Where are we going, and why am I in a handbasket?

USA, she/her, 18+ _へ__(‾◡◝ )> No minors! 18+ only! I am not a content creator, but I reblog a lot of adult content. Mostly video game and TV/movie obsessions, with a giant heap of news and political crap.

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[byjove]

I’m sick of myself but I’m the only option

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Swedish Meatball Pasta

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Is this how you roll?

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*takes you, fellow white American queer person by the hands* Because of your race you still occupy a space in our White Supremacist society that values you and your life more than a Black person. Yes, even cishet Black people.

There is a reason why legislation and social pushback is typically focused on preventing you from coming out, preventing you from transitioning from the start, or detransitioning and/or closeting you. That is state violence, but the state is hoping you will either do the dirty work yourself (suicide) or fall in line with the White Supremacist Patriarchal gender roles it expects of you (closeting/detransition). I know that is bad. It's abysmal. It's awful. We are not here to downplay the violence that happens broadly to queer people at the hands of the government.

However, under White Supremacy, as a white queer person, you can be "saved" from the "lifestyle choice" you have "made". We're in a country dominated by Christian savior complexes, conversion therapy is a regrowing industry, the laws targeting us are laws of restriction, laws of "prevention". White queer people are a "problem" to be "solved" by trying to "save" us from ourselves so we can reintegrate into broader white, Christian society alongside other white people. We need to be "corrected" and "saved" because our whiteness is still valuable to Christian, Patriarchal, White Supremacy.

White Supremacist state violence in the United States murders Black infants on the false allegation that their mothers are stealing diapers. White Supremacist state violence murders Black children for playing with toy airsoft guns. White Supremacist state violence murders Black women for experiencing a mental health crisis. White Supremacist state violence murders Black men on the unproven allegation that they used a counterfeit $20 bill. White Supremacist state violence murders Black people for simply existing in their homes. Kohen Wiley, Tamir Rice, Sonya Massey, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Roger Fortson. The list could go on because just existing while Black is dangerous under White Supremacy.

Your analysis of your own place in society as a queer person is incomplete without this analysis. It is not enough to say "well trans WoC have it harder than me but cishet people all have it easier" because that is incomplete and ignorant at best and flat out wrong and racist at worst. Why do trans WoC, particularly Black trans women struggle and experience so much violence in our country? Why does that violence happen? You can't just say "because they're transgender and they're women and they aren't white" and leave it at that. What are the institutions, the power structures, the long standing histories of violence and subjugation at play here? Why is it dangerous for someone to exist as a Black person, everything else aside, in the first place? Why and how does your whiteness protect you where their Blackness creates a target for them and how do the systems around you exploit that and target you differently on a material level?

Think more complexly about race and become more anti-racist now!

[tomato-greens]

I think Black feminist writers have many useful things to say for anyone reblogging this. :) Kimberlé Crenshaw writes extensively about the exact theory of intersectionality being discussed here, probably most famously in her article “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color.”

some other mostly well-known texts by Black writers that may be useful here:

Audre Lorde’s “The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House”

The Combahee River Collective Statement

less well-known but really useful: Angela Davis and Jane Elliott in conversation on race and privilege

and, how to use all this work: bell hooks’ “Theory as Liberatory Practice”

several of these authors were or are lesbians or queer and those who ever commented on trans experience were or are trans allies (to my knowledge), therefore specifically relevant to this post. :)

two extras:

this 1975 conversation between James Baldwin and Maya Angelou is much clipped and GIF’d (you’ll probably recognize the imagery if you’ve been on tumblr for any length of time) but I actually don’t know if I’ve ever seen a link to the full thing before - enjoy; it’s beautiful and worth watching

Tema Okun’s From White Racist to White Anti-Racist Ladder, a step-by-step resource designed for white allies who want to do what OP is telling them to do but need help figuring out how to manage their defensiveness/emotional reactions to trying to learn to become anti-racist and unlearning the structural racism in which they have been raised. these reactions are not something we have to be terribly ashamed of (in fact, shame can make us dig our heels into our racist behavior, so learning to forgive ourselves and behave differently is an important part of unlearning racism). feeling defensive is a totally normal part of unlearning racist patterns and white supremacy, just like it’s a normal part of unlearning any kind of privileged pattern we hold. what matters most is that we do our best to keep trying and not to push our emotional reactions onto the people around us and the people we love who are impacted and oppressed by white supremacy.

together, every day, we can work against white supremacy :)

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[cryptid-on-a-string]

I finished sewing and embroidering my Hal 9000 tank top!! This took a while and I'm still learning and making mistakes, but I'm still quite proud of it.

[dusk-posting]

people will treat you like an object that completes tasks on command and is broken if the tasks are slow or wrong and then when you start feeling like an object that complete tasks (sad, empty) they get angry at you for looking visibly experiencing the life they are forcing you to have

[c3po]

*makes a post that gets 0-3 notes* yep i’ve still got it

[victusinveritas]

Humphrey Bogart's lifts he wore during his scenes with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, 1942.

[what-even-is-thiss]

If you wanna cook but don’t have the spoons for chopping vegetables or you can’t use knives for whatever reason, frozen chopped onion is really good for that.

Nothing wrong with using canned vegetables or an onion or garlic paste either.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Ginger garlic paste, frozen onion, and instant rice has gotten me to cook myself a curry to eat instead of skipping a meal more times than I can count.

Instant potatoes and canned or frozen veggies are also great if you want a meat and potatoes kind of meal. You can also get precut and pre seasoned meat at a lot of grocery stores.

[what-even-is-thiss]

If you’re new to cooking as well it’s important to know that you really don’t need to start big! Making soup from some frozen veggies you dumped in a pot or making tacos with a store bought spice mix or even just boiling an egg to put on your instant ramen is a great start and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise

[monamoni]

[prophetic-writer]

When you've been a writer for long enough, commas become more of a spiritual practice than a grammatical one.

Could I explain the actual rules of how they’re used? Absolutely not.

Do I rely on sensing a tremor in the force to tell me where to use them? Yes and this has never failed me even once.

[nobrashfestivity]

Unknown, artist rendering of Man, a sculpture by Alexander Calder for International And Universal Exposition 1967

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

tumblr will see a pathetic little fool composed of vengeance and tomfoolery and instantaneously respond with:

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reminder

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Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland

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Luca Ponsato - Does Anyone See My Suffering