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everyone says join your local mutual aid groups and build community, but uh, what do you do if a lot of them seem to have dissolved and the other ones don't have consistent recurring meetings.

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I rambled about this in tags on another post but I can’t emphasize enough how only focusing on large-scale issues WILL lead to hopelessness & burnout. Activism must include small-scale, achievable works. If you don’t have something you can get your hands around and look at directly, despair will eat you alive.

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Hey you!

Yeah, you

Do you like queer stories? Authors?

Fictional and nonfictional representation of queer people?

Stories with queer people WITH accurate disability representation?

Resources for ALL that fall under the queer umbrella??

Well do I have the place for you…

The QUEER LIBERATION LIBRARY!!

This online library is packed with everything you could want, and more is being added all the time! They even have merch!!

Please help support the library anyway you can, signing up is FREE, just like any library card.

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Not only are any sentiments along the lines of “it’s the responsibility of a marginalised group to be nice to their oppressor” just outright inhumane, there’s no truth to it at all. The beginnings of this wave of online, radicalised men were in response to some of the tamest feminism I’ve seen. The concerns of the early 2010s were, in my experience, “hey could you not take away our right to abortion and blame us for our own sexual assault” and women were being called feminazis for that, women who self identified as feminist were bending over backwards to assure they didn’t hate men, they cared about men’s issues too, and men in turn remained violently misogynistic. Anita Sarkeesian made a simple YouTube video stating that there were misogynistic archetypes in video games - something THAT simple - and men still made flash games about beating her to a pulp. It’s never been about women not being nice enough to men.

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actually metaphors aside we should talk about cyclists as an oppressed group. road rage is class warfare

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Randomly remembered how as a kid my mom would always fast forward through the beginning of 'Finding Nemo' because she thought Coral's death was too violent, so for years I never knew why Nemo was raised by a single father and assumed Nemo's parents had gotten fish divorced and Marlin had won custody of Nemo. My dad's biological parents divorced when my dad was young, so I always knew what divorce was and I knew my Grandma had gotten primary custody of my dad, so I just assumed that's what happened with Nemo. It wasn't until years later when I watched Finding Nemo with my grandparents without my mom and they didn't know to fast forward through the beginning that I finally knew what happened to Coral and I was *devastated*.

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i had a moment today while watching a whiny shitlord complain about the injustice of new sci-fi media having more female leads, i suddenly felt the strangest sense of déjà vu. i couldn’t pintpoint it at first but then out of nowhere, it fucking dawned on me

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Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

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advice from dad

So, my Dad is a 73-year-old Mexican man who has lived here since he was 16. He was in Watts during the riots in 1965; in 1992, when I was in LA, as soon as the Rodney King verdict was announced, he called me, told me what was coming, told me how to stay safe. He has survived horrible living conditions, being kidnapped, physical abuse, prejudice, discrimination. He learned English, got his green card, pays his taxes, works hard, and has three daughters. 

I thought he would be devastated today.

But he wasn’t.

He saw that I was sad and angry, and he asked me why, pretending he had no idea. I almost started crying. And then he said, “no se me chicopale.” 

It means, don’t lose heart. Don’t give in to despair.

I asked him why he wasn’t upset.

He said, basically, “The world has always been this way. There are always people who are afraid, who are racist, who are awful. This is not new. And it will never go away. He won. We can’t do anything about that. All we can do is what we can do. Fight for what matters to us. Take care of each other. And don’t lose heart. And here, I got these unsalted cashews for you and a bag of jamaica drink mix and can you show me how to use the new washing machine because it’s not working.”

And, for reasons I can’t articulate, I feel a little better. 

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Remind yourself that this is temporary.

“This will mean I can’t transition” could be more accurately framed as “parts of my transition will have to be delayed.”

This won’t last forever. One day, your body is going to feel like a home. One day, you’ll have people who call you what you want to be called. One day, you’ll look in the mirror and see yourself. Please make sure you’re around long enough to see it. Sending you so much love.

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yo hey US people who sent in absentee ballots, they are tossing mail-in ballots for no reason. i just had to call my county board of elections and demand a cure for my ballot because north carolina didn't send out any notices of issues with ballots, and the issues are fake. if you voted by mail-in make sure your ballot was actually counted

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If a felon is president, every felon needs to be able to vote immediately from this moment forward

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girls I know this isn’t at the top of the concerns list but you’re gonna want to stop eating commercially produced meat real soon

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