rainbows at the end of my tunnel (24/f indian wlw)

I don’t know if the recent surge of online homophobic and transphobic hatred in India is just because more people are becoming aware of the LGBTQIA+ community and their first instinct is to leave a hate comment.

I don’t know if it’s because there are more open and visible Indian queer folks online now.

I don’t know if this will translate into more hatred in real life towards queer folks.

I just think it’s ironic. That a country with so much queer history and a passion towards love is demonising queer love.

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There are a million different personal experiences and circumstances that impact the decisions we make. Safety should always be the number one prior

But there is no queer Indian identity without queer Indians living in India

Red, White and Royal Blue (2023) + text posts

The proper response to your dog doing a natural behavior you dislike (digging/barking/protecting etc) it to give them an appropriate time and place to engage in that behavior

The proper response to skateboarders damaging infrastructure is to build more and better skate parks, or build skate elements into the public infrastructure on purpose.

The proper response to homeless people sleeping on park benches is to build them houses.

you see how there's like, a commonality at play here?

The proper response to a disruption is to address the root of the disruption directly, not somehow attack the disruption itself -

you don't invent a muffler by swinging a bat at the engine noise, you don't relieve your hunger by punching yourself in the stomach, you don't resolve public unrest by sending armed men to control them and you don't prevent homeless people using bus shelters as a roof by removing the bus shelters.

writers shouldn't need to go on strike – but when we do, we're funny as fuck.

The coronation was funded by tax-payer money. This same tax could have gone towards the cost of living crisis. People are starving and freezing to death as this is going on.

Protests (peaceful or otherwise) are illegal now. A lot of anti-monarchists are being arrested for simply holding signs.

Our government is currently trying to push through a revision to the Equality Act that will exclude trans and non-binary individuals.

Oil companies have made a record profit in the past couple of years. Oil and gas prices aren’t rising because of an inflation issue.