blackbear♡.

happy pride my lovelies

NOPE (Jordan Peele) / Regarding the Pain of Others (Susan Sontag)

"Capitalism breeds creativity and innovation" tell that to everyone who worked on the shows HBO max just pulled

is anyone else on this hill or is it just me and sisyphus and kate bush?

LGBT activists have been vocal about intersex issues for several decades, because establishing the legal right to bodily autonomy for intersex persons is basically inseparable from establishing the right of trans persons to that same legal autonomy over their own bodies. many intersex persons prefer not to be grouped together with LGBT causes; however, the vast majority of LGBT activists would agree that performing “corrective” surgery on intersex infants - to force them to adhere to a largely fictional gender binary - is pretty fucking evil.

There’s a lot of bullshit around the gender binary and the “basic biology” arguement that breaks down the second you look in any college-level textbook. The amount of people born intersex clocks in at 1.7% of the world’s population and people try to pretend it doesn’t exist because of that low percentage. However, following that logic, they must also believe that people born with naturally red hair, 2% of the world’s population, must also be fictitious. Except that clearly isn’t the case. One hundred and thirty-two MILLION people are born intersex and the vast majority of them have their bodily autonomy ripped away. That shit has to stop.

i've only have corpse husband for a day and a half but if anything happened to him i would kill everyone in this room and then myself

Consent Education.

THIS IS IMPORTANT.

And please note that there are no specific pronouns. Consent is ALWAYS required from ALL individuals, regardless of gender, sex, relationship, et cetera.

Idc if this doesnt match my theme

Consent is so important to know about!!

I know I avoid any sexual content on this blog but this is insanely important.

This post is important and the pillow comment is funny

CONSENT!!!!!!

Being in a relationship is also not automatic consent. You are not being a bad partner for saying no.

terfs do not belong in lgbt safe spaces bc they are a danger to trans ppl

terfs also don’t belong in women’s spaces because they are a danger to trans women

Terfs don’t belong

Terfs don't

Police brutality in Belarus.

2/2

Share this video!

Credits to owner.

#ЖывеБеларусь🤍❤🤍

More than 7000 people have been detained. They started to release them slowly and all the prisoners talk about how they were tortured, beaten, bones and spines broken, they couldn’t get any food for days and so on. People don’t receive any medical treatment there and are dying in the hospitals after they are released from detainment. And of course, the government denies everything.

PLEASE HELP TO SPREAD THE INFO IT’S OUR ONLY HOPE

You can find more info here: 1 , 2, 3

It’s in russian, so feel free to attach any good articles in english on reblogs. The world must know about it.

I’m reblogging it again because some people think that everything is good now, but it’s not and I can’t be silent about it. Yeah, today was a very calm day with huge peaceful protests, flowers, smiles. But it doesn’t change the fact that people were detained and tortured. 

Families and friends of these people still don’t know where they are and are they alive or not.

YOU CAN SUPPORT US BY DONATING HERE OR JUST SHARE THE INFO. TALK ABOUT IT. READ ABOUT IT.

here is a carrd for black lives matter

here is a carrd for he/him lesbians

here is a carrd for bisexual people

here is a carrd for nonbinary people

here is a carrd for lgbt activism

here is a carrd for how to help lgbt in poland

here is a carrd for philippines aid

here is a carrd for trans rights

here is a carrd for back trans lives matter

here is a carrd for black artist resources

here is the saytheirnames carrd

here is a link to the lgbt freedom fund

here is a link to black aid for hiv

jadethirlwall: More uncomfortable conversations. More awareness. More reflection. More learning. More action. More change. Post made by the wonderful @sineadbovell ✨

Listen there’s no argument of “rape/abuse fantasies, even if they’re exclusively fantasies, are disgusting and you are disgusting for having them” that doesn’t turn directly in radfem rhetoric.

The idea that it’s your responsibility as a feminist to police all your thoughts and private sexual expression (which I would strongly argue appropriately tagged and archived fiction/art is) in order to avoid harming feminism and Be A Good Woman is radfem. There is no way around it.

If your taste in fiction/fantasies necessarily correlates to your personal politics and morals, then it makes sense to ensure that yours and others fantasies line up with your politics and morals. It becomes a form of protecting yourself, a subset of activism in its own right. And all of a sudden we’ve looped straight back around to policing women’s sexual thoughts for The Good Of Society.

The moment you start shaming and forbidding fantasies on the basis of morality, you’re about ¾ of the way to radfem.

So radfem is respectability politics?

hmmm. Not especially ‘radical’.

tw: misgendering, transphobia.

