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Post 26: asexual/aromantic rep

Yasmin Benoit

Yasmin Benoit is an asexual and aromantic activist, model and advocate. She is from England and is the first openly ace person to be Grand Marshall at NYC Pride! I really admire the work she does and has done for asexual and aromantic peoples. Especially POC.

My sister told me a story that I can't stop thinking about in the wake of all this. When she was in first grade they had an active shooter drill, only no one was informed it was drill. There was some mix up with the codes or something. Anyway the point is they all thought it was real. My sister says she remembers the teacher very quietly telling the class that there was an active shooter in the building and that this was not a drill. She says she remembers hearing screaming and crying from kids down the hall. She told me they all had to put on bright orange bullet proof vests and she remembers thinking that the color would only make it easier for the shooter to spot them. She remembers being scared. She remembers seeing someone walking up the hall through the heavily tinted glass. They kept trying to open the door and my little sister said she genuinely thought she was going to die. She was terrified she would never see me or my mom again.

It ended up being the principal coming to tell them that it was just a drill but it was a little too late in my opinion. That fear my sister and her classmates experience was real even if the threat wasn't and that memory is something she still carries with her.

We have to do better.

Republicans are more concerned with denying people bodily autonomy and keeping kids from learning prejudice exists than doing anything to keep those same kids from being shot by the guns they want everyone to have

They also seem to think that children are not mature enough to handle the existence of non cis/hetero people , but they are mature enough to live with the constant danger of a stranger busting into their classroom and ending their young lives

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sorry for how I acted when there were multiple noises happening at the same time

this app is literally my public private place to talk to myself

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Billy Survives / Billy Rescue Mission

aka how I cope post-ST4 LOL. Dedicated to @memes-saved-me thank you so much for making this possible ♡

i think it's fine to attribute some desire to biology, like wanting to have kids. like yeah I'm sure a lot of it is the living creature need to proliferate. it doesn't bug me. same as acknowledging that love is dopamine or whatever. a cynic saying love is just chemicals in our brains isn't a gotcha. like ok we as humans were so driven and fascinated by our capacity to love that we found the exact juice that produces that feeling and gave it a name. that's awesome, actually, i dig that, i love that. with my chemicals.

You don’t have to love abortion. You can dislike it. Maybe it even makes you sad. The way you view abortion is up to you.

And maybe if you don't like abortion, you spend your time advocating for proper sex education, access to birth control and other things that have been shown to lower the types of pregnancies that often result in abortion. That's fine.

But what you shouldn't be doing is disrespecting other people for having abortions. You can't take that choice away from people just because you don't like it. Your feelings aren't more important than anyone else's bodily autonomy.

You don't have to like abortion. But you definitely have to respect other people's rights and that includes their right to safe, accessible, abortions.

This has been a Certified Sex ED Post.

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