I can’t stand elon musk’s simp army like okay maybe they could idk pay for a concerted clean up effort with those billions of dollars they have? You can’t just destroy this planet to get to other ones lol. source

I live in the city Elon Musk built his SpaceX spaceport. Brownsville, Texas. It is a border town with majority of the population Mexican and Latino. With a significant amount of the population immigrants who crossed the border over for a chance at a better life. And as a Mexican and local, I can tell you things here are much worse than it seems.

The debris of his spaceships have landed on land that is considered a wildlife reserve for endangered-species.

Its home to an extremely rare beetle (the Boca Chica Flea Beetle.) known for its golden brown hue. This beetle is classed as a ‘Species of Greatest Conservation Need’.

And a little known ant species that hasn’t even been given a scientific name yet! (Its only been found in one other place in texas and Nicaragua.)

Oh but that’s not the end of it!

He’s been buying off local politicians and judges, bribing them with free teslas and campaign donations. That’s how he’s managed to get away with the mess he’s caused so far.

But, he fucked up. Because the locals here were furious with how he’s treating the environment and the news stations caught wind of it. And to save face, donated 30 million to the city.

He’s also been buying off properties here and after his tweets asking people to move here its obvious prices are going to skyrocket(he’ll make lots of money). But this in turn with push locals out and gentrify everything. And because we’re all Latino and non-white, and most immigrants no one will care!

All of this for the sake of ‘interplanetary exploration’ and living in other planets!

I don’t want other planets!

This isn’t “an insignificant piece of land”! This is my home!

has basquiat literally not already suffered enough at the hands of white artists

I don’t want to detract from that post, but like- people not learning queer history is genuinely the source of so many of our problems in the queer community today.

It’s why people don’t understand the roots of the word “queer” in the first place, or why it’s important to so many people

It’s why people think “gay” is some apolitical neutral term with zero negative connotations, ever, for anyone

It’s why people actively feed into lesbian separatism, political lesbianism, and TERF movements without even knowing it

It’s why people think “LGBT” is some True Name that has never been changed, challenged, nor shaped over the years to better represent the community

It’s why people feed “who can reclaim which slurs” discourse without giving living human beings older than 25 any real consideration

It’s why people straight-up don’t know what the “drop the T” campaign was/is, or understand the troubled history between the trans community and the rest of the queer community

It’s why people don’t understand what “trans” used to mean, or how that meaning has changed over the years, or why

It’s why people don’t understand the differences between queer communities and identities by country, or often how they’re complicated by race

It’s why people don’t understand what “butch” and “femme” actually mean, the many definitions they can have, or how those labels have intersected across communities for decades now

It’s why people don’t understand the differences between the transfemme and transmascs communitys’ histories, or the differences in struggles they have- and then feed into those struggles without even realizing it

It’s why people straight-up recycle old homophobic and transphobic rhetoric, uncritically and unironically, as if they’ve discovered cool some new bigbrain hot take for the “super smart” gay kids 

It’s why people treat these complicated, contradictory-sounding, or lesser-known identities like “trendy new ways to claim you’re oppressed”- without understanding the history behind those labels, and those communities, and that they’ve been here longer than any of these people have been alive.

Like… yes, we’re moving forward now. Things are changing, and in many ways, it’s for the better! But we seem to forget that most of our community was lost in the 80′s and 90′s, and those folks left a massive, gaping chasm behind.

We don’t have the same easy, communal roots to our history that we used to. And in order to rebuild that, we- the entire community- is going to have to do some work to learn it and teach it and move forward with it in mind.

Yeah. How do we start doing that.

Because I really want to learn this.

Thoughts?

Yes! I’m by no means an expert, but I’ve been working on learning this stuff for years now, and some of the things I’ve done or tried to do are:

Also, @makingqueerhistory is a great resource. They have a podcast and do a ton of writing on queer history, and that can be an amazing place to start as well.

Good luck!

This is a very good take, and we also very much appreciate you recommending us. If any of y’all are looking for further direction on where to start with reading/listening to us, feel free to send us a message and we will try to recommend something that fits your interests!

Hang onto your hats, color lovers, b/c artist Jane Gottlieb’s house is a color lover’s dream!

Coming in from the pool, the house greets you with yellow, shocking pink, and orange.

Check out the purple living room with a green fireplace.

Purple & turquoise dining room. 

In the art studio, every wall is a different color.

Just wow. Look at this family room. 

Even the stairs are incredible. 

Not only is the room spectacular, but so is the ceiling. 

The most subdued, tranquil room in the home is the bathroom. What a fantastic house.

https://janegottlieb.com/

rise; zion national park, utah

when I say “be safe” I say that shit from the bottom of my heart

The Erlkönig  -  Hanno Karlhuber, 1993

German, b.1946-

Oil , 70 x 100 cm.

Sorry for just writing “the monster becomes the monsted” on your Christmas card. I couldn’t think of a regular greeting or whatever. My bad.

bitch (loving)

Handmade Sweater

could i offer you some round bears in these trying times?

hello ladies cute feminist boy here

i am into consensual sex, i bathe, and i have gone four months without taking a human life

Obama trying to get laid in college