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broooooo im so done T.T

In honor of Ruki's Nazi controversy, here is a retrospective of Japanese musicians wearing SS and SS-inspired costumes

Sawada Kenji

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Sugizo

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Atsushi Sakurai (BUCK-TICK)

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Syndrome

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Shazna

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Die (Dir en grey)

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Hyde (L’Arc~en~Ciel)

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Kishidan

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Gackt

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Somatic Guardian

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UnsraW

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SAN (Nega)

You’re welcome, internet.

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If you've ever wondered why people in Hawai'i hate tourists, try to wrap your mind around the fact that there are CURRENTLY, RIGHT NOW, tourists sipping martinis and looking at fish within swimming range of the fresh corpses of local people who couldn't escape the overnight destruction of their entire town.

Try to comprehend that there are fully functional, high capacity boats passing through the waters in front of an area full of survivors who are stranded and in need of supplies, refusing to help. They are hosting snorkeling tours.

Really think about, try your best to actually picture over two thousand people unhoused and in need of shelter, with nothing but the clothes on their backs and nothing to return to. Understand that the island, stolen land, is littered with hotels full of air conditioned of rooms with beds and showers and toilets, each fully equipped to host hundreds of families for weeks, turning these people away because they're booked up with tourists who refuse to leave.

And understand that these tourists were offered free transport to return home or be hosted on other islands. Free. Courtesy of local tax dollars. 4,000 wealthy tourists were offered free flights shelter on Oahu and begged to leave the island, BEFORE the survivors were given shelter.

And enough still insisted on remaining and carrying out their vacations that people are left without shelter and resources while they enjoy "their stay in paradise".

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Hey, I’m the OP of the trans men queer history post! I would love to hear more about Barry, if you have the time

I would love to talk about him! I've thought of little else for the past year.

To begin with, a brief overview of who he was: Dr James Barry was a surgeon for the British army in the early-mid 19th century. He is probably best known for performing one of the first caesarean sections by a European where both mother and baby survived and for 'disguising herself as a man'.

Born in Cork to the Bulkleys around 1790, Barry's uncle was James Barry RA in London and one of only two people to be expelled from the Royal Academy of Arts (the second was expelled in 2004!). When the Bulkleys had money trouble, he and his mother went to London to ask Barry RA for help, which he refused. After Barry RA's death Bulkley cut his hair, changed his name to James Barry and studied medicine in Edinburgh. Once graduating he continued studying in London then joined the army.

He was stationed in The Cape, Africa where he befriended Lord Somerset and quickly became powerful and important. But alas, the good doctor had quite the temper and was stubborn to boot which resulted in at least one duel and his downfall (several times). Barry’s strict rules for sanitisation, regulation of medication and the care of the vulnerable made him unpopular as did the protection he gained from friendship with the Somersets. There had been rumours about the nature of Barry and Lord Somerset’s relationship for a while especially by those who disliked him, but it all came to a head in 1824 when someone left a message on a bridge claiming they had “detected Lord Charles buggering Dr Barry”. That led to an investigation, a huge demotion for Barry and the Somersets leaving the Cape.

While Barry is best remembered as living in South Africa, in truth he travelled all over the place - Mauritaus, St Helens, Jamaica, Canada, Malta, Crimea and finally retired in London. He continued to advocate for care of prisoners, lepers, and the poor wherever he went which went about as well as it did the first time. Part of the reason why Barry travelled so much was because he angered the people in charge. He got sacked once.

He insulted Florence Nightingale when they first met, something she apparently never forgave. Despite having a brusque manner and a temper he apparently had a great bedside manner and particularly treated women well.

After being forced to retire due to ill health, Barry retired to London. He had little money or friends after the life he’d led, and bounced from one person’s home to another before ending up in a small flat in a poor area prone to cholera epidemics. This is where he died. He is reported as having asked every doctor who treated him, that in case of his death they would wrap his body in the bedsheets and bury him as was. This was ignored and we only know he was afab because of the woman who prepared his body.

