#Queer Latinx Teens

[the-rad1o-demon]

Please share, and donate if you can!!

$375 is way too low right now to be of any use in stopping KOSA, so the more you share, the better, and it's also great if you're able to also donate (only if you're able to do so without worsening whatever monetary and/or safety situation you're in)!!

This bill affects all of us. Both children and adults of the following: the LGBTQ+ community, Black communities, Latinx communities, Native American communities, Asian communities.

It will affect ex-Jehovah's Witnesses, and younger folks still trapped. Same thing for ex-Catholics and children/teens still trapped in the Catholic Church. Same thing for Mormons.

This bill affects everyone, okay? There is no beating around the bush. It has been stated time and again by literal lawmakers that this bill is a censorship bill. Senator Blackburn, co-author of the KOSA bill, said herself it would be used to "protect children from the transgender."

So please help keep the fight going. Because the more of us contribute, the bigger chance we have of winning.

And don't fall for that "oh, what I do won't matter much, other people will do it" line of thought.

Even if you think other people will help: please help anyway. We are running out of time, and when one person falls into this line of thinking, so does everyone else, and then nothing happens. So if you can, please help anyway, because we need all we can get. It's all hands on deck at this point.

So far, chances of KOSA being enacted is 31% according to the site linked below.

We need to get it down to zero. 31% is way too big still.

Also, here's a petition you can sign!! If you can't donate, signing will also be a big help (I also recommend signing even if you do donate).

You can also call your senators' offices!!

(Correct call script document in post this time as opposed to comment section, ha!)

The call scripts linked below were originally for Congressional representatives, but now that the bill is in committee consideration by Senate Commerce, you should call your Senators instead and you can use the scripts for them. Also, when calling your Democrat senators, make sure to add that Senator Blackburn explicitly stated in interview that it would be used to "protect children from the transgender." I think it's pretty clear that this is not meant to protect children. It's just going to harm children further, especially trans children.

(Article below with a video of the interview embedded.)

Please help keep the fight going. If we let up for even a second, the bill might get passed and the fucking conservatives will win this round. Yeah, we can still fight after, but it's going to be so much harder with how much damage KOSA is going to do to social media sites and our ability to communicate online.

We need to stop KOSA now, if we want the best chance at protecting our freedom on the Internet.

#queer #lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbtqplus #lgbtq community #blacklivesmatter #black lives matter #ex jw #ex mormon #ex catholic #ex christian #stop kosa #kosa bill #fuck kosa #kids online safety act #internet censorship #us politics #abortion #bodily autonomy #abortion rights

[cicadaknight]

okay i have more (critical) barbie thoughts under the cut.

i really did enjoy it overall. it was fun, cheeky, surreal. i loved the experience of watching it in an energetic theater. i even cried a couple times. but i’m baffled at how powerful it was for so many people when it fell so flat for me. honestly, maybe what i’m feeling is just because i’m trans and it didn’t resonate as strongly with my experience of womanhood or masculinity.

i keep coming across people using gloria’s monologue to dismiss criticism by saying “anyone saying barbie isn’t feminist enough are doing the exact thing gloria pointed out! women have to be perfect but it’s just never good enough!” Y’ALL. having issues with a high-budget, corporate funded movie that has the same milquetoast girl-power messaging you’d find in teen mags from the early 2000s… is not the same as oppressing women under patriarchy. you can critique media and still resonate with aspects of it. good grief.

another response i’ve seen to critiques (specifically of gloria’s monologue) is that the movie’s messages are meant for barbie herself! not for the audience! it had to be super tame and generic because otherwise barbie wouldn’t have understood! all those speeches and ideas are aimed solely at barbie who is learning about all of this for the first time! it’s not for you if you already get it! what?????? that’s not how media works and you know it.

also, the idea that it’s meant to be palatable for a “wider audience” so it couldn’t have included intersectionality without losing people. translation: “wider audience” means white suburbia? white men? cishet people? where the most “representation” they can tolerate is a 3 second clip of a voiceless barbie in a wheelchair dancing? or a black president barbie who mostly says one liners and disappears? a wider audience being the same audience every blockbuster is catered towards?

