christopherokamoto

[christopherokamoto]

hello my friends, i just wanted u all to know that the way Discord has stylized their logo text makes the letter “D” look like the letter “פ” in hebrew, which is called “pe” and is pronounced sort of like “p”

in conclusion: pisscorp

thank you for coming to my ted talk

[christopherokamoto]

[christopherokamoto]

Jesus am I tired of Tumblr's gatekeeping of solidarity movements. If you asked someone at an in-person cripplepunk meet-up to provide a list of their disabilities to you so you could validate if they're the right kind of cripple for you, you're the one who gets kicked out, not them. Hell, if you asked for a list at an online meet, I'd boot you, too.

The idea that there's some hard bright line which exists between all disabilities of all other organs and disabilities of this one organ is bizarre and unhelpful. It also perpetuates the "but mental disabilities are different" mindset which leads to "oh but mental health coverage is optional, different, and can be shunted off into its own little box."

I have a disability where one of my organs doesn't function properly bc it doesn't make enough of a certain kind of juice, which makes it difficult for me to do certain things which I need to do to function. I have to adapt my life, change what I eat and how I move my body, take medications and rely on others for assistance with my condition. If I don't do that, this condition has been known to kill people. Is that diabetes or post-traumatic stress disorder?

I have another disability in which my nervous system doesn't behave properly, and that causes me great difficulty in my life. I have had to change what I eat, the medications I take, how much coffee I drink, how I rest, and how I deal with the medical establishment. This disability and its diagnosis has profoundly affected how I live my life, and I require assists and accommodations to live my life as I choose. Is that disability ADHD or physical damage to my spine from the tumor which compressed my spinal cord & left scars behind when it was removed?

Do anxiety and paranoia and insomnia and depression count if they're symptoms of celiac disease? If not, why not? They're disabling effects of an autoimmune disorder. And regardless, it's because body not act right so... wtf? How about my memory issues that come from damage from a medication used to treat the pain in my legs?

Solidarity movements are reciprocal, y'all, and I'm exhausted of "you must be this queer/this trans/this disabled to come in." Maybe I'm just too fucking old and too fucking tired to listen to this week's Discourse ™️ about who trademarked what term when while actual problems exist.

I know it probably seems like you're doing something productive to you, but I assure you, you're not. If your issue is "these specific people are being dicks," deal with those people being dicks, and don't ascribe their dickishness to their disability. The problem is they're being a dick.

If your issue is instead "but this isn't as disabling as what I deal with" or "I have that disability and it's not as bad for me as my other disability" or "but it feels good for me to draw a line between disabilities of this one organ and every other organ," then it is you. You are being the dick.

Perpetuating the non-existent line between "physical" and "mental" disabilities helps absolutely no one. It places mental disabilities by default in a "not as bad" category and an "all in your head" one, which ... like, do I need to explain to y'all why functioning labels and categories aren't helpful in disability movements? Why are we resurrecting this shit and giving it new polish?

To be clear, I am not interested in debating this, so trying to tell me how your no-brain-problems-allowed approach is right and good, actually, is a waste of your time, because there is absolutely no way to convince me that trying to keep certain kinds of disabilities out of a general disability solidarity movement based on the organ that disability centers in has any use whatsoever. The line between "mental" and "physical" disabilities is blurry as fuck and trying to fence off all brain problems is not okay, especially since y'all don't mean that because a lot of things which are caused by the brain acting in a non-standard matter are considered "physical" disabilities.

Jesus, y'all make me tired. This bullshit is the least punk thing ever.

[christopherokamoto]

Jesus am I tired of Tumblr's gatekeeping of solidarity movements. If you asked someone at an in-person cripplepunk meet-up to provide a list of their disabilities to you so you could validate if they're the right kind of cripple for you, you're the one who gets kicked out, not them. Hell, if you asked for a list at an online meet, I'd boot you, too.

The idea that there's some hard bright line which exists between all disabilities of all other organs and disabilities of this one organ is bizarre and unhelpful. It also perpetuates the "but mental disabilities are different" mindset which leads to "oh but mental health coverage is optional, different, and can be shunted off into its own little box."

I have a disability where one of my organs doesn't function properly bc it doesn't make enough of a certain kind of juice, which makes it difficult for me to do certain things which I need to do to function. I have to adapt my life, change what I eat and how I move my body, take medications and rely on others for assistance with my condition. If I don't do that, this condition has been known to kill people. Is that diabetes or post-traumatic stress disorder?

