Glasses people love to make you try their glasses on to see how fucked up their eyes are. It's a sign of respect in their culture.

mostly this pisses me off so much because these are the people always going “omg butches are so hot i want a butch girlfriend etc” but then turn around and go “trans men lesbians? ewwwwwwwwwwww no that’s not a thing and has never been a thing” like oh my god how are you attracted to a historical identity without knowing absolutely any of the history behind it.

like haha omg butch women so hot muscular mommy step on me . sure . whatever . but if you are not willing to meaningfully engage with the actual butch community, even the parts you don’t understand and the parts that make you uncomfortable and the parts that go outside of your understanding of gender and sexuality then there is literally nothing left to say.

like you do not want to think about the intricacies of being butch and you do not respect butches or the butch identity . you want to fetishize .

honestly it kinda reminds me of how people react to tomboys. Tomboys hot and cute until they're too masculine or until they have a personality that's too aggressive. People like the aesthetic of androgyny but actual visceral experience of it beyond anything that is more than surface level.

I also find a lot of people only like butches in theory. They want an androgynous knight in shining armour, not a masc person with a complicated relationship to gender and sexuality who is more vulnerable to sexual assault and abuse due to their visible gender non-conformity. People treat butches like toys, or like they exist to protect femmes, like they're Big Strong Women who don't need comfort or protection.

happy international womens day! remember that there are palestenian women in need of feminine hygiene products! you can donate here, and the cheapest tier is 5$!

if you can't donate, reblog! doing something is better than doing nothing! remember to keep talking, keep calling and keep donating! from the river to the sea, PALESTINE WILL BE FREE!! 🇵🇸

Pieces of media to watch to educate yourself on Palestine’s long history of suffering from the zionist Israeli occupation :

-> for further information and reviews on these movies, films and documentaries you can follow me on my instagram @ palicam__

[this list will constantly be updated with more movies & documentaries that i’m reminded of, or with new pieces that i find and watch… if you have any suggestions please send them my way so that i can add them to this list]

the impact "bnuuy" had

Haven't seen you in my notes lately.. are you mad at me?

Reading the laughter wikipedia page and smiling

wayyyyyy too many of yall are forgetting that forced relocation is a form of ethnic cleansing

They don't want us to call what's happening in Gaza a genocide not because there's not been an official ruling but because these things don't get set in people's minds via official ruling. Instead it is the oral history that sets an event into place in mass consciousness.

Us calling it what it is - a genocide - means they can't wriggle out of it in years to come. They can't continue to call it a conflict or a war if we cement it in public consciousness as a genocide.

So don't tone down your language. Call it what it is. Make sure the history books know what happened and the genocides that took place in Palestine, Sudan, Congo.

Denial and control of language is a powerful tool for genocide supporters, especially for soft supporters.

Genocide relies on a lot of acquiescence and denial and complacency and pretending it's not happening.

Genocide relies on a lot of what Sartre calls "bad faith" ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith_(existentialism) ). This is different from the rhetoric of lying to another, but is about lying to oneself.

Calling these genocides what they are challenges that comfortable self-deception and challenges the load bearing lie that "I am a good person if I just collaborate with power".

can we heal together? by being nice and honest? by being respectful and lovely? by healthy communication about our needs and thoughts? by having quality time together and me time? by kisses and touches? by supporting each other?

ANYONE THAT CAN, SHOW UP AND DISRUPT THE EVENTS