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Happy Intersex awareness day! I found this a bit ago, but here is the entire collection of Hermaphrodites With Attitude, an intersex newsletter that ran starting in 1994 until 2005.

The newsletter features intersex people from all over talking about their lives. There is a lot focused on the medical treatment of intersex people at the time, but there is also information about rallies and protests, news, and people talking about their lives!

#intersex history #intersex #intersexuality #intersex awareness day #hermaphrodite #tw hermaphrodite

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just realised it's anita bryant pie in face day... happy 44th anniversary to one of my favourite news broadcasts of all time

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Hi I'm not dead I promise! I've hit a point where I'm working over 40 hours a week, which while great for getting my bf and I out of a not too great living situation, has been extremely hard on my disabled body. Frankly, I haven't had the energy to do much outside of work but spend time with them and play games and stay off socials.

Maybe one day this blog will come back! I really want it to! I miss interacting with all you lovely people, but I also know it's better for me mentally to avoid it (when I'm already not doing well physically) due to all the hate anons and arguments running a blog like this can get someone.

#mutuals i miss yall and i still think abt yall and hope youre doing well

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To add to what's already been said, this from 1959. Gay men and lesbians have been getting together for ages!

it's also just super ahistorical to present this idea that lesbians and gay men have never fucked or lesbians have never fucked men or gay men have never fucked women like how would that even work that doesn't make any sense.

that would require ppl like that to have any semblance of knowledge of queer history prior to 2015.

#i know im on hiatus technically but i had this on hand so i had to share

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I feel like so much slur discourse could get solved by discussing intent. “I’m okay with faggot but don’t like when someone yells it out a car at me.” Yeah no shit. I like physical touch in the form of a hug but don’t like it when it is in the form of a punch. People have said the word “gay” “lesbian” “trans” what have you with the most hateful vitriol they can muster because they MEAN it like a slur. So many of us have heard the tone that may as well make the word a slur.

If I saw a sign that says “I hunt members of the LGBTQIA+ community for sport” it wouldn’t really feel different from “I want to kill faggots.”

Additionally, I LIKE that it makes people cringe. It used to make me cringe. Those words have history for me too. But they also are not able to be sanitized by corporations. Shitlibs who would never rock the boat to protect me are never going to NOT shrink away at me calling myself a dyke and I do not care.

MY intent IS vitriol back, sometimes. A bold statement of attack. But sometimes it’s a joke. “His faggy mannerisms have captivated me.” Sometimes it’s a badge of honor from older queers. Sometimes it’s not that deep. What’s behind the words, what the intent is is everything.

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SHARE if you love fresh basil & transgender penis

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I feel so... down whenever I want to watch queer or trans videos because I know in the back of my mind that none of the current large queer content creators' content or community is safe for people like me, intersex people.

I love their work otherwise, but it hurts badly to hear them toss around casual intersexism in their videos constantly when discussing queer and trans issues and nobody ever mentions it.

And because these are large, popular creators, nobody has ever listened when I've tried to ask they adjust their language. My dms go ignored or unseen and my public comments get drowned out by fans defending their intersexist comments. It's emotionally draining and exhausting, I just want to be included in my own community.

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I know i complain a lot, but the lack of aro culture in queer spaces is really annoying. no your “aros are valid!” *insert aro flag* posts don’t do it!

aromanticism isnt just about asking for “validity” from others. it’s also not just a hashtag u can put in a pride post that has absolutely nothing about aromanticism.

it sucks that I need to go back to aro spaces to find some quality content. there’s also barely any poc/asian aro-ace content out there that also focuses on aromanticism as a separate thing from asexuality!

this post will still not do anything, I know… but

pride month is almost over, yet aros still exist! include them in your voices, in your minds, in your posts.

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I love you grandmother who helped me pin a trans flag to my battle vest, I love you leather daddies checking on us, I love you trans dykes driving the forklift loaded with water and ice, I love you queer kids in your renfair outfits, I love you faggot punks sizing up the cops, I love you drag queens laughing in the dressing room, I love you i love you I love you I love y

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Vintage pins made by Bruce Eakin | c. 1990

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TWENTY MINUTES: THE COMIC BOOK ISSUE | April 1991

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this rules

#it is if ur brave enough to call it that

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On This Day In History

June 25th, 1978: the rainbow flag is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.

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there's a special kind of ableism (perhaps mixed with ageism) that comes from people who are older adults, who lived an largely abled life, who get like. personally offended by the idea that you, a young person, could DARE to also have a shitty body. like they view bad knees and fatigue as a badge of honor you get from living a long life & young disabled people don't deserve it? because we haven't suffered enough to... suffer? it's fucking bonkers. like yes ma'am I also make old person noises when getting up. i don't know why you feel like I'm taking something from you by being young and crippled.

#i went to a fair once with my cane and the amount of shitty looks i got from older people who thought i didnt need it #just bc im in my 20s #feel like i shouldnt have to justify myself to you by explaining on bad days i can barely even walk 20ft to the bathroom from my bed #i wish i could give my physical disabilities to anyone who bitches at me about them for 1hr per complaint

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transfemme and transmasc solidarity! (prints available)

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‘dont say gay if youre bi’ lmao lets all leave the house! lets all go outside and get a big gulp of fresh air is what im thinking