#learn your history

[election2024-2028]

Some things to do if you live in the United States as a queer person or a woman:

Learn self defense. You don't know whether someone will harm you. The idea that someone might is not far-fetched.

Stock up on contraceptives. Shelf life of plan B is four years. See this list for information about condom shelf life. These may become banned.

Buy queer books. As many as you can afford, starting with trans books. These may be banned soon.

Stock up on HRT medication if possible. This will likely be quickly banned when Trump becomes president. HRT meds have a shelf life of 1-3 years depending on the kind; check on the container! Read about DIY HRT here.

Read about what Trump and his followers are planning to do about abortion and other reproductive healthcare (i.e. contraception, etc.).

Read about what Trump and his followers plan to do about trans healthcare and rights for same-sex couples (I say same-sex instead of same-gender because they don't care about gender).

Teach your children (if you have any), siblings, friends, family, and especially other queer people and other women around you.

If you are too afraid to remain in danger, register for a passport as soon and look into countries you could move to. Look at what you'll have to do for jobs, living, a visa, citizenship, etc.

You may want to stock up on educational materials about prejudice, slavery, Native people, and other materials that may be censored.

As a reminder: This won't necessarily become a necessity. But based on the many things Trump and his supporters have said about the issue mentioned within this list, these actions will, unfortunately, probably be needed. Don't avoid taking these actions until it's too late. Do these before it's too late. Start now.

[fuckyeah-bears]

Genuine question. What was it about Hamas breaking into homes, doing war crimes, killing civilians, raping women, killing and possibly beheading babies made y'all break your "no politics" rule to post support about it?

Condemning one side for genocide while ignoring the other side chanting "gas the Jews" is a special kind of irony.

i don't have the energy to respond to this right now. i never once said i approved of or condoned hamas. hamas is a terror organization and any and all killing of human beings is wrong. however you are listening to propaganda. most of the sensationalized headlines about hamas, specifically the beheading one have all been proven to be fake and have literally no evidence. hamas does not represent the palestinian people or the people of gaza. and yet the genocidal israeli government has decided to indiscriminately punnish all 2.1 million people living in gaza for the horrific actions of hamas. this is called collective punishment and it is literally defined as a war crime. gaza's population is 50% children. gaza is the world's largest concentration camp and open air prison. it has been under military blockade for the past 16 years. israel controls the food water electricity fuel movement of people and everything else going in and out of gaza.

this is a walled off open air prison that is extremely densely populated, extremely poor, and full of children. and israel is depriving the entire population of food, clean water, electricity, and carpet bombing them, using banned illegal chemical weapons, refusing to allow in humanitarian aid. they have bombed hospitals, bombed residential buildings, bombed people fleeing after israel told them to evacuate (but joke was on them because they can't evacute since there's no where to go because israel controls all the check points and refuses to let palestinians out, instead trapping them in gaza while there's still no electricity or water or food or any other supplies coming in.

and then don't even get me started on the propaganda israel has been using to demonize and dehumanize palestinians. the defense minister literally called all palestinians "human animals" and said israel would treat them as such. top government officials have released images depicting palestinians as cockroaches and insects needing to be exterminated. they have referred to all gazan's as terrorists to justify their massacre of them.

this is fucking genocide. this is exactly what the nazi's did to jewish people. this is genocide. this is genocide. this is genocide. i have not heard a single palestinian person directing hatred at jewish people. (which is not to say that there has been no antisemitism going on, because there absolutely has, and I wholeheartedly despise it). however i have heard them criticize the israeli government for its depravity and cruelty and literal fucking war crimes it is gleefully committing.

criticizing israel for committing genocide is not antisemetic. criticizing a government for doing horrific evil highly illegal things against international law and against literally all moral humanity and human decency is not antisemetic. it is literally the morally right thing to do. what israel is doing is evil.

there are jewish people who agree wholeheartedly that israel's illegal occupation of palestine and their apartheid and ethnic cleansing are horrific. because they are.

