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me and my buddies are doing a cover of jolene from the guy's pov. so far we've got "jolene jolene jolene joleeeeene. i'm thinkin that jolene looks pretty hot"

#accurate straight man moment #source: me. I'm technically straight

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So many trans people can understand that gender is a social construct but cannot dismantle the idea that sex is not only not binary but also a social construct that you can change.

My sex assigned at birth is not the same sex I am now. Your sex is assigned based on your genitals/secondary sex characteristics, your hormone pattern and very loosely your chromosomes (cause who fucking checks those?). I have changed 2/3 of those things, I have changed my sex. That is not inaccurate or unrealistic to believe. Sex is not immutable or fixed, and transsexual is not a dirty word

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reminder that indigenous queer folks do not need to fit your colonial definitions or conceptions of queerness in order to be valid, worthy, and spectacular.

if your concept of what a lesbian looks like requires that all lesbians have shaved or short hair, then you’re excluding ntv lesbians who honour our ancestors by growing our hair long.

i’m no less of a butch for having hair that goes down to my tailbone. i’m no less of a butch for wearing my hair in a braid. i’m also still butch when i wear beaded earrings, a ribbon skirt, and moccasins.

if your idea of queerness is tied to whiteness, that’s just a shame. indigeneity and queerness go together like inhaling and exhaling. one cannot exist without the other.

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it is good and cool when lesbians become straight trans men. it's awesome. it brightens the world so much. when a lesbian comes out as a straight trans men he should get a feast thrown in his honor for adding to the beautiful endless diversity of the world's love and desire

#no lesbians were ever lost #only a brother was made #G-d I hate that phrase #“we lost one” no you didn't #ofc if you still identify with the label lesbian that's just swell too #but being straight is not a curse #and especially #it is NOT evil

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Yeah i have a dark past (being 13). Just an absolutely horrible backstory (being 13). It would keep you up at night if i told you about it (i was 13 one time)

#not when I decided that I wanted to be a 4chan edgelord because that was my concept of 'cool' 😭 #I ended up on snuff pages and seeing things that have scarred me so deeply I haven't been able to forget #considering I still wake up in a panic remembering what I saw with gruesome detail #I'm probably traumatized #but oh well

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#happy easter #to all my fellow christians #and good chocolate egg hunting day for everyone else I guess #I know I'm early but I'm kind of in the middle of nowhere #and won't have internet for a while

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Happy International Women’s Day. Reminder that this day emerged out of labour organising and it’s not about celebrating girlbosses or any whitewashed corporate feminism. It’s about equal pay for equal work, full bodily autonomy, the liberation of queer and trans women, sex work decrim, fairly shared domestic labour, global decolonisation, fighting misogynoir, an end to sexual harassment and rape culture, a society that actually supports those trying to raise children, fair representation of women across all sectors and positions in society, media and stories that don’t cast women as passive and useless. Reminder that patriarchy is inextricably linked with the forces currently wreaking such destruction on nature and the environment, that a green future is a feminist future and a feminist future is a green future. From Greta Thunberg to Leah Namugerwa to Christiana Figueres, Mikaela Loach, Xiye Bastida and Nemonte Nenquimo, women are powerful and important voices across our movement, leading the way and demanding the change we need because they understand that it’s all connected.

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Happy International Women's Day! 8M!

#espwnt

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On international women's day don't forget about Russian war crimes against women: bombed maternity hospitals, rapes,captivity, interrogations, torture, murders

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"This International Women’s Day we call on all who identify as feminists to engage in the lifelong unlearning of their biases and to be in solidarity with Palestinian women, Sudanese women, Congolese women who are experiencing an ongoing genocide." from The Slow Factory, 08/Mar/2024: caption cont. under images.

In Palestine, more than 9,000 women have been brutally killed by the Israeli Occupation. 63 women killed per day.

In Sudan, 4 million Sudanese women & girls are at risk of sexual violence.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, more than 1 million women have been survivors of sexual violence.

In Turtle Island aka the so called USA, 94% of fatal violence committed again Trans people are committed against Trans women.

This isn’t about the stats, the poverty porn or the constant shock doctrine the West desperately needs in order to be inclusive. This is a call for solidarity and collective action.

Access to feminine hygiene products, bodily autonomy and the access to necessary safe and caring spaces as women are all human rights.

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Happy international women’s day!

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#rip akira toriyama #you were my childhood

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Happy* Women's Day to all the women in my life, and to my mother, my classmates, my wonderful co-workers who I don't know what I'd do without, and my wife in particular.

*(I know it's not a celebration, but I don't know how else to say it? Good day today and everyday to my moots too.)

#8M #women's day #international women's day #arktos.txt

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fun fact (not fun at all fact actually) :

aromanticism and asexuality are still treated as issues to be fixed in most therapy settings, at least in the western psychiatric institution. i cannot fucking mention my aromanticism or asexuality to a therapist or it’ll immediately become their primary concern and goal to fix. whether or not i have a partner/am trying to have a partner is actively being used as an indicator of my wellness, regardless of if i WANT one. i cannot have access to needed mental health ressources because of fear of conversion therapy. aro and/or ace conversion therapy is the norm in most psychiatric institutions and we are getting told by the rest of the queer community that our oppression isnt real and that there is no link between our struggles and theirs.

more thoughts on the medicalization of asexuality and/or aromanticism

answers to common notes

aplatonic perspective

ressources

background information

tips to avoid aro and/or ace conversion therapy

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