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hey white leftists

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My beloved friend @puja got married last year and allowed me the privilege of gifting her some art for the occasion, since the Atlantic ocean separates us >:( But I'm so glad to have made a piece that welcomed their guests in and showed the sweet couple's love, with their bouquet flowers framing them! Love you honey! 🧡🧡🧡 com info here

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now why the FUCK are all the government tax websites down bitch I need to fucking FILE MY GODDAMN TAXES

#BUREAUCRACY MY BELOATHED #PLEASE LET ME FILE MY TAXES I NEED MEDICATION

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“In Harrison, Virginia, we set up an anarchist community center, allowed homeless people to sleep there through the winter, and provided free food and clothes out of that space. Within six months the cops shut us down with a creative array of zoning and building codes. In the 1960s, the police took an active interest in sabotaging the Black Panther program that provided free breakfast to children. How exactly are we supposed to build alternative institutions if we are powerless to protect them from repression? How will we find land on which to build alternative structures when everything in this society has an owner? And how can we forget that capitalism is not timeless, that once everything was an “alternative”, and that the current paradigm developed and expanded precisely out of its ability to conquer and consume those alternatives? Ehrlich is right that we need to start building alternative institutions now, but wrong to de-emphasize the important work of destroying existing institutions and defending ourselves and our autonomous spaces in the process. Even when mixed with more aggressive nonviolent methods, a strategy based on building alternatives that constrains itself to pacifism will never be strong enough to resist the zealous violence that capitalist societies employ when they conquer and absorb autonomous societies.”

— How Nonviolence Protects the State by Peter Gelderloos

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When Jean-Paul Sartre said “hell is other people” he meant Sam Reich

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Imperial passport of Kublai Khan “I am the emissary of the Khan. If you defy me, you die.” 1240 A.D. [886x960]

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"Some people say light is waves, and some say it's particles, so I bet light is some in-between thing that's both wave and particle depending on how you look at it. Am I right?" "YES, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T BE!"

Orbital Argument [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball and Megan are arguing. Cueball is raising a finger while Megan's arms are outstretched. White Hat stands between them, both hands out in an equivocal gesture.]

Cueball: The sun orbits the earth!

Megan: The earth orbits the sun!

White Hat: When two people disagree, the truth is always somewhere in the middle. Maybe the earth and the sun orbit a common center!

Caption: It's annoying when people are right by accident.

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I will open the fucking TikTok app just to watch this video multiple times

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I don't know if you've come across the discussion already, but do you know where the trope (to quote op of the discussion i found)

"a deity's power directly corresponds to the number of their believers / the strength of their believers' faith?"

comes from?

(I think that's in American Gods, if I read the book right)

It's in American Gods. I ran into it in lots of places, from Harlan Ellison's Deathbird Stories to Richard Garnett's Twilight of the Gods (1888).

It's also an accurate observation about the power of specific religions.

#neil gaiman #american gods

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I'm so glad that y'all are so into Monkey Man and the badass hijra priestess army, but friendly reminder that hijra are NOT trans women. Hijra are their own distinct gender; trans women are women. India has both :)

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AS THE WORLD GOES ON ITS WICKED WAY

bonus:

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I don't say this enough but I really write for the young queer and trans desi kids here who reblog my poetry and stories and moodboards and share their own stories. You are very brave and very loved and extremely resilient for existing in a country like ours, in a time like ours, when literally every day I open the newspaper or go online and see some horrific tragedy about some queer Indian kid who deserved the world and instead ended up without the help they deserved. Like even a few years ago, when I was in Catholic school in Kolkata, we– may be five or six queer girls–stuck together and had it BAD, and now seeing baby trans and queer desis in my inbox all being happy and camping out and calling me an older sibling is. Well. It's a lot. It makes me emotional. I mean, I was in first year of college when section 377 got repealed. So.

I know social media doesn't make it any easier to exist in the world as a non white, non western gay in the global South, with the constant guilt tripping rhetoric in online queer spaces that goes like "why don't you visit your local queer bar and maybe you'll know what REAL lesbians/gays looks like" but like I promise you!!! you'll be happy someday and you don't have to chase after a distant metropolitan/Euramerican dream and feel helpless without it!!! I promise you you'll find love and community, and I promise you you'll get the life you deserve!!! your worth isn't measured in how queer a lifestyle you lead by western visibility standards!!! Please keep being hopeful, and proudly yourselves, you're all brilliant young people.

#:’) #crying #desi queer

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"i wish i could exfoliate my brain" you can. by reading things that challenge you.

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THERE USED TO BE A LAKE HERE ONCE

A poetry collection about trans bodies, sapphic love, the desi queer community, and growing up Bengali in early 2000s Kolkata.

This is an indie debut poetry book by a non-binary Bengali author. Buying an author copy helps support me directly, as opposed to buying from a website.

GP*y: sritamasen1905@oksbi

P*yp*l: [email protected]

INR = Rs 300, USD = $ 4 (INR 300 converts to only about 3 USD, however, P*ypal skims off quite a bit, so if you want to support me, would appreciate if you paid around 4-5 USD)

HOW TO ORDER:

🦚 Fill out the Google form. There you can provide your personal details- address, pincode, country, name (PLEASE add the same name as a note in your Gp*y/P*ypal payment following slide 3; this will help me keep track.) as well as choose an edition of your preference and let me know what inscription/note you'd like me to add, if any.

🦚 After the base payment of Rs 300 is made via P*ypal or GP*y, I will confirm your purchase via Instagram DMs. Please ensure that your DMs are enabled, and if not, please mandatorily add your email ID.

🦚 Once I have finalized your order, I shall calculate shipping charges and let you know the additional prices to pay. For Indian folk, this will take 7-10 days. For those living abroad, please be patient, it might take slightly longer to calculate.

🦚 When you clear the shipping charges, your parcel shall be mailed soon after.

International purchasers, please try not to cancel orders after booking, I swear I'll have a meltdown if I have to figure out the P*yPàl and overseas refund transactions. Please, please be patient and cooperate; I'm a debut author and am still figuring out the nitty-gritties of overseas shipping. Also please note that I cannot 100% guarantee you a colour edition of your choice; although call me biased but they are all so beautiful. My payment details are on slide 3, and if you cannot purchase my book atm, I would appreciate a tip on my ko-fi!

Thank you for supporting a Bengali trans queer author; I hope I can write more for you soon.

For this sale, first priority will given to readers who identify as Desi, Bengali, LGBTQ of color and/or trans queer.

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the neurotypical invents the neurodivergent. neuro(non)normativity is a constant negotiation of social conditions + relation to capital + carceral frameworks of legal, educational, medical systems. “neurotype” is not an ontological status. it is a mirror held to the world in which it exists.

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Doctor Who (2005-) Season 1