And we're gonna sing it again...

Moreover, if you want to see more information about your own country's LGBT+ history, you could look it up and/or follow more of your countrymen instead of American bloggers, and you could make posts to share that information with others. It's true that other cultures don't get as much attention as America due to its cultural hegemony, and the stories from those cultures are worth telling. But that doesn't mean information about your own culture is stifled and hidden from you by those dastardly gay Americans posting about Pride lol, your dashboard is chosen by you. I know people get mad every time someone points this out, but learned helplessness isn't exclusive to America. Rotting in bed while passively scrolling is global. It's not imperialism that you won't use the same phone you scroll on 24/7 to look up anything useful about your own country and instead passively absorb information from the American bloggers you choose to follow. Honestly it's one thing for someone really informed about their country's history of LGBT+ rights to say "I wish more people outside of this country knew about this" (fair, valid!) and another to act like your own lack of knowledge is some evil plot. No one is responsible for your education but you (especially because the OP was from fucking New Zealand like...you're not in an authoritarian regime that suppresses this information lol).

Oh jesus christ"

So this is from 30,000 Miles From Chang’an, which is a 2 hours 47 minutes(!!?) long Chinese animated film that is basically an actually legitimate historical epic and historical biopic (think Gladiator & Amadeus) made into animation, and also passionate tribute to classical art and culture, similar to something like Miss Hokusai or Millennium Actress.

I heard it was decent before, but was not expecting it to be This Ambitious. The Criminally Underrated Champ of 2023 Animation

Goodbye. No understand word. Means, uh, see you later. But I won’t see you later.

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

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i feel so seen!!

I'm asexual. I figured that out not long after I first came across the term in high school. But figuring out my gender took a lot longer. I didn't really think about my gender identity for years, it wasn't until I was in college that I started trying to figure out what my gender was. That process took years.

I didn't really feel attached to my assigned gender, but I also didn't feel the gender dysphoria that trans people described. I didn't particularly feel like I was neither of those either. For a long time, I honestly didn't feel like any of the gender descriptions and identities I was coming across really fit. I just didn't care that much about what my actual gender was. Eventually I decided upon the agender label as that seemed the most apt. As the paper says, it's really hard to be truly without gender in this highly gendered world. Agender is a way of defining myself in a way that people who experience gender might be able to understand when "I'm just me." isn't really an acceptable answer to the "what's your gender?" question.

I don't mind being perceived as a gender, none of them are offensive to me. While I do like when I am perceived as male or at least not female, I think that more has to do with growing up female and not wanting to be pushed into traditional female roles and values than a connection or repulsion to any gender. I'm impossible to misgender because I frankly don't care.

Honestly, the biggest problem I have with my gender, is trying to define it to people. There's been a large push in recent years for asking people for their pronouns, or including pronouns in things like email signatures and surveys. And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this is a bad thing! This is very affirming for a lot of people. But it feels like I need to pick something that doesn't quite fit. At pride, for instance, there's always pronoun buttons. But they're all she/her, he/him, they/them, she/they, he/they, it/it, xe/xir, etc etc. And that's great. I'm always glad that there are a lot of options for people. But there's never any pins for any/all pronouns. I've never picked up a free pronoun pin at pride, despite always looking, because they all feel like picking what pronouns I don't want poeple to use and the answer is that I don't care. I fround an any/all pronoun pin once at a queer museum and I cried.

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