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Yall remember how Texas had that "report an abortion" form that they had to take down after a week?
Well, Missouri has one, only it's for reporting transgender concerns.
Comrades. Friends. Romans. Countrymen. You know what to do.
#queer politics#transgender#trans rights#trans legislation#trans genocide#missouri#fuck the AG man#PLEASE deal with this the same way we dealt with the texas one#i want this man to be SHAMED#I want my trans kids to know they are LOVED#i want this thing down by SUNDAY#please. if you do one thing for me ever im asking that this is it
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I literally do not care what the Bible says about any political issue. I am not Christian. Christian scripture should have zero effect on my life or my personal freedoms.
#abortion#abortion is a human right#abortion is healthcare#pro choice#pro choice activism#abortion rights#reproductive freedom#reproductive justice#religious freedom#politics#feminism#feminist#queer#queer politics#queer theory#lgbtq#mine
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Don't really know how to say this but thinking that the democratic party and that Joe Biden are the most pro-trans and pro-queer politics can get is why you're constantly begging for scraps. For the love of god your american exceptionalism is hurting YOU at this point, for ONCE please look at REAL leftist movements in the global south, look at the real achievements on politics and legislature that queer leftists on the global south have accomplished in the past few decades and then you may finally realize that the reason you're forced to depend on a broken non-democtactic bipartidary system without any real leftist representation is that you're taught to think that what you have is the best by the sole reason of being the Great United States of Murica™.
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So it wasn't enough that abled queer people made sure disable queer people weren't welcome at Pride, they are now erasing disability pride month by declaring July "queer pride 2."
No, it can't be both when the abled queer community was very loud with their opinion that disabled queer people aren't welcome in the community.
Pride events refused to require masks.
Pride events refused to care about wheel chair accessibility.
Pride events refused to make sure shade and seating was available, (without the pressure of some corporate stooge trying to sell something) something that would benefit everyone!
Meanwhile Pride events happily welcomed cops and corporations.
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ok who has "accidental trans ally Keir Starmer" on their 2024 bingo
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Solidarity with my comrades in the US fighting against this vile legislation. I've made sure to share this with all my UK based drag contacts but don't have any direct US contacts so please do share this and make sure everyone who can get involved knows that the union is there for them.
Link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/ActorsEquity/status/1631743221322620929?t=Dc9Rvnyxlr9ZNQUuh6U_uQ&s=19
#us politics#news usa#actors equity#trade unions#politics#queer#queer politics#trans rights#transgender rights#drag race
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if you think that queer is a slur get the fuck off of my blog
#star speaks#just saw someone reblog a post of mine about slur discourse with this take#imagine reblogging a post. from a slur url. then trying to say queer is a slur in the tags.#queer#queer politics#discourse#queer is not a slur
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Chap 12. Melancholy Natures, Queer Ecologies by Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands (part 3, final)
Queer Ecologies
‘what it might mean to inhabit the natural world having been transformed by the experience of its loss’?
‘[the queer artist's] natures are not saved wildernesses; they are wrecks, barrens, cutovers, nuclear power plants: unlikely refuges and impossible gardens. But they are also sites for extraordinary reflection on life, beauty, and community’ (344)
AIDS and Other Clear-Cuts
The artist (Jan Zita Grover’s North Enough) writes about moving from San Francisco, where she has worked as a personal caregiver to many individuals who were dying, and died of, AIDS, eventually to the woods of Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota hoping for ‘a geographic cure’ to her burnout and grief. (344)
‘in their persistence [grief, mourning], generate a form of imagination—an awareness of the persistence of loss—that allows her to conceive of the natural world around her in ways that challenge the logic of commodity substitution characterizing contemporary relations of nature consumption” (344)
“The north woods did not provide me with a geographic cure. But they did something much finer. Instead of ready-made solutions, they offered me an unanticipated challenge, a spiritual discipline: to appreciate them, I needed to learn how to see their scars, defacement, and artificiality and then beyond those to their strengths—their historicity, the difficult beauties that underlay their deformity. AIDS, I believe, prepared me to perform these imaginative feats. In learning to know and love the north woods, not as they are fancied but as they are, I discovered the lessons that AIDS had taught me and became grateful for them” (344)
Rather than the landscape of her dreams, the land looks more like a candidate for reclamation. Through Grover’s research we learn that the region is one that been ‘systematically abused: logged several times, drained, subjected to failed attempts at agriculture, depleted, abandoned, eroded, invaded, neglected.”
