Poetic answer: “It’s better to know you’re a normal zebra than to think you’re a weird horse.”
Direct answer: “Without those labels, most people chalk up your symptoms to character flaws they can use as excuses to hate you, abuse you, and discriminate against you.”
we need to think more about how much violence against the middle east is normalized. mainstream media always paints ir as a "war" or "conflict" and not active racism, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and constant dehumanization towards these countries and their people
I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
【 🧵 】A thread of just a bit of India's transgender culture °⋆🪷.ೃ🪞✨࿔*:・
In light of recent events, it is important to remember queer people are deeply within our culture and its erasure should not be tolerated.
PLEASE please watch this and talk about trans people in India. They have now introduced a new bill which criminalises transitioning and helping someone in doing so.
no millennial trope has broken more brains than "you don't owe anybody anything". an ignoble, selfish narcissism dressed up in therapy-speak about boundaries and self-care in order to give yourself a pass from treating other people with a basic level of care and respect
if you’ve ever worn black to a protest, used Signal, or carried a first aid kit, a federal jury just decided that can all be evidence of terrorism. a quick thread on the Prairielands convictions from last week, and what they mean for the right to protest in the US:
I think about this a lot. so much of this film is about the intrinsic, fundamental reality of being black. either you know it or you don't. and if you can't access empathy, the movie is functionally gibberish to you. the motives make no sense if you don't get the dynamics in play
You might think what’s happening in Kansas doesn’t affect you because you’re not trans, but the same government telling us you need ID to vote, is showing us how easy it is for them to take our ID. Wake up.
this harmless old man who couldn't walk without a stick, couldn't see, couldn't speak the language, in a completely foreign country constantly treated with unimaginable cruelty, froze to death trying to find his way home. in a foreign country where he couldn't speak the language
people aggressively shut down when hearing about trans women’s childhood because acknowledging it would mean that they have to take the abuse of all kids in society seriously and not just the ones they personally relate to