What is straight?

A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains. I'm bisexual, a queer, sex and body positive feminist with a strong interest in gender and sexuality. I post and re-blog about LGBT issues, various aspects of gender and its fluidity, feminism, asexuality, bisexuality, and everything outside of the heternormative binaries. Enjoy! *Warning: I do post nudity and content about sexuality, if you are at work or under 18, you have been informed*

[magdaliny-deactivated20191030]

If ONE MORE PERSON says “What if they’d medicated Van Gogh!?” I think I’m permitted to set things on fire.  If they’d medicated Van Gogh, he’d either have painted twice as much, or he’d have been happy and unproductive.  And you know what? Starry Night wasn’t worth a terrible price in human misery. It’s neat. It wasn’t worth it. Sometimes I wonder if being an artist makes me jaded to ART. Because it’s not magic and it’s not mystical, it’s just paint or pixels.  And it can do amazing things! But you don’t owe humanity to be miserable just so you can move paint around in interesting shapes. Jesus.  Art is not some kind of Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas bargain where you agree to be miserable so everybody can go “oh! Neat!” for 5 minutes.

Ursula Vernon, dropping the mic.  [

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Everything I’ve created had been in spite of mental illness, not because of it.

(via rosalarian)

Damn, though

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[vixensandmonsters-deactivated20]

Barbarella (1968)

[wilde-is-on-mine]

ability

abled people: can you do the thing??

disabled people: ... technically yes BUT it would hurt like hell/ruin my day/trigger a flare/exhaust me/be a fall risk/make me more sick AND THEN I would have to spend a day in bed/increase my dosage/cancel all my other plans/spend a week recovering afterwards

abled people: ... but you CAN do it

[meinenaffenhosen]

This is Why Black Widow Got Slut-Shamed | Playboy

Playboy gets it. PLAY.BOY. 

“And as the lone superheroine, she becomes, narratively, inevitably, sexualized and available. Fans can write barrels of bytes of fanfic in which Tony Stark and Captain America have torrid sex and more torrid sex with each other, but in the canon, homosexuality is rarely considered a real option. And that leaves Black Widow as the one object of desire for — well, for everyone.

She’s been paired with many other heroes because she’s the one person there to be paired with. In a male world a woman automatically becomes, potentially, everyone’s property. And then, the fact that she’s structurally positioned as property to be passed around is blamed on her. She’s the weird, aberrant, object of desire.”

[fargreencountryswiftsunrise]

Have I fallen into some strange alternate dimension?

[lemmefeedyoualeaf-deactivated20]

Playboy has always been pretty progressive in it’s writing tbh

[northgang]

Buck Showalter, manager of the Baltimore Orioles, on race [x]

[baetology]

Wow! 👏🏾

[audreyaudrey]

why do people get mad about feminism becoming “trendy” among teens or whatever? like there have been so many bad trends! remember when silly bandz where trendy? remember when kids would pop out the lenses of 3d glasses and wear them to school????? Those were horrible!!!!! a trend of teenage girls loving themselves and empowering each other is such a beautiful trend as long as it’s intersectional. i hope feminism is trendy forever!!!

[henamyung]

Enjoy your summer!

[tr3velyan]

i’m just amazed honestly

[janeplease]

I think the reason that cis people and society in general cling so fiercely to the “born in the wrong body” narrative regarding trans people’s lives is because it attempts to contain the trauma that trans people experience as something placed within the trans person’s own life.  It allows them to pretend that this trauma is not inflicted on trans people by society and to pretend that this trauma is not preventable.  Moving away from the “born in the wrong body” narrative would mean admitting cis people’s role in the trauma and violence that trans people experience, and society will never want to do that.

[rubyetc]

I found these gifs I made a while back for a site that’s not running anymore, so I thought I’d post them here. It’s a description of psychiatric symptoms and states of mind using a pink box and some other stuff. 

[candiedmoon-deactivated20170403]

Holy fuck this is me all the way. I feel like I wanna explain this in my own way. 1) not feeling connected to my body while my brain is still here. Weird feeling. 2) depression. Blocked. Screened in. You’re depressed and a shield blocks the good, all though it’s sheer and happiness can be felt while not obtained and held. 3) personalization. Being in my body. Not feeling myself. At all. What do I want? Who am i? I’m gonna hide away for a while and maybe reach out if asked. 4) anxiety. Easy. Freaking out inside your mind AND body. Experiencing twitches and strange body reactions like throwing up, sweating, can’t breathe, etc. Stuck. Inside. Yourself. 5) mania. Being everywhere all the time. Up and down and the lows suck and the highs rock. But mostly I switch from super depressed to super inspired and okay at the wrong times. It depends. 6) apathy. Why. Why. Why. This fucking sucks. I hate my brain. I hate my life. I can’t get better. I’m just gonna lay here and just be… 7) fearing what every single one of my mental illnesses interferes with my life and fearing that I that I could help it and keep at it. Scared I’m losing everything. Scared everything us falling to pieces again. Or even worse, to smaller sharper pieces. 8) feeling a little hope I can be me again. I just have to keep trying and working hard. It’s a struggle but I personally go through these struggles a lot. But things get better. I promise.

[bikesbabesandbooze-deactivated2]

[n-aive96-deactivated20180117]

Trans Artist ​Juliana Huxtable’s Fight for Acceptance 

[feelingsconfuseme]

It’s not normal to be afraid of your sibling. If you are afraid of your sibling or what they might do to you, something is wrong.

Remember: siblings can be abusive too.

[frogmunist-deactivated20190724]

You don’t need to be pan or bi to date trans people this has been a psa

[gaylor-moon]

FUCK, THANK YOU. REPEAT THIS FROM THE HIGH HEAVENS.

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

it is tremendously freeing to realize that saying “I’m not informed enough about this issue to have a real opinion” is an option

[wehatefeminism]

Feminists say that if they walk around naked and get raped, it’s not their fault.  Let me ask you this, if you owned a bank and left the doors wide open with no security and you got robbed in the middle of the night, is it the robbers fault or yours?

[klutzykay-deactivated20181205]

Literally the robber’s fault??? They walked in and took something that wasn’t theirs??? They knew pretty well that they shouldn’t steal things??? What is your argument even trying to prove???

[supersmashmother-blog]

Also can we stop equating women with inanimate possessions in an attempt to show their value and worth??? Jesus fucking christ. I’m not a bank with the doors left open. I’m not a car parked in a “bad neighborhood”. I’m not a shiny wrist watch, or a purse left unattended. I’m a fucking human being. I am not a consumable good. I’m not here for the taking. And if your miniscule brain can’t wrap around that concept, don’t confuse yourself by thinking that your opinion is in any way valuable or worth sharing.

[thatveganwhiterose]

^^^^

[peripheral-fields-deactivated20]

Always remember to drink water. Not for weight loss or whatever, but to hydrate your organs, fuel your mind and boost your energy. Not to mention your mood will improve. your body will thank you