I have another disability in which my nervous system doesn't behave properly, and that causes me great difficulty in my life. I have had to change what I eat, the medications I take, how much coffee I drink, how I rest, and how I deal with the medical establishment. This disability and its diagnosis has profoundly affected how I live my life, and I require assists and accommodations to live my life as I choose. Is that disability ADHD or physical damage to my spine from the tumor which compressed my spinal cord & left scars behind when it was removed?

Do anxiety and paranoia and insomnia and depression count if they're symptoms of celiac disease? If not, why not? They're disabling effects of an autoimmune disorder. And regardless, it's because body not act right so... wtf? How about my memory issues that come from damage from a medication used to treat the pain in my legs?

Solidarity movements are reciprocal, y'all, and I'm exhausted of "you must be this queer/this trans/this disabled to come in." Maybe I'm just too fucking old and too fucking tired to listen to this week's Discourse ™️ about who trademarked what term when while actual problems exist.

I know it probably seems like you're doing something productive to you, but I assure you, you're not. If your issue is "these specific people are being dicks," deal with those people being dicks, and don't ascribe their dickishness to their disability. The problem is they're being a dick.

If your issue is instead "but this isn't as disabling as what I deal with" or "I have that disability and it's not as bad for me as my other disability" or "but it feels good for me to draw a line between disabilities of this one organ and every other organ," then it is you. You are being the dick.

Perpetuating the non-existent line between "physical" and "mental" disabilities helps absolutely no one. It places mental disabilities by default in a "not as bad" category and an "all in your head" one, which ... like, do I need to explain to y'all why functioning labels and categories aren't helpful in disability movements? Why are we resurrecting this shit and giving it new polish?

To be clear, I am not interested in debating this, so trying to tell me how your no-brain-problems-allowed approach is right and good, actually, is a waste of your time, because there is absolutely no way to convince me that trying to keep certain kinds of disabilities out of a general disability solidarity movement based on the organ that disability centers in has any use whatsoever. The line between "mental" and "physical" disabilities is blurry as fuck and trying to fence off all brain problems is not okay, especially since y'all don't mean that because a lot of things which are caused by the brain acting in a non-standard matter are considered "physical" disabilities.

Jesus, y'all make me tired. This bullshit is the least punk thing ever.

[christopherokamoto]

You might as well give the current best example... The American Song Contest. This is gonna be such a nightmare next month. 😔

Dear US-americans

Your states are not equivalent to european countries. It does not matter how big some of them are. They're still not a country. They're a state.

Stop acting like they are.

You're not special.

Shush.

Sincerely, Europeans

[christopherokamoto]

Okay, but like, I used to literally order like 3+ back-up batteries for whatever phone I had.  IT WAS SO FUCKING CONVENIENT!  They were small and thin, so you could store them in any kind of small bag and even keep that bag in your pocket.

Like, now you have to bring a battery pack AND your charging cable, then leave it connected to a battery pack for hella long if you need to recharge while you’re away from home.  It’s fucking awkward as fuck if you’re cursed enough to have to walk around and use it while charging.

I used to be able to shut it down, swap batteries, and turn the phone back on in like a minute. 🎻😢

i miss being able to take the battery of my phone out and just hold it

[christopherokamoto]

It doesn’t feel like it’s already been 5 years. 😥

3rd anniversary of the Pulse shooting. 😥

[christopherokamoto]

Also, you can mix n’ match!  If two labels feel like home to you, you can be a bi lesbian, pan lesbian, etc!

is fine if you are questioning yourself, if you don’t know your label, or if you just don’t want to use any… Is okay just be sapphic, a woman loving women. Is fine ❤️

[christopherokamoto]

Literally the reason queer people push those boundaries at Pride is part & parcel with why Pride exists. It's not just a march, it is a public rejection of everything the status quo holds against us.

People's response to that is their own personal responsibility. Full stop. If you've determined you can't handle seeing what happens at Pride, then don't put yourself in the position where you see it.

I'm usually behind y'all on the 'people who are anti-kink at pride are pearl clutchers reiterating homophobic propaganda', but I've done some thinking and have seen some stuff on Twitter that's making me think otherwise. I don't think other LGBT people being wildly uncomfortable with sexual acts is at all on the same level as homophobia. I think honestly it's just courtesy and not wanting to see some white weirdo be super sexual is not like, an insane request. If Pride is supposed to be a riot, a proud march for the LGBT community, I don't get why saying 'hey, some members of the community are making other members of the community uncomfortable. This isn't some Save The Children crusade, it's literally just asking for a little bit of consideration for the people you're in community with'

[christopherokamoto]

Exactly the same for me. I happened to see Pride as a pre-teen.