and don't talk about irony. israel is the biggest fucking hypocrite in the entire fucking world. surviving a genocide does not give you the fucking right to perpetrate another genocide. but here israel is. and despite everything they do, they somehow always always play the victim despite the fact that they are the oppressor. israel will always say that any criticism of them and their actions is antisemetic. when in fact, it is entirely justified criticism of a deeply awful and morally bankrupt governnment that is and has been perpetrating heinous atrocities against the people of palestine for decades.

israel gives all jewish people a bad name. because real jewish people know that genocide is never okay. real jewish people know that israel's actions against palestinians are horrific and in no way justified. real jewish people stand with palestinians and support a free palestine.

all this and more is why it is the morally correct thing to do to support palestine and take a stand agains israel

and because you asked, the reason i'm breaking the 'no politics' rule is because of the responses from people like you. so many people have bought into israel's propaganda and their dehumanization of palestinians. there is so much islamophobia that any time people hear a single critique of israel, they jump in to condemn hamas and say 'oh so you support hamas' 'what about hamas' 'so you approve of people wanting to kill jews', demonstrating the insane racist mental gymnastics they are doing by literally mentally equating all palestinians with terrorists who deserve to be killed. and this is so widespread. people and all the world governments are sitting back and watching as this happens without lifting a goddamn fucking finger. with ukraine and russia, everyone jumped in to defend ukraine and support them and condemn russia. immediately. but it's radio fucking silence for palestinne. because of racism and islamophobia and because people are too cowardly to take a stand and risk pissing off all the masses of misinformed racist islamophobic biased people who support israel. and not only are people not fucking talking about it (or only talking about poor innocent israel and their right to 'defend themselves' which is the biggest fucking load of shit ever), almost all of our governments are actively funding israel's military. the very same fucking military that is literally committing a genocide right now.

if you're not horrified by all of this, then you are not a human being. if you do not stand with palestinians as israel blatantly to tries to annihilate them, then you do not have an ounce of humanity left in your soul.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[trollinstinct]

the fact that bakudeku is beating davekat in a "Most Influential Yaoi Poll" in twitter is the most disrespectful thing ive ever seen

[thekimspoblog]

So here's the thing, boys, girls, and everyone outside and in-between. I migrated here from YouTube. And on YouTube (actually anywhere outside of Tumblr), if you voice even the most boilerplate feminist talking points, you will be dismissed as "radical". Same way if you are left-wing, you are "radical". So it's a problem when feminists with radical ideas can't organize on a more femme-friendly platform like Tumblr, because the term has been appropriated by transphobes. It's a problem when referring to yourself by the label the rest of the internet has already tarred you with will simultaneously alienate you from your sisters in other circles. Whether or not it was intentional, this kind of vocabulary confusion serves an anti-feminist agenda.

And on top of that, transphobes really just shouldn't get to call themselves radical, when what they are fighting for is by definition a reinforcement of the status quo. Not to mention it completely ignores the longer history of intersectional feminists who have identified their ideology as "radical". In my mind, words should mean what it sounds like they should mean: so a "radfem" is an activist who supports/condones extremist tactics to enforce a feminist agenda, and the dissolution of the gender binary is the only logical conclusion of the feminist agenda, so LGBT rights are automatically included. If you exclude trans women from your movement, not only are you not radical but you can't be a feminist.

Committing arson for the suffragette movement (or the pro-choice movement, or trans rights) is RADICAL FEMINISM. Arguing that t-girls can't be oppressed under patriarchy, as if misogynistic socialization can't happen while people are fully clothed, is just fucking stupid.

In conclusion "TERF" is a horribly confusing, oxymoronic misnomer, and we as the people trying to criticize transphobes should stop entertaining it as a valid descriptor.

