#there's so much intersectionality

[melandrops]

hollywood could never top the casual but meaningful representation that horror fiction podcasts have

#EVERYONE IS GAY #AND ITS CANON TOO #they take the time to address the issues and the internal dialogue #of queer experience #but at the same time #it just is #it's casual #it understands how to present queer people as People #with problems that are both unique and non unique to their identity #and!!!! #there's so much intersectionality #muslim queer people #disabled queer people #you name it they have it #it just means so much to me #the magnus archives #the silt verses

[puppyeared]

Atla live action 😐

#thats my honest reaction 😐 #to be fair ive only seen 20 minutes of the s1 finale bc my parents are watching it but. mmmmm kinda mid #like. the casting is definitely an improvement since the last time they tried a live action but it feels like the writing falls flat #or maybe im being harsh bc ive only heard negative criticism on it beforehand. but fr anytime u bring up the original its already #good and not just because its the original. so much fucking detail went into it to the point of someone noticing azula wielding mai's knive #to how well thought out irohs character is used as a way of uniting the cast especially as zukos foil #i heard that sokkas sexism was toned down and i have to agree that feels like a cheap move. like i get WHY they think it would be better #but its not about how that reflects on real world its about how it affects the story. sokka starts out as a misogynistic asshole because #it makes it that much more impactful when he changes. toning that down makes it flatter and makes his character development weak #and someone pointed out they didnt even make him wear the kyoshi warrior uniform and i know it feels like such a small detail but #come on man. they did that in the original because not only does it help him really walk in their shoes - wearing 'feminine' clothing and #makeup and having suki explain its significance but it also ties in with the shows theme of harmony and intersectionality #i was also disappointed when they had the fire sages explain how the water tribe draws power from the moon because in the original it was #IROH who explained it to aang and everyone else BECAUSE we as the audience is under the impression hes with the 'bad guys' #and it builds up to how he learned from the other nations which reconciles his past as a war general and his character overall #AND its an excellent starting point for the cast and audience to understand how the nations arent as closed off as you would think #plus you would think its only fire nation doing propaganda but they expanded on that with earth kingdom censorship and it WORKS #a lot of things in the live action also feel arbitrary like. they gave momo a near death experience for 5 minutes for no reason #im firmly on the stance of bringing back filler moments instead of putting major events right after each other so that u give your #audience a sense of time passing and to really absorb the story. but i think thats more like shock value than filler and yeah its a small #thing to gripe about but those things build up and its really annoying. the thing abt avatar filler moments is that however small #its at least meaningful. hell even the beach episode emphasizes how isolated zuko and his friends are as child soldiers #i also swore to never watch the first live action since it was that bad but i really liked the stylized tattoos they used for aang #anyway. those arejust my thoughts. im not gonna watch the rest because im a ride or die for the original aftr growing up and #rewatching it at least 20 times as a kid. but theres definitely room for improvement and i wish ppl wouldnt take it as 'better' just cuz #netflix is adapting it. i wouldve killed for them to just reanimate the entire avatar series and touch NOTHING ELSE no redub #no changes to the story. just reanimate the thing and leave the rest alone and youd make easy money just the same #ALSO its very jarring not hearing jack desena and dante basco voicing sokka and zuko cause their voices were the most recognizable to me #i get that its because its live action but im allowed to feel a little sad abt that. and uncle irohs accent was really soothing #yapping

[uncanny-tranny]

Comparing oppression can sometimes give you insight as to what other groups of people go through. It teaches you what you have in common with people seemingly different than you are, and teaches you how you are different and how you can ally yourself better with other peoples.

However, if your goal is to prove you suffer the most between you and another person, you'll likely find that there is no conversation, just an endless barrage of back-and-forth to prove which of you deserves to be listened to.

The reality is that you don't have to be in the most pain in order to be listened to. So often, we are inundated with this idea that the person suffering the most is the only one who ought to be listened to, and it sends the message of "holy shit, I guess I don't matter. I guess I deserve to suffer if others are going through worse," and that's just unreasonable and unfair. Who has it worse is entirely contextual and changing, and sometimes it is subjective - as in, something that is earth-breaking for you is an average tuesday evening for the guy next to you.

Kill the cop in your head that says your voice will only matter if you prove yourself. Listen to other marginalized people and know it isn't a competition to see who can prove themselves most worthy of tine and energy. Our resources can (and should) be multifaceted and able to help a variety of peoples.

