Pants Wearing Barbarian

This sick bleach shirt I made. Something to showcase my undying love for prehistoric cave art.

Black and rufous sengi - Rhynchocyon petersi

Aardvark - Orycterops afer

Western long-beaked echidna - Zaglossus bruijnii

Star-nosed mole - Condylura cristata

Giant anteater - Myrmecophaga tridactyla

Russian desman - Desmana moschata

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.

hey what's it like to be a circus pirate? let us look around the big top together. let us have hot dogs in their midway galley, together

i hate that fucking clown

i convince the clown to go try to register his face on an egg without mentioning to him that there's a clown code he'll be expected to uphold

that's the plot

there's no shipping just lots of boating

a lot of lines are clever and funny even if the whole thing needs an editor overall

hey what's it like to be a circus pirate? let us look around the big top together. let us have hot dogs in their midway galley, together

i hate that fucking clown

i convince the clown to go try to register his face on an egg without mentioning to him that there's a clown code he'll be expected to uphold

that's the plot

there's no shipping just lots of boating

a lot of lines are clever and funny even if the whole thing needs an editor overall

thought about this because it's so frustrating when people argue that 'dying in childbirth' is a historical sort of event that doesn't happen nowadays (false) and therefore is irrelevant to the legal status of abortion, since it's not a real danger.

except it super is, and i think a lot of people haven't noticed that this argument in addition to simply being incorrect is basically the same as when people say we don't need vaccines for deadly diseases because no one gets those now anyway.

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