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stop saying sexual assault when you mean rape. sexual assault and rape are two different things

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I have been seeing posts about how a certain frame in the TF2 comics should make heavy and medic hug so-

#tf2

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my evil evil sweet dee

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I was inspired by the song "me and Michael" band MGMT :0) ❤️

#tf2

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not really but she grows into it eventually

never forget:

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the BEST THING about America is that one of their timezones is called mountain time. i cannot tell you how funny that is to me. it sure is always time for mountains in one fourth of america

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John Green wakes up every day and says I will embarrass myself online

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Trans people and tbh a lot of straight people need to realise that a huge part of gay people’s oppression is rooted in our inherint gender non-conformity and that most of us experienced that oppression before we were openly gay or even aware of our homosexuality.

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i guess i spend a lot of time thinking about the black women in the bible.

the bride of the canticles. she doesn’t have a name. she is the woman speaking in the song of songs, the one making love to king solomon. she describes herself as very dark, and lovely, and she says others in jerusalem look upon her and wonder at her for her darkness. they notice her difference, and she tells them not to judge her for it, because the sun has shone upon her skin. she might be the same figure as the queen of sheba, the ethiopian royal who visited solomon in jerusalem and had a son by him. we don’t know her name, either, but she is the mother of the ethiopian jews.

there’s the egyptian slave girl, hagar, who is angry. she is kept as a concubine and raped, and soon she has a son. she tries to leverage her miserable station into some semblance of safety for herself and her child, but she fails and she is led into the desert. she survives because god looks at her and knows her pain.

what’s important to me is how reading about these women made my ancestors feel, as they were forced into conversion, into christianity. as they lost the knowledge of their indigenous religion after many generations of trauma and erasure. did my enslaved ancestors in the west indies, if one among them could read, find comfort in these stories? if she knew the bible stories by heart, as so many of the enslaved did, did she hate them? or did she marvel that a queen so long ago who looked like her could be loved? could be committed to poetry forever? the bride, in pictures, is always white, but the words say different. did she see herself in hagar, angry and full of woe, trapped, taken to a strange man’s bed to bear his children, and hope that god would look at her and lead her to freedom, too?

we know so much about how black enslaved men identified with moses, with the enslaved jews in egypt, and how important those stories were to the cause of abolition and liberation. strong men, fierce men, men who talked directly to god. but a slave girl, a concubine, knew god, too. did that offer any solace to them? i don’t know. i guess i hope so, that these devout women who were forced into a religion that was used to justify their enslavement, were able to see themselves reflected in the text.

#racism #sexism

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kate o’hare was a socialist + antiwar activist, jailed during WWI for promoting said views—and yeah this incident recorded in her journals is fucking me up

When her 14-year-old son visited, [Kate] O’Hare was upset that warders denied him permission to play his trumpet for her. But they had no control over what happened outside the prison’s walls. “Last night we were locked in our cells waiting for the lights to be turned out when suddenly I heard a sweet but wavering note that I instantly recognized as Dick’s cornet… Nothing ever sounded sweeter than the noble strains of ‘Lead Kindly Light.’ Before the first bar was ended a dead silence reigned … From cell to cell a whisper ran ‘Be still and listen—it is Mrs. O’Hare’s son!’ No artist ever held an audience more breathless … When he played ‘Silver Threads among the Gold’ I could hear the women sobbing.”

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I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

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I hate you job applications I hate you psychometric aptitude testing I hate you CVs I hate you interviews I hate you online forms I hate you never hearing back I hate you cover letters

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Imagine a working fallout 3 game? Stupid Baka world

#fallout

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I could NOT be in feudal Japan. Here are some reasons why

I wasn’t born then.

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If you're having trouble keeping up with what's going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:

While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as "pro terrorism" (which they're not, they're literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.

Please don't stop speaking about Palestine.

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Its time to let trans butches have complicated relationships with gender just like all other butches

#homophobia