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trashbirdthoughts · 9 months

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Making another important post about KOSA.

Please do not wait around. I will continue to advocate that these bills are struck down since they will harm our youth and LGBTQ minors. It will also strip privacy away from adults.

I do not want kids to loose access to LGBTQ+ spaces. I also don’t want adults to have to enter their private information to access it.

What is KOSA?

Kids Online Safety Act

What would it do?

KOSA uses two methods to “protect” kids, and both of them are awful.

First, KOSA would pressure platforms to install filters that would wipe the net of anything deemed “inappropriate” for minors. This = instructing platforms to censor, plain and simple. Places that already use content filters have restricted important information about suicide prevention and LGBTQ+ support groups, and KOSA would spread this kind of censorship to every corner of the internet. It’s no surprise that anti-rights zealots are excited about KOSA: it would let them shut down websites that cover topics like race, gender, and sexuality.

Second, KOSA would ramp up the online surveillance of all internet users by expanding the use of age verification and parental monitoring tools. Not only are these tools needlessly invasive, they’re a massive safety risk for young people who could be trying to escape domestic violence and abuse.

90+ rights groups agree that KOSA is dangerous.

Link mentioned in the video by omarbigsister. Please do anything you can to advocate against this bill.

#help #KOSA #bad internet bills #queer #queer advocacy #queer pride #queer love #agender #nonbinary #lgbtqia #lgbtqa #lgbtq #tumblr #disability pride #disability advocacy #human rights #gay rights #please help #please stay safe

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butchdataset · 2 months

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"ugh this person is putting this queer label to themself even though it doesn't fit them >:("

I do not give a fuck. like at all. the english language and all the labels we put to it are made up, subjectively applied, and not universally accepted. labels change. it's a massive waste of time to fight tooth and nail trying to preserve the definitions of words.

#'they just want attention for being queer' girl me too honesty *sighs*#exclusionists dni #exclusionists fuck off #lgbt #queer #queer rights #queer as in fuck you #anti exclusionist #lgbt discourse #queer discourse #trans rights #queer advocacy #inclusionist #trans rights are human rights #anti gatekeeping #also if you're an exclusionist bothered by my post could you just fucking learn how to mute tags instead of bothering me thanks

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life-outside-the-box · 5 months

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A zine written by a radical, disabled/ neurodivergent, queer of Portland Oregon, with contributions from other disabled, queer artists and advocates as possible

A note:

Thank you to Canva and their artists for creating accessible and beautiful zine templates and graphic elements! And thank you to everyone who continues to put in the effort to fight against oppression. This is for you, especially those of you in the Portland Oregon disability/neurodivergent, and queer communities. And, of course, this is in honor and memory and to rally increased support around our fellow Palestinian humans.

Please let me know if you or anyone you know falls into the communities in Oregon/Portland that this zine is published for and want to contribute! Feel free to share without credit, although I did post originally from my personal and professional accounts; it is more for social activism :) Please reach out if you have any interest in supplying art of any kind.

-Creator and editor

*Please note times for White House Call Line are in Pacific Standard Time”

Alt text:

First slide:

Picture of pink dried flower with stem with pink and green sequins on cream background, cover of “Radical Justice”: A zine written by a radical disabled/neurodivergent, queer of Portland; with contributions from other disabled, queer artists and advocates. Published

November 2023, Palestinian Aid Issue

Second slide: Text reads: “We acknowledge the First Nations people who are the custodians of the land on which this zine is published and contributed from:

Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla

Stl’pulmsh (Cowlitz)

Clackamas

Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians

We also thank our QTBIPOC members who have taken up disability and queer justice and care work before us and the groundwork they have laid and the rights they died for that we continue today as a community.” Text on cream background with three dried yellow and white varied flowers on too and three on bottom.

Third slide: Text reads: “To our Palestinian brothers,sisters, and gender diverse humans: we stand with you, always.” With a heart in the middle of the broken up words and surrounded by 6 varied dried flowers and leaves.

Fourth slide: A note on decolonization

We all benefit from enhancing and adding to the voices that call for decolonization and human rights.

Disabled/Neurodivergent and Queer communities especially, and ALL OF US benefit from doing what we can to fight oppression when we see it. Picture above on a swing with locks on it.

Fifth slide: Graphic reads “Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.” graphic by Poonam Whabi.

