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@trans-archist
1. should we throw a party should we invite bella hadid
2. you people can’t do anything
3. name one hobby you have outside of media consumption
4. I think you guys might be thinking about yourselves too much
5. hard to remain patient with friends who focus solely on their own crucifixion. Get off The Cross, ladykins... we could use the wood!
6. name one toxin/hormone and its function
Vote for progressives. #DSA #ZohranMamdani
like in 2026 of all years in this current fucking political climate making a "hey just a reminder!!! don't be a disgusting pervert in front of children at pride!!! :)" post is deeply deeply fucked up
like i'm already sick of having to have this discussion every fucking year but now??? in 2026??? pull your head out of your fucking ass you are actively a danger to the community
this pride month will be special because of giant ice snake will appear
Women stick thin and malnourished on the red carpet, and people are saying you can't point out that these women are dying because that's body shaming. Girl.
@whitenikes
one reason internet discourse is so annoying is how often you run into someone who believes things that are provably factually wrong about something really important, but they came to the conclusion because they're in legitimate pain and the false belief seems to explain and validate the pain, so any attempt to dispel it feels to them like dismissal of the pain.
you run into this all the time in all sorts of different domains. people who believe in various sorts of medical woo - morgellons syndrome, wifi hypersensitivity, vaccine overload - because it seems to explain the chronic symptoms their doctor's ignoring. people who believe adoption is inherently evil because they've decided that the fact of being adopted in and of itself is what explains their childhood trauma, even though talking to them for five minutes reveals a bunch of other obvious unrelated reasons. other people who think NPD or BPD or some other personality disorder makes you ontologically evil because that's what explains why their parents treated them badly. various flavors of nationalist weirdo who believe a bunch of complete lies about the historical geopolitical relationship between <insert country here> and <insert neighboring country> because they seem to explain legitimate discrimination and trauma they've experienced as a member of the first country. terfs who got into that school of radical feminism because they are women who have a history of abuse by men and they've decided the explanation is that testosterone is a sort of evil supersoldier serum and that abuse is just the natural inevitable result of people with and without penises existing in the same space.
all of this happened before the internet, of course, but on the internet it's super easy for these people to find each other and form communities where they constantly affirm the false belief to each other, which makes it way worse.
the frustrating thing is that understanding this is what's happening never actually helps. it does not matter how much you say "i believe that your chronic headaches are absolutely real and extremely severe and you're not imagining them and they have a real physical cause, and I believe you that they're absolutely debilitatingly painful and it sounds so scary on top of the pain, and you deserve help. but there is strong evidence that is not true that the headaches are being caused by an invisible alien named glonzo who hates you personally." emotionally they are totally incapable of not hearing the last sentence as meaning "your headaches are fake and you have no reason to be complaining about them."
the best thing you can do about it is probably try to catch when you're doing it yourself, and remember that your pain can be valid whether or not a particular narrative that feels like it validates the pain is true.
this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.
This is true btw
the podcast If Books Could Kill has a really great episode on the original book and its legacy! just a bunch of misogynist evangelical bullshit really
Already know I wanna send this to people on June 1
#my wife is on the SOR for being gay #no joke #she hit on a girl in a straight bar once #in 1997 #and while the girl was into it #the off duty cop sitting nearby was not #and so he arrested her for ‘soliciting homosexual activity’ #which in our state was still a felony #in 1997 (and would remain so until Lawrence v Texas in 2003) #and since ‘soliciting homosexual activity’ was a felony and a sex crime #she got put on The List #she is still on there to this day #because it costs MONEY to ask a judge to take you off #and she has tried four times#since 2003 #to get taken off the SOR #but every time the judge has said something like ‘no you pled guilty to the crime i can’t possibly take you off the sex offender registry’ #with no acknowledgement of what the actual crime was #(the crime of being a butch lesbian hitting on a cute girl who was into it) #(in 1997)
Reposting these tags with consent from the person that wrote them. The post about the Sex Offenders Registry is locked, but these tags are too important to go unnoticed.
Younger queer people need to realize that the SOR being used against queer people simply for being queer isn’t some ancient history thing. It still impacts queer people today. And it can quite easily be used that way again.
Listen!
When you hear people throwing around the talking point of “well there’s a high rate of sex offenders in the trans/queer community”, this has to do with why.
Being on the sex offender registry isn’t inherently equivalent to whatever horrific sex crime you’re meant to think of when it’s mentioned. It evokes imagery of pedophilia and rape, but there is a lot that can get you put on it and not a lot you can do to be taken off of it.
Public crossdressing used to be able to get you put on the sex offender registry (and by used to I mean as recently as 2011).
Public urination (you know, the literal only option for someone who’s homeless and doesn’t have access to public bathrooms, a venn diagram where trans people are more likely to rest in the meeting zone) can get you put on the sex offender registry.
Sex work is pretty much an automatic way to end up on the sex offender registry if you’re caught. (This is especially weaponized against black trans women who do sex work)
“Deviant Sexual Intercourse” (aka literally any sexual activity aside from penis-in-vagina penetration) could get you on the sex offender registry as recently as the early 2000s. That effectively impacts the entire queer community in one way or another.
The sex offender registry is, first and foremost, useless. It tells you nothing about what someone did. It’s mentioned to quickly associate a person or a group of people with the worst possible crimes imaginable.
It has been used against us time after time and it will continue to be used for that.
And this is where the push of purity discourse in fandom shows its fetid, fascist underbelly.
This is why they are making being trans in public a felony in some states.
When you decide that people who commit a certain crime or category of crime should legally lose their humanity, you create incentive for more people to be charged with that crime.
You listen to music regularly? Why? Have you even tried quitting? Could you quit? You get music stuck in your head? Wow. You're so ruined and music brained. I bet you make your partners listen to music with you when you have sex. Music addiction has really ruined a whole generation. You know it's not realistic to expect reverb in real life, right? You're probably so desensitized that you don't even feel anything anymore when you hear a bird singing that it wants some fuck.
I don't have a problem with people listening to music per se, but I do have a problem with the music industry exploiting & mistreating artists.
Personally, I abstain from all music in order to keep my hands clean but really music should just be illegal outright to protect musicians from abuse.
holy shit this person in the notes
the state does not need to assign you a sex, nor does it need to keep inalterable record of it btw
a very interesting terf objection to this one boils down to "but how would the state know who to protect?" because it speaks to the incredible privilege of being in a class the state actually ever remotely wants to protect. most oppressed groups do not want the state to have a registry of them, lol
the patriarchy has done a great job convincing white cisgender women that it's in their best interests to maintain it
Anti-cop posters spotted in Seattle
“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”
— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“
If this is real they need to do it again
america please just collapse already
