maybe if you had read every post i have ever made you would have correctly interpreted the tone of my post

Selected Works from Gerda Wegener

Gerda Wegener was a Danish illustrator and painter, known for her exploration of gender and sexuality within her work. Many of her pieces were considered lesbian erotica during her life, though she herself never publicly identified as a lesbian. In fact, information about her life is quite limited. That said, many art historians and researchers believe that she herself may have been queer. Her work often depicted intimate scenes between women, androgyny, and gender variance. Her work, particularly her portraits, challenged social norms around gender and sexuality, and celebrated the beauty in that diversity.

Wegener is especially recognized for her portraits. One of her favorite subjects was her wife and fellow artist, Lili Elbe, who she often painted before Elbe's transition. In addition to her technical skills, Wegener was able to capture a sense of fluidity and sensuality that offered a unique perspective—one that was heavily discouraged at the time. Her work serves as a testament to the presence and contributions of queer women in the art world and continues to inspire contemporary artists exploring themes of sex, love, gender, and beauty.

You can find these works and more in our gallery!

when you make a vaguely specific emotional post you get a million notes. but when i say i want to look like her little secret service agent. even the group chat is silent. trans men will neve r be free

is there anything more offensive to the humble autist than an unruly shower curtain.

call me psycho i’m about to make a scene in this shower

has anyone tried making little binkies for cats who have suckling problems? it's a concern because they can get bad hairballs or blockages from sucking fibers and fur off of blankets or other cats. seems like a little cat binky would fix this

and it would be sooooooooooo cute

While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.

Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Clickhole, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.

my gf put me in the friendzone (making me watch friends)

people dont want you to know this about the blockbuster 90s sitcoms but it's true. in several years we as a country are going to have to have the "the office is actually good" conversation as well, it brings me no pleasure to report this

much better footage of the haka that shut down parliament today

@endless-demon thank you so much for asking! it's a little complicated but I think simplification does a disservice to the issue and is exactly what people like David Seymour rely on to spread lies about historical context and current consequences. I'm putting this in a reblog because it's long, and I'm putting it on this post because I'd rather this video be the one to get seen. as always I'm pakeha and also not an expert, so I'm very open to corrections on details but im confident of the broad strokes.

so when the English first arrived to build settlements in aotearoa, they formed a treaty with Māori (te Tiriti o Waitangi), the people already living there, that the English can govern their own settlements, as long as they allowed for continued māori sovereignty (tino rangatiratanga). there exist two versions of the text, English and te reo Māori, which do not perfectly match. after this, the English settlers began acquiring massive swathes of land by legally questionable means, and asserting absolute sovereignty over these areas. these culminated in the land wars, which then lead to massive land confiscation as a form of both political punishment and colonization. the end result is that now the crown own nearly all land in aotearoa and claim absolute sovereignty over it.

now, the Māori text does not claim sovereignty over the property that the crown recognizes Māori own. the text promises, among other things, self determination for Māori, which is essentially impossible under a westminster system of government because they are currently a demographic minority. it's only very recent in our history that the crown has acknowledged the legitimacy of the te reo Māori text, and even more recently that we began to actually implement any of its principles. one of the biggest ways the treaty is used in modern day is to guarantee Māori have an opportunity at the table for major national decisions (particular those of environmental significance), and to defer organizational power for Māori issues to Māori communities.

the treaty principles bill seeks to water down these promises by allowing these rights to all new zealanders, "democratising" the treaty and removing those guarantees that have been so hard fought for by Māori. but, more importantly, it seeks to seed division and racism within this country to gather more support for the ACT party who are sponsoring this bill.

this bill was part of the coalition agreement by our current 3 party right wing government. the national party agreed to sponsor this bill to first reading (allowing public submission on the bill) but no further. I personally believe, along with many others, that when the time comes to vote for the second reading the act party will threaten to pull out of the coalition if the bill is not passed again, and our prime minister will not have the strength of character to stand up to his deputy. regardless, the relationship between the crown and Māori has already been damaged, both by the simple introduction of the bill as well as all the changes our current government has implemented.

as Paul Goldsmith, Minister for Treaty Negotiations outlined in his speech during the bill, the National party believe that te Tiriti must be killed, not in a single action, but by a thousand cuts, like the removal of references to the treaty from our legislation and curriculums, and the disestablishment of agencies like the Māori Health Authority, cuts to Māori advisors to govt departments, removing māori seats from local government, etc.

there's so much more to this issue, like the centuries of abuse and mistreatment of Māori by the crown authorities, how this abuse is ongoing to Māori children and adults today in state care, how iwi voices are our last line of defence against environmental and ecological damage by industry, the unilateral natural of the treaty reparation settlement process... but this is why this protest was staged in parliament today.

(in fact, there is a much larger protest taking place nationwide, scheduled to arrive the day the bill was supposed to be introduced. the bill was in fact introduced a week earlier, in a move many suspect was done to prevent exactly this kind of protest.)

as far as I'm concerned though? I think te pāti Māori achieved exactly what they wanted by this protest. they forced the government to drop the mask of civility, and force the protestors out of the building. and they showed their supporters that their protests are working - they felt threatened enough by this that they lashed out, felt a need to retaliate by suspending hana-rawhiti maipi-clarke from the house for 24 hours. the coalition are getting nervous

While the media overdramatizes the fiction of pro-Palestinian antisemitism, white nationalist antisemitism has seen a disturbing resurgence that has been almost entirely ignored. Since 2021, fascists have felt more comfortable explicitly flying swastika flags in large groups and now harassing productions of the Diary of Anne Frank.

Horse figure of the day: Lalaloopsy Ponies "Moon Glow"

Last week I saw a ragepost from someone saying that now that law and order finally was back people would finally be punished for walking through parking lots or driving their cars through parking lots outside of the designated yellow lines and I decided I needed a lil break

“I mean can you believe that some people just walk right through a parking lot instead of staying on the sidewalk? Those people will be punished under the new regime”

what sidewalk

Since we're getting into "did you know that Santa's eight tiny reindeer are a reference to the eight legs of Odin's steed?" season once again, remember: while there are some elements of Christmas (or Hallowe'en, or Easter, or...) observations that are probably pre-Christian in origin, before one believes any of that this-is-really-100%-just-a-Pagan-holiday-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off stuff, one must consider all of the following possibilities:

#Also: modern neopagans feeling guilty about christian cultural hegemony eating up point no 5 #while obfuscating / willfully ignoring just who is feeding that narrative and why #your legitimate beef with institutional christianity does not justify leaning into anti-christianism that is rooted in antisemitismmmmmm (via @screambirdscreaming)

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