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girl help I'm getting they/them'd by well-meaning people who don't know what a tomboy is

This feeling is strange and complicated. On the one hand it's legit quite cool that nonbinary pronouns are becoming more widespread! On the other, I've spent my whole life pursuing interests and hobbies and ideals that weren't seen as particularly feminine, and when I was younger this was a major source of bullying and stress alongside some generalized misogyny taking the form of "you can't do or be anything you think is cool because you are innately inferior and to do otherwise means violating your nature," and it took me a while to conclude that this was just straight horseshit top to bottom and I could do whatever I wanted and present myself however I wanted without in any way being Not A Girl, and now it's like the exact same concept has flipped sides and is coming from a point of theoretical validation but still calculates out to "that's not very ladylike of you, you must be something else". anyway she/her thanks gang

comicaurora

I think it's like. the understanding that the gender binary is a small part of a much wider space of identities is separate from the understanding that a lot of that gender binary is a false dichotomy that artificially walls off universal human experiences behind specific pronouns and while the first concept is gaining wider understanding the second is lagging a little, which means "I am a girl and I like doing boy things" reads as "oh I've heard about this, you must be one of the Others who don't do the binary" rather than "the concept of 'boy things' is stupid from the jump"

comicaurora

just to be 100% clear

what this post is NOT talking about: using they/them pronouns for someone you don't know, aren't sure of, hasn't had a chance to introduce themselves, etc.

what this post IS talking about: my highly personal experience seeing some people "correcting" my commenters that were using she/her pronouns for me, because, despite me exclusively using she/her pronouns and saying so whenever asked, through no action of mine they had gotten the idea that I was using "they/them".

comicaurora

girl help I put a nuanced personal experience on the reading comprehension website

demonboyhalo

collection of useful things tumblr has taught me:

even if you can't fall asleep, laying down with your eyes closed will still rest your body

you don't have to brush your teeth standing up

you don't have to do any chore standing up, from dishes to showering

you don't have to shower with the lights on

if you can't brush your teeth, flossing and a tongue scraper gets rid of plaque and bad breath

if you can't do that, mouthwash kills a lot of bacteria

eating "unhealthy" food is better than eating no food

you can make the same meal everyday for however long you still want it

some pills come in syrups or chewables if you can't swallow them

kids nutritional shakes can be a quick way to get fuel if you can't eat/don't have time

if walking hurts/exhausts you on a regular basis, canes and rollers are for you, no matter how young you are

we have free will—if doing something "out of the ordinary" makes life easier for you, do it

i-have-n0-idea-what-im-d0ing

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing halfway. If you can't eat a whole sandwich, eating just some of it (or anything, really) is better than nothing. If you can't brush your teeth, swishing water around your mouth helps more than doing nothing. If you can't drink plain water, drinking seltzer or tea or anything is better than drinking absolutely nothing.

Incomplete tasks are better than no tasks at all.

goracememy

socialistexan

55 people.

Not 55 thousand, not 55 hundred, but 55.

Cruelty is the point.

d6b-onion

this video has been going around for a while but the English subtitles didn't match the energy of the spoken French at all. i had to fix it.

reblog to spread this version

somethingintheaspens

REBLOG

extinctavialae

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kjthomas-deactivated20240603

i want history museums i want art galleries i want forests i want long car drive i want book stores i want star gazing i want to feel.

anenthusiasticteen

Και όλα μαζί του

nativenews

khaleesi

Oh man, my art history degree finally has a use On Here.

The banner to the right on the flag is a piece of Picasso's Guernica. Here is the full piece (click for full size):

Picasso was commissioned by the Spanish Republican Government (this was the government *at odds* with the Spanish Nationalists, to be clear, who were fascists) to create a mural for the Spanish pavilion at the World's Fair in 1937. They essentially commissioned him for pro-Spanish Republican propaganda -- they wanted a mural that showed the importance of the Spanish Civil War and why it was necessary for the Spanish Republicans to win.

Picasso sort of waffled on this. No one's entirely sure why; could've just been an art block cause by, you know, the global rise of fascism. He was commissioned in January and until April hadn't produced much more than sketches. This bombing took place on April 26 and Picasso produced the sketch (at the suggestion of Spanish poet Juan Larrea) that would become this mural. The finished piece was unveiled at the Paris International Exposition at the Spanish Pavilion in July of 1937. Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia had a huge presence there with their own massive propaganda-filled pavilions, so unveiling this was a gutsy fucking move given the tensions of the time.

Most figures in this mural have their own symbolism, and they're all fascinating and very sad, but the one that doesn't -- the one that simply is, and is powerful as its own contained image -- is the one chosen here: a mother holding her dead child, her head thrown back as she wails with grief.

This is one of the most famous anti-war pieces of art in the world, and it was made because fascists bombed Guernica. To see Guernica using it now in solidarity with Palestine, where (as of my writing this) 10,000 children have been killed, is unspeakably moving.

The Middle East Monitor reported on it three days ago. In the US, Very few national media outlets have picked this up - probably because the meat behind it is being overshadowed by more urgent statistics and updates on the genocide - but many local newspapers have. As best I can tell, The Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado was the first.