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my experience as a girl has just been “I just wanna be beautiful” for 20+ years it really is the root of all evil

‪If you are feeling very detached and disconnected from your current reality, it’s because it’s about to change. The July 27th lunar eclipse isn’t a rebirth. For a lot of people It’s a completely new life. These past few weeks have been the birthing pains. ‬

i see marginalized people on this website every day trying to feed themselves and their families, get to/from work or school, pay for medical procedures or therapy, fund their transitions, etc and they usually don’t get more traction than a couple hundred notes but somebody makes a post about a queer eye spinoff and suddenly it’s funded $15k…without any solid proof that is isn’t a scam or that it’s actually going to come to fruition…this website is a fucking joke and so is everyone who funded that bullshit

spread love

spread love

One of the things I noticed about the Donald Glover sensationalism is that the Hot Take Industrial Complex™ regurgitated things like “Showing Black people being brutally murdered shocks white people to the reality they ignore,” but that…is entirely ahistorical. White people distributed photos of lynchings through postcards, newspaper articles. They would keep the castrated organs of Black men in jars as souvenirs. Lynching was, many times, a communal experience for white spectators. You all know of the infamous photo of the white people smiling with a lynching victim in the backdrop. Even today, the deaths and violent barbarism that happens to Black people are distributed, typically without warning, all over social media. There was never a point in Black American history where white people, and the country at large, were not fixated on Black people’s death. It looms. There was never ignorance of it, just deliberate indifference or glee. I laugh at everyone who thinks repurposing this reality in the name of “anti-racism” could appeal to anything but a well established status quo. The most vapid attempts at “shock” and “controversy” can be passed off as genuinely transgressive so long as you toss some radical fluff to it lol. Is this really the state of mainstream anti-racism. 🔍👀

Stop asking little girls if they have boyfriends Stop referring to the boys that little girls are friends with as their “little boyfriends” Stop telling little girls they’re going to have boyfriends or be “boy crazy” Stop raising children on heteronormativity and let them be children

Additionally: 1. It’s not funny 2. It’s not cute 3. You are embarrassing them 4. You are completely disregarding them when they tell you “no” and you insist

Also, if a child has a crush, don’t keep referring to it over and over for months on end.  They grow.  They change.  They don’t want you harping on the fact that they used to have a crush on someone who’s now just a friend, or an enemy or someone who they just see in the halls.  Leave it be.  You’re embarassing them.