#Orlando Pulse NIghtclub

[scopophilic1997]

scopOphilic_micromessaging_995 - scopOphilic1997 presents a new micro-messaging series: small, subtle, and often unintentional messages we send and receive verbally and non-verbally.

[queerasfact]

Today, June 12, we remember the 49 people who were killed seven years ago at the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida.  We are thinking of them, their families and their communities.

[Image: Memorial wall in Orlando featuring rainbows, messages of love, and photographs of vigils commemorating those murdered]

[natti-ice]

Today marks 8 years since the Pulse nightclub shooting. As an Orlando native I can tell you that every June there’s a heavy somberness throughout the city. So many people who are not allowed to celebrate who they are because of one person’s hatred… those who can celebrate, do so in their honor.

[transfloridaresources]

[Photo ID: Black background with striped rainbow colors down the middle. A black bar cuts across the rainbow and text reads 'Follow nopulsemuseum. Real support, no profits for tragedy.' /End ID]

Today, as we mourn the 49 lives lost at Pulse in 2016, be sure you're following nopulsemuseum (pulsefamilies.com) & amplifying their voices.

[eisbar777]

CNN's emotional tribute to Orlando shooting victims

[oneequalworldblog]

Pulse Nightclub Bought by Orlando

Pulse Nightclub will be bought by the city, in a move to preserve the memory of the tragedy there. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer revealed on Wednesday that the city intends to acquire the Pulse Nightclub, the LGBTQ+ establishment where a tragic event occurred in June 2016, resulting in the loss of 49 lives. 29-year-old Omar Mateen, claiming he was acting on behalf of ISIS, held hostages and shot over…

[the1beardedgent]

Remember them...

[philleegirl]

Seven years ago I cried myself to sleep at the news of a beautiful young woman and child I once knew, Christina Grimmie, whose life was cut short by a obsessed man with a gun and a family shattered. I woke up to the news of 49 lives taken by an obsessed man with a gun and a community shattered. 52 lives were lost in less than 24 hours and everyone could have been prevented with proper mental healthcare and proper background checks.

I had only lived in Orlando for six months and I didn't know how to connect with the community around me yet. Now I know this city and I know that despite being in the heart of a deep red state, the City Beautiful loves all people. This city still beats to the Pulse of love. ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤎🖤💜🤍🩷

[crimsonscloud]

if you think that incidents like these are in any way deserved or okay.

if you think i shouldn’t be posting about them.

if you think this is some kind of sob story propaganda or whatever bullshit you tell yourself to feel better about your lack of empathy.

get the fuck off of my blog.

The largest mass shooting in American history was a hate crime against gay people. Don’t ever forget that.

[nerdykeith]

More anti-LGBTQ from far-right degenerates. This time its from the Neo-nazis and Christian nationalists. This is in Orlando, they defaced and vandalised murals commemorating the victims of Pulse nightclub, along with other messages of hate and pro-nazi sentiments. I really hope something is done about these scumbags. Vandalism is how they start.

[cyarsk52-20]

Today, we remember the 49 lives taken seven years ago at the horrific mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.

[queerasfact]

Today on the twelfth of June, we remember the 49 people who were killed eight years ago at the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida.  We are thinking of them, their families and their communities.

[List of names sourced from City of Orlando]

[eve-was-framed]

just wanted to take some time to say rest in peace to Christina Grimmie, who would have been turning 30 years old today. she’s someone who I’m sure many of you remember. I really looked up to her and so did so many other young women and girls at the time. she was an extremely talented singer who got big on YouTube as a teenager and she even made it onto the The Voice. she was murdered at age 22 by her stalker at a meet and greet in Orlando on June 10th, 2016 just a few miles away from where the Pulse Nightclub shooting took place two days later.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A Surrey BC Conservative candidate is facing renewed pressure to drop out of the race after more offensive social media comments surfaced. But in a statement posted to social media platform X (formerly Twitter), South Surrey candidate Brent Chapman says he has no plans to withdraw. The latest comments were uncovered by CKNW radio host Jas Johal, and show Chapman appearing to question whether a number of high-profile mass shootings, including the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, Quebec City mosque shooting and the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando really happened.

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[spookydingus]

I lost three people during this tragedy. A close friend, a long-time patron, and a coworker. Performing at Pulse used to be the thing we all held to the highest standard in the Orlando area drag community. The New Phoenix was the hole in the wall we all started out in, and Parliament House and Pulse were our Broadways.

I was not there that night. If I hadn't answered a call to go be with a friend 1,000 miles away, I would have been. Two of my best friends were scheduled to perform that very night, and both of them came down with food poisoning. One of my friends and a fellow improviser sprinted out the door, running the 2 and a half miles back to his home without stopping or slowing down, in sheer terror and panic. I think about how just one tiny factor that night affected the course of each of our very lives from where they would have likely ended, every single day.

