#Georgia Issues

[reasonsforhope]

"Georgia Republicans bundled over a dozen measures that targeted the state’s transgender residents into omnibus packages in a desperate attempt to get them passed. In a stunning defeat for the GOP, every single one of them failed.

Legislators gutted bills that had passed through committee and instead stuffed them full of their anti-LGBTQ+ wishlist items.

Bills that would ban transgender students from playing on teams aligned with their gender identity, ban transgender students from bathrooms aligned with their gender identity, opt parents into notification for every book a student checks out of the library, bar sex education before sixth grade, make all sex-ed classes opt-in and expand obscenity laws to make it easier to ban books with LGBTQ+ content all failed.

“MAGA politicians in Georgia tried it all in service to their anti-LGBTQ+ agenda,” said Human Rights Campaign Georgia State Director Bentley Hudgins, “including silencing debate and gutting unrelated, popular bills that had bipartisan support to ram through policies that would have put young LGBTQ+ Georgians in harm’s way. They failed.”

“It’s undeniable that the tides are shifting, both here in Georgia and across the nation,” Georgia Equality executive director Jeff Graham added. “Anti-LGBTQ actors are losing their political power, and more and more Georgians who know and love LGBTQ people are standing up against their baseless fear-mongering.”

In Florida recently, nearly two dozen anti-LGBTQ+ bills were defeated in the wake of Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R) presidential campaign implosion, dozens of measures in Virginia were tabled [Note: In the US, "tabled" means "shelved" or "taken out of consideration - the opposite of its meaning in the UK and other places], and Ohio’s governor backed off his attempt to restrict gender-affirming care access for transgender adults and minors. 

Meanwhile, in D.C., Democrats successfully excised 50 anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in the two budget bills passed and signed by President Joe Biden to fund the federal government.

Even Fox News has been forced to acknowledge transgender issues are among the lowest-priority concerns among voters."

-via LGBTQ Nation, April 1, 2024

#united states #us politics #lgbtq #lgbtq issues #lgbtq positivity #transgender #trans issues #trans positivity #transphobia #homophobia #anti trans laws #book bans #gender affirming care #georgia #florida #virginia #ohio #d.c. #republicans #democrats #voting matters #good news #hope

[druidgroves]

this house is haunted with dead men i can’t lose / and a sneaky old feeling gives me those haunted house blues

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#fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #sole survivor #rae.psd #ch: georgia tate #ok now let me just [screams] i’m sooooo happy with how this came out #shout out 2 my wife for helping me with anatomy issues ♡ mwah

[jadedgenasi]

Watching people argue over tipping culture is just wild because the only two arguments presented are "pay the servers a living wage to begin with" and "servers actually make like 40$ an hour and you're killing them by guaranteeing a wage instead of letting them get tips."

My ass was queer in the South working at an IHOP making $2.14 an hour and going home with about 35$ a SHIFT on average, and it was NOT because I didn't do a good job. I had no idea I was queer at the time, I just had short hair and by god that was enough. Everyone else could smell it on me. My coworkers were pulling in 80, 100 every time I turned around and I was in college killing myself over paychecks that didn't cover my gas for the whole week. I begged to be allowed to host because they got the guaranteed $7.50 an hour.

I think it's stupid that restaurants are inflating prices by adding 20%-plus gratuities on checks and then saying that's not a tip. Like, I don't think this is being handled well and it feels like malicious compliance/like customers are meant to resent the servers and the idea of a fair wage for them, but I very much believe servers should not be paid a base rate of subminimum wage. That shit fucking sucks.

Your personality and your human face being the basis by which people decide if you eat tonight or make your rent is some horseshit. That's the bottom line.

#would i have had this issue in chicago? probably not! #was I in chicago? no. #I was in a college town in georgia and the fact that it was a college town meant I was ONLY passively aggressioned #instead of outright harrassed at every turn #working at ihop and the mexican restaurant was 'perform femininity correctly or starve' #and it shouldn't fucking be like that #(well. perform it correctly or pray you had more queer/kind folks than church folks coming to dinner)

[edathetublady]

I don't suppose there's any positions open to be one of David and Georgia Tennant's children? I will gladly audition :)

#david tennant #good omens #10th doctor #georgia tennant #staged #doctor who #daddy issues

[ewnbwn]

we need more silly movies where mothers go into a one-minute monologue about how much they love their child but fail to express it, because that's when people in theaters feel held for the first time in years.

