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At least eight islands in the Pacific have already disappeared because of rising sea levels. Over the next century many communities, including my family, will be displaced and lose their ancestral lands and foundation of their cultural practices. Trump removing the US from the Paris Agreement, taking climate change off the National Security Strategy, and repealing the Clean Power Plan is a slap in the face and to me, intensely personal. PLEASE contact your representatives regarding climate change and taking steps to counteract the potentially irreversible harm Trump is doing to our planet.

I am working on setting up an online store in the next month or so and it will include all of my Disney Resists prints! 10% of everything in my shop will go to the ACLU and other civil rights groups putting in the time this past year 💛

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Now that’s how you ally. That’s putting it on the line and showing solidarity. That’s how you use your white privilege for good.

”It’s nice to go out and march, we can do that. It’s nice to wear black at the Golden Globes, but what are you doing behind closed doors?” - Jada Pinkett Smith

Stark kids genderswap (requested by anonymous)

Okay but he’s literally seventeen and he’s literally twenty-four. If the gap were smaller, I’d feel differently. And if it was an age gap between two adults – including, yes, if they were both just one year older and the younger guy was eighteen – I’d feel differently. And I have no problem with a story portraying a seventeen year old developing a crush on a twenty-four year old – that’s normal. Teens get crushes on adults. It happens. 

But in CMBYN, the two actually have a sexual relationship, which pushes it into “NOPE” territory. This is the sort of thing 17 year old me would’ve seen no issue with (for the same reason I saw no issue with 15 year old Adele shacking up with 20something Emma in BITWC when I first saw it when I was 16), but from the perspective of a 20-year-old, I find seriously gross. I’m only three years older than 17, and I’d NEVER date someone that age. Even with a gap of only three years, the difference in maturity, experience, knowledge, and self-assurance is PHENOMENAL.

TL;DR: I’m not gonna condone a movie where a 24 year old fucks a 17 year old. It’s not okay, and the fact that such large age gaps are the norm in queer fiction helps perpetuate the ugly stereotype of queer people being predatory. (And yes, I know a lot of queer people like this movie. That doesn’t mean it can’t make a bad name for us. Don’t even go there.) Watch it if you want to, defend it if you like – I can’t stop you. But I, for one, can’t and won’t defend it.