Until my body becomes a corpse, I will be free.

tech news today is that Mullvad VPN has gone mask-off about being the major funding source for the Swedish Orebro party, who are racist nationalists. unfortunately all discussion of this is occurring on fucking Mastodon instances i can barely load

if you are a mullvad customer (as i am) and want to get out, here is guidance from this guy

the full line is “not gay in happy, but queer as in fuck you.”  i know it’s been around for ages, though i can’t say i know whom to credit it to, though i do believe it’s well over thirty years old at this point-- i’m sure someone who’s more versed in queer theory and/or queer history could give you a more effective answer regarding the historical context and background of the quote.  

the function of it, at least in my vocabulary for the last ten-ish year, is that it’s a statement of intent, of purpose, of taking up space in a world that hasn’t wanted to allow us to take up space.  it’s not just a statement about sexuality or gender identity, but about identity as a whole: i’m here, i’m queer, and i’m not concerned with what you want from me because i’m concerned with what i want from me.  it’s a statement about community, because queer is a community that, to borrow from someone far more eloquent than i am:

Queer says no, you cannot insult me by lumping me in with the most marginalized and scandalous among us. I am unabashedly for their quality of life and not just my own.  (x*)

i can’t speak to exactly where the quote came from and can only speak to how i’ve seen it used over and over again, and that’s this: queer is inclusive, queer is intentional, queer is a community of marginalized people who came together to care and support each other and fight together for their right to exist safely and happily in a world that’s always told them no.  it’s just as eloquently put in this very beautiful post about queer as in i love you, which can be summed up with:

this is the core of it: love, but radically. love, but in defiance. and i don’t mean “love is love” either; i mean love like militant solidarity between queer women and queer men and all other iterations and permutations of both and neither and something else.

i’m sorry i can’t give you a more thorough background of the quote at this point, but if you’re looking for permission to use it as your own tag, then you have it, because queer is a community.  queer is your community, so use the tag and take up space.

• shut up Helen • you really care about this blog enough to end me anon hate •how long did this take to write? 5? 10 minutes? • I am (insert current action right now), I don’t care • I just (insert recent accomplishment), I really don’t care • how do you expect me to listen to you if you will ignore everything i say. • (if the ask is why do you hate ddlg) Did you even look at my blog or did you just look at my URL and clicked on the ask • (for me only because omg this is good(if it is anon hate)) looks like someone didn’t read my most popular post •(if it is from a terf) shut up Hylyn. (For those who don’t get it, it is making fun of terfs who use Womyn.)

Start laughing. In gif or text form. Possibly mocking specific insults; can include ranking them compared to past insults. (Honestly, I’m still giggling at “trigglypuff”)

“Omg anon hate I feel famous”

“Why don’t you come off anon and say that to my face you coward”

For hate on fandom sites/ anywhere review or comment based, thank them for adding to your review count

Also in general any mocking gif or image. I have a whole folder I’m saving

That feminist are ugly

That feminist are just women who are angry about not having a man

Or that feminist are just outright man-haters

Or just good old fashioned threats

It’s funny how after nearly a century we’er still seeing the same sort of insults from the anti-feminist movement which basically relies on women deriving their worth from how men view them, which is one of the things third wave feminism focuses on changing. 

So the next time an anti tries to delegitimize third wave feminism by comparing it to the first and second wave, just remember they probably would have been the ones making posters just like these

They lump together all forms of feminism under these waves as if they are all the same thing, and treat each wave as if it is a type of feminism.

That’s not how feminism works, though.

There are thousands of branches of feminism fighting this fight in different ways. That was true in the first and second waves and it’s true now. The wave system only suggests what time period in which this feminism took place. It doesn’t tell you anything about what all feminists believe, how they acted, etc. If you look at the second wave, lots of feminists disagreed with each other and argued with each other’s points, because they practiced different types of feminism and had different beliefs, ideas, and values. For example, bell hooks criticized Betty Friedan for ignoring women of color and for assuming the middle-class white woman’s experience is the experience of all women. These kinds of disagreements still occur all the time. Feminism is not a hive mind and while all feminists agree that the patriarchy needs to be stopped and women deserve equal rights, there are many different approaches to getting these equal rights and much disagreement over what rights women need to get. 

