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thedisablednaturalist · 10 months
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We need to talk about how so many queer spaces are inaccessible and even actively hostile to physically disabled people.
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“I feel so much safer here”-straight women in queer/lesbian bars THEN CREATE YOUR OWN BARS!!!! DONT TAKE SPACE AWAY FROM QUEER PEOPLE WHO HAD TO FIGHT FOR THE LIMITED SAFE SPACES WE HAVE!
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If at least two transfems can have a conversation about transmisogyny without being interrupted my someone who is not transfem, the situation passes the Baeddel test and everyone there is fucking canceled for being like a terf or something apparently.
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kakuma-queer · 1 year
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Hello world, reaching to everyone as one of the queer refugees from Kenya Kakuma refugees camp. Life has never been good since we came to the camp years ago in 2019 ,2020 and 2021. Although life is hard, LGBTIQA refugees have continuously joined us in the camp in the latest years leading to a larger number of lgbtiqa refugees in Kenya.
The camp has over 200,000 total number of refugees with just about 1300 lgbtiqa+ refugees. Its just a smaller ratio of lgbtiqa regugees facing persevution from the bigger number of other refugees.
Most of us have fled from Uganda where things turned out to be hard on queer people including death and imprisonment of lgbtiqa people. I call upon everyone tk help and support the the fellow queer people surbive through this trauma. You can’t imagine we have lost friends through death due to homophobia. One of us who was killed badly by setting fire on them did noy live for a month later. When we rushed them to hospital, doctors knew was trans and so devided to delay him and later died. We please need everyone to help. Even contacting UNHCR can help.
Look we have a youtube channel for more information and links like petitions and fundraiser are attached to our youtube channel
Our fundraising campaign, help and donate if you can, if you can't please share, we are currently looking forward to constructing an iron sheet fence as it will improve our safety.
As the leadership team for our group, we estimated it to take $1200. We also love to install a solar system that will cost us $700, will include solar panel, battery, inverter, lights and extensions. Where we shall be able to charge our phones from our premises and also have security lights to avoid attacks at night. and avoid unnecessary movements that also put us at risk of attacks. Please help and support us so that we can improve our safety. With the iron sheet fence we shall reduce on the risks of attacking us by homophobes especially when we are sleeping. I please call upon your support as we shall account for all the money donated to us. Thanks
It takes a good and kind heart to help, you will always stick on our hearts yiu people that make us feel we sre loved and cared about. Sustaining ourselves has failed us. We would prefer having jobs however no one can give a job to a demon like how the call us to be.
Hospital treatment in the government and UNHCR hospitals is hard because of homophobia and delays on LGBT people. For the love and support of one another, we love you.
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fishbphotography · 2 months
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Brunch @ XOKO Bakehouse
Inverness, Scotland, UK
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I miss the real life LGBT+ spaces. They felt more uniting, I felt genuine connection and solidarity. Don't get me wrong, online spaces are still great but they often end up emphasising the negatives and amplifying the differences between different sexualities/genders etc in a negative way instead of celebrating what makes us unique. I miss marching with my fellow comrades and feeling invincible. I miss having a physical safe space to be who I truly am.
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balestrem · 9 days
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Working in diversity and inclusion as a queer person who has been living and moving through queer spaces for half my life has shielded me from a lot of pain and suffering in some ways. I had places to vent, to express and to talk about my experiences. Because now I am in a cis-het world, with less queer people and all of a sudden people are so hesitant to talk and express experiences of discrimination.
It just dawned upon me that I have had a luxury to live and breathe in queer spaces, where my experience of discrimination has always been a non-negotiable fact. It was something that was frequently talked about and quite the relief. Now, seeing closeted queer people struggle to even put their experience of discrimination into words, is just so eye-opening, because they did not have the same luxury as I did.
I see you. I hear you. I am fighting to make your voices be heard.
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whatbigotspost · 1 year
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A friend sent me this story and it’s a good time for me to ramble on for a sec about how fucked up it is for the exact people who are wreaking abusive control and violence against their LGBTQAI+ children and the community widely are positioning themselves as protectors and the queer community as abusers simply for existing in a way that says, “you can have a happy life exactly as you are.”
Content warning: descriptions of child abuse coming…Most garden variety adult survivors of child abuse like me can tell you that it’s really really often the adults who are screaming “I’m protecting you!!!!!” at kids who are actually the exact person we needed real protecting from. My dad’s version of “protection” quite frequently meant trying to control my every thought and movement while bludgeoning me with an endless onslaught of his interpretation of Christianity as the reason and justification.
His control and violence was excused because it was “for my own good.” He was just “doing his job to protect my soul” or what the fuck ever. I’ll never forget him explaining to my brother and I how we needed “the devil beat out of us” sometimes.
I am certain this is how people like MTG parent.
There’s another post out there floating around right now about how “save the children” has become a wildly effective dog whistle for conservative Christofascists and the like. It’s true and it makes me so fucking mad because what I really really needed growing up (and eventually found, thank god) were queer affirming spaces so I could breathe for a moment and stop hating myself.
I can’t even bring words to do justice to how important 2 particular adults were to me, welcoming me to hang out in homes that became safe havens for me and many other of my friends…places were everything was gay as fuck and I was safe TRULY SAFE. To suggest they were the problem? The groomers? It’s laughable to a degree I can’t do justice.
