lonely and terrifying

miro | 28 and we laughed with joy.

[lonelyhum]

whenever there's an evil child character i'm always like well maybe the adults deserve to be killed with hammers have you considered that

[valtsv]

"you will look for themes and motifs in media that isn't worth the effort" i will look for themes and motifs in the dirt. on the ground.

[anthropoetics]

[gummygunk]

"self care"

[dog-teeth]

God's First Failed Angel Lived in the Garden As a Bird

carved bluestone, ~12"x11"

[awetfrog]

D'arce my beloved

[grandboute]

[chantssecrets]

"Baba with the fish", linocut by Marta Janik.

[primulaceas]

Mary Oliver, "To Be Human Is to Sing Your Own Song." Blue Horses

[daifei]

gestalt

[the-wannabe-hero]

A little late posting this, but Hani Almadhoun has posted the weekly update on the Gaza Soup Kitchen fundraiser page!

They're operating pop-up kitchens, delivering food and medicine to medical posts, and running water trucks wherever they can.

You should read about the good they're doing and donate if you can!

Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun

Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian

[jadenvargen]

Gaza soup kitchen is still posting continuous updates and changing operations, moving kitchens, so on, to give out as much help as possible. !

other food orgs that work locally in the area to check out are also mokhtar at camp chef , thamra org working for palestinian food self sufficiency and fresh water !

[vilecrocodile]

Happy 25th birthday, Layla! @sallymosworld

Today, August 12th, is my friend Layla's birthday. She has been working hard to survive in Gaza with her two young children and the rest of her family after their home was destroyed and they lost everything. On her birthday last year, she and her family were injured in a bombing. Layla shared with me that this year, her wish is to have a small cake for her birthday, that she could enjoy with her children and spread a little joy and celebration after so much hardship.

Just a simple thing would have been nearly impossible a week or two ago, but now with some aid having entered, it could happen, with a few generous donations. She relies on this money to keep her family fed, clean, and clothed above all, but I would really like for her to be able to have her cake. Please consider sending her a birthday gift of $25 or more, or at least share this post today.

Donate to Trapped Family in Gaza Appeals for Help to Survive, organized by D M

Dear world, Allow me to introduce myself. I am Laila. I am 24 years old, ma… D M needs your support for Trapped Family in Gaza Appeals f

Vetted and shared by @bilal-sala7, @a-shade-of-blue, @90-ghost, and other trusted sources.

[jadenvargen]

a few nights ago lotus and poison, iconic performers and trans women, were viciously attacked at legends gay nightclub. nobody intervened in a supposed community space. please help cover their medical expenses and show them they are not alone. they were absolutely let down, and what kind of community doesn't help its most vulnerable? consider showing them support both emotionally and financially after this dual trauma of abuse and neglect.

their gfm

[bitter69uk]

Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam (1510) / Divine and Graces Jones (1978)

[serijoot]

straight up jorking it. and by "it". well. lets just say. My hair

[feluka]

Everyone I know in Gaza is messaging me saying they can't find internet anymore and are barely able to connect using esims that are running out. Please don't stop donating esims.

[reuna]

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. martha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[positivelyqueer]

Very strongly feel and support this.

if you’re in so called Australia go look up the experiences and stories of brotherboys and sistergirls (and those terms if you haven’t heard them to start).

“Kunghah: Sistergirls and brotherboys unite to strengthen spirits” (Article from 2016 by the ABC. Contains photos of Aboriginal people and I don’t know if any have since died.)

Video interview of brotherboys Kai (18) and Dean (50) (2014)

if I were to share only one specific story I’d like it to be of Dr George Duncan, who’s hate crime murder in 1972 lead to South Australia being the first state to decriminalise homosexuality.

(content warning for both articles of homophobic language, violence, hate crime and murders.)

SBS article on Dr Duncan

SBS article on the broader South Australian history of gay bashing (this one is long but details a collection of many first hand accounts across multiple decades.)

[homunculus-argument]

The people who go "well who's going to look after you when you're old?" when you say you're not having kids are breathtakingly naive. Our next-door neighbour, somewhere in her mid-80s, has a son, grandkids, and a grear-granddaughter, and who's the one she calls when she needs help, and checks that she's not spending christmas alone? Me and my boyfriend.

Having kids is irrelevant if the answer to that question is still going to be "the mentally ill faggots next door."