Happy pride to black trans people in particular I know it can be tough out here with how often the image of what and who counts as queer always seems to never consider us

IT'S WINTER

learning to notice an absence of people of color is crazy. you start seeing it everywhere. ill see a random pic of characters or people or whatever and be like "these are all white people. why"

all the babies in those baby youtube video memes. humanized character posts. like. its the little innocent shit. and like, the people making those baby memes probably arent seeking out white babies. maybe theyre just easier to find. but why are they easier to find? a complicated question, surely... but you know what it probably comes down to. someone, somewhere, maybe a lot of someones in a lot of places, made a choice. maybe knowingly, maybe not. but they made a choice. it starts to make you feel like a conspiracy theorist!!

Yeah, figuring it out can be sudden and scary all at once. For me it was just like. Normal. Like everyone has the person in their head they converse with. Who keeps you from fully exploding during stressful moments. Everyone heavily segments themselves between numerous different selves that don't like overlapping. I only really figured it out when I made an effort to combine those segments, and like. As I did the other selves got more defined and gained more agency? Honestly it took me like 3 years after that to even open myself to the possibility that it could be plurality and I'm still lightly uncomfortable with really identifying with it. No idea if this is helpful but this is my personal experience with it.

"Haha everything in Australia is trying to kill you" NOPE WE'RE NOT DOING THAT. You will romanticise our flora and fauna or you will shut up. You will marvel in the beauty of our red desert sand, you will delight in the smell of our eucalyptus trees, you will laugh with frivolity at the dances of our frill necked lizards and hear the musicality of the calls of our kookaburras and our magpies. You will unlearn the colonial narrative that this land is savage and deadly, and you will see it for the majesty it is.

hey if you're someone who edits Wikipedia articles, spread the word that it's quite disrespectful that so many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander public figures' Mobs/nations are not listed in their bios at all. Even well-known figures who have publicly stated who their Mob are, get simply described as "Aboriginal" or "First Nations" with no specification of their Mob/nation. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are not a monolithic culture. Every nation/Country/Mob has its own language, law, lore, customs, songlines etc. Promoting, unwittingly or not, the notion that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are one monolithic group feeds into the very same colonial narrative that was used to justify settler colonisation and attempted genocide (i.e the racist idea that we were/are a primitive monolithic people without culture, language, etc.). Of course, there are people whose Country might not be publicly known, but I am ofc, not talking about those figures. If wiki editors can do it for Taika Waititi, you can do it for famous Blakfellas. Also in general, this is respectful to do if you're writing about Blakfellas.

more non Australians should go and learn about The Stolen Generations if they don't know about it.

I know it's very common for winter to make people miserable or lethargic, but for me I find that it's honestly the opposite? winter makes me feel refreshed and alive. summer makes me feel like a slug being steamed gyozastyle. when the first autumn breeze graces my sluggy skin I will be rejuvenated and live forever

I said when the first autumn breeze graces my sluggy skin I will be rejuvenated and live forever

we are 19 days into autumn I would LOVE for the first autumn breeze to grace my sluggy skin. please. please. please. 1 autumn breeze? half an autumn breeze??? I'm dreaming of it. I'm closing my eyes and imagining half an autumn breeze. why is it Twenty Six Dee Grees