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LET'S HERE IT FOR THE MONSTERFUCKERS WE ARE WINNING

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My hip is aching something fierce today. Moving doesn't help. Sitting still doesn't help. I'm on my cane, and I've got 800mgs of ibies on board. I may actually try the heating pad, which I usually avoid because it tends to make joint aches worse, but ice doesn't really do much for me in general, so heat may win out. It may actually be fine for my hip. I never know which joints are gonna be in which mood when it comes to the heating pad. I think that's likely an MCAS thing. I don't know.

Anyway, I'm sore and hate it.

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we could go back to telegraphs instead of social media. send your mutuals unspeakable strings of morse code at 4:30am

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decided to get started on the fanfiction oh/OH. print design. This one is getting released November 6. Selected chrysanthemums because of their meaning and cus they're pretty

there are

SO MANY FUCKING PETALS

i am going to BED

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Gaetz has removed himself from AG consideration. This is good news. Hopefully, he will finally be held accountable for the multiple human trafficking and sexual assaults he has been accused of.

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oakoak, 'Free Rothko', 2024 Source

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I see the radfems out there saying that every man who's ever been born is a psychopath who's constantly looking for an opportunity to commit a felony and then I remember this one time I was really struggling to get a shopping cart out of another shopping cart and a dude came over to help me, but he couldn't do it, and then another dude came over to help him, and then another came over because it was a challenge he wanted in on, and then I had 3 guys all tearing at a stuck shopping cart, and literally none of them even needed a cart.

And when they got it out, they fist pumped and I said thanks so much and one of them said "easy." And then they left.

And it's like.

I don't think radfems go outside.

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Things Jack learns when he moves to Arkansas to be with Ken:

The exact stickiness of a pecan pie, out of the fridge, slice eaten by hand.

The sweaty heat of an Arkansas summer night, dulled only by the fan in the window.

The ice cold yelping perfection of jumping into the mountain-fed spring from the rope rather than easing into the water.

The warm gust of air walking into the kitchen on a cold winter day.

The loud, sharp laugh he lets out when he's surprised by a joke or a story.

The love of nieces and nephews who want to sit on his lap and show him the treasures they found that day (rocks and flowers and Libby, darling, we have talked about you carrying crickets in your pockets).

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Jack Kidd worn out and barely awake and desperately needing to stay upright for another few minutes to finish mission planning.

Rosie walks in and walks behind his desk. Leans down and wraps his arms around his shoulders and just stays there quiet and warm for the few minutes. He knows Jack's not going anywhere until he's done, so he'll just come to Jack.

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Congrats to this fucking fool for managing to outdo the "Have you seen The Wire?" question some rando lobbed at David Fucking Simon.

Holy shit. Queer people don't just exist to entertain you about your fucking ship.

Richard Siken… Richard Fucking Siken. You asked RICHARD SIKEN if his poems were inspired by BUDDIE. Gay men do not exist in people’s heads except as props huh?

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If I wanna post anything to AO3, I have to come up with titles.

If I wanna write anything from my prompts, I have to write.

Think I'll just stitch tonight.

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Relationship goals 🖤

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We respect all types of work boots in this house. Like to charge, reblog to cast

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possibly one of my FAV scenes from my FAV thing ever-

Elizabeth Bennet almost commits a murder, Jane just barely prevents a murder, Mary has the MOST toxic crush on her wet cat blorbo Mr. Collins, and Kitty... literally... ran off rather than sit with him. Beautiful.

<3 i love this miniseries <3

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In general, understanding radical feminism for what it is and why it appeals to many people requires an understanding that the greatest strength of radical feminism as a tool for understanding misogyny and sexism is also its greatest faultline.

See, radical feminism is a second wave position in feminist thought and development. It is a reaction to what we sometimes call first wave feminism, which was so focused on specific legal freedoms that we usually refer to the activists who focused on it as suffragists or suffragettes: that is, first wave feminists were thinking about explicit laws that said "women cannot do this thing, and if they try, the law of the state and of other powerful institutions will forcibly evict them." Women of that era were very focused on explicit and obvious barriers to full participation in public and civil life, because there were a lot of them: you could not vote, you could not access education, you could not be trained in certain crucial professions, you could not earn your own pay even if you decided you wanted to.

