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so crazy to me how many ppl act like not knowing abt major global events is normal and think of things like reading the news as the hobby of certain individuals rather than um recognizing that staying informed about the planet is like ? essential?

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The Fallen Angel by Alexandre Cabanel | My Personal Weatherman (2023) dir. Kato Ayaka

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Another thread by Senator Ben Ray Luján here.

A book on the subject (haven't read it myself):

One of the sources in another one of Alisa's furiously impassioned twitter threads have been debunked, so I didn't include that. But she claims that her own family was caught in the fallout zone when her mother was a baby, which eventually led to her and large numbers of her community developing cancer. It's human for that kind of grief to be caught up in inaccuracies. People are already being ghastly and racist to Hispanos and Indigenous people criticizing the hype for the movie. They're not attacking Oppenheimer for being Jewish, they're criticising the erasure of the human cost of these bombs and the continued valorisation of the U.S military's actions in World War II as some kind of moral saviourism.

While Oppenheimer himself believed that the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were morally justified (they had planned to drop them on Germany except they surrendered before they could), he also felt had blood on his hands and regretted his role as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb". He spent the rest of his career vehemently opposing further development of thermonuclear weapons and the hydrogen bomb accurately predicting the concept of mutually assured destruction. This eventually made him a victim of Senator McCarthy's Red Scare and his clearance was revoked. I haven't seen the movie (Christopher Nolan is the kind of casual white racist I avoid on principle) but people who have seen it say that it doesn't glorify nuclear weapons and depicts the man himself with the complex moral nuance that seems to be accurately reflective of his real life.

The backlash to Indigenous and Hispanos people's criticisms and to people pointing out that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were genocides is also frustrating because...both world wars were a clash of genocidal empires. The reason they were world wars is because the countries colonized by Japan, China, the European powers and the US were all dragged into it, whether they wanted to or not. Jews were one of the many colonized peoples that suffered in that time, who were left to die by everyone until they could be used to frame the Allied powers as moral saviours, establishing a revisionist nostalgia for heroism that powers the US military industrial complex to this day.

As early as May 1942, and again in June, the BBC reported the mass murder of Polish Jews by the Nazis. Although both US President, Franklin Roosevelt, and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, warned the Germans that they would be held to account after the war, privately they agreed to prioritise and to turn their attention and efforts to winning the war. Therefore, all pleas to the Allies to destroy the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau were ignored. The Allies argued that not only would such an operation shift the focus away from winning the war, but it could provoke even worse treatment of the Jews. In June 1944 the Americans had aerial photographs of the Auschwitz complex. The Allies bombed a nearby factory in August, but the gas chambers, crematoria and train tracks used to transport Jewish civilians to their deaths were not targeted.

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Uncritical consumption of World War II media is the reinforcement of imperialist propaganda, more so when one group of colonized people is used to silence other colonized peoples. Pitting white Jewry against BIPOC is to do the work of white supremacy for imperialist colonizers, and victimizes Jews of colour twice over.

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This.

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THIS. This is how you support trans people.

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This actually made me tear up…

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which hot priest are you today 

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Having separate flags is good bcos it’s good to have a symbol for your particular identity to embrace but it also important to remember the rainbow flag unites us all. All LGBT+ people can use it. I feel like it’s somehow become assumed by a lot of younger lgbt+ people that it’s only fr gay men, which it isn’t and never has been

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recreational space travel is objectively immoral

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i wanna talk abt this advertisement rlly quick.... it shows what willhelm thinks so well. on one side, he wants to be with simon, and is in love with him- but on the other side, it shows him putting the crown up on his head, i think that shows alot abt the show JUST from a single sign. Its genuinely just such smart marketing ????