Below, an advertisement for a course called “Economics for Emancipation: A course on Capitalism, Solidarity, and How we get free”

Sixth slide:

Another picture of a Palestinian, masculine presenting child holding a sign with “Save Palestine” on it.

Google doc with resources on how to get more involved and resources for learning at https://bitly.ws/Y4ki.

Charities:

Medical Aid for Palestinians

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

Medical Aid Pal

Podcast episodes:

Palestine Parts 1 & 2 with Sumatra Awad (author of “Palestine: A Socialist Introduction” by Upstream Podcast

Seventh slide: Picture of a pink flower with yellow inner seeds, under which the text reads: “A list of companies you should boycott that are funding Israel from BDS Movement.net

https://BDSmovement.net (more info about the differences here)”

Please see list from graphic below at this site as well. Text on top of graphic reads: “Act now against these companies profiting from the Genocide of the Palestinian People “

Eighth slide: Picture of a white flower in bottom right. Text reads: “Phone and Email Your Oregon US Representatives

House

1st district: Suzanne Bonamici

503-469-6010

2nd district: Cliff Bentz

541-249-4085

3rd district: Earl Blumenauer

503-231-2300

4th district: Val Hoyle

202-225-6416

5th district: Lori Chavez-DeRemer

503-557-1324

6th district: Andrea Salinas

503-385-0906”

Text continued in the right side with, “Senate

Ron Wyden

503-326-7525

Jeff Merkley

503-326-3386

White House Call Line

(T-TH 8AM- 12PM)

202-456-1111

202-456-1414”

Bottom reads, “Send auto Populated Emails Below:

http://tinyurl.com/defundisrael”

Ninth slide: Poem reads: ““Genocide is not a Jewish value”

Harsh comment,don’t you think?

“No”, says the slaughtered Palestinian family

that is, if they could speak

So we continue to be their voice until they get the justice that they seek

Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions

H it ‘em where it hurts

for “their” priorities lie in wealth and power, not a dead child’s hearse

Genocide Joe and those in power, please take a stance that prioritizes life over power

When history looks back , your human rights violations will surely be looked to as weakness and dour.”

Picture of a sunflower in bottom left

Tenth slide: Picture of life-like leaves taped to a photo peg board with sequins.

Text reads, “Tools for Re-centering:

Vagus Nerve Stimulation

Body Scan/Somatic Grounding

Progressive Muscle Relaxation

Feeling Wheel Reflection

Timed Processing

Yoga or Qui Gong

Box or 4-7-8 Breathing

Centering Meditations

Binaural Beats/8D Audio”

#zine #free palestine #disability zine #disability justice #queer advocacy #neurodivergent advocacy

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superwholockneverdied · 9 months

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As a professional gay or career queer, I often have to use my gender and sexuality as an educational tool.

I work with youth and so I use it to show them that I can exist in my (very red) State and that there’s not one way to be gay. I take on a mentor position as all they need is that hope to keep on fighting.

I have made it known that if friends or community members have questions about gender and sexuality and they are not sure if it’s appropriate to ask a queer person that they can come to me.

With this - I feel like I have given away my identity.

In June, I went to go get a consultation for top surgery and my plan was to keep this to myself. It would be my present to myself, a little piece of my identity that nobody knew about.

But the next day, I was in the car with a younger queer adult and I was trying to get them to open up to me so I could make sure they were okay. And without thinking, I gave my precious piece of identity away. Of course it worked. they told me they were trying to get HRT and was looking online. They said one site they were looking at ended up being run by neo n*zis, which I was so glad they told me so I could get them better resources. So I know that decision was helpful but there was still a part of myself that felt like I betrayed myself.

I gave it away again at a talk, that I don’t even know why I did but I did. I was presenting on Pride Flags and how they brought joy to everybody, when I was done a man got up to ask me a three part question about: transgender students in sports, gender affirming surgery, and book bans. I tensed up, I was already so emotionally charged because of pride month that I went on defense mode. I shared my happy joy of my journey in defense of my community. I left that talk feeling like a piece of me was gone.

I love my job as it allows me to be a voice to youth who feel like they have no voice. I love being a mentor to allies, so other queer people don’t have to be barraged with questions asking them to explain their sexuality and gender.

But at the end of the day, I’m left alone with pieces of my identity spread across my State.

#queer #trans #transgender #transmasc #nonbinary #queer advocacy #queer education #asexuel #queer enough #queer youth #trans hrt #hrt testosterone #top surgery #testosterone #queer journey #queer joy #gay #professional gay #career queer

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hiiragi7 · 10 months

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While I'm here, I'll show off my recent advocacy art.

