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finch fancam❤

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Moschino Resort 2023✨

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Same

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Alexander Girard, Shadowbox with crosses, 1960-69. © Alexander Hayden Girard. Indianapolis Museum of Art.

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So “queer” isn’t just an identity that’s broadly inclusive because, I don’t know, we like big parties. There’s actually an underlying ethic, a queer theory, that has political implications.

Its name reclaims a slur because the point is to say, “I am different, but that’s not a bad thing.” The queer movement is about upholding the right of all people to deviate from an oppressive cisgender, heterosexual, patriarchal norm. Broadening the spectrum of acceptable diversity; questioning and dismantling the social pressures that police and punish deviance. Changing not just our own lives, but how our entire society thinks about sex and gender.

That’s why “queer” embraces so many different groups. It’s not trying to erase their differences, but to try to coherently understand the complex overlapping pressures that affect each of them, and to extend our reach beyond the LGBT+ community. It’s about the right of lesbians to live without men and the right of trans and nonbinary people to be who they are, the right of asexuals to define for themselves what’s significant in their lives, the right of straight men to be vulnerable and emotional and nonviolent. When the great queering project is done, you will see the changes everywhere, not just in small LGBT+ enclaves.

It’s recognizing that something that harms or oppresses one of us is pretty likely to harm all of us, so we all benefit from taking it down together.

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Mission Accomplished

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Every person need to be taught disability history

Not the “oh Einstein was probably autistic” or the sanitized Helen Keller story. but this history disabled people have made and has been made for us.

Teach them about Carrie Buck, who was sterilized against her will, sued in 1927, and lost because “Three generations of imbeciles [were] enough.” (A decision which still has not been reversed)

Teach them about Judith Heumann and her associates, who in 1977, held the longest sit in a government building for the enactment of 504 protection passed three years earlier.

Teach them about all the Baby Does, newborns in 1980s who were born disabled and who doctors and parents left to die without treatment, who’s deaths lead to the passing of The Baby Doe amendment to the child abuse law in 1984.

Teach them about the deaf students at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts school for the deaf, who in 1988, protested the appointment of yet another hearing president and successfully elected I. King Jordan as their first deaf president.

Teach them about Jim Sinclair, who at the 1993 international Autism Conference stood and said “don’t mourn for us. We are alive. We are real. And we’re here waiting for you.”

Teach about the disability activists who laid down in front of buses for accessible transit in 1978, crawled up the steps of congress in 1990 for the ADA, and fight against police brutality, poverty, restricted access to medical care, and abuse today.

Teach about us.

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“In The Shawshank Redemption, Morgan Freeman’s character Red narrates that Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) “crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.” Still Just a Geek is the story of how Wil Wheaton did the same thing.”

— Side Trekked #2: Wil Wheaton, “Still Just a Geek” – Deep Space Spines

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Why do you block messages? Oh wait… you don’t want to be called out on your BS. Now you’re disparaging Elon with pathetic vitriol? He’s done more for humanity than you ever will. It’s nice to sit in the cheap seats and hurl insults, isn’t it. What have you done lately to make society better? And don’t bother responding. You have nothing to say that I want to hear.

Elon, your alts are getting easier and easier to see through. You’re the richest guy in the world, and you spend all this time pretending to be mediocre dudes who worship you. It’s embarrassing. Get a life, you bozo.

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Image courtesy the Ominous Positivity Memes page on Facebook.

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A light-skinned hand holds a flaming rose on a background which is a gradient from sky blue to sunset pink. The text on the image reads, “In an age of performative cruelty, kindness is punk as fuck. Be punk as fuck.”]

“But what about performative kindness?” you might ask.

Well, performative kindness might be doing the right thing for the wrong reason, but it’s still doing the right thing.

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Black and Gold Sapsucking Slug, Cyerce nigricans

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Spread love to neighbors

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That has to be one of the witchiest most beautiful purples ever ❤️‍🔥💜❤️‍🔥💜❤️‍🔥💜

Made your mark on me, a golden tattoo

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King’s college in the rain. 

Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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getting lost in an old forest and finding yourself here

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