Silly Little Reptile

I make art and waste time G (they/she)

[the-red-lizard]

You cannot be "pro-freedom" and anti-queer. These are incompatible positions. They cannot coexist.

You cannot claim to believe in human freedom and also claim that humans are morally obligated to adhere to norms that are arbitrary and harm no one to deviate from. There is no identifiable, objectively correct way to be human.

If you claim to believe in freedom, you don't get to be mad when responsible, consenting adults decide to have sex or get married because you don't think they're "supposed to".

If you claim to believe in freedom, you don't get to be mad when someone wears clothes, takes hormones, and/or uses a name or pronouns you don't think they are "supposed to".

There is no "supposed to". People are gay, people are trans. This does not harm you. You don't get to have a problem with it.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Trans day of every tabloid shuts the fuck up about us forever. Trans day of let us have our healthcare and leave us the fuck alone. Trans day of tearing down the panopticon. Trans day of let us control the narrative instead of deferring to some cis sexologist's hallucination.

[274th]

and this is why we don't have online sharing LMFAAAOOOOOO

[iris-of-the-lambs]

doodled some manticores... i meant to make them properly monstrous and scary but idk I think they're kinda cute now

[helsinore]

Like this whole immutable essence bullshit has to be like. Tied to the denial of literally any other factor mattering. Like you argue someone is a different gender than the one assigned at birth and then it's "but sex can't change" and then you try to be like "no but sex literally can change because HRT and surgery literally alters any sexual characteristic that people on sight give a shit about" and then all of a sudden it's "well you can't avoid socialization" and it's like. Broadly speaking. If we must for a second. Who is it that children are taught to have respect for. Because I have to imagine that young transfeminine eggs being taught "this type of person is NOT even a human person" is the kind of shit that gives you next level psychological damage and is not really teaching you to take up space and be your true self.

And you'll see people caught in the trap of sex is immutable or that socialization is defined as the cis (or cis-and-transmasc) experience of it or whatever and it's like. None of this is immutable or behaves in the way you think it does, and acknowledging this does not somehow mean that patriarchal oppression has vanished from existence.

[tpwrtrmnky]

There's a reason why so much transfem online culture deals in latching onto various dehumanized women, like robots and similar. You basically nailed it. Giving you a good grade in understanding transfem psychology

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m not gonna platform this idiot but I saw somebody reblog a post from a radfem I think by accident. But the post claimed that men who hire prostitutes are “rapists who buy their victims silence”

I don’t think I need to explain to y’all why this is wrong but in case I do, buying a service from someone and following their rules as a client is not a breech of consent.

A lot of the danger that comes from being a prostitute has to do with its illegality. If a client breaks the rules and the service provider can’t file a complaint without risking imprisonment of themselves and/or their client, that’s not a safe work environment.

The idea that nobody would willingly sell sexual services unless they’re desperate is just false. There’s also a lot of other jobs people do when they’re desperate and they don’t like doing. For me it was working retail.

The difference between me pretending to be happy for clientele while working retail and someone pretending to be happy while selling sexual services to clients is that while I was working retail I at least theoretically had sick leave, health insurance, and a way to file a complaint if a customer assaulted me.

Sex work isn’t inherently any more degrading or miserable than any other kind of work. The issue is the lack of protection and workers rights.

[xochihuacoyotl]

so. not to doxx myself (i've talked about this here before though) but i live in Kansas. and my license was just revoked very suddenly and immediately because i'm trans and had changed my gender marker.

so now i cannot legally drive or vote until/unless i let them force me to carry around a card that misgenders me and outs me as trans, because i certainly don't look female anymore.

[xochihuacoyotl]

so hey if you have the means and want to help with any of this, please consider donating to the ACLU of Kansas because they are at least going to try to do something to push back against this, and i'm such a panicky wreck that the only thing i can do to get through my immediate gut reaction to having my license revoked tonight (i cannot stress enough that i received the letter today saying that my license is no longer valid tomorrow) is focus on the fact that there's at least one entity trying to protect me and my fellow trans kansans.

Support the ACLU of Kansas Foundation

[faggotfungus]

More info on what's been happening in Kansas:

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses

"The legislature did not include a grace period."

[paleo-bug]

Spinosaurus marshland ❤️❤️ Inspired by the Great Salt Lake.

[the-return-of-yagamimi]

vita still getting worked on occasionally

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[tpwrtrmnky]

The reason why "Not knowing about [X] leads to fascism" applies to so many different subjects btw, is that fascism is less of a structured political philosophy and more like "succumb to the worst of human impulses and knee-jerk reactions to provocations, let your biases guide you and embrace the dopamine rush of feeling powerful through cruelty" formalized into a political system

[tpwrtrmnky]

The thing about the post vs response pattern

"Treat [marginalized group] with basic human respect!"