i’m just spit balling here, but i don’t think it would have been impossible to introduce some unironic nuances like:

america’s latinx character experiencing sexism differently from stereotypical barbie?

maybe not using mount rushmore repeatedly to symbolize who’s in power?

avoiding comparing bringing patriarchy to barbieland to indigenous genocide?

a harsher perspective on mattel’s role in all this? where the outcome isn’t just will farrell’s character griping that he doesn’t even want to be in charge, he just wants to be tickled? (wtf was that lmao)

making a more obvious statement that patriarchy isn’t just a symptom of men stumbling across power and relishing it but that it’s rooted in violent white supremacy and capitalism? i’m positive there’s a way to address that without going full blown academic feminist theory mode.

having the black, fat, and disabled characters speak more than 5 collective minutes? (but at least they had screentime at all, right? ✨representation✨)

explicitly queer characters instead of “weird barbie” and allan being coded as the outsiders to an otherwise regimented cishet universe?

but all those ideas are irrelevant, right? because the movie was just SOOO self aware and layered in irony and if i was smart enough and hadn’t missed the point, i’d know the writers were in on it all.

#barbie spoilers #barbie #barbie criticism #h #okay one last vent #it’s wild to me that people are like ‘no one picks apart movies made by men like this! it’s because everyone hates women!’ #creative work made by women is often more heavily scrutinized than work by men #so i think it's necessary to keep that idea of undue scrutiny in mind as we consume media #but at the same time it's not a reason to just avoid engaging with women's work critically #am i losing it? #i’m losing it #also specifically with movies like barbie #if they're going to very openly and specifically address patriarchy and misogyny to make a statement about them #would it not make sense that those themes would be at the front and center of criticism?

[richincolor]

Group Discussion Announcement: The Wicked Bargain

Hey 👋 I'm super excited to announce the Rich in Color group discussion book for this quarter -- it's The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa! The Wicked Bargain is a thrilling pirate fantasy with plenty of queer representation, and we're so delighted to be reading it. Also, if you haven't heard, the audiobook is narrated by THE Vico Ortiz (who was in Our Flag Means Death).

Our group discussion post will go up on Tuesday, 5/9. We hope you'll read along with us! Without further ado, here is the book summary:

The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa

El Diablo is in the details in this Latinx pirate fantasy starring a transmasculine nonbinary teen with a mission of revenge, redemption, and revolution.

On Mar León-de la Rosa's 16th birthday, el Diablo comes calling. Mar is a transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate hiding a magical ability to manipulate fire and ice. But their magic isn't enough to reverse a wicked bargain made by their father and now el Diablo has come to collect his payment: the soul of Mar's father and the entire crew of their ship.

When Mar is miraculously rescued by the sole remaining pirate crew in the Caribbean, el Diablo returns to give them a choice: give up your soul to save your father by the Harvest Moon or never see him again. The task is impossible--Mar refuses to make a bargain and there's no way their magic is any match for el Diablo. Then, Mar finds the most unlikely allies: Bas, an infuriatingly arrogant and handsome pirate -- and the captain's son; and Dami, a genderfluid demonio whose motives are never quite clear. For the first time in their life, Mar may have the courage to use their magic. It could be their only redemption -- or it could mean certain death.

#lgbtq ya #ya lit #the wicked bargain #our flag means death #book club #we need diverse books

[qbdatabase]

Daily Book - Unbroken: 13 Stories Starring Disabled Teens

Unbroken ed. Marieke Nijkamp YA Fantasy / Fiction / Historical Fiction / Science Fiction, 2018, 320 pg bipolar Chinese female; blind female x poc male; wlw female who uses a wheelchair; female with anxiety and panic attacks; Latinx agender MC with chronic pain who uses a cane; Hijabi female with schizophrenia; female who uses a cane x transgender male; Latino male with hallucinations; black female with irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety; non-binary MC with chronic pain; bipolar biracial Native American wlw female x Cuban wlw female; female with cerebral palsy; autistic queer female

This anthology explores disability in fictional tales told from the viewpoint of disabled characters, written by disabled creators. With stories in various genres about first loves, friendship, war, travel, and more, Unbroken will offer today’s teen readers a glimpse into the lives of disabled people in the past, present, and future.

