UnlikelyLass

No matter how rough your day or night has been, remember that you are loved, and today you beat your personal record for most consecutive days of your life lived. Only you can do that. No one else can beat that record. It’s yours.

Also rather than see Jewish people have anything.

Being bisexual, lesbian, gay, or sexually queer in a heterosexist society means you’ll be subject of heterosexist violence. Being female, feminist, transgender, or genderqueer means you’ll be the subject of sexist, misogynist, or patriarchal violence. Being a person of color means you’ll be the subject of white supremacist violence. Being two or more of those things compounds the violence you experience and the reasons you’re experiencing it. It also makes it more difficult to feel some semblance of safety because you could be targeted for one of those identities in a space that is set up to be safe for people with [an]other one of those identities.

I’ve posted about this before, but saw it on my dash today and had to reblog it… This segment (and it’s a whole lot more than just these statements, so go watch it if you haven’t already) remains (IMHO), to date, the single best, most straightforward, error free, in your face, and valuable piece of trans reporting/education in the entirety of mainstream media coverage. Once again, it’s a news satire show showing all the “real” news how it’s supposed to be done. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is an absolute gift to the world. <3

Brexit Explained The DC Comics Way

Honestly, I can’t believe we’ve reached a point in this fiasco where “LGBT” without a + or a QIA is now a warning sign, but along with “cishet” the usage of the term has been so warped by gatekeepers that I literally, automatically am wary of anyone who uses it.

Oh god, that. In general mainstream media, when I see “LGBT” my chief concern is “do you actually realize what all the letters stands for are you using it interchangeably with ‘gay’ because your stylebook told you so.” On Tumblr, when someone stops at LGBT, my automatic concern is “ok, are you a gatekeeper then?”

I never used cishets, but that’s not from anything other than by the time I stopped reading it as Sih-Shets it was a hatekeeping term.

I hate this idea people have made of people like, fetishizing themselves by creating representation where-ever the fuck they want it.

Britain: our country is being invaded by immigrants!

Shit people have forgotten about the Bush Era:

“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”

And then there was:

Not only was the terror threat system real, but it was often raised and lowered based entirely on how panicked they wanted us to be. Famously they raised the level for no reason during the 2004 election.

tfw you are transgender and tired