Jack pines are predominant in the region; tenacious, ‘the first conifers to reestablish themselves after a fire” (16), in their own way remarkable even as they are useless for lumber, short lived, and not at all the sorts of trees about which adjectives like ‘breathtaking’ circulate” (345) they are a loud testament to the violence that has generated them.
“the diminishment of this landscape mortified and disciplined me. Its scars will outlast me, bearing witness for decades beyond my death to the damage done here” (20) But still: the love emerges, painfully, gradually, intimately. (345)
She experiences the landscape in terms of loss and change, rather than idyll and replacement. It is all personal; it is all about developing a way of making meaning that recognizes the singularities of the past and takes responsibility for the future in the midst of intimate devastation. (345)
‘Environmental hubris’—fly fishing, the introduction of non-native fish to the river, changing temperatures of rivers caused by logging and diversion; specific policies, politics, and technologies that have had effects on the rivers, the fish, and the other species throughout the river and the north woods (356)
A refusal to demonize the ‘invasive’ species; Grover herself is ‘invasive’ both culturally and personally (white settlers and big city imports) thus her ethical claim is not for purity but for an active and thoughtful remembering of historical violences in the midst of ongoing necessity of movement and change (346)
Seek relationships with Clear-cuts and landfills in order to bring to the foreground the massive weight of human devastation of the natural world; “a discerning eye can see how unstewarded most of this land has been. The charm lies in finding ways to love with such loss and pull from it what beauties remain” (81) (347)
“she does not romanticize the dying even as she might mourn their loss to the world; instead [through Grover] we witness each loss as particular, irrevocable, and concrete: she is their witness” (347)
Can we learn to see these landscapes as creation as well as destruction?
Rather than mourn the loss of the pristine, she carefully cultivates an attitude of appreciation of what lies before her, beyond the aesthetic wilderness to the intricate details of human interactions with the species and landscapes of the region. In this manner she comes to be able to find the beauty in, for example, landfills and clearcuts; far from naivete or technophilia, this ability is grounded in a commitment to recognizing the simultaneity of death and life in these landscapes, the glut of aspen-loving birds in the clear-cut, the swallows, turkey vultures, and bald eagles near the landfill.
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It is necessary to face our fear and pain; we have to make room in our relationships with the natural world, queer and otherwise, for the recognition that that is what we might be feeling in the first place (355)
#queer ecologies: sex nature politics desire#queer ecology#queer theory#ecofeminism#critical ecology#environmental politics#ecology#aids crisis#mourning nature#ecogrief#colonialism#environmental degradation#melancholia#queer politics#melancholy#environmentalism#climate and environment#environmental justice#forests
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tbh the very concepts of “feminine” vs “masculine” are entirely man made constructs. just imagine…thousands and thousands of years ago when we were cavemen, do you really think they were like “look at this BLUE sky, it’s so manly and masculine!” or “look at the PINK flower, how feminine and girly!” of course not. because that’s stupid. and do you think they were like “you can’t play with this dirt! girls have to cook!” and “sorry bud you can’t sleep with your friend because he’s a guy and that is a SIN!” NOOOOOOOO.
like there’s nothing wrong with identifying as a woman or a man, and I myself identify as a woman, but I do wonder how much of that is due to the societal definition surrounding femininity. it will be interesting to see how my relationship to femininity and womanhood change as I reconstruct my definitions of those things.
anyways, I think that the increased exploration of gender identities is beneficial to EVERYONE. when we can accept that gender is a construct, we can more freely explore ourselves without worrying about fitting into the boxes of “feminine” and “masculine”
#wlw#wlw yearning#boygenius#julien baker#literature#lucy dacus#phoebe bridgers#webweaving#writing#yearning#queer politics#gender politics#gender#genderfluid#queer community
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I made these in my time at college for research + more practical work. The first one is heavily inspired by the artist sweatermuppet, as I really love his queer graphic designs. I want to continue to make things similar to this in the future.
