#we’re just queer

[toastybugguy]

why can’t gay people just be normal and say I love you, why’s there always gotta be some great dragon in the middle saying shit like “a half cannot truly hate that which makes it whole” and “you’re like two sides of the same coin”

[greco-roman-jewess]

Someday I’ll write a deeply allegorical B-horror movie about a pernicious rot turning people into horrific monsters. And everyone one will laud it as great queer horror cinema completely ignoring my Judaism (and that the experiences portrayed work much better as representations of Jew-hatred) like they do with Kafka and X-men. Then when I make a clarification about my motivations they will call me an evil Zionist and Philosophy Tube will make feature length video on me death if the author and it will get 1k upvotes on the Breadtube subreddit and self righteous lefty assholes will host screenings of my movie “in support of Palestine” where they talk about “reclaiming it” and how I don’t get the point of my own movie.

And I will sit back and laugh at the irony of it all

[thatone-churro]

hang on. there’s no way we’re revitalizing “are [cishet] aro people queer” discourse. it is almost 20-fucking-24. no. say sike right now. you’re all fucking ridiculous. how are we not only not over this, but bringing it up for active discourse again. and acting like the things being said are common discussion and not. blatant aphobia. which is homophobia. it’s queerphobia. did we never fucking learn from the many “they want us to fight amongst ourselves because if we’re divided it’s easier to ruin us” type talks that everyone was making a while ago. or was that a phase too. what happened to “anything not heteronormative is what queer is. anything with romance/sex/gender that’s othered from what society deems the “norm” is what we are. we are a community of outcasts because the greater community doesn’t want us either way.” what the shit.

[loveless-arobee]

Queer people literally every other day: No trust me, bro, this subset of queer people is actually all rapists and pedophiles and groomers and sex-crazed monsters. Trust me. This time, we found the real Bad Queers(tm), and it’s totally okay to harass, attack and abuse them for it. They deserve to be the target of bigotry. Just trust me, bro. They’re stealing our resources and making our whole community look bad! It’s these Bad Queers' fault we don’t have rights!!!

[bodhrancomedy]

I nearly died/j.

Actually I did overheat and now I feel icky. :(

[ghost81194]

Finally, after far too long…

The trans cans have returned

[pocketsizedquasar-3]

didn’t want to rb this post directly partially bc i see/get the overall point and partially bc i don’t want ppl to be a dick to me if i say shit (n i def do not intend any ire/ill will to op; i am just adding my thoughts)

but anyway. while i again do see the point of the post (not all queer ppl are harmed the same way/amount by the govt & more specifically by the recent Executive Orders), i also with respect think that the assumption that they are only specifically about targeting trans women or protecting cis women from trans women is just untrue (smthn some ppl in the notes are also claiming).

the eo’s have language that is explicitly targeting / inciting violence towards trans women & this is undeniable. everything that mentions “protecting women from men” and keeping “males” out of “women’s spaces” is very deliberately about targeting and harming trans women. there is an entire section of one of the EO’s dedicated specifically to removing “males” (trans women) from women’s prisons, and this is horrific and violent. transfems also suffer from the effects of hypervisbility, making them very easy targets for enforcement of these laws and the language within them. all of that is true.

& also, it’s very untrue that these eo’s aren’t designed to harm other trans ppl and intersex ppl. i’m not even talking generally “oh these orders are about transphobia and so will harm all trans ppl”; there is specific language in them that is violent specifically towards intersex and transmasc ppl (in addition to the language that directly violently targets transfems) (none of which (transfem, transmasc, intersex) are mutually exclusive categories!).

the multiple eo’s concerning trans folks are rife with defining sex strictly as an immutable binary — the “immutable biological reality of sex” —“protecting sex-based distinctions,” (both quotes from the “defending women from gender ideology…” executive order) and deliberately codifying the erasure of any and all acknowledgment of sex outside of male/female is intentional, specific violence towards intersex people. this is deliberate targeting intersex people for violence and oppression (just as other parts of the same EO are deliberately targeting transfems).

there is also the entire EO for “protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilation”, which obviously is directed largely at any gender-affirming trans healthcare as a whole, but also very specifically names protecting against “female genital mutilation” — directly targeting transmascs, and ‘protecting’ cis women and girls from transmascs.

transmascs are very much also viewed as a threat to cis women and cis girls, painted as “corrupting,” “stealing,” and “mutilating” poor innocent young cis girls (or poor innocent cis lesbians, depending on the person wielding this rhetoric). transphobic rhetoric and anti trans laws are rife with this belief, deriding the “mutilation” of their idea of the “pure ideal female body,” the “hacking off healthy tissue” (re: top surgery), “testosterone poisoning” of girls, and the idea that trans men want to turn all young girls trans, want to turn all young lesbians trans — “i was a tomboy and if i were a kid today i would’ve been turned trans! they would’ve made me transition!” (this is also part of the driver of the incredibly high SA rates among transmasc ppl)

this EO is simply a codification of that view of transmascs as a threat to cis womanhood. this EO targets all trans people’s right to our own bodies and bodily autonomy, and this language specifically directly targets transmasc’s rights to their own bodies.

i do think it’s important to discuss that not all queer people are immediately impacted the same way by trump’s bigotry. i also think it’s incredibly disingenuous to ignore the parts of these laws which are deliberately targeting specific subsets of the trans and intersex community (including ignoring the parts that explicitly are about transfems!). all trans and intersex people are intentionally, directly, and explicitly targeted by the government’s bigotry and violence in different ways; none of it is incidental or unintentional. they are “protecting” cis women, or, the white supremacist status quo, from trans & intersex people — most especially nonwhite trans and intersex ppl.

anyway. those are my thoughts.

