modern-day yentl

me after a minor inconvenience: i hope i get hit by a [remembers i’m anti car-centric infrastructure] pedestrian

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

Special shoutout to all the queer, intersex, and trans het folks. Sorry for all the “it’s illegal to be straight this month” jokes you’ll have to endure. Y’all are still very much part of the community.

not only did Jews own all the slaves, they also owned all of the boats used to transfer slaves AND sold all the slaves to others. because yknow. the Jews™️

The worst thing about this conspiracy theory is that it’s completely mathematically impossible. To believe it you have to be either really stupid or really racist. Or both.

Also, because Mussolini never had an original thought in his head, this was something he stole from the proto-fascists of Free State of Fiume, which is an incredibly strange place in history.

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

At this point if anyone is trying to exclude anyone benignly pro-queer from a pro-queer space I'm just going to assume you're a fed or something idk like something something destabilize the movement from within or whatever

this pride month please remember that the violence and discrimination against transfems, transmascs, nonbinary, and intersex people are all of equal importance and weight, and equally worth acknowledging and addressing. none of them have it better or worse than the others, we are all living under a system that seeks to erase and destroy us.

Reblogging in honor of Marjane Satrapi, one of THE great graphic novelists. Her comic Persepolis was a crucial text for shaping my belief that comics can deeply explore identity, culture, politics, and history.

“Where are the trans men in history?” See. When you're born a gender that was forcefully married off, who had to live most of their life indoors, when you had to raise children, and had a lobotomy if your family thought you were a tad too odd, it's kinda hard to come out as a trans man now ain't it.

[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: I have an ancestor who 'pretended to be a man' for years, according to my relatives he did so in order to go to school to become a doctor, and he was eventually found out and wed off to a man and had a family, and forever would be revered for being able to get a degree 'posing as a man', but apparently even after marriage he still dressed in men's clothes and preferred to be seen as a man, forever my lineage would use his wrong pronouns but not me, I see him and I hope he smiles upon me knowing I am living a life he would have dreamed just getting to be a trans man, without being forcefully wed off and forced to have children for the sin of being born with a vagina, such is history with trans mascs, I once saw someone online say:, 'if history has a gaping hole where a minority should be, it's not because they did not exist/did not contribute, it's because they were erased', and I think about that a lot when I see stories like my ancestors knowing that our history has constantly been defiled, just like this /End ID]

Here’s a new paper on tool use in cattle! It really doesn’t surprise me. I wonder if people who raise animals ever look at studies about them and say, “That’s a new discovery? Bessie does that all the time.”

> looking for good transfeminism > ask trans activist if their feminism is cis or trans > they don't understand > pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is cisfeminism and what is transfeminism > they laugh and says "it's a good transfeminism sir" > listen to them talk about trans people's position under patriarchy > it's cisfeminism for trans people

the funny thing about doing cisfeminism for trans people is that you end up with people who will rant until they are blue in the face about how "transandrobros" don't understand "basic feminism" and "feminist materialism" (because the whole point of adopting a cissexist framework is to attempt to benefit from it at the cost of other trans people) who will also with a fully straight face tell you that being able to get pregnant is a systemic privilege if you are trans. congrats lil buddy that's the worst anyone's ever done it