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i know im getting into a serious topic here but thisbhas to be said. the bullying and harassment of innocent children in schools is going too far. i myself have been harassed multiple times A DAY due to the fact that ive been openly trans and gay since 6th grade. the school board in my district refuses to acknowledge the outright cruel way kids are being treated. my friend @idkwhydoyouwanaknow and i, ad well as many of our other queer or ally friends have been working to fix this. so far we've created a GSA for our school and reported everything we can about or treatment and still the office workers remain to be homophobic and deny that we are being treated wrongly. so, if your environment is safe to do so in your school, your childs school, even just mentioning to your local school district about the chance to start a GSA or at least complain about any bullying going on is always a good idea. if you live in an area where its unsafe for you to do these things, please just reblog this post to help it reach more eyes and have more effect on queer youth.
#lgbtq#lgbtqia#gsa#lgbtq community#lgbtq youth#homophobia in schools#gay#trandgender#unfair#help needed
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via the Arkansas Advocate
it’s official: in Arkansas, library staff may now be charged with a Class D felony for providing books to their communities that are deemed “obscene”.
in Florida, school librarians and teachers can be criminally charged for checking out books to kids that dare to touch on LGBTQ topics & gender identity, thanks to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
book censorship in the US is at such an all-time high, book sanctuaries are popping up all over the country.
library staff aren’t physically safe, either. just over the past couple months, threats against libraries and their staff resulted in the temporary closure of “five public library systems due to bomb and shooting threats," ALA. active shooter trainings have become the new norm for me.
the censorship myself and my colleagues have been watching unfold over the last several years has felt like watching a slow-motion car crash.
but this bill? this feels like a death knell for my profession.
via Teen Vogue
when I was a confused queer kid growing up in an ultra-religious household, the library was my refuge. when I asked hard questions, librarians listened and gave me the tools I needed to answer them. in many ways, libraries saved my life. it's why I became a librarian.
I can't believe I'm living in times where future generations of kids may not have access to the same refuge I did, but it's happening.
if you live in the US and you care about protecting open, equitable access to information, please check out the American Library Association for anti-censorship resources in your state, info on contacting your representatives, etc.
you can also report censorship you see in your community and ALA will investigate (1-800-545-2433, ext. 4266; [email protected]).
I know this isn't my usual content, but libraries are standing on the edge of a horrifying precipice- one we can't escape on our own.
libraries are free society's canary in the coal mine, and all the alarms are singing. when libraries fall, nations usually aren't far behind.
this matters- and we need help.
#censorship#book banning#libraries#banned books#arkansas#florida#public libraries#school libraries#librarians#american library association#american libraries#lgbtq+#lgbtq+ history#us politics#homophobia#transphobia
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Nex Benedict — a nonbinary, Native American, 16-year-old sophomore — was reportedly beaten to denath on February 7 by three older female students in the bathroom of Owasso High School in Oklahoma. The school refused to call an ambulance for the injured teen and didn’t inform police of the attack until Benedict was later admitted into the hospital — they died from their injuries the next day.
#owasso high school#your fave is anti-native#anti-native racism#anti native racism#homophobia#cherokee#nex benedict
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My class had a sleepover at my school and we played the 7 minutes in the closet game in the computer lab and I made out with my crush and the FUCKING HOMOPHOBIC GYM TEACHER WALKED IN.
