#queer freedom

[stormofneurosis]

basically, the right to go "hey my body doesn't fit". Cis people do it all the time with plastic surgery or piercings or all of this stuff. And the ability to do… well… anything. Get married, adopt a kid, get protection from abuse, get job help, have a safe work environment. Some of these still aren't really there for cishets either, so the more we push, the better!

The whole thing reminds me of a tale I once read about someone's experience in the states of working in a legal brothel. If they were at home no one cared if they basically stood in their lawn in their underwear, but at the brothel if they went out to check the mail in short shorts and a crop top, the police could (and often would) be called on them for "unlawful advertisement of their services" - the double standard of performative Existing in a social space.

Queer rights may be about our right to be normal- to be normal couples, to live normal trans lives, to be normal people. But queer rights are also about our autonomy to be odd. We are QUEER, after all- weird, odd, not normal. And that is something that was originally imposed upon us, but we have taken it. It is ours now. Because lgbt rights are about our right to be normal, yes, but it is also about bodily autonomy! It is about our right to live our lives with odd genders and weird relationship structures and queer bodies. Assimilation might sound like a fine way to escape prejudice- but quite frankly, it doesn't matter. Because we are not just fighting for our rights to live like cishet people, we are also fighting for our right to live without having to worry about putting a toe out of line. We are queer, and we always will be. We won't really be free until we can live our lives as odd, as strange, as queer as we want.

[oday-akram]

Don't skip please🍉🇵🇸

My name is Oday , I am 19 years old. I live in Palestine Gaza I was living a normal life and I was a university student. Because of October 7, my dream, my university, and my whole life were destroyed. Now I am living a bad life and I am trying to travel with My family of 8 and I, as the eldest son of this family, have endured hardship since I was young, trying to bring them to safety and complete my studies.

If you can, help me.

The campaign is documented

here.

@moayesh @bixlasagna @everyoneisgay @90-ghost @not-alesha @amvs @el-shab-hussein

[space-or-privacy]

freedom of speech

(acrylic on canvas, 20. Feb. 2024)

art by op

[queer-futurity]

"And thus began the beginning of a new race, a race within the race of humanity, a race which bears no prejudice, no judgement, but boundless freedom."

[eziojensenthe3rd]

Republicans nuked KOSA. Its considered DOA and wont be showing up at the house. This is good news certanly but its not entirely over. This bill got bipartisan support back in the senate, dickheads from both sides thought the idea behind kosa was worth doing, its just that the republican party decided to nuke it for reasons im trying to figure out? To try to deny a win for democrats similar to how they stopped a cancer research bill?

Something like kosa will pop up again, kosa itself may just rise from the grave and we'll have to go through this same song and dance so all i can say is stay informed on this type of shit. Inform your senators and reps not to support this shit and if they dont oppose it, vote them out in the next election they're running in.

There are bills that do in fact regulate the internet in a way that helps but also doesnt violate free speech by targeting how data is harvested. Thise bills should be pushed while censorship should die. For now, celebrate this day. KOSA atm is dead, done so in a manner so anticlimatic yet deserving. But be vigilant.

[notaplaceofhonour]

Not At Odds

Ceasefire Now + Bring Them Home Now

Jewish & Palestinian safety & freedom are not at odds with each other; they are interconnected. These things can must coexist.

[imaginarylungfish]

i think the best thing about being queer is the freedom. i'm already a societal outcast, why not take it further?

[ajxrn-archive]

To my mutuals or followers, or just anyone who sees this:

Please reblog the kosa bill posts from me and others. This bill is EXTREMELY dangerous to the queer community and especially queer minors. As a queer and trans minor in a bad home situation, I and many others would be in so much danger if this bill is approved. Its actually so horrific. One of the senators who introduced it, Marsha Blackburn, said that "protecting minor children from the transgender in this culture" was a top priority. As a trans minor, I find this disgusting and harmful to my existence, I'm sure many others my age feel the same way. So please: REBLOG THE KOSA BILL POSTS.

EDIT: IT WILL ALSO CENSOR THE PALESTINE GENOCIDE POSTS AND MANY MORE THINGS!!! WE WILL BE BLOCKED FROM THE TRUTH!!! Also I do not know many things about the kosa bill, this is the limit of my knowlege, so I can't answer any questions. I'm sorry!

