Chez Umbra

constantly lowering the bar for us all・he/him

[ohevoyev]

the utter hypocrisy of governor walz implementing a curfew then sending out the largest police force in minnesota history to shoot tear gas into brooklyn center apartment complexes filled with families who are not allowed to leave their homes

[ohevoyev]

fucking failure

[ohevoyev]

this is now the second night that the police / national guard (SWAT, DNR, UMPD, state troopers) have attacked apartment complexes in brooklyn center with tear gas and flash bangs. plus governor walz’s pathetic fucking response to the deployment of chemical weapons against minnesotans which he claims were “thoughtfully used” on april 12th

[septicstank]

Brooklyn Center renters blame police for chaos at Daunte Wright protests

Fed up residents say aggressive police action means tear gas in their windows, crowd-control munitions on the lawn, and tight police surveil

Here’s an article that explains the situation in more depth.

How you can help people in Brooklyn Center right now, in the aftermath of Daunte Wright’s killing

Want to support the community where Daunte Wright was killed by police? Here’s where you can drop off food, send money to local organizers,

Here’s one with links to help out with community fundraising (and volunteering info, if you’re local)

[marahoping]

y’all heard her

[strongcat]

thanks noelle but maybe put more canon trans characters in your show next time

[tangerineyolks]

Just thought I’d leave this here.

Being hyper critical of a show that is doing its best for minority representation does nothing to help that they did try. They are paving the way for the next cartoon / or any media in general. Please pass on the message as you see fit.

[citadelspires]

I’m not even the biggest she ra fan I’m just tired of people clowning on every media that attempts to have lgbtq+ representation, good post

[naamahdarling]

It’s fine to take a moment and celebrate what Noelle did manage to accomplish.

You can want more and adcocate for more, that’s fine, but wanting a better future for LGBTQ+ media doesn’t mean that you have to attack what we have right now.

In fact, it actually helps if you engage with and support media that genuinely tries.

Noelle was fought the whole time on the show’s content. She still managed to get the ending where two women saved the day with the power of their explicitly romantic love. In a kids’ show. How is that not amazing?

I’m over 40. I am TELLING you. This would have been literally unthinkable when I was a kid. Even just 10 years ago it wasn’t a thing that was going to happen. Even FIVE.

Rep for trans folks in media isn’t going to happen all at once. It’s a long and horrible slog. It’s step by step. I, too, want more canon trans characters in shows. Noelle tried. Tested the waters with Perfuma and was strongly denied. You CAN’T BLAME HER. You blame the network. We didn’t get the rep we all want this time. But we got two women in love. Saving the world. With that love. No tragedy, no dead lesbians, but an actual victory. That’s worth celebrating. And it shows the studio execs that you can have this content and not have the show rejected by the public.

God, I feel old and this is irritating.

I come from an era when even the tragic gays and camp comic relief didn’t really exist onscreeen, CERTAINLY not in kids’ shows. A lot of y'all teens and twentysomethings don’t know how good you have it. I hate saying that, it makes me sound like a crotchety old coot, but it’s true. She-Ra was an incredible experience and I cried because this was the cartoon I needed as a kid, and someone like me finally got to be the hero.

[everythingstarstuff]

[lost-carcosa]

Oh look, it’s campus-police officer Lt. John Pike who pepper-sprayed peaceful protesters at University of California Davis.

And UCD reportedly payed $175,000 for this image to not appear when you search it on google:

[ladychurch-deactivated20200811]

Darn shame if this circulated…

[deedesria543]

So you mean to tell me that just by reblogging this I’m ruining an organizations plan, wasting them money, and uncovering some shitbag humans awful behaviour?

T R I P L E K I L L

[pondnaravit]

[ghostalservice]

This is Kimberly Jones, awesome activist and author!! Check out the full video here, find her on twitter here, and buy her book here. Take her words to heart, and more importantly, support her work!!

