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I just woke up and wrote a review of finding dory. Just gonna leave it in my drafts cause like why did I just write that

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regarding the "racist white transfem" thing I see occasionally and from my own personal perspective: I've experienced more racism and alienation from everyone except those "evil white women". this includes other trans men.

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Music in Film: Sinners (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler original score by Ludwig Göransson

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That’s it, that’s all I got. Happy Valentine’s Day, tumblr, thank you for tolerating me.

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🚨TONIGHT!

🎉The season 7 finale of Game Changer launches on @dropoutdottv at 7pm ET / 4pm PT!

Starring host Sam Reich and contestants:

🗳️Brennan Lee Mulligan

🗳️Aabria Iyengar

🗳️Vic Michaelis

🗳️Ally Beardsley

🗳️Demi Adejuyigbe

Make sure you watch all the way to the end...

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reject the western gaze!

mutual aid means no hierarchy between givers and receivers

a new mutual aid org, Bridge of Solidarity, has been established in the gaza strip by 17 year old poet yazan mohammed in response to the exploitative practices conducted by some charities and encouraged by the existing charity-based model of fundraising for gaza. according to BoS: "the western attention economy and pity economy plays a large role in who lives or dies in gaza." essentially, people need to make themselves marketable in order to receive lifesaving aid; people who are not marketable die. yazan himself wrote about the damage this can do to one's self image, which you can read here.

after trying for a year to respect his own privacy, my friend siraj was also pressured into posting images of his son's emaciated body in order to gain sympathy from westerners.

we cannot keep forcing people to do this anymore.

here's a declaration of their values from bridge of solidarity's most recent post:

Our organization is against the Western gaze. We refuse to humiliate people. We refuse to force people to take photos. We refuse to force people to take photos with our flyer or logo. People will receive aid freely without being forced to pose. We will respect people's privacy completely. Our principles include autonomy, dignity, sovereignty, mutual respect, and mutual aid.

this org will prioritize giving aid to people without phones or social media, who do not speak english, and who do not have outside support or living parents. these are the people who are not palatable to westerners but who deserve to live with as much dignity as everyone else

as of five days ago, BoS are working on a water truck delivery

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Being mixed (Black/white) in the us is basically like this

Pretty much will never come up in spaces with all white people unless I bring it up. If it comes up, it's usually just a weird conversation like people thinking it makes sense to tell me their cousin is mixed (fuck me if they have a mixed kid this was a trap) or just tell me to what degree it did or did not surprise them

But when a Black person happens to inquire, it's usually just "white mom?" and we've about reached the full breath of it.

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Poll for Black, non-white and non-black LatinX, and East Asian/Pacific Islander People

Poll for Native American, Arab, and Desi People

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Nothing prepared me for that kinktober thing. Mrs and Misses Toxic Yuri did not survive getting their end scene cut in other counties for them to go out in this blaze of vanilla

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"hey baby girl, are you crying in the jail cell I had your sister in? Yeah the spot is still warm, lol, yeah sorry you know how it is - she killed my mom and I brought her in after she lost an adopted child, haha, good thing there isn't anything complicated or toxic about our dynamic. What's that? You're grieving about how you always choose wrong and you are alone? Anyway, before you fuck me on the jail cell floor, I just wanted to make sure that we both enthusiastically consent and that there are no correlating factors that might make you struggle with consent - lol like if your first meaningful relationship ended in an instance of abuse and then you got ghosted and then were suddenly offered the only chance of intimacy you've had in decades cause you experienced all of puberty in prison (its okay its my prison now) and have no support systems whatsoever to protect you from any emotional damage. Anyway before I go down on you I am gonna bring up how I was fucking someone else pretty consistently while you were self harming to cope - oh good you have issues -rightieo chomp chomp chomp"

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april looks fucknig adorable in bantu knots fr

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I dunno why I made this

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Omg hiiiii Eda

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The way tumblr users talk about racism makes it really obvious they learned about it from Harry Potter's muggle born wizards plotlind

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I mean Tumblr is also in bed with literal Nazis. Like I don't even disagree with anything except the idea that somehow y'all are above Twitter users' criticism when this app is ALSO run by a Zionist racist transphobe on which reporting Nazis who openly post propaganda literally doesn't work but reporting Black people does. 😐 Like actually y'all could stand to sit together and discuss the way y'alls racism manifests, rather than completely dismissing it altogether (a la Tumblr). Y'all are racist siblings in the same house, one room is just into the mainstream and the other room writes fanfic. 😐 The phone is ringing for both of you!

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me: you literally have a disorder. this is symptoms

me: no perhaps my soul is rotten