And so these activists began to try to dig into the implicit beliefs and cultural structures that served to trap women asking designated paths, even if they did wish to do other things. Why is it that woman are pressured not to go into certain high prestige fields, even if in theory no one is stopping them? How do our ideas and attitudes about sex and gender create assumptions and patterns and constrictions that leave us trapped even when the explicit chains have been removed?

The second wave of feminism, then, is what happened when the daughters of this first wave--and their opponents--looked around and said to themselves: hold on, the explicit barriers are gone. The laws that treat us as a different and lesser class of people are gone. Why doesn't it feel like I have full access to freedoms that I see the men around me enjoying? What are the unspoken laws that keep us here?

And so these activists focused on the implicit ideas that create behavioral outcomes. They looked inward to interrogate both their own beliefs and the beliefs of other people around them. They discovered many things that were real and illuminated barriers that people hadn't thought of, especially around sexual violence and rape and trauma and harassment. In particular, these activists became known for exercises like consciousness-raising, in which everyday people were encouraged to sit down and consider the ways in which their own unspoken, implicit beliefs contributed to general societal problems of sexism and misogyny.

Introspection can be so intoxicating, though, because it allows us to place ourselves at the center of the social problems that we see around us. We are all naturally a little self centered, after all. When your work is so directly tied to digging up implications and resonances from unspoken beliefs, you start getting really into drawing lines of connection from your own point of interest to other related marginalizations--and for this generation of thinkers, often people who only experienced one major marginalization got the center of attention. Compounding this is the reality that it is easier to see the impacts of marginalization when they apply directly to you, and things that apply to you seem more important.

So some of this generation of thinkers thought to themselves, hang on. Hang on. Misogyny has its fingers in so many pies that we don't see, and I can see misogyny echoing through so many other marginalizations too--homophobia especially but also racism and ableism and classism. These echoes must be because there is one central oppression that underlies all the others, and while theoretically you could have a society with no class distinctions and no race distinctions, just biologically you always have sex and gender distinctions, right? So: perhaps misogyny is the original sin of culture, the well from which all the rest of it springs. Perhaps there's really no differences in gender, only in sex, and perhaps we can reach equality if only we can figure out how to eradicate gender entirely. Perhaps misogyny is the root from which all other oppressions stem: and this group of feminists called themselves radical feminists, after that root, because radix is the Latin word for root.

Very few of this generation of thinkers, you may be unsurprised to note, actually lived under a second marginalization that was not directly entangled with sexism and gender; queerness was pretty common, but queerness is also so very hard to distinguish from gender politics anyway. It's perhaps not surprising that at this time several Black women who were interested in gender oppression became openly annoyed and frustrated by the notion that if only we can fix gender oppression, we can fix everything: they understood racism much more clearly, they were used to considering and interrogating racism and thinking deeply about it, and they thought that collapsing racism into just a facet of misogyny cheapened both things and failed to let you understand either very well. These thinkers said: no, actually, there isn't one original sin that corrupted us all, there are a host of sins humans are prone to, and hey, isn't the concept of original sin just a little bit Christianocentric anyway?

And from these thinkers we see intersectional feminists appearing. These are the third wave, and from this point much mainstream feminist throughout moves to asking: okay, so how do the intersections of misogyny make it appear differently in all these different marginalized contexts? What does misogyny do in response to racial oppression? What does it look like against this background, or that one?

But the radical feminists remained, because seeing your own problems and your own thought processes as the center of the entire world and the answer to the entire problem of justice is very seductive indeed. And they felt left behind and got quite angry about this, and cast about for ways to feel relevant without having to decenter themselves. And, well, trans women were right there, and they made such a convenient target...

That's what a TERF is.

Now you know.

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I can’t do this anymore