One of the only asexual activists is Yasmin Benoit, a Black woman. She has raised so much awareness for the community. She was the first asexual person to lead Pride in London, she started the #thisiswhatasexuallookslike movement and is THE leading voice for the community.

And you all will celebrate international asexuality day on April 6th but we wouldn't even have that if she hadn't cofounded it.

Edit: why are you all too scared to repost this. Cmon. Be vocal about being against racism

Edit 2: if you feel the need to announce in the comments that you're not reblogging for whatever reason just know that I genuinely do not care.

But also know that I will look through your account and if I notice that youre actively a racist or you just dont reblog stuff about that I will ridicule you in a reblog. Idc idc. Not reblogging is fine but if you feel the need ti announce it youre annoying asf.

It has been literal years but every time I see Martin’s tweets posted somewhere and his word is shared as truth while her post is not shared it sort of reiterates the fact that we trust men to speak about feminism more than we believe women who experience it. 

Adding screenshots of her post. His whole post is there without needing a link. Hers should be, too.

(I hope your pain eases 🫂)

I have multiple fiction books I hope to have the brains to write one day actually. Here’s an example:

Guilt

in a world where semi-immortal deityhood is a job, a blessing/curse depending on what you Represent, and those who do it are mostly-randomly chosen, a Black transfemme in the 1920s suddenly becomes the personification of Guilt. Her first few decades are spent in fear and confusion on the run, as her presence in one space for too long results in her accumulating the Responsibility for every unsolved/unknown “wrong” around her. This almost always ends in her murder and reawakening in a new place.

For those first few decades, she can’t stay in one place too long and doesn’t get close enough for anyone to explain what’s going on to her, and her own attempts at research don’t explain what’s happening to her either, until she finally meets someone else like her. Threat, a butch transfemme that has figured out a way around her “job” drawbacks by becoming a professional dominatrix. Threat is able to explain to Guilt that she’s not alone, and that she isn’t the only one like her out there. That there are whole hidden cities of the “gods” where she might be able to live unaffected by her curse.

Guilt is finally able to spend a slightly longer time in safety thanks to Threat’s curse warding away those who would hunt her, but the rise of the carceral state means that there are options beyond death as “punishment”. In a police raid, Guilt gets arrested and trapped within the prison system for the first time.

Her first time incarcerated is brutal but relatively short, as she ends up being murdered by a guard, causing her to reawaken free again. The knowledge of there being safe places for her out there makes her take bigger risks, spend more time trying to find them, anything for this singular hope.

The next time, she ends up in a nigh-permanent solitary, barely remembered enough to be fed, forced to stay alive but her time being extended over and over for things she never did, in a system that doesn’t care about her. Trapped in an endless hell of ever-changing guards and no way to kill herself and escape.

Eventually, the prison is shut down and every prisoner’s case is reviewed as part of a restorative justice initiative. The cases are being reviewed by the current Truth, and Guilt is not only freed, but finds that while she was cut off from the world, many of the hidden cities came out to force a change they knew wouldn’t happen on its own.

She’s able to reunite with Threat and find a space that will be safe for her, where her existence won’t be seen as an automatic admission of guilt, where’s she’s finally able to just be and exist without being afraid every single moment.

But that's the thing. She doesn't exaggerate or grotesqueify or alter people's bodies to fit some standard. (Except insofar as she draws different species differently, and those are exquisitely practiced to ensure they have the same diversity of appearances that humans do.) She just presents people exactly as they are, complexities and oddities and all.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

Interviewer

Is swimming important to you?

Oswald

remember that time they aired an episode where Chris Grace said "Esk*mo kiss" and, in response to the backlash, they and Grace separately issued statements + edited it out of the episode? still waiting on Reich's statement about this

it is that simple, yes. a rich, powerful white man essentially said, "funny to be called a pedophile by a man wearing a lot of makeup" and expected everyone to laugh at it.

it's notable that the response was confusion. they knew that what he said was objectionable, they were trying to find a way to avoid that conclusion and couldn't find one. I also had this moment of confusion.

we, all of us, have been taught to dismiss and excuse transmisogyny. we've internalized it, the confusion happens automatically. deliberate effort is required to overcome that impulse to dismiss, and even that relies on us having noticed it happening at all.