#QUEER KID REVOLUTION

[brightlotusmoon]

"These are people being publicly humiliated and being told that they brought shame to their families, as they're dying."

From Vice's Sex Before The Internet Episode 7 'When Sex Was Secret' discussing the AIDS Crisis.

Go on, tell me that queer is a slur. Tell all of us who lost loved ones back then. Stop alienating yourselves and fight for others no matter your sad feelings about labels, because we are still being actively hunted.

#being queer in fandom was a revolution #queer as in fuck you #queer history #80s kid

[bottomvalerius]

any time someone posts something like “freaks are my best friends and I love them” and some random, Twitter-brained blog’s IMMEDIATE response is like “oh??? So you mean people who SHIP INCEST??? AND PEDOS?? T H O S E ARE THE FREAKS YOU SUPPORT?” I deserve to take a shit on their lawn actually

#rambling #you know damn well what we mean #you’re not pulling a got cha you literally just need to go outside for a walk LMAO #purity culture has ruined any modern queer revolution for so many young gay kids lmfao #this isn’t about pro ship or whatever tf y’all are on this is about real life and real laws being made to fucking kill hs #stop taking the bait and comparing two completely isolated topics to pull a got cha on a stranger lmfao

[rebellum]

A transphobe pro-revolution that will never come reblogged a post of mine and now other transphobes are reblogging it 🤮

#them: it will all get better when the glorious revolution comes! #me: welp. time to go volunteer and educate kids on the queer community to make the world a better place. i hppe i dont get called a nigger #this time.

[just-rogi]

i hope that everyone who sees me posting pics of taylor swift and kicking my feet and braiding my hair and writing in my diary and living a very boring life as the worlds most basic teacher girl knows that im actually a catagory five faggot dyke bitch. im a sleeper agent and my soul is woven together by the threads of being a radical queer freak. im not a target merch love is love rainbow socially acceptable homo you can bring home to ur mama who watches fox news, i believe in throwing molotov cocktails and fully restructuring the government by force btw i just also happen to look like this teehee

#like yes i will be on the front lines of the revolution #im a brown queer teacher of poor black and brown kids in a major US city why would you possibly think otherwise #like ive been getting threats from conservatives to shoot up my protests since i was quite literally seventeen #and im just as effective at organizing in a taylor swift cardigan and a crop top #put some respect on radical leftist femme girls goddamn #butches need someone to say how handsome and strong they are im filling an important queer niche

[garecc]

Some of you didnt spend your formative years singing Aaron Burr Sir with your friends in the back of a bus, watching doctor gastor theory videos, and spending so many years watching Steven universe you forgot the entire first two seasons and it shows

#kids these days with their dream smp #(look at washingdad and hamilson and compare that to dadza and all of the foster family fics) #and your deltarune #(some people dont know it was gaster hacking tobys twitter it haunts me) #and your she-ra #(watching she-ra broke me a bit like wtf it was paced normally and was so queer. none of you get the revolution that was pearl rose when i #was like 13.)

[a-dotrivenitupontop]

hate hate hate how everyday actions and personal choices are seen as ‘tiktok political movements’ these days

#this isn’t a complaint against ‘those damn leftists who are choosing not to have kids because feminism’ or anything like that #this is about how everyone sees me as some kind of inherently political feminist take against the family unit when really im just existing #as an aromantic person #and yeah let’s have movements against misogyny in the family!! #but can we not use real people living their normal lives as ‘symbols of the revolution’? #same goes for those who use real people as representation #yes we need more queer voices in popular media but maybe sally from next door isn’t your token lesbian blorbo

[bymyprettyfloralbonnet]

So You Really Liked Fast Car

I grew up on Tracy Chapman, so it's been great to see her having a bit of a revival lately. Here are some other songs of hers to check out!

Want more...

Relationship Disasters: For My Lover, Less Than Strangers

Bone-Deep Melancholy: I Used to be a Sailor, For A Dream

Queer Undertones (imo): It's OK, In the Dark

Social Commentary (with a dose of eat the rich): Talkin' Bout a Revolution, So

Narrators Who Clearly Have a Story: Never Yours, Crossroads

No thematic link to Fast Car, I just love them: Telling Stories (the first song of hers I ever heard, which I related to a lot as a kid who ALSO loved making shit up), Hard Wired (this song came out in 2002 and hoo boy, is it prescient)

Also not linked to Fast Car, but I'd be remiss in making a Chapman post without pointing out her confrontation of racism in many of her songs: Across the Lines, America

#music #Tracy Chapman #this is by no means an exhaustive list #feel free to add your faves

[finch-kid]

punk stuff for people fresh to the scene

note: i'm just one punk, this is a reflection of my individual experience with the genre/movement. this isn't THE punk guide, just my personal recommendations. (I'm also gonna be updating this a ton)

Bands I think are neat

Against Me!

