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reasonsforhope · 18 days

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"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

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my-wife-doesnt-approve · 3 months

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Huge congratulations to @neil-gaiman for sweeping the ComicScene Awards of 2024!

Best Comic of All Time (at a crushing 47.5%)

Best Adaptation (at 40.9%, beating Into the Spiderverse)

And, I cannot agree with this one more

Best Writer of All Time (55.1%)

If you haven't read the Sandman, this is ComicScene and me telling you you really should.

Congratulations Neil!

https://comicscene.org/2024/02/01/comicscene-award-winners-2024-to-be-announced-here-07-02-24-7am/

#neil gaiman #the sandman #ComicScene #ComicScene Awards 2024 #graphic novel #the sandman is still one of the best books I've ever read #if Neil was in a category he crushed it #did i vote in this? you bet i did

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jomiddlemarch · 2 years

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“Democracies die by foreign invasion, but they also die by homegrown authoritarian malignancies. That is happening now in the United States, and Writers for Democratic Action calls on YOU to stop it! Join us in protecting representative government with the most powerful weapon we still have: the Vote.

WDA is launching BOOK THE VOTE, a drive to bring together readers, writers, booksellers, publishers, and librarians to register voters before the 2022 elections. Books themselves are threatened now, which is no surprise since books have always been essential to democracy. The Bookstore and the Library can be the frontline of the campaign to rescue it.”

#writers for democratic action #book the vote #booklr #librarians #bookstores #voter outreach #get out the vote #readers and writers #us politics #share widely

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spirkbitch · 9 months

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#star trek #star trek tos #spirk #tos spirk #tos spock #spock #tos #leonard nimoy #star trek snw #star trek books #tumblr polls #i actually got top surgery that exact same way if you’d believe it #my doctor pulled out the lirpa and just chopped them off #i let my younger sibling vote for me #and they chose the double punch #they haven’t watched it yet but i’m working on convincing them

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pankiepoo · 4 months

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save her

#tpot #bfdi #tpot book #bfdi book #pankie art #please vote to save her I LOVE HER #book bfdi

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markantonys · 6 months

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THE WHEEL OF TIME | 2x07

#wotedit #wot #wot on prime #the wheel of time #lanfear #wot show spoilers #mine #i'm obseeeeeeeeeessed with this look i can't get over it #this is my vote for Hottest Lanfear Moment (in terms of pure aesthetics at least)#the jumpsuit the all black (sorry book loyalists but she looks better in black than white) the snake cuff earring the eye makeup #the disdainful once-over of mat. god i wish that were me please crush my self-esteem mommy

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boobchuy · 1 year

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plantar sisters

#amphibia #polly plantar #anne boonchuy #arting #please pease please please go to matt bralys twitter poll asking what they should make next and vote for art book please please plEASE. PLEA

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chocobje · 4 months

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So Pillowbook amirite

#I'm not over TPOT 9 #PLEASE GET PILLOW OUT #And Vote for [B] :(#/nf tho #Can't believe TPOT baited me into thinking they were atleast friends 😭😭#the amount of heartbreaks I got from their scene #Pillow brutally kills her no remorse whatsoever #bfb #tpot #battle for bfb #battle for dream island #bfdi #bfb book #bfb pillow

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decolonize-the-left · 7 days

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Democrats will unironically tell you how progress is impossible because of the way the system is set up and how Biden's "hands are tied" and say they know everything (housing, wages, police) sucks and maybe even how Biden "isn't perfect" BUT it's not democrats fault that our government is corrupt nor that the government doesn't listen to us anymore and how they listen only to our money and how we should be lucky to still be able to vote and how we should prioritize queer lives within the USA as a tradeoff with Palestinians this election because they'll come for our rights too and STILL not hear themselves when they say "vote blue" and even have the audacity act with aggressive denial when you respond with "democracy is dead and voting isn't enough."

#biden #democrats #vote #project 2025 #like hello??? and they're already banning abortion and trans healthcare and books. what exactly do u think fascism is???

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goatsandgangsters · 4 months

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Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, from A Power Unbound by Freya Marske @fahye

Alan looked at his hand engulfed in Jack’s. He said, coming to the realisation along the way, like a sentence that only revealed itself word by word as he wrote it down: “You’re still the kind of arse who’ll pick two fights before breakfast, but you’ve been desperate for someone else to look after, haven’t you?”

#a power unbound #the last binding #freya marske #jack alston #lord hawthorn #ft. bonus elsie and bonus alan #lastbindingedit #through SHEER FORCE OF WILL I’ve brought gifsets to the book fandom!#I would like to buy a fruit basket for whoever sat him at the base of a tree #and handed him a newspaper about important votes in the Lords #lit edit #booklr #bookedit #lgbt reads #my edits #sff books #fantasy fiction #fantasy books

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anotherpapercut · 8 months

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my city elects a "captain" every year who's like a well known local that contributes to the community and they hold a ball as a fundraiser and do some public events etc. this year a beloved book store cat was nominated and the city banded together in a way I've never seen in my 24 years living here to make sure that he absolutely fucking destroyed the competition and became this years captain

#he won :)#his name is googey #the book store has an extremely funny commie name i wish I could say it w/o doxxing myself #i was sending the voting link to all ny friends lmao. apparently it was like absolutely no contest. he annihilated everyone #formerly ori/ons/belts

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ilyachynt · 1 year

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