[gruenschnabel-art]

Freedom of Speech

acrylic on canvas, 20. Feb 2024

art by op

[abdmusab]

🚨Losing a home or losing a job💔 or losing family members💔 is not an easy thing to lose your refuge, comfort and sleep in your bed💔 is not an easy thing this is what we suffer from the pain of living in Gaza🍉 I have asked for help🙏 repeatedly but there are many who ignore😔 because they really do not feel the pain and loss

Verification source: shared by 90-ghost

And if it were not for the determination and hope that there are people with merciful hearts who recognize humanity and throw hope and the right to live again in my heart and the heart of my family and the heart of my people I appeal to you and ask for your help again in the hope that I will reach my goal and leave this brutal war in peace

please🙏 do not ignore me and help us with the least bit either by donating or participating because every help even if it is a word helps me in the hope of survival....😓

[boytransmission]

My arm hair is officially visible in photos :)

Please help me get top surgery here ⭐️

[oday-akram]

Don't ignore my story please 🍉🇵🇸

On a gray day, our neighbors' house was destroyed and none of them were left alive. The walls of our house were demolished and the house was covered in shrapnel. My brothers sustained minor injuries, but God saved them after that.

This is a picture of the house before and after the bombing.

Only the olive tree remains

O merciful heart, I am optimistic about you and that you will help me and my family

Don't make me lose hope in life

@bixlasagna @gaza-evacuation-funds @amvs @90-ghost @el-shab-hussein @wellwaterhysteria

[staring-at-a-blank-pagee]

IMPORTANT: KOSA MASTERPOST

Please, don't just scroll past! Share, reblog, and check out the content on these links! I will be adding things as I find (so make sure you reblog the original post, you can do this by clicking on my name and going to the pinned post which is this!!) and/or as the situation changes, and if there are resources you want to see added, send them to me.

LATEST UPDATES: HERE (as of 5/1/24)

INFORMATION

What happens if KOSA passes?

What's at stake?

KOSA isn't designed to help kids.

How will KOSA passing affect you?

KOSA is a privacy nightmare.

Banning kids from social media isn't the answer.

American Action Forum

90+ LGBTQ organizations oppose KOSA

Popular Apps affected by KOSA

Rally for the Internet Archive

KOSA changes don't make it less dangerous

Senate Schedule

Current KOSA status (sign up to get alerts from this if you're able!)

KOSA will actively target trans and LGBTQ+ content

The TikTok ban isn't about China, it's the fact that it's largely pro-palestine and has other content the government doesn't want us talking about.

KOSA applies to EVERYONE here.

Israel is revealed to be behind the infamous Tiktok ban

Read the bill itself

Call Script for KOSA

An actually helpful alternative

RESOURCES

Huge list of resources

Tell Congress

Tell Lizzo

Linktree

Bad Internet Bills

StopKOSA.com

Petition - we need 35k signatures and we're almost there!

Contact list

Fight for the future

Speak out against KOSA

Censorship won't make kids safe

Internet red alert

EFF Action Center

More Petitions List (check and sign as many as you can!)

Fight against the TikTok ban as well

Another petition - 123,000/130,000 signatures

Share your story of how social media has helped you

Help keep the ACP alive

Another masterpost

WHERE ELSE CAN YOU FIND MORE RESOURCES?

The Stop Internet Censorship discord server has a ton of useful resources that I pulled from some of to make this post, even. Following and looking at tags like #stop kosa will help make sure you stay informed and they stay trending, as well.

EVERYTHING HELPS!! Let's make sure this bill doesn't pass! Reblogs > likes!!

last updated: 8:18 pm EST, 5/9/24

[wackypomko]

it does not matter if you are from USA, im chilean and I will still gonna help them!

[eziojensenthe3rd]

Senates adjourned until may 7th on a tuesday.

Get to calling through the weekend and monday.

We can clutch this!

[to-be-fab]

Tumblr’s generally horrendous reaction to Alastor being a repulsed-Aromantic-Asexual is proof that, more than anything, we need this exact character, right here, right now.

You go, funky little deer man. You can’t be contained in the petty, rigid boxes of allo/amatonormativity no matter how hard they try. You be free and pave the way so that someday, in a safer, more beautiful future, the rest of us AroAces can experience the freedom of life without dangerous, restrictive expectations.