Ashtray (specifically their album The Power of Positive Drinking)

Bikini Kill

Bam Bam (The band that invented grunge!)

Bratmobile

Bad Brains

Black Flag

The Clash

Dead Kennedys

Destructo Disk (a newer band, their album Punk Rocks For Kids Who Can't Skate is super underrated imo)

Death

The Germs

Green Day (some purists are gonna kill me over this one, but their early stuff is really good punk!)

Pansy Division

Ramones

Rage Against the Machine (hip-hop/punk blend, but i still count them as punk, especially considering their politics)

X-Ray Spex

Resources

The Long Queer History of Punk (video)

The Very Black History Of Punk Music (video)

Riot Grrrl: The '90s Movement that Redefined Punk (video)

The Punk Singer (2014 documentary)

Grunge Trailblazers Bam Bam are Finally Getting Their Rightful Place in Rock History (article)

Tina Bell | The Woman Who Invented Grunge (video)

African American woman who led a grunge forerunner gets her moment of long-overdue recognition (video about Tina Bell)

Nirvana Were a Feminist Band (video)

The Riot Grrrl & I'd Start A Revolution But I Don't Have Time Split Zine ( 2014 zine)

DIY!!!

How to Make a DIY Zine (the old fashioned way) (video)

DIY: How To Make Your Own Patch The Easiest Way (article)

#punk #riot grrrl #afro punk #music #the bird man cant shut up

[transjudas]

[ID: four gifs of Gerard Way with pages from various queer zines from the 1990′s and 2000′s over them.

First gif is of Gerard from Venganza recording. They are singing with a lot of emotion in their face. The zine overlay from about 1994 reads “Here’s to your fear, queer. Here’s to queer’s peers who feel fear. Here’s to real queer cheer, three cheers for queers.” A space below that reads “June is Gay Pride and History Month, so hi mom! (ha.) Closets are warm, cozy places where you can sit with your head between your knees and die slowly while staring at the light coming in through the crack at the bottom of the door”. A space below that reads, in bold lettering, “Dyke-o-matic”

Second gif is of Gerard and Frank making out during Projekt Revolution. The zine overlay from 1993 is of a drawing of two young cartoon punk men, one wearing a misfits shirt. Beneath the drawing says “the tough lookin’ ones are real easy. I give ‘em my goofy, sexy grin and they’re like butter in my hands.”

Third gif is of Gerard smiling softly at an interviewer/tv personality from about 2005 as Gerard shows him how he does his makeup. The zine overlay from the 2000′s reads “And if I see you there, where do you exist the rest of the time? In your apartment, still making mixed tapes like a middle schooler or trying to entice girls more used to the Get Up Kids into making noises like the Lunachicks? Do you wonder where I am? Straight edge kids and skins all know their brothers. Why don’t I know you?”

Fourth gif is of Gerard from the Auckland, Aotearoa 2023 show when he is saying “in the face of extermination, say fuck you!” The zine overlay from 1992 says “Fuck me? No, fuck you!” in all capitals in the middle of the page. Around the perimeter it says “It’s payback time, fucker” repeated a couple of times to make a kind of border. It also says “est. 1992″ at the bottom.

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#gerard way #mcr #mcredit #my chemical romance #gerardwayedit #queer history #lgbtq history #lgbt history #pride month #described #flashing cw #userkam #god i hope this id is okay asdfghhgfdsa i did my best

[brightlotusmoon]

"Stop shoving queer media down our throats!"

Open up, I gotta reach in there and extract all that straight media smothered in cultural Christianity first. It's so clogged I doubt we even could shove anything in. Yes you are fucking judgemental. Now shut your mouth and listen.