When radfems use the word “radical” they are not using it in the general political sense of having an extremely different point of view, they are using it from the sense of believing that the root of all the world’s troubles is sexism/misogyny.  (”radical” as derived from “radix”, meaning root) and that therefore if you eradicate all vestiges of sexism and misogyny (including from your own heart and mind) the world will therefore be Perfect and so will you.  In this ideology (evolved among academic upper-class white women in the 70s and 80s, and largely unchanged since then) there is no room for intersectionalism, for the oppressions of racism, classism, ableism, or queerphobia (other than lesbophobia).  (lesbianism, being by, for, and about women, is ideologically congruent with their beliefs, and hatred of lesbians can be boiled down to “people hating women and hating that they don’t depend on men,” but other forms of hatred of LGBTQ+ people can’t really be acknowledged because first you would have to acknowledge that isms other than sexism exist, and that it is possible for men to be oppressed.)

Radfems did some wonderful theoretical work in the 70s and 80s.  They really did provide the theoretical foundation for a lot of our understandings of sex, gender, and oppression.  However, they proved more interested in putting themselves at the top of the hierarchy than in dismantling it, because they chose not to acknowledge other oppressions than the one they themselves faced, and so did not listen to their sisters of color and of lower class, or who were in any way different than themselves, and so they didn’t and do not accept responsibility for the ways in which they contribute to the oppression of others.  And they are willing to join with ultra-conservative Evangelical groups to enact and enforce laws that fit their ideology.  Radfems believe that they are the ultimate arbiters of feminism, and that therefore any woman who does not agree with them is either deluded about the patriarchy or consciously participating in her own oppression.  Therefore, they have the right and the duty to tell other women what they can and should think and do.

For example: they did some really EXCELLENT theoretical work on the exploitation of women inherent in the sex industry, both pornography and prostitution.  About the ways in which our culture devalues women’s bodies and uses them as articles of consumption for men.  Well and good.  But when women who work in the sex industry, both porn stars and prostitutes, point out their limited economic choices and why they and women like them don’t always have better options, radfems do not listen.  To a radfem, a woman in the sex industry is either a blameless victim, or an oppressor who betrays your own people.  Because of this, not only have radfems endorsed laws created by the Religious Right (blech), they have doxxed sex workers and former sex workers who publicly disagree with them.  Including at least one case where a radfem sent a woman’s current location to her former pimp.  This is why radfems are sometimes called SWERFs, Sex-Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminists.

Also, radfems got the ball rolling in the 70s and 80s talking about gender and how we should abolish gender roles.  But they also believe that men/males are the root of all evil.  Therefore, any transman is betraying their sisters by joining the oppressive patriarchy, and any transwoman is a “man” who is trying to infiltrate women’s spaces.  Thus radfems have doxxed transpeople, signed on to bathroom bills, consistently deadname and misgender them, and done a variety of other transphobic things.  This is why radfems are sometimes called TERFs, Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists.

But yes, a whole heaping helping of respectability politics, just with THEM as the ultimate arbiters of what “respectable” (or rather, “a good feminist”) looks like.

This is a great summary of radical feminism and how it turns into anti-kink, SWERFs, TERFs, and exclusionism in general.

you do not have the obligation to make your thoughts pure

you do not have the obligation, or the ability, or the right, to make everybody else’s thoughts pure

🏳️‍🌈 Ruth Ellis (1899 - 2000) was the daughter of former slaves. She came out as a lesbian when she was 16-years-old to the complete acceptance of her family. In 1937, Ruth and her longtime partner moved to Detroit from their hometown of Springfield, Illinois for the promise of higher wages. There, she became the first woman in Michigan to run her own printing business. She printed fliers, posters, and stationary in the front room of her home, which also quickly became a hotspot for Black LGBTQ social life. Before long, Ruth was helping those who came around in any way she could, including by paying for college tuitions. After the Stonewall uprising, 70-year-old Ruth began giving speeches in support of gay and lesbian rights all across the country. She remained an activist for the rest of her long life and even spent her 100th birthday leading the San Francisco Dyke March. At the time of her death at 101, she was recognized as the oldest out lesbian in the US. She is the subject of the documentary "Living With Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100" and is the namesake of the Ruth Ellis Center, a shelter for homeless and at-risk LGBTQ youth in Detroit.

Celebrate Ruth Ellis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis_(activist)

#Pride #BlackLivesMatter

compilation of defaced racist monuments feel free to add more!

Queen Victoria bonus round -

And a John A. MacDonald bonus round for the road -

oh how the tables have turned