#intersex #queer #queer advocacy #lgbtqia #lgbt #lgbtq #intersex pride

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queer-coded-camaro-driver · 2 years

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So I definitely cried at this concert. 100% I smeared my eyeliner all over the damn place.

Because holy cow, to be in the presence of such an amazingly talented man is an experience beyond words. Rob Halford is still performing, still belting these fucking notes, at 71 years old... in studded leather outfits.

You can bet your ass I sobbed my little gay eyes out to "Never the Heroes" and "You Got Another Thing Comin'". I sat in the audience thinking about how easily we could have lost Mr. Halford in the 80's or 90's and broke into a hundred pieces for a second.

The AIDS epidemic took so many people. Far too many people. We have suffered their loss for years. It didn't happen "in the past", no matter how badly people with conservative views try to bury our history. I mean, Judas Priest was formed in 1969, the same year the Stonewall Riots happened. That was 53 years ago, and AIDS was allowed to take thousands of lives before any serious steps were taken to mitigate its spread.

We still feel the loss of these people every day. We feel it in our homes. We feel it in political polls, education standards, and the Fine Arts. We are wounded, mourning a generation of lost family members and lovers and voters and artists. As a community.

But despite all the darkness, Rob Halford remains! The iconic man who brought leather from gay bars to the metal scene, the man who preaches love and acceptance to the crowds who need it most, the man who saw hatred and said "Fuck you, I deserve to feel my anger and take up space", the Metal God himself, is still rocking out.

#rob halford #rob halford my beloved #judas priest #metal bands #metal music #music history #queer music history #queer history #stonewall #the stonewall riots #queer advocacy #hell bent for leather #video #aids mention #aids history #80's history

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uncurlinglikeflowers · 2 years

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Dedicated To The Queer Baby Me That Deserved The World

Without realizing how desperately it needed to happen, my therapy journey in the last year has really revolved around comforting little baby queer Travis, who deserved SO much better.

The little boy who spent most elementary school recesses off alone on the brink of crying. Wondering why I don’t want to play football with the other boys. Why I’m so terrified of being friends with girls considering the boys would probably bully me relentlessly for being surrounded by female friends. Why almost every single day during ‘quiet time’ in 1st grade my teacher was trying to comfort a crying me who just felt so awful and lonely. Why I would sneak away to my room during holidays to be alone and cry and have borderline panic attacks.

Why I missed nearly an entire month of 8th grade because I was home sick absolutely TERRIFIED of going back to school. Plot twist, it was anxiety, depression, loneliness, and deep self-hatred, not a lingering cold or flu.

Tell me why the guidance counselor pulled me into his office while I waited in the car for my mom to get my homework and after trying for all of about 30 seconds to see if there was something wrong, sent me back to class for the first time in about a month and never spoke to me again? Or that teacher that saw me crying every day but never thought there might be a deeper reason?

See, on the outside you might see me as this super confident queer that’s fully comfortable with themselves and doesn’t care what anyone thinks. While there’s a sliver of truth with that sometimes, I’m still working on being happy and content with myself fully.

I still catch myself watering down my queerness to tables at work lest they tip me less. Unless I’m with my friends, I often feel like everyone in the world is staring at me because of the way I dress, act, walk, talk, etc etc etc. When I’m actually dating a boy, (lmao it’s been a while) I still walk with the fear that holding his hand could awaken a violent hatred in a stranger and the one I love as well as myself could become a target.

Despite being better off as an American queer than in other countries, I still get to have my very life still constantly in the hands of our government who have proven time and time again that they don’t care about me and my queer family. Still, I’m told to be grateful. Trust and believe, I’m grateful for the queers before me that paved the way, but it’s a disgusting thing to tell someone that they shouldn’t be fighting for more. Because I haven’t been arrested or murdered for being queer I should accept the bare minimum and move on?

Please, go right ahead and ignore the trauma that still dwells within me and the vast majority of queer people. For all of us that never felt good enough for just about anyone or anything for a good chunk of our lives. You think that coming out suddenly erases all of that? That seeing a multi-billion dollar corporation trying to sell me a tacky rainbow version of their product is supposed to make me feel seen, heard, loved, and respected when they’re the very ones with the power to continue to oppress me?

