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I'm so fucking productive. I got so much shit done today.

ⓘ Fact check: This user did the bare minimum for the first time in 3 months.

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Read the rainbow!

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I finished my pride stickers finally! I havent checked how long it'll take to get them printed but i'll keep everyone updated👍

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We may be in the worst timeline, but my Tumblr timeline is hilarious as fuck. CC: @dropoutdottv @gamechangershow @samreich @mcgravin

#i'm laughing so hard i might pee my pants #just got out of therapy and needed this #this is too fucking good i can't

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Israel has never been on the right side of history.

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As someone from Mexico I feel deeply obligated to let the US left know that Claudia Sheinbaum is neither of these things and while having a women rule the country for the first time is a historic achievement it is not the win you think it is

She is of jewish descent and made one statement for Palestine but never pressured the mexican goverment to break ties with Israel and one of her proposals as a president is to give the military here ( that btw is trained by the Isr*eli army) more power

As the mayor of Mexico City she constantly used the riot police against protestors and allowed the use of tear gas ( which she later claimed wasn't true)

She calls herself a feminist but always refused to acknowledge the wave of violence Mexico faces against women ( 11 women dissapear every day in Mexico) She has also knowingly made men accused of SA part of her campaign team

She also supports "Tren Maya", a project that caused massive ecological devastation in the mayan jungle and facilitated military violence against indigenous communities

You don't live here, you don't know shit so please don't push this kind of narrative idolizing these people

this is not a win for us

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All Colonized People

All Colonized People

See Themselves

In Palestine.

They See Same Aspect Of What Was Done To Them In Palestine.

All Colonizers

See Themselves

In Israel.

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Hi! Im Hank, also known as Pansy Leatherwork. I'm a fat, butch, tgurl leatherworker based out of Chicago. I started working with leather last June after working a retail position at a large leather shop in my city. One of the big things that led me to leave that job is how they thought they were making stuff that was inclusive to everyone but just frankly... weren't

Where was the stuff for the transsexuals, the fat bitches, the girlies getting paid $15/hr, the freaks that make up the actual communities I exist as part of?, the freaks like me? So I put in my two weeks, started doing phone sex again to cover my bills, and bought some tools and got to learning

Now, just under a year out, I'm genuinely astonished at how well my work has been received. I operate on sliding scale, even on my website, and getting to hear how my stuff gets used or seeing it in action genuinely fills me with an amount of joy I can't properly express.

If what I do seems interesting to you, you can check out my work at Pansy-Leatherwork.com or my Instagram, @pansy.leatherwork

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Before voting, spin the wheel and get a Lord of the Rings character.

Not sure who your character is? You can look them up on this Tolkien Gateway character list, or just vote based on vibes.

For the purposes of the game, assume your vote is not "LaCE compliant." (That is, fucking an elf does not instantly mean marriage or death for that elf.)

Poll concept from @pollsnatural.

#i got aragorn #holy shit #absolutely marry

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When I was younger and researching the autism diagnosis criteria and symptoms, I thought “oh I couldn’t POSSIBLY be autistic.” Because when I read “takes everything literally” I thought it literally meant EVERYTHING and I was like “I don’t take EVERYTHING literally, just most things!” And I just realized the other day that it didn’t actually mean EVERYTHING and that was an overstatement.

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This.

Also, earlier this month, IDF dropped leaflets OUTING QUEER PEOPLE in Gaza. (Note: the account did not blur out the individual's name or details, which are written in Arabic.)

That's not ally behavior.

Here are some links about pinkwashing:

Queer collective calls out ‘pinkwashing’ of Palestinian genocide - Prism | February 21, 2024

No Pride in Genocide: Calling Out Israel’s Pinkwashing - Yes! Magazine | February 5, 2024

Pinkwashing - Decolonize Palestine

LGBTQ Protests Against Israel Are About Justice, Not Anti-Semitism - In These Times | January 29, 2016

Yes, Our Anti-Israel Protest Disrupted LGBT Conference — That’s the Point! - Forward | January 28, 2016

Shutting Down a Pinkwashing Event Is a Smart, Legitimate Protest Against Israel's Occupation - Haaretz | January 28, 2016 (Note: You need a free account to read this. You can create one using a number of services like Temp Mail.)

Against the pinkwashing of Israel: Why supporting Palestinians is a queer and feminist issue - Al Jazeera | Aug 9, 2014

Gay Rights as Human Rights: Pinkwashing Homonationalism - Jadaliyya | Dec 16, 2011

Let's take a second to talk about homophobia, transphobia, and colonization.

