the pigeon doesn’t understand your disdain for it; it coos for you anyway. the tree does not know you own an axe for it; its leaves sway in the sun anyway. the starving cat eats the poison you put out. it doesn’t know how not to trust. the earth forgives you, in spite of yourself
Triesburg West Gate, one of the oldest fortifications still in use in New Kyzeria.
“The young recruits complain that we have too many guns on the West Gate. They do not know it’s for that reason we have no need to fire a single one of them.” - Kyzerian General Gustav Hausen
"male socialization" is actually transmisogynistic trauma. trans women are women. we were socialized as girls who were violently misgendered as boys.
that socialization does not confer privilege. It confers cptsd and dissociation.
A field of flowers.
I painted Xochihua for Pride Month. In Nahua tradition, xochihua refers to people assigned male at birth who follow a feminine path. Here, two lovers meet among flowers, carrying blossoms gathered from the earth and offering affection freely beneath the open sky.
For my queer artwork and stories:
https://t.co/zPSgZbU79j
Cis people need to come up with a better response than wokely saying “I’m a real woman not a tranny” when they get mistaken for being trans, mock the guy for thinking of men when he sees gorgeous women or something idk
@alexislosing no not a single muscle in my face moved because there are freaks like this in my replies every single day and her “as a cis woman” implies that being the misdirected target of transmisogyny is what’s funny to her, not the weird shit he said
It is crucial to understand that this is a major reason for the West’s increasing belligerence toward China over the past decade. China’s development is challenging Western monopolies. This imposes a direct squeeze on Western profits but it also undermines a core tenet of imperialism.
The West’s monopoly power allows them to impose dependency on the global South. The South is forced to export large quantities of raw materials and intermediate goods in order to pay for imports at monopoly prices.
This produces large net flows from the global South, propping up the West’s growth and profits. If the West’s monopoly power declines, this flow gets cut off. They are desperate to prevent this from happening, to the point of fantasising about going to war with China to destroy China’s industrial base.
The West’s whole model for capital accumulation depends on Southern dependency. As that arrangement becomes increasingly unstable, the Western ruling class will become increasingly violent.
Keke Palmer was caught OFF GUARD when she realized her son had climbed onto the kitchen counter by himself in the middle of an interview 😭👀
“How the hell did you get up there by yourself? He’s getting so big, it’s so hard to know how he’s able to do all this stuff.” 🤣