#intersectionality #talking to trans women and nonbinary folk and intersex people taught me so much about the idea that my oppression isn't entirely unique... #...and that taught me that i must have more interests in my heart... #...and it showed me that i have a broad community even if i didn't always feel it #that's one example #i understand why some people do that but i just can't help but wonder #and in spaces where it's expected that you prove yourself battle royal style i always notice that... nothing really gets accomplished... #...and that isn't always a bad thing! communities don't have to do tangible things in order to be important... #...but i just notice that people tend to be very defensive because they have to be and they express that they feel unheard... #it's a complicated and nuanced topic and i definitely am no spokesman... #...i'm commenting on a *general* trend i have seen in some spaces that isn't universally shared

[jonatgan-official]

ahhhh heartwarming yesterday to see the number and diversity of people who showed up for palestine at my uni’s walkout. the jews blocking the zionist flag with their signs for palestine, the student unions from so many different countries and the black student union and the graduate employees org speaking at the mic in full support of our chapter of SJP :)) people chanting free palestine in english and urdu and arabic and spanish !!!!!❤️

#intersectionality!!! solidarity!! mwah #palestine #free palestine #gaza #israel #so much hope. so much hope for our collective future

[chaoticgremlinbrainspace]

fuck man

finding out new things about nightwing makes me go insane, rotating him in my mind at high speeds, centrifuge his ass, I want to pull him apart, see his every facet, study him like a bug. hes just so interesting to me. there's so many interesting things to his character that could be explored and delved into. things that would be cool to see. like, hes just got so many parts that could and have interacted in ways that just captivate me.

#dick grayson #nightwing #grem screams #pondering him #like this guy is on my mind for real #some things I can relate too others out of my depth but could be absolutely written well in the right hands #its probably a bit of the hyper fixation on him he just has so much to him to me ghisdfnj #he gets the "my ass hyperfixated then projected the fuck out of him #like #I am a rabid dog and I am chewing on him like a squeaky toy #there's so much intersectionality to him I want to see all of his parts impacting him in ways #I guess what intrigues me is the human parts to the super hero #like yeah yeah powers and abilities are cool but what are you as a person #how do you live #what are you struggles how have you as a person been impacted by the superheroing #like shit like that is interesting not to say I do like the super hero part I just think the two sides coming into conflict or working #together #I love action I just think seeing the impacts is neat too #idk I just feel like its cool because hers often seem so like other its kinda fun to see them combust bghisdfnj idk how to explain it weel #I dont mean slice of life either like...I guess I want repercussions and cause and effect to mean something ghirsnjef #again its weird #long ass tags btw

[roobylavender]

i'm reading through jane austen's novels and i'm like that inside you there are two wolves meme and wolf one is my desire to sympathize with jane austen knowing the societal constraints and practices she was railing against and wolf two is my primal need to bring her out of her grave and shake her bc so much of that rebellion and criticism more or less amounted to her condescending to other women

#like i find her simultaneous disdain for women who marry for money #and reverence for men who remain in engagements to financially and socially preserve women so fascinating. soooo fascinating #and i recognize a lot of people say that we can't impose modern standards of intersectionality or feminism on older writers but like #idk. i think that's giving austen a little too much leeway personally given her contemporaries #to be deleted

[urmomsstuntdouble]

not to be political but I've seen a lot of people saying that those who call Israel an apartheid don't know what they're talking about and um. As someone who has studied South African apartheid as well as grown up in a Jewish community. This claim has more merit than you think

#this post is brought to you by an article i read “debunking” the claim that israel is an apartheid and their “evidence” #included several policies that are the same if not more intense than apartheid era policies against black south africans #there are comparisons that hold weight here #although one thing i dont get and havent had explained to me yet. it looks to me as though both arabs and jews are indigenous to the region #in the way that both the hopewell culture and lenape people are indigenous to my state of pennsylvania #and thats a flimsy comparison i suppose since the hopewell culture (who lived here first chronologically) has died out #but anyway theres a case for indigeneity for both jews and arabs #its so silly to me that we dont consider both to be indigenous? yes many jews that came into israel in the early 20th century were #white europeans and carried the colonial baggage of that with them #but idk why its so hard to believe that an oppressed group can also be an oppressor?? like where's the intersectionality babes #anyway. the original point of this post was that maybe more of yall need to look into what south african apartheid was actually like #much like h*m*s leadership a lot of the ANC leadership was forced into exile and had to live and work outside of their country #(and this comparison is not perfect im aware. the tactics of the anc and h*m*s are totally different. however i think this comparison has #weight in that they are both one of the biggest names in opposition to the government. they do this in different ways at different levels o #intensity and violence. that is not to be ignored. but there are some comparisons that we can make and exile doesnt strike me as a bad one) #the bantustans in south africa were also constructed in a way that much like the west bank makes it highly difficult for an actual real #state to form #and the way that theyre set up invites puppet governments and corruption. this gives a major advantage to the apartheid state #id recommend reading Trevor Noah's Born A Crime if you havent #its a great introduction to what daily life in aparthid and after was like (its a memoir from about 1990-2005ish) #(apartheid was legally ended in 1994 but there are still remnants of it today and there were even more at the time of Born a Crime) #anyway these are my political thoughts of the day #edit: to my tangent about both groups being able to have some sort of claim to indigeneity. that in no way justifies any of the brutality #going on #i think its espeically cringe of israel to claim indigeneity and a sacred relationship with the land then create an environmental #catastrophe like they have in gaza. making the land unliveable is a bit of a perversion of the relationship you have with that land innit #in case it wasnt clear: ceasefire now and free palestine

