I bang my head for days against the walls inside this maze

I've never been too good at this damn kind of thing

YTA

YTA

peeing again i hope i dont die

Feeding the Night Dog

Calamity Cole (@calamitycoleart)

THE DOG??? THAT IS NOT THE BEAST!!!

Rick Owens S/S 2011 "Anthem" horn shaped hair jewels made of bone

i bet daniel craig and rachel weisz are engaged in forms of full time kink we can't even comprehend. like if he leaves even one speck of crust on her tea sandwiches she puts him in a christening gown and hunts him on their estate

esims are low again. check out connecting humanity for more information on directly sending esims or for a linked to crips for esims for gaza's fundraising. you can also set up a recurring donation on chuffed for esims. i have a weekly donation here because being able to keep as many people as possible connected to the rest of the world is critical for documenting the situation and allowing individuals to continue their own grassroots fundraising/organizing

(touching your open wound) damn you’re so wet

waiting for carmilla

[wip] want you down on all fours

anatomy study

I don’t really want to wade into discourse too much today because I know everyone is extremely miserable online rn but I think if you want to give people genuine advice on what to do politically, “join a union/get involved in your current union/organise your workplace” or “join ACORN/a tenant union/etc” is much more actionable advice than like “build community.”

the problem with “community” is that it doesn’t have the same formal infrastructure / resources / political connections / organising capacity that allows your hard work to have reach far beyond your immediate circle (which is what a union has), and also because like, “community” is an extremely vague and abstract concept that can mean anything from a local restaurant run by your neighbour to a church to your dnd friend group. Reaching out and helping your neighbours is a good thing, lots of people are having a really tough time and helping people around you pay rent or take care of their family or etc is a good thing and you should feel good doing that, but in response to the complete institutional and political failure of electoral liberalism I think the next best option is to turn towards already existing national infrastructure that can mobilise people without requiring you to individually maintain dedicated personal relationships with everyone around you. In my experience + the experience of many long-time activists that I know, relying on interpersonal connections to organise and get things done leads to highly sectarian, disorganised, toxic, and unpleasant organising conditions. The cold impersonal bureaucracy of union membership is legitimately a good solution to this problem.

there are many little positions of power available in these organisation that become open to you for as low a cost as showing up to zoom meetings. I have personally been elected to positions in various unions/orgs literally because I was someone who showed up to meetings! Nobody goes to committee meetings! You get annual budgets! You get to pass votes, organise events, spend money on organising materials! You get to buy food for people! Organising is so much easier in these spaces.

And of course, you are going to face the same ideological resistance, apathy, ignorance, incompetence, and bigotry that you would at your local queer meet-up or community neighbourhood council, and I have no illusions about the institutional limits of unions (which can also be reactionary, bigoted, highly disorganised, incompetent, toxic, and so on), but if you want to avoid completely exhausting yourself and resenting everyone around you, you don’t need to build “community” from the ground up, there are already structures out there where you can do good work. For all the resistance there is to unions and union activity, you will face that same level of resistance with local organising but have none of the power, resources, or institutional legitimacy already secured by unions

you requested more butch arms?

im inventing a new bechdel test that you can only pass if your movie has two butches alone together smoking and maybe one of them grabs the other by the belt loops and then one of them puts a cigarette out on the other and then they start making out against a truck and maybe there's a little bit of teeth and tracy chapman is playing on the radio and we can hear them breathing and cut to black. or not. maybe not cut to black. i will leave that up to you but remember there is a right answer

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Easy to use and simple. Just share the site whenever someone asks for GFMs for Palestine.

[HOW TO PROCEED, EMERGING WISDOM FROM THE WOMEN

The faggots and their friends and the women who love women can keep the men off balance for a long time by subtly, but continually, changing their identities. The men who are in charge of controlling it all find it difficult always to know how many of each kind there are, and who they are. Each group can grow and shrink as the men’s changing ferociousness demands.

But the men’s viciousness will grow as their panic increases. They carry with them the knowledge always that there are enemies. And even when the men have trouble seeing the enemies clearly, they do not stop punishing. To punish, at random if necessary, is believed effective against the enemies. The faggots and their friends and the women who love women know that for a while they can find some safety in the confusion they create. They can have some time to develop their resources to survive.

Yet, at some point, collectively, they will begin to know that the men will continue as long as they continue. They can play with the men’s categories to try to neutralize the men’s guns. Yet this will not make them free. They begin to know, from the inside, that they cannot be free until this dance is stopped. The men will not stop for they have nothing else to do. This dance brings the men riches, power and fame and they will keep it going as long as they are able. The faggots and their friends and the women who love women can, they begin to know, stop, and do no-thing. That is something for them to do. 

They will begin slowly to move their energy from the men’s deathly dance to a stillness. No movement and high visibility energy will be their goal. They will begin slowly. They will fast for a few days at a time until they do not need to eat unless they want to eat. They will put aside, from time to time, their magic substances until they do not need their magic substances and take them only when they want to. They will begin to abstain from sex to rest from the exhausting chase and get. They will stop flirting and seducing until they no longer need another warm body to feel real. Then they can make love when they want to. As what they need decreases, their activity decreases. They will then be close to doing no-thing and therefore close to not being what the men created them to be. They will cease to be other and the men will begin to fear for their own sanity.

The men’s needs are strong and overwhelming. They need the faggots and their friends in order to know who they are not. But the faggots and their friends no longer need the men. They can sit and produce high, invisible love energy or they can do anything. But they will not need. And when the faggots and their friends cease being the faggots and their friends, the deathly dance of the men will begin to wane and a new dance will begin to emerge. Then the third revolutions will engulf us all.]

larry mitchell, the faggots and their friends in between revolutions, 1977.