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#Unbroken #Marieke Nijkamp #2010s #300 pg #anthology #fantasy #female protagonist #fiction #historical fiction #lgbtqia #male protagonist #nonbinary protagonist #queer books #science fiction #YA books #disability pride month #disability rep #daily book

[brynnmorgan-reflection-blog]

Module 9: The Ins and Outs of Latina/o Popular Culture

Coming out for an individual can be one of the most challenging things someone can do, especially for individuals of color and cultures that may not fully accept this due to tradition. Adding another minoritized identity can follow with many different struggles where one can feel isolated and not accepted by society or even their culture because they do not follow traditional norms. With this, the chapter is highlighting the fact that not all cultures have sexual identities that are accepted or have a way for an individual to open up about their sexuality, meaning in most cultures individuals have to hide their true identity from the world. Where a saying like, “coming out of the closet,” in a way sets the individual free from social restrictions, and since this phrase was constructed within the U.S. other cultures and countries may reject this concept. 

The chapter then introduces the term joteria which connects to the perspective on intersectional issues and concerns of queer Chicana/o, Latina/o, and indigenous people experience. Joteria is used instead of the terms queer or LGBTQ within the Association of Joteria Arts and Activism Scholarship because it provides the politics of representation for queer Latinx in the arts, media and activism and also these terms centralize all individuals’ experiences when Joteria is a separate category. Continuing, the chapter focuses on the fact that there is an underrepresentation of Latinx joteria within the media, entertainment news, and in U.S. popular culture. With this, the author discusses important joteria figures that have come out, that are members within the joteria community or influences in music and films. For instance; Chavela Vargus whom was one of the earliest representations of lesbian desire in music breaking Mexicano traditon, Juan Gabriel believed it was not prevalent to come out but his queer representations encouraged Mexican popular culture, Ricky Martin wrote songs that had empowering messages towards queer life while being a symbol of Latinx gay masculinity, and then Adelina Anthony was a performance artist’s that identified as a two-spirited Xicana lesbian multi-genre artist, cultural activist, teaching artists, director and producer whom addressed many social issues within her work. Lastly, significant joteria influences in music included A Corrido by Los Tigres del Norte and songs by Girl in a Coma while influential films are Mosquita y Mari and La Mission.

After reading this chapter, I found it the most interesting how the need to come out is not as prevalent in Mexico as it is in the U.S. where sexuality is highly personal within Latinx cultures, to the point where individuals keep their identities hidden from society. Even when there are Latinx characters on television whom are openly gay their representation is either ignored or excluded while openly gay White characters are praised and all the focus is on them. This is where I knew that Ellen DeGeneres was the most significant gay character who came out on television in 1997, but I was unaware that there was another character, Ricky Vasquez, a gay Latino character that was on television in the 1990s before Ellen. This was interesting to me because of how unaware I was that Ricky Vasquez played by Wilson Cruz was actually the first example of an openly gay Latinx individual on American television that highlighted the struggles of being gay. Which barely received the credit it deserves, while Ellen DeGeneres receives excessive amounts of attention when in fact there were many people before her to come out and support the LGBTQ community. I believe it is because she is White and possibly the culture difference where the Latinx community did not believe it was acceptable to give attention to any Latinx gay characters, including Ricky Vasquez.

I have never personally experienced the struggles queer individuals face, but I have a friend whom identifies as Latinx that expresses the discrimination and stereotypes they still have to experience almost daily. Luckily, she has tons of pride towards how she identifies, but shared with me the difficult time she had expressing this to her parents due to her parents beliefs and values. This connects to the chapter where some individuals do not have the same opportunities within their culture to easily be able to express themselves the way they want to.