#dream#text#class#sleepover#school#7 minutes#making out#homophobia tw#crush#gym teacher#gym#teacher#queueueueueueueueueueueueueue
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Inspired by the trash homophobic conservative poll that was going around recently:
#lotr#overthinkinglotr#tw: homophobia#my theory about these people#is that most of them are Catholics who got into lotr because its a Catholic approved book or w/e#but they genuinely don’t know how to interact with a novel unless they’re treating it as a Bible#and don’t know how to interact with fandom unless they’re treating it as a congregation#and don’t know how to interact with an author unless they’re treating him like God#and it’s obnoxious#this is a fandom not Sunday school#the point of art in conversation and communication#not mindless submission to authority
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Boyfs who like to annoy each other
#this took me a really long time because I studied the actual school map Starfleet was filmed in to get the details right#and I also studied a bunch of different screenshots from the movies to get the buildings correct#so I’m pretty proud of this#yay I love to be accurate it makes me so happy#Anyways still not a major fan of AOS but they’re a little funny I guess#ok tags now#star trek#spock#kirk#star trek aos#star trek kelvin timeline#aos kirk#aos spock#aos spirk#spock my winkle bop#oh also I love AOS spock he’s so cat with homophobia in its eyes ❤️#but I slightly dislike Kirk.. STOP BEING SO FATHERLESS BEHAVIOR TOWARDS WOMEN.#loamsart
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the boy is HOMEEEE ignore old plushies my bookshelf is a mess rn. why does he look so sad
#can you tell i kept my books from middle school because i havent bought new ones in years#books look so good on a shelf until you see dork diaries and classic lit from school .#speaking of i HATE lotf and love a separate peace dearly#i wrote a 1k word essay on why they were gay as fuck but also had awful internalized homophobia in 8th grade#and got 100% so my teacher agreed !#house md#gregory house#hate crimes md#james wilson#hilson#they're on a date btw#shitpost
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Every so often I do find myself thinking about The Eclipse because I went into that show expecting a mildly politically-conscious high school drama with some kind of supernatural element and came out having watched a comprehensive dissertation on the damage internalized homophobia does to a person and the way people in authority can weaponize fear to facilitate the persecution of marginalized people by members of their own groups, and absolutely no eclipse-related magic to speak of
#the eclipse#im CHEWING ON IT i think im gonna have to rewatch soon#its like this slow realization as you watch too#like i feel like i need to rewatch to fully absorb jt because for the first few eps ur like#so the plot of this show is about this eclipse curse and some vague enemies to lovers high school romance#and then once u get in deeper ur like oh. no its abt homophobia and how restrictive fanatical cult-like worldviews lock in vulnerable teens
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Republican “priorities”
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brief update on work:
-met with a focus group of parents. they were WONDERFUL.
-arranged an approved day off next week to work on our school’s antidiscrimination program, meet with student leaders, etc.
-arranged for paid (but sadly optional for now) staff training by the ADL in inclusive practices and what to do when we witness discrimination
-came up with a staff slogan to help make changes visible to students
-got the ok for staff t-shirts with the year’s slogan
-arranged for making two videos, one with students, one with staff
-developed a smaller scale staff training on how to support queer students
-put together slideshow for first GSA meeting tomorrow!!!!!
-will present accomplishments and action plan to PTSA next month
#teaching#text#our school has a horrible school culture#and we have a big racism/homophobia problem#and I’ve been put in charge of fixing it essentially
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Kids are murdered by police.
Kids are working because their families are poor.
Kids are homeless.
Kids are in jail.
Kids are forced to give birth.
Kids are terrified of dying in a school shooting.
Somehow, the "let kids be kids" crowd are okay with all of that but angry about LGBT people's existence being mentioned.
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My Theory on Kazui's Parent's.
Q: Is there a meaning behind your name?
A: It's cause I'm the eldest son. It seems like my father was also wishing I'd be "a strong man."
The wording of Kazui's answer here really makes me think. We know that Kazui is strong. He defended Fuuta against Kotoko and even talks about having "never gone up against a woman [like her]" in his VD, implying that he has gotten into fights before (most likely at work - either in the field or in training.)
It seems like, to me, Kazui has parents with very traditional views. Kazui's father wishing that he would turn out to be "a strong man" could imply that he places value on the old-style gender roles in family or society in general. Yes he most likely thinks that being strong physically is important, but also being strong mentally. A 'normal' man who doesn't cry, doesn't show emotain. A man who provides for his family and sticks to tradition, simple as. A son who does what's expected of him - that kind of strong.
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I also think the way Kazui talks is linked to his family's old-school beliefs. Despite only being 39, Kazui always refers to himself as an "old man" and says things like "when your mature/older like me," etc. It's a bit odd, though it might be a cultural thing. Kazui does call himself immature though, so for a man who believes he has only grown up in terms of his age and not his mind, he puts an awful lot of weight on what it means to be an adult. Can you see where I'm going with this? Yup it's back to his strong man comment baby!!!
In that previous qoute Kazui says how his father was also wishing he'd be a strong man. I think the other person Kazui is referencing might very well be himself. I think if Kazui has been taught these old school gender-roles since he was a child, then he might hold alot of weight to them. He wouldn't know any different if that was all he heard about what it meant to be a man as a kid, and therefore wants to live up to that expectation his parents hold of him. He, however, quickly learns that he is not this way and internalises it as something being wrong with him, something that isn't normal that he must fix. Which brings me to my next point...
