The Feelings Box

My name is Nikk. I use they them. Virgo 🌞🌜 Cancer Rising

[solarpoweredspacefemme]

Uzo Aduba is casually the Midas of talent--she excels at everything she touches

[saintzacharie]

[redsatinsheets]

bitch………im fucking sweating

[notviolet]

I would sell both my lungs for these

[nicocacolaaa-deactivated2019043]

HOW THE FUCKKSJS

[opricat-deactivated20190919]

http://www.glitterinjections.net

[galacticconqueror-moved]

@conquerheartandsoul holy shit

[missvoltairine-blog]

While I was picking pieces to hang at the museum a woman came by and told me that she named her dog after Ginger Goodwin. “Never name your dog after a labour leader,” she said. “He negotiates for every treat.”

[mioxenoblade]

I’d like to point out that actual studies have linked trans suicides to constant misgendering as a cause (one of, I should add), whereas affirmation of gender is known to do the opposite. So intentionally misgendering trans people is pretty much legit trying to kill them.

In other news, water is wet.

[trashrecognisetrash]

Where the study/source?

[mioxenoblade]

I’m uber busy at work and I don’t have the time to pull up the specific spot it’s discussed. But, look up the work of Dr. Ry Testa. He’s a trans man tackling these issues.

[tracyalexander-deactivated20201]

Someone who knows how to navigate resources and has the spoons and time try and find the paper, save trans momma the trouble. Sounds super legit though. Being misgendered almost always causes some dissociation and social withdrawal form me since it belittles my identity. I don’t get suicidal thoughts but I could sure as hell see how someone who does would be affected by that.

[transcabforcutie]

Hiya!  I’m hoping I could help somewhat. This is all the work Dr. Testa’s done.

Development of the Gender Minority Stress and Resilience Measure.

Effects of violence on transgender people. I think this is the one though; The relationship between gender-based victimization and suicide attempts in transgender people. Misgendering a trans person is a violent act. It’s an emotional abuse that cuts deep into who we feel we are at our core. We have enough to deal with internally, adding external voices to that can destroy us.

[pissed-monster]

@TERFs who insist misgendering is just ‘hurt feelings’

[anamatics]

Hey young ones

This is a request.

Learn your queer history. Learn about AIDS. Learn about how the leadership of this country looked away and did nothing to help our community for years. Learn about how they joked AIDS was god’s punishment for being gay. Learn about how, in the community, everyone was touched. Everyone lost someone. Learn how the AIDS crisis gave birth to the modern gay rights movement. Learn about how that crisis brought the community together after two decades of infighting. Lesbians took care of gay men who were dying. Found families were everywhere. Our history is too important to allow our politicians to sweep the horrible awful legacy of inaction under the rug. 

Learn your history kids. Think about the people who died to make your life now, as a young queer person in the world, a whole lot better than it was back then.

[and-bisexual]

YES

Learn about how bi men were blamed for the epidemic by both straight and gay people, and especially for its “leap” to those innocent straight people.

Learn about how Newsweek publicly blamed bi men for the epidemic in 1987, calling them “the ultimate pariahs” and “amoral and duplicitous and compulsive.” How Cosmo did the same two years later, promoting the popular stereotype of bi men as dishonest spreaders of AIDS.

Learn about how bisexual activists like David Lourea and Cynthia Slater were at the cutting edge of safer sex education, bringing it into bathhouses and BDSM clubs in San Francisco in 1981, when doctors were still calling it “a rare gay cancer”. Or like Alexei Guren, in Florida, organizing healthcare outreach to Latino married men who have sex with men.

Learn about how it took two years of campaigning to get even the San Francisco Department of Public Health to recognize bisexual men in their official AIDS statistics (the weekly “New AIDS cases and mortality statistics” report),

Learn about the women who got HIV, both cis and trans, who often had no resources or support. And the incredibly high risk trans women faced for HIV even in the late 1990s, and how difficult it still was for them to access healthcare.

Learn about how bisexual activists like Venetia Porter, of the Prostitute’s Union of Massachusetts and COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), were the ones who first advocated for both cis and trans women, and injection drug users, with AIDS.

Learn about how Cynthia Slater, who by then was HIV-positive, organized the first Women’s HIV/AIDS Information Switchboard in 1985.

Learn about how bisexuals are still erased from HIV/AIDS history. How frequently we are told that we were not affected by the epidemic, that we are less oppressed as a result, that we did not participate in this movement or in the larger movement for gay rights. That we were not demonized, that only gay men were disowned or refused cemetery plots for having AIDS. How our erasure is used against us.

[prismatic-bell]

Look up the die-ins. Groups of dozens, HUNDREDS, literally laying on the steps of hospitals and breathing their last because hospitals wouldn’t take them and their families wouldn’t either.

Look up Ryan White, an 11-year-old boy who got HIV through a faulty blood transfusion in the days before reliable testing and was denied an education out of fear he’d infect other kids.

Do you know what AIDS was, in those dim days? My mom worked in a hospital. An AIDS patient was brought in and immediately put in the same isolation room they’d use for stuff like SARS, smallpox, and anthrax. Entering his room required that you enter another room first and take off all your clothes. A fresh set of scrubs would be given to you. Then you had to triple-glove, double-boot, double-mask, double-gown–yes, a surgical gown just to enter the room–and when you left you did all this in reverse and then got a decontaminant shower. Nobody knew how this disease was spread.