[ablueberryblogs]

When gay men culture learns to be more like lesbian culture I will know peace, but alas, misogyny

#the lack of solidarity amongst gay men of different intersectionalities #the way lesbian understanding of gender and gay mens understanding and language around gender is totally different #idk man i just miss the way lesbians have their shit more together #lesbians i love you so much

[jayciethings]

A Review of Barbie ... sorta

Once upon a time there was a little girl who really liked pink.

She wasn't obsessed with pink. It wasn't the only colour she loved. But she did really like it, and wore several pink things.

She also had a Barbie doll. And it was enough of a favourite that it came on a family walk in the woods with her (and had its hand torn off on said walk by a bored sister, but that is another story). She also loved several supposed "boys toys" too, like construction toys and a Fisher Price trainset she still maintains as an adult is totally awesome. But she did love that Barbie.

That little girl grew up and went to uni and learned all about gender and culture and how arbitrary and nonsensical so much of it is. Learned that 300 years ago noblewomen weren't allowed to wear pink because it was too "masculine" a colour. Learned to spot the male gaze in every movie (which is a deliberately imposed filming construct not an indictment of an entire gender). Learned to be hugely wary any time someone trotted out lines like "it's just nature" or "that's just the way it is".

She also experienced subtle and not-so-subtle misogyny. Met guys who were nice and mostly kind but also subtly scathing towards feminine things and female people. ("Four girls? Your poor dad." "Do you think he ever wished he'd had a boy?" "There's *no way* your dad isn't disappointed to only have had girls.") Met people who would consciously or unconsciously disregard the opinions of women they saw as overtly feminine. She called the guys out on the overt and not-so-overt sexism (and earned the euphemism of "strong" as a result, where "strong" really meant "a bit difficult"). And somewhere in that mélange of hating being stereotyped (if you liked one feminine thing bang! that's it. You're a girl and that's not a compliment) and not wanting to be thought difficult, she didn't always take a stand when she should. And she started to resist the pink. To dislike the dolls. To dislike the narrowing of individualism and possibility that came with them. To dislike how boys who wanted to play with them were gently or ungently told no because they're "only for girls", and to dislike the underlying message of this - that to be like a girl was A Very Bad Thing. To dislike the ads that were geared towards girls, to dislike the unconscious constant culture that pushes boys towards toys that encourage STEM skills and girls towards dolls that encourage traditional female pursuits. And to dislike how boys weren't allowed to wear pink. Weren't allowed to cry. To really dislike how the patriarchy hurt and trapped and damaged them too.

To this day she hates those ads. Hates that unconscious stereotyping. Maintains that it's harmful and limits little girls. Points to the suicide rate amongst young men and wants to despair.

And the funny thing about dolls, about Barbie dolls, is that Barbie became the flagship of bimbos. The embodiment of impossible body standards and of ditsy blondes who only care about pleasing men and looking pretty. A betrayer of her sex. The enemy of feminism. Even though Barbie was a doctor, a business woman, a marine biologist, a lawyer. Even though she took many shapes and later (finally) many colours. She became a symbol of female oppression. So, down with Barbie! She is the symbol of capitalist patriarchy. Resist the pink. Bury Barbie and by doing this, magically we have cured internalised and externally imposed misogyny. Whilst all the while those impossible beauty standards and stereotyping and limitations are still imposed on little girls and women on every front. And it wasn't even okay to vocalise that any more in some circles. Cos haven't we won? Aren't western women fully liberated and empowered now?

The truth is so much messier than that. Often so much more painful than that.

And Barbie the movie captures that messiness perfectly.