Dr James Barry was a vegetarian who always travelled with a goat for milk, a black servant who may or not have been a man from South Africa called Danizen and his dog Psyche. The first Psyche was a poodle from Lord Somerset. He was a flirt and a dandy and wore a red wig. He also wore thigh-high boots and a very long sword. He freed at least one slave, an intersex woman in the Cape, and cared for his godson, James Barry Munnik, the baby who was born via caesarean.

I think he's really interesting especially since I am also an Irish trans person with family from Cork. One thing I think is particularly funny is how much misinformation is spread about him. Some people say he assumed the identity of his older brother (he didn't - John got in trouble with debt), or his uncle (who had just died aged 64 while Barry was in his teens). There is speculation that he may have given birth as a young teen to a girl called Juliana and that the father was his uncle Redmond Barry, though I'm sceptical of this. Some people say he was born in Belfast (?? no??) and most commonly, they share images of people who were not Barry. I shall spare you a rant on that by directing you to my post on it here.

If you're interested in learning more about him, Rachel Holmes' book The Secret Life of Dr James Barry (previously published as Scanty Peculiars) is very informative and easy to read. I've recently started Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time by Michael du Preez and Jeremy Dronfield which I'm not enjoying as much (and no it's not just because they take the woman stance while Holmes acknowledges that he may have been trans.)

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I’m watching the Dr. James Barry biopic post go across my dash, and how it looks like the production is going to be full-blown “gurl power!!!” misgendering and i’m. so tired? 

because this semester i did a project on the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, probably the greatest civil rights and feminist pioneer you’ve never heard of. He came up with the idea to use the 14th amendment as the cornerstone of the arguments that brought about the Civil Rights Act of 1963. Seriously. Wrote a paper on it in  law school, his professor worked with Thurgood Marshall on Brown vs BOE, remembered this paper, pulled it out and said “hey what if we try this.” He spent a good chunk of the 30′s and 40′s trying to find a doctor who would prescribe him testosterone. Murray also pioneered the idea of “Jane Crow,” arguing that sex discrimination worked along the same lines as race discrimination and the two aspects could not be separated from each other in the case of black women, co-founded the National Organization for Women with Betty Friedan, and was the first DFAB African American to be sworn in as an Episcopal priest at the age of 67. And it’s those last few things that mean that almost every article about Pauli Murray exclusively uses female pronouns and waves off the evidence for him being transgender, if it’s mentioned at all, because ooh, shiny strong female role model! trans what? don’t be silly, you can’t assign labels to historical figures, even though we’re automatically assuming people are cisgender, because that’s not a label, that’s normal!

And then there’s Alex Hai, a trans gondolier in Venice. There’s an excellent RadioLab podcast covering his story, and taking pains to point out that when he first started trying to earn his gondolier’s license, women’s rights groups and any and all press coverage immediately went “First female gondolier!” and it took over a decade to fully undo that narrative. 

i don’t know where I’m going with this. I don’t know where I can go with this. I’m so tired. I’m so tired that it feels like narratives are forced to choose between women’s empowerment and the trans perspective and the women’s empowerment angle almost always wins out. I’m so tired that we can’t even name ourselves without that name being used as a ‘gotcha’ like no one like us existed before current terminology. I’m so tired of having modern trans perspectives dismissed as biased and immediately thrown out as a valid lens. I’m tired of jumping through hoops to prove the transness of historical figures when it will never even matter to some people. I’m so tired of the whole ‘labels are problematic!’ argument never being brought up in the context of assuming historical figures are cis. I’m. so. tired. 

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Yesterday, I was helping my friends sell art in the park, when a couple of girls came up to us and asked (immediately regretting it) “is this the transfem picnic?……..” to which we got to respond “no this is the transmasc yard sale.” We then proceeded to have 15-20+ beautiful women swarm our stand of 4 creatures. Life is beautiful.

