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as someone who didn't know anything about catholicism, the idiom "does the pope shit in the woods" tripped me up a lot growing up because i thought..... surely yes, for the pope is a man that cares not for material things!

#text

[ghelgheli]

Is there a now defunct/extinct sect of Islam or school of Islamic thought that you find particularly interesting?

The defunct Ghurabiyya sub-sect of Shi'a Islam in the early days of Islam is a fascinating one. The name of the sect "Ghurabiyya" is Arabic for "Ravens" and was derived for the sect because of the Prophet's (pbuh&hf) similtude to Ali (a) in appearance like how a raven would look like any other raven.

The Ghurabiyyas believed that the Qur'an was originally supposed to be revealed to Imam Ali (a) instead of Prophet Muhammed (pbuh&hf). The angel Gabriel (a) was tasked to reveal the Qur'an, but due to Prophet Muhammed's (pbuh&hf) striking resemblance to Imam Ali (a), the angel (a) made a mistake by revealing the Qur'an to the Prophet (pbuh&hf). Due to Gabriel's (a) mistake, he was cursed by the Ghurabiyyah.

#deen

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if u guys are really nicies tomorrow i might do an honest to god transition timeline. don’t think i’ve ever been able to do that properly before lol

#oh my godd the pineapple dress!!

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iranian leftist posters in solidarity with palestine (src)

#iran #palestine

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#zionism

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um. scruffy butch cow

is this anything

(it/she/he)

#bovidae #fur #art #s

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i wanna finish this and make a playful lil print out of this ;>_>

#:) #art

[ghelgheli]

UNRIVALED COMPUTING POWER

left -> right top -> bottom

HAL 9000, IBM PC, Apple Newton, IBM Thinkpad, Microsoft Surface book, IPod, Apple Macintosh, Custom built :-), Compaq Prolinea, IMac G3, Asus Vivobook, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Zune + Windows phone, Osborne 1

[September 27, 2022]

#cute!!! #minds and machines

[ghelgheli]

Shinjuku Boys (1995). Tatsu, a transgender man, jokes with his barber about his changing appearance, and his newly masculine features.

TRANSCRIPT:

BARBER: So you go regularly to the hospital for your hormone injection? TATSU: [nods] BARBER: Does it hurt? TATSU: Not at all. BARBER: You have more facial hair. It must be the hormones. You’ll get a moustache soon. TATSU: I’ll look distinguished! They’ve made quite the difference. I never thought I’d change so much. Most customers say I’m like a man. BARBER: Really? TATSU: [laughing] They say, “You look like a man. You’re not cute.” BARBER: [laughs]

END TRANSCRIPT.

#film

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#ramlethal valentine #guilty gear #art

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day 1615

#:)) #critters #fur #art

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bikini puppy

#pondering this outfit.. #fur #art #cute

[ghelgheli]

one reason (white) queer people misuse the term homonationalism is that they see queerness (or whatever you want to call it) as naturally disaffiliated with the US empire. so they understand homonationalism as a divergence from a natural mutual antagonism between queerness and empire. they talk about homonationalism as if it's an exclusively "normie gay" project, and as if it's a divergence from, rather than a consequence of, the overall trajectory of western lgbtqia+ politics. ironically it’s that self-exceptionalization by the queer, on the basis of their queerness, that imbricates them in homonationalism. they produce themselves as a homonationalist subject, and reproduce homonationalism, every time they articulate their queerness as individualized freedom. and Puar actually anticipates all of this in her original theorization of homonationalism in Terrorist Assemblages, and that's why it really helps to go to the text instead of osmosing queer theory solely through tumblr posts (esp when tumblr is so white and the queer theorists are not): "Some may strenuously object to the suggestion that queer identities, like their 'less radical' counterparts, homosexual, gay, and lesbian identities, are also implicated in ascendant white American nationalist formations, preferring to see queerness as singularly transgressive of identity norms. This focus on transgression, however, is precisely the term by which queerness narrates its own sexual exceptionalism.

