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disabled-queer-culture-is · 2 years

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Disabled queer culture is loving and supporting all trans/nonbinary/cisn’t individuals who don’t go through with various aspects of transitioning for any reason!

Cisn’t people who don’t want to or can’t transition medically, I care about you!

Cisn’t people who don’t want to or can’t do vocal training, I care about you!

Cisn’t people who don’t want to or can’t change aspects of their appearance, I care about you!

Cisn’t people who don’t want to or can’t transition socially, I care about you!

Cisn’t people who aren’t out, for any reason? So much love and care being sent your way!

#disabled queer culture #disabled queer culture is #disabled culture is #queer culture is #genderqueer culture is #transgender culture is #trans culture is #nonbinary culture is #cisn’t culture is #trans positivity #transgender positivity

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crippledpunks · 9 days

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i wanna say fuck you to anyone who shame disabled, chronically ill & neurodivergent people, especially homebound folks, for "spending too much time on their phone/on the internet/etc." when it's the only (Somewhat) accessible way for them to experience the world. many people don't get to get out much even if they want to because of their disabilities. shaming someone for trying to connect with the world, make friends and engage with hobbies in ways that are accessible to them is beyond cruel and unnecessary

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this-world-of-beautiful-monsters · 4 months

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just. like. the fact that the two headed calf poem is about the brevity of life and the cruelty of those who can't find beauty in the freakish and holding on to what moments and wonders you can, but at the same time.

at the same time you've got this little calf seeing twice as many stars in the sky and you've got people making art of him, over and over again, so much of it, so many mediums and styles from so many people who've probably never even met each other, so much of everything, from the passionate and the introspective to the scientific and the shitposty, all these people celebrating him and mourning him and preserving him, protecting him, replicating and resurrecting him however we can.

and you can take a little freak and wrap him in newspaper, but an idea, even one as small and strange as a two headed calf, is so much harder to kill. you can't stop the newspaper, but tonight stretches on, returned to over and over again with every picture, every bit of contemplation, every joke and meme, on and on and on and on.

twice upon twice upon twice upon twice as many stars in the sky. and we can see them all alongside him.

#two headed calf #positivity #i think #tumblr culture #not that it's just tumblr but #poetry #laura gilpin #two headed calf by laura gilpin #twice as many stars #queer #since a lot of people who've done art for this poem are queer and i don't think it's an accident #disability #disabled themes

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arturgnojek · 7 months

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I'm so fucking sick of Instagram "cringe try not to unfollow" accounts that just repost tiktoks of fat and disabled and neurodivergent and queer people who use neopronouns and try soooooo hard to pretend like they're not just people who hate anyone who's visibly different than them

#vent #queer #body neutrality #disability #fat liberation #neurodivergent #autism #death to cringe culture

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decolonize-the-left · 9 months

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There may be some resistance & discomfort when I say “we need to dismantle self-care”. The concept is prominent in leftist spaces & hailed as a radical form resistance. However, it is rarely understood in its original context with the necessary caveats which I’ll elaborate on below. It has also been sanitized, manipulated & co-opted for profit. As a result, it’s become bigger than what it was intended to be. People look to self-care now as a revolutionary “solution” to our collective problems (which it is not). Given that we live under capitalist, colonial systems that breed individualism, narcissism & self-centeredness, I think it’s important for us to rethink the utility of this concept today. In this piece, bringing in the knowledge of collectivist, land-based cultures, I’ll explain why it is urgent & critical for us to practice + embody COMMUNITY care which is a more complete framework that creates conditions of liberation needed for us to survive & thrive as we fight for the land & against the ecological destruction of our planet.

So even if you feel some discomfort arise, take a deep breath & hear me out."

- Ayesha Khan, Ph.D

Some quotes to consider:

The most prominent origins of the concept may be traced to Audre Lorde[...] She wrote about how cancer pushed her to realize that we all needed to slow down, pull back from oppressive systems, refuse to operate according to their values or accelerated “productivity” benchmarks when we can & that this divestment from a profit-driven system was critical for us to even begin to think about what collective “health” & healing means. It is an important first step in one’s political radicalization journey. It’s not everything & it wasn’t meant to be.

