) is for reblogs i add my own comments to.
“Rappers only talk about their money, cars, and clothes!”
Why might someone from a group of people that historically have been denied access to wealth, now brag that they have it?
“Rappers only talk about sex!”
Why might someone from a group that have historically been denied sexual autonomy now brag about their sexual escapades on their own terms?
“Rappers only talk about drugs and crime!”
Why might someone from a group that historically have been denied the more legal means to acquire wealth and had drugs forced on their community talk about their experiences with it?
terms for "the middle east" have been insanely contested this past decade and i just wanted to put my two cents in for what IM comfortable being called, and when i use these terms. there is no unified agreement as to what terms are acceptable at the moment so you really have to be flexible in the terms you use. My feelings on the matter are also affected by the fact that im pretty progressive and that im an exmuslim, and i dont really like to be associated with islam if i can help it.
Arab - Unless someone else is calling themselves this and i want to establish a sense of community/camaraderie, i do not use this one. I dont like it. i dont like its colonialist origins, i dont like how its been used as a replacement after cultural genocide, i dont like the stereotypes and immediate assumptions about my religions when i self identify as this label to people who do not know any better. i have not once willingly called myself this outside the direct context of someone else calling themselves this label and wanting to establish community. It barely even has a meaning in and of itself. Heres my favorite exerpt of all time about the matter:
Middle eastern - a lot of people have an issue with this one because of its origins, but i dont really mind it that much. its not my favorite, but it isnt outright offensive to me. i mostly use this when i want to emphasize the political climate i live in. calling myself middle eastern invokes a specific location that is currently embroiled in lots of tension. and i do outright live there, so i find it useful in that regard.
west asian/south west asian - this ones my absolute favorite. its vague, holds no cultural or religious connotations, has an objective location with no real political implications. i love the asian continent too, as a whole, so i take pride in this label. the only downside is that people typically have to look it up to get a full sense of the region im refering to.
SWANAn/MENAn - i get the appeal of this but it just comes off to me as a woke way to say "muslim world", which i ALSO dont really like. theres not much in common about these countries besides the fact that they were all arabized (term to describe the cultural genocide by the muslims to replace local cultures with arab "muslim" culture) and all speak arabic. again, i dont find it outright offensive, but im not even remotely north african, so i dont know why id be using this term to describe myself, nor why anyone would describe themselves by a term that describes a region spanning a large chunk of 2 continents. id find this term useful only when discussing the region outside a sense of identity but thats it.
It's always hard reading about the violence committed to steal America, but the buffalo is always like... That's some inhuman shit. Everyone is burning in hell for that one. Wdym there were thirty to sixty MILLION buffalo in 1800, and by 1900 there were only 300 left. THREE HUNDRED. Do you know, can you fathom the amount of purposeful cruelty required to kill NINETY NINE PERCENT of a population of an animal, just to spite and murder the living Native people who existed and thrived with them? All this, for White Power and Entitlement?? Sickening.
"Kill your local sex offender!" Oh, you mean the guy who went streaking at his local college football game on a dare one time? That's a sex crime.
"No, I mean-"
Oh, maybe the woman who had to pee in a public park that only had pay toilets, so she tried to hide behind the bushes but got caught? Public urination is a sex crime.
"What? No, I mean-"
Oh, maybe you mean the homeless guy who had to strip down to get his clothes in the laundromat to clean them for the first time in weeks? He tried being subtle, but someone called the cops on him, and now he's on the sex offender registry for public nudity.
"Rapists and pedophiles! Kill rapists and pedophiles!"
Oh, like the trans woman who got called a pedophile groomer for helping a trans kid escape her abusive parents?
Or maybe the black man who got labeled a rapist because he came on to another man's wife, and he decided to get back at him by charging him with rape?
How about the 17 year olds who were fooling around, fully consensually, in one of their bedrooms? That's still technically underage sex and thus rape of a minor.
Oh, or maybe you're talking about the doctor who performed genital reconstructive surgery in a state that just voted to get that classified as rape?
People will do everything they can to get you convinced rape and pedophilia are the worst crimes possible, then accuse whoever they like the least of being either a rapist, a pedophile, or both, counting on you turning on them just for being accused of the crime.
"Oh, so you're saying you don't want to kill a serial rapist?"
That's exactly what I'm goddamn saying.
Once we decide a group is okay to kill, the government will do everything they can to convince you that their political enemies are either part of that group, or just as bad as that group, to get you to kill their enemies for them.
The only way out is to accept every life as worth saving.
