Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Instead of doomscrolling lately I have been reading my PDFs and it turns out if you do this you learn a whole bunch of stuff. I’m afraid I must recommend it

Getting access to 99 JSTOR articles per month for free is a godsend.

If you want your own mugs you can go buy them >:(

honestly I'm very grateful that I got involved in queer community organizing basically as soon as I turned 18, because that's how I was exposed to other queer people saying things like "I just wouldn't trust a bisexual" and "I don't believe in that privilege stuff" and "I don't like when people act like you have to be a feminist if you're gay," all of which taught me at a very young age the crucial truth that queer people can be very stupid and very wrong

I think there's a pervasive tendency among very young baby queers to get kind of dazzled by being among other gay people for the first time and that combined with the heady drug of the first taste of independence can really make you start thinking of The Queer Community(TM) like it's one big enlightened rainbow utopia but unfortunately we have dipshits and malevolent freaks like every other demographic. Peter Thiel is in here.

my condolences to the people learning that Peter Thiel is gay from this post

funniest thing to ever happen was when my boyfriend put on the first episode of columbo (which i'd never seen) but he wouldn't tell me what show it was he would only say "you'll get it when he shows up." but a fun fact about the first episode of columbo is that he doesn't show up for 32 minutes and when he does, he silently walks into the room with a cigar and does a little pose and goes "hi i'm columbo."

sometimes a bigoted guy calling trans women slurs isn't calling her slurs because he "is secretly insecure and ashamed for being attracted to her". sometimes it's because he's a bigoted asshole. and acting like there's some magic Reddit Gotcha! that, if you comment under his post, magically undoes the harm done by his transphobia, is stupid! You aren't helping anyone!

Also, transmisogynists being sexually attracted to trans women isn't a "gotcha" at all. Men that are misogynistic towords cis women very famously treat them as sex objects. This is literally the exact same behavior.

staring at the dessert menu and twirling my hair and going "should I be baaaaddd" until the autistic girl I'm eating with says "there is nothing bad about eating dessert. it is a morally neutral action"

have you seen this yet?

Why is being trans so expensive. Oh my god. And I'm weird about consumable/single use Things so if I want to be normaler about using my trans tape (anxiety about Running Out Of things) I'm gonna have to have a Backup Binder anyway and that's another purchase. Pain. Suffering. It's okay I've spent money on stupider shit than "my quality of life" and "things I've wanted since I was 12"

If any of you would like to help fund my gender you know the drill $TLirs