Pride isn’t a “queer-friendly space”, pride IS queer space.
Kink doesn’t “belong” at pride, kink IS pride.
To say that these things are just-kind-of-also-included is such a diluted view of what these things actually are. These spaces have been mentally purified for so many people as things that are “also-okay-for-gays!”–
No!!
These spaces ARE OURS. Not just “friendly to us”. Not just “inclusive to us”. They ARE us. We don’t just “belong”… We’re the reason it exists in the first place!
Mundane markers of wealth, in my limited experience and from my lower class perspective:
The size of your bathtub (you can't lay down or fit in lower class bathtubs, not unless you're a kid)
The height of your ceilings (is there more then a foot or two between the top of your doors and the ceiling?)
If your staircases are disconnected from the walls (you only get that with bigger houses with space to spare)
What kind of fridge you have (I'm not talking ice maker, I'm talking about if the freezer is a drawer or not. And if you have multiple full sized refrigerators. Full sized because mini fridges can and are dumpster dived)
Do you have a dining room? (I have never lived in a house with a dining room. Closest thing was the corner between rooms or at the end of a bigger room. There was not spare square footage. You ate in your room or in the living room. No tables. Only desks or putting a pillow in your lap)
And the classics: is the trashcan in a little drawer in the kitchen?
Shower thoughts before graveyard clerk goes to bed
was talking to my gf about my fear of dying young for being trans and my mom putting my deadname on my gravestone, and she said "i hope that never happens, but if it does, i will carve your name into your grave myself if i have to." and i think theres something extremely raw about that sentiment and trans community in general. you can kill only our bodies, but you cant kill transsexuality
was talking to my gf about my fear of dying young for being trans and my mom putting my deadname on my gravestone, and she said "i hope that never happens, but if it does, i will carve your name into your grave myself if i have to." and i think theres something extremely raw about that sentiment and trans community in general. you can kill only our bodies, but you cant kill transsexuality
So I’m on a trip with my robotics team and there’s only two “girls” (me, an enby, and a cis girl), so we get our own beds in our own room, but the guys are rooming four to a room, but there’s only two beds in each room. Which means that two guys are sleeping on the floor every night.
I’m not joking. They were literally arguing over who’s sleeping on the floor tonight (apparently they plan on rotating).
And I asked them “why don’t you just share a bed?” And they all gave me the same answer:
“No, that’s weird! That’d be gay!”
And I just looked at them and I decided to break the bad news to them
“If lying next to another guy makes you wanna suck dick, you already wanted to suck dick.”
I’ve never seen so many Straight Guys™️ enraged by a single sentence before
i recently learned that dromedaries and bactrian camels can hybridize and usually produce fertile offspring, and the hybrid camels usually have a singular hump that's really big
its really cool that we discovered glass which is the material that doesnt have any chemical reactions with anything in the universe very useful for doing chemistry due to being able to put things in it to contain chemical reactions and never having it react with the things that are in it due to it being completely and entirely unreactive to every chemical