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@normalbeast / normalbeast.tumblr.com

We work too hard. We are too tired to fall in love. Therefore we must overthrow the government. | he/him, early 20s, white | I will reblog discourse and I will tag your triggers if you ask me to. I work with queer rights education and I don't have time for assimilationist respectability politics. Queer cripples give me a kiss ✡️⚧️

New queer rights around the world : 2023 edition 🏳️‍🌈✨️🏳️‍⚧️

Finland : adopted a law to facilitate transition, no longer requiring sterilization or psychological evaluations

Hong Kong : ruled in favor of the change of one's gender identity without requiring surgery

Spain :

  • no longer requires a medical advice to transition
  • lowered the minimum age required to transition to 16 (12-13yo will need a judge's authorization and 14-15yo will need to be accompanied by their parents)
  • banned genital mutilation on intersex children
  • banned conversion therapies
  • provided state support for lesbians and single women seeking IVF treatment

South Korea : ruled in favor of a gay couple demanding equal health insurance rights with heterosexual couples, recognizing the legal status of gay couples for the first time in the country

Slovakia : no longer requires a chirurgical procedure to transition

Cook islands : decriminalized homosexuality

Portugal : passed a law banning conversion therapies and reinforcing gender identity self-determination in schools

France : HIV positive people can now enlist in the army

Taiwan : opened adoption to same-sex couples

Mexico : issued its first non-binary passport

Cyprus : banned conversion therapies

Namibia : supreme court ruling recognizes same-sex mariages contracted in other countries

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Going feral thinking about how we have to pay for the privilege to NOT have to listen to nonstop sales pitches.

"What would your ancestors think of your whole gender thing-" What would YOURS think of being told to buy things every two minutes. I think they would kill CEOs in the streets for being annoying. They were known to do that.

Anonymous asked:

Okay a white person saying on a black transmasc’s video that saying “not all men are bad” is equivalent to “not all cops are bad” is deeply, truly fucked up in a way that does not justify whatever garbage take he could have ever said. I’m not saying he had a garbage take but even if he did, that was so atrociously and abhorrently racist. White queers need to stop playing gender games for two seconds to think if their comment is appropriate because that was so fucking targeted.

i’m actually gonna post his vid here bc it was fantastic:

but yeah. to comment “this is like saying not all cops are bad!!!!!!” in response to a black trans person saying “hey this harms trans people” (and literally mentioning that it harms closeted trans femmes too) is like peak “it hurts itself in confusion.”

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idk how to tell y'all this but people who wash themselves regularly and are super well dressed & well groomed and smell nice can also be awful abusive pieces of shit. and also disabled people See You when you constantly tie "bad abusive person" to "doesn't bathe"

echolalia sucks when it’s about memes. I have to say “what the sneef? I’m snorfing here!” all the time and I hate it with every fiber of my heart

That's not echolalia. Echolalia is when you repeat things people say to you in conversation back to them as part of your communication pattern. When you get hung up on certain words or phrases you hear and feel the need to repeat them at seemingly random times, that's vocal stimming.

i often get asks that are like 'how do you enjoy anything' and similarly have a lot of detractors on web site who call me, like, 'joyless', and i feel like that's kind of revealing about the way these people conceptualise criticism (& especially political criticism). like esp. when i say something like 'DOOM 2016's central conceit of a heroic ubermensch righteously massacring an infinite horde of subhuman invaders is fundamentally a reactionary fantasy' i think that people assume that means i played the whole game through gritted teeth or threw it down in disgust but nah i played that whole thing and had a great time. i just also made some mental notes and thought them through afterwards. i just find it weird so many people find those things to be in abject contradiction

you people would (and do) freak the fuck out if you found out (when you find out) queer "found family" dynamics tend to involve like half of those people fucking each other. often as part of the dynamic. and those family dynamics are as real and potent as blood, but function differently. and the nuclear family language can be applied to queer family dynamics in ways that are not orthodox and not metaphorical, but unorthodox to nuclear family and earnest. lesbian leatherfamily be upon ye

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To people who are desperately asking for fundz/donations on tumblr.

USE THESE REDDIT SUBS INSTEAD PLEASE FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!!!!!!!

Hate Reddit if you want, but using these subs are your best chance. People gather in these subs because they have charity to spare:

I never see anyone actually getting any significant donations on tumblr and to be honest, tumblr is the worst place to ask for assistance. Use it as your last resort, it frustrates me to no end seeing people begging for help, reblogging the same post over and over, the same types of posts over and over, to no avail, when people are waiting to help you on a different part of the web  GO TO WHERE THE HELP IS. IF YOU WANT DIRECT ACTION TO WORK STOP WITH TUMBLR AND USE REDDIT.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF SATAN REBLOG THIS SO WE CAN START REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF DONATION POSTS THAT GET STUCK FLOATING AROUND THIS WEBSITE

Hope this can help some people over here too

I know some of our community have been stuck in hard spots and this has a LOT of resources

I never knew.

It’s been a while so I’ll say this again.

Browse through a subreddit and read their rules before posting.

Random Acts of Pizza, for example, has some utterly fucking ridiculous requirements before you can post. When I was in need of food, I’d cleared my previous post history as I wasn’t “out” yet and had only participated in trans subs. Due to having no post history beyond a month, I wasn’t “allowed” to use RAoP, despite my account being over a year old. I was told by a mod that they won’t make exceptions. This rule is in place to prevent people from “scamming” pizza which… Kind of falls in line with the phrase, “If you see someone stealing food no you didn’t.”

Reddit itself can be all across the board politically, with some subs swaying centrist or further right but giving no indication of such from cursory glance. Here on Tumblr we’re generally pretty left, so aid requests often mention being trans, disabled, or any other marginalized group that might not have access to aid programs in some areas. There are situations where highlighting these bits of information can lead to some pretty nasty and/or invasive replies. Even if it’s 2 nasty replies to 6 supportive ones, these can add to your distress in a dire and terrifying financial, food, or housing situation.

So do a little poking around first, make sure you’re clear on posting guidelines, and be “neutral” in your requests if you feel like you might attract some less than helpful replies from someone who might not be as left politically as Tumblr is.

Israel may be completely converting Palestine into a desert, by uprooting its families, and stripping it of vegetation and water.  It was not until after 1948 that 90% of Israeli forests were grown, but non-Indigenous species constitute 89% of them. The majority of trees JNF boasts having planted, since nearly its inception, were non-Native evergreens, which devastated both local communities and ecosystems. For instance, animals belonging to Palestinian shepherds could not feed on greenery, after it was acidified by the shedding of Israeli pine needles. Besides, as evidenced by the most critical wildfire Israel experienced, in 2010, these are highly flammable trees. Israeli planted forests have even been termed ‘pine deserts’, by environmentalists, due to the ‘biological paucity’ they have caused. Furthermore, as Nathan notes, Indigenous carob and fruit trees, including more than 800,000 olive trees, since only 1967, were uprooted by Israel. In Israeli-occupied Palestine, 80% of the responsibility for a staggering 23% reduction in its forests, which occurred from 1971 to 1999, fell on Israeli colonialism and militarism. Only in 2001, the Israeli state uprooted 670,000 fruit and forestry trees there. In addition, research has shown that an-Naqab possibly began to experience desertification due to JNF afforestation. Yet, the ahistorical trope of ‘making the desert bloom’ continues to be widely proliferated by Zionists, assisted by green colonies, to stifle Palestinian memory and erase the Nakba.