"Actually treat ALL people with basic human respect!"

Is that the subtext of the post here is "The marginalized group isn't being afforded the full status of people" while the subtext of the response is "I interpret this as you advocating against basic human respect for everyone else"

[cuddledhormone]

I need you to stop what you're doing. Stop playing your game, stop reading your book, stop listening to your music. I need you, all of you, please, to go and help palestinians. Right now and in the future. I need you to help them because they need our help, our help to survive the horrible conditions created by israel.

Please, do something for those who need it, today.

[cuddledhormone]

My friend Abdalrhman has had, very understandably, a hard few years. He’s had to battle things hardly any of us have even come close to dealing with. Bombs, bullets, the destruction of his home, a famine, he has had to brave them all, and has lived through them all. I ask you to please, please, help him.

Donate to Help Abdelrahman Rebuild His Future –The ongoing war in Gaza, organized by Abdallah Alanqar

Hello, I'm Abdelrahman, 22 years old. My journey has been… Abdallah Alanqar needs your support for Help Abdelrahman Rebuild His Future –

[abedelrhman2002]

Please don't abandon us, don't leave us. We need your support and donations. You are our safety net; we have no one but you to stay well. Please donate to us. Please don't leave us.

[abedelrhman2002]

Why is everyone ignoring us when we desperately need support? Please don't abandon us. Please stop for a minute and help us. Please donate to us

[abedelrhman2002]

My dear friend, please, please, please donate. Please share. Please support us. You are our hope for survival and for getting out of here alive. Please.

[abedelrhman2002]

Now, booby-trapped robots filled with explosives are being detonated beyond the yellow line. They are destroying all forms of life. Please help us escape from the Gaza Strip. Please donate to us.

[thecollectibles]

Side View by Max Kostenko

[tpwrtrmnky]

Ok enough ttrpg posting time for a rent lowering gunshot: holy SHIT I love being an affront to traditional sexgender hierarchies every moment I draw breath. I DELIGHT in taking exogenous hormones to alter my body according to my whims. I would EAT GOD if I had the chance.

[crazygnomenclature]

Golly, she's wearing such a trustworthy dress. Really makes me want to share crucial information with her.

Inspired by this Erin Reed post.

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[cathmasart]

drawtober - mushroom fairy 🧚‍♀️ 🍄

[twitblr]

Not much focus on rehabilitation

[obi-wann-cannoli]

This seems like a good time to mention the Prisoners Literature Project and Inside Books Project. Both of these organizations send free books to incarcerated people, and are always looking for donations - both books and money -and volunteers! (Prisoners literature project sends books everywhere but Texas - Inside Books project is just Texas).

[rhythmic-idealist]

[ID: Joseph Hill (@ jaceyhill) tweeted: “Reading costs 5 cents a minute and the prisoners earn 30 cents an hour. Reading a 330 page book costs them about $20. Prisons are designed to destroy people’s humanity.”

Hill’s comments are a quote-retweet of Book Patrol (@ bookpatrol), who said: “The Cost of Reading in Prison: In West Virginia it’s 5 cents a minute bookpatrol.net/the-cost-of-re…” Attached is a photo of an incarcerated person sitting on the end of a bed leaning over an e-reader, with their head resting in their hand. In the background, one person sits on another of the many beds in the room, and another sleeps.

315 comments, 26.3K retweets, 74.9K likes.]

[rednines]

Donate books money time whatever you can to your local books to prisoners, anarchist black cross, or books through bars group. They’re trying their hardest to make it impossible to read books in prison the last few years

[iatrophilosophos]

Fwiw you CANNOT donate 2nd hand books to US prisons! New books must be shipped directly from the publisher to the incarcerated recipient. Just give $$ to ur chosen group and they’ll buy books on request, you can also volunteer as a penpal to get requests & coordinate sending people titles they asked for and/or curating titles to send.

People who are good at making book recommendations, i.e. well-read in a certain topic or genre, are always really valuable at the ABC (anarchist black cross) so if thats a skill u have definitely link! Getting a well-chosen title you havent read before is a highly life-sustaining little pleasure.

[yvng-nvn]

Appalachian Prison Book Project sends books to incarcerated people in 6 states in the Appalachian region!! FOR FREE! They publish special requests weekly, mostly thru their Facebook page, and have guidelines for donating books on their site. They’re particularly relevant to the tweet in op as they are West Virginia founded & based and going strong for 20 some years now.