this goes without saying but if anyone comes on this post to talk about chinese bigotry that DOES NOT LIVE IN CHINA PERSONALLY i'm just gonna tell you to kill yourself
any and all american queers would be very well served by learning about the concept of homonationalism.
i live in china (4 the last 15 yrs), n i’m here 2 talk abt chinese state non-bigotry actually. in this regard the chinese govt isn’t at all like the russian govt. the chinese govt neither promotes pro- nor anti- lgbt propaganda
~70% of chinese r athiests, so religious bigotry is non-existent. we do hav our own problems, such as pressure 2 hav biological children but things get better here, not worse. most ordinary chinese don’t rly care wat ur label / orientation is
Would Chinese people accept their children if they were GAY? 中国人可以接受他们的孩子是同性恋吗？ (2021.12.25.)
last thing, chinese lgbt =/= western lgbt. chinese lgbt, esp patriotic lgbt (many chinese lgbt actually support the govt), r directly being harmed by ur pinkwashing, wc exclusively portrays lgbt as a vehicle / trojan horse 4 western liberalism
so not only is china NOT harming western lgbt -- the west is harming chinese lgbt! ur cultural exports of homophobia, transphobia, all ur stupid lil urban myths, r being exported, n validates bigots all over the world. jsyk
This guy is a literal Nazi. His previous account, balkanize-russia, had "Aryan revolutionaries killing Jewish traitors" as his bio. Don't reblog from this fucker, and just report him
Haha Whoops Uh Oh!
so this isn't the type of post I normally like to make, but! uh! hey! I just got ambushed by a HUGE tuition bill I wasn't expecting, and I'm out of options to pay it - they've already applied my scholarship and loans, I'm already working multiple jobs that are basically just barely paying for rent + groceries, and I only have enough on my credit card to pay for One of the three payments they're requiring, which only gets me through till July (with, again, no options that get me that amount of money by that time).
further full disclosure, this bill came at like, the worst possible time - they've given me four days to make at minimum the first payment (which, again, I can only do by maxing out my credit card), and on top of juggling multiple jobs I'm also in the middle of two classes, including one which involves upcoming travel (that is already paid for, thank god). Hence, me Scrambling a li'l bit!!
as such, I've set a new goal on my ko-fi!! it is, of course, HUGE, but genuinely any small amount people are able to contribute goes a huge way to giving me SOME way to pay it off. note that 3-coffee doodle requests are still A Thing, commissions are still a thing (if you have one active I'll be getting to them this & next week), and I'll be streaming wherever I can to pull together money that way - wherever it comes, any support is HUGE and I mean that.
hoe stealing my art on insta has me blocked
i was gonna be nice about it but she blocked me on both my accounts because she knows shes ripping my art off <3
this is the one time im asking yall to spam that her art is stolen off of me
and she should thank me for drawing the art so that she could steal it! :) <3
wild how much fatphobia completely does away with so many things typically regarded as aspects of male privilege
"men's clothing sizes are simple and easy both to navigate and to find" unless they're fat
"men don't have to deal with street harassment" unless they're fat
"men don't deal with groping and nonconsensual touching from strangers" unless they're fat
"doctors take men's health problems seriously and their pain is seen as real" unless they're fat
"systemic infrastructure like medical research, crash testing, etc, is all based on men's bodies, so men get a world that's literally made for them" Unless They're Fat
That’s because one of the functions of fatphobia is de-gendering. Being fat makes you less man and less woman. Because being fat makes you less human. Like for the same reason why fat women’s clothes is always hyperfeminine because you have to be performing gender that much harder to be treated like your gender. Fat men have to as well, and there’s a clear difference between how ppl treat fat men who are hypermasculine presenting (beard, lumberjack outfit, ykwim) than like softer looking fat men.
Lesbians be careful browsing the net today.
A targeted lesbicide has happened in Hong Kong.
The two women were targeted SPECIFICALLY for being a butch/femme (tom/dee) couple. They were attacked and killed by a man wielding a knife. It's being reported as a "random attack" on two "good friends" by a "mentally ill schizophrenic". Their friends and family repeatedly say they're a couple.
Expect lesbophobic rhetoric to go up.
Man. I don't even know what to say.
Every time this happens, lesbophobic rhetoric does go wild.
Lesbians are targeted specifically for not being attracted to men. Specifically. And it's worse if one is a trans woman.
"When one lesbian exists, two men lose a wife"
It's always the same. They always target the butch, the butch tells the femme to run, but the femme doesn't. We try to save our butch. And we die too.
And yet people act like our oppression doesn't matter. Like the lack of attraction to men under patriarchy isn't worth talking about - doesn't cause us harm - doesn't deserve a name. Like this shit happens in a vacuum.
Fuck you all. You all know that's bullshit.
You just hate us.
Truly hate saying this about Overwatch but: based
Happy Pride Month, everybody!
