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people who derail trans men's conversations about their own oppression with "well trans women have it worse than you" are the "but there's starving children in Africa" of the trans community
kill the part of your brain that treats every single issue as a comparative who has it worse contest sometimes people just have it bad and they want to talk about it you don't have to remind everyone constantly all the time that someone else has it worse when they're talking about the ways their life sucks
i know tumblr rotted all of our brains to think if someone doesn't speak about an issue that somehow means they don't care about it. i know that tumblr rotted all of our brains to think that if you aren't suffering the most you must be bad. but deprogram that shit. get it out. scoop the rot out of your brain and let it heal.
sometimes people have it bad. sometimes people have it worse. there's no reason not to support each other through all of it when it's the same goddamn people kicking us all down together
“Unfinished Painting” — Keith Haring
This painting was left intentionally incomplete. Haring began it when he was dying due to complications from AIDS, and knew he didn’t have much time left. The piece represents the incomplete lives of him and many others, lost to AIDS during the crisis.
“AIDS Memorial Quilt” — Multiple
This quilt is over 50 tons heavy, and one of, if not the, largest pieces of community folk art. Many people who died of AIDS did not receive funerals, due to social stigma and many funeral homes refusing to handle the deceased’s remains, so this was one of the only ways their lives could be celebrated. Each panel was created recognition of someone who died due to AIDS, typically by that person’s loved ones.
“Untitled” — Felix Gonzalez-Torres
This pile of candy weighs the same amount as an average adult man. Visitors are encouraged to take some of the candy. As they do so, the pile of candy weighs less and less. This is a commentary on how AIDS deteriorates the body of those who have it, as Gonzalez-Torres’ partner, Ross Laycock, had died due to AIDS-related complications that same year.
The SF Gay Men's Chorus
This photo was taken in 1993. The men in white are the surviving original members. Every man in black is standing in for an original member who lost their lives to AIDS.
“Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers); Only Unclaimed Item from the Stephen Earabino Estate, 1997” — John Boskovich
After the death of his lover, Stephen Earabino, from AIDS, Boskovich discovered that his family had completely cleared his room, including Boskovich’s own possessions, save for this fan. An entire person, existence and relationship had been erased, just like so many lives during the AIDS crisis. Boskovich encased the fan in Plexiglass, but added cutouts so that its air may be felt by the viewer, almost like an exhalation. In a sense, restoring Earabino’s breath.
“Blue” — Derek Jarman
This was Jarman’s final feature film, released four months before his death from AIDS-related complications. These complications had left him visually impaired, able to only see in shades of blue. This film consists of a single shot of a saturated blue color, as the soundtrack to the film described Jarman’s life through narration, intercut with the adventures of Blue, a humanization of the color blue. The film's final moments consist of a set of repeated names: “John. Daniel. Howard. Graham. Terry. Paul". These are the names of former lovers and friends of Jarman who had died due to AIDS.
“Untitled” (Perfect Lovers) — Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Created by the same man who created the previous untitled piece, this piece was also inspired by his lover’s deterioration and death due to AIDS. This piece consists of two perfectly alike clocks. Over the course of time, one of the clocks will fall out of sync with the other.
In a letter written to his lover about the piece, before his lover’s passing, Gonzalez-Tourres wrote, “Don't be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, the time has been so generous to us. We imprinted time with the sweet taste of victory. We conquered fate by meeting at a certain time in a certain space. We are a product of the time, therefore we give back credit were it is due: time. We are synchronized, now forever. I love you.”
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"feminine urge" "she/they coded" "girl [thing]" the way social media commodifies and memefies gender roles these days is so fucking weird dude.
like idk maybe we should be doing more to break the notion of separating behaviour by gender instead of reinforcing it but with quirky language
like i understand that sometimes people use these memes ironically and that's fine, but there's certainly a pattern developing and a lot of people use these memes a lot more earnestly than you'd think
#“female rage” “feminine urge” “girl dinner” “girl math” “divine feminine” hey guys let's not reinvent gender roles ok?#At first I was fine with this because I genuinely just thought it was just a joke on tumblr to make fun of point less gendering#But man when I realized some people on tiktok deadass talk like and think this I lost SEVERAL braincells#This type of language is the peak example of how internet culture works#If you wanna sell people misogyny and gender essentialism you better repackage it into a cute easily digestable aestetich#that can be boiled down to a few simple hashtags so we can more easily market misogyny hidden under fake feminism!!#Because when people see things like “divine feminine” they think it's feminist AND an aestetich so they eat that shit up#Ughhhhhh#intellectual things
i hate the way that “female characters are just not as well written as male characters” persists even after years and years of people pointing out that is simply a bad excuse, that people will rehabilitate a poorly written man and flatten a well written woman time and time again. i hate the way that no one can take this criticism, this simple truth that they are biased against women, and work to slowly dismantle this part of themselves. instead it’s just, there are no good women
#“I only get attached to male characters because women are always so badly written!!”#and then their favorite male characters are three tropes#And if they really cared about “well written female characters” they wouldn't be complaining about it but rather searching for them#And they wouldn't search long because there are TONS of amazing female characters in indie media people are just pussies#anyways#intellectual things
of course i care about female characters! of course i do! i'll have you know i have written SEVERAL fanfictions where the main character's girl best friend whose only narrative function is to give dating advice is in an established offscreen relationship with another women. would someone who only cares about men bother doing that. i don't think so.