Despite the negative (though extremely valid) tone of this post thus far, these things need to be said. I don’t know how else to get allies to actually stand up and advocate for us instead of just telling us to buy rainbow shit and continuing to ignore our pleas to vote and support us and tell us that you love us and are proud of us. So many of us never loved ourselves and have never felt proud of who we are because we never felt the validity that comes from kindness and understanding of our identities.

We continue to NEED pride because of the euphoria that comes from being surrounded by others like us that know what it’s like to feel like you have no place in the world simply because of who you love, what you look like, or how you identify yourself. I’ve danced with strangers at pride and felt more love from them then some people I’ve known my entire life.

To give a slight visual break in this otherwise paragraph heavy post, here are some reasons I need my queer family and pride:

-The Kindergarten teacher that reached out via fb messenger to tell me she’d be a bad Christian if she didn’t reach out to tell me how wrong being queer is, thus making me reconsider my entire childhood.

-The fact that until about 4 years ago I legitimately 100% did not think I would live to age 30 because I would have killed myself by then

-The family member that told me it’s my own fault that my mom didn’t know I was gay because I didn’t tell her before she died when I didn’t even know who I was, wondered why he doesn’t get a straight pride, and said my fear post-Pulse was invalid because he could get shot at any bar on any night. Oh, and that I use being gay as a ‘crutch.’

-The aunt who argued with me through fb on the day marriage equality was passed and proceeded to tag other grown men in the post who rambled on about how disgusting gay people are to which she said nothing.

-The family member that laughed as they told me they punched a gay man when they were young for hitting on them... a story which they later told again with laughter to me and a boyfriend.

-My fellow queers that disregard pronouns and insult me for embracing femininity, makeup, and clothes despite fem queers and trans women being the ones that pioneered our fight back

-The friend that told me I deserved to be alone for being gay

-The PARENTS of high school friends who relentlessly mocked another queer kid in my class behind his back with extremely homophobic comments thus forcing me deep into the closet

-All of my friends that have been rejected by their family for their identity, including ones that were outright kicked out of their house as a teenager

-The daily hell of grade school boys calling each other ‘fag’ and knowing full well that they meant it as a queer slur

-Every person, (quite a few) that’s reached out to me to tell me that my mere openness, vulnerability, and visibility gave them permission to be themselves and work toward living as their authentic selves.

-The fact that I spent every waking moment of my childhood, adolescence, and even adulthood trying to fit a mold I didn’t even like out of safety. Always obsessed with being academically successful to hide the shame of being queer and feeling as though I had to make up for it by exhausting myself.

For anyone reading this and feeling uncomfortable?

GOOD.

If you feel bad just reading it, imagine the hell of these being your actual lived experiences.

Hug your queer family and friends and stress to them how proud you are. Don’t make everything about yourself and realize that some people need a little more love than others and there’s absolutely nothing wrong about that. Your struggles aren’t negated, just not the focus in that moment.

While extremely homophobic rhetoric seems to be on the rise with powerful figures in government making continuous strides to eliminate our rights and erase us from existence entirely,

FUCKING DO SOMETHING.

A bunch of loud queers screaming for their rights is incredible, but the homophobes aren’t going to listen to the very people they wish nothing but harm on.

VOTE FOR THE QUEERS IN YOUR LIFE.

Listen to them. Don’t water down and negate their experiences. Be available to them. Be compassionate toward them. Shoot down queer-phobic bullshit to your friends, and consider choosing your loved ones over more than casually bigoted “friends.”

As my entire purpose as an adult has become being the person I so DESPERATELY could have used as a young queer boy, I dream of a world where queer people don’t have to fear for their lives by simply existing and don’t have to sift through painful trauma as an adult.

If not for the beautiful found family of queer bbys I’ve managed to surround myself with the last couple of years, I would not have the confidence I do now to be my entire authentic self. I wouldn’t feel like not only is my identity ‘okay, accepted, and tolerated,’ but beautiful and encouraged and celebrated. I consistently get emotionally overwhelmed just thinking about the intense love, friendship, and validity I receive from my found family, and can never thank them enough for loving me so fully.

Be that person for someone else.

If you take literally nothing else from this post, know that i’m queer and loud and will continue to refuse to shut up in the face of a world that strives to silence us.

I will continue to turn up the music to drown out those voices that strive to silence me and my queer family.

Happy Pride y’all.