Self-care today is often reduced to: i) consumption of products, ii) neglect of community & erasure of the contributions of other beings who enable our care, and iii) one-sided, transactional extraction of care with a sense of entitlement to receive care without reciprocity or without focusing on daily practices of giving care in community. What does self-care look like in practice today?

Is there anything you do that doesn’t directly or indirectly involve the contribution of other beings? Even when we rest, there are conditions of some level of safety or security that have to be enabled for us to truly rest. So let’s take a moment to sit with how the beings at the other end of the “care products” we consume are being treated.

On the other hand, what does “self-care” that actively harms the collective look like? Relax at home alone with a sheet mask while ignoring a friend who reached out to connect because “you don’t owe anyone anything”, purchase care products & services from violent corporations killing our planet as a form of “self-love” while deprioritizing community building thinking it will heal you

Mainstream self-care has created NEW forms of oppression, extraction & exploitation.

The perspectives I offer in my community care work are not MY novel findings but a responsibility I bear as part of my ancestral/ community teachings & traditions. These perspectives are sorely missing in leftist spaces. I write this piece to honor our collectivist traditions & to affirm the many global communities who find the concept of “self-care” reductive, confusing or fundamentally indecipherable. Our cultures are rooted in caring for each other & the land that sustains us all— I’m slowly learning to carry & embody these values by any means necessary.

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nonbinary-gothb1tch · 2 years

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hotwaterandmilk · 10 months

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I'm still not well so this isn't going to be articulate, but I wanted to say something anyway.

In the wake of Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (amongst other titles) being purged from streaming I've seen countless posts saying "This is terrible, we need to stop this practice -- they might purge a good show next!" and yeah, for sure a lot of titles being impacted by streaming purges/lack of physical media/a decline in archiving right now aren't going to be remembered for changing the world.

However, I think it is vital that we fight to preserve these titles for their own sake not just because "What if next time it's something we actually like?!" There is value is preserving things widely regarded as "bad" not just because I have firm beliefs about the absurdity of taste, but because who gives a shit if something is deemed "good?" Actual human people put their time and energy into realising these artistic visions. Even if the results are arguably not "good" or "popular", should the efforts of these artists be lost to the sands of time? No, no they fucking shouldn't.

I share a lot of art on this blog from titles very few people consider culturally important or valuabe. However, I don't look at the things I collect & share like that. Even some of the most objectively absurd titles I own are still pieces of art that were developed, published, and consumed by humans in the real world. Whether they've turned out to be broadly memorable or not is irrelevant because they existed and that in itself makes them worthy of preservation so that others can choose to familiarise themselves with them long after the original creative team is gone.

So yes, we should all be trying to preserve the media that's important to us and not let corporations try to stamp out every trace of a financial (though not necessarily artistic) misstep. However, it shouldn't take the threat of something we, personally, like being taken away to stir us into giving a shit.

Even the demise of less admired works should concern us and make us start to burn copies of Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies because it might not mean anything to you or I right now, but to some kid in 20 years it could be a seminal experience that leads them to follow their dreams. Or it could become a cult classic that people reflect on at watch parties years in the future. Or it could continue to be a footnote in the history of television that nobody really cares about.

Ultimately I don't think it matters what level of value we arbitrarily assign to media now or in the future, we should be trying to preserve as much of it as possible so that generations from now people can enjoy the option of engaging with these titles should they so wish.