The only way out
is to accept every
life as worth saving.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
pleaaaase pleaaaase stop using the term bipoc ohh my god nowhere else in the world but america do people separate poc into "the people we cant deport" and "the immigrants"
you fake america haters and especially american usa haters think i mean maga and trump when i say i hate america. bc as a non american QOC. when i say i hate america i mean down to the faggiest most rainbowy progressive internet activist. because at the end of the day no matter how queer you are or how progressive and inclusive you are you cannot rub the stench of "i think im the main character of the world and everything revolves around me" off of you
theres something very poignant about how white people love putting palestine in their bio and whatever but the minute i mention being bombed anywhere around them even if were already close they clam up. like they love talking about the middle east until the Middle Easterner is Talking Back
[Image ID: A screencap of a news article by “The Daily Tism.” The headline reads “Missing! ‘Autistic Sense of Justice Nowhere to be Found When It’s Time to Talk About Race.” A blonde white woman, dressed in a long-sleeved pink shirt with darker pink-rimmed round glasses stares shocked at a computer screen. End ID.]
this is a perfect example of why the autistic trait commonly described as a ‘strong sense of justice’ should be instead described as strong or even inflexible moral convictions. because autistic people can be wrong. we are people, and sometimes people are wrong about stuff, including morality and justice. autistic people hold strong to our personal beliefs, but does that mean we all have strong moral compasses and a sense of justice?? i don’t really think so. in actual reality, it just means it’s often hard to change our minds about morality, and nearly impossible to convince us to act against whatever we personally think is morally correct, not that we are actually correct about morality (which is subjective, or at best situational, anyway)
white autistic people can be great in fighting racism, but only if they believe it’s a big deal, and that is nowhere near a universal truth
you can't say "hey has anyone noticed that M/M fic outnumbers F/F like 100:1” or “it feels racist that only 3/202 characters on the ao3 top 100 ships list are Black and two of them are Alastor HazbinHotel” bc some ppl will start going like “oh so you think we should FORCE people to write about things they DON’T CARE ABOUT for WOKE????” and you’ll be like “no, i’m pointing out that the conditions that created this disparity are informed by racism & misogyny” and ppl will say “it’s not BIGOTED to only care about WHITE MEN” and then the gargoyle king appears
now that were talking about the rumors a tadc movie could be released early only in american theatres and the fact toby fox wont translate his games into anything other than japanese - can americans start realizing how painfully american-centric fandom spaces are?
like imagine being from ethiopia or nepal or malaysia or latvia and knowing that a game, show, movie, concert you like will never ever be available to you. down to the online spaces surrounding them. pick one of those countries above and look up what are some available concerts or conventions in the coming year. look up the countries your favorite aritsts visited or the languages your favorite indie games have been translated to. go to a random fandom server and pay attention to how location-specific and timezone-specific and even culture-specific details that are considered the standard or default can be. i live in the developing world and i was once yelled at by an american moderator for "messaging at an unreasonable hour" when it was in fact a COMPLETELY reasonable hour for me, and, you know, a discord server??
fandom is centered around the US to the point of apathetic extreme exclusion of people outside it and even more so to people from non western countries. imagine being the same sort of fandom kid you are now in a country thatll never get a whiff of access of events or access to certain things that americans are served by default.
“For white folks especially, not looking like you're oppressed is equivalent to not being oppressed. That's why they look at Black people in certain positions of middle class lifestyle and say, ‘Well, you're you're not discriminated against.’ That's why they don't count microaggressions as racism historically. That's why they don't look at neocolonial situations as colonial even though they clearly are, because it doesn't look like obvious racism. It doesn't look like obvious white supremacy. That's why white people are like this. And that's why again, you know, white queers have racism envy. That's the term I'm going to use. Straightforward, white queers have racism envy. They think in their heads that the kind of social currency you get from being obviously discriminated against is something that could be wanted, desired, sought after in any serious way, which in itself is racist, is anti-Black. The idea that not only you being straight-passing is something that maps onto exactly what being white-passing is, but also that this is some sort of crime against the marginalized community and some sort of indication of your having special powers over other people. I mean, that's just queerphobic and based off of how you read that, it's racist.”
—Elliot Sang, Mysogyny against bi women
Lesbian bars would rather have a trans man there over a trans woman. That’s because most cis lesbians are prone to TWERF beliefs and think trans men are more of a woman than trans women. The annoying part is that a lot of trans men seem to think this too.
Lesbian acceptance of trans identities has more to do with persistent notions of immutable biological sex than with actual acceptance of trans identities.
speaking of headcanons have you ever noticed white people tend to headcanon the gentle characters as poc (and only those characters) to signal they reject the stereotype poc are aggressive, to the point where they reduce all poc characters to submissive/passive
intersex animals r not nonbinary animals they r intersex animals hhow many times do wwe have to do rhis
i dont know how to explain to you that referring to any living creature wwirh mixed sex characteristics as “true nonbinary” is harmful to bboth intersex ppl and nonbinary ppl
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