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today i overheard a girl say "no, f*ck that. i will be lovely to everyone. maybe some people will remember they have a heart."

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Every once in a while I think about how the Swiss have the cachet of “good chocolate” and Italy and France have the “good coffee” and well I don’t even really have the energy to get mad about it anymore

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You know, it's kind of wild that we've known each other for so long. You practically got to see glimpses of me growing up, after all!

But I figured that I'd let you know that I've had quite the year so far! I finally answered my calling and now serve in a church. God also freed me from my internalized homophobia fully but that's a long story and it involves fandom shenanigans!

I thought you might enjoy hearing the good news~ I'm sending this here since it's a more personal anecdote.

Happy Sunday!

Aww Neko, this is all wonderful to hear! It has been a blessing to be part of your journey over the years. I continue to hold you in prayer; may your gifts and presence enrich the church, and may the church nourish you back <3

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some of you are so sweet, inviting me to say more <3

Can't go into full infodump mode at the moment, but one thing i'm thinking about is how Jeremiah is a priest (which in ancient Israel & Judah was something you were born into) —

and how his fellow priests are some of the first people to try to shut him up, even to the point of public beating & shaming / jailing.

I'm reminded of modern-day people who choose to side with those over whom they have privilege; such people often face intense, violent backlash from those who share their privilege.

Did the priests see Jeremiah as a sort of class traitor? Calling out the corruption of "his own kind"?...

and did Jeremiah hold some other identity that opened him to recognizing and calling out his fellow priests' unjust practices? i'm not saying Queer Jeremiah but i'm not not saying Queer Jeremiah

ahhhhh i've been reading up on jeremiah for a sermon for this sunday and ahhhhh i'm obsessed with jeremiah now i just wanna infodump about jeremiah but not many people are inclined to enjoy that + i have to write this dang sermon

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i'm going to become a false false prophet. my powers are real i just lie for fun.

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i adore Bible Blorbos if you also have a Bible Blorbo please please please tell me all about them i wanna hear why you love them so much

(Saints etc. count too! and figures from your own religion!)

ahhhhh i've been reading up on jeremiah for a sermon for this sunday and ahhhhh i'm obsessed with jeremiah now i just wanna infodump about jeremiah but not many people are inclined to enjoy that + i have to write this dang sermon

[a-queer-seminarian]

ahhhhh i've been reading up on jeremiah for a sermon for this sunday and ahhhhh i'm obsessed with jeremiah now i just wanna infodump about jeremiah but not many people are inclined to enjoy that + i have to write this dang sermon

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If you’re looking for ways to help at-risk communities in the DC area during this crackdown please look into supporting some of the following orgs:

Remora House

Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid

HIPS

CASA (Virginia)

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Excerpt from Between the World and Me (2015), Ta-Nehisi Coates:

"Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman, whose mind is active as your own, whose range of feeling is as vast as your own; who prefers the way the light falls in one particular spot in the woods, who enjoys fishing where the water eddies in a nearby stream, who loves her mother in her own complicated way, thinks her sister talks too loud, has a favorite cousin, a favorite season, who excels at dressmaking and knows, inside herself, that she is as intelligent and capable as anyone.

'Slavery' is this same woman born in a world that loudly proclaims its love of freedom and inscribes this love in its essential texts, a world in which these same professors hold this woman a slave, hold her mother a slave, her father a slave, her daughter a slave, and when this woman peers back into the generations all she sees is the enslaved.

She can hope for more. She can imagine some future for her grandchildren. But when she dies, the world—which is really the only world she can ever know—ends. For this woman, enslavement is not a parable. It is damnation. It is the never-ending night.

And the length of that night is most of our history. Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains — whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains. 

You must struggle to truly remember this past in all its nuance, error, and humanity. You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice.

The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine.

Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance—no matter how improved—as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children. 

Our triumphs can never compensate for this. Perhaps our triumphs are not even the point. Perhaps struggle is all we have because the god of history is an atheist, and nothing about his world is meant to be. So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promise of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope. ..."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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a lady complimented me on my st michael medallion and told me jesus loves me and I didn’t tell her that the only reason I wear it is because it has satan writhing in sadomasochistic ecstasy beneath the heel of a rainbow twink

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A short timeline of events

March 2025 - Blockade

Israel prevents entry of food and humanitarian supplies to Gaza. Then they unilaterally break ceasefire.

May 2025 - Opening of GHF death traps

On May 27, Private US contractors roll out aid "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" sites backed by Israel. GHF was led by Jake Wood, a US military veteran, and now is directed by John Acree, longtime US imperialist who previously worked with USAID, and Johnnie Moore, an evangelical christian zionist and capitalist. These sites are all located in Israeli military zones, where journalists have no access.

