Here’s To Second Chances.  (And Third And Fourth, And Completely New Chances At Something Different.)

Reblogging for all my friends with more prescriptions than I have!

A friend of mine posted this. Reblog to save a life!

I like the video (especially the puppies!), and I can definitely see where they’re going with emulating sexy girl videos.  However, in addition to having a much wider variety of cuteness, most of these guys are waaaaay overdressed for a sexy girl video.

This post on the desexualisation of men made me think of this Charli XCX video.

Charli XCX directed this with Sarah McColgan, and asked the boys in question to do “all the sexy things that girls usually do in videos”. They include Riz Ahmed (this is the source of those gifs of him with a big pink teddy bear), Stormzy, Josh Ostrovsky (aka thefatjewish), Tom Daley, Jay Park and more - full list here. It is pink and fluffy and female gaze-y, and everybody looks happy.

It also has a much, much more inclusive idea of cuteness than sexy girl videos, and doesn’t dehumanise its subjects. Which is lovely, but underlines that when men are treated as objects of desire, they’re much more likely to keep a sense of agency.

Discriminating against people based on their religion, ethnicity, skin color, or anything else is just as wrong in the QUILTBAG community as it is anywhere else.  The ways some members of a religion use it to justify doing terrible things to other people is horrible, whether that’s Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, atheism, or anything else.  However, that does not mean that the religion itself is horrible, or that all of its followers should be blamed for those people’s actions. 

anyway here’s your reminder that lgbt muslims exist and islamophobia shouldnt be tolerated within lgbt communities!

shout out to lgbt muslims living in places where our identities are still criminalised. 

Yeah, that looks like my year, too.

For yesterday’s @guardian review

Also, librarians are being called groomers and pedophiles for having books about LGBTQ+ people in their collections, and for having books about actual history as it pertains to people who aren’t WASPs.  The people who are trying to legislate and scare us out of existence are going after anyone who supports us as well.

Even if you aren’t LGBTQ+ or BIPOC, if you think we deserve to have rights, you need to speak up before the leopards starting eating your face, too.

every time i see discourse about pedohysteria amidst a trans genocide i think about that news article from 2016 about the mexican immigrant who voted for trump because trump said he’d get rid of all the “bad hombres” from mexico, only to be deported himself because it turns out what trump was really saying was that he wanted to deport all mexicans, not just “the bad ones”

not just him, but there were many other examples too, like white conservatives who have mexican immigrant friends and family or people in the community important to them who were mexican immigrants, and they voted for trump because they thought trump was just getting rid of “criminals”, and then they regret it when their families and communities get torn apart by deportations of their spouses, their friends, their favourite restaurant owners, etc.

anyways, i hope young queers, trans people esp, understand that when conservatives talk about “pedophiles” and “groomers”, they’re not talking about actual child abusers, they’re talking about all queer people. they’re talking about all trans people. it’s why in florida, they’re categorizing “drag” as a child sex crime, and making sex crimes against children punishable by death. they’re trying to execute every single trans person, and that’s just the rhetoric they’re using

so stop buying into the pedohysteria. it’s easy to think “well, i’m not a pedophile, so i’ll be safe” when you don’t realize that in the eyes of conservatives, every single queer person is a pedophile and deserves death, and contributing to their rhetoric by trying to figure out which trans woman is a pedophile is just accelerating your own march to the gallows

Ace-pacas!!

I drew some alpaca’s for pride month

speedpaint

((Likes and reblogs are greatly appreciated))

Pride kitties!

i made some cats in pride flag color schemes ʚ♡⃛ɞ(ू•ᴗ•ू❁) !! i’m a little late for pride month but i hope you enjoy them cause they were lots of fun to make ^^ you can use them as icons or edit them into headers if you want; just please credit me somewhere visible!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

from top to bottom, left to right:

lesbian

gay

bi

trans

questioning

genderqueer

intersex

aromantic

asexual

i couldnt find just a queer flag so i separated the q into questioning and genderqueer bc those are the ones that i know. i hope thats okay!

please do not edit your own versions without my permission; if you want one in another flag scheme just shoot me an ask ~♥

(set two can be found here)

I forgot to post again yesterday, so it's another two-for-one deal on National Poetry Month!  We're continuing our trend of dangerous womanhood with Lucille Clifton's won't you celebrate with me.

Part of shaping your own life is naming yourself.  There is power in a name, as Enby-Phoenix explains beautifully in Names.

Eli Bosnick absolutely has the best response.  That image “says it all” only if you don’t think human lives are worth more than candy.

lmao😂/smh🙄

If you don't run, VOTE. (Vote if you do run, for that matter.) There is a lot at stake locally and in your state, and the ability for one person to make a difference in these elections is very high.

I know it feels like we just did this, but voting is like doing the dishes or laundry -- you have to keep at it. Unlike housework, you don't want to designate one person in your community to handle the chore for everyone else. (Let's be honest, they would probably fold your shirts wrong, too.)

Hey, USAmericans? Wanna save your country? Run For Something!