#eeaao #everything everywhere all at once #atsv #across the spiderverse #ginny and georgia #mommy issues #childhood trauma

[unes23]

Georgia Fowler for Issue South America by Manolo Campion

#georgia fowler #issue #fashion #editorial #model #unes23

[hhops05]

MY PARENTS

#im not okay #im not normal about them #i think i have issues #im crying #please adopt me #david tennant #michael sheen #georgia tennant #anna lundberg #good omens s3

[hella1975]

assigning a character the highest honour like *adds go home by julien baker to their playlist*

#and by honour i mean pointing at them like TRAUMATISED! TRAUMATISED! TRAUMATISED! #like yeah relating to this song is a red flag actually. yeah it's one of the most personal songs in the world to me #and i actively am not allowed to listen to it some days bc it makes me significantly worse #even if im in a GOOD mood because of the layers upon layers of emotions ive associated with it #yeah i literally wont even blorbo post to this song even if it's accurate to a character because it's so personal #so they have to be REALLY FUCKING SPECIAL AND FUCKED IN THE HEAD to get this honour. enter touya #i made him a playlist im going crazy like yeah actually of course i was always gonna be weird about him #like he's got fire themes. he's got body horror. he just wanted to be good. he's ethel cain coded. he's georgia coded #he's got mommy AND daddy AND sibling issues. he's the only other character ive let even come close to mary on a cross #he's a waiting room girlie. he's an archer girlie. im tearing my hair the fuck out of my scalp #why does the first character ive latched onto this hard since CHUUYA have to be from mha of all things #like that's embarassing for me im embarassed to be here. and yet #touya todoroki #the thing that makes me sick about touya is yes the abuse he went through via his quirk and his dad etc etc #but also bc sekota peak happened when he was 13 right? and he's 24 now? that's 11 years unaccounted for #like ik it's confirmed his burns put him in a coma for 3 years and all for one and the dr guy just stapled his stubborn self together #which is something else i will YELL MY HEAD OFF ABOUT WHAT THE FUCKKKKK HE WAS A CHILD STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT #but im pretty sure it's confirmed that after 3 years he goes off again on his own? which still leaves him as a teenager? #like he straight up burns himself alive at 13 wakes up at 16 and reappears at 24 with dyed hair and piercings and a bad attitude #and im not supposed to wonder? or get upset? like i absolutely am leaning into the 'he was on the streets' angle bc i hate myself #and that's devastating and also what alternative is there logically like he has NOTHING #no home no money no name that he can feasibly use not even an appearance that will warrant anything but more cruelty #so youve got this child on the streets with injuries that absolutely cause insane amounts of pain daily he's literally STAPLED together #and he's completely alone and the only thing getting him through is this growing hatred and rage #like id set all my plans around killing the guy that put me there too actually just to fucking get me out of bed in the morning #I CANNOT STOP THINKING ABOUT HIM. WHERE WAS HE FOR THE PAST DECADE. HORIKOSHI PLEASE #I WANNA GO HOME IM SICK THERES MORE WHISKEY THAN BLOOD IN MY VEINS MORE TAR THAN AIR IN MY LUNGS #PIERCE MY SKIN NEEDLES TO WORN OUT RAGS THE FOLDS IN MY ARMS THE SICKENING BLACK AND I HAVENT BEEN TAKING MY MEDS #I KNOW MY BODY IS JUST DIRTY CLOTHES IM TIRED OF WASHING MY HANDS GOD I WANT TO GO HOME

[raquelwillis]

Dear Tumblr,

My debut memoir, The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation, will be out on 11/14/23. It's been dubbed a passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation.

The best way to support this first-time Black trans author is to pre-order please!

#books #memoir #black #lgbtq #queer #transgender #blacklivesmatter #social justice #social issues #georgia #author

[dcvina-claires]

all i heard before i started ginny and georgia was about how annoying ginny was so imagine my shock when i watched the show and she just acted like a normal teenager

#side note but i hate how people said she was pretending to have mommy issues as if her mom isn’t #y’know #an actual murderer #like she’s allowed to be upset i will defend that girl with my life #ginny and georgia #ginny miller

[sleepdeprivedsimp234]

~some angsty father/son Georgia and Texas that I came up with~

⚠️TW⚠️: s3lf h4rm, characters may or may not be OOC

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Around 10pm:

Georgia walked all throughout the statehouse, seemingly looking for something. He wasn’t looking for something, he was looking for someone. And that certain someone was Texas. Texas had been acting kinda strange and stand-offish all day. Like at the meeting, he was oddly quiet and didn’t get into a fight with California or Oklahoma, and only spoke if he was directly asked something by Gov. Even then, it was a very quick and subtle answer, such as a head nod/shake or a quiet "Yea/Nope".

