Very excited for this ngl

What if it was never an iceberg. Maybe that spot just does that

like to charge, reblog to cast

blathers from animal crossing needs to get the hell over his problem with bugs. it is so unprofessional for a museum curator

@bakijak yeah.

Everything is like “QUEER history” and “List of QUEER young adult books” or “Top 10 QUEER movies” and queer this and queer that and for the love of god please just say LGBT.

But queer is more inclusive

And faster to pronounce if you are talking instead of writing.

It’s not more inclusive, and if your excuse of using a slur as a blanket term is “it’s faster to say”, GENUINELY what is wrong with you

It’s called economía del lenguaje.

It’s also the respected academic term?? The acronym isn’t static and it’s usage is varied by things like generational difference, location, and knowledge of the community. Even just in the U.S. in the last few decades the common usage gone from GLBT to LGBT to LGBTQ, to LGBTQA/LGBTQIA/LGBTQIAP/etc (Which, let me tell you as someone who has given presentations in the past using these updated acronyms, are all real mouthfulls), to LGBT+.

Also yes, queer is more inclusive! Especially coming at it from an academic standpoint, people didn’t always use or identify with the terms we use now and you can’t always try to cram them into our modern perceptions of sexuality. We can argue for years about whether a famous historical figure was gay or bisexual or straight and trans or whatever, but if we can all agree that they were somehow queer then using that term allows us to move past the debate and into productive discussion. And not everybody everywhere shares the same terms for sexual and gender identity, or even the same concepts of those things, so queer really is a more inclusive term in a lot of cases.

Like yeah if you’re talking specifically about gay or trans people you can just say gay or transgender, but if you’re talking about more than one identity or someone who doesn’t conform to our perceptions of ‘LGBT,’ or a person or people whose identity you don’t know, queer is just the better word.

“That’s SO gay”, “Oh my god, you’re not a LESBIAN, are you?”

Your words are slurs, too. Why do you get your words, but I don’t get mine? What makes you so special?

I’m here, I’m queer, go fuck yourself.

queer is not a slur, stop drinking the TERF koolaid

every time one of you fools spout about ‘queer is a slur’ a terf laughs because their fucking plan to make that word ‘taboo’ is fucking working you dipshit.

I did not get my degree in queer literature for you all to keep pulling this bullshit.

baby gays,,,, i beg of you to learn your queer history and stop listening to terf bullshit

every single one of our labels has been used as a slur against us.

terfs and -phobes are always going to try and hurt us with what we identify as. but the fact remains these are OUR labels and always have been.

we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.

I don’t know if this is just because I’m not American but I’ve never heard queer used as a slur. Ever. Meanwhile gay was the insult in the 2000s here. Everything you didn’t like was ‘soo gay’. Queer wasn’t even a word most of us knew back then.

It just baffled me that people would think an identifier is automatically a slur just because someone uses it to mock someone. If we did that gay would be a slur. Stupid would be a slur. Autistic would be a slur.

The reason people are upset about the word queer is that it’s a unifying term. You can say you’re queer and all people will know is that you’re part of the community. But you can’t say you’re LGBT, you have to say you’re gay or trans or ace. They don’t want you to be ambiguously queer. They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

yeah in the 90s and early 2000s kids would call each other “gay” as an insult. But no one ties themselves in knots over whether “gay” is a slur. So yeah, please ffs learn your history.

They want you to say which kind of queer you are so they can decide whether you’re undesirable.

...Just taking a moment here to upload this cat video (via @postsofcats at the once-upon-a-time-there-was-a-Bird place).

Two things amusing me about this:

(a) The casual "Hey, I know the tenor" leg-rub. (And yeah, [a1], the completely casual and natural way the tenor plays into it.)

(b) The cat sitting down at the end of the clip with that positioning, well known to feline-person companions, of a feline about to jump up onto that table, via the chair in bg, and steal some food.

...How many times, you have to wonder—in-performance and out—has this cat wandered over to that table, muttering to itself, "Maybe this time there'll be real food on it instead of this stage shit..."?

I think maybe we need to start calling people who tell us not to vote "Russian psyops." They were am actual thing last time and I think people need to be reminded of how they sound when they try to discourage voting.

I said this months ago and the cope in the comments....it was unbelievable. Trying to say there was no lesser evil or that it isn't good enough to vote for a lesser evil. Like, cool, I agree, fkn weird to just decide that on an election year though? Why don't you spend your NON election years trying to rage against the machine? Because the only thing that is pleased by a bunch of leftist voters opting out is....well, it is pretty fucking obvious.

This is EXACTLY like what happened in the 2016 election, only with more sophisticated disinformation machines.

