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Lesbians who are also gay men are braver than any u.s. soldier

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Voting

I'm not gonna wade into the shitshow that is the presidential election here, but I do want to add the reminder that the president is not the only subject on the ballot. Change often starts at the local level, where there's a lot more room for experimental and precedent-setting programs, policies, and people. Do you care about who keeps your communities water drinkable, and who keeps companies from dumping waste in your rivers or among marginalized communities? About who enforces unjust laws and who runs your emergency services? Do you care about drug decriminalization? Needle exchange programs? Better housing programs? Defunding the police? Environmental policy? Job training programs? Ranked-choice voting for elections where candidates outside the two main parties actually have a fair shot? These things often start small. They start local. They start in the states, and they grow into larger discussions and debates and can, eventually, become national issues. You can make a real difference in your life, and in your community, by voting on candidates and issues in your local and state elections. Please don't ignore the entire election process because you're fed up with the presidential race.

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To Non-USAmericans or those otherwise not able to vote in the US: sorry about this ☹️.

To eligible US voters: please... for the love chocolate...

To those who have already voted: 🌟🤩💓🎉🙇‍♀️✨️��👌💗💯🥳😍😍🤝��🎊👏

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“There are other forces at work in this world besides the will of evil.”

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Shout out to the ten year old who just got diagnosed. Shout out to the housebound fourteen year old. Shout out to the eighteen year old who can’t go to the university they wanted. Shout out to the twenty two year old who can’t get a job. Shout out to the twenty six year old with a caretaker. Shout out to the thirty year old who can’t buy their own house.

Shout out to young disabled people. We exist.

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Reports are coming out that Harris is leading in Iowa.

So what does this mean for Iowa voters?

Iowa was red in 2020 and has historically been red. As someone who lives in AZ, a red state that is now a swing state, it is entirely possible to flip a state or at least make the Republican Party sweat. So if you are in Iowa and were considering not voting because “your vote won’t count in a red state anyways”, please get out and vote.

Obviously polls can be inaccurate, but how great would it be if we could flip a state that republicans considered an easy victory?

Iowa also allows same day in person registration!!! So if you are over 18 and a U.S. citizen who resides in Iowa it is not too late! Click here for info on voting in Iowa: https://voterready.iowa.gov/registertovote/

Link to article: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2024/11/02/iowa-poll-kamala-harris-leads-donald-trump-2024-presidential-race/75354033007/

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god i hope the cpsc takes the shot. i think this would dramatically change their entire business model. amazon makes so much money by selling defective or mislabeled or just plain dangerous products and then faces little liability because this stuff is actually being sold by random third-party sellers that don't get vetted at all and can be hard to prosecute because they're in china or wherever. this is a big part of what makes amazon so powerful and it would be good for everyone if they were forced to bear more responsibility for the damages caused by the crap available on their website

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*doom music starts to play* I actually kindof like scheduling these kinds of appointments now...

but seriously Fellas, don't forget to schedule a pap smear every couple of years just in case. If you still have a cervix you can still get cervical cancer. ilu

this has been a psa

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This is the information they are trying to keep from you by banning tiktok

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“I’m tired of voting every 4 years”

You’re 26 and there’s 80 year old black women who remember a time when they couldn’t vote but STILL aren’t tired of it. Maybe it’s a skill issue on your part.

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Can you elaborate on this masculinity isn’t a prison concept? In my experience as a cis man masculinity is just a violence men do to other men in order to try and limit the violence done to them by other men.

I was raised by a theatre guy so to me masculinity also includes putting on weird outfits and singing a funny little dance. Open your horizons, dude. Do gender on purpose instead of just what your dad or the bullies at school told you to do. It’s beautiful in here.

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Idk, man, I haven't felt truly stress and anxiety free since I was fucking born. So, yeah, I'm a little on edge

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"Trans women are actually women for real, not in a metaphorical sense, not in a "anyone can be anything" sense, but genuinely actually make more taxonomic sense to classify in the category of women than any other group" is a position you'll find is pretty radical even in queer spaces

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Arrested Development – 2.13: Motherboy XXX

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i love when intersex people try to talk about our issues people try to hit us with a "that doesn't count, that would be like 0.01% of the population you're talking about," ahh response, which I have personally received several times at this point.

everyone loves to be confident to pull some bullshit statistic out of their ass to be dismissive, but it's funny because they never do a second of research. the United Nations Human Rights Office estimates 1.7% of the population are born intersex:

even if the numbers were any lower, it would still be worth talking about intersex issues. any amount of people with these experiences are worth representing and discussing. we should not have to be invisible because our conditions are so stigmatized that many of us receive "Corrective" procedures just after birth, during childhood, or puberty. so many of us are swept under the rug, that's part of the reason why the statistics vary depending on which area is reporting the statistics.

you can't weaponize how marginalized someone is against them. if we fight for people with the most specific gender identities that can't be easily explained in one or two words, we must include intersex people. if we include people who use unique pronouns not seen in current common vernacular, we must support intersex people. if we support other queer minorities, we must support intersex people.

it's not an option. you can act like we are a statistic on a page, a number you can't possibly fathom in your mind, but we are all around you. everywhere. existing in real time. we are not fossils. we are not extinct.

you don't have the pleasure of ignoring us anymore. intersex rights are human rights, and sometimes, they're queer rights, too.