[middleagedenragedmama]

Untitled, Portrait of Ross in LA

I just reposted a bit on fountain, a dada art piece that I love!!! it was such a fuck you piece. Pop art like Warhol has that similar feel to me, and I love it.

However my favorite fuck you installation is by Felix Gonzales-Torres (Untitled, Portrait of Ross in LA). It features 175# of candy and museum goers are encouraged to take a piece and eat it. Just as his partner, Ross, dwindled away from AIDS, so does the pile. Just as people during that time (1991) discriminated against people with HIV, and especially against gay people, people swipe little pieces of Ross during the day, eating him and feeling that they are somehow better with their sweet treat. Each piece taken reminds me of the myth back then that HIV was punishment for being gay, and how it must have hurt so badly to hear that over and over. How hurtful and harmful and wrong it was, but even medical professionals treated these men dying of AIDS like it was a just punishment.

And as Ross deteriorates, and people eat more and more, eventually he’s gone. He was such a sweet partner, and we mourn his loss, gone way too soon and as a result of our actions, not his.

However, unlike in real life, the museum refills the display, and Ross lives on eternally, reminding us of that awful time, and awful crimes perpetuated against those with HIV and especially those gay men with HIV that did not get the care and treatment that they deserved.

Fuck is that powerful. Give me all the art like this. I crave it in my soul.

[subculturekiller]

every time somebody says “lesbian men dont exist” or “you cant be ftm and a lesbian” i start seething. imagine having the audacity to tell other people what they can and cannot be just because it doesnt align with your worldview. youd think more lgbt people would understand how fucking stupid that mindset is. you are only now allowed to exist as a queer person because of past generations losing their lives to fight against that exact mindset and you have the fucking audacity to parrot that rhetoric against your comrades?? fuck off. grow tf up

source: ftm newsletter #45 (1999) findings of the san francisco tg community health project x

[coldhardbinch]

This is not young fan bashing but do the youths even know about Pete using his nudes for the Like Vines promos?

[aclaywrites]

I absolutely despise Woody Allen, let me put that out from the beginning.

However, this is another movie to watch to help you understand the depth and impact of McCarthyism and the life ruining effects of being a self hating queen. This movie is about people accused of being communists and has zero gay (though it does have Zero Mostel!) Still, it’s a useful picture of the time and a pretty good movie.

[music-orthemisery]

I may be delulu, but at least I’m not this delulu.

[pagan-mushroom]

So today, I had to correct an American tour guide. I use that term lightly. Where I live, we have a cathedral and it has many carvings. One of which is this one. Now, I volunteer in the cathedral. I volunteer in the library. I STUDY THIS STUFF.

It is a lion attacking a gryphon. Gryphons used to be the symbol of christ until major religious upheaval and such, so the lion was used

So..

Her: and here we have a lion killing a rhino.

Me:*walks up* excuse me that's wrong.

"I beg your pardon?"

"The animal the lion is attacking is not a rhino, it is a gryphon. It has wings. Up until the 17th century in england, the gryphon was the symbol of christ. The lion came in much later. Medieval people may have been stupid by today's standards yes... but there were fairs, court fairs and drawings of rhinos dating back to the 12th century. We have the books in the cathedral library."

Woman *blinks in confusion*

Me: oh! And if you care to look on the otherside, you will see the carving of the fat lion with the Skeleton of the gryphon

SHE THOUGHT IT WAS A RHINO.

Can... can Americans please learn?

[bebe-benzenheimer]

[jpjones131]

[bckalleycat]

i keep losing followers when i post this so imma say it again in case y'all ain't hear me the first time

BEING A TERF MEANS YOURE USING ACTIVISM TO HIDE THE FACT YOU ARE TRANSPHOBIC, A BIGOT, IGNORANT, SELFISH, UNEDUCATED, and A COWARD

[skinofafish]

This is true, sad, infuriating, and so so important.

#they're married okay

[5onthe5]

“Never in the history of this country has a one term president then gone on to win his party’s nomination-“