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Mostly Harmless

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Belinda, cis, disaster bi. She/her, Gen X, perpetually exhausted fan of Too Many Things To List. Sentenced to Florida for life.

This article from December 2022 considers the erasure of LGBTQ Iranians in the protests (unfortunately, I can't get the link to embed).

“LGBTQ Iranians are at the forefront of this revolution. We’re just not seeing them as visibly,” Säye Skye, an Iranian rapper and activist based in Berlin, tells gal-dem. He was forced to leave Iran soon after releasing his first song in 2009, ‘Saye Yek Zane Irani’ (Shadow of an Iranian Woman), a viral hit which unapologetically states the existence of queer people in Iran, resulting in Saye receiving many death threats. “People of Iran all want the same thing: freedom,” he says. “This is a crucial moment where people are looking beyond differences and fighting for a common cause.” 

I'll also note here that gal-dem was a UK based Black and POC led publication that showcased QTBIPOC writers and perspectives. It folded after a successful eight years in March 2023. Please support your independent publishers when you can <3

Fuck it, I'll make this a real poll rather than just an informal "tag meme" one. The rules are that whatever you vote for has to be a true "extracurricular," i.e., anything that was offered as a class for a grade doesn't count!

Also, if possible, tag with where in the world you went to school, and what kind of school you went to: state-funded, private, religious, magnet, charter, arts-focused, etc.

the best part of each x-files episode is waiting for the end to see who's gonna do the sign off report cause when it's scully it's usually something like "once again, despite my partner's opinion to the contrary, i cannot confidently say that there is any scientific basis to the theory that alien ghost blood was responsible for the disappearance of the crack in the liberty bell" meanwhile if it's mulder we get gems like "are we alone in the universe? what does it truly mean to be alone? did bigfoot fuck the speaker of the house? as always i am left with more questions than answers and don't know who to trust and i think scully changed her shampoo and..."