#personal #idk i just feel strongly that even trash should be allowed to exist #and all of us be able to access it if we so choose #some of the most meaningful film experiences of my life have involved B movies and other “low” culture properties #i'm not well enough to even start rambling about high and low culture and the rich #but as an audience we should be able to select what we want to consume #and we should be able to access it regardless of local laws or cultural norms #that's why the efforts of archivists and media preservationists from the lost media wiki to the louvre are so important #“but this spongebob ad had no impact on society who cares if it is accessible or not?”#you can't determine the value of something based solely on your own experience with it #so yeah spongebob ads and episodes of wheel of fortune should continue to exist #and so should the trashiest shoujo manga in the world #god and i haven't even touched on how disproportionately things like this affect work by artists of colour #queer artists and disabled artists #it's super fucking shit and i refuse to let streaming take away these media choices #ok back to my covid sick bed

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hussyknee · 1 year

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Regular reminder that if you don't live in the Global North, nothing they have to say applies to the rest of us. Actually most things they say have little value anyway since the Global South and Eastern folks are afterthoughts to them, much less center us in their social justice.

- The USAmerican cultural hegemony has fuck all to do with us. Be aware of what they're trying to peddle you, but they have more power to harm and radicalise you than you have ever could to harm them. This applies to both the Western left and right wing. They are both equally racist, colonial and imperialist.

- Global North issues around capitalism, exploitation and piracy have nothing to do with us. Consumer activism might work to some extent over there idk, but if anyone brings it up over in the lands of the Black and brown people, you can laugh them out of the country.

- Their queer history is not ours. Congrats to Stonewall and all but that's just some shit that happened in the US. We need to dig past 18 different strata of cultural genocide and colonial garbage to mine our queer histories back into the light, and designing microlabel flags and fighting over colonizer language acronyms have fuck all to do with that either.

- Always pirate everything within reach. Save up and buy from authors and creators you really like (that's what I do – esp when it's a BIPOC creator), but people who can't afford to buy shit in the first place ain't stealing food out of anybody's mouths. Pirating is praxis and always has been since the days of the East India Company.

- Don't buy into the USAmerican theories of race. They aren't universal. "BIPOC" especially is a USAmerican specific term, it is not used in the UK or other settler colonies. Constructs of race and the tribal Other far predated European colonization; race as a colour system that exists today is simply one variation of it. The global apartheid against the mellanated takes many forms, histories and terminology. There are especially no "people of colour" in Asia, Africa, Caribbean and Polynesia. There are only people who live there, and "people of white".

Race is a fake, made-up conceptualization imposed by whoever has power within each region. It's ethnic, cultural and casteist, with no biological basis whatsoever. There is no uniformity, no universalism, no rhyme nor reason to any of it; the only people who know exactly who doesn't belong are the oppressors. I'm seeing concepts like "unambiguously black" floating around the terminally online Western left; any dark-skinned person of the Global South should split their sides laughing at it. Whites have no ambiguity on who the darkies are.

- Read, watch, listen to, play whatever the hell you want, just have the sense to pirate it, and to be very conscious about the narratives they try to smuggle.

- When the US and UK speak, listen with compassionate interest, offer what solidarity you can spare for their downtrodden, and then go back to reading and following your own fucking news. Focus on our own women's and reproductive rights, trans rights, queer histories, rise of fascism, militarisation, anti-blackness, class warfare, nationalist violence, imperialism etc. That is decolonization, that is emancipation from the Western cultural hegemony. Everything else is the bread and circuses of empire, in which both the left and right wing of the West are complicit.

We owe the Global North nothing more than we can each individually afford to extend to them on grounds of common human decency and compassion. Which is a lot more than they will ever reciprocate.

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cepheusgalaxy · 8 months

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I'm really vibing with spreading my culture around here so I wanna present you guys a person

This is Monica, a popular character of a brazilian comic franchise for kids!

(Everybody reads it tho)

She has this lil bunny called Sansao (yea like the biblic character), is known for being super strong and hot-headed. These comics are often light and funny, with some fantasy nonsense sometimes in special editions

The four main characters are;

Monica herself

Cebolinha (little ognion)

A boy who king of frenemies-to-lovers with monica and is known for making plans to annoy her and he has some problems with spelling

Magali

Monica's best friend, known for having this cat, being very sweet and eating like a motherfucker dragon

Cascao

Cebolinha's best friend. They are often togheter, making hyper-elaborated pland to turn down Monica, but he's usually the voice of reason in the friendship

