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And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

there's having parents who can pay for your application to any college, and then there's having parents who can bribe your way into any college. there's owning your own home, and then there's owning 50 houses and getting rich off hoarding a vital resource. there's not fearing for your life whenever cops are around, and then there's being the cop and being allowed to murder anyone at any time.

its not about the term "nonbinary" itself idc if you prefer that term or not But. i do think this way of thinking is So common amongst NB/GQ people because of exorsexism, both in the sense of "i dont feel like i'm trans enough to count; i've lived this long as a cis-presenting person, so i don't want to do Trans Stolen Valor, im fine, it doesnt matter actually!!!" repression and the "i know in the back of my mind at all times that coming out as nonbinary would create multiple major burdens on my life and potentially damage my career and so i guess ill just be pretending forever until i die" looming dread.

and theres also the fact that so many of those "nonbinary celebrity" lists (esp years ago) had a lot of celebrities who would mention in an interview that they were ~connected to the masculine and feminine energies within them~ and id be like cool friend! Are You Nonbinary Though. In The Gender.

and yknow its not that we as the public should be owed this information, or that i want any celeb with genderqueer things going on to feel pressured to be out or have their gender be comprehensible. but the matter of the fact is that the overwhelmingly majority of celebrities and just people in the public eye are binary cis people, and the majority of trans people in the public eye are binary trans people. and you have nonbinary celebrities, or even just content creators, who get bullied out of being publicly nonbinary or into changing their pronouns. and ive complained before on this blog how binary trans people don't seem to see nonbinary people getting locked in the closet or pushed back in to be anywhere near as bad as when it happens to binary people.

Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.

Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.

You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.

Sex is not what makes someone an adult.

Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.

Sex is not equally important to everyone.

You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.

You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.

Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.

The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.

linked arms.

as in community.

as in piercing glares, giving and receiving.

not gay as in pride flags in a straight couple’s instagram post, but queer as in bloody knuckles, my lover’s chest heaving.

not gay as in ‘love is love’ but queer as in ‘NO FAGS, NO FEMME.’

queer as in rainbow boots laced up with shaking hands. defiance. 

queer as in clawing at the tissue on a chest because it’ll never look right.

not gay as in ‘closets are for clothes’ but queer as in hoodies tied around waists because people can tell.

queer as in gun shots and smoke, not gay as in glitter and flags.

not gay as in rainbow, but queer as in us.

us, us, us.

lesbians yelled at in locker rooms for looking up for one split second to check the time, ‘stop staring at my tits, dyke!’

gay men letting their hands touch for one moment leaving work, ‘your fired, we don’t work with faggots. get out.’

bisexuals gently kissing their lovers cheek, ‘it’s just a phase, fag-pick a side!’

pansexuals holding their flag high, ‘that’s not a real thing.’

transgender men binding for hours on end, ‘you’ll never be like a real man.’

transgender women taking time and effort on their makeup, ‘your trying to hard, just be a guy!’

non-binary people dressing androgynistic, ‘what’s in your pants in your gender!’

genderfluid people having a different style as each day comes, ‘choose! you can’t be both!’

asexual people hugging and holding their lovers hands, ‘your broken! just have sex!’

aromantic people with their group of friends, ‘ugh, go date someone, it’s not hard!’

not gay as in straight cis people at pride prades, but queer as in riots and guns and death.

not gay as in ‘tomboys’ or ‘boys in dresses’ but queer as in drag kings and queens.

not gay as in ‘i got my first t-shot!’ but queer as in trangender indeviduals being murdered.

not gay as in ‘my parents got me a flag!’ but queer as in ‘get out of my house, faggot! you’re not my child.’

not gay as in ‘you can get married!’ but queer as in thousands of homeless teenangers  commiting suicide.

not gay as in being equal, but queer as in i know i’m fucking better than you.

not gay as in…but queer as in…not gay as in…but queer as in…

not gay as in happy, but queer as in fuck you.

fuck you and your cisgendered heterosexual society that we are forced into. 

fuck you and your ‘freedom for all’ bullshit, because while you sit up there on your thrones, we are being killed-we are being murdered.

fuck you and your ‘self love’ while non-cis people are screaming and punching at their mirror because of things you said to them today.

not gay as in gentle kisses-knowing you have time, but queer as in hot, heavy air, lips crashing into another, desperate.

not gay as in slipping off a shirt to pull them in, but queer as in pushing them onto the bed, running your hands over their body to never forget them.

not gay as in what a straight cis person is okay seeing, but queer as is dressing and acting like yourself for once in your fucking life.

It's an acronym.

We're here, we're queer, we're really fucking tired so we're just gonna go straight to biting instead of feigning polite confusion if you're gonna be a bigot this time, just so you know.

Happy Pride!

This is probably for a very niche audience…those of us who grew up evangelical in the 90s and early 2000s who have since left the church, come out as queer, and started unpacking rather a lot of religious trauma.

Like, vivid nightmares about failing a test or brief surges of panic that you're missing homework long after graduating from school are such a common thing, and people act like those aren't symptoms of PTSD. Persistent, overwhelming stress about you and your loved ones going to hell after you die is textbook anxiety-disorder material, but everyone in the church I grew up in thought that was normal- good, even. So many cis people feel the need to assert their masculinity or femininity by any means necessary, to the point that claiming something will enhance it is a consistent and proven marketing strategy, and people don't seem to put together that that stems to the aggressive panopticon of bullying and harassment for deviating from gender norms that happens to just about every child.

i think the biggest one is the way people raised in or around christianity swear. christians and ex-christians swear with a lot of phrases like “oh god” “oh my god” “jesus christ” “jesus fucking christ” “holy mother of god” “god damn it” “god fucking damn it” “damn it all” “oh hell” “holy hell” “holy shit” etc

i’ve been observing the way that my friends who were raised non-religious or not in religious schools swear with significantly less biblical phrasing and vocab. idk i just think it’s interesting :3