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queer | feminist | social justice tea-drinker | he/him/his | white American

[eartharchives]

Black leopard spotted in Africa for first time in 100 years

The extremely rare female cat has melanism, a condition in which the body produces an excess of pigment.

Melanistic leopards have been reported in and around Kenya for decades, but scientific confirmation of their existence remains quite rare.

[bioillogically]

i’ve had a drink and feel like being needlessly inflammatory, so i’m going to double down and say that “you don’t need gender dysphoria to be trans” is just a diluted version of a more radical argument—“gender dysphoria” doesn’t describe an actual phenomenon at all, other than a diagnostic process fundamentally at odds with trans liberation

[daggers-drawn]

Gender dysphoria is something done to us– the traumatic response to our coercive gender assignment. Truscum reproduce that abuse, holding self-authentic expression as a permanent and unreachable ideal.

It’s trans made one-dimensional and thus impossible. It’s trans people crushed in that impossibility.

Trans existence is not a tragedy or disease to be cured. Rather its the systems of cisheteropatriarchal natalist gender assignment that warrant annihilation.

[earthstory]

philonoists

This strange looking bird is:

A BLUE-FOOTED BOOBY{Sula Nebouxii}, and this weird movement is its very distinct and elaborate mating call, where it lifts its blue feet up and down while strutting before the female.

Not all Boobys have blue feet and these make these special birds much more desirous to the females in mating season.

Now do you know any human Boobys😁😁😉😋😋1d

[sageaway]

snugs with seven and s/age!

↠ please do not remove my caption/repost anywhere ↞

[brown-lesbian]

lesbians doing absolutely anything is so fucking hot

[brown-lesbian]

this was highkey about my girlfriend struggling to cut a bagel with a shitty knife

[rockjumperbirdingtours]

Photo of the Day – The Bokmakierie (Telophorus zeylonus) is a member of the bushshrike family, and is endemic to southern Africa. The species is mostly found in South Africa and Namibia, but there is an isolated population found in the mountains of eastern Zimbabwe and western Mozambique. The species gets its name from its most typical call – bok-bok-mak-kik.

This photo was taken by Adam Riley in South Africa

[jetpens]

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BtysioplRXS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nny4g8tskpuw

[dendroica]

Dwarf Ginseng, Panax trifolius (by me)

[oldhollywood]

Katharine Hepburn as Amazon warrior princess Antiope & Colin Keith-Johnston as Theseus in stage production of The Warrior’s Husband (1932) (Corbis)

[crimelords]

ok. ok

[elodieunderglass]

all right I’ll allow it

[wizardposting666]

Okay so some fun and interesting tidbits of info that @queer-taako gave me a while back regarding Katherine Hepburn: she may have possibly been either nonbinary or transmasc. She had a male persona, and gay men (as in exclusively gay men, men who only had sex with and were attracted to other men) had sex with her. They viewed her as just as much a man as any of them. In fact, the only reason I’m still using “her” and not “him”/“them” is because it was never confirmed (and let’s be real, it could have been very dangerous for her back then). But that information is out there.

[charismat1c-megafauna]

This is a pretty good article going into detail about Hepburn’s identity as well as how the era sort of impacted her experience. She described herself later in life as “the missing link between genders” and even as a child, had a secret name for herself which she preferred to be called among friends (Jimmy) and the information she gave about her childhood like not getting why everyone seemed to treat her like a girl, not wanting anything to do with feminine things, having a secret name, at the very least resonates with gnc and butch women, trans men and nonbinary people.

We have no way of knowing what she really was, and we cant really ascribe an identity to her, but she had relationships with men and women and wanted pretty much nothing to do with womanhood in her private life. Being non straight and/or not cis in Hollywood, especially back then, was such a minefield to navigate, and there was virtually no language to express yourself if your identity was anything other than gay or straight cis person, and even the term ‘lesbian’ wasnt used as often as youd think.

[nolonelyroads]

Balanced boulder at Valley of Dreams. . . . . . . . . . . #newmexico #NewMexicoTrue #nmoutside #nmnomad #instagramersnm #TravelNM #beautiful_newmexico #nmco #landscape #alltrails #modernoutdoors #roamearth #rediscovertheearth #ViewBug #earthfocus #TLPicks #OurPlanetDaily #lonelyplanet #lpfanphoto #landscapephotography (at Nageezi, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bty9PwIlbmo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=m5dlekokquv6

[thecolorblockcurator]

Portrait of a Girl, 1852,  Luise Henriette von Martens

[thebashfulbotanist]

Wild Gunnera in the eastern Ecuadorian Andes. It’s common in moderate elevation cloud forests. These were photographed at about 2,500 m.

Gunnera is used as a horticultural plant in wet areas in the northern hemisphere, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. It’s the only genus of the family Gunneraceae.

[thebashfulbotanist]

Two flowering individuals of Maxillaria striata, an epiphytic species of orchid found in wet montane forests in Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. These were found in the Rio Zuñac Reserve in Ecuador. They are sometimes grown by orchid-keepers, but otherwise aren’t commonly used horticulturally.

[quentindouchetphotographie]

Chardonneret élégant.

(Carduelis carduelis - European Goldfinch). Accompagné par une mésange charbonnière.

Hauts-de-France, France - (01/2019).

© Quentin Douchet. A ma soeur, Julie…

[todaysbird]

the orange breasted falcon is a bird of prey native to mexico and south america. they are closely related to the smaller bat hawk. these falcons prey on small mammals, birds, and reptiles, and are thought to fill the same ecological niche as the peregrine falcon, although they live in more heavily wooded habitats.

photos - luke seitz, macaulaylibrary.org

[ridiculousbirdfaces]

Baby Blues by Matthew Baldwin

Black-footed Penguin (Spheniscus demersus)

[taylortut]

you know no one would be upset about the gay or trans characters dying if they got the same treatment as other movie protags. like if you want me to follow the adventures of Jimmothy WhiteStraightMan and give him one (1) lesbian friend, I want her to fucking live because she’s all we got. but if you make a movie about, say, an entire crew full of lady pirates with a good spread of races and sexualities and let them kick ass for the whole movie, we’re not gonna complain when the captain gets run through with a sword in the end tryna protect her crew, ya feel?

it’s not that you can’t kill off gay characters it’s that you can’t make a gay character an emotional pawn that only gets to exist for three episodes and call that representation