In the first few minutes when I saw an element of my childhood I had resisted being openly shown on-screen, being celebrated, I was reminded of how I'd once really liked pink. I was reminded of that little girl and I wanted to cry. Then minutes later I saw the stereotyping and it got shoved down again in the annoyance.

But I don't think there are many lines in movies that have resonated with me more than, "I’m expressing [my emotions] and I have no difficulty holding both logic and feeling at the same time and it does not diminish my powers and expands them.” Even while knowing that has not been my experience. Has not been how I have been perceived.

I could say so much more, but I've already said so much, and don't want to go into spoilers.

This movie healed and hurt my heart, probably in equal measure.

Barbie is not a perfect movie, neither technically nor thematically. And like all of us, it's not totally outside of its cultural moment. (Why does a film about Barbie spend so much screentime on Ken?). It's not a perfect movie by any means, but it is an important one.

Maybe one day I'll put on pink and not worry just a little about it.

#barbie #barbie 2023 #barbie movie #barbie review #barbie meta #there is quite a bit of crossover with homophobia in this post too #where one reason gay men are hated by some is a feeling that they have done that terrible thing of being feminine or girly #which is of course another stereotype #ive not at all touched on intersectionality and misogynoir either #but i know thats not my experience #but I'd to hear from those for whom it is #man there is so much enforced gender conformity #on everyone #but it's possibly been more noxious in the west #because it's so interwoven with deep-seated feelings of moral superiority

[delayshay]

slowly weeding out the followers who can't handle the combination religious, sexual, and politic posts in tandem let's go!

#shay rambles #i know it's much needed for myself i have to shake off catering to any specific group #was reading audre lorde alot these past days and her discussions around intersectionality #and not like hiding parts of yourself to the groups you are apart of hit hard and made me realize alot #honestly hyping myself up so i can get through it all

[transmascpetewentz]

ok wow she really is a radfem

#wentz.txt #so much for trying to actually get someone to think about intersectionality

[gxlden-angels]

I know there's a common thing of "christians are christians because they haven't actually read the bible" but I actually grew up being told to read the entire bible once a year once I learned to read. I even had a NIV kids' one with a checklist that had you read a certain amount per day. I only ever read my daily amount when forced to by my youth group or family members that did read the whole thing once per year and even then I usually faked it until they left me alone

#and yes my family did believe the conspiracy that NIV bibles were deleting verses since they knew kids would read it over KJV #and they'd grow up reading said bible without learning all of Jesus's miracles or something #turns out #said verses were not missing but put into footnotes since they might not have actually been in the original writings #a lot of my older family dropped out of school p early #so the bible was one of the few things they could readily get and read #and they knew someone would teach them if they couldn't read a part of it #my grandfather was the first to graduate highschool and he was the 13th child out of 14 who lived #my father was first to graduate from college #my mom was the first to finish medical school #so I got super lucky to have family around me that valued education like that #tho they started to get very extreme after that and pushed me towards more and more academic things until I was ready to yeet myself #so reading the bible had a special place in my family both from the fundamentalist standpoint and from an academic standpoint #they were poor black folk in rural NJ GA and FL so #not much to do but have babies do manual labor and go to church especially back then #for a while my family's churches were even anti-ipad bibles #until they learned they could have the audio playing so the older folks that couldn't read all that well #either from lack of education or declining eye site #n e ways I hope y'all enjoyed my ramblings about intersectionality and bible reading #I did attempt it once but got super uncomfortable reading about sex and stuff like that in middle school #and started having terrible intrusive thoughts so I stopped #I also recognize that it's a Jewish tradition to read the entire Torah once a year I believe #And it resets either during Yom Kippur or Rosh Hashanah #my jewish found fam can correct me on that later #but I get wanting to read your holy book to make sure you know what's up and refresh your knowledge #idk maybe I'll write an undergraduate thesis about how the bible comforts black americans as a concept rather than a religion #ex christian #religious trauma

[theglitternet]

PSA for young people who are beginning to care about social issues (and are getting most of their information online, which FYI I don’t recommend):

If anyone ever tells you you should be mad at a group of people or a certain behaviour and their reasoning for this anger is “they make people who ACTUALLY belong in this group look ridiculous” or “it makes a mockery of people who REALLY fit this label” or anything to that effect,

it’s a boogeymen argument and isn’t worth your time. Focus on social issues that actually matter and can make tangible change.

(Some examples: “baby talk’ vocal stims make real autistic look childish,’ ‘pan/omni/polysexuals make a mockery of bisexuality,’ ‘neopronouns make real nonbinary people look ridiculous’ are all examples I’ve really seen.)

