Bread :DDD

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

by the way you can be a girl, a boy, AND gender neutral, all at the same time

by the way you can be EVERY gender, all at the same time, just identifying as all of them

by the way you can be NO gender, yep, if you want; not even "nonbinary" if you don't want to

by the way you can be COMPLETELY a boy PLUS something else

by the way you can be COMPLETELY a girl PLUS something else

by the way you can be a gender themed after something that means a lot to you

by the way you can be a gender related to your neurodivergency

by the way you can be a gender related to your species (for alterhumans)

by the way you can be fluid between VERY specific genders

by the way you can be flux between one gender or another only

by the way you be completely one of the options above WHILE having a gender that fully contradicts it

by the way you can have a gender SPLIT between two or way more genders

by the way you can have your gender set to "just whatever I feel convenient to call myself" without being genderfluid

by the way you can have no label at all

by the way you can make up labels or just completely frankenstein genders together until somethings make you comfortable

That's the reality for poor people. Look up photos of the bread lines in the United States during the Great Depression. They in many ways resemble those in the Soviet Union.

A bit of research tells one that the USSR was plagued by food shortages, in fact the Bolshevik revolution was caused by food shortages. The civil war certainly did not help with that. The USSR was also heavily involved in WW2, and the amount of military spending likely contributed to the worsening economy.

I recognize that the bread lines were not likely a pleasant experience and that this argument likely comes from personal experience. However, you're just one unlucky decision away from waiting in capitalist bread lines yourself. Capitalism, and a rich get richer economy does not seem to be helping the poor in any way. We cannot be ignorant and must understand that capitalism can too fail its citizens.

Before an exam slam down a white monster and a Snickers bar for optimal results and aura

Wasnt there a post about someone doing this because his dad recommended him this "lifehack" but it turns they both have diabetes and the snickers just gave them the necessary sugar

happy pride month chat