Legalize piss
?????? NATIONAL HERO???
ALTDid you hear? They added pegging to the Olympics.
I have many keys and a parking lot full of cars at my new job. As if God is trying to test my self restraint.
While you all were busy having sexualities I’m just fucking.
Read it and read it again. Stop trying to define everything by colonial binaries and dictating other people’s identity. Stop using the language that TERFs and other transphobes brought and build in our communities. Fight this rhetoric. Embrace the irrationality of queerness. In the end, we’re the ones keeping our community alive. We have to stand up for each other and fight queerphobia, even when it comes from those within the community. Thank you, Alitsanosga for writing all of this out and sharing.
Thinking about all the times in queer spaces pre voice training that I was told that my voice was scary or triggering. Not even when I was angry just when I was excited and loud with a deep voice. How did anyone think that was okay to say to me
Also thinking about all my transmasc friends who transitioned and suddenly felt too terrified to be as loud and flamboyant as they were before out of a fear of being threatening and predatory. Breaks my heart every time I see it
If you can only feel safe by policing and shaming other peoples bodies then that is your fucking problem, not mine
One time I was on a date with another trans woman and she told me my voice was too deep and I should look into voice training lol. Shits wild.
In a small sense I think part of why there is so much infighting within the queer community today (besides the terfs) is because the language we use to describe our identities is becoming so much more specific it creates the illusion that the groups in our community have more differences than there are similarities . I’m not saying that having more vocabulary to describe our experiences is bad but it’s creating such a disconnect between eachother. People are asking themselves what it means to be trans, or gay, and applying that to all other people who use that label. I could go to a group of people that are all trans fem and I could get each one of them to give a different description of what that means to them and ehat they identify as. Some could use different words, some could be outdated but they are all in some sense the same. One woman is a tranny, one a trans dyke, one a trans woman, one a woman. These all very different terms that could all be used by the same woman to describe herself. Has our community gotten so weak it crumbles and splinters with each new label we add. I’ve identified as nearly every sexuality in the queer community for a time. The time I spent identifying as each was important, and even though I may not have settled into most of them, the time I spent broadly roaming the queer community has been my best experiences with it. We do not choose our sexualities but we choose how we label them. These labels are like one size fits all gloves potentially anyone can put on. Sure you could put on any glove but not all will be your style, Maybe you wont have a favourite but you will rotate between some that feel right at different times. ultimately the more we try to custom tailor these terms the more we build walls between them. The less those terms fit everyone and the more specific to your experience they become. The less expression and experimentation we are truly allowed. When I was young and gay I wanted an easy little label to tightly put my sexuality into perspective and I’m sure that’s great for a lot of people but personally when we loose the fluidity of the greater queer community we are no longer a community but communities that share an umbrella term. It is not all to do with vocabulary, Otters and bears don’t argue over the others validity like bisexuals and pansexuals, however I do think the way people see these terms as concrete is something that actively limits the expression of the whole community. We are all just people and our identities are the costumes we use to express ourselves. When you see them as anything more than that I think you’re missing the point. Everyone deserves a place in this community and everyone deserves to express themselves how they see fit. If that doesn’t jive with your interpretation of what it means to be gay, lesbian, bi, trans, ace, or whatever identity people are playing semantics with no one else cares. We’re here, we’re queer, who gives a shit about the rest of it.
video description: two maned and pointed-eared ceramic beasts, one with a hollow chest. Inside this chest is visible a bauble of glass swaying side to side. video zooms in on bauble. no audio.
image description: the same beasts and a hand holding another glass bauble; the bauble is a dramatic teardrop shape.
Guess who successfully put a vintage chandelier prism inside a sculpture and won't wait for natural light or steady hands to film it! it's meeeeeeee
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image two: closeup on the beast tucked between two gnarled red roots on a bed of dirt and moss, presiding over a stick feathered with lichen. its coin-like face has been flipped to show closed eyes.
I have put the Beast into the Woods where it shall stay
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PSA: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s family is calling for no celebrationof MLK Day without voting rights legislation.
Spread the word.
Below image, link to CNN article on request from the King family.
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End imperial exploitation. End neocolonialism. End settler colonialism and capitalism.
Canada has a nice public image because it hides behind it’s big brother US. But Canada is the home of some of the largest extractive industries in the world which violate indigenous people, lands and global south.
A good book to read would be “Blood of extraction: Canadian imperialism in Latin America” by Todd Gordon and Jeffrey Webber.
On this day, 14 January 1942, Canadian prime minister Mackenzie King ordered the removal of all adult males of Japanese descent from the country’s West Coast. The move, during World War II, was followed next month by the government approving a further order excluding all people of Japanese ancestry from 100 miles inland of the Pacific coast, breaking up families and sending 22,000 people to labour and internment camps. The ban would continue until 1949.
Pictured: Japanese Canadians being relocated https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1899089660276175/?type=3