Knit another sweater this year. I love the color and pattern I choose.
A Peggy Nesbit doll based on a wax figure of Marie Antoinette shown at Madame Tussaud's in London.
i can’t say “angry birds ratios a transphobe” was on my 2023 bingo card, but i’m not disappointed
Just gonna shamelessly plug my own tiktok here but I do lots of translations over there! I've done Naantali & Louhela speaks + gonna be releasing transcribed songs pretty soon :)
when i was a freshman in college i wanted to dress up for halloween because i thought surely college students would have the spirit. so i elected to put a whole entire Skull Kid from legend of zelda majora’s mask cosplay together and wear that fucking ensemble to college on halloween.
i step on campus and realize immediately that not one other person is dressed up. not so much as a cat ear headband. so imagine this fucking dude sitting in a class of otherwise normally dressed people looking like this. that was me. this was my 9/11
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Hey since TERFs buried the original, higher quality recording, here’s the only surviving recording of trans activist Sylvia Rivera’s infamous “Y'all Better Quiet Down” speech, along with full transcription, now free and open on Archive.org. The transphobic fucks can try their best to scrub us from history, but we’re not going anywhere.
Oh wow a piece of lgbt history..
HELLO CAN YOU GUYS HEAR ME!!!!! "GENDER IDENTITY IS REAL"
me promising three weeks ago that after eurovision 2023 was over I’d return to normal
The epidemic of young queers ignoring or cherrypicking queer history is really biting us all in the ass because Montana just tabled the bill that banned trans and gay panic, and many of the younger queers I’ve come across have no idea what gay panic really is, or what that means.
All they know about gay panic is the “Oh my gosh! I talked to a pretty girl/boy and I’m a girl/boy hehe so flustered” that at some point replaced the actual meaning of gay panic. Do you know how dangerous this is, that they don’t know of the dangers of trans and gay panic? It’s lethal.
As things in the US become more dire for the queer community, I’m begging the young queers: read up on queer - our, your - history. Talk to your elder queers. Really look into current politics surrounding the queer community. Don’t get all your info from social media, and absolutely do not take what you see on social media at face-value. Get yourself educated and prepared for what’s to come. It’ll save lives, I promise you.
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for context, gay panic was a common legal defense used first in the mid-1800s and became a “mental condition” or some such nonsense in the early-1900s.
it could be used to justify assault and went as far as murder if the defendent said they found out the victim was gay and went into some primal rage.
the trans panic defense is the same concept but against trans people and i’m pretty sure it was most often used with cis men against trans women after or during sex.
basically a horrific but legal way to say that it was the queer persons fault for being queer and that justifies violence against them.
please let me know if any part of this is wrong and add stuff i left out!
Gay Panic has been a defense in 104 MURDER cases in America.
and if you use it as a defense, you are 32% more likely to get a reduction in your sentencing.
its not about being flustered. its about being murdered.
And Trans Panic will be just the same. We need to protect our community. We need to protect them.
And if we don’t, that blood will be on our hands.
Please read up on victims Shelby Tracy Tom (article from 2011, article from 2018), a transgender sex worker who was murdered in 2003 in Vancouver, Canada, by a client after he discovered she was trans. He was only sentenced to 9 years, and got out after 4, after his defense entered a plea bargain to bring down the charges from second degree murder to manslaughter. His defense used the gay panic defense, and the Supreme Court of BC accepted it, against protests of the Crown prosecutor (he’s currently back in prison for other sexual assault charges, against a 13 year old girl, detailed in the 2018 article. read with caution).
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Sweet pangolin baby. A little guy. A friend
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Flautist Melissa Jefferson plays slaver James Madison’s 200-year-old crystal flute in the Library of Congress.
a few notes: –this is apparently a piece that is very difficult to play –this flute is keyless, which requires the player to use extremely precise finger positioning –Lizzo is wearing two inch acrylic nails
the runs at the end are both stunning and flawless!
Cool. The flute is cool. But I got some more info that I feel is important.
That’s James Maddison’s flute. James Maddison owned over 100 slaves. Due to debts he had to sell land and slaves over his lifetime. By the time of his death he owned 36 slaves. No slaves were freed during his lifetime or in his will.
The power that this successful Black woman has over his legacy right now.
Not just playing his flute, but shaking her ass while playing his flute.
Oh, the white supremacists are so mad.
You know how often people play instruments that are hundreds of years old? Instruments are made to last hundreds of years. They’re preserved through use. First chair violinists in major orchestras often use violins that are centuries old.
My aunt owns and sells instruments both young and old, and it’s a huge dishonor to the memory of the creator to demand that the instrument go in a museum never to be used.
-fae
Something really cool about this video is that Lizzo is usually in really extravagant outfits, which is awesome to see! But we as fat people are expected to over-perform gender and be dressed to the nines just to deserve basic respect. If we’re seen wearing baggy pants and a simple shirt, we’re called slovenly, lazy, ugly. So I love seeing Lizzo being able to wear not just the extravagant outfits but also outfits like this that are a “fuck you” to every fatphobe who thinks fat people must put on a performance to earn basic respect and dignity.
Not only is Lizzo playing James Madison’s crystal flute, she was invited to by Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress and the first actual librarian to have the job since 1974 (she was appointed in 2016). She is also the first woman and the first African American to be the Librarian of Congress.
She invited Lizzo by @ her on Twitter because she saw Lizzo would be in town for her tour. Lizzo spent three hours touring the LoC and looking at historic flutes in the collection.
Carla Hayden was previously the head librarian of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, which is the city library organization for Baltimore. She kept the libraries open during the Freddie Gray riots so people would have a safe place to bring their kids.
She’s a cool lady and I hope more people get interested in the LoC and it’s holdings. They have a lot online and you don’t need to make an account to look.
