Oli ☭

"A normalidade é a miséria e a opressão". he/they - ele/elu - eng/ptbr

[creatingblackcharacters]

Y'all wanna know a trick? A trick as to how you can better understand the mentality of someone who is antiblack (particularly white, but tbh it works on anyone who really buys into antiblackness), if not make them do an Ace Attorney Blow Up? 👀

[creatingblackcharacters]

(Tl:Dr- have a spine and hold the line 👍🏾)

I was being facetious with the trick part lol but you know the joke "I might be racist, but you're mean and that's worse?" It's the root of that. We discussed it back when we read White Fragility. You can see it in Trump, Elon Musk, and your average Tumblr racist:

They really, REALLY want to be liked. Not just liked, no that's not the right word, but validated.

Think about it this way. Racism is the status quo; the default, right? Part of maintaining that default is through normalization, and that includes the solidarity necessary to reinforce that (DiAngelo called it white solidarity).

So, if being covertly racist is the status quo, then that means you will be socially rewarded for being so. When you get rewarded, people are nice, friendly, relatable, they keke and haha right alongside you. But when you confront someone's racism, you're not socially rewarding them anymore- the spigot of validation has been paused! Instead of taking it as a valid critique, you are seen as socially punishing a person. You're being MEAN, because the validation I got from everyone else's also-racism was NICE!

That's why when you confront racism, you HAVE to stand firm on it. You cannot feed into the desire for the validation of their behavior. That's what makes a lot of people snap. The blowup is meant to stop you, to force you back into compliance! The only one being punished really is you for bringing it up.

And hell, if not socially validating a bigot is punishment... 😐 Why would that be... A bad thing? We're not hitting you with rocks, we're just saying we don't fuck with you and your behavior. (But that's also a part of really all of the books we've read in #cbc book club so far; that antiracism is seen as violence.)

Personally, I wanna live in the world where it's normal to boo racists, not coddle them. But that starts with being willing to push back against the normal we're in.

[at-the-end-of-all]

has anyone done this yet idk?

[drtanner]

[rabbitkinglune777]

trans women make this place better

[rabbitkinglune777]

not just the website but da world!

[creatingblackcharacters]

Remember when Lil Nas X beautifully explored his sexuality, seduced and killed the devil to the banger of all time, and instead of cheering on this openly gay and proud Black artist for his artistry and fighting back against respectability politics, suddenly said respectability politics was all the Queerest Place on the Internet cared about? Hm. Wonder what happened there.

Anyway I miss him and hope he's doing better with his mental health 🙏🏾

[creatingblackcharacters]

Like say what you want about "bad queer representation", but this was the song that made me openly and happily accept that I was bisexual. To see him up there Black and beautiful, making music that I love, absolutely killing it? Yeah. You couldn't tell me shit. This man made me proud to be out. "This will make them think we're evil for being gay" hey newsflash dawg-

[zrzoli]

This music video means so much to me. As someone who grew up Christian and went through conversion therapy at school when I was 12, I grew up hearing about how queer people were going to hell, I wasted so much time trying to pray the gay away, so terrified of being myself.

I was 16 when that music video came out, it had been around 4 years since I went through conversion therapy, 4 years since being outed and beat by my parents for being queer. The symbolism in the music video meant the world to me when it came out, seeing a gay man reverting the narrative, going to hell in style and killing Satan, it felt so empowering. Like I could choose my own destiny despite everyone who was telling me I was destined to go to hell. It is a wonderful piece of queer media and I love it so much.

I hope Lil Nas X is doing well.

[eptck]

you have to be kinder to people with memory issues.

you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

you have to be kind. you have to be kind.

[deadeyedfae]

What if we KISSED on the TRANS TRAIN?!

[distinguishedenthusiastcatt]

In Pride month, I think it's important to remind you of this iconic dialogue. You don't have to talk about who you are if you don't want to❤️

[rincewind87]

Personally I think we wont have achieved equality until trans actors play cis roles.

[cossachka-offical]

truthnuke

[zrzoli]

In 2017, 9 years ago, trans actress Maria Clara Spinelli was cast to play the role of cis character Mira in the Brazillian telenovela A Força do Querer (Edge of Desire). Spinelli was the first trans woman to play the role of a cis woman in a Brazillian telenovela, but she isn't the only one. The novela was also very popular.

[wdapteo]

We always share bad news, so what about some good ones?

This week in Brazil, after over a year of constant efforts, we abolished the 6x1 workweek. And we only got this victory thanks to a trans woman and a gay man!!!!

Erika Hilton and Rick Azevedo fought so, so hard for this. The congresswoman and the activist led this movement, they got the whole country to fight for this, until the rest of the house (mostly right-wing) had to cave in and approve the bill. It's almost as if politicians fear the people ;)

Ofc we still have to get it approved by the Senate, but this is HUGE. People will be able to work less, rest more, without pay cuts!

Brazil's Lower House Approves End of the 6x1 Workweek

The lower house passed the amendment, known as PEC 221/19, in two rounds late on Wednesday. The first vote was 472 to 22 and the second 461

[adhd-vibes]

i need to change my whole life in one day. watch out world. i'm about to rearrange my furniture and cut my hair and develop new yet fully formed healthy habits all in the span of 24 glorious hours. i will also be buying groceries.

[brarchives]

queria ter feito esse tweet

[feliner]

I was told this'd do numbers here

[msshadowqueen]

A Bug’s Life, 1998

[the-doodle-darling]

@isuggestrevolution

[isuggestrevolution]

i suggest crushing grasshoppers

[herpsandbirds]

Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans) male, family Columbidae, Ridge Park, Singapore

photograph by Kow Hao Rui

[mlmshark]

I hate hate hate it when malicious things against trans women are explained like: “And here’s why you should care: this actually affects cis women!” Like actually no I care about the fact that it’s a hate campaign against trans women and extremely dangerous to them thank you very much

[toonbeez]

Loud audio warning?? At least it’s loud to meee

I posted this elsewhere awhile ago but I might as well throw it here

[zrzoli]

Taking antidepressants has been helping me a lot but I fucking miss being able to take my pain medication. How am I supposed to function on my day-to-day without my ketoprofen?

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]