June 2025 - GHF sites are condemned by everyone (except the zionists). Daily massacres continue at GHF sites.

GHF is immediately identified as a tool of genocide and condemned by aid and human rights organizations, the United Nations, and literally everyone on the ground from doctors to civilians.

The Gaza Health Ministry states that GHF "does not adhere to any professional or ethical standards of humanitarian work" and confirms civilian reports that GHF sites are staffed by armed private security personnel, and that both GHF staff and Israeli military have fired directly upon people collecting aid.

Save the Children's regional director for the Middle East, North Africa and eastern Europe, Ahmad Alhendawi released a statement that children were killed or injured in more than half of the fatal attacks at GHF sites, stating: "No child should be killed searching for food. This is not a humanitarian operation – it's a death trap. Forcing civilians into fenced-in zones only for them to be gunned down is the opposite of humanitarian – it's inhumane."

As of June 25, 549 people had been killed and more than 4,000 injured at or near GHF sites.

July 2025 - People continue to starve and endure daily massacres

As of July 16, The death toll of Palestinians killed near GHF aid hubs reached 700.

As of July 21, the death toll of Palestinians killed trying to access food aid reached 1,054.

UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East)'s Ms. Touma stated: “The so-called GHF distribution scheme is a sadistic death-trap. Snipers open fire randomly on crowds as if they're given a license to kill… This cannot be our new norm. Humanitarian assistance is not the job of mercenaries.”

As of July 24, the Health Ministry reported that there were 28,000 cases of malnutrition in Gaza, with over 5,000 recorded in July alone.

On July 29, IPC releases an alert stating that the "worst case scenario of famine" is unfolding in Gaza.

August 2025 - Today

Today alone over 79 people have been killed trying to reach food aid.

for a version of this post with citations, click this link.

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“I’ve really tried to understand the Israelis. I used to work on a farm in Israel. I speak Hebrew. I watch their news. All the time they talk about fear. How they have to run to their bunkers to hide from the rockets. How their children can’t sleep because of the sirens. This is not a good way for them to live. We Palestinians don’t talk about fear, we talk about death. Our rockets scare them; their rockets kill us. We have no bomb shelters, we have no sirens, we have nowhere we can take our children and keep them safe. They are scared. We are dying.”

— Mohammed al-Khoudry a Palestinian farmer in Gaza. (via champagnefather)

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source long covid justice

'Brilliant at Survival' - Long Covid affects trans and bi patients at highest rates | ClearHealth.Costs.com

Long COVID is More Common in Bisexual & Trans People. The Reasons Why Are Complicated | Miles Griffis for them.com

Biological Sex Differences: Key to Understanding Long Covid? | Medscape

Why Are Women More Likely to Get Long Covid?

Long Covid More Common in People with HIV | aidsmap

More Evidence that Long Covid is More Common in People with HIV

COVID-19 is Still a Major Health Concern. Why Are Some HIV Organizations Acting Like It Isn't? | Emmett Patterson, TheBody.com

HIV may increase the risk of Long Covid. Why Aren't major advocacy groups addressing it? | Miles Griffis for The Sick Times

As Queer Spaces Return to "Normal," Disabled LGBTQ+ People Are Being Left Behind

COVID IS A QUEER ISSUE. MASK UP, FIGHT FASCISM AND EUGENICS

longcovidjustice

masking is community care

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be extra nice to yourself when the world is not

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White Americans ... are terrified of sensuality and do not any longer understand it. The word “sensual” is not intended to bring to mind quivering dusky maidens or priapic black studs. I am referring to something much simpler and much less fanciful. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. ... Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become. It is this individual uncertainty on the part of white American men and women, this inability to renew themselves at the fountain of their own lives, that makes the discussion, let alone elucidation, of any conundrum—that is, any reality—so supremely difficult. The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interposes between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes. And these attitudes, furthermore, though the person is usually unaware of it (is unaware of so much!), are historical and public attitudes. They do not relate to the present any more than they relate to the person.

--James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, 1963

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all animals have a place in the ecosystem and that includes humans and im sick of encountering edgelords who say the earth would be better off if we were wiped out. you wanna mess things up for every species that has adapted to live alongside us? as far as i can tell our existance is pretty intertwined with the world we live in, and caring about animals should include caring about humans because we're also animals. so we should probably focus on doing good with the resources we have instead of fantasizing about a big nuclear reset button. you sound like a pokémon villain.

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This text is excellent, absolutely worth checking out.

Do you have any good sources on medieval queer history? I'm a History undergrad and I plan on researching queer history for my thesis; would love some indications of books or articles about queerness in medieval times

Hello, I have had this question in my inbox for a minute waiting until I could find a good answer, and I just did! I found this book while browsing Project Muse:

Definitely might be work checking out!