He didn’t even go bother Alaska ONCE that day. And when Kentucky and Tennessee asked if he wanted to go to the bar with him, he said that he didn’t want to (politely ofc), which he almost never said no to. Texas had been overall pretty quiet that day and something felt incredibly off about him. So that’s why Georgia was gonna go find his son friend and figure out what was wrong.

He walked into the South’s lounge area (with the kitchen, living room, dining room, ect….) and saw Texas leaning on the kitchen island whilst scrolling through his phone.

"Hey Tex." Georgia greeted, noting the lil’ jump that the Lone Star State gave, and how he wasn’t wearing his usual flannel, but instead a black hoodie.

"Oh- uh- Hey Georgia….” Texas greeted back with a small smile before turning back to his phone.

"Hey I wanted to talk to you about somethin’, if that’s alright with ya." Said the older.

Texas set down his phone on the island and turned to the shorter male with a smile. "Sure. What’s up?"

Georgia sighed a bit. "Is everythin’ alright?"

The taller gave him a confused expression, but Georgia could see a hint of nervousness in his son’s friend’s eyes.

"You’ve been acting strange and quiet all day." The older said.

"Oh- Everythin’s alright, ya don’t hafta worry Geo." Texas said with smile. Georgia noticed how the taller had started fidgeting with hands.

"Are ya sure?" questioned the Peach State with a bit of a judgmental expression on his face.

"Y-yup." Texas said, his eyes flicking back and forth a bit.

"Tex, bud, ya know ya can tell me anythin’ right?" Asked the older.

"Mhm! E-everythin’s alright. Now um- I just r-remembered that I think I left the shed open, so I better go check. G’night Geo!" Texas said and started making a beeline for the stairs that lead to the main floor. He didn’t make it far though before Georgia grabbed his wrist and a wave of pain went through his arm and he cried out slightly.

"Texas wai-" Georgia started, but cut himself off when he heard the cry escape Texas. His eyes widened slightly and he gasped a bit and let go of Texas’s wrist. "Oh my god- I’m so sorry- a-are ya hurt?"

"I-it’s fine, a-a-and no I’m not hurt." said the Lone Star State with a nervous glint in his eyes.

"Then what was tha-" Georgia started ask before once again, cutting himself off. Now he possibly understood what had hurt the taller state. So he then said,"Texas show me your wrists.", knowing that if his suspicions were correct, then Texas would not comply.

"No. I told you I’m fine." Said the younger with a stubborn expression on his face. Yup. That confirmed his suspicions.

In a quick motion, Georgia managed to grab the taller’s hand and roll up his hoodie sleeve, revealing several small cuts littered all over the younger’s forearm. Some looked old, as in they had already somewhat stopped bleeding and some looked new enough that they were still bleeding. The older state’s heart broke at the sight. He looked up at his son’s friend’s face and his heart broke a little more at the amount of sadness and guilt that was in Texas’s eyes, a type of look that he had not seen on the Lone Star State’s face since he was a little girl that had run away from the land of Mexico that she called home.

"I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry…." He heard Texas mumbling under his breath. He quickly pulled the taller into a tight hug. Georgia could feel the tension in Texas’s body slowly leak away. Did he care that there was now tears and blood on his shirt? No. All that mattered at the moment was the fact that his son friend was crying and had hurt himself. All that mattered was comforting the younger.

Georgia walked Texas over to the couch and sat him down. "Aight Tex, please stay here for a minute while I go grab the first aid kit." He waited till Texas gave a small nod and then went to go grab the first aid kit.

Texas looked down at the floor sadly. ‘Godd*mit why couldn’t I just stop myself….Now I’m wasting Papa’s Georgia’s time all because of my stupid f*ckin’ emotions….God I’m so weak and useless why the he// does this d*mn country even want me here….’ He got so lost in his thoughts that he didn’t notice Georgia came back until he heard the older snap his fingers in front of his face. He came to with a slight jump and looked at Georgia who had a pitiful- no- worried look on his face.

"Can I have your hand, bud?" asked the Peach State, smiling slightly when Texas complied. It wasn’t long before both of Texas’s wrists were bandaged. The two sat in silence for a bit before Georgia spoke up. "So do ya wanna talk about it? It’s perfectly fine if not, I ain’t gonna make ya."