[occasionallycoinpin]

occasionally coinpin 76

happy pride month, have a meme that’s been done to death and back

[i-probably-pissed-you-off-hehe]

So this is what the community on tik tok it’s like. Trans men telling other trans men to kill themselves.

[maybe-boys-do-love]

To all who participated in my poll, Oxford professor of Shakespeare Studies, Emma Smith, is now aware of The Heart Killers 🙈

[locusfandomtime]

see, i was going to make a genuine (albeit still jokey) one of these, but I think this is way funnier.

[queerliblib]

is there a way for people outside the US to use your libby?

Unfortunately, we aren't able to offer international memberships at this time - it's a little complicated in terms of nonprofit funding and digital book licensing. This is something that we have on our to-do list, but since we're still pretty new it looks like it won't be something we can offer in the near future. Please believe this is something we want to do, and plan to prioritize once we have the structure to!

[thecoolersouthparkforeignkids]

who else waiting for that fag to show up?

(how to summom nick 101: call him a fag)

(Fr)

“He better not show up. I’ve been given another gun and I’ll shoot that fairy.”

“You’re a fucking fag too, you retarded leprechaun.”

“Let a girl say she’s bi and she suddenly thinks she can say faggot.”

“I said fag, actually, stupid prick. And since when do you care, you’re as white as white gets you ginger fuck and you still said-“

“I was rapping it! It doesn’t count if it’s in a song. I’m not racist, me and Tolkien are homies.”

“No you’re not! You literally, just yesterday, said, and I quote, ‘Where is he really from anyway?’.”

“It was a genuine question!”

“As genuine as when your da says he loves you.”

[heartsandstarsnation]

something for the willow fans (who deserve so much more)

Gone but never forgotten. Tanthamore live on in fan fiction for the fans who wanted to see so much more from a dashing Princess and her devoted Knight.

We wanted to share what we’ve been working on, inspired by the lovely Tanthamore fandom.

T Shirt variations available in store very soon!

[i-am-the-oyster]

Thank you prev! I’ve been looking for this for months.

I have questions:

What did Paul want to say about Rick Sklar? John knows, whatever it is, and I somehow get the impression that Rick wouldn’t be happy about it being aired.

How does Paul mean “queer”? Is he just saying “weirdos”? The laughter suggests the audience at least pick up on a sexual implication. Have people already started to reclaim the word at that time?

What’s the context here? When Paul says “I couldn’t say that live on air” does that mean he has some expectation of things being kept “between us”. The laughter seems to indicate that “us” is a largish group.

August 22nd, 1966 (Warwick Hotel, New York): As DJ “Cousin Brucie” Morrow conducts brief interviews with each of the Beatles, one by one, he asks Paul to settle the rumours that have been circulating in the press about the status of his relationship with Jane Asher.

MORROW: Moving over here to Paul – someone just handed me a card. I guess this is… [focusing] Last year, when you were on my microphone here—

PAUL: Ask me something about Rick Sklar.

MORROW: Rick Sklar? That’s my boss.

JOHN: Ask Paul about Rick Sklar.

MORROW: Uh, Paul, last year when you were on my microphone, I think somebody – one of your staff – announced an engagement of you and Jane.

PAUL: Uh…

MORROW: Do you remember that? It was announced on the air. And then I remember we said something on the air and then thousands of people from the street went, “Oh.” What is it with you and Jane now? How – what is your relationship? Are you planning a marriage, planning an engagement, are you just boyfriend and girlfriend, what is it? Tell us the whole thing.

JOHN: [mutters; inaudible]

PAUL: Uh. We’re just queer, that’s the scene. [uproarious laughter in background] That’s the scene. Well I mean, I couldn’t say that on the air live, you know.

JOHN: No, you’ll get into trouble for it.

PAUL: No, the thing is, Cousin Bruce – um, we haven’t got plans to marry yet, you know. That’s the point. And that business about somebody saying we were engaged, nobody actually said it. It was just another one of those things where someone says, “Are they engaged?” and they said, “Well, whatever it is… [muttering]” “Yes, folks, they’re engaged!” And it wasn’t true.

MORROW: Well, I’m sure there are a lot of girls who are very happy with this. What would you look for, in a girl? Say you did eventually want to settle down, what would you want to – what kind of girl would you like? What would you – what would you like in a gal you wanted to marry eventually, bring home to Mommy?

PAUL: Uh… Female hormones.

MORROW: Female. What’ll you go for, any – what, blonde, brunette, what?

PAUL: Uh, you know, anything. Anything. Girls. It doesn’t matter if they’re blonde, brunette, or anything, as long as they’ve got it.

MORROW: Would you want a nice person – what? A beautiful nice person girl.

PAUL: Yeah, you know. A nice person girl.

[lilac-set]

Reminder: even if trump wins, we’ll be ok. The presidency isnt the only political position that matters, he wont be a dictator, the president doesnt have the power to remove every other part of government that keeps the president’s power in check. Also politics isnt the only thing that matters. Even if we lose some rights (which he cant singlehandedly do) we still have community, we still have activism, we’ll always be ok. We survived one trump presidency, we can survive another. We survived before gay marriage or transitioning were legal, if we have to survive that again we will. Please, no matter what happens, promise to stay alive. Youre valuable, youre important, and youre going to be ok. Its better to be overprepared than underprepared. Im not asking you to lose hope (im doing the opposite of that), im asking you to practice coping ahead, get all your coping skills ready, determine now to stay alive, because i dont want any of you to make any rash decisions later in case we get bad news and emotions are high. Make a safety plan if you need to. Make sure you’re gonna be ok