#opinion #social justice #leftist #liberal #don’t read into the tags too much they’re kinda random #feminism #intersectional feminism #intersectionality #i am very tired but this needs to be posted #i desperately needed this when i was 14 so

[fiovske]

said this with their whole chest too

#white women coming to bat for taylor swift is the funniest thing ever #talking abt other ppl not knowing feminisr literature like HELLO??? ur fave literally weaponizes white feminism 😭 #so maybe calm down 💀 #bad lyrics is just bad lyrics no talking around that #'u have much work to do abt feminism' why do white women always claim disliking taylor swift's music is misogyny lmao #yall need to learn a thing or two abt intersectionality #and the fact that ur fave farts a shitton of gasses that pollute the environment #and then there's her music too

[faultsofyouth]

what i do respect radblr about is they pushback from conservatives radblr spaces like radtwt would be like ‘we should allow conservatives cuz they have the same goal we do 🤓🤓’ um no those bitches do not

Twitter in its entirety seems like a nightmare tbh. I seriously feel like people on there just use it to be political and stalk other people 🤦‍♀️ I have always preferred tumblr and I am definitely a feminist today because the women on here have offered me so many thoughtful and nuanced and Understanding perspectives, even when I was trans-identifying and totally closed off to what they had to say 💝

also I hate conservatism in both economic and social praxis and I think marxism has a huge influence over 2nd wave feminism in America and radical feminism all over the world, and idek How ladies get into "radical feminism" without realizing that conservative goals are Directly opposed to feminist goals. The only thing modern conservatives and radical feminists have in common is believing that people are the sex that they are born with, and the resemblance ends there.

#asks #anon #radblr #💌 #i think a lot of radfems online are posers lol. like they want to run anti-trans blogs and spread awareness about the dangers of transition #and self ID laws and they think that thats all that being a radfem is. and then they forget to investigate #intersectionality and how radical feminists feel about misogynoir and poverty and seperatism #among a ton of other issues which are all very very complex and that most people are not on the same page about before #taking a deep dive into feminist literature #which is part of the reason i dont participate in radblr the same way i used to #because im young and i'm learning and i dont want my opinions to be representative of radical feminism for people who are still unsure #about it. but i DO want to talk to other feminists and peep whats going up with all the ladies #it feels good on my brain 🥰🥰🥰 #ALSO: if u like seeing anticonservative and generally anti Bullshit efforts made in radblr you should follow @menalez #if u dont already. i love her blog so much and she does a lot to promote intersectionality and generally good behavior on her blog

[bmpmp3]

(falls to the floor holding my head in my hands) i can't keep making all my ocs the same vaguely eastern european vaguely indo carribean mixed race guy i cant keep doing this

(looks up. eyes glowing red. levitating with unknown power) or can i..................................................

#sorry to be mixed on main again but im working on some rough draft ocs. i saw myself making the same dude again. i keep making him. #i know as a kid with a combination of the classic mixed kid feelings of alienation as well as being really really into cartoons #i vowed to myself that I SHALL make all the mixed race cartoon characters since i wasnt seeing much in the cartoons i loved #it was a little dire in like 2008 when i vowed this. its less dire now #maybe i can rest.....or maybe not...maybe its still more dire than i think............ #im in an interesting place rn living in a somewhat diverse area attending a pretty multicultural university so i got used to #kind of blending into the crowd but recently i was in an art history class. like one of the first i had been in person in years #(you know how it is) and outside of my vaguely ambiguous situation there was like one other non white person #and everyone else was white. and it became very apparent how white the class was very quickly because as art history students #race is kinda like. a big thing in visual culture studies HJKFKJLSDJD and like they meant well but it was getting a little dire because #so many of my white peers kept centering whiteness and white discomfort in like every discussion or brushing past the topic entirely #im biased because race is one of my main interests in art history but MAN i was like. oh god. i need to. intervene #gotta be more annoying about being mixed race in class. rolls up sleeves #gotta bring up every uncomfortable topic about representation and perception and power and dehumanization and intersectionality that i can #because no one else but me the other student of colour and the professors even think about it orz #sorry i know its obvious but sometimes it doesnt quite hit me that like. oh god. do white people really not think about any of this? #at all? unless its brought up? not even a little bit? i dunno its just kinda alien to me orz but i shall keep going #i shall continue on with my deep interest in orientalism within art history and its impacts we see daily #and also making the same guy in my funny little cartoons DJSKHJKSJFKD #(jkjkjk i dont JUST make that same vaguely beige guy. i also make a bunch of other guys. who are also mostly all multiracial too HGKJDHJFR) #(its what i do. its what i do)