He's also known for not liking water and being very smelly

So, hm, its a little weird talking about it to foreigns, but that's it

Curiosities

The man who used to make the comic is called Mauricio de Souza and he inspired the main characters Magali and Monica on his daughters

He is not leading the comic anymore, and now the franchise is being driven by his son, Mauro, who's gay 🏳️‍🌈

The content used to be very violent, mostly when Monica was angry at Cebolinha for annoying her and shouted at him. Yea, that is the dinamic in oldest comics

Now he's making it more friendly and inclusive

This franchise has 60 years lol

There are movie adaptations, cartoons and another comic series for this franchise. The another series features monica and her friends in hight school, and is called Monica Teen

Monica Teen's stories are more structured, have a manga style and the story often gets more seriously. The characters also old in this comic, being the first volumes they appear very young (14yo or so), but in the latest they look more 17yo. This series also have a magical/anime approach many times, and many, but not all, stories are related.

More black characters are in the cast now, as in before all of them were purely white

Milena, a new character in the comics. She is in the cast of both Monica 'nd friends (the comic) and Monica Teen

Some editions are special and feature important issues like environmentalism and ableism with an educative approach

One of the regular characters is Luca

A wheelchair user and Monica's childhood crush

This is Dorinha

(full post here)

#turma da mônica #brazil #brazilian culture #comics #kids comic #gay #queer #queer stuff #sorry for the long post #representation #disabilities #disabled characters #international culture #neurodivergency

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lifeonkylesfarm · 2 years

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Just a reminder that July is disabled pride month! I think we've all seen people talking about "gay wrath month" but please don't erase disabled pride month. Disabled people are already left out of the conversation enough.

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isa-ah · 1 year

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I think one of the best things I've done for my dash is gradually finding and following blogs that are outside of my circles for content that humanizes people who get dehumanized by daily american propaganda. I follow a few Chinese and Japanese fashion blogs, a blog dedicated to translating korean tiktoks, a bunch of black models who post portfolio pieces, etc. like. you need to put in effort to keep your feed from becoming entirely homogenous, and you get to have such a wider perspective on the world thru their content by doing it. 10/10 y'know

#which sounds obvious when you say it but i know a lot of young white queers follow me #yall have to do things to actively combat the exceedingly narrow boxes you can brcome surrounded by without even realizing it #esp with the purity culture / queer infighting / algorithms that hide poc and disabled content etc #find blogs that proudly represent people who arent necessarily within your social sphere! its good for you!

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disabled-queer-culture-is · 11 months

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Happy pride month especially to all the disabled queers.

Happy pride month to the cisn’t disabled queers who get judged for their presentation and their decisions on what medical procedures they do not want or cannot have done on their bodies.

Happy pride month to the aspec disabled queers who are told they’re promoting harmful stereotypes by being themselves.

Happy pride month to all the disabled queers constantly subjected to invasive questions about their sex lives.

Happy pride month to the disabled queers who get told they’re “too much” for daring to exist as a person who is both disabled and queer.

Happy pride month to the disabled queers who get told to “stop making their disability/orientation/gender their whole identity”.

Happy pride month to the disabled queers who are blocked from their own spaces by the ableism of others.

Happy pride month to the disabled queers who cannot express themselves without losing the support they need to survive.

Happy pride month to disabled queers.

#disabled queer culture is loving other disabled queers #pride month #abled people can rb but if you clown on this post im going to rip off your toenails #and im doing the same thing if you bring that freaking pikachu meme within 30 feet of me #aspec people and straight trans people are just as queer and deserving of respect as anyone else

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cryptidcripplepunk · 10 months

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Would any of you like me to draw you anything? We don't have money for dinners or like, the next few dats and my parents are in the same boat as us so they can't help. I think I need like $100 honestly, me and my roommateas still having the issue of being hungry a lot because of t so pretty much no matter what we eat ( usually just spend $10 at cook out ( 10 items for $10, way better than buying food at the grocery store tbh )

Either way any help is appreciated :)

#disabled artist #c slur tw #c slur #cripplepunk #punk #cripple punk #queer cripple #queer punk #cpunk #queer #witchcraft #witchblr #punk culture

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mzminola · 1 year

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Every time I see a flare-up in discussion of the terms “cultural christianity” & “culturally christian” I see multiple people suggesting the term “christian hegemony” or some variation on it instead, under the assumption it will be less inflammatory, and I gotta say that one, I strongly disagree with that assumption, and two, it’s not actually an interchangeable term.