My whole fucking senior project was on social media disinformation and young voters. I and my professors all knew that something like this would happen the next time Trump ran for office, and here we are

I’ll say it again, please just grit your teeth and vote for Biden…

Vote blue.

Are those "Biden protections" in the room with us at the moment? Go eat shit and die.

They are in fact in the room with us right now.

4/26/24 - Biden/Harris administration incorporates latest rule to the ACA that includes protections on the basis of sexual orientation and improves pre-existing protections for gender identity, mandating nondiscrimination in health care and insurance coverage for LGBTQ+ Americans.

4/19/24 - Biden/Harris administration finalized a Title IX rule that clarifies the scope of nondiscrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity throughout educational activities and programs.

1/9/24 - Biden/Harris administration reverses Trump/Pence era “License to Discriminate” rules.

6/8/23 - Biden personally announces a series of initiatives that include efforts to protect queer and trans foster youth, improve access to mental health services for LGBTQ+ youth and address the rise in hate-fueled violence.

4/26/23 - Biden/Harris administration files lawsuit against the state of Tennessee, challenging the constitutionality of recently enacted legislation banning age-appropriate, medically necessary gender-affirming care for transgender youth.

2/7/23 - Biden uses his SotU address to encouraged Congress to pass the Equality Act “to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially transgender young people, can live with safety and dignity.”

12/13/22 - Biden signs the Respect for Marriage Act, one of the biggest legislative wins in the fight for LGBTQ+ equality in over a decade, guaranteeing federal rights, benefits and obligations of marriages in the federal code for same-sex couples. The legislation also repealed the Defense of Marriage Act and affirmed public acts, records and proceedings should be recognized by all states.

8/4/22 - Biden/Harris administration declares Monkeypox a public emergency and wields federal power to ensure equal access in the distribution of vaccines and treatment.

3/21/22 - Biden/Harris administration takes steps on Transgender Day of Visibility to protect trans Americans that includes issuing passports with an “X” gender marker, streamlining identity verification during the travel experience and providing resources to transgender kids and their families.

And that’s just the last two years, without including any educational or research work done towards new policies or educating Americans about LGBTQ identities and politics, like displaying parts of the AIDS quilt in the White House or regularly acknowledging Pride, days of visibility, or other issues within the community.

You may be too young to remember this, but Biden was one of the first major federal-level politicians to support gay marriage, and he dragged Obama along kicking and screaming to the finish line. This administration is one of the strongest allies the LGBTQ community has had. Ever.

For the many many people who do not seem to understand how a government actually works, this doesn't mean Biden himself came up with these decisions, but they were approved and implemented by Congress because conservatives didn't have both the presidency and a majority. They desperately want the white house right now because it will allow them to make any policy changes they want uncontested.

FUCKING VOTE FOR BIDEN. We all know it's a sucky choice! We all know we hate the "lesser of two evils" game! I supported Bernie Sanders for 8 years and I still grit my teeth and voted for Hillary! What happened? Trump packed the supreme Court, got Roe turned over, they increased legal discrimination by religious people against minorities, and they're letting trump run roughshod over our justice system. This isn't just a president. This is an entire goddamn government and you need to get your fucking ass out, registered to vote, and vote EARLY, for your entire ballot. State Senate, state House, state judiciary, vote for someone for the local fucking dog catcher and mining inspector. This is so fucking important. I'm mad about Gaza too, I've written to my representatives about it, but I'm voting for Biden, because this is what we have to do.

Does anyone remember Reagan's 1980 plot to put disabled children in institutions rather than public education? It never passed, because Joe Biden teamed up with my husband's mother and hundreds of mothers of disabled kids to help defeat it. He might be unwanted but he's our only choice right now.

((The ability to appreciate and evaluate human aesthetic is not determined by your sexuality))

THANK YOU

Reblogging at the speed of light

“Aw what a cute cat!”

“What I didn’t know you were attracted to animals!”

This

!!!

“Those shoes are nice”

“Do you wanna fuck those shoes, John?”

This genuinely made something click for me but I am busy so I’ll figure out what later

I would still use my turn signals in the Mad Max Wasteland. They'd call me "Signal" because I'd hit my blinker before ramming the enemy hot rods into the side of a desert ravine. I'd use my turn signal every time. They would respect me for this.

if they made a clone of Colin Firth do you know what they'd call him

Colin Thecond

confusing Odysseus and Orpheus is like confusing a liar and a lyre. send post

Looking back, Nobody found this funny.

it got better

A few days ago I asked myself what kind of drawings I would love to see. Well, Mei Changsu.

My favorite gif. I never get a chance to use it, so I’m just going to share it.