I got the call while working, and had to leave. I was on the phone for twenty-four hours. Without sleeping. Without eating. Just calling everyone, desperately doing a head count while some of my calls were never returned. They never will be.

Those of us connected to Pulse before and after the tragedy still think about it. Not a day goes by when I don't see their names, their faces, and everyone we cherished and entertained every week. Not a day goes by when I don't hear my own voice, amplified and announcing the names of performers who are no longer here.

We are all still Pulse. We are all still Orlando.

It's been 7 years.

[butch-reidentified]

DNI if you believe "everyone has a price." you're pathetic & I don't trust your morals.

Skip to bottom for About Me section.

Preface: Most of this blog is not dedicated to trans-related topics. However, seeing as I get nonstop harassment regarding trans matters, almost always from people assuming my views, experiences, and thoughts entirely incorrectly, a disproportionate number of the links in this Pinned will be aimed at this subject in order to provide legitimate insight as to my views, my feminism, and my experiences - both with my transition & the trans community in general. Chances are, you are very wrong about me in all those areas. Only one way to find out 😉

1. What is a woman?

Deep dive into my perspective on gender identity ideology (GII) & my response to an anon regarding "autogynephilia" [this includes the article above]

Argument for Using "Cis-Identifying"

Pitch: New Terminology to Replace "[Biological] Sex"

And related: A conversation with a "NERF" about radical feminism, gender identity ideology, and what we/I actually believe.

2. Inform yourself on some of the work I've done for trans people before you continue the trend of cowardly hypocrisy.

No, I obviously don't hate trans people, and if you believe that, you have a black-and-white way of looking at things. Trans people deserve safety and equality; this must not come at the expense of women/girls, homosexual people, people with DSDs, or any other marginalized and vulnerable group. If you think these opinions cannot coexist, maybe ask yourself why. If you think they can coexist, why do you have a problem with me?

3. My primary thread responding to the way much of the tumblr trans community handled my sharing my story of surviving the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting (often by stealing my lived trauma and removing my url) is easily one of the most - if not the most - important posts pertaining to trans discourse I've made to date. And a bonus: This lovely ask.

4. Hope for Women (this is a very new project, WIP)

5. Comparative Analysis of Cult-like Patterns in Gender Identity Ideology, Radfeminism

Another post (not mine) listing indicators something may be a cult

6. Response to an anon asking why radfems team up with conservatives (spoiler: we don't), including THE QUESTION I have about gender identity ideology that would make me change my views completely if answered; response to a similar anon simplifying the differences between TRA, radfem, & conservative views on gender.

About Me:

I am a butch lesbian, married to a badass gnc (but not butch) radfem lesbian goddess whose misandry surpasses even my own; she does have tumblr but rarely uses it - @psychichologramnightmare is hers. I'm 28/Taurus/May baby, though I'll be real, I've never liked astrology and found my birth chart n whatnot always laughably wildly inaccurate to me (sorry astrology girlies). Former competitive rock climber, still in love with hiking and climbing. Wilderness survivalist. Trained & armed woman, advocate for female-only firearm ownership.

My wife and I run our own business, and bought our first home together at 24 & 25 respectively - it's a lovely 4/3 on a quarter acre where we have 5 mango trees and more, plan to start growing our own food and herbs, foster kittens, and provide free housing (and more) regularly for those in need. We do a LOT of IRL feminist action/work/organizing. I post about some of that work pretty often, but I couldn't possibly post about all of it (even if it were safe to do so). I am basically organizing (mostly offline, but some online as well) full-time now.

Survivor of abuse, CSA + captivity, trafficking in my teens where I was forced into porn as a minor, the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando 2016, and more. I am no longer affected by any of these in any negative psychological manner. I own my past, every moment of it, and wouldn't change a thing I've experienced. What I often tell people is, "I'm not glad it happened; I'm glad I was there."

I practice "witchcraft" (kind of...) as a form of artistic expression. I don't subscribe to any literal metaphysical/supernatural/whatever set of beliefs or narrative, and have had a lifelong inability to believe in such things, but I am passionate about lesbian-centered/lesbian-exclusive (esp butch & gnc lesbian) witchcraft. I am also using this practice in part to connect further with my ancestors and their culture & way of life, but this would take a full essay to elaborate on/explain.

