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I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

Progress.

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.

After a fall, his condition got so bad he had to be hospitalized. While staying there, he caught covid, the thing he's scared of leaving his house about, and subsequently died. When people say that not having a spring break in 2020 or being able to go to the movies "broke" them during "lockdown", I think about Ken, a beautiful soul who spread so much kindness and creativity on this site, who was already disabled and living such a meager existence before being forgotten and killed by institutional disinterest in disease prevention. Please look at and spread his art. Please remember Ken. Please keep covid in mind and work to prevent it so stories like Ken's stop happening.

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