The second is one I made without any reference, using the pink triangle that was used to label gay people in Germany during the second world war. Subtly hinting at queer discrimination. I really enjoyed making it and yeah :)
Btw i mostly use my tumblr to document my college work so yeah :)) Follow along if u so dare to see my bullshit!
#art#graphic design#artists on tumblr#illustration#gay#pink triangle#flowers#transexual#transgender#transgender artist#queer#queer politics#queer artwork
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something something you won't avoid being sent to the death camp just because you coddle your oppressors instead of siding with other oppressed people something something you're not and never will be the exception something something first they came for the communists something something history repeats itself
#m#politics#lgbtq#queer politics#antisemitism#history#also “he considered eastern european jews to be racially inferior” yikes
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Queer family is me and my husband who met at our school's LGBTQIA+ Alliance in college.
Queer family is my boyfriend who got ordained so he could officiate his partners' wedding.
Queer family is our household, which consists of three people who are in love with each other and building a life together with two dogs and two cats.
Queer family is my friend and former lover taking a week off graduate school in Australia and flying across the world twice in one week so she could be at our wedding in person.
Queer family is setting aside a bedroom for our asexual friend to make it clear she will always have a space in our home.
Queer family is our fridge stocked with soy milk and vegan butter because one of our friends is allergic to dairy.
Queer family is my biological siblings who are also queer and who thankfully had a much easier time coming out than I did.
Queer family is planning a baby shower for my nonbinary friend to help them pay for baby clothes, cribs, diapers, etc.
Queer family is the homes and communities we build for ourselves and each other.
Queer family is the ancestors who went before, who dedicated their lives to building a future where I could safely live as an openly queer person.
Queer family is the children I will help raise, whether I'm their parent or not, who will hopefully live in a more accepting world than I do.
Queer family is the descendants I will never meet, who will experience gender and sexuality in ways I can't even imagine.
Queer family is strong.
Queer family is powerful.
Queer family is beautiful.
#having Feelings about love and found family today#queer family#found family#queer#lgbtq+#lgbt#polyamory#queer community#queer politics#queer pride#mine#this post is trans inclusive#terfs fuck off#terfs dni#genderqueer#nonbinary
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policing lesbianism
“Biotypes” by C. Smelser and B. Weise. Published in “Anything That Moves”, 1991
#anything that moves#bisexual#bisexual history#lesbian#lesbian history#gay#queer#lgbtqia#pride#bisexuality#bisexual pride#bi history#queer history#gay history#queer community#bi lesbian#mspec lesbian#homoflexible#inclusionist#queer politics#lesbian separatism#political lesbianism#90s#comic
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happy trans day of visibility! i made this piece last june but it remains one of my favorite things i’ve ever made. the collage i used as a background is a collection of anti-trans bills from the states i’ve lived in, with blood leaking from the seams. it’s a self portrait of myself binding with trans tape done in acrylic.
#trans artist#trans art#transgender#transmasc#political art#anti trans legislation#acrylic paint#painting#artist#queer art#queer artist#queer#queer politics#tw blo0d#trans day of visibility
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I know that most transmaxers don't consider themselves part of the lgbtq+ community/ Real (?) trans people, but I tagged The stuff anyway because I'm curious what the queer community thinks
#trans#transmaxing#transmaxers#lgbt pride#lgbtq community#I'm curious what the lgbtq+ community thinks of them#the gays#transgender#transfem#trans rights#Queer politics#queer theory#queer community#Chronically online#Internet culture#internet#incel#incelbur#incel behavior#incels#trans ideology#lgbtq#queer#lgbtqia#Reddit#internet history
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What can I say? I meet good people in good struggles every day, almost every day. Our numbers are increasing in the number of young people on the streets struggling for justice, whether it’s climate, or Palestine, or trans rights, or anti-violence. It’s really moving to me.
(I think the title is somewhat misleading, this article is far more about their latest book and general thoughts about the current movement)
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