AUTTY!1!1!1!1!!

Across the region, many LGBTQ+ people are forced to leave their countries because of criminalization, persecution, and threats to their lives. In some places, same-sex relationships are still punishable by severe penalties, even death.

For those who reach countries like Kenya or Uganda, safety is not guaranteed. Refugee camps such as Kakuma have seen reports of discrimination, attacks, and tensions affecting LGBTQ+ residents, even as humanitarian agencies try to improve protection.

Recent years have also seen more people fleeing harsh laws like Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act pushing queer individuals to seek asylum across borders, often into already strained systems.

Beyond physical safety, queer refugees face isolation, lack of healthcare limited legal protection, and mental health challenges shaped by both displacement and identity-based trauma.

And yet, across East Africa, queer refugee communities continue to organize, support each other and demand dignity, visibility and rights.

Queer refugees are not just statistics they are people seeking the same thing anyone would: safety, belonging, and the freedom to live openly.

This also goes for psychotic people who have "scary"/"disturbing" reactions to certain things (screaming, rocking back and forth while holding their head, mumbling about seemingly "crazy" or "inane" things, defecating themselves, scratching their skin, lashing out, wetting themselves, etc.)

Everyone wants to be on the right side of history until they realize mental health advocacy includes everyone and not just the 'prettier' disorders that they oh-so-love to cherrypick and romanticize.

Everyone loves the idea of disorders being less stigmatized than they are today, but will, in the same vein, clutch their pearls when they hear a person with POCD sob about how they feel like a disgusting human being about having uncontrollable, EGO-DYSTONIC, INTRUSIVE thoughts/images about children. They will call a morally incorrect person psychotic, they will say things very reminiscent of "I'm scared that the EVIL PSYCHOTICS are able to roam freely 😰😰😰😰" with a helluva lot of padding, they will make "schizo" jokes whose whole purpose was to trigger psychotic people because it's funny.

Intrusive thoughts aren’t desires.

Intrusive thoughts aren’t desires.

Intrusive thoughts aren’t desires.

kosa update:

it's the time again to start calling your senators to avoid internet censorship, as well as to stop letting israel be intergraded into the us military.

for kosa (kids safety act), it's suspected that they'll hold a meeting on august 3rd. this is only a markup, and not a final vote. however, please add pressure onto this thing unlike ever before. it's dangerously close to fully passing into law, and it'll ruin the internet for good.

as for the other subject, it also passed the house, with both republicans, and democrats voting in favor of genocide. it's sitting in the senate for now, and while i'm unsure of the date, there will be a markup on that as well. it is also dangerously close to passing as well. (as a side note, if you don't wish to feel defeated, please don't read the comments.)

that'll be everything for now.