[queerangelonfire]

Genderqueer/non-binary celebrities

Amandla Stenberg: non-binary actress and singer (The Hate U Give, The Hunger Games) [she/her; they/them]

Ezra Miller: genderqueer actor (The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Justice League) [prefers he/him but is comfortable with all pronouns]

Chella Man: genderqueer YouTuber, actor & model (Titans) [he/him]

Brigette Lundy-Paine: non-binary actor (Atypical, The Glass Castle) [they/them]

Angel Haze: agender rapper & singer (Battle Cry, Cleaning out my Closet) [she/her; he/him]

Indya Moore: non-binary actor & model (Pose, Queen & Slim) [they/them]

Ruby Rose: genderfluid actress, model, talk show host, DJane (Batwoman, OitnB) [she/her]

Asia Kate Dillon: non-binary actor (Billions, OitnB) [they/them]

Quintessa Swindell: non-binary actor (Trinkets, Euphoria) [they, them]

Jonathan Van Ness: non-binary television personality, podcaster & hairdresser (Queer Eye) [prefers he/him but is also okay with they/them & she/her]

Feel free to add other celebrities or to correct me if I’ve got something wrong!

[softestvirgil]

Lachlan Watson: Nonbinary actor (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) [they/them]

Liv Hewson: Nonbinary actor (Santa Clarita Diet, Let It Snow) [they/them]

Bex Taylor-Klaus: Nonbinary actor and voice actor [Voltron, Scream]

[deadaccount22223-deactivated202]

sam smith (they/them) - singer

gerard way (he/they) - member of mcr

dorian electra (they/them) - singer

sonicfox (they/them) - esports player

[localscatterbrain]

Rebecca Sugar! (they/them she/her) - Cartoon show-runner: “Steven Universe”

[axolotleo]

Jacob Tobia - non-binary voice actor (they/them) played Double Trouble on She-Ra!

[apthotiosis]

Jay Harper- andro/gender-fluid actor and singer (they/them but comfortable with he/him and she/her), jayisjo (@jayhoward_official on twitter), performer in ‘Ultimate Storytime’

[ancientson]

Karin Dreijer (Xe): non-binary/genderfluid, queer, Swedish singer/musician/songwriter and co-founder of the Knife. Also has solo project called Fever Ray (which is very queer). Feverray on Instagram and @feverray on Twitter.

Andrea Gibson (they/them): Non-binary slam poet and activist

[amuseoffyre]

Janelle Monae: (Hasn’t specified pronouns yet) Singer, songwriter, artist and actor

[apocryphalia]

Literally lost this post and had to scroll way the fuck back down my dash to find it again and rb because I’m going to cry over it. Yes I know, I cry over everything these days, fuck off. I literally just started halfway coming out to people in my real life this week and this shit is fucking validating.

[biofomission]

Possum Plows

Lead Singer of Openside (They/Them)

[awesome-badass-cafeteria-sauce]

I love that some of these amazing humans prefer a certain pronoun but are okay with others and that some ‘look female’ and use she/her or ‘look male’ and use he/him BUT THEY’RE STILL NON-BINARY!!!It helps others know that they are 1000% valid! It helped me understand that I CAN identify as nb because that’s how I feel but not change my name or pronouns or how I look in any way! You don’t HAVE to look androgynous and use they/them pronouns to be nb or anything that isn’t male or female (whether that’s cis or trans)! It’s about how you feel! Not how you look or present yourself! I also had NO IDEA about Gerard Way! This post is so important and I love it and I love all of the people on this list!

