international blm sites & resources, reposting from this tweet

general eng: blacklivesmatters.carrd.co

🇨🇦: justice for regis korchinski-paquet (google doc)

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🇲🇫: blacklivesmatters-french.carrd.co

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🇩🇪: blacklivesmatters-german.carrd.co

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🇫🇮: finnblm.carrd.co

🇵🇬: weneedtotalkaboutpapua.carrd.co

🇮🇩: indonesianblm.carrd.co

🇵🇱: blm-pl.carrd.co

🇹🇭: blmthai.carrd.co

🇦🇱: blmalbania.carrd.co

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arabic: blm-arab.carrd.co

i will die on my hill of bi/pan solidarity. if you’re bi i hope you know i love you. if you’re pan i hope you know i love you. your existence is not a competition. your identity is valid.

I'm really just taking 2020 raw, unprotected. I don't have a nintendo switch so i can't play ac and I don't even have a dnd group to keep me going. I'm just. Doing a line of pure, uncut 2020 right down the kitchen counter.

Hands down the best news headline this year.

Remade banners! Unfortunately had to add a water mark to some due to reposting from exclus!

Edit: I should clarify that exclus have been reposting some of my edits with only L G B or T edits, which is why they have watermarks on them. If they want to repost my shit it’s gonna have my name attatched to it lol

Edit 2. Don’t erase the watermark, that’s so shitty

These were so fun to do!! (1/2)

Y u p

Crazy how quiet everybody was and is about chechnya. Like lgbt people are being tortured and murdered by chechen officials and by their own family and people. When the news first broke out in 2017 there was barely any posts on tumblr despite the fact that we found out a literal gay purge was happening and now the documentary about it was released two days ago and im one of the only people doing posts about it here on tumblr. Honestly the most heartbreaking part about the documentary wasnt all the fucked up things but the fact despite these horrible fucking things happening nobody cares barely anybody is talking about it. Youd think a website with huge amounts of lgbt users would make this trend but no when you go in the tags theres literally less than ten new posts. Putin isnt gonna do shit about it the lgbt chechens and the people evacuating them need support from other countries russia is not gonna fucking help them. Every day this fucking site is filled with stupid lgbt discourse and shit that doesnt fucking matter but when an actual gay purge happens and actual people are being murdered and tortured yall decide to be quiet and do absolutely nothing.

Pansexuality is not Biphobic and vise versa

(My take as a bisexual who also identifies with the pan label)

The history of words

Bisexual meant intersex for centuries and still means hermaphrodite or bearing multiple differently sexed reproductive organs in several fields of biology including botany and entomology. Bisexuality gained its current sociological/sexological definition in the late 1950's through the 1960's, and pansexual was used to mean "homosexual to some degree" as early as the 1930's by Dr Alfred Kinsey and peers. Both bisexual and pansexual gained something near their modern definitions in the 60's.

What is bisexuality

Bisexuality is a useful label, and as a bisexual myself it is one that I am proud of. But bisexuality is a spectrum that means different things to different people... the most common definition I hear is "attraction to two or more genders" (though some other bisexuals might have their own definition), and those vectors of attraction are allowed to be different for different people.

What is Pansexuality?

Pansexuality, in the definition of "attraction to people regardless of gender" is probably best thought of as "a sexuality label for a common specific experience of attraction within the broader bisexual spectrum". It isn't biphobic to have a label describing one specific experience among several experiences. It's simply a way for people to say "this is me, and I'm proud of who I am" and the specificity of the label is important for a lot of people.

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These labels overlap, and that is ok... and the fact that there are pansexuals with biphobic ideas and bisexuals with panphobic ideas doesn't mean that either label is incompatible with existence of the other. In fact many people like myself identify with both labels.

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A note-

(Do not tokenise the fact that bisexual meant intersex, intersex people aren't anybodies weapon in this dumb exclusionary culture war. This is just a matter of etymology, words change and "bisexual" used in its current definition is in no way intersexist)

bi/pan discourse

i want to preface this by saying that i am not trying to invalidate bisexuality in any way. i condemn biphobia, harmful bi stereotypes, and pansexuals who use the label in biphobic ways. 

there has been a major resurgence of pan vs bi discourse lately, and it has been EXHAUSTING. (honestly, i’ve seriously considered leaving the lgbtq+ side of the internet before just because of the sheer amount of discourse.) initially, i was going to keep to myself and try not to let the discourse get to me. but there’s a shit ton of misinformation and people not taking pan voices seriously, so i thought fuck that. i try not to comment on individual community discourses because i believe that if it’s not your label, it’s not your place. for example, i don’t weigh in on lesbian discourse because i am not a lesbian. therefore, my opinion doesn’t really matter. anyone who identifies as a lesbian is more of an expert on the subject than i am and my voice might get in the way of other valid opinions from lesbians. same goes for trans, nonbinary, ace, etc. but this discourse does involve me, so here’s my two cents. 