I got my Bachelor's in Neuroscience/Neuropsych, used to work in a top neuro research lab, and have been a coauthor on a peer-reviewed scientific journal publication. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on POTS, ADHD, some of the relevant epigenetics, and norepinephrine dysregulation. I was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos & POTS in 2015, before pretty much anyone had heard of them (including most doctors). My POTS is very well-managed now, but chronic pain from EDS is more of a struggle. I recently went for testing for EDS subtype and was diagnosed with Type IV/vascular-type EDS (VEDS).

Adoptee with complex history. Working through a lot of feelings surrounding my ancestry - one birth parent was white, other was almost entirely indigenous Mexican (Nahua), and I have like zero personality traits in common with the former but have only been able to meet them irl not the other side - and the fact that my adoptive family (white) has not always handled things well in raising adopted kids. I only learned my full biological family history as an adult and was lied to by them about it my whole life. Which, looking back it feels like I always knew on some level, as adoptees often seem to, and it puts a lot of my childhood difficulties etc in context. Adoption-critical but not abolitionist - I plan to adopt with my wife in a couple years. I've talked a fair bit about my experiences, adoption trauma, ethical adoption, and more. Check out my tags such as #ethical adoption, #adopted, #adoptee, and so forth (tagged on this post for easy accessibility).

I spent many years surrounded by majority-trans-identifying friends/acquaintances both irl and online, deeply involved in trans spaces & activism, and even identified for a bit & was on T for a while. I am not "uneducated" or unfamiliar with trans-identifying people, their experiences, or gender identity ideology in general. You, like me back then, very probably have been lied to about radfems ("terfs") and what we believe and fight for. I am happy to talk in good faith (provided you do the same) 1 on 1 with anyone who is curious about what we actually believe and what we stand for, what common radfem takes on gender identity ideology & trans identity actually are and why.

I have a history of purely physical sex dysphoria (physical sensation like pain or itching). I got "top surgery" (elective mastectomy) due to this and other reasons: constant painful breast cysts & very large breasts (DDD even when I weighed under 100 lbs). I was not trans-identifying by the time I got this surgery (though I tried to briefly identify as nb/transmasc just bc I felt obligated, but hated it). I have never wanted to be a man socially and genuinely hated the very thought. I came out the womb feminist, got in trouble throughout primary school for fighting boys who tried to pull sexist bullshit, always lowkey believed in female superiority (I mean just look at our biology, lifespans, pain tolerance, the things we've done throughout history despite violent patriarchal oppression...). I spent years preparing myself. I read from & spoke to women who regretted this surgery, challenged myself at every turn, dove deep into my mind and thought processes, tried alternative treatment attempts, worked with a non-affirming therapist, made sure my past traumas were fully healed, and waited until I was in my mid-twenties so my brain was more or less fully matured. I have no regrets about it. I still have some (still purely physical sensation) dysphoria ("phantom male genitals" type of thing) at times, but have come to manage this very well. More on this here.

Formally assessed psychopath & participant in research by leading psychopathy experts (read on before jumping to conclusions). Check out this post and my #psychopathy tag (tagged on this post for easy accessibility) for info, particularly about high-EQ female psychopathy, & to find out everything you think you know about us is wrong 💕 (what you know about male psychopaths is usually right tho 💀)

Note: When it comes to politics, I strive to discuss exclusively that about which I am *uniquely knowledgeable* - by which I mean, essentially, that I (believe I) have something to contribute that is unlikely to be found on every other blog. I do not and will not make posts or reblog posts about topics I do not feel this way about. You are not entitled to know my views on every hot-button issue, and I have no intention of speaking on that which I know little about, or that I don't know enough about (through study or personal experiences) to contribute something you can't get a thousand other places.

Tag Guide (WIP):

#mine -> original posts, including ask responses

#ask -> ask responses only

#anon hate, #anon love -> should be self-explanatory. anon love does include some non-anon love for simplicity.

#catposting, #dogposting, #petposting -> images of cats, dogs, and both, respectively (not always my own)

#Wilder wives -> posts pertaining to me & my wife (last name Wilder)

#mvawg, #mvaw, #male violence -> male violence against women/girls

#ethical adoption -> my takes as an adoptee on the issues within the adoption industry & how adoption can be done ethically

#nahua, #nahuatl, #mexica -> ranges from personal journal style posts about my process of reconnecting with the Nahua community to sharing facts about the language (Nahuatl, pronounce it Nawat) and stories from Mexica mythology etc. posts I make specifically as part of the facts-and-stories series are tagged #indigenous reconstructionism.

#what we believe -> fairly new tag for posts trying to educate on what radfeminism is actually about/damage control for disinformation & misinformation about it

#trans violence -> violence committed by trans-identifying people, including threats of and graphic violent fantasies (primarily misogynistic ones)

#trans misogyny, #trans lesbophobia, #woke misogyny, #woke homophobia, #woke lesbophobia, etc. -> what it says on the tin