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on a separate but related note if you are invested in a politic that includes the right to full body autonomy i wholeheartedly believe you have to shift your viewpoint on behaviors that you view as morally wrong and/or harmful, such as drug use, addiction, eating disorders, self harm, etc. this requires a dialectical materialist unpacking of the structures that paint these behaviors as ones that are deviant and the ways in which institutions are justified in criminalizing these behaviors and further restricting people's freedoms. unpacking the ways in which capitalism also frames our understanding of what behaviors are "wrong" and what bodies are more likely to be criminalized and/or institutionalized is also necessary for this work to begin. this is an admittedly difficult conversation to have. how do we imagine a politic that defends those who engage in harmful behavior? one place to begin might be the concept of dignity of risk, which comes from disability studies and that posits that people should have the inherent right to self-determination and the choice to make decisions that may cause harm. people are going to do things with their bodies that you do not like and demonstrate behaviors that you view as disgusting and wrong. regardless of how or if they choose to stop engaging in this behavior, the model of harm reduction (which to be clear does not solves the vast range sociopolitical problems that often times prompt people to engage in these behaviors) without moralizing is, i'd argue, a much more radical and human/e approach to treating people with the inherent respect they deserve

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I'm living the Barbie dream.

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Unfortunately for everyone, I am much more active on my private Twitter and Tiktok.

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eternal sunshine of the rpf mind

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explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

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What media should children be watching

they should have 10 vhs tapes they watch over and over again

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Anyone mind if this white boy speaks a little español this evening??

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david lynch understood on a fundamental level how abusive and exploitative the world is to those with the least power, particularly women and children. he created an entire lifetime's worth of cinematically and narratively groundbreaking work trying to grapple with that hostility and abuse, trying to reconcile the evil that exists in the hearts of everyday men with the goodness he saw there as well. he made survivors of unspeakable trauma feel seen and known in a way that few artists ever have and ever will, and never once shied away from the truth he knew and believed: that we are all innocent, that what has been done to you is not who you are, and even in times of abject despair, there are people who love you, who will not forget you or stop trying to save or defend or avenge you. i don't want that to go without notice. many people are mourning him for different reasons, and i agree, he was one of the greatest and most imaginative artists to ever be given free reign to paint on a cinematic canvas. but first and foremost, david lynch was an artist of enormous empathy, and i think those of us who saw ourselves in his work because of the empathy it afforded us are grieving particularly hard today.

his memory will always be a blessing.

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David Lynch (January 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025) RIP 🤍

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We lost a legend. RIP to the king of surrealism.

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ur url. u won at life. have they offered u anything for it or are the bugs too cool for tumblr?

They offered to sacrifice Ringo, but I simply refused.

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Fuck Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer. They can both burn in eternal Hell.

The fact that multiple women told Palmer the horrific things Gaiman had done to them and she was still bringing other women around him, introducing them to him, etc.

Sickening. That Vulture article is one of the worst things I've ever read. My god.

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had a dream last night that the new tumblr discourse was whether or not people deserved their urls and people were getting callouts and anon hate like "I can't believe you have x in your url when I never see you actually post about them it's pretty messed up that you're taking that url away from other people who actually deserve it :/"

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I'm having rpf thoughts.

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*a gong bangs when the Beatles enter the room even though they're white* Hey lads