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no you dont understand, i’m obsessed with him

no you dont understand i’m obsessed with him

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HOLD UP HOW WAS I NOT AWARE OF THIS

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This is a theater stage for a play

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queer is a gender, sexuality, romantic orientation, political alignment, and mission statement, babey

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LGBTQIA+ Books

Hey, friends! After a recent post in which I talked about the representation in books I wanted to create a continually updated list of LGBTQIA+ books as a recommendations masterpost (In bold are the books I have personally read and can give you details on if you message me). The list is sooooo long, which makes me super happy, and please make sure to message me if I am missing one you love! 

Update 2019: I am no longer updating this post. There are so many queer books in the world being published on a week-to-week basis that it just isn’t realistic. But please check out my YouTube channel where I constantly talk about queer books for more recommendations and feel free to send me a message if you’re after something specific! Love you all.

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What are your all time favorite queer books? I am on the search for some to read.

If you are on the search, you’ve come to the right place! First, have you seen my extensive tumblr post of queer books?  Check that out. Now, some faves. I will put a * next to the ones with POC leads, and feel free to message me about any titles! Are you looking for…

…Soft contemporary romance vibes?

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (gay mc, m/m)

Coffee Boy by Austin Chant (trans guy mc, m/m)

Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman (lesbian mc, f/f)

Chord by Chelsea M. Cameron (queer girl mcs, f/f)

Style by Chelsea M. Cameron (lesbian mcs, f/f)

Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger (gay mcs, m/m)

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde (multiple POV, one half is a bisexual girl with f/f)*

Noteworthy by Riley Redgate (bisexual girl MC, m/f)*

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann (biromantic ace girl mc, m/f)*

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour (lesbian mc, f/f)*

The Summer of Jordi Perez (And the Best Burger in Los Angeles) by Amy Spalding (lesbian mc, f/f)

…More intense/emotional contemporary vibes?

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (lesbian mc)*

Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan (all queer guy mcs, lots of m/m)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (gay mc, m/m)*

Nevada by Imogen Binnie (trans woman mc)

Autoboyography by Christina Lauren (bisexual guy mc, m/m)

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour (lesbian mc)

How To Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake (bisexual girl mc, f/f)

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo (trans girl mc, m/f)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth (lesbian mc)

Radical by E.M. Kokie (lesbian mc)

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman (bisexual girl mc, gay demisexual side)*

…Sprawling historical fiction vibes?

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (lesbian mc, f/f)*

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (bisexual woman mc, f/f & m/f)*

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (subtle f/f)

All Out: The No Longer Secret Stories of Queer Teens Through the Ages edited by Saundra Mitchell (every story is narrated by a queer teen!)

…Sci-Fi & fantasy vibes?

The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie (lesbian mc, f/f)*

Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst (multiple POV both queer girls, f/f)

Caroline’s Heart by Austin Chant (multiple POV, both trans m/f)

Axiom: The Last Hope by R.M. Pearcy (lesbian mc, f/f)

Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee (bisexual girl mc, f/f)*

Not Your Villain by C.B. Lee (sequel to above, trans guy mc)*

More Than This by Patrick Ness (gay mc)

Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moira Fowley-Doyle (multiple POV, more than half the cast are queer girls, f/f & m/f)*

…Fantastical retelling vibes?

Peter Darling by Austin Chant (trans guy mc, m/m)

Ash by Malinda Lo (lesbian mc, f/f)*

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (multiple POV, one half is queer girl mc with f/f)

…Honestly just super bizarre vibes?

Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly (gay mc, m/m)*

We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson (gay mc, m/m)

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (ace girl mc, trans guy side - and this whole series is full of other queer characters)

Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore (bisexual girl mc, f/f & m/f)

The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (multiple POV, multiple queer guy characters, m/m)

…Looking for graphic novels?

Goldie Vance by Hope Larson (queer girl mc, f/f)*

Spinning by Tillie Walden (memoir, lesbian mc)

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (memoir, lesbian mc)

Power & Magic:The Queer Witch Comics Anthology edited by Joamette Gil (all queer narrators)*

…in case you didn’t already know, I have no concept of how to chill when it comes to recommending queer books. Oops.