There are places in the world where Christians are a cultural minority, and they are still culturally christian, including the people in those communities who are atheist. They are just also being affected by whatever culture is the majority in their area. They are being affected by a non-christian hegemony.

I am a Jewish atheist from a mixed family who grew up in the US with atheist & agnostic parents. I have a mix of culturally Jewish & culturally christian ideas, attitudes, values, worldviews, etc, with some New Age Hippie Stuff thrown in for good measure.

That’s a neutral description of me. It is a neutral description of my background.

Sure, because I grew up in the US I was affected by christian hegemony.

But if you kept all of my parents’ backgrounds the same, and had me grow up in a country where christian culture is not the majority, where it cannot be described as a hegemony,

I would still be a person from a mixed family who is a mix of culturally Jewish and culturally christian and influenced by New Age Hippie Stuff.

I would just, also, have whatever local culturally majority is influencing me too.

“____ hegemony” and “cultural ____” are not interchangeable terms.

“culturally ____” is a neutral description on it’s own. People can use it positively, negatively, or neutrally, just like they can with any baseline-neutral term. Any term we come up with to replace it will have the same problem of some people using it negatively, and derailing the discussions.

So, maybe let’s give each other the benefit of the doubt, and not assume other people are insulting us personally when discussing this stuff?

#cultural christianity #cultural jewishness #or would it be #cultural judaism #???#social issues #hi I'm a queer Jewish atheist and I'm tired #queer circles and disability activism circles can tell you that #any new term introduced as supposedly more neutral #WILL be picked up by assholes as a new insult #so like #let's not play by the assholes' rules?#lets not play hot potato and musical chairs with the jargon for discussing all this?#let's just have the discussions and tell the assholes to piss off?

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lifblogs · 1 year

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So my mom thinks people are more rude than they were "back then," and I looked it up and it seems the conversation just revolves around older white people (any surprise there?). So I think the issue is that people are subjected to more information every day than they were in say the 60s and 70s and so on. Because of this, if they don't curate their online experience they are going to see more rudeness (plus there's a whole thing I did a project on with more people being rude online than in real life due to psychological changes with using the internet such as dissociation). Also, do boomers actually know how to curate their online experience? No, not really. I see a lot of shit too about "people were taught how to act and what to say back then." Oh, you mean like calling black people the n-word and things like that? I think they also think people are rude just because they didn't see as many people fighting for their rights and to have the right to take up space. It's also been noted that older generations have been saying this for centuries, according to historians. I genuinely do not see this rudeness problem and am polite to others and tend to run into a lot of nice people. I am wondering if part of the problem is that the boomers in question are rude first, so that's what they'll receive back. I noticed if you're nice people tend to be nice to you, and might even do something extra like help you out even if you just met in passing. I'm just pissed that my mom keeps bringing up this problem, and has this idea that everyone else sucks. She has also called today's world a "culture shock." *eye roll*

#my mom #yes because having queer disabled children #is such a culture shock and too hard right?#but seriously the fucking privilege #there is a reason this conversation revolves around older white people #PRIVILEGED people

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evilwriter37 · 1 year

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I'm so sick of people trying to be palatable to others online and in real life. (I've seen it in both places.) Like, I'm so sick of it. Stop hiding aspects of yourself because they're "cringe" or you're trying to fit in with respectability politics. I've literally never been palatable in my entire life, and I'm not going to try to start being palatable now. You are not a food to be eaten. You're a human being. You don't need to be palatable. Drop the act.

#I'm happier being my freaky queer autistic disabled self thank you very much #ok to reblog #anti respectability politics #anti cringe culture

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