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THIS IS AWESOME….and hilarious. Is it wrong that I was laughing the whole way through? “They just don’t want tea”
OMG WHAT IS THIS? LOL
I love how its tea, but I don’t like tea (I mean actual tea :P LOL)
Now that’s how you do a public information video.
This
This is perfect
Brilliant stuff
Now, I’ll make myself a cup of tea as well…
People complaining about shipping cousins ans I’m here feeling like the redneck antichrist because my parents are first cousins.
This is sad and hilarious
That was sort of my reaction too.
People complaining about shipping cousins ans I’m here feeling like the redneck antichrist because my parents are first cousins.
L. R. Knost (via waysoffamily)
A new report released by the Williams Institute estimates that 37% of LGBT Americans have had a child, meaning that as many as 6 million children and adults have an LGBT parent.
“These analyses highlight the diversity and prevalence of LGBT parents and their children in the U.S.,” said the study’s lead scholar Gary J. Gates. “The data show that LGBT families are clearly part of modern American life.”
Other findings from LGBT Parenting in the United States include:
* About 39% of individuals in same-sex couples raising children under age 18 are non-white, as are half of their children —compared to to 36% of those in different-sex couples who are non-white.
* Among children under 18 living with same-sex couples, 50% are non-white compared to 41% of children living with different-sex couples.
*Same-sex couples raising children are four times more likely than their different-sex counterparts to be raising an adopted child. An estimated 16,000 same-sex couples are raising more than 22,000 adopted children in the US.
* States with the highest proportions of same-sex couples raising biological, adopted or step-children include Mississippi (26%), Wyoming (25%), Alaska (23%), Idaho (22%), and Montana (22%).
* Single LGBT adults raising children are three times more likely than their heterosexual counterparts to report household incomes near the poverty threshold. Married or partnered LGBT individuals living in two-adult households with children are twice as likely.
*More than 111,000 same-sex couples are raising an estimated 170,000 biological, step, or adopted children
*Same-sex couples are six times more likely than their different-sex counterparts to be raising foster children. Approximately 2,600 same-sex couples are raising an estimated 3,400 foster children in the US.
*The median annual household income of same-sex couples with children under age 18 in the home is lower than comparable different-sex couples ($63,900 versus $74,000, respectively).
The full report can be found here.
Finally! The full version! I thought this documentary was lost when Current_ TV was sold to Aljazeera. I really have to thank Jane Doe for finding this.
This is, I think, the most even-handed portrayal of GSA I've seen. It shows people who never acted on their feelings, people who moved past their feelings willingly, people who were in relationships but were forced apart, and people who are still together. I also love that Barbara Gonyo is their primary source for a counselor's perspective.
They go through the standard scare-mongering regarding deformed children, but then show clearly that the children of consanguineous couples don't have to be deformed. They show that in many cases the feelings aren't reciprocated, but that sometimes they are, and in both cases broader awareness and acceptance is necessary to help them in the ways those specific people need.
I find the psychological analysis in this somewhat laughable, but that's where psychotherapy is currently at regarding GSA. What I'm more interested in are the people, and they are pretty awesome.
LifeWorks collaborator Elisabeth Sheff breaks down the unseen history of polygamy and explores how gay marriage could lead to a broader acceptance of diverse families, in her latest article for Psychology Today. (via lifeworkspsych)
The story of Marguerite and Julien de Ravalet was quite famous in France in its time, and is still well known there. In the rest of the world, though, they are completely unknown. I myself was surprised that I had never heard of them, until I did research and found out that 99% of everything online and in print about them is in French. Making exact sense of the story has been difficult, since the ages of those involved during various events are different everywhere I find them. I could only find one English-language site which discusses the story in full.
Marguerite and Julien were two of eleven siblings born to the landed Ravalet family at the end of the Renaissance. The time period was a chaotic one, the culmination of religious and political conflict between the Catholics and Calvinists of France, who fought bloody battles and attempted assassinations all during the Ravalets' lives.
Marguerite and Julien grew up on the Ravalet estate in Tourlaville, northern France, and from a very early age they were extremely close. As they grew up and became even closer, their parents decided that it was a problem. They separated them by sending Julien off to boarding school. He didn't return until years later.
Their parents married Marguerite off to the tax collector, Jean Lefebvre, who was much, much older than her. (She was only 13 or 14 at the time.) By all accounts it was a very unhappy marriage. Eventually she couldn't take it anymore, and she left him and went home. Julien was there when she returned. Some time after, Marguerite became pregnant, and she fled home to avoid retribution.
Julien seems to have given his father the impressions that he would go and find Marguerite to bring her back. Instead, when he found her they absconded to Paris. When he found out, Jean Lefebvre (Marguerite's husband) went to the royal authorities and demanded that the two be charged with adultery and incest. They were arrested in Paris and thrown in prison. During their trial they were found guilty on both counts, and sentenced to death.