#THIS IS SO FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S SO TRUE#people who do this are ussually the ones who are the most vocal about how “wlw doesn't get enough love!!”#and it's all just perfomative as usual because you KNOW they got attached to that mid ass mlm ship immediately lmao#anyways yuri yaoi anything my best friends learn how to have taste#funny hahas#bobacore#murder game#my forbidden hyperfix </3
sorry, it's a GOOD thing if cishet people use non-conforming pronouns or dress in non-conforming ways or whatever else. for one, that person may not be cishet. but more importantly, living in a society where more people feel comfortable exploring their relationship to gender and sexuality is an undoubtedly GOOD thing
#the fact that whenever a cishet person uses non-conforming pronouns or dresses gnc queer people immediately jump to say their queer#Well no actually maybe if we want to normalise queerness we shouldn't assume everyone who jumps out of the ordinary is queer as well lmao#Queer people are sometimes the best inforcers of their own stereotypes#Whenever I see a very gnc person (esp man) and see they're cishet I gain 10 years to my lifespan#Thank god they feel so confortable in their cishet identity while also expierimenting with gnc-ity#queer#trans#intellectual things#gospon will daska archetype ali sexy
they would NOT fucking have communication skills that good
#You don't have to call me out like this lmaooo#I'll be reading a fanfic and the peak argument level is characters explaining themselves and saying sorry and just#Being very thoughtful#Well sorry but no they would NOT have such mind arguments...#Where did the screaming hating huge misunderstanding and intentional hurting go...#It's tough having taste in this economy...#r/s#kmhn#my forbidden hyperfix </3#murder game#funny hahas#bobacore
DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one
fuck "girl lunch" fuck "girl math" a woman is a hairy animal who sweats and grunts and excretes and hungers and gets wrinkly and dies eventually. you have to love that.
40,000 years ago, early humans painted hands on the wall of a cave. This morning, my baby cousin began finger painting. All of recorded history happened between these two paintings of human hands. The Nazca Lines and the Mona Lisa. The first TransAtlantic flight and the first voyage to the Moon. Humanity invented the wheel, the telescope, and the nuclear bomb. We eradicated wild poliovirus types 2 and 3. We discovered radio waves, dinosaurs, and the laws of thermodynamics. Freedom Riders crossed the South. Hippies burned their draft cards. Countless genocides, scientific advancements, migrations, and rebellions. More than a hundred billion humans lived and died between these two paintings—one on a sheet of paper, and one on the inside of a cave. At the dawn of time, ancient humans stretched out their hands. And this morning, a child reached back.
oh quote from joseph gordon-levitt on being second, we're really in it now
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alison bechdel / leslie feinberg / nina nijsten / miriam zoila perez / tumblr user queermasculine / karleen pendleton jimènez
gender and sexuality is a fickle thing. sometimes two gay cisgender men will be dating for decades and one of them will turn out to be a transgender woman. a lot of times that won't work out but sometimes it will. her partner may still choose to identify as gay. She might even identify as gay, and they continue to be happily in love. Queer politics isn't going to get any better if you don't accept that situations like that happen every day.
i love you fellow male lesbians, lesbian men, boydykes, lesboys, genderfluid lesbians, multigender lesbians, gender non conforming lesbians, nonbinary lesbians, genderqueer lesbians, faggy butches, drag kings, daddy dykes, butches, studs and bois who are men, transmasculine and FTM lesbians, lesbians who need or want to be viewed and addressed as men, and every lesbian who identifies as partially or wholly male. you are radiant and a beautiful part of of the lesbian community, thank you for existing, please don't let anyone ever tell you you don't belong.
God I wish this were a service I could actually offer to people. I’d do it for a hot meal and some laughs, I don’t even need money to start trouble.
Vocal warmups.
This is basically how you break their voices down to a root noise
Voice actors are fuckin weird
Tag yourself I’m Plankton
Every confirmed nonbinary Cookie (according to the wikis)
#THEY'RE SO MANY OF THEM#very rare to see so many nonbinary characters who explicitly use they/them (and other non standard) pronouns#like yeah devsisters sucks in many ways but at least they're willingly putting a huge amount of trans characters :_)#and even Though most of them are not human some still are so!#Win honestly#keksotrk monarhija#art#trans#queer