#being queer in fandom was a revolution #i'm so tired #nobody is turning your kids queer they're doing that on their own

[modelsof-color]

Photographers Mar + Vin ( Marcos & Kelvin )

Mar+Vin is a duo, formed by Marcos Florentino and Kelvin Yule. With backgrounds in Graphic Design and Journalism

MAR+VIN has contributed to a revolution in the way images are made in Brazil, adding artistic refinement to their photography to create stories that go beyond, while also playing an important role in the inclusion within the industry. Marcos and Kelvin often say that they are always looking for the "fantastic element" in the ordinary, creating powerful images with deep meaning and valuing their Brazilian roots.

Mar+Vin’s visual style is influenced by classical art with sculptural silhouettes and nods to symbolism, but they’re keen to incorporate local references from their Brazillian hometowns through locations and colour palettes.

 Marcos was born in the state of Piauí, in a small village in the northeast part of Brazil. He started experimenting with drawing at a very young age and tried other medias as he grew up. Living his childhood in such a remote place, he found in the fine arts and in the books a way of dreaming with different and fantastic realities, helping him to accurate his vision, while watching his mother sew his sisters’ dresses for traditional Brazilian celebrations and graduations, which may have been his first contact with fashion. At 18, he moved to São Paulo and got a degree in graphic design through a scholarship. There he began to use photography as a form of expression and also expanded his art through experimenting with sculpture, ceramics, textiles, drawing and oil painting,

 Kelvin is from the coast of Bahia, also in the northeast region of Brazil. He developed an inquisitive personality, mainly during his childhood as a queer kid growing up in a small town with a religious familly. At the age of 17, he went to university to study Social Communication and Journalism, where he directed his first short film and did some exhibitions exploring photojournalism, which led him to develop his interest in storytelling, bringing it to his photography as a way to reimagine things. Fashion appeared to Kelvin as a world of possibilities where he could express himself in multiple ways, telling untold stories through his own eyes. After meeting Marcos in 2016, he moved to São Paulo to develop his work in fashion, at which point they decided to unite their visions and creating the duo

( Biography took from their official website )

#people of color in fashion history

[honey-stick]

so i just read the hunger games trilogy for the first time as a very queer adult, and, like, there's no way katniss isn't aro or on the aromantic spectrum. i know it wasn't intended by the author, but the books seem so much less focused on romance than what id heard about them. katniss's ultimate goals through the series were protecting her family and her top priority was always primrose.

katniss approached every thought of love and romance very logically and could never tell what the romance she was supposed to feel was, and was constantly confused by it. she was more worried about what she was supposed to feel than what she actually felt about peeta or gale. she never seemed like she was interested in having a romantic partner, and was mainly just worried juggling the romantic feelings of others, which is why i think her settling down with peeta and them taking care of each other as close friends or life companions (whether or not they have kids) wouldve been a really great end for her, rather than as a traditionally married couple with kids. when reading the epilogue, we know katniss only had kids because peeta really wanted to have kids, and not out of any desire of her own, which leads me to believe that if it was a matter of marriage she probably just didnt care and got married because peeta wanted it.

her having kids in the epilogue of Mockinjay is a nice tie in to the first book, because she was always terrified of the thought of bringing kids into the world pre-revolution. additionally, given her own relationship with her mother, she'd be reluctant to become one herself, and with how she was parentified as a child and had to take care of her family so young probably added to her fear of having kids whenever she would discuss it with gale early on in the triology. however, her disavowal of marriage is odd together with that if she's supposed to be alloromantic, because she could still both not want kids and be happily married in love. im sure in book 1, if gale and katniss ran off, gale wouldve been fine with a compromise like that.

while romance was very necessary to katniss's survival, it wasn't something she ever wanted or was looking for. she was always horrified at the idea of marriage which was very prevalent in Catching Fire, whether with gale or peeta or anyone else. she was unable to relax around peeta outside of the games until they became actual friends in the second book.

the romance is only a side touch of the books whenever it's brought up by another character, but it's never something katniss is actively thinking about except for the very end, but it's so natural and in character there that it just seems like she is spending her time with peeta as life companions and not as like romantically in love, even with the kids. the trilogy focused heavily on war, government corruption, oppression, trauma, poverty, and family. romance is a part of it, but it wasn't part of the main themes of the books. so in tumblr essay conclusion:

#aromantic #the hunger games #katniss everdeen #mine

[apricitystudies]

what i read in apr. 2023:

