transcript of video by TikTok account thatannamarie from early December 2021

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Here's a word that every queer person should know: homonationalism is not the name of my new synth-pop album. It's a concept from sociology that acknowledges how queer people are used in conversations about global politics.

Homonationalism is when we use LGBT rights as a yardstick to judge how "moral" a society is. It's short for "homonormative nationalism"—say that five times fast—and it was first coined by Jasbir Puar to describe how the US presented itself as LGBT-friendly to contrast itself to "homophobic" Muslims during the War on Terror. It can also be applied to other contexts, like the way we talk about homophobic countries in Africa or the Caribbean while ignoring the role of European colonialism in those regions.

Put a finger down if you've ever heard something like:

Oh it's so weird. [Looks around as if hearing something from outside the room.] My neighbor's dog is going crazy...

You know you've lost the plot when you're talking about homophobia among Muslims, when white American Christians are the ones who made gay marriage illegal, ignored the entire AIDS crisis, and to this day don't have any national policies regarding conversion therapy, a trans-panic defense, or the forcing of trans women into men's prisons and vice-versa.

Barbados just became free of British rule this week; we should not be shocked if they have some homophobic policies.

And while I obviously believe that a more moral society is one with robust protections for queer people, LGBT rights can't be used to judge other countries, to make us feel better about bombing them.

As an aside, I live in Connecticut, an American state where it gets dark at 4pm now, and where LGBT rights are actually pretty good. We were one of the first states to institute gay marriage, transgender health care is part of our state insurance, and we're just generally more legally protected here.

And yet while legal support is very robust in our state, there's very little cultural support. Homophobia and transphobia in day-to-day life is roughly as bad as any other part of the country, and we have no gay cultural infrastructure. Only enough gay bars to count on one hand, and no known queer meeting spaces otherwise. It's obviously not as bad as living in a place where being gay is a crime, but it's still pretty lonely out here.

So for a variety of reasons, I don't appreciate queer and trans people being used as a pawn to further Islamophobia, anti-African sentiment, and general xenophobia. Mainly because it's racist and ignorant; many of these countries have a long, rich history of queer and trans and nonbinary identities before white European colonizers showed up, but also because western "acceptance" of LGBTQ people is very conditional and very limited in terms of material and legal protection.

White supremacy wins when we pit queer people and people of color against each other. We need international solidarity and an acknowledgment of colonialism to achieve equality and equity.

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So ya boi went off today

insanely curious about this

does anyone have any books they would recommend on cuba and socialism, or the political history of socialism? books on communism in practice & geopolitics (ideally dealing specifically w colonial & imperial histories) would be great as well

(Stolen from Reddit.)

hozier is not cottagecore he is a blues musician. do not disrespect him again

hi i’m deleting this. if you disagree with me abt him being a blues musician thats fine but i dont want to have to read “hozier is not a blues musician” 100 times in a row so i am removing it from my notifs <3

that post that's like "okay but she did utilise girl power what happened to supporting women's wrongs" annoyed the fuck out of me when it was doing the rounds on here bc the original joke made by eric andre was about MARGARET THATCHER

the joke was intended to undermine that kind of wishy-washy popculture white feminism that leads to people uncritically supporting any woman in power to the point of praising and idolising war criminals and colonisers. the original joke goes "did she effectively utilise girl power when she funded illegal paramilitary death troops in northern ireland". it wasn't a fandom joke!

Can't believe fandom people would take something they liked (the original joke) and transform it in some way

Like, I get what you're saying. Totally on board. But it is kinda ridiculous to say that things are only valid if used the same as it was in the original context

just clearing this up: i wasnt trying to say that. people can use ‘did she utilise girl power’ as a fandom joke idc, my problem was with people forgetting what the original was and going ‘whats wrong with girl power’ (assuming the meme was fine to push back against because the original was an apolitical fandom joke. which is why i point out that it wasnt) and i didnt like that bc it's circling back to the ideology that andre’s joke was attacking. because there can be many things wrong with a woman in power

more people need to consume media how dedicated comics fans consume their media of choice

go up to any comics fan and ask them which writers house they would mail pipe bombs to and they’ll list of at the bare minimum 5 different people. ask them their favorite character and you’ll be greeted with an answer followed by why every comic ever featuring that character has been literally the worst and they refuse to read it again. truly i don’t think there’s another group of people so invested in something that they truly despise to such a great degree.

to people who keep saying that this applies to their respective fandom: you will never experience this

sorry i'm not letting these tags stay hidden via @feyburner

"Why doesn't batman have the lush interiority of a lesbian water sign" is a comics quote for the ages. some day this will be a heritage post

this is how writing a dissertation feels

that post that's like "okay but she did utilise girl power what happened to supporting women's wrongs" annoyed the fuck out of me when it was doing the rounds on here bc the original joke made by eric andre was about MARGARET THATCHER

the joke was intended to undermine that kind of wishy-washy popculture white feminism that leads to people uncritically supporting any woman in power to the point of praising and idolising war criminals and colonisers. the original joke goes "did she effectively utilise girl power when she funded illegal paramilitary death troops in northern ireland". it wasn't a fandom joke!

Our Experience of Grief is Unique as a Fingerprint

this is poetry to me

im in a jumping to conclusions contest but my opponent is a tumblr user

i didn't read the post but I ve already crafted an intricate assumption of who you are as a person in my head. Why do you hate women

Me and the bad bitches I pulled by being a 70 year old closet case who managed to break down their carefully constructed narratives until all that was left was the truth.

okay you know that one game you’d play on the playground with friends where one person was designated as the “watcher” and everyone had to move around when the watcher wasn’t looking, and freeze if they were? and if the watcher caught you moving you were out of the game?

please rb for sample size 💔💔

i'm just going to start redirecting people to free resources for developing reading and language skills in children and i don't even say this in a mean way from the bottom of my heart i think it could actually sincerely help some of you in your day to day life to brush up on your reading comprehension because something somewhere has gone terribly wrong and it's concerning

oh so you hate women, got it