moon dust in your lungs, stars in your eyes.

So in the latest "ban books!" controversy there's a picture book for pre-schoolers called "Grandad's Pride" the objection is that some of the illustrations of Pride involve men in leather

and I could go on and on about how yes that is in fact something you might see at Pride out in public so why would you not include it but.....

here's an unrelated image of popular children's cartoon character He-Man in a Harness (and fury underpants) if its only a problem when gay men do it, thats homophobia...

Also, that's what PRIDE looked like.

We gain nothing by trying to sanitize our own history for our oppressors comfort, especially when their comfort does includes our suicide rate.

if you're with a kid and they seen someone with a leather harness, or a puppy mask, or whatever, you don't have to explain all the sexual details to them. you can just say "they like to dress up in fun costumes sometimes", which is true, and that's that

If they're a little older, you can just say "These are strictly grownups-only costumes, and also are only for certain places. But this is a good place for them and they are welcome here because groups of people who sometimes dress like that have always helped LGBT people fight for the rights they have. Being seen is a way for them to celebrate that."

Which would be good for a lot of adults to internalize as well.

And if they ask why the outfits are grownups only, you can just reiterate that they are usually worn in private for grownups doing grownup things, and it isn't appropriate for kids to be in those private grownup spaces, and you are too young right now to need to know about those grownup things. Let's go look at [thing] now.

It's hard to know what to say when kids ask questions about a lot of things. I get that. That doesn't mean we should push adults out of adult spaces on special occasions so kids don't ask those questions at all. This isn't the mall or Wendy's. It's Pride. Maybe they're weird, but they helped make the space, so they get to belong.

Don't like? Don't look don't engage don't go. Find another event where it isn't appropriate to wear those things, don't try to make every space a place where no-one can. That's very babyish behavior, frankly. Something being yucky to you doesn't mean it's harmful.

I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

Okayokayokayokaybut "My hand will wear out but the inscription will remain" is kind of a power line BEFORE you factor in that it is, in fact, over a thousand years old.

It’s always good to spend a few moments, on a quiet day, looking through the Family album.

Very cute - and once again, the pleasure of watching someone with good tools, good material and the expertise to make good use of both.

😭😭😭😭

the ai:

I got very loudly deadnamed and misgendered multiple times at the doctors office today. This new receptionist ignored the preferred name on my profile to deadname and misgender me loudly, louder than she talked about anyone else in the waiting room. My birth certificate says "F" nex to sex, my medical documentation reflects this, and I was still deadnamed and misgendered.

And the saving grace was a woman and her child. I wear cat-ears and the child too young to speak loved them, and kept pointing and looking at me. I'm assuming her mother kept saying "yeah, she's wearing cat-ears", "yeah, that woman has cute cat-ears", and the like. Her child was enamoured with them, and that woman didn't misgender me once. And each time my very obviously masculine deadname name came up, she looked upset at the receptionist, but not once did she give me a bad look.

It doesn't have to be much. You don't need to be a knight in shining armour, or in someones face. Simply a quiet refusal to play along with someone elses bullshit is enough. It was enough to turn a trying and tiring moment into something that put a smile on my face and joy back into my life. It wasn't a lot but it mattered to me.

#your love for trans people should outweigh your hatred for transphobes #that's how you know you're doing it right 👍 [x]

i know everyone says 'thats a symptom of adhd' to everything on the internet but fr. thats an underactive dopamine response.

Ineffable May Day 5

They are in their own garden

gen z are like "we're bringing early 2000s back" ok then commit

DO IT

My Internet Friend: oh my work is not that Good. Me looking at their Work:

Things that work in fiction but not real life

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