please don't lose the plot of this. if you're a trans person on HRT you're a living miracle, the dream of hundreds of millions of your ancestors. your lives are all deeply meaningful no matter what anyone says.

I think I'm gonna go lay down for a little while.

for the purposes of this poll blackout means that there's several hours that were erased, not that your memory was patchier than usual or you don't remember something that happened. like a complete blank of at least 2-3 hours but including more. tried to include many possible situations but probably missed some

Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac Interview with the Vampire | 1x02

They don't wanna eat their pollinators :(

"But what about-" what about them? Are YOU them? Is that YOUR case? If not, then stop using them as an excuse for why you walk past the black beans, tofu, lentils, and other affordable plant-based protein options in your grocery store to get your overpriced ground beef from a corporation that's destroying the Amazon rainforest to mass produce the cows yall can't stop eating.

(For the price-point, I personally prefer Well Before's fashion KN95s, but Kind masks tend to be just a smidge larger and wider than some other models, and they do have some unique colors if fashion is part of your considerations for masks.)

obsessed with this sign i saw taped up outside the bat room at the zoo yesterday. the enthusiasm, the hand-written note, the bat drawing.

Jenny Slate, Stage Fright (2019)

Ugly, Bitter, and True by Suzanne Rivecca

John Mulaney on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2020)

“Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves” by David Wong

letters from Medea, salma deera

cooking with trauma

From the first ever pride in Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, October 13th, 1990

What does it mean to insist on visibility in a place where visibility is criminalized? In 2017, Sarah Hegazi — an Egyptian writer, lesbian feminist, and self-proclaimed socialist — tried to answer this with a single gesture. She lifted a rainbow flag high above a Cairo crowd and, for a brief moment, made queer visibility possible. For that singular act, however, the Egyptian state caged her, segments of society shamed her, and the subsequent trauma of it all shadowed her exile, leading to her untimely and tragic death by suicide at the age of 30. But Hegazi’s short yet powerful life ultimately reflected a broader story — from the unfulfilled hopes of Egypt’s 2011 revolution to a queer grief and solidarity that crosses borders and refuses to be erased.