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the train of thought in this comment is phenomenal. so true.
The Left Hand of Darkness is in part about gay sex that is not happening, but unlike most texts it is very aware of the gay sex that is not happening that it is about. It's where that profound love profound hurt line everybody loves is from. It is very explicitly about the protagonists choosing not to have gayish sex.
"Thou Shalt Not", 1940 photograph by Whitey Schafer, made in protest of the then-current motion picture censorship Hays Code. The photograph deliberately breaks many of the "rules" of the code, listed in the upper right corner.
A question for other SA survivors:
How do you stop thinking about it all the fucking time?
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what doesn't kill you makes you weird at intimacy
Living is resistance, but it is not enough. Conditions can worse. Do not become quiet.
You do not need to riot. You don't need to take the highway. You don't need to light anything on fire. I'm not telling you not to do those things - I don't feel safe advocating them publicly, but I cannot be made to pretend to oppose such things publicly, I'm telling you that it is not itself the prerequisite to the collective survival of our democracy or minority rights or the prevention of the atrophy of our political consciousness. You may do such things - I cannot stop you! - but they are risks that I am not asking you to take today.
But you do have to protest, to strike, to organize. Drop banners, take over your local party, feed the hungry, speak about injustice, buy food for the people feeding the hungry, be the call for your friend at a protest, provide legal aid both to protestors and to all the other imprisoned, take over a park, hold a teach-in, or a die-in (real power here for pro choice protestors), or a sit-in, make a cacophony of action, collectively try a million things to see what works right now in this moment.
In times such as these, it is more pressing than in better times, specifically because it is quite possible it will become dangerous, because resistance, and a refusal to go quietly, makes the authoritarian's job harder.
Poland reminds us that clawing things back is possible. Do not let your political awareness atrophy - that is where catastrophe lives. As long as we are fighting, we will live. Silence, the slogan goes, is death.
Looking rough for both of them thus far
"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
My cutting-edge radical queer politics: Actually meaning it instead of just saying it as an empty slogan
i’m not aromantic but i believe in their beliefs
for me being bi has contributed a huge amount to noticing all the ways in which romance and friendship run together and i think in general people would benefit from recognizing that romance and friendship are socially constructed categories used to describe a vast, nebulous, and often overlapping range of feelings
Where are the marches for Josseli Barnica? Where are the vigils? Where is the outrage? How is her name not on every tongue? Her death was unnecessary, it was horrible, it was cruel, it was purely political; politicians killed her and they did so because they were so desperate to control people like her that they created the conditions for her miscarriage to be drawn out so long she died of sepsis. It is a repeat of exactly what happened in Ireland that brought down that state's abortion ban. Why aren't we talking about this? For reference: https://www.propublica.org/article/josseli-barnica-death-miscarriage-texas-abortion-ban
"man, every trans woman i meet has a shitty bed and small apartment and no money let's make fun of them for that, let's get self congratulatory assfaces in the reblogs saying they'll buy her a blanket, let's all point and laugh at the poor girl who is systemically discriminated against and therefore more likely to end up poor, unemployed, and homeless, isn't that so funny?????"
you guys talk about our poverty the way conservatives talk about iq
“let's also call it a Male Living Space, which definitely isn't misgendering her on top of gleefully mocking her poverty and precarity, that's just the term for how you people live haha”
If you vote for a Harris, you will reward the democrats for pivoting right and they will continue to do so. However, if we collectively hold our votes and make it clear why we do so democrats will think "We lost to Trump again??? We need pivot farther right." This party is not very smart.
Had a kid (by which I mean, like, 15 year old - this would have been easier with a much younger kid, who I don't expect to have any sense of what is appropriate to ask) ask me to my face "What's the worst thing that ever happened to you" and part of me (a minority part of me; I don't actually think it would have been fair to him or comfortable for me) wishes I'd looked that child dead in his eyes, put a hand on his shoulder, and said, "You cannot go up to people and ask them about the time they were sexually assaulted. I understand that is not the thing you think you are doing, but I am not the only person for whom that is the answer. I need you to stop asking that question of people who do not have the kind of relationship with you where the answer won't be awful for everyone involved." Instead, I just gave him an awkward, mildly hysterical laugh and said, "Nope! Not telling that story!", which he very clearly did not understand.
Honestly I thought I was fine with it when he first asked the question and then I realized I'd had a good two hours where I wasn't thinking about The Incident and then I was upset about it again.
sorry for being a bitter transfeminist that's not very sex object of me