#Youtube

[good-listeners-official]

Do you like the Walten Files? Camp Here & There? Don't Hug Me I'm Scared? Where the Stars Fell?

Then you might be interested in Good Listeners! A psychological horror-comedy podcast for all your weirdcore needs!

When Channel 00 sucked them into the TV, no one was expecting to be working on a kids show. Now shoved into the roles of actor, sound director, host— these 6 characters navigate their new life, attempting to uncover the secrets held in Wide Awake Studios, and work through their own trauma along the way.

We have TWO roles left, including the main character!

Role #1:

AUDIO [he/they]

Importance: Main Character

Gender (of actor): Any

Gender (of character): Nonbinary

Age (of character): young adult

Voice: chipper, forcibly happy, TV Show Host sort of cadence

Character description: The host of Good Listeners and a TV head; He's a little off-putting, but his attitude makes up for it! Appears only in Season 1.

Preferred: Latinx, Queer

Line #1: "Welcome to a special episode of your favorite show, Good Listeners!" (tv show host introductory voice)

Line #2: "Well, what did you think it was going to be??" (hushed, annoyed)

Line #3: "That's a good listener!" (condesending, threatening)

Role #2:

MIST [she/they]

[Front: Mist; Back: Mushie]

Importance: side character

Gender (of actor): Female / Female-aligned

Gender (of character): Female

Age (of character): teen to young adult

Voice: timid, withdrawn

Character description: Mist has always got a smile on her face, even when she doesn't want to. In a canonical established lesbian relationship with Mushie.

Preferred: Muslim, Queer, POC

Line #1: "Hey Mushie! What did you..what did you want to talk about..?"

Line #2: "Are you sure about this, Mushie?" (hesitant, scared)

Line #3: "Hey, Audio! I've got something to show you!" (slightly scared, forced happiness, stiff)

And there we have it!

Keep in mind this is a passion project! There will be no pay, as we are mere broke high school students, so we completely understand if that is a deal-breaker! But if it isn't, feel free to DM us on discord at 'werifesteria#0257' to submit your audition! Alternatively, contact us through our email at [email protected]

This project is rather slow-moving at the moment, as both creators have been busy with school and life, but we promise we will not give up on this project! Give us grace, and stay tuned :)

#indie #podcast #Spotify #chnt #dhmis #wtsf podcast #casting call #audio drama #good listeners #good listeners pod #Wide Awake Studios #wide awake studios #this is only the beginning

[louiesmixtape]

in 1995, i got my first job. it was the july and after a series of circumstances, i got hired by a latinx queer AIDS org to do peer youth education. i was excited because, at age 17, I had no idea that lgbtq organizations existed. while i was more than aware of what HIV was, i didn’t know that people actually went into schools to provide information on prevention. just prevention. in july 1995, treatment was still limited to the very toxic AZT. i remember being taught that plants could have the power to extend the lives of people with AIDS. how so? because it was believed that people who were in the dying stage of AIDS would will themselves to leave another day so they could see the plant grow. that’s where we were before the advent of HIV treatment.

i was one of three peer youth educators. the other two were puerto rican gay teen boys around my age who were raised in pentecostal church. “june” had been excommunicated after coming out and was a brilliant artist full of rage. “sergio” was still attending church, was not “out” to his family and did drag. and they were always going at it. “june” was always going at it with everyone. he was really, really mean. but the director of the organization loved him, but i digress.

so what does this story have to do with ruffneck’s “everybody wants to be somebody?” well, “june” often stated that “sergio” was a “fake” and would do and say whatever he needed to “fit” in. so to antagonize “sergio,” “june” would sing the lyric, “everybody wants to be somebody” to imply that “sergio” was a nobody seeking an identity. mean? yes. clever? yup.

i always thought it was interesting that “everybody wants to be somebody” resonated with “june” the way it did. i experienced the song, which pretty much repeats the “everybody wants to be somebody” refrain throughout the entire song, as an inspirational reminder that everyone deserves and yearns to be seen.

i worked with “june” for just one year. “sergio” and i stayed in touch for a few years. i haven’t seen either one of them in years. i hope they are both being seen and heard, because we all deserve it.