So when antifeminists say that the second wave was so superior to the current feminist movement because those feminists fought for real rights and modern feminists don’t, they are ignoring the fact that not all second wavers believed and acted the same way or fought for the same things, and neither do modern feminists. Some second wavers were terrible and some were brilliant, while some were somewhere in between. The same is true today of modern feminists.

They are being selective in what types of feminists to which they expose themselves in order to make their case. They hold the belief that modern day feminism is bad, so they point to the worst modern feminists they can find to make their case and ignore the good ones, while comparing them to the best feminists of the past and ignoring the bad ones:

And you’ll notice their arguments are filled with logical fallacies. 

For example, when a feminist struggles to articulate their point, antifeminists say that means they are wrong.

They also point to famous people or women who don’t think we need feminism anymore to prove that it’s useless.

And how often do they mock feminists for how they look, or for being bad people and believing horrible things that we don’t actually believe, just to make us look bad?

And many times, they just don’t understand what a feminist is saying, and that’s why they think it’s wrong.

Basically, you shouldn’t let these people manipulate you. You’re doing the best you can and are fighting and important fight. The arguments they use against you are flawed at best, and as the OP said, this isn’t a new thing that is in any way personal but rather the result of a hatred/fear of feminism as well as good old-fashioned misogyny. 

Don’t let them discourage you. It’s hard, but you can do it.

And maybe someday, a young feminist will be as inspired by and in awe of you are we are of many of the best second wavers.

💖 The Nerdy, Curvy Feminist 💖

Never. Too many have died for the way they have loved. That needs stop now. 

It is a thin little book.

When I first opened it, I wondered why it was so thin.

Why there wasn’t other books like it.

Other first hand accounts.

I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror by Pierre Seel

An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck

The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant

Branded By The Pink Triangle by Ken Setterington

On this day in 1943, gay anti-fascist resistance fighter Willem Arondeus led a group in bombing the Amsterdam Public Records Office to hinder Nazi efforts to identify Dutch Jews . Thousands of files were destroyed. Within a week, Arondeus and the other members of the group were arrested. Twelve, including Arondeus, were executed that July by firing squad. In his last message before his execution, Arondeus said, “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”

These Nazi/Fascist assholes going around on social media calling marginalized people cowards, fragile, weak but I’m pretty sure if we can all put up with multiple intersections of oppression and abuse for decades on end or our entire lives, even, we can fight in a damn war against genocidal inhuman bastards.

Trump racism has nothing to do with narcissism. Trump having an entire cabinet filled with neonazis has nothing to do with narcissism. Trump’s misogyny has nothing to do with narcissism. Trump lying to the public has nothing to do with narcissism. Trump’s blatant dismissal of people’s rights, existing laws, and our constitution has nothing to do with narcissism.

at least I'm not the only one who noticed

The idea that someone can be fully and wholly a man and still not be afforded the privileges given to cis men is foreign to most. The identity of "man" is synonymous with privilege and power, so when trans men say "hey I'm not as privileged as you think I am, there's more to it" that's unbelievable to most. They think we're purposely misgendering ourselves to gain imaginary oppression points. They compare us to cis men who refuse to acknowledge the privileges they do have because there's no such thing as a man that isn't privileged.

Unlike other marginalized men, trans men are in fact marginalized specifically for being men. Because our existence disrupts the assumption that masculinity is natural, exclusive, or biologically assigned. The hostility directed at trans men is often rooted in the belief that we are “betraying” womanhood, aspiring to something we supposedly should not be allowed to become. That is gendered oppression.

Saying "men don't experience misogyny" or "men aren't marginalized for their gender" or "nobody is trying to stop you from being a man" is no different than saying "men can't get pregnant." Trans men aren't misgendering themselves, you just don't actually understand or respect trans people.