[dragginage]

please please please teach your children to cook while they still live under your roof. even the most elementary things can’t be overlooked. because i just had to show my 24 year old boyfriend how to use a potato peeler and now i need to lay down for an hour

[dragginage]

i hate this post because it just proves that like.. no simple statement can just be absorbed and the general population of tumblr go ‘yeah that sounds about right.’ i’ve had nazis say it’s a woman’s job to cook, terfs say that it’s only ‘males’ who don’t know how to cook, people have accused me of being classist because some people don’t own potatio peelers, called a bitch for airing out my boyfriend’s dirty laundry (which if the most embarrassing thing i can procure about the guy is that he’s not great in the kitchen i’d say he’s okay lmao)

just shut up and teach your fucking children to cook holy shit dude

[newsfromstolenland]

reminder that george floyd wasn't a martyr who sacrificed his life for the betterment of white people

he didn't choose to die. he didn't sacrifice himself. he was murdered in cold blood

white people are already twisting this, thanking him for his sacrifice like he decided to be brutally murdered by a white cop for existing as a black man

like. stop thanking him for being killed just because it made you open your eyes! it was never his responsibilty to make you take a stand against police violence and racial profiling in the first place

you want to make something out of his death? acknowledge that it was senseless and never should have happened in the first place! stop glorifying this murder

[socialistexan]

Man, fuck Youtube for promoting this homophobic, racist garbage.

I'm so tired of this shit.

Get fucked, assholes!

[socialistexan]

The fact that youtube keeps promoting this garbage should be the biggest red flag that not only are they aware of the hard-right pipeline they've built but actively encourage it.

[butchflirt]

[nightingem]

they also literally suppress videos with social justice/leftist related terms and content from being advertised. like, blatantly. and doubled down when they were caught.

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2021/04/09/google-blocks-advertisers-from-targeting-black-lives-matter-youtube-videos

[theoldreligions]

CPD just killed a fifteen year old child.

[theoldreligions]

a fifteen year old black girl was shot four times in the chest by columbus police in columbus, ohio.

as derek chauvin was found guilty, a black child lost her life to police.

we still don’t know her name, but we’ll scream it the minute we do.

[theoldreligions]

“well that can’t be worse”

except it is.

except this child got jumped by the other girls present. she was afraid for her life enough to grab a knife and call the cops herself.

let me repeat that.

the black child that they killed was so afraid she called the cops herself.

they killed the very person who asked for their help.

and before you flip over the knife, they didn’t even ask her to disarm. they got out and immediately opened fire on her and shot her four times with deadly intent.

[theoldreligions]

did y’all think i was kidding.

One dead in officer-involved shooting in east Columbus

COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Columbus Police said one person was killed in an officer-involved shooting on the east side of the city Tuesday afternoon.

[theoldreligions]

her name is ma’khia bryant.

i’m such a small blog but i’m begging y’all to spread this story. i can’t speak directly to this- no matter how hurt and angry and thrown by all of this i am, my voice isn’t the one that matters. i recognize that. but i’m still begging for this to not be overlooked. say her name, remember her- remember that this fight never ended, and keep fighting it.

derek chauvin being found guilty is a victory, but we can’t let that blind us to the fact that this has kept happening and never actually stopped. even if the protests went quiet, that doesn’t mean things changed. we have to hold them accountable and we have to remember those who have died and will continue to die beneath the shadow of everything else that’s happened this year.

my heart is going out to her family.

rest in peace, ma’khia.

[fieropasto-deactivated20210613]

Twitter (2020) VS the Hays code (1930)

[hutchnstarsky]

Maybe the Hayes code wasn’t that bad

[solitarelee]

[solitarelee]

Imagine knowing this little about history. The Hays code we’re so apparently keen to bring back included the following:

“Miscegenation” (interracial relationships) were not allowed.

Sex hygiene and venereal diseases were not appropriate subjects.

Homosexuality was not to be depicted.

Ridicule of the clergy was not allowed.

Religion could never be depicted in a mocking manner.

Words like “God,” “Lord,” “Jesus,” “Christ,” “hell,” and “damn” could not be used unless it was in connection with religious ceremonies.

But yeah let’s fucking bring back the Hays code because sex is evil. You fucking lemmings. The point is that the Hays code was a horrible, immoral piece of bullshit that was only there to enforce white supremacy and Christianity on screen, and the reason people compare you to them is because of this absolutely brain-numbing tomfoolery.

