Just a kelpie in the marsh

Still life.

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I used two more condor photos by Andrew Orr and Alam Clampitt from peregrinefund.org

Gotta use the skills I learned from making tabloids out of the Jane Austen novels somewhere right?

🏵️ Ceramic hummingbird hawk-moth sculpture 🏵️

me and my girlfriend have nothing to eat, we were just barely able to pay our rent

i havent been able to get my meds as well but we need groceries first

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c*shapp: $frogiess

v*mno: @ finchfrog

https://www.paypal.me/skyve

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

apparently the murder happened in 2023 after doing some research but the murderer has been found not guilty.

HUGE news in Sweden in the world of decolonialising museums!!

Sweden’s oldest museum and one of its largest have been granted 400 000kr (approx. €37k) to during 2026 begin the process of repatriating their Saami artefacts to Sàpmi

but if someone writes an article about how Gen Z men are actually SUPER conservative and think all women should stay in the home and be married by age 22, people on here's gut response is "fuckkkkk thats SO true we are so cooked #killallmen"