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Muslim Drag Queens on Channel 4. The controversial hour-long documentary  follows the lives of three gay Muslim men Asif, Ibrahim and Imran, who live in the UK and performing on the drag circuit.  Muslim Drag Queens offerers a rare insight into the lives of a hidden community living in Britain today and explored the taboo subject of being gay and Muslim.

Oh, we need to protect these Queens at all costs because they’re receiving death threats. 

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For most people, life doesn’t truly begin until they’re 26-30 or older. The way we romanticize and obsess over youth is super harmful. Your life is not over at 21, I promise you. It’s just beginning

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“I remember when I first realized I never had to have children. It was like walking out of a narrow alley into a wide open field. I never have to get married. I never have to date anyone. I don’t even have to care about sex. These realizations were like gifts that I gave myself.” ― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir (Affiliate link)

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isn’t it also terrifying what it implies for the social landscape if most people start believing that like, friendship is an inappropriate domain for sharing vulnerabilities and processing grueling parts of life. the correct way to go about it is always to see the Emotions Technician who has more mastery over your internality because of their degree and the threat of institutionalization shouldn’t get in the way of sharing anything particularly difficult

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"FUCK EVERYTHING HURTS" I scream, remembering I have the Everything Hurts Disorder

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idk thinking about how sometimes you have to show up for people you aren't that close to, because sometimes you're just the person who's there. sometimes you invite a new friend to a party and end up having to sit with them through a panic attack. sometimes you run into an acquaintance on their worst day and they need to talk about what happened. sometimes someone is crying in a stairwell and you're the only one around to ask if they're okay. and none of this is "trauma dumping" or whatever the fuck it's just being there for people because you're the one in the room with them.

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Gay Girl Prayers

Emily Austin

A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

The extreme level of sass in Emily Austin's Gay Girl Prayers does not mean that this collection is irreverent. On the contrary, in rewriting Bible verses to affirm and uplift queer, feminist, and trans realities, Austin invites readers into a giddy celebration of difference and a tender appreciation for the lives and perspectives of "strange women."

Packed with zingy one liners, sexual innuendo, self-respect, U-Hauling, and painfully earnest declarations of love, this is gayness at its best, harnessed to a higher purpose and ready to fight the powers that be.

(Affiliate link above)

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full offense but if you only support cult survivors who were born into the cult or their family joined when they were children, you don’t support cult survivors.

everyone can be a victim of a cult and you’re not special or better than people who joined as adults just because you haven’t yet.

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Saint Bernardine of Siena

1380-1444

Feast day: May 20

Patronage: advertising, compulsive behavior, public relations, gambling addicts, chest problems, Italy, San Bernardino, California

Saint Bernardine was a 15th-century Franciscan preacher, known as the “Apostle of Italy” and of "the Holy Name of Jesus”. He devised the Greek symbol, IHS, for the name of Jesus. In his youth, he cared for Siena's plague-stricken patients. In 1404, he was ordained a priest, and 12 years later, he started preaching. His sermons attracted thousands to conversion. Pray for us, St. Bernardine, that we may always choose to speak Jesus’ name with reverence and choose words of love over words of shame.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

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god, radfems just looooovvvveee to hurl misogyny at men and masc people because they think men/mascs cant experience that shit since theyre not women/feminine

they crave an acceptable target with which they can externalize their internalized misogyny and have fully convinced themselves that men/mascs are perfect targets, and then they never actually bully and harass the men in power but rather men that are already oppressed like disabled men, queer men, and men of color

what a pathetic, miserable existence you all have created for yourselves

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I genuinely think there was no greater insight into the modern Christian mindset than when the Pope said he very much hoped Hell was empty and he was absolutely hounded by both Catholics and Protestants outraged at the idea of a man who wanted a place of infinite suffering to have nobody in it.

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where is the beautiful mexican intersex pope

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please those two guys kissing as soon as the camera panned on them during the habemus papam celebration...

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Sometimes it pains me to know

that my girlfriend spends every moment thinking about me...

.... wishing me well.

While I sit here, in my dorm, lonlier than ever

Watching as I sit, idly, letting the life I ever dreamed of,

pass me by.

I wonder how she feels knowing

that I forget often.

There's a place out there where I am wanted.

Where I am remembered,

loved, cherished.. honored.

I always wondered what it would be like...

to fall from grace.

Afterall, I never had much of a reputation to lose,

but that was...

before I met my sheep.

My flock. My children.

My beloved friends.

Now I lay here in this garden

Agonizing over

the pool of blood

my river of tears

I look the the Lord

If not my will but yours be done

Outcasted, Lonely, Isolated

Yet again I pick up this cross,

To the Glory of my precious Lord

I carry on my search for more sheep

For now it is I who has become a fisher of many:

The poor in spirit.

The lost. The loney.

The broken.

Well,

If it must be so then

Blessed are the poor in Spirit

Blessed are the weary

The Meek

The mourning ...

Thus says the Lord.

Therefore with this cross I bear

I am blessed to be.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe appearing to St Juan Diego on a storefront in Los Angeles.

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pray for those who hate you

pray for those who mock you

pray for those who curse you

pray for those who belittle you

pray for those who laugh at you

pray for those who persecute you

pray for those who can't stand you

pray for those who would never pray for you.

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things that happened to me when i was a woman in STEM:

an advisor humiliated me in front of an entire lab group because of a call I made in his place when he wouldn't reply to my e-mails for months

he later delegated part of my master's thesis work to a 19-year old male undergrad without my approval

a male scientist at a NASA conference looked me up and down and asked when i was graduating and if i was open to a job at his company. right before inquiring what my ethnicity was because i "looked exotic"

a random male member of the public began talking over me and my female advisor, an oceanographer with a pHD and decades of experience, saying he knew more about oceanography than us

things that have happened to me since becoming a man in STEM:

being asked consistently for advice on projects despite being completely new to a position

male colleagues approaching me to drop candid information regarding our partners / higher ups that I was not privy to before

lenience toward my work in a way I haven't experienced before. incredible understanding when I need to take time off to care for my family.

conference rooms go silent when I start talking. no side chatter. I get a baseline level of attention and focus from people that's very unfamiliar and genuinely difficult for me to wrap my head around.

like. yes some PI's will still be assholes regardless of the gender of their subordinates but, I've lived this transition. misogyny in STEM is killing women's careers, and trans men can and do experience male privilege.