[dressed-in-rain]

Good lord, we’ve really reached “maybe the Hayes code was good” levels of purity culture. Yikes.

[taksez]

Because of the Hayes Code, women were no longer portrayed as independent beings. Instead they were reduced to mere appendages to men. 

Some references:  Wikipedia,  The Hays Code Made Hollywood Hell On Earth For Women,  Uncensored: Gender Roles and the Dismantling of the Picture Production Code, A Series of Splices, The Origins of Classic Hollywood’s Male Gaze

[dressed-in-rain]

It’s driving me nuts because I can’t find the quote, but one of the rationales for the Code I read in a film history book was (paraphrased) “If it’s not fit for a child to watch, then it’s not fit for anyone.” And gosh, doesn’t THAT sound familiar…

[sachinighte]

Homosexuality actually could be depicted under the Hayes Code! By irredeemable villains!! Or people who died because of it!!!

If you’ve ever wondered why media has so much sh*tty stereotypes about homosexuality and villainy, or the bury your gays trope exists, well look no further than the Hayes Code and its wide reaching impact on generations of media makers! Our current rating system? Was actually an improvement on the Hayes Code.

Feel free to miss me with that bullsh*t, thanks.

[goawfma]

i feel like we don’t talk about things like this enough

[wiccanxmoon]

Can gifmakers please stop referring to the language Ayo speaks as 'Wakandan?' That's not a language. They're speaking Xhosa.

[gabbiehoran7-deactivated2022033]

In the MCU the language is referred to as Xhosa. Even in the subtitles of Black Panther. The director, actors ESPECIALLY John Kani who played King T'Chaka and Xhosa being his native language worked too damn hard for the closed caption team of future MCU projects and fans to call that very real language 'Wakandan'. John Kani speaks fluent Xhosa and the cast felt it was right to make that the native language of Wakanda. So to REITERATE OP's point AGAIN: STOP calling the very REAL Xhosa language "Wakandan language".

[bhujangan]

https://twitter.com/poonamkachandd/status/1385732842987139075

Here are some alternative fundraisers

[asthecrowrambles]

[Image Description: a tweet/Twitter thread by [poonam] (@poonamkachandd) that reads “[thread: if you are a non indian looking to donate to help the covid situation in india, PLEASE DO NOT DONATE TO THE PMCARES fund OR ANY RSS ORGANIZATIONS. you will come across a lot of hindu supremacists living abroad who will direct you to those funds.]”. It was posted on [apr 23, 2021]. End description]

[urfavhatesterfs]

YOU hates terfs

[switchingtogeico]

[captainhaterade]

[stankpasta]

rb if u hates terfs

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

Transgender Day of Visibility.

[crawly]

just learned about a building in london that is so poorly designed it becomes a death ray that melts cars and creates a downdraft effect with wind so powerful that it knocks full grown adults to the ground

[crawly]

[crawly]

imagine being knocked over by a gust of wind from this ugly ass building and then being cooked TO DEATH by the sun reflection like what a way to go

[millenniumitem]

i learned about this like last year or somethign and this building is literally th satan come alive. building that tries to fucking kill you and fry you like an egg

[abz-j-harding]

Hated the building from the god damn start.  It’s such an eyesore in the city landscape as it is…

Now I have a hatred for it i can’t describe with words.

[musicalhell]

Apparently this is the same architect who designed the Las Vegas “death ray” hotel that gave some sunbathers severe burns a decade ago. I’m reminded of the Ghostbusters “certified genius or authentic wacko” quote.

[idezwitch]

and i oop-

[whatevercomestomymind]

Boost this. Malicious fucking compliance y'all. Tie up their legal system with tens of thousands of cases. Burn their state government’s cash on this issue. Force them to play by the Nth degree of this idiotic rule.

[silver-tongues-blog]

i love uncivil obedience. follow the letter of the law so close that it shows just how ridiculous and unfair the law is