Hot take but rigid divisions between queer identities and heavily-policed labels that are treated like diagnoses are really, really bad.
Trans men have shared histories with lesbians who have shared histories with bisexual women who have shared histories with ace people who have shared histories with aro people have shared histories with gay men who have shared histories with trans women who have shared histories with nonbinary people who have shared histories with etc etc etc etc etc.
Labels are important for people who want them, but we need to stop treating sexuality and gender as rigid boxes and checklists.
cannot emphasize enough that if you are currently pursuing a mental illness diagnosis out of your own volition with a professional and you do not absolutely unquestionably need it in order to access something specific and unattainable otherwise (accomodations or disability benefits or surgery coverage or custody or substances) then you should stop wasting your time and money and get out of there. you will not get validated. people will not treat you better. ranges from useless to actively harmful in the future. psych professionals have nothing of value to tell you about the world or about yourself
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
What's kind of sad is how forgotten PTSD Awareness month gets overshadowed by Pride Month. Both are important things to spread Awareness of, but I definitely feel like PTSD Awareness gets overlooked. Not to mention the other important things this month like:
Juneneenth
Navajo Nation Pride Month
National Immigrant Heritage Month
Alzheimers and Brain Awareness Month
Let's all take a moment to remember and spread Awareness of these other great causes as well.
what people don’t understand about how adhd is disabling is that it’s not just getting temporarily distracted from, like, school work or hobbies. it’s getting distracted/being unable to motivate yourself to go to the doctor, eat regularly, do hygiene tasks, etc. it’s not knowing when or how long it will take you to do something, ANYTHING, and in many cases that thing is taking a shower or keeping your house from turning into a biohazard. it’s about being fundamentally incapable of controlling your attention and focus on anything, even and especially things you need to do to survive.
Doofenric the Ostrogoth (insert jokes about his daughter Vanessa being "Goth" but in the modern sense) invented a City-Mover-Inator to move Rome across the Danube so his Germanic confederation could sack it.
Thankfully, Agent Pericles stops him by redirecting the Inator to Finius and Ferbingetorix's New Rome instead, moving it to the Bosphorus.
While Pericles and Doofenric are fighting over the controls of the Inator, it gets accidentally changed to paint remover mode and then fired at a random direction.
Somewhere nearby a painter just finished coloring the statue of the emperor when suddenly all the paint gets removed.
Gender Queer: A Memoir was only the third most challenged book in the United States in 2025 per the American Library Association's tracking, down from second in 2024 and first from 2021-2023. This book will be seven years old in May 2026, and it's now spent five of those years in the top three most challenged book in this country.
Here is an excerpt from the ALA report:
"The 2025 data reported to ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) shows that the majority of book censorship attempts continue to originate from organized movements. In 2025, 92% of all book challenges were initiated by pressure groups, government officials, and decision makers, up from 72% in 2024. Less than 3% of challenges originated from individual parents. The most common justifications for censorship provided by complainants were false claims of illegal obscenity for minors; inclusion of LGBTQIA+ characters or themes; and covering topics of race, racism, equity, and social justice."
Another example of how book banning is now originating from government officials is HR 7661, a federal level book banning bill hastily penned by Republicans after Trump's last State of the Union speech. If passed, this bill would pull federal school funding from any public school in the US which offered programing or literature with “sexually oriented material,” including depicting “gender dysphoria or transgenderism” or “lewd or lascivious dancing” (aka drag.) If this bill passed it would essentially ban every trans book from every public school in the US, unless a school was willing to risk loosing its federal funding. This bill has 20 co-sponsors as of April 22 2026- if one of them is your representative please call them and tell them you don't support this bill! It has unfortunately already passed it's first committee- Kelly Jensen, writing for Book Riot, has a vote breakdown in her excellent article on the bill here.
We need to kill HR 7661 if we want to protect trans books in public schools. Please call, email, or write your House Rep to say NO on HR 7661! EveryLibrary has a letter you can sign and a call script (copied below the cut).
Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from, [CITY, STATE]
I'm calling to ask [REP NAME] to oppose H.R. 7661, a bill that opens the door for nationwide book banning. I am appalled at how this bill is being used to target marginalized communities and deepen the divisions in our country. It claims to be about protecting children, but it is really aimed at giving the federal government the power to control whose stories are on shelves. It is censorship and a blatant violation of our First Amendment, and wild government overreach.
[OPTIONAL]: Instead, I urge [REP NAME] to support H.R. 6440, the Right to Read Act, and H.R.7691, the Fight Book Bans Act to fund education and increase student literacy across America.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
IF LEAVING VOICEMAIL: Please leave your full street address to ensure your call is tallied.
queerness by definition means being "weird", unusual. queer people rejected society's rules, and yet we now freak out at the thought of he/him lesbians and transmasc femboys
i think we've fallen a little bit right in what we wanted to avoid
I know, intellectually, that modern american christianity has absolutely nothing to do with the ideal concept of the church - but there is quite literally something in the bible about not doing this. Like this exact precise thing. This is an idol that is detracting worship from the lord.
What use is there in telling trans masculine people, one of the groups which is purposely erased from all queer narratives for being too subversive and uncomfortable for others, that they need to think of themselves less? As of right now, I see almost nobody thinking of the transmascs besides themselves. Anyone who thinks they are overrepresented (a bullshit concept in general) compared to other queer are showing biases learned from TERFs directly, what with this idea of an "epidemic of [transmascs] in media and public grooming "little girls" to "mutilate their breasts and genitals""
