Of Metal to Roses, the world burns asunder

My fellow college baseball player Johan Sandoval was detained by ICE on July 3rd. His family just set up a GoFundMe to cover legal expenses and other costs. If you could consider donating or sharing, it would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everybody.

Hey so a small thing that literally everyone who sees this is capable of is correcting any “used to” statements about native people in this country.

I once said something along the lines of "why does everyone assume that every gnc cis man is an egg" and was harassed for it and sarcastically told that obviously the treatment of cis men should be our biggest concern and that I didn't know anything about egg culture (I do). You do realize that gnc people are queer too, right? You realize I can concern myself with "smaller" problems, because I love gnc people and am concerned about their well-being? You realize that telling people they must be trans because of their presentation is just as bad as telling someone must be cis for the same reasons?

the last few centuries of french history involved, amongst other things, a concerted effort to establish "french" as a legitimate country and cultural identity, and crucially as a language, which sounds like an absurd statement if you know nothing about the languages of france. french is a language, yes; it exists and existed in the late eighteenth century. but it was limited primarily to the north of france and was certainly not spoken or even understood across the country. other languages within france were banned and french was enforced following the french revolution and even to this day other languages indigenous to france have very little legal protection and are not recognised as official languages.

I’m so sorry to every trans woman or fem out there who has/wants to have a beard or facial hair. I’ve seen over the last few days just how much vitriolic hatred comes from what’s supposed to be your own community, not just cis transphobes, and it’s genuinely heartbreaking. I hope you know that your body isn’t a harmful stereotype, that you’re no less of a woman/fem for wanting facial hair, and that it’s wrong for people to expect you to conform in order to be respected. That cis transphobes view you negatively isn’t your fault, and the onus is on society to change and adapt what it views as “acceptable” femininity rather than your community shaming you into playing respectability politics. You deserve to feel safe presenting in whatever way brings you the most joy and comfort, and the very least other trans people can do is offer a safe space rather than telling you you’re doing something wrong.

Huh fascinating, I wonder what the fash have against Eric Carle? I wonder what he might have said about his life, and influences, and early experiences that makes them say he’s part of an ‘insalubrious culture’?

Stuck in a historical war

Being asexual and racist is embarassing as fuck. Being racist at all is obviously embarassing as fuck but the amount of racism and especially antiblackness i have been seeing from asexuals recently is obscene.

The KIDS act (which contains KOSA) passed the US house, so I would recommend calling your senators and telling them to vote in opposition. I don't think I need to stress the importance of being able to use the internet freely and without privacy barriers being breached.

All news posts are stronger with receipts:

Attending a protest where another protestor injured a cop, neither disabling nor killing him.