first off, we need a bit of history. pansexualism was coined in the early 1900’s by freud to denote the idea that all human behavior is driven by sexual instinct. but no one listens to freud because he was wrong about a lot of things. many people, when looking at the origins of modern pansexuality, point to a horrendously biphobic and transphobic internet post from 2002. however, pansexuality as a label has been used as early as the 1960’s/1970’s (though that was partially within kink communities to mean someone who was open to any sexual experience). in the mid-90’s a more recognizable version of pansexuality came into play. pansexuality was used in some cases interchangeably with bisexuality in the 90’s. some have said that they used the pansexual label because of transphobia and nonbinary exclusionists in certain areas of the bi community. (i am not trying to say that bisexuals are transphobic, i am only saying that there were/are transphobic bisexuals, just like there were/are transphobic pansexuals, lesbians, gay men, etc.) some have said that the label was used because of the fact that more gender identities were starting to be more widely accepted, so some in the bi community felt they needed a new term. while the bi community has become much more accepting, many people today still identify as pansexual.

many people have also said that pansexuality promotes bi erasure. if people use pansexuality to describe someone who actually identifies as bi, then yes. If you use pansexuality to invalidate bi people, then yes. but someone simply identifying as pan does not automatically erase a bi person. if someone includes the pan flag in a post but not the bi flag, that is the fault of the person who made the post, not the pan community as a whole. pansexuality is a valid identity with a history that, contrary to popular belief, extends past the existence of tumblr. most labels with overlapping meanings tend to lead to some degree of erasure (e.g. i’ve heard many claim that sappho was actually bi and calling her a lesbian is bi erasure, which, if true, i agree with). bi erasure is a serious issue that does need to be addressed, and while pansexuality does sometimes contribute, someone identifying as pan is not actively hurting anyone (unless they use pansexuality to justify bigotry, but that’s true of any identity).

many people have used pansexuality to excuse biphobia and transphobia. i am not trying to excuse any biphobic or transphobic pansexuals. i want to make it clear that i do not agree with these people in any way. trans women are women and trans men are men. bisexuals are valid and are not hypersexual, dirty, or less inclusive than pansexuals. bisexuals are wonderful and i 100% support anyone who identifies as bi. 

there are many definitions of pansexuality, some of which have been problematic. however, the most widely used one today, and the one that i use, is attraction to all genders. many people use the similar if not identical definitions of bi and pan to say that pansexuality is redundant and unnecessary. i do recognize that bisexuals can also be attracted to nonbinary people (yes, i’ve read the bi manifesto, many times. in fact, the part that comes after the famously-quoted bit in the bi manifesto tends to get overlooked and reads, “We bisexuals tend to define bisexuality in ways that are unique to our own individuality. There are as many definitions of bisexuality as there are bisexuals. Many of us choose not to label ourselves anything at all, and find the word bisexual to be inadequate and too limiting.”). i am not going to tell bisexual people what their identity means. that’s not my place. i realize that some people say that pan, being on the mspec (multi-gender attraction spectrum) falls under the umbrella of bi, and i realize that some people find calling bi an umbrella term offensive. and i realize that having two words for pretty much the same thing can seem very redundant. so why don’t i identify as bi? the best way that i can describe it is that i don’t feel any connection to the term. when i use it it feels like it’s not mine. like i’m stealing or hiding. (though that could partially be because the only time i’ve called myself bi was in the presence of someone i knew would make fun of me for being pan.) simply put, i feel more comfortable identifying as pan. and yes, i realize that many people believe labels are strictly for description and not comfort, but i have to agree to disagree. labels are inherently there for your comfort. (e.g. some wlw prefer to simply be called gay instead of lesbian.) finding a label that you identify with can be an important part of being lgbtq+. and in the end, even if there is quite a bit of overlap in mspec identities, the labels that people use are ultimately their business. i am not going to force myself into a label that i don’t feel fits me just because of some online discourse (because, to be quite blunt, 99% of the lgbtq+ discourses are mostly if not completely online. I haven’t seen many be brought up in real life.). 

to be quite honest, the continued hatred of pansexuality only pushes me further into identifying as pan.  with all due respect, you can tear my pansexuality from my cold dead hands. 

ultimately, division between the bi and pan communities only leads to hurt. arguing amongst ourselves not only divides us and distracts from our common enemy, but actively gives our enemy more fuel to hurt us with. arguing amongst the lgbtq+ community gives homophobes and transphobes more examples of our “ridiculousness” to make fun of us with. as someone who goes to a school with lots of homophobes and has heard every homophobic/transphobic insult under the sun in the school hallways, i find the unification of the lgbtq+ community very important. we need to protect each other, not tear each other down. making each other feel invalidated and unwelcome only harms the lgbtq+ community. 

another issue this discourse has brought me to is the need for a new pan flag since the old one was created by someone who has been accused of being lesbophobic. so if and when a new flag comes up, i’ll be excited to see what it looks like! 

i realize that even after this, there will still be many people who disagree with me. and that’s okay! we can agree to disagree. i do it all the time. honestly, as long as people don’t try and force labels on me i’m cool. 

MORE RESOURCES ON PANSEXUALITY:

The Past and Popular Usage of the Term "Pansexual" 

 What Is Pansexuality? 

 defining pansexuality over the years

pansexuality vs bisexuality 

What is Pansexuality? | Definition, History and Pansexuals in Pop Culture 

What Does 'Pansexual' Mean? Behind the Rise of the Word | Time 

Pansexuality 101: It’s More Than ‘Just Another Letter’ 

Hiding in Plain Sight: Why We Need To Pay Attention to Bi/Pan Erasure 

The Difference Between Bisexual & Pansexual Matters Less Than Solidarity Among LGBTQ Folks, Advocates Say 

Reblog to let pansexuals and bisexuals be friends and to stop fucking pitting them against eachother in some sort of who’s valid contest because we all rock so stfu