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I think that Kazui's family are more important to understanding his crime then we may think based on what's been shown to us so far, and I'd even go so far as to say that their beliefs might've been a very big reason/the reason on why Kazui felt the need to lie and marry Hinako.
If we take a situation where Kazui has very traditional parents who want him to grow up quickly, get a nice job and settle down young, it might make sense on why he felt obligated to marry Hinako. In Half he talks about how he's confused on why he doesn't feel happiness in their relationship, as "isn't this what happiness is?" I believe these ideas came from Kazui's parent's. That perhaps they unknowingly (or full knowingly) drilled the idea into his head that a perfect looking couple such as he and Hinako is the ultimate true love, the true happiness, and that he should follow in those steps if he wants to be happy and successful as it in turn will also make them happy and proud of him.
#i left out how this could tie so fucking well to the gay theory because thats theory ON theory speculation aka. a seperate post#(that i will probably rant about once we learn more about kazui's family)#but just know that i see that comment about him being an embarrassment to his family.#i see how growing up around old-school expectations of marriage and gender roles may lead to internalised homophobia.#i see the connections. in these two theories.#any ee way sorry this is late its still technically posted 'tomorrow' though so!! ♡ (its 11pm)#i have a maths test tmr pray for me. also if u have any other thoughts on this topic pls lmk i am so curious about his god damn family#i wanna learn more so badly#GOODNIGHT!!#milgram#kazui mukuhara#milgram theory
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Had to read the Bible in school today.
I ignored the lesson and found the part about Bildad the Shuhite. I did not realise the whole 'God and Satan making a bet' deal was actual Bible canon lmao-- also Job is so depressed poor guy. (I didn't read to the end before class was over though)
Then I found the part about God hating gays (it literally does say 'God hates that' in this edition) which I found hilarious.
So yeah no idea what the lesson was actually about 👍
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On Thursday, Justice Neil Gorsuch released a 26-page opinion venting outrage about a legal dispute that does not exist, involving websites that do not exist. Yet this case, built on imaginary grounds, will have very real consequences for LGBTQ consumers, and for anti-discrimination laws more broadly. All of the Court’s Republican appointees joined Gorsuch’s opinion in 303 Creative v. Elenis.
That said, the fake dispute that Gorsuch imagines in his 303 Creative opinion involves a reasonably narrow legal question.
In the past, Christian right advocates have sought sweeping exemptions from state and federal civil rights laws, rooted in their expansive notion of “religious liberty.” Often, these lawsuits claimed that the Constitution’s safeguards for people of faith allow anyone who objects to LGBTQ people on religious grounds to defy any law prohibiting anti-LGBTQ discrimination.
303 Creative involves a much narrower dispute. The case centers on Lorie Smith, a website designer who wishes to expand her business into designing wedding websites — something she has never done before. She says she’s reluctant to do so, however, because she fears that if she designs such a website for an opposite-sex couple, Colorado’s anti-discrimination law will compel her to also design wedding websites for same-sex couples. And Smith objects to same-sex marriages.
As Gorsuch summarizes her claim, Smith “worries that, if she [starts designing wedding websites,] Colorado will force her to express views with which she disagrees.”
This is not a religious liberty claim, it is a free speech claim, rooted in well-established law, which says that the First Amendment forbids the government from compelling people to say something that they would rather not say. In ruling in Smith’s favor, the Court does not say that any religious conservative can defy any anti-discrimination law. It simply holds that someone like Smith, who publishes words for a living, may refuse to say something they don’t want to say.
The full implications of Gorsuch’s opinion are not entirely clear. In the past, religious conservatives have argued that artists and artisans of all kinds — including bakers, photographers, and floral arrangement designers — should also be allowed to discriminate under the First Amendment, because all artistic work necessarily entails some kind of expression. Gorsuch punts on this question, writing that “hypotheticals about photographers, stationers, and others, asking if they too provide expressive services covered by the First Amendment,” are not present in the 303 Creative case.
And it is worth emphasizing that the particular kind of work that Smith does, writing words on a publicly available website, fits more snugly within the First Amendment than a similar claim brought by a wedding cake designer or a florist.
Before this case was argued, I wrote that if Lorie Smith had been approached by a same-sex couple and refused to design a wedding website for them, and if she had then been sued for refusing to do so, then she would have a very strong First Amendment defense against such a suit. As the Supreme Court said in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (2006), “freedom of speech prohibits the government from telling people what they must say.” And that includes the right of a web designer to refuse to write words on a website that they do not wish to write.
