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5 Tips for Non-lesbians

Don’t say dyke

You can’t reclaim dyke

Don’t use the butch/femme identifiers, they’re not for you

Don’t use the “stone” of stone butch/stone femme identifiers, its not for you

Listen and don’t speak over us, especially when it comes to the misappropriation of our history and terminology

Please respect us lesbians and these five, very small, things we’re asking of you. Yes, this includes non-lesbian WLW.

Thank you, and good day!

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“How can we take down this flag and erase the honor of those proud Americans-”

Confederates weren’t Americans. They were actual, honest-to-god Not Americans; that was the whole fucking point of the Civil War. They were a bunch of people who collectively said “fuck America” and then spent years desperately fighting in order to not be Americans anymore. Flying the Confederate flag doesn’t honor Americans, it honors Confederates, and they don’t exist anymore because they lost the war, so there is no goddamn point to this flag ever at all. Right-wing folks really love to talk about “anti-American sentiments” and “treason” until it comes to the (white) people who actually did commit treason and were anti-American in every sense of the word. 

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Happy birthday Shakespeare. Thanks for your brilliant plays, massive contribution to the English language, and your bisexual sonnets which have been annoying homophobes for centuries.

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20-year-old young Black woman Megan Williams was held at a remote house in Big Creek and was tortured, sexually assaulted, and beaten for days before being discovered by the police. Once an assailant cut the victim’s ankle with a knife, calling her the n-word and confessing that she was kidnapped because of her skin color.

“They just kept saying ‘This is what we do to niggers down here,‘” Williams told The Associated Press.

However, six white people were charged with everything but the hate crime.

This brave woman hopes to attend college one day to become a nurse. 

This case deserves national attention and an outrage.

#StayWoke #HateCrime #Justice

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WATCH EYEWITNESS

if you’ve been meaning to start eyewitness, THIS IS YOUR SIGN! catch up today and tomorrow, just in time to tune in for the new episode Sunday night at 10pm EST on USA. 

WE NEED RATINGS TO KEEP THE SHOW GOING!

storyline: these two cute boys are fooling around in a cabin, and they hide when some strangers come in and they end up witnessing a triple homicide. but they keep it a secret because one of them is closeted and could be outed if they tell. the other boy’s foster mom is the cop that is investigating this murder, so there’s a larger crime plot going on with these boys’ love story in the middle of it all!

it’s really really good and the cast is so sweet and amazing, it definitely deserves to continue! as of now there will only be 10 episodes and episode 5 starts tomorrow! 

you can catch up by watching all of the episodes on the USA website for free without an account! 

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Today is a good day

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August: Osage County (2013)

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Gays ‘n Guns

More than anything the message we all need to carry away from what happened this month in Orlando is that LGBT people of colour were the target. Specifically Latino gays and trans people. Omar Marteen deliberately emptied twenty shots of ammo into these human bodies in nine seconds on Latino night at Pulse, an LGBT nightspot. I’m stating the obvious here because so much of the political bluster animating congress, animating the presidential campaign seems determined to look away from that fact, to be arguing instead about which terrorist watch list we should be really paying attention to. The argument seems to be that if we could just keep the bad people out America we could be safe again. Yeah like when. It reminds me of going to a reading by Quincy Troupe and Amiri Baraka at Malcolm X Library in San Diego a year after 9-11. To be one of the few white people in that room was to understand how unstable a word terrorism is to the African American community. What do you call a century of lynchings but terrorism. Yet America talked like this was a new affliction. And we’re going to try and stop it again now, today in 2016, by putting walls up around our borders and keeping the bad people out of our airports and mosques, churches and schools. When Mayor Di Blasio addressed the LGBT community in front of Stonewall in the past week he made a tactical error by bringing along William J. Bratton the NYC chief of police to address the assembled queers and trans people. I guess the idea was that he would make us feel safe. But people in the LGBT community have a long sense memory of the police department for decades of being the front line of harassment against my community’s capacity to meet and gather in bars and private clubs — our history contains decades of experience of being assaulted and publicly shamed by these same public servants, the cops, who had always been hired to make our lives safe but until only very recently has public safety been consistently offered by them to citizens (especially ones of color) generically identified as gay, queer, trans and bisexual – the non conforming individuals of the sexual human family. Just as women intuit when a man is implying that ultimately he will just use force to get his way, and in many seemingly casual exchanges just by being female and often physically less powerful a woman simply exists feeling threatened. Nobody went to high school in America, nobody played in the schoolyard in grade school who didn’t feel the threat of mockery or worse violence for being LGBT, just wrong, not able to play the right game for your gender, not holding the jump rope right, not jumping light, not playing hard, invariably using your body in a fashion that could be read as strange, hence dangerous. Hence endangered. We hear about a college student being video taped during one of their first experiences of gay sex and later when the clip went viral in their small world they killed themself sure that the life they felt surging through them was wrong, laughable, so they filed themself under doomed and did the deed to themselves. When Omar Mateen fired his guns heartlessly and with abandon against a room full of Latino gays it seems pretty clear that this was a man profoundly disturbed by his own sexuality, and compelled to act out of the lack of peace he felt in himself about it. Whether he dedicated his massacre to Isis or Jody Foster it seems he was a suffering army of one living in a conservative culture in a conservative country that rather than ever owning or naming or healing its own spiritual sexual wounds of manhood, or womanhood, or childhood or national or cultural pride, its wounds of global war and colonization, gave Omar Mateen instead as his only ally his gun, his gun was his better half, his ultimate final form of freedom of speech. What’s left to say in a country where the rising cost of speechlessness is plainer every day. We might as well admit that this was not an act of war, but an act of grandiose hurt, of confused sexual pride. One article suggests he was mad as hell at Puerto Ricans thus he picked Latin night at Pulse. It’s easy to imagine he liked Puerto Rican men and the women were just there as we usually are. I want to take a moment to mourn the correct people, the forty nine LGBT Latino Americans who went out to dance that night unafraid though probably many of them had been afraid all their lives of the consequence of who they are. When we talk about gun control I think we need to put the focus explicitly on protecting us from us and not from ISIS. We have guns, we live here, we find it so easy to kill. Something is so very wrong with America when the right to bear arms is not freedom but a curse. We are killing ourselves, and we are killing the most vulnerable ones of us, the ones who felt that bullet all their lives, whether it missed the mark or not. We grow up knowing this inside. That America wants to kill us. America makes it easy. That is the problem. It’s not out there. It’s in here. And we can’t even begin to talk until we make the guns stop. But the guns keep telling us to shut up.

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“how do you tell a girl you really like her eyes?” demo thing

cyberbully mom club

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#my babies

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More Zodiac Compatibility here

#me and my fav sign #so true honestly

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everything is sort of weird and sad and i want to sleep next to you

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family: *says something incredibly racist*

me: thats racist

family: wow that is really offensive calm down and stop attacking people please your radical liberal beliefs are tearing this family apart