✨braddles✨

He/they 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ your local neighbourhood shut in, who should be working on a dissertation.

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

We got our grad photos back and they took a photo of my reaction to the screaming.

Look at this smug little binch.

[Vee Cobden🤾🏽‍♀️ ✨ @_vuyomtheths]

I’m his biggest fan 🥹😩🎓

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

The attempt to split LGB from TQIA+ did not come from inside the community. It did not grow organically out of lived experience. It was introduced deliberately as a wedge.

This tactic has a long history. When a minority group cannot be eliminated outright, the next move is fragmentation. You identify internal differences. You exaggerate them. You promise one section safety if it distances itself from the rest. You frame that abandonment as maturity, realism, or courage. This is not accidental politics. It is campaign strategy.

Far-right and authoritarian movements have used this approach repeatedly. Divide labour movements. Divide feminist movements. Divide racial justice movements. Divide queer communities. The goal is always the same. Break solidarity so resistance collapses inward.

The “LGB without the TQIA+” narrative fits this pattern exactly. It reframes shared oppression as competing interests. It tells lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people that their safety depends on sacrificing others. It dresses exclusion up as pragmatism and calls it concern.

Some people fall for it because fear works. When people feel threatened, they look for distance from whoever has been marked as the current target. But it is important to be honest here. This is not just gullibility. It is resentment. It is bitterness. It is people choosing hierarchy over solidarity because hierarchy feels safer than equality.

That is why this campaign is driven by hate, not misunderstanding.

You can see this in how it behaves. It does not stop at disagreement. It moves quickly to harassment, intimidation, and obsessive fixation. It polices bodies. It polices language. It polices who counts as “real.” It treats people as contaminants rather than neighbours. That is not a disagreement about policy. That is a hostility toward existence.

You can also see it in who amplifies it. The same networks that push anti-immigrant rhetoric, anti-feminist talking points, and authoritarian culture wars are the ones boosting the “divorce” message. The overlap is not subtle. It is structural. These groups are not trying to protect lesbians or gay men. They are using them as a shield.

What makes the campaign collapse is reality.

Real communities do not separate cleanly. Trans lesbians exist. Gay trans men exist. Bisexual trans people exist. Non-binary partners exist. Intersex people exist across every sexuality. You cannot cut TQIA+ away without erasing people who already live inside LGB. That is why the argument keeps failing in practice. The people being told they will be “protected” are the same people who get targeted next.

History makes this unavoidable. The same systems that punish homosexuality punish gender nonconformity. Gender policing comes first. Attraction policing follows. Anyone pretending there is a safe stopping point is ignoring how power works.

That is why the campaign has to keep shouting. It has to keep escalating. It has to keep inventing threats. Because once people look at their actual friends, partners, families, and communities, the story falls apart.

Solidarity is not sentimental. It is practical. It is how LGBTQIA+ people survived criminalisation, medical abuse, and social exile. It is why rights were won at all. And it is precisely why authoritarian movements are so invested in tearing it apart.

The bitter irony is that this campaign has done the opposite of what it intended. By trying to fracture the community, it exposed the shared reality more clearly. People saw the overlap. They saw the cruelty. They saw the playbook.

You do not defeat a community built on lived intersections by pretending those intersections are imaginary.

And that is why the split keeps failing.

[Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @sensorystories_]

Fellow autistics... please hear what I'm about to say, because it's important.

If we want to create real, meaningful, and lasting change as a community... we need to start with radical inclusivity.

That means including every autistic person. Every. single. one.

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

@_vuyomtheths @XoliswaZondo

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

The depression kicks in, and the tombstone ads start.

It’s a bit early, isn’t it?

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

Jusis, 8 years on this hellsite.

I’m back binches. Let’s make it another 8.

#MyXAnniversary

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

@ShellsPemBroke And I love you even more ❤️

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

It’s someone’s birthday.

@ShellsPemBroke if you find them won’t you wish them an amazing day for me please? ❤️

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

Girl you’re a bit late to the party

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

@Snoble19 Ah, the patriarchy persists 💀

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

Sup humans. What’d I miss?

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

@ShellsPemBroke ❤️

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

@_vuyomtheths You did this? We had none of this 💀

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

At least I got to move in with my partner. Which is the one mini marshmallow in this absolute crap pancake.

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

It genuinely feels like I’m living through Alanis Morisette’s smash single ‘Ironic’. Everything that could go wrong this week has, coincidentally, gone wrong.

Study? Postponed.
Car? Not starting.
Hotel? Trivago.

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

@_vuyomtheths And the university gave every cent 💀

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

@_vuyomtheths 💀 and the worst is it’s not even useable beyond the printers, nor can I share it 🥲

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

@_vuyomtheths I’ve still got R400 from my undergrad 💀 back before covid when they still forced us to print off our assignments

[✨braddles✨ @gingerbradbrad]

Pre-show antics with @nolwazinkwandla