Opening these up again, as I've been saving up for top surgery for ages now, and thought this is a good time to get some work flowing! All's in the image itself, but don't be afraid to message for any questions and/or examples :]
Reblogs are highly appreciated🙏
Please support my friend if you can!!!! He's literally one of the best artists I know, I KNOW you'll be satisfied
people in the US: you may be able to order 4 more free covid tests as long as you do so by 11:59pm May 31st, when the government will be ending the program. it takes like 10 seconds
on the announcement that Disney+ is removing a plethora of shows and films from its service, please read these tweets from Willow writer John Bickerstaff. this is not a tax writeoff like Batgirl, because these projects have already been released. this is a move designed to cut off financial support in the form of residuals, and break the spirit of the strike. here is the deadline article that lists the films/shows that will be removed.
as always, donate to the entertainment community fund, vocally support the WGA online and irl, or join a picket in a major US city if you can. let them know they can't keep getting away with things like this.
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i rly wanna know like americans and non-americans- were u immunised against chicken pox or did ur parents rather u just get infected as a child??
I was born just a few years before the vaccine was even available, and I contracted chickenpox before the vaccine was part of routine vaccination (and mandatory in schools).
Which doesn’t sound so bad on its own, but at sixteen my immune system collapsed, and the previous mild case of chickenpox I had at nine suddenly gave me a violent and atypical case of shingles. My whole damn body was covered in pustules, even down my throat. Wherever there was skin, it was covered in pox. I nearly died. The doctors told my mother if she had waited just two more hours to get me to the hospital in Indy (my hometown hospital refused to even give me an E.R. bed ‘because it’s just chickenpox’, despite our pleas that I was immunocompromised), I would have died.
I was out of school for three months with a PICC line going straight to my heart pumping acyclovir into me even after I was discharged from the PICU. I never recovered academically and I ended up forced out of school the next year because they hated that I was wrecking attendance records with my frequent illnesses.
It’s only in the last five years that most of the pox scars have faded. I was sixteen then. I’m thirty now.
People/parents love to think that chickenpox is a normal and harmless part of childhood, almost a right of passage. Oh it’s just a week or so if mild itching, life will go on. No need to get my child vaccinated. Hell, let’s intentionally infect our young child by hosting chickenpox party! Better to have it at a young age, they say! But I wasn’t immunocompromised yet when I got chickenpox at 9. And at sixteen that same “harmless” virus latent within me nearly killed me. And even with the basic chickenpox, things can and have gone catastrophically wrong. Your perfectly healthy kid might come into contact with another kid on chemo. Suddenly that kid can die just like I almost did. Even your perfectly healthy kid can have a freak reaction and be killed by chickenpox.
The chickenpox vaccine has been around and available for over two decades now. Chickenpox and further complications like shingles are completely avoidable. Get your kid vaccinated
A vaccine wasn’t available when I was a kid so I picked it up at the age of four. My brother’s best friend came to visit and sat with me awhile to cheer me up- only to catch them himself at 15. He took them home to his dad- never had them. Half his family ended up in the hospital and his dad nearly died. Get your vaccines, folks.
the state of tiktok skits about having a rude customer is getting out of control i just saw one from a pharmacist and the whole skit was like someone comes in and goes “you shorted me on pills” and the pharmacist goes “no we didn’t you can see on the prescription it said to give you this many” and the patient goes “well i usually get more so i’m gonna call my doctor about this” like how is that customer being unreasonable or a karen or whatever
but the whole skit was about pain meds and we all know if someone wants more pain meds it’s bc they’re a lying addict trying to scam you and not just someone who’s confused bc their doctor made a mistake so it’s ok to post skits on tiktok portraying them as a villain for wanting the medication that was prescribed to them
Karen is quickly becoming one of those terms that's lost all meaning, like so many before it.
Like. You ask me to define "Karen" and I'd say it's the lady today who said she wanted a chicken sandwich then threw a fit when I told her we've never served chicken but could do a turkey burger, calling me stupid, insisting we've always given her chicken before, then insisting she speak with the manager (which is me).
Meanwhile, my 16 year old sister was telling me about a Karen at her work (she works in a really nice retirement home) who was a lady who asked for no sugar in her tea, was given sweet tea, and then explained she couldn't drink it because she was diabetic and it might kill her. "Like, she was such a bitch," my sister said, "She wouldn't even drink it! Told me to send it back and get her a new one!" Which, like, maybe it's because I'm old now, but if I messed up someone's drink and they had a medical condition that kept them from drinking that drink, they're not the bad guy in that situation. The proper response is to fix it, but my sister's been raised by her phone and is on TikTok all the time and thinks that "Karen" and "mild inconvenience" are the same thing.
my brother's friend who is diabetic is living with us right now and they once nearly died from a beverage being mis-labeled
Like as an alcoholic I HATE the fatphobia related to any form of treatment. The idea that I should stop drinking cause it'll make me lose weight, the way doctors will point out my "beer belly" before they talk about my liver or my kidneys or the social aspect of my drinking problem, the way people only care about my drinking problem cause it makes me fat. You don't care about me as someone who's struggling with addiction.
I encourage non alcoholics to like and or reblog this because it's a unique experience of fatphobia you don't understand if you've never tried to get help for a drinking problem.
siphonophores will never not freak me out. stop doing that its SCARY but also please don't ever stop doing that you ethereal marine cryptid
the red shape is a person of average height. the green line is one of these freaks. btw
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