#pride #lgbt #lgbt trauma #pride month #gay #gay writing #queer #queer advocacy

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intersexfairy · 7 months

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it's not intersexist to acknowledge that intersexness can result from a health condition or be related to one. intersex is an umbrella term for a variety of experiences, including ones involving disability, and it's okay and important to admit that. we don't gain anything by throwing intersex people who experience complications from their variation/related condition under the bus.

but even beyond that, we don't have to separate ourselves from disability in order to prove we deserve human rights. our variations being linked to chronic illness wouldn't mean that all the medical abuse towards us is founded. disabled and intersex people all have a right to bodily autonomy and proper healthcare that needs to be upheld.

even if our sex nonconformity were somehow universally an illness, intersex and disabled people have a right to exist. just as much as abled and dyadic people do. there is no "proving" that we have human rights - that is something we all inherently have.

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a-polite-melody · 6 days

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People really need to start getting their transmasc centred activism from transmascs, instead of going, “okay I’ve learned about transfem experiences, so obviously I know about transmasc experiences; they’re just the opposite!”

#my post #transandrophobia #transmisandry #anti-transmasculinity #people will truly do the bare minimum #we’ve said that trans women and fems are important so some people did a bit of learning there #and then just stopped #(of course not to say that trans women/fems are universally accepted in queer spaces)#(just with the recent push for more trans advocacy there was very much a centring of trans women/fems)#(and it really did just kinda… stop there)

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stars-and-crips · 27 days

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PSA to stores:

If a wheelchair user is terrified to move around in your store due to clutter, you’re doing it wrong.

EDIT: Anyone is allowed to reblog, and disabled people are allowed to add on, so long as it doesn’t derail the point of the post! If you’re unsure, feel free to ask me!

Thanks for all the love on the post so far!

#cripplepunk #ambulatory wheelchair user #ableism #actually disabled #heds #disability advocacy #queer cripple #disability rights

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trashbirdthoughts · 9 months

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For everyone: I need a lot of eyes on this.

If you haven’t signed the END BAD INTERNET BILLS petition I urge you to do so. These bill will deeply affect our internet and makes it worse for everyone. There are many in the website feel free to sign all of them but know these are so incredibly important to keeping the future of the internet safe and secure.

Sign the petition here :

If you’re wondering why you should sign it here is a much longer and exactly what these bills are doing:

We need to make a lot of noise and it’s important to complain to senators. Here are all the bills that are lined up. A lot of these are seemingly to protect kids - they are not. They are meant to make the internet easier to patrol and take privacy rights away and deeply affect LGBTQ youth.

EARN IT - undermines end-to-end encryption, making everyone less safe. Privacy can be invaded and less security in communication.

KOSA - harms kids and teens’ access to lifesaving LGBTQ resources and sex education. It will censor these and make it where sites that are pro-lgbtq cannot exist without it being 18+.

RESTRICT ACT- gives the president unprecedented power to police the internet RESTRICT gives Biden (and all future presidents!) extraordinary new powers to ban Americans from using entire apps simply by claiming they pose a “threat to national security,” outside of any democratic process. Politicians are pushing this bill to show they’re “tough on China”—but instead of protecting us, this law would lead to an internet censored by the president.

AGE-GATING BILLS- limit teenagers’ online access and force everyone to give ID to use social media. If you watch NSFW content it means you will have to give an ID to view it. Deeply affects SWer. Also huge privacy violation with having to give your id to watch 18+ content.

STOP CSAM - weakens end-to-end encryption and gives new surveillance powers to law enforcement. Instead, it would make CSAM cases harder to prosecute—like SESTA/FOSTA before it—while reducing privacy protections in ways that would harm vulnerable people. Like EARN IT, STOP CSAM undermines end-to-end encryption, a technology that’s vital for LGBTQ+ youth, survivors of interpersonal violence and stalking, abortion seekers and providers, and activists. Weakening E2EE as a means to funnel more information to law enforcement also sets an alarming precedent for government surveillance. All of us, including children, need to be able to communicate in the digital age without our conversations being spied on.

COOPER DAVIS

The Cooper Davis Act is a misguided attempt to address the public health crisis caused by fentanyl in many communities in the US. The bill does more harm than good: opening the door for increased surveillance of messaging and damaging encryption that ensures digital security online, another EARN IT Act copycat bill. More surveillance will not solve a public health crisis. End-to-end encryption is not a public safety threat. Secure, private messaging protects people’s privacy and should be protected.

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