But none of these events have actually happened. And, for that reason, the Supreme Court should have dismissed the case.
THIS CASE SHOULD HAVE NEVER MADE IT THIS FAR
The frustrating thing about this case is that it involves an entirely fabricated legal dispute. Again, Lorie Smith has never actually made a wedding website for a paying customer. Nor has Colorado ever attempted to enforce its civil rights law against Ms. Smith. Indeed, in its brief to the Supreme Court, Colorado expressed doubt that its anti-discrimination law would even apply to Smith.
Yet Gorsuch’s majority opinion repeatedly paints Smith as a hapless victim, oppressed by wicked state officials who insist that she must proclaim a dogma that she denies. As he writes in the very first paragraph of his opinion, “Colorado does not just seek to ensure the sale of goods or services on equal terms. It seeks to use its law to compel an individual to create speech she does not believe.”
This claim is simply untrue. Colorado has not brought any enforcement action against Smith, or taken any other step to compel her to say anything at all — or to design any website that she does not want to design. Nor has anyone ever sued Smith for allegedly violating Colorado’s anti-discrimination law.
Indeed, in one particularly amusing turn, Smith alleged during an early stage of this litigation that she was approached by a man about doing some design work for his wedding to another man. Yet, after the New Republic’s Melissa Gira Grant contacted this man, she learned that he never reached out to Smith — and that he was married to a woman.
These facts matter because federal courts, including the Supreme Court, do not have jurisdiction to decide hypothetical cases. As a unanimous Supreme Court held in Texas v. United States (1998), “a claim is not ripe for adjudication if it rests upon ‘contingent future events that may not occur as anticipated, or indeed may not occur at all.’” So the Court should have told Smith to go away and come back when she had a real dispute with the state of Colorado.
303 Creative, moreover, is the second time Gorsuch has taken such liberties with the truth in order to rule in favor of a religious conservative. Almost exactly one year ago, Gorsuch handed down the Court’s decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District (2022), a case about a public school football coach who, after games, would walk to the center of the 50-yard line and ostentatiously kneel down and pray before students and spectators — often while surrounded by players, community members, and even members of the press.
Indeed, in her dissent in Bremerton, Justice Sonia Sotomayor included a photo of Coach Kennedy holding such a prayer session, as a throng of uniformed football players and other individuals kneel with him, and as people holding video cameras look on.
And yet, Gorsuch’s opinion in Bremerton claimed that Kennedy merely wanted to offer a “short, private, personal prayer,” and then Gorsuch ruled in favor of Kennedy based on this fabricated version of Kennedy’s actual conduct.
Needless to say, this is aberrant behavior by a Supreme Court Justice — and really by six Supreme Court justices, since all of the Court’s Republican appointees joined Gorsuch’s decisions in 303 Creative and Kennedy.
#us politics#news#vox#2023#us supreme court#SCOTUS#303 Creative v. Elenis#republicans#conservatives#justice neil gorsuch#religious liberty#republican homophobia#anti lgbtq discrimination#lgbtqia+ rights#lgbtqia+#Lorie Smith#Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights#Texas v. United States#Kennedy v. Bremerton School District#justice sonia sotomayor
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I had to help Avatar character Aang stop Zuko from being homophobic while I was at a school of some sort.
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Loud cheers erupted inside a packed high school gymnasium after the Brandon School Division rejected a call to remove books dealing with sexuality and gender identity from libraries.
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The school division was inundated with calls, letters and emails after a delegation at its May 8 meeting, led by former school trustee and grandmother Lorraine Hackenschmidt, called on the division to set up a committee to review the content of books available in school libraries, and remove titles deemed inappropriate, including "any books that caused our kids to question whether they are in the wrong body."
Before the vote, board chair Linda Ross said there were many "errors and untruths" in Hackenschmidt's presentation.
Ross said that by denying the possibility that people could feel like they are born in the wrong body, "you are denying the reality of others. Because it is not your experience does not mean that it is not the reality of others."
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Tagging: @politicsofcanada
#cdnpoli#canadian politics#canadian news#canada#canadian#brandon#manitoba#brandon school division#libraries#education#homophobia#transphobia#homophobia tw#transphobia tw#library books
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