It was the opposite of what these kink shamers assume happen to kids seeing it. I was elated and excited to find out this many queer people existed! They were collectively holding up a giant middle finger to the status quo. It was amazing.

(Also, surprise, no one was fucking in the streets.)

every time i see posts about "keeping kink out of pride" or w/e it is very clear to me that the op has either never been to pride or went out of their way to make themself uncomfortable at pride.

"think of the children!" i went to my first pride at twelve years old, a couple of months after i came out to my parents. i saw people in kink gear. i saw people shirtless and people in thongs. i saw some people in full leather pup gear. it wasn't a big deal. i just averted my eyes. i wasn't traumatized by it and i wasn't scandalized by it.

if seeing someone in pasties and a body harness would be so upsetting to you that you'd feel unsafe, maybe pride just isn't for you! and that's okay! but it is your responsibility to keep yourself safe and literally no one else's.

whether your intentions are good or not, pride is not the place to be policing people's expression of sexuality.

[christopherokamoto]

Damn, imagine just ignoring the entire history of Pride and acting like kink wasn't woven into the fabric of its existence.

Also, this argument is based on your acknowledgment that you know kink is always at Pride. If you know it happens there, you're consenting by attending since attendance is 100% voluntarily.

Anyway, your annual reminder that your response to things that make you uncomfortable is your owm personal responsibility. You don't get to change Pride down to its core from what it's been since it was literally a riot.

since pride month is coming up here's an obvious reminder that kink does not belong there

kink is about consent. people at pride did not consent to see other folks' kinks.

there are kids at pride who don't need to be exposed to kink at their age. it isn't oppressing kink, it's acknowledging that the folk at pride did not consent and that there are children who do not need to be exposed to kink at their ages.

anyone who argues otherwise are either blind, stupid, or both.

if you think kink belongs at pride, kindly unfollow me now.

[christopherokamoto]

Kink Belongs At Pride

There has been, in the social media spaces, an attempt to turn the concept of consent against queer folks at Pride.

People are now trying to weaponize the concept of consent and they're aiming it at fat folks and people celebrating their sexuality at Pride. "I did not consent to see all that flesh on display, you have to cover it!"

This patreon essay discusses a lot of what I feel is at the heart of people getting uncomfortable with kink at Pride, which is what is allowing this wave of oppression to take hold in people.

Pride began as a protest. A riot. A way for queer people to openly and proudly display all the things for which we are shamed. Pride is for queer people to be unabashedly, absolutely, vividly queer in all the many forms queerness takes. This is Pride's historical context Pride is not to make cis straight ppl "like us" Pride is not an aesthetic Pride is not an individual experience Pride is a connection to all the people who came before us, who died in a revolutionary struggle against oppression, *who were killed because they dared be themselves* So yes. Kink belongs at Pride. Overt sexuality belongs at Pride.

In a lot of ways, the unfolding of it is similar to how TERF-rhetoric is seeping into unsuspecting people. Because they start with something kind of innocuous. Something that maybe uses all the woke sounding words, that progressive-leaning people can agree with. It's like how a lot of viruses work, slinking into the body by tricking the immune system into not recognizing them at first until they've multiplied and taken root.

This new tactic is simply another face of a problem that is absolutely endemic in the queer community. Young queers have little no to no understanding of our history.

It's the same divisive and oppressive talking points that led to the whole "queer is a slur" debacle. It worked so well, so now they've scrubbed off the serial numbers and they're taking another run at it.

And they're going to keep doing it unless we find a way to stop them.

[christopherokamoto]

all the “should kink be allowed at pride” discourse on twitter has made me realize that there are a lot of people (including a ton of young, queer people who consider themselves progressive) who think that if something makes them personally uncomfortable for any reason, then that thing is actively harming them and is morally wrong and needs to not exist, and who don’t realize that there’s a huge difference between "this is being intentionally shown to you” and “this is somewhere you might see it”

not to mention that the US’s ideas and hangups about nudity are so fucking weird

[christopherokamoto]

every fucking may/june kink discourse resurfaces and i am so fucking tired.

y’all use activist language to spread your stale takes while refusing to acknowledge that it is blatant recycled swerf and assimilationist rhetoric AND refusing to actually learn the history of pride. pride should never have been sanitized and commercialized the way it has been and y’all sound like fucking conservative homophobes.

[christopherokamoto]

[christopherokamoto]

It’s been 4 years already. 😥

3rd anniversary of the Pulse shooting. 😥

[christopherokamoto]

Adam... Adam.... post it again lmao I'm gonna piss myself laughing I havent seen so much drama on my dash in YEARS

Ok here u go 🥰