[id: screenshots of tiktok captions. the images say, “but the only reason we still love princess diana is because she did not have the time to disappoint us.”]
begging queer kids to read up on princess diana’s involvement with the community. yes, she was a rich, pretty monarch. yes, she died young.
but the reason why queer people love her is because she used her privilege during the aids crisis to advocate for sick queer men, when very few others would - much less someone of her status.
diana spent years advocating for the health and care of queer people with hiv/aids. in 1987, at the height of the epidemic, she opened the first specialist clinic dedicated to treating aids patients (the first clinic of it’s kind in the uk).
she also fought public hysteria by hugging and shaking bare hands with aids patients, at a time when aids was thought to be spread by skin to skin contact. not only that, she visited patients in the clinic regularly and even comforted them through their sickness.
and when queen elizabeth told her to try focusing on “something more pleasant”?
diana ignored her and kept fighting.
and this is only her work towards the aids crisis. she publicly called out the royal family, brought attention to numerous world issues, and was known as an advocate for empathy and kindness. she’s known and loved as the people’s princess for good reason
feels like a good time to remind everyone that mental age don't real. that disabled 30 year old doesn't have the 'mental age' of a 4 year old. she has the mental age of a 30 year old because that's how old she is.
whatever her cognitive capacities, she has 30 years of life experience. you may notice that's 26 more years than a 4 year old, making them in fact quite different. also they are different because she is an adult and a 4 year old is a very small child. hope this helps
“she just died, try to have some respect, she was a human being” that sure is a lot of words to tell me you’re not indian or pakistani or bangladeshi or irish or welsh or scottish or jamaican or west indian or kenyan or south african or zimbabwean or working class or princess diana
I want people with “good” childhoods to read resources meant for survivors of abuse for twofold reasons: the first that maybe some of them will see survivors less like alien anomalies and actually treat them like human beings, and second that maybe some of these “normal” people from “good” families will realize their definitions for normal and good are dogshit and now they have more accurate language what really happened in that house.
“If you’re one of those. ‘I love Pink Floyd but I can’t stand Rogers politics’ people. You might do well to fuck off to the bar right now” -Roger Waters This is Not A Drill Tour