While we can point to the obvious problems with the emancipatory, missionary pulses of certain (U.S., western) feminisms and of gay and lesbian liberation, queerness has its own exceptionalist desires: exceptionalism is a founding impulse, indeed the very core of a queerness that claims itself as an anti-, trans-, or unidentity. The paradigm of gay liberation and emancipation has produced all sorts of troubling narratives: about the greater homophobia of immigrant communities and communities of color, about the stricter family values and mores in these communities, about a certain prerequisite migration from home, about coming-out teleologies. We have less understanding of queerness as a biopolitical project, one that both parallels and intersects with that of multiculturalism, the ascendancy of whiteness, and may collude with or collapse into liberationist paradigms. While liberal underpinnings serve to constantly recenter the normative gay or lesbian subject as exclusively liberatory, these same tendencies labor to insistently recenter the normative queer subject as an exclusively transgressive one. Queerness here is the modality through which 'freedom from norms' becomes a regulatory queer ideal that demarcates the ideal queer. ... I am thinking of queerness as exceptional in a way that is wedded to individualism and the rational, liberal humanist subject, what [Sara] Ahmed denotes as 'attachments' and what I would qualify as deep psychic registers of investment that we often cannot account for and are sometimes best seen by others rather than ourselves. 'Freedom from norms' resonates with liberal humanism’s authorization of the fully self-possessed speaking subject, untethered by hegemony or false consciousness, enabled by the life/stylization offerings of capitalism, rationally choosing modern individualism over the ensnaring bonds of family. In this problematic definition of queerness, individual agency is legible only as resistance to norms rather than complicity with them, thus equating resistance and agency.

... Queerness as automatically and inherently transgressive enacts specific forms of disciplining and control, erecting celebratory queer liberal subjects folded into life (queerness as subject) against the sexually pathological and deviant populations targeted for death (queerness as population). Within that orientation of regulatory transgression, queer operates as an alibi for complicity with all sorts of other identity norms, such as nation, race, class, and gender, unwittingly lured onto the ascent toward whiteness. ... To be excused from a critique of one’s own power manipulations is the appeal of white liberalism, the underpinnings of the ascendancy of whiteness, which is not a conservative, racist formation bent on extermination, but rather an insidious liberal one proffering an innocuous inclusion into life."

Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007)

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Maybe this is just me but I am really surprised that 2023 was the first time a lot of people heard about Palestine because 2021 was when settlers tried expelling Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah - this then escalated to the IOF attacking Palestinians in Al Aqsa and throughout the country (almost 300 Palestinians in Gaza were killed and thousands were injured) - there were massive protests all over the world in response. 2021 really laid the foundations for everything that is happening now but it surprises me how little people actually mention the uprising then or were even aware it was happening.

#zionism

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So the bank recovered the money we were scammed (thank god cos we got no donations) but now they're just sitting on it going "well it's a public holiday" so I'd just like to say once and for all

Fuck the ANZACS

[ghelgheli]

Israel has deployed auto-firing quadcopters that emit the sounds of crying babies.

https://xtwitter.com/jam_etc_art/status/1780038184828608975

There is no possible reality where this is in any way capable of being passed off as self-defense. It was never self-defense. It is, and always has been, a genocide.

Crying babies. Crying babies. This is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, meant to draw out and kill civilians while also making it far more difficult to locate and aid children who are trapped or alone.

If you have money to spare, please consider donating to some of the fundraisers on Operation Olive Branch to help people escape this genocide.

End the occupation. Free Palestine.

#zionism

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if your model of how oppression works requires a long conjunction of counterfactuals for it to even be evaluable I would think you have lost right out of the gate

i'm not rly convinced privilege is the analytic frame we should be using re: transmisogyny (nor anything else for that matter) since it entails positive universalizing claims that are in fact capricious rather than like......... systemic structural ones that are sensitive to the mechanisms of action. not an original point!

#text