And the people. In charge. Did NOTHING.

When older queer activists speak, loves, LISTEN. Our history is short and foggy and all too often appropriated by straight people for brownie points. It’s not all the repeal of DADT and getting married.

[fans-on-the-run]

Psychology today also did an article blaming bisexual men in the most scare-mongering way possible. This was a supposedly ‘objective’, semi-scientific magazine. I still remember reading this over 20 years later.

[boxrocketcomics]

watching bees do their bee stuff in the back yard

[solarpoweredspacefemme]

Positives On The Moons

Aries: Have a good sense of right and wrong, they feel which is which strongly so often stand up for justice

Taurus: Like to be generous and will treat you even when you don't need them to, they don't even realise it

Gemini: So relaxed and chilled out, they give an air of peace where you can just be yourself

Cancer: Like to be the mum of the group, often the warmth and centre within their friends and will bring happiness

Leo: So much ambition and nurture with them, they would do anything for those they care about, but also able to work for themselves

Virgo: Intellectual worldly conversations come naturally, very loving and great to talk to about next to anything

Libra: Like to keep the peace and make people smile, have a strong sense of justice they will speak out for

Scorpio: Care about people deeply even when they pretend not to, they like to watch out for friends like guardian angels

Sagittarius: Very hard-working and studious (surprise!), it's admirable how hard they will work to get what they believe they deserve

Capricorn: Humbling, and the mother of all their friends, they like to give people peace and a place to be safe

Aquarius: Love to look out for their friends and take their minds off the bad in their life, always thinking of new ideas to make you smile

Pisces: Genuinely always caring about you and actively looking out for you, no matter how bad you argue or disagree

[joshpeck]

this is so funny & pure

[pastel-hutt-deactivated20180115]

She is exactly like two specific friends of mine combined into one person and I love this

[fohk]

https://instagram.com/p/BEm_9mrx18L/

[memeufacturing-deactivated20161]

have i failed at literally everything i have put a lot of effort into? Yes . but have i ever let that stop me?? Yes

[duskenpath]

Rest stops on highways are liminal spaces where the veil is thin and nobody can tell me differently

[oli-via]

Explain

[duskenpath]

The explanation is that liminal spaces are in between places that bridge Here with There, so in fairy tales we often have the Fairy Ring, the Forest Clearing, the Sudden Misty Foggy Forest, the Bridge, the River, graveyards, in some cases

We also have a ton of american urban mythology around famous roadways and sites off the sides of roads

Archetypes like these occur to mark the places in the world where the veil goes thin and humans can have extra-worldly experiences, out of the ordinary way of living

So why wouldn’t transient spaces like rest stops where everyone is just passing through from one place to the next, never stopping for too long, not be a liminal space where spirits frequent, too

Especially since nobody would know if they were real or not

[pardonmewhileipanic]

Ok but this speaks to me

I always feel like something isn’t quite right at rest stops

[confusingteen]

I once slept though three gas stations on a road trip, and the second the car started to slow to turn into a rest stop, I was basically wide awake.

[prismatic-bell]

My mom and I were on I-90 in a blizzard once and pulled off at the first exit we could find. Turns out that if we’d gone even a mile further, we would have happened on a 49-and-counting car pileup, and that 90 was closed for MILES. How we found an unblocked ramp was a matter of great debate, but where this gets weirder still is that at the bottom of the ramp was a closed truck stop and an open church full of teenagers–they went for youth group, the blizzard started, and they were stuck until the snow stopped. They fed us leftovers from their potluck dinner, prayed with us for safe travel, and when the snow let up they saw us on our way.

Three days later–Sunday–we were traveling back and decided to stop at that church to thank them. We found it thanks to the truck stop, but this time it was the truck stop that was open and the church that was closed. Neither of us remembered it looking so decrepit on the trip down, and granted we saw it first at night in a snowstorm, but you’d think we’d have noticed the boarded-up windows. So we asked in at the truck stop.

The church had been abandoned for ten years. And yet I still had one of their youth group programs under my sun visor, very clearly labeled for the previous week.

To this day I’m sure we crossed dimensions somewhere on I-90, and that’s how we stayed safe. You could tell me it’s because the truck stop was a liminal space and I’d 100% believe you.

[duskenpath]

I don’t mind when this post goes around again because sometimes I get stories like this

[mostlycatsmostly]

Our little gazelle/rabbit/cheetah/cat 🐱🐰🐆

(via Sydney Muller)

[cognitivedissonance]

Your cute cat of the day

[almondarcade]

who the fuck genuinely enjoys the taste of sour candy who the fuck says “im going to eat this sugary sweet coated in pain salt and im gonna fucking like it”

[lesbiantaurus-deactivated202508]

Me.

[honeyproducer-blog]

Feed Me The Pain Salt

[best-of-memes]

[ashley-slashley]

I wonder what cats dream of?

[ohjafeeljadefinitelyfeel]

I have never been more riveted by a set of info before GIVE ME MORE

[quinndolyns-deactivated20220403]

every time a recipe calls for garlic i use like five times the amount of garlic they say because people who write recipes on the internet are fucking cowards with no taste buds

[solarpoweredspacefemme]

tbh I’m probably going to delete my tumblr soon, but I saw Tasty’s nasty sriracha chicken salad rice ball and needed to voice my disgust somewhere

that abomination is a disgrace to humanity.  go back to your ridiculously cheesy canned dough spin offs and think about what monster you’ve created.