The older state waited till Texas shook his head no to ask, "Can I hug you?", and smiled when when the younger nodded his head slightly. He grabbed the younger gently and pulled him into a laying position and wrapped his arm around his torso. He started gently running a hand through Texas’s hair, grinning when the younger leaned into his hand with a content sigh. At this point, Texas was pretty much asleep. Georgia leaned down and planted a fatherly kiss on top of Texas’s hair and mumbled, "G’night kiddo…." before turning a bit so he could properly hold the taller.

Right before he fell asleep, he could have sworn he heard a near-silent, "Buenas noches, Papá…."

#welcome to the table #welcome to the statehouse #ben brainard #wttt #wttt texas #I believe in trans Texas supremacy 🛐🏳️‍⚧️ #Texas has issues and he is most definitely not having a good time #but Georgia is here to help him like the good father that Texas never had #wttt georgia

[yours-stevie]

Beautiful 😍

#antonia gentry #nylon magazine #january 2023 #issue #cover star #new #photoshoot #beautiful #woman #style #fashion #curly hair #make-up #goals #ginny and georgia #actress

[hheavnly]

a poem about mummy issues

We are like the petals of a rose.  From your very inner core, I emerge and I   split open your petals and you   rip yourself apart to make room for me and you  tear at the seams with thread that holds together mutilated flesh.  I am red and thick, like velvet.   I draw in doting fingers, which stroke and  long to be rough but can’t,   for fear of ruining something so delicate and new.  You sit on the outside,  on the margins,  and you are plagued with the yellowish green of sickness.   Fingers, which softly graze my innards,   will strip away your petals,   which are wrinkled and frail;  coiled in at the edges,  like a scrunched-up child,   preparing for a blow that they know awaits them.  Imagine you never tore yourself apart for me, imagine - as I sit, bedded in warm folds,   no room is made for me.   You will never become frail,  and I will sit inside,   waiting to touch light;  waiting to stretch and extend, and no longer be scrunched, expectant.   Imagine I would be engulfed in your darkness  and as I grow, as I yearn to my stroked,   you will close in, and   velvet will crumple and crease. 

very yonic georgia o'keeffe fiona apple 'your mum also had dreams and aspirations too' core

#poetry #poems and poetry #poetic #original poem #poem #poems on tumblr #words words words #mummy issues #yonic #art #motherhood #georgia o'keeffe vibes #own post #own poem #own poetry

[druidgroves]

actually reread my most recent chapter & it’s not as bad as i thought but i still want to rewrite bc i know i can do better sksjdjd

#rae.txt #the issue with stepping back from ur fic for. six months. is u come back to it Different. #so u want ur work to be different. #i just. ahhhh georgia is just so important to me as a character #and i have a Much better grasp on who she is as a person than i did when i started writing the fic #also a much better grasp on what i want the main themes of the fic to be akdjdjd #i was rlly just bullshitting around with the act 1 plot like shit wouldn’t have consequences. bc i hadn’t thought of any yet. #my only issue with the rewrite so far is that i started it right before i start my new job 🙃

[youjustwaitsunshine]

when in doubt start reading the greatest epic of our time again

#nah but i legit reread that fic every time i procrastinate making important life decisions #yes issues are being had. happy martian monday this still counts #god i tore through it the first time like. i was HOOKED #i think it was barely 4m when i started i cant wrap my head around how much of the story there is #also that georgia k has said before that it's all planned out. it's funny really how the older chapters are like 'still ~5 chapters to go' #scary to think that this will actually end one day #okay real talk i know georgia k never drops the ball on anything (ogs remember the menton easter egg) #so i really need them to go to the restaurant in monza again where they went before *that* race and the chef predicted the ferrari move #and i KNOW mark probably forgot because there were bigger things and seb... well yknow. but i need this as a coincidence. serendipity. w/e. #uh rant over please ignore this i am so invested in this. also the girl with the baby. how is she will we see her again. ok finished now.

[daydreamerdrew]

Captain Marvel Adventures (1941) #52

#this issue ends without the Captain Marvel Jr. and Sivana Jr. conflict being resolved #and a call for readers to go buy the Captain Marvel Jr. issue where that story will continue #which is very reminiscent of Freddy’s original origin issue #which ends without Captain Nazi being defeated #and instead has Captain Marvel send Captain Marvel Jr. over to Master Comics to continue that fight #also the way that everyone has forgotten about Magnificus Sivana #when Cap first sees Sivana Jr. he says ‘I didn’t know you had a son besides your daughter Beautia’ #and Sivana doesn’t correct him #the issue where Georgia Sivana first appeared would have been published around the same time as this one #but Magnificus first appeared about four years before this #sad for him #fawcett comics #billy batson #freddy freeman #thaddeus sivana #thaddeus sivana jr #my posts #comic panels