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[fandomsandfeminism]

Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?

Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.

All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)

But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.

But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.

I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?

It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.

Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.

Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)

[shakespearian-love]

Early nights with you ❦

[daily-leon]

[latverianpaparazzi]

queer-on-queer workplace hostility

[feartoxinjelloshot]

Strictly Precautionary

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Costume continuity Polaroids - Batman (1989)

[implusle]

mr. wayne? you ever want to be normal?

[ghuleh-recs]

ghouls! ghouls! ghouls!

[swrwlfs]

the average queer friend group

[shag0hod]

two actually rendered things and then a TONNNN of doodles. they may have infected my brain a little bit

[ghostbsuter]

"Constantine, if you leave now, you bet I'm going to hire the best hunters in Royal name to hunt your goddamn ass down."

Seeing the man freeze, he continues, eyes hardened with determination and shoulders tense.

"You leave now, and your life is over. The observers demand your head, Connie. I could barely talk them into bringing this to court. Believe it or not, you grew on me, stupid man."

His escorts, Nightwing and Kidflash, were tense next to him. Wary of him now that he stated his intentions.

Wonder woman had her sword drawn, brows furrowed at looking between the man and the teen.

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Or Constantine majorly fucked up that the only reason he is alive right now is because the King of the Infinity Realms (who is a child) likes watching him.

Jesus Christ.

[disco-troy]

Name a combination more iconic than Dick Grayson self destruction and “watch me”

[periwinklecosma]

list of palestinian fundraisers (part 5)

(part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4)

next batch of fundraisers! if you are unable to donate, please at least reblog. a few of the fundraisers below have less than 5% of their goal met and could really use more people helping to spread their stories.

disclaimer: i do not vet fundraisers, nor am i in extensive contact with any of the people below. these are just people that reached out to me via my asks and messages, and i am only going off of information that has been provided to me through posts made by them and other people spotlighting them.

Ahmed, Eman, Zain, and Leen (@children-gaza) - €6,438/€15,000 (42.92%) // vetted by @/90-ghost (here) and @/northgazaupdates (here)

Ahmed Jehad (@ahmad-syam-blog) - $1,274 CAD/$40,000 (3.19%) // vetted by the collective Bees and Watermelons (#171 on this spreadsheet) // EXTREMELY LOW ON FUNDS

Ahmed Atila (@save-ahmed-family1) - €742/€20,000 (3.71%) // not yet vetted but appears legitimate // EXTREMELY LOW ON FUNDS

Aya Alanqar (@ayaalanqarsblog) - €8,953/€15,000 (59.69%) // vetted by @/90-ghost (here)

Yousef Jehad (@yousefjehad3) - $3,160/$15,000 (21.07%) // vetted by @/90-ghost (here)

Samah Hijazi (@savesmahfamily) - €155/€50,000 (0.31%) // not yet vetted but appears legitimate // EXTREMELY LOW ON FUNDS

Yousef Hussein (@adham-89) - $11,186/$50,000 (22.37%) // vetted by @/90-ghost (here)

Sameh Darar (@samhderar) - €337/€50,000 (0.67%) // not yet vetted but appears legitimate // EXTREMELY LOW ON FUNDS

Wafaa Resh (@wafaaresh6) - €27,462/€100,000 (27.46%) // vetted by @/90-ghost (here) -> Note: Wafaa's mother is chronically ill and requires treatment.

Mahmoud and Yasmin Al-Balawi (@yasminalbalawiigaza) - €36,123/€50,000 (72.25%) // vetted by @/90-ghost (here) -> Note: Mahmoud's parents are both chronically ill and require treatment.

[theropoda]