honestly when I see someone with a gender/sexuality label I don't understand, I treat it like seeing a mutual post about a show I don't watch. like I understand that it's important to them even if I have no idea what's going on and I respect that. it would be weird to complain about a show being confusing when you've never watched it or even read a synopsis, and it's weird to complain about an identity being confusing when you don't identify with it.

Transsexual love notes part 3/5

Letterpress and screenprint on linen cloth

you had a bad day at work today? you are not alone. so did so many other people today, hundreds of thousands if not more. Our suffering is not rare, is not isolated. Please do not give in to the alienation, to the feelings of powerlessness. We are capable of incredible change. Talk with others, coworkers, other workers near and far. We all share the oppression of capitalism in our lives every fucking day. Form systems of autonomy and liberatory practices. Learn how to steal, make sure to work the bare minimum and have daily restroom breaks. perhaps twice a day at least, and always push it to 10 minutes at minimum. do more if you can. Buying food together, especially in bulk saves funds. Eating together splits the labor of making food. Coordinate systems as a community. Provide aid to eachother. ridesharing saves gas. having work groups to make useful things saves funds (eg cabinets or tables or chairs or sheds etc). work with any space you can get to grow food to share. guerilla garden, forage, fish, hunt if you so desire. and do not forget to give back to nature. we are a part of this ecosystem and should recognize such and participate in nature. Your community doesnt just mean those housed, it means the homeless person walking the streets. the unhoused guy under the bridge. the vagrant girl passing through town. those sleeping in the encampments. Create public shower systems, work together to create public restrooms (because holy fuck it is HELL to go to the bathroom anywhere nowadays). Have communal cookouts. make sure your unhoused neighbors are warm, provide spare blankets and clothes, spare shoes and socks. We can make this world such a better place. We keep eachother safe.

I will explain now why this tweet @reversedshinyoumaru agrees with is basically radfem ideology 101, the exclusion of bisexuals was started by lesbian separatists who were cis straight "politicial lesbians", in modern times these people are known as radfems!

A bisexual person is someone who is attracted to more than one gender, though not at the same time and it differs between romantic/sexual. What do you call a bi girl who is attracted to another girl? Or a trans woman? Or a non-binary person? What do you call someone who has preferences for women and enbies only?

A lesbian :D

Radical lesbians were afraid of both butch lesbians and girls who found men attractive (with or without wanting to date them). They were accused of "sleeping with the enemy" even though many bisexuals aren't attracted to men at all!

Saying that "bi means attraction to men and women only" is not only wrong but also erases so many other gender identities!

And even if you use the anti-black and trans-/enbyphobic "non men loving non men" quickly tell me, how many identities fall under "non man"? If you're attracted to enbies, you could call yourself bi and or a lesbian :D But hey, I know I can't win against transphobic radfems

You see, any exclus is anti-trans/queer :D because queerness is the acceptance of ALL gender identities and overlapping experiences! Picking and choosing who can be in your "exclusive club" is against what queerness stands for!

Being queer means you stand for liberation, not assimilation!

I bet at some point I will see "queer is a slur" discourse from you people, I mean you are already helping fascists shooting down elder queer people and you're calling them groomers, appreciate laws that censor queer/trans identities from books with the "think of the children!" excuse because you think you won't be targeted if you act like a good, wholesome only queer.

People will hate you regardless. So instead of shooting down the people who made it possible for you to identify yourself as queer/trans, why not march with kinksters, pick up a brick and throw them at cops who are trying to imprison you?

Quick reminder that this is a bi/pan lesbian and nb lesbian friendly blog and if you wanna be a cop about labels you are welcome to take that divisive terf shit literally anywhere else

I have to say, as much as I love the fix-its and the spiked coffee theory, the part of me that's the queer kid living in a homophobic and sometimes manipulative household wants to watch Aziraphale make that mistake fully on his own and grow from it

I say this as a 35 year old trans queer who has been out since I was like 12. I'm desperate for y'all not to take us backwards. liberation, not assimilation.

