Astrid 🌊

every june I get extra defensive about being jewish simply because the queer community and antisemitism are now so inherently intertwined. it's a time of year where we're all supposed to gather and hug and dance in collective joy and unite in our care for each other but that's now impossible when the vast majority of the community explicitly hate jews. I'm not going to write the 10000th post detailing how and why. we've been doing that for years and the community still don't care. all we get is anger and denial and being pointed to tokenistic antizionist jews and being told be more like them. accept it and be quiet. we will not tolerate your existence otherwise

Happy pride month to all of my exhausted queer jews

"Censorship in media is bad and people should be allowed to write what they choose to" and "Writing a story where SA/abuse is glorified and romanticised is not a good thing to do" are statements that I think should be able to coexist

I wish all Black girls a clear shot at this world. I wish all Black girls a full belly. I wish all Black girls a respite from their many troubles. I wish all Black girls nothing but grace, prosperity, and ease. Black girls I am hoping for your continued safety and success every single day.

“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid

“Censorship is bad and media that includes sensitive things or makes you uncomfortable is okay” and “people are allowed to criticize your work for having problematic messaging because, yes, fiction can influence real life in ways you wouldn’t expect” are two sentences that can and SHOULD co-exist

Happy pride month, I'm gonna be spending the whole month avoiding everything pride related because queer spaces are now unsafe for Jews

I'm spending Pride with other queer Jews at Jewish Pride events, and saying fuck you to anyone who has a problem with us 🌈✨️

So often non-Jewish people will talk confidently about Jewishness and say they are an “atheist” while betraying how clear it is that they grew up culturally Christian in a white American Christian hegemonic society. Jewishness is an ethnicity and a culture. We have histories, we have folklore, we have languages, we have shared moralistic beliefs, we have complex inter community philosophical discussions, and yes we also have religion that is inextricable from these things. If I never did, said, or thought anything related to religious Judaism ever again for the rest of my life I would still be Jewish and I would still be continually treated as other and less than for it. This is difficult to understand for those who are of the culturally Christian majority, whether they follow the religion or not. YOU think culture and religion are separate because YOUR religious culture is the majority.

like idc anymore these insane nazis say and do anything to dehumanize us jews and demonize our one singular homeland and i cannot be bothered to waste my energy on it anymore. antisemitism is a cyclical phenomenon, we’ve been here before and we’ll be here again. it’s deadly, it’s dangerous, but it’s NOT what makes me and my family and my people who we are. i cannot let my neshamah be weighed down by it. idc idc idc don’t fuck with me because you will be sorely disappointed when i come out on the other side prouder and stronger as a jew!

my mean jew license was issued at birth

Happy pride, here’s your yearly reminder that Jews belong in queer spaces! 🏳️‍🌈✡️

do most people actually have a thing in their brain that tells them to drink water before their mouth goes dry and they have a headache. is that real. i have been told that headache is not supposed to be the primary sign of being thirsty but that sounds fake to me.