#rrf

[satedsaint]

on “we don’t have all the facts”

Girls to the Front, Sara Marcus

[satedsaint]

reading girls to the front and sobbing crying at the loss of a feminism movement that's about deconstructing gender and also improving the lives of people who are designated women because we are far from a better future. the conversations between kathleen hanna and tobi vail. the way they worked together. we need a feminist movement with fangs again because there is so much anger and nowhere for it to go

[solarpunksapphic]

like ultimately i'm for a point where gender is not a strict thing that everyone recognizes as innate and i agree with the fact that some opposition of gender norms subtly reinforces them (ex. "i'm not a girl because i don't do girl things" or the reverse) but while we're in this hell of sex and gender-based oppression (which we will be for a long time) i look at every masculine woman with the largest heart eyes imaginable.

invent yourself completely. steal things from men because butches do it better. men never owned any of those traits in the first place. make up entirely new fucking genders and ways of life because all of it is fluid!

work together to use our influence over the queer community, especially the younger queer community, which is growing up online with extreme exposure to racism and misogyny. knock down their perceptions of "man" and "woman". encourage them to treat everyone as a human person. things have been and are still terribly shitty, but they get better. i have to believe in a better future.

(and in queer spaces: demand our agency. assert our space and our rights within those spaces. be aggressive. and work with people who engage in good faith but feel free to go apeshit on the others. work with those that share our perception-based oppression, and those who do not. the modern queer movement has problems but it is not nearly as reductive as trfs say it is. we're all fighting against our taught perceptions every day and there is history and progress being made in those spaces. share our history!! we can move forwards!!)

[satedsaint]

no but my actual stance on like. cishet or even bi men at chappell roan is like. if you’re being straight at a chappell roan concert you should be able to see why people could be upset. men are not banned. i am not going to kill bisexual jakey on sight at pride even if he’s being annoying. like front row in half of her concert videos are a few guys in pink cowboy hats and nobody ever complains about them being there. because they’re there for the music and they’re being respectful and most of them are gay.

if you are going to exhibit straight behavior in a queer space i am of the opinion that you don’t need to assert your right to be there. less like “no cishet men at pride” and more “no cishet men at pride going ‘you have to let me in because i’m cishet’”. you have to be aware that you are in a space not crafted for you and you have to have that amount of respect. nobody is kicking straight men out of chappell roan concerts.

people will see lesbians exhibiting discomfort in the presence of straight men (because of their very real past history of negative experiences with such) and go “but what if the man is queer”. if you are making such a scene of yourself in a STRAIGHT way then i think you deserve whatever scorn lesbians throw your way on their personal twitter accounts. it is not “gender essentialism” to recognize that lesbians and queer women have had negative experiences with men who look like that. there is a very real trauma there

[galpal95]

I have reached nirvana.

[krasivaa]

Super cute photos of Princess Ileana of Romania and Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia ✨

[ididitforthedogs]

Reese, Finn, and Reid again, from left to right with this pic crew. Reese looks the best here but the flames on Finn's portrait reference her backstory (family died in a fire)

[ididitforthedogs]

Some more pic crews! Left to right is Reese, Finn, and Reid. This is a slightly older one so I don't have the link saved in my phone. The expression that Finn is making is pretty characteristic, whereas Reese looks gentler and more open, which suits her well.