#louiesmixtape #90s music #music history #1990s #house music #storytelling #lgbtq #Youtube

[itbe-jess]

“Go Woke, Go Broke” is the new “#AllLivesMatters” of the 2020s. Like #AllLivesMatter, it’s a phrase created by white cishets (usually male by default) to shut up minorities, and try to give reason why they don’t deserve representation.

They tend to use poor received media as examples. However, they fail to acknowledge that these “woke” pieces of media only flopped because of poor writing, ignoring many other non-woke media that also flopped as well. Thor: Love and Thunder? That was a big box office bomb. But what about Morbius? I don’t recall seeing any empowering black characters there, or a one second shot of a gay couple kissing. Sometimes the “woke” material isn’t representation at all, but cheap pandering.

The reason why representation is mainly targeted: They just get offended over it. This isn’t just boomers too, but 90s kids who are stuck in the past, and follow their conservative parents’ footsteps. Sometimes bigotry is brought on by toxic nostalgia; They were raised in an era where a TV show or movie’s cast is 90% white, male roles were more dominant, and only heterosexual couples kissed on screen. Diversity and the world slowly gaining acceptance of queer folks takes away that nostalgic comfort from them.

They need to realize that the world doesn’t always revolve around them, and their words only invalidate a minority’s existence. In fact, it can cause mental health problems to those more young and vulnerable. While I never had the exact same experience in my teen years, it does come off as a similar scenario. I remember hating my own disability, denying myself as queer, and self proclaiming as white despite being half latinx and half Filipino, all because of the negative feedback on the internet. However, since I joined Tumblr, I began to feel more accepting of myself.

Representation matters. Minorities deserve to see them themselves on screen with more empowering roles. If you are so offended over all this “wokeness,” then I suggest building a time machine and traveling back to an era where you can be racist and homophobic all you want. Might as well stay there too, because us “woke” folks aren’t going away anytime soon.

#Rant #ted talks #Homophobia #Transphobia #Racism #Sexism #Misogyny #Boomers

[360mic-blog]

Top 10 LGBT/Gay Tv Series (2022/2023)

Before the internet and everyone having a device in their pockets, that was the way most of us casually absorbed images of desire and love. And yet, for decades, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people rarely ever saw displays of affection. That left a great swath of humanity desperate to see something that resembled their lives. It may appear quaint now, when we have TV series like Hulu’s Love, Victor (about a Latinx teen exploring sexual fluidity) or Netflix’s Bonding (about sex work and alternative sexuality), but the great gay panic set off by Ellen DeGeneres coming out on her sitcom in 1997 was a bombshell that didn’t necessarily convince the networks that they’d open the gates to LGBTQ experiences.

#youtube #candymanvirginia madsenbernard rosemoviesкиноhorrornightmareсказкаclive barker #gay couple #lgbtqiia+ #lgbt movie #movies

[winningthesweepstakes]

The Stonewall Riots by Archie Bongiovanni & A. Andrews

The Stonewall Riots by Archie Bongiovanni & A. Andrews

The Stonewall Riots: Making a Stand for LGBTQ Rights (History Comics) by Archie Bongiovanni & A. Andrews. First Second, 2022. 9781250618351 Rating: 1-5 (5 is an excellent or a Starred review) 2 Format: Paperback graphic novel What did you like about the book?  Three queer teens, Rashad (Black, cisgendered), Jax (White, disabled), and Natalia (LatinX, nonbinary) are helping Natalia’s abuelita…

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#First Second

[the-rad1o-demon]

Share, donate, and give politicians the fucking middle finger because we're going all out, darlings!!!

And this bill affects all of us. Both children and adults of the following: the LGBTQ+ community, Black communities, Latinx communities, Native American communities, Asian communities.

It will affect ex-Jehovah's Witnesses, and younger folks still trapped. Same thing for ex-Catholics and children/teens still trapped in the Catholic Church. Same thing for Mormons.

