If you are going to be squeamish about these facts of public life then you should really be aware of how at odds that is with your “punk” “be gay do crime” aesthetics and how your fears are directly implicated in fascist policing of our bodies

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There is literally no reason my assigned sex needs to be part of my legal identity. My government is not using that for anything (important). It doesn't matter. If the gender markers on everyone's IDs vanished tomorrow nothing (except maybe the draft) would be significantly negatively affected. Data collection for research could continue as usual since researchers usually have people self report these characteristics rather than checking their government IDs. My doctors would still know which organs I have and if they forgot, I could tell them. I don't want anything to be part of my legal identity that doesn't have to be.

my little sister is 5 by the way and she is fuckign hilarious im literally crying rn

if there is one thing we all know is a core component of being in the military it is being free to make your own decisions about things that could threaten your life

there is, it seems to me, at least partly an is-ought confusion here (and at this point it’s hard not to see it as a willful one): ought Gaelic to be a “Scottish” language, present throughout the country? sure, I guess. but it isn’t, and to act as if it were is, at best, to continue a policy of state neglect by ignoring the realities that continue to marginalize Gaelic communities. at worst, it is to actively encourage the continued dispossession of Gaels from their language, culture, and communities, to say that Gaels’ relationships to their language do not matter, to say that Gaels’ language doesn’t, in the end, belong to them at all but to “Scotland”. this absolves the state — and any non-Gaels who have learned the language — of any responsibility to support Gaels’ communities in particular, or to address the relationship between language and other areas of policy, which de facto means absolving the state of any responsibility to meaningfully support Gaelic at all. why fund community-based projects, land buybacks, housing in the Highlands and Islands when you could make sure the cops who are arresting anti-genocide protesters have “Poileas Alba” on their cars?

that's solidarity baybeeee

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”