(previous editions) bold = favourite

class, race, & labour

the deputy and the disappeared (usa)

the dystopian underworld of south africa’s illegal gold mines

inside australia’s university wage theft machine

lydia maria child and the vexed role of the woman abolitionist (usa)

gender, sexuality, & intersectionality

the narcissist’s playbook

blurred lines, harbinger of doom

how revenge porn is used to silence dissidents in azerbaijan

queer villains are vital to understanding queer history

politics & current affairs

adrift

the rose-coloured tint on shou zi chew overlooks tiktok’s red flags

“we shouldn’t grow up dreaming that our friends don’t get killed”

how to wash your hands in a war zone (colombia)

why south koreans want the bomb

history, culture, & media

former south korea president’s grandson apologises to victims of gwangju massacre

singapore’s prison without walls made the world sit up in 1960s. how did it fall apart?

honey, i sold the kids

dril is everyone. more specifically, he’s a guy named paul

sudan

keep eyes on sudan (guide/resources)

sudan’s outsider

a plague o’ both your houses: the false dilemma of sudan’s elites

sudan’s coup has shattered the hopes of its 2019 revolution (2021 coup)

#studyblr #studyspo #student #studying #university #productivity #reading list #reading lists #myresources

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

WIbta if I don't read an author's books for their opinion on book piracy?

Context: I live in a country where literary has plummeted, reading is a hobby for the privileged, bookstores are closing or dilapidated, libraries are worse off.

Bookstores here are not good at keeping up with new releases. Their bestsellers are local publishes, and things like Percy Jackson or the Hardy boys. Requesting them to bring books almost never works.

With libraries, schools and colleges have their private ones only open to students and staff but they're... Restrictive about what someone can check out. Librarians here totally pro-censorship. Public libraries are less than 10 in my metro city, they keep old books, academic texts, and in some cases specialize in one area. That includes one of the biggest libraries in the country. And it's like 6 hours to commute so that's not a sustainable option for me. Of course library apps straight up don't exist here.

We have a couple book box subscription services. One sends those bestsellers that everyone's read as kids. The other one is expensive and more of a privileged influencer orientated thing than for readers.

What I said so far might sound too bad to be true but it is the reality. Physical books have been getting expensive worldwide. On top of that if I can't be caught reading things our government doesn't like. I read a lot of classics, for which I use a legal free site. But for something like a queer fantasy book written by a foreigner my only options are buying on kindle or well.. downloading them. Kindle doesn't always have the books I want, but the download sites tend to bring in requested books.

So of course there's ethical dilemma. With my salary I can save up and buy 6-7 books a year, I only buy the ones I've read and thoroughly enjoyed, enough to want them on my shelf or because I want to support the author, even with the risk of kindle copies being taken away at an exec's whim in the future.

I found out a couple authors I really wanted to read from are anti-piracy, one of them put a message like "Whoever pirates this book I put a curse on you" in their ya fantasy book. And I don't read a lot of ya but that book sounded interesting, until I saw that. These author's tone while talking about readers in my kind of position put me off and I decided not to read their works.

My logic is that I'd rather download and see if I love a book before buying, if I love it I wouldn't want to support people like them and feel bad reading it too, if I buy first and hate it then it's a waste of my money while the authors get a few cents off that purchase.

So naturally I've been told to suck it up, read less, stop reading if I can't afford, stick to free classics and fanfics, make more money, bring revolution in my country etc.

I do feel bad about the authors, even though most of what I read are from dead people there's a good amount of living people too and not all of them are getting their coins whether I want to give it to them or not. And the reason for this ask: Someone said I'm overreacting to those authors, I should just read those books like a normal person and move on instead of viewing them as books not to be touched.

So?

What are these acronyms?

#aita #am i the asshole

[unadulteratedkr]

OFMD~a letter

This show has changed my life. It's unlocked creativity and love I didn't know I had, it's introduced me to people I adore more than the breath I have in my body, and it's opened up a world of acceptance of who I am and who I could be like I'd never imagined.

I wish I could show Our Flag Means Death to that scared little girl who thought the way she loved someone was wrong and tell her it was going to be a revolution in her heart. I wish I could show this to the confused 20-something college kid that was traveling unknown waters without a compass and tell her that there's gonna be something beautiful to navigate with in her future. I'm so fucking grateful that a 30-something me got to see a man reach out to the love of his life when he thought that man was dead and wake him up with loving words and his hand reaching out. That scared little girl finally got to see that happen, and I'm never going to lose how beautiful that was.

