You're welcome to the other half of my bologna sandwich.

Watch Summerland (2020) and let it warm your heart

PLEASE give us our space wives 😩

anyway can we talk about andy samberg's reaction to portrait of a lady on fire

literally my dad watching portrait: “where’d HE come from ?!”

A good thread on whether “queer” is a slur and if it should be used or not.

“If I am unashamed of being queer, you do not get to give that word BACK to the fuckwits who made it a slur.”

you do not get to give that word BACK to the fuckwits who made it a slur

EVERYBODY WHO CAME OUT BEFORE YOU HAS TAKEN THE ROCKS AND BOTTLES AND MADE THEM INTO SHIELDS AND WINDCHIMES

Holy motherfucking shit. Don’t fucking come at me about Queer is a slur. I FUCKING KNOW IT IS. It was hurled at me like a fucking spear all through my youth. I know it’s a god damn slur. And it’s mine. You don’t get to take it away from me because you can’t take also away the scars it gave me while I was standing in front of my younger queer siblings in this community. 

always, always reblog this one.

If my enemy swings a sword at me and I take that sword away from them, it’s my sword now. And the person telling me I can’t use it because it belongs to my enemy and I have to give it back to them sounds quite a bit like an enemy themselves.

^^ god that analogy

THIS.

Vilifying the word “queer” is a way of erasing certain identities within the queer community; it is not a rational or valid complaint against the word itself. Because if it were rational, its opposers would also be vilifying practically every other word by which we have ever called ourselves, as almost all of those words have been previously used to oppress us.

No community that deploys such exclusionary tactics against its own has ever survived. We cannot afford to start now.

Specifically, villifying the word “queer” is a way of trying to build a resurgence of the utterly failed homophile" movement that predated Stonewall, in which rich upper-class white cis gays and lesbians aggressively excluded everyone else in order to sell themselves to mainstream society as “normal”.

there’s this moment of awareness for a girl when she realizes her legs (and/or arms, armpits, upper lip…) are unacceptable.

she’s just minding her own business, bopping along, when maybe a classmate starts mocking her for having visible body hair. or she goes to a sleepover and someone points out that her legs look different from all the other girls’. or she walks in on her mom shaving and asks why, and the answer is “because a woman’s body looks nicer this way.” or maybe her mother or sister actually approaches her and says, “looks like it’s time you learned to shave that jungle.”

the point is, the day before that realization, however it happened, the girl didn’t give a shit about her hair. she put on shorts and tank tops without a second thought. she didn’t feel unclean. she didn’t feel like a monster when she looked in the mirror (at least not because of body hair). her hair didn’t stop her from riding a bike or climbing a tree.

only after someone draws her attention to it does she start feeling self-conscious and wanting to remove it. removal, in this culture, is never a choice made free of coercion. it’s never born of a girl’s own naturally occurring desires. the seed of shame was planted in her by someone else (family, friends, bullies, magazines, razor commercials) and chances are that seed will stay with her forever- a sinking realization that her body can be wrong, that she can look ugly or dirty even when clean, that a thing she never even noticed about herself before should be a source of retroactive humiliation.

that feeling is like a scar. every time we look at it, the humiliation and judgment we experienced as kids comes rushing back and the little nasty patriarchal voice in our heads (the same one that says shit like “jesus you’re getting fat,” “ugh why did you think you could pull off this outfit,” “god who would ever want to touch THOSE boobs,” etc) says “ugh, looks like it’s time I shaved that jungle.” and it’s just parroting back what we’ve already been told.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes in “The Deal”

The glasses in the second to last ...

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im so glad i graduated

this is a fucking masterpiece

VILLANELLE PUTTING HER ARM AROUND EVE ON THE COUCH

I CAN THINK OF NOTHING PLOT RELATED

EVEN BEFORE THAT SHE SCOOCHED CLOSER TO HER

hannah gadsby is a trans-inclusive autistic butch lesbian who spends half of her hour long set yelling passionately about art history and the space between a person’s uterus and rectum and SHE. IS. VALID.  

like where are we at that women who don’t wear makeup are put into a category of trying to be androgynous. it is literally a non-behavior. woman without makeup is the default woman. sorry about your gender worship.

i daydream about knowing 50+ languages fluently more than i should

Michael laying some truth down.

THIS! FUCKING UNMUTE THIS AND LISTEN TO IT!

THIIIIIS

HOLY CRAP

It wasn’t until someone said, “ok but how many hours did you put into that piece ?” did I understand that I was undercharging my art...

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WHEN IS SHE COMING BACK???????