Over the course of this ordeal, word got around about the de Ravalet siblings and they became famous. Many people were sympathetic toward them, and their father personally begged King Henri IV to pardon them. King Henri explained that because Marguerite was married and had committed adultery, he couldn't publicly justify pardoning them. The only concession he could give was to allow for Marguerite and Julien to have a proper Christian burial, and not be thrown into the public mass graves.
Marguerite gave birth to her baby in prison, and gave the baby to her parents, to care for it in her absence. Shortly after, she and Julien were publicly decapitated. Their tombstone read:
Ci gisent le frère et la sœur. Passant ne t'informe pas de la cause de leur mort, mais passe et prie Dieu pour leur âmes.
[Here lie the brother and the sister. Passing does not inform you of the cause of their death, but move forward and pray to God for their souls.]
After their death, the siblings became symbols in France of brave and tragic love. Paintings were made depicting them, and plays were written about them. Recently a modern retelling has come out which has reignited interest in their story: Marguerite & Julien.
Hey, guys! I'm a supporter of consensual incest, and I was wondering, do you maybe have a banner, or a picture or something I could put in the corner of my blog, that indicates me as a consensual incest supporter? Something similar to badges, that go around lately.
Ohhh, I really like that idea. We don’t right now, though captaincrackcrack made this lovely post that has a similar idea.
I’m kind of useless for this, but if any of our followers wanted to make something like this (if you’re better at graphic design than I am whoops), that’d be awesome. And I’d love you forever.
-Mod A
There have been some attempts. This is currently the one Full Marriage Equality and Diane Rinella use:
It’s a “friends of Lily” reference.
It’s so weird watching Galavant and hearing everyone talk about how gross the idea of Isabella marrying her cousin is. I mean, it is gross because Harry’s eleven years old and Izzy’s being forced to marry him. But, after learning all about cousin marriage and relationships and realizing that it’s perfectly all right by any measure (and spending so much time online with likeminded people), it’s disconcerting to realize how many people still believe cousin relationships are wrong.
Weird.
You know, one of the more embarassing moments for me as an American was watching an al-Jazeera UK debate on legalizing sibling consanguinamory; the anti-legalization American kept derailing the conversation with talk about cousins couples, and the host had to keep chastising him. It was one of the few times the Brits got to see how truly obsessed with cousin couples Americans are. It’s as weird to me as it is to you. (Oh, and seeing all of your Galavant posts has given me the strong craving to watch it :) )
Everybody has something that works the best for them, just keep on being your awesome self <3
Russia’s State Duma will decide on whether to ban people from coming out as gay next week on 19 January. Two senior Russian Communist MPs Ivan Nikitchuk and Nikolai Arefyev have presented a bill calling for people who come out as LGBTI to serve up to 15 days behind bars. Any public displays of affection among gay men will result in jail time and a fine of 5,000 rubles ($80, €60). The proposed bill is only targeting gay men as women, according to the lawmakers, are more ‘reasonable’ and can ‘manage their emotions’.
The legislation is intended at strengthening ‘traditional Orthodox values’. ‘We have our own idea of honor and conscience, and we must respect tradition. The scum that comes to us from the West is unnatural to Russia. These unconventional sexual desires do nothing but disgust normal, smart, healthy people,’ Nikitchuk said, according to the Russian News Service. ‘It is sick that disgusting people feel they should be treated the same.’
While the propaganda law covers the banning of Pride, this initiative will include 15 days in jail for any person wishing to support the rights of sexual minorities.‘I do not think lawmakers dare to express their explicit support for homosexuals,’ Nikitchuk said, referencing how the propaganda law passed in 2013 swept through the Duma.
Nikitchuk and Arefyev have said the reason they are presenting the bill is because the current law banning the promotion of non-traditional relationships is not ‘effective’ enough.
Legit.
True Life: I’m Having Kids With My Cousin
Omg
Throughout most of history, people have married a cousin of one degree or another: http://marriage-equality.blogspot.com/2013/08/what-genealogists-know.html In many cultures, marriage between first cousins is still common. Half of US states will legally marriage first cousins, and most of the rest deny them the freedom to marry, but don’t criminalize their relationships. A few states, like Texas, actually prosecute people for having sex with a first cousin. Talk about absurd. Anyone who doesn’t like it doesn’t have to do it, but if consenting adults who are cousins want to have sex, be in a relationship, or marry, that should be their right.
Hi there :) I love your blog. Do you know of any more blogs that support consanguinamory and/or post about it?
Thanks for the support! Unfortunately, there’s really not much out there. It’s mostly my blog and Full Marriage Equality. There was rainbowamory, but they’re no longer active. Diane Rinella wrote some novels about consanguinamory and posts about it sometimes, but her social media isn’t focused on that. waysoffamily posts about alternative family related issues, which sometimes includes consanguinamory, but there isn’t much activity and consanguinamory isn’t the focus.
From the BBC Interview for Horizon ‘The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. (bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/archive/feynman/) Animated by Fraser Davidson (sweetcrude.tv).