Pride Month reminder: we tried assimilating in the 1950s-1960s and it didn’t work! If you are making an argument about what a Queer person should do based off whether it’s going to upset straights or is disruptive to society, you have learned nothing from our history. This country (the US) has given us nothing when we try to fit in, it has only ever given us a little bit of freedom because we flew our fucking freak flag and threw bricks at cops!

That trans person who whipped her tits out at the White House Pride event shouldn’t have had to apologize and no Queer person should have agreed with Fox News when they bashed her. Fuck the president, fuck the office of the president, I don’t care what Biden or his staff thinks should happen at a Pride Event they are our class-enemy.

three separate white people pissed me off bad in class today can y’all be quiet tomorrow to make up for it

State Validation is not Liberation

CW: COVID-19

Potent section from "Queer as in fuck you" written by anonymous and published by Sour Queer Press which resonates strongly:

What is fascinating to me is that queer community focuses so much on consent. It’s truly mind blowing to see people go back to dance and house parties, large and small events, unmasked. Poetry readings and community care events, all with either no or sloppy precautions that make no sense (fyi, if you require masks you better have a way of making sure people are wearing them or else you are still excluding disabled folks). The irony to me of a group that cares so much about community and being trauma-informed contributing to the spread of a disabling virus is too much. And there aren’t really words for seeing person after person let you down. All in the name of something we (queer militants) have a history of fighting: assimilation. Eugenics in the name of mental health. As if queer disabled people aren’t some of the most creative people I’ve met. And I’ve been so disappointed in the queer community that I forget: so much of the invisible (no thanks to you) queer community does care about covid. It’s the aesthetic, back-to-normal, eugenicist, assimilating queers that don’t care. And it dawned on me: y’all aren’t fucking queer. Your values align with every white woman you make fun of for being fragile, attached, sensitive. Queerness is more than a denim vest and who you fuck or don’t. Queerness means fighting for the very values “queer” (from this point on, y’all queer fuckers that don’t take covid seriously are getting a “”) people are abandoning. We lost an entire generation to AIDS, and the nightmare is a generation of “queers” who are happy to forget how hard we’ve fought for each other. It seems like people think queerness is more about how you look and not about how we move. So do me a favor, stop calling yourself queer. You don’t deserve the label. Go hang out with the boring ass cis hets who go to brunch on the weekend and go to that new restaurant for Wednesday night dinners. I’m sure they’ll appreciate your added spunk and since that’s what you’re assimilating into anyways, just get to it and stop pretending. In the meantime, we’ve been building community, whoever has a filter lugging it back and forth to houses, taking whatever money we can spend on masks for ourselves and each other, watching movies and making art. But I’m gonna be honest, that’s not good enough for me. That’s what you want anyways, isn’t it? For us to isolate in our communities. No, I think I’m going to start calling in our AIDS ancestors and bringing dead bodies and ashes to your doorstep.

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Fucking depresses me no one is cautious during deaf events or pride events even though deaf people are more disproportionately likely to be disabled; and queer people are also disproportionately more likely to be disabled. Even more infuriating when one of the reasons why we don't have many queer elders over the age of 40 was because of the AIDS epidemic and we have had campaigns like safer sex awareness and consent as well as distributing harm reduction supplies such as free condoms.

this has got the be the most insulting post i've ever seen in my life. imagine saying this to cleve jones' face lmao

Since June is coming up “soon” reminder that Folsom is an 18+ exclusive event and pride has about as much “nudity” as on a normal beach

Marshie here doesn’t go to pride so maybe you should stay home when queer people celebrate all sexualities and kink instead of spreading the “gay people are sex offenders” panic and sounding like a MAGA/Alt Right Troll or radfem

READ QUEER HISTORY or go play cop with your friends in Christian “family friendly” communities and events. Cops are not accepted at pride or queerness. EVER

Radical feminists like these people here are not QUEER

God, reading about and listening to podcasts about queer history it's disappointing to see that people have been infighting about the same shit for years

Had some wine feeling good made a really shitty bowl in ceramics class this morning that I’m really worried has a bunch of air holes in it and had a really crappy therapy session where I didn’t talk too much but was honest about some other stuff which is good overall I guess but now I’m doing drunk crochet and watching the Duggar family documentary and probably going to stop watching soon once they start talking about the awful stuff but yeah day in the life of a woman doing her best I guess