emmet l.f. cameron

🧝‍♂️formerly enchanted person🐈‍⬛idly gay on indifferent subjects🌈they/them🐘makes @believemenowpod📓prose&poems&plays&pods&pix✏️kidlit rep’d by @bredalot🎒

[emmet l.f. cameron @emlfc]

gonna put out a shingle as a wedding officiant but only for people who will let me pronounce them wife & wife guy

[emmet l.f. cameron @emlfc]

@eatsmokes @socalledcharlie questions people ask when they are trans but haven't quite figured it out yet. it's like a metaphor for being pre-hatched, basically.

[emmet l.f. cameron @emlfc]

as somebody who can't not take the bear thing too literally, this is the only version of this discourse i will accept at face value

[Maggie Koerth @maggiekb1]

My father (68, white, straight, male): "Hey, can you explain this bear in the woods thing to me? I don't understand. Obviously, women would rather meet a random gay man in the woods. But why does he have to be a bear?"

[emmet l.f. cameron @emlfc]

@Cluffalo @sammimcsporran not really. being cisgender & heterosexual are common. they're also labels.

[S. Bear Bergman @sbearbergman]

I would simply like to say, Pride is a queer cultural space and anyone who can conduct themselves appropriately (or appropriately inappropriately) can attend. Wear sunscreen, hydrate, look out for each other.

[Abby Stein - 𐤀𐤁𐤉𐤂𐤉𐤋 𐤇𐤅𐤄 𐤔𐤈𐤉𐤉𐤍 @AbbyChavaStein]

When we say the war is literally hurting all the hostages, and killing so many, it isn't a talking point. It's reality.

We care for Palestinian: so ceasefire now.
We care for the hostages: so ceasefire now.
We care for justice and liberation.

https://t.co/8RFrCp23LL

[Etan Nechin @Etanetan23]

After his daughter Noa was kidnapped, Yaakov said:

"Let's make peace with our neighbors.
I want my daughter to come back.
They also have captives, there are also mothers crying there. We are two peoples with one Father, let's, for the sake of these things, please make a real peace."

What a person.

[emmet l.f. cameron @emlfc]

@sbearbergman After a while, my co-facilitator & I realised they were basically turning their cameras off, but like...mentally.

[emmet l.f. cameron @emlfc]

@sbearbergman Have you noticed this is way different since the pandemic? I haven't observed it in the context of performing, but when I first started facilitating in-person groups again in like '22-'23 I was so perplexed by the new difficulty I had telling whether people were engaged.

[emmet l.f. cameron @emlfc]

@britthates i can't decide if snot chemist or snot farmer is worse

[emmet l.f. cameron @emlfc]

@QueenMab87 @blaqueerflow it's also entirely possible to have thoughts *&* be judicious about where & when you share those thoughts, & for what purpose.

[emmet l.f. cameron @emlfc]

@hyuumanatees like yeah, for millennials who spent every spare moment on msn messenger on the family desktop, a lot of us did acquire pretty decent typing skills without being taught, even if we don't necessarily have proper technique.

but if all your screens have been touchscreens? no way.

[emmet l.f. cameron @emlfc]

@hyuumanatees especially for people who are primarily accessing the internet/digital media via a phone or tablet screen, it's bonkers to assume this would give them any advantage with a keyboard.

[emmet l.f. cameron @emlfc]

anyway i worry every day about how far away the future is but that's probably not the way to get there any faster.

[emmet l.f. cameron @emlfc]

in australia in 2015 i was at a liberal church chatting over coffee with an older white south african lady & she said she'd just been reading nelson mandela's autobiography, & "back then" she was so irritated by him but now she thought he made some good points.

[emmet l.f. cameron @emlfc]

i also think a lot about bayard rustin's words: "to be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true."

which i think might be the simplest statement that i absolutely believe.