I wish there was a way we could take the reins of the “think of the children” thing away from Christofascists. It needs to mean “create spaces where kids can be 100% themselves” and YES that will mean lots of queerness because a fucking lot of us are queer. Sure people of all types can be abusers…positioning gay and trans adults as inherent “groomers” is the same old homo and transphobia as ever, repackaged using long debunked stereotypes and outright lies.
My dad was the real groomer in my life. He tried to to groom me to accept violence as a part of love. To become some theoretical man’s good little wife and servant for life. To hate myself so deeply that I’d turn into a broken person like him and have kids I also didn’t want and export my self-hatred to them and so on, forever. Thank god he failed but if people like MTG get their way, they will abuse so many more children who may not be lucky enough to survive it. It’s terrifying and THOSE KIDS deserve and need protecting from her.
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mauros-hlios · 1 month
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me: so yeah, because i grew up from a fat child into a fat adult, i've been chronically excluded from sexuality as a whole. so when my peers were having their firsts with their significant others, i was being asked out as a joke. and when my friends in uni were getting dressed up and considered sexy, i was "cute" and "adorable" at best. and in certain groups, even nowadays, i have to be super careful not to show my attraction to anyone, because i will be viewed either as creepy for even having a small crush, or like a middle schooler crushing on some famous idol. either way, i am treated like i don't actually have a chance with them (especially if said crush is skinny or fit). and because of that exclusion from "typical" sexuality, i was very early on introduced to online lgbt+ and kink spaces, because these were the few places where i could feel desirable. so the reason i, as a fat and queer person, may be viewed as overly sexualising myself, is because this is my way of healing from the mindset/culture i grew up with.
cashier at KFC who complimented my chain leather garters:
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kaliarda · 2 months
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skywalkerbootleg · 5 hours
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a lot of the time in online spaces I'm way more surprised to find out people are cis than them being trans
Like oh you're trans I thought we all knew
You're cis?? Like, no gender dysphoria and born with sex characteristics matching your gender identity?? That's wild man I never would've suspected that
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hey, it's the anon who asked about jkr. I figured it was like that, but my brain made me need to check. Thank you for answering! i understand what you said about not supporting her, but not letting her take away the good parts of the community. I hope it was clear that i was curious and i mean no shade whatsoever /gen but i realize i may not have worded things well so i wanted to clarify just in case it came across wrong. thank you! (you don't need to answer this, i just wanted to say)
Hey don't worry at all anon maggot!! I'm so so glad that you asked me, and like I said on that post, I understand entirely why you needed to. I feel the same way all the time with creators that I don't know. Well, I'm more of a chaos demon and not a creator here, but the point stands.
And you didn't word anything wrong at all! It was a valid question, and an important one, and you were very polite about it.
Thank you for asking, I'm happy that I was able to help you feel more at ease. Fuck JKR and transphobes. Take all the love. We need more safe spaces, and I hope I can create one. I hope I have.
Ask whatever you feel like, maggots, really. I'll answer the best I can. I mean, as the Good Omens Mascot, and as someone who loves Crowley to death... Ask questions. Keep asking questions. And also suggestions. For Starmaker, keep asking questions, and know that the suggestion box is open.
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This has been a slight rabbit hole, but I’m tired of seeing disrespect and disapproval in queer spaces from straight people. I’m tired of this weird “we must have shared spaces” thing. If you’re straight/cis going to a queer space to ogle the people there because they’re different than you, you’re not there for the right reason. If you’re using queer clubs/drag shows for amusement and act like children around performers, get out. Straight cis people usually don’t read up to understand our culture. They see it as fun and quirky. They still have their rigid definitions of sexuality and gender and bring all of those definitions with them into the spaces. Straight men are still uncomfortable with being seen as gay. Like???!?? Why would you bring him to a queer space if he’s afraid another man is going to find him attractive? So he can fetishize queer fem people? He can get his ass out. If you are straight in a queer space, I’d ask myself why. If you are, maybe keep it to yourself. I’ve had straight girls tell me that they always get hit on in queer spaces and are scared bc butches have been demonized by media as predatory. The discomfort cis/straight people have in queer spaces is violence and I’d rather keep them out of our spaces altogether.
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This piece is not meant to be exhaustive, but to offer an attempt at a better framing for the conflict between TMA and TME trans people than commonly applied, and to give some perspectives that might help us overcome our issues and avoid dishonest discussions.
The Transmisogyny Rift There runs a deep divide through the trans community. It originates in the hegemonic culture that created transantagonism and misogyny in the first place. Trans people cannot be blamed for creating it, but a certain demographic of trans people can and must be criticized not just for failing to help close it, but for quite often widening it for their own benefit.
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imkrisyoung · 2 months
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This spot is essential for Washington DC's queer community. Please donate and/or share!
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The owner of The Backlot, a popular LGBTQ2S bar in downtown Calgary, is in search of a new location as a development permit application has their current space in jeopardy.
The Backlot has been in its current location on 10 Avenue S.W. since 1996, but the bar has served as a gathering space for Calgary’s gay community for nearly 50 years.
“It’s been a community bar, kind of like a Cheers of the gay community,” Backlot owner Mark Campbell told Global News.
“There’s a lot of people that have, for the first time coming out, have gone to the bar and felt comfortable enough to be express themselves in their true form.” [...]
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Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @abpoli
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