This bill affects everyone, okay? There is no beating around the bush. It has been stated time and again by literal lawmakers that this bill is a censorship bill. Senator Blackburn, co-author of the KOSA bill, said herself it would be used to "protect children from the transgender."

So please help keep the fight going. Because the more of us contribute, the bigger chance we have of winning.

And don't fall for that "oh, what I do won't matter much, other people will do it" line of thought.

Even if you think other people will help: please help anyway. We are running out of time. It's all hands on deck at this point.

#queer #lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbtqplus #lgbtq community #blacklivesmatter #black lives matter #ex jw #ex mormon #ex catholic #ex christian #stop kosa #kosa bill #fuck kosa #kids online safety act #internet censorship #us politics #abortion #bodily autonomy #abortion rights

[mplchameleon]

September 15th-October 15th is Hispanic Heritage Month! In honor of this month, here are some YA books featuring queer Hispanic teens!

Books in order, left to right, top row to bottom row:

Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee

Fifteen Hundred Miles From the Sun by Jonny Garza Villa

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Insiders by Mark Oshiro

Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes

The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

The Mirror Season by A.M. McLemore

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

The Truth Is by NoNieqa Ramos

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova

Indivisible by Daniel Aleman

Fire with Fire by Destiny Soria

#Booklist #Hispanic Heritage Month #Hispanic Booklist #Queer Hispanic Books #Queer Hispanic Teens #Queer Latinx Teens #YA Lit #Queer YA Lit #Queer YA Books #Queer Teen Books #Latinx Authors #Queer Latinx Authors #Queer Booklist #Young Adult Lit #Queer YA #Teen Librarian #Medford Public Library #Medford MA #MPL Chameleon

[bfpnola]

Calling all teen/youth activists! We have nightly jam sessions, provide safe venting spaces for marginalized youth (specifically BIPOC, the LGBTQ+ community, and the disabled community) as well as discussing activist-related topics every single day! We do a social justice question of the day, promote working class history, and continuously find ways to better our global community.

Come check it out! I promise you’ll gain both a VERY enthusiastic family and an activist affinity group.

#reaux speaks #resources #mutual aid #protest #bipoc #black lives matter #poc #activism #stop asian hate #latine #latinx #women’s rights #gender equity #lgbtq+ #queer #working class #disability awareness #proletariat #youth activism #teen activism

[themichigangayly]

“After everything I've been through, I've realized I can do anything I put my mind to. And I want to do it all.”

- Tyler Posey

#tyler posey #MTV #mtv teen wolf #scott mccall #stiles stilinski #teen wolf #the michigan gayly #lgbt #lgbtq+ #queer #themichigangayly #hispanic heritage month #Hispanic #latinx heritage month #latinx #poc #queer poc #queer person of color #avan jogia #now apocalypse #lgbtq #lgbtq pride #pride #sexually fluid #trans lives matter #quote #quotes

[thegayreich]

LGBTQ Mexicans arrested 1935 x Plus LGBTQ Mexicans in the 1940s

A set of pictures of Mexicans, purportedly arrested for homosexuality in 1935. The photo belongs to the collection of the National Photo Library of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Mexico.

Very little is known about the detainees themselves, except these pictures are dated around 1940. These pictures come from Lecumberri prison in Mexico City. Up until 1976, gay men were imprisoned in the prison ward J, or Jota. Joto(s) is still a common homophobic slur in Mexico.

#gay mexican #mexican #latinx #gay latino #gay male #queer #non binary #transwomen #transgender #gay history #gay men #gay boys #gay teens #love is love #national hispanic heritage month #nhhm #love wins #arrest #illegal #lgbt #lgbtq #rights #gay rights #mexico city #aztecs #Spanish #gay Hispanic

[ken-yadigit]

I'm becoming physically ill with the news of Naya's passing and every time I see her picture, I'm so sad.

#glee may have sucked but santana meant so much to queer latinx kenya in my teen years #she was so young #she had a kid #i am so overwhelmed