I studied Islam, Arabic, Middle Eastern history, Israel, Palestine, and LGBTQ+ rights for 2 years in graduate school. My focus was all over the place, for sure, but it means I have a lot of knowledge that I can offer on this stuff. I am w h i t e and not Muslim. I am both queer and transgender. This is something I'm incredibly invested in, so please enjoy this infodump.

The idea that queer and trans folks aren't welcome in Palestine is absolutely false. Multiple Gazans have talked about having trans or queer neighbors or friends and not blinking an eye. Obviously, mileage varies based on who you run into... just like it does in the good old US of A.

And? LGBTQ+ identities were openly and freely embraced before colonization fucked it up. Whether it's recent history or pre-colonization, this has been researched and well-documented.

The digital archive unearthing queer Arab history - Huck Magazine | April 19, 2021

The Instagram Account Dedicated to Queer Arab History and Pop Culture - AnOther Magazine | April 16, 2021

This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers | April 2022

‘Queerness is part of Palestinian culture. We’ve existed forever’ - +972 Magazine | January 18, 2023

The Arab and Muslim Evolution of ‘Deviance’ in Homosexuality - New Lines Magazine | June 24, 2022

Queer Islamic Art: A Very Brief History - Epoch Magazine | December 2020

It’s different now, but Muslims have a long history of accepting homosexuality - Scroll.in | June 18, 2016

A Map of Gender Diverse Cultures - PBS Independent Lens | August 12, 2015

What changed acceptance was colonization, whether it was from the British Empire or others.

How the British Empire exported homophobia - Socialist Worker | August 22, 2023

How Britain Exported Homophobia - Migrants' Rights Network | February 24, 2023

How the Middle East Moved From Tolerant of Homosexuality to a Battlefield of Anti-Gay Violence - Hornet | September 16, 2021

377: The British colonial law that left an anti-LGBTQ legacy in Asia - BBC | June 28, 2021

The homophobic legacy of the British Empire - CNN | September 12, 2018

How homosexuality became a crime in the Middle East - The Economist | June 6, 2018

This is because colonialism is directly tied to w h i t e supremacy, racism, and belittling The Other in order to hold and maintain power.

The Gender Binary Is a Tool of White Supremacy - An Injustice! Magazine | July 14, 2020

Transphobia in Commonwealth countries is an injustice left over from British colonialism. It’s time we addressed it - Pink News | March 31, 2021

Transphobia is Settler-Colonialism - Tina Ngata | March 25, 2023

How Britain's colonial past can be traced through to the transphobic feminism of today - The Independent | June 10, 2020

Why Transphobia Is at the Heart of the White Power Movement - The Nation | August 18, 2021

Transphobia is a White Supremacist Legacy of Colonialism - Michael Paramo on Medium | July 17, 2018

Homosexuality predates colonialism. It is homophobia that’s new - Minority Africa | June 17, 2020

Transphobia, Whorephobia And (As) Capitalist-colonial Gender - Manchester University Press | April 29, 2020

Until we acknowledge the racist and colonial roots of transphobia, Trans Day of Visibility will remain a Western scam - Pink News | March 31, 2021

The Colonial Roots Of Homophobia - Zeitgeister: The Cultural Magazine of the Goethe-Institut

This is just one reason why, when we have folks like Tom Daley calling for a ban on Olympians from countries who have both a history of experiencing colonization violence and struggling to undo that RE LGBTQ+ rights, it pisses me the fuck off.

If you do not know the history or the context, you're doing everyone a disservice.

Whether it's in Africa or the Middle East, w h i t e colonizers act like we're so much better than these countries - countries that did not generally have homophobia or transphobia until we entered and fucked them up.

Instead, we view them as "barbaric" and "savage" and all the other racist buzzwords.

Victoria Kishoiyian wrote a bit about this, specifically focused on Africa, for the Harvard Political Review in 2022:

Backward and Barbaric: How The Western Gaze Perceives and Portrays Homophobia in Africa

tldr; colonizers fucked up the world, not only by creating false countries and giving land to people not indigenous to the areas (like Is rael) BUT also because we introduced homophobia and transphobia.

Pinkwashing is just an extension of colonial practices, and it must stop. Now.

You're literally gay??? And it's pride month??? And Israel's our only safe haven in that region???

There's no pride in genocide

#no pride in genocide #pinkwashing #homophobia #transphobia #colonization #colonialism #imperialism #western imperialism #palestine #decolonize now

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