I'm gutted to see it go before those men get to navigate the world of being happy together. So so gutted. And so monumentally thankful for what we did get to see.

Thank you to all the cast and crew for pouring love into each frame. Thank you to @davidjenks (and your cool as fuck wife!!!!) for seeing this story as an honest love story that deserved to be told with earnest whimsy and sincerity. Thank you for fighting to give us a second season. Thank you for documenting each moment of creation for us to giggle over after the Revenge sailed off to the horizon. Thank you for showing queer kids that love is worth fighting for, and love is worth giving up the fight for.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

#our flag means death #ofmd #if anyone else wants to add their own thoughts and feelings please feel free (as long as it's not too mean pls)

[punkeropercyjackson]

Is the Pjo fandom aware that Percy is like.......actually not a normal person.Not the demigod thing,i mean he's neurodivergent and has mental illnesses from trauma so his set of beliefs,thoughts,onward actions and tastes are completely different from society's ideals and norms.It's not like he acts the way he does as a joke or to look cool,it's kinda a big thing he can't stop acting like himself no matter what???It gives him self-eestem issues but it really is for the better for everyone involved because it makes him an actual role model for irl troubled kids who got to read him grow all the way up until adulthood alongside us and him never masking being potrayed as what made him the best and realest hero in the whole franchise

He's never been tempted to join the gods and talks shit to them because he has no interest in power and they're child abusers who run an oppressive system,not because he's a BAMF and 'sassy'.He dosen't try to cover up his 'sensitive' and 'soft' emotions because he thinks they're stupid,it's a defense mechanism from growing up with an abusive stepdad,ableist bullies and teachers and a society that expects peak masculinity from him despite his desire for femininity instead and there's a reason why almost all his friends in the og series were girls and he insults other guys based on being too manly

Related to that,her complete lack of romantic interest in Nico wasn't because she's 'a tragically straight boy' but because she's A)At least only partially a man(transfem bigender)and he's gay and B)Too old for him and has some damn decency so she loves and treats him like her little brother and pseudo-son instead and she shouldn't be expected to return his feelings,much less be called a bad person for not,when she never fucking said she likes him or flirted with him and he loves her as his older sister/brother and sees her as mom/dad back and she also proceeds to do the same with Hazel within ONE book of knowing her since she's in the same parental situation as Nico and she used to take care of Tyson before he moved in with Poseidon and of Bianca as well before she died

Her loving and dating Rachel at one point wasn't 'toxic' or 'unrealistic' or especially not 'one-sided',they were just two teenagers finding solace in eachother due to similar experiences and being happy to indulge in the other's interests to the point where it became some of their's too and y'all deserve to get smacked upside the head for having the AUDACITY to make fun of her when Percy was all over her and Jason more than he was Book!Annabeth's little femcel ass(not you Leahbeth,never you Leahbeth)and erase her to say 'Percy's type is blondes' as if any actual punk like Percy would be into someone because they live up to traditional standards and when she hates 2/5 of the blondes y'all are talking about(Luke and Apollo)and her demisexual ass barely knows 1/5 of them,them also having an actual canon bf(Magnus + Alex)

They never wanted to be normal or special,they wanted to be ACCEPTED.They're an outcast because they can't hide who they truly are even though none of what makes them different is bad but they're not this or they're so that so it can't possibly be actually good that they're the way they are and do the things they do and that's how they get treated in-universe AND by bloggers who have 'a woman's place is in the revolution' or 'Boykisser' on their theme but get squeemish at the thought of positive change or queerness that's not packaged shipping tropes.Percy Jackson's not suddenly 'the standard protagonist' instead of a staple of representation for freaks because you're a poser

#PERCY JUST LIKE ME FR #percy jackson #percy jackson defense squad #black percy #latino percy #autistic percy jackson #team parent percy jackson #punk!percy #pjo gods slander #nico di angelo #transfem percy jackson #antipercico #hazel levesque #tyson pjo #bianca di angelo #rachel elizabeth dare #t4t perachel #pro perachel #t4t jercy #anti percabeth #anti luke castellan #antilukercy #magnus chase #alex fierro #t4t fierrochase #pjo #perlex #x black!reader #pastel punk tag #summerposting