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shoutout to all the adhd kids who grew up being called liars when they said they forgot something/didnt understand something/didnt know something/etc and ended up afraid to actually just tell people that they forgot or didnt know as they got older. if ur reading this i love u

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animal rights "activists" are always hating on arctic natives

Inuit eat many animals but they get the most hate for eating beluga whale even though they do not kill many of them, they use all the parts of the animal, therefore, honoring it, they don't eat them every day, and the beluga isn't endangered.

Sami get most hate for eating reindeer even though, we don't eat them every day, we also use all the animal that we can, and we only kill what we absolutely need.

Nonmeat food is very hard to get in arctic places, so we eat what we can and have always eaten.

You may not eat meat but you have absolutely no right to force others not to especially if they indigenous. Indigenous people have been humanely eating meat for thousands of years and haven't harmed the population of those animals.

Industrial meat companies are horrible but we don't contribute to that. If you want to make valuable change for the environment, focus the energy that you didn't waste on telling indigenous people to give up their culture (that has already been taken away from us) and instead focus it on big corporations that are actually harming the environment.

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omg back at it again w the ebegging. anyways i got hired for a job on my uni campus a month ago and i still havent started work because HR is backed up and i cant start till they process me. said uni also denied me aid despite their ass not paying me and im going to be just a tad short for rent so 

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That is because... *clears throat*

👏EVERYBODY 👏 IS 👏 ASLEEP! 👏

And we can just do whatever we wanna do at a pace we choose, without needing to be semi-alert of other people needing us//talking to us/being around us, without distractions that other people create, without all the rabble all living creatures make, human or not. Its the worst in big cities where its loud longer, people are moving around still much later than in rural areas, and its louder in general during the day.

This is me summed up in a screenshot …

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One thing to keep an eye on in Europe is how the coronavirus has impacted Romani communities. Given the rise in authoritarianism in response to the pandemic, and disparities in income, sanitation, living facilities, and healthcare due to systemic anti-Romani racism, things have not been looking great. (warning: directly below the text for this article is a slideshow about the Romani genocide during the Holocaust which contains content that may be triggering to some). Here is another article on the situation.

I haven’t seen anything yet about fundraising to help these communities, but I figured it would be a good thing to raise awareness of this issue, since the problems faced by Romani people in Europe (and in the rest of the world, tbh) frequently go under reported. 

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adhd meds are hilarious like the medical professionals really decided i need evil caffeine

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Absolutely losing my shit over this Russian ballet dancer jumping around like freaking Gumby while also playing the accordion. Actually you should watch the whole thing because the following sequence of a giant kickline of similar gumby-men is also tripping me out

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Older Black gay men in long term relationships are rarely covered or seen by main stream media.

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Small update on my life

So for the past 4 years my mother has been on dialysis for stage 5 renal failure and has been on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. Last Monday (9/20) she finally got her kidney! This was really big news and is great for us! She can eat some of the food she couldn't before and she won't be confined to her room for 10 hours while she does her treatment!

The only "issue" is that I need to take off from work for at least 2 months to take her to the various doctor's visits she'll have once she is released from the hospital and to keep the house tidy (we have 2 cats) so she doesn't get sick. They estimate that she'll be released soon, but I don't have an exact date. This is a huge financial blow for me as I pay half of our rent and for the internet and will need gas money because the doctors are far away.

I applied and submitted the application and thankfully my job and managers have been nothing but accommodating, but I still need money to pay for bills. I make about $950 (give or take) a month, so for 2 months I'll need $1900.

Tl;dr My mom had a kidney transplant and I need $1900 to cover me taking 2 months off from work to care for her post-OP. I'd really appreciate it if I could get some financial help!

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Hey bills took all of my first paycheck(the first check since April 😭) I’m trying to get my head above water but I’ve maxed out my credit card and don’t get my second paycheck till next week. could y’all boost or donate?

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