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wish churches in america had more bells. i remember being in salzburg and it was so holy hearing all the 5 o’clock bells go off at the same time. like you just pause and listen in awe. 

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Susan Kare, famous graphic artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM. (1980s)

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I feel like there hasn’t been a massive amount of national outrage over this voter suppression bc for so many, our state governments hates us so much that mail-in voting wasn’t an option to begin with

Oh! If youre in texas you just cant do mail in voting! Nice!

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Carhops in Dallas, Texas 1940

In the 40s, women carhops had discovered their tips could increase by up to $25 a week, about $460 in today’s money, if they wore significantly revealing costumes. One offended woman in Texas complained to the Fort Worth Star “we women are sick of looking at girls’ legs; we’d rather look at men’s” in an effort to force a change in women’s uniforms. Instead a local drive in responded by hiring "four husky young men… in blue shorts, white sweaters, and fancy cowboy boots” to serve women at the drive through. (source)

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my wife is struggling with her gardening and i go outside and ask is this guy bothering you and start punching the dirt

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It honestly makes me wish the concept of 'culturally Christian' was widely talked about. You may not follow the faith or associate with a group you left behind but you dont just leave a philosophy that raised you and automatically cleave it from your being. There is behavior and ideology you've still yet to unlearn.

Reminder that rejecting / leaving behind organized religion does not excuse you from being descriminitory or having privilege over marginalized religious groups such as Muslim or Jewish folks. You can be pagan or atheist and still be antisemitic. There’s nothing about being pagan or athiest that makes your antisemitic or anti-Islamic behavior any less bigoted.

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protests are happening all over Belarus and in Moscow to oppose preliminary results of belarusian presidential election.

the results were early fabricated so current belarusian president of 25 years Alexander Lukashenko will remain in post.

people in Minsk (the capital of Belarus) and other belarusian cities are building barricadres and engaging in clashes with the police who uses tear gas.

people in Belarus were denied their democratic rights!!! the election was rigged and police brutality is happening on the streets. #ЖывеБеларусь 🇧🇾.

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humans are meant to eat together…. sharing a meal…… preparing a feast together…. so much of american culture has like…. ruined all sense of community idk where im going with this but why are we not coming together for massive feasts unless someone gets married or dies. we should be sharing……… everything…….. why is everyone now so obsessed with being individually independent? i know the cause of all these problems is capitalism but it makes me sad that its gone so far that like…… u dont even ask ur neighbors for shit anymore. we dont trust our communities anymore. humans are meant to rely on each other but we’ve been convinced that the ultimate sign of success is not needing anyone but yourself. i love to need people. i love to be needed. we all do. why is it so unacceptable to need a community to thrive when humanity would have gotten nowhere if we didnt help each other

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if you’re a progressive, queer-affirming christian (especially Catholic), pls reblog so I can find mutuals!!

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Why do those posts only ever mention trans women and (almost) never trans men?

Hm.... i notice it too. Its difficult to say, but dmab trans feminine people are, in my experience as a trans man, the most visible (and most poorly treated by outside society) trans subgroup.

Society at large seems to pretend trans men don’t exist (to the point where i wonder how many average people seem to even know that trans men do), and often it parades around trans women like circus freaks for the entertainment of cis folk, het or LGB.

Trans men and women are treated somewhat differently from one another. My theory is the treatment of trans women is notably more violent and aggressive, so socially progressive spaces focus on trans women. It could also be in part due to trans women being vocal about not being heard at all, and the community severely overcorrecting.

Another perception that i’ve seen (even from other trans men) is that trans men aren’t deserving of the same attention as trans women, because we as a group have contributed little if anything to the fight for our rights. I can’t confirm... or dispute this. In all of my time on this website, approaching 10 years now dear god, i have no recollection of people championing trans men. I have no memory of our history being spoken of.

Even the history we do have is stolen from us by cis women who refuse to believe that not every “woman” who dressed up as a man for his whole life is actually a woman. Or often if they do, they deny its importance. You can hear yourself if you listen to the podcast Sawbones (which is good but... unkind, to trans men and nb folk) in the episode on Dr James Barry, a man who lived his entire adult life as a man, and was only revealed to be dfab after his death when his wishes were directly violated and his body undressed, Dr Sydnee McElroy, a cis woman, say that it doesn’t matter if he was trans or actually a cis woman.

It does matter. It does. The word transgender was born to describe an experience that we have lived for millennia.

Another contributing factor could be an unfortunate side effect of most people’s perception of how to treat trans people, then mixed with feminism’s perspective on the opinions of the catch all term “men.” Note, i AM a feminist.

You know the dance. Do not refer to trans people in the past as “when they were a man/woman”. Do not say “when he was a she” or “when she was a he”. Do not do this. You know the phrase: they were always their gender.

The reason i bring this up? Is that cis people (especially cis women) and trans women, which i have experienced first hand from both, rationalize it like this: if trans people have always been their gender, and trans men are men, then trans men have always been men, so trans men have exactly the same societal perspectives and behavioral issues that cis men have, and should be treated exactly like cis men.

And if trans men are basically cis men, and cis men can’t talk about the experiences of women, trans men can’t either. If cis men don’t know about the consequences of living as a woman, trans men don’t either. If cis men talking about what they think and they feel takes away from the voices of women in feminist discourse, then so does trans men talking about their feelings. So trans men, and cis men, are men. And men are unwelcome. We’re tired of the voices of Men, and all that that entails.

So the consequence is trans men cannot speak. We cannot share our experiences about being treated as women. We cannot, essentially, share our experiences BEING women and girls. Trans men share in the traumatic experience of being born a woman, to society. We share the childhood violence that is performed against girls. We know it. But it is denied. If we acknowledge it, we weaken the idea that trans people were always their true gender. So we stay quiet. Our unique trauma and perspectives are lost.

The consequence is the voices of trans men fade from the record, and we cannot engage with our community without being treated as a Diet Cis Man. We cannot engage, so many of us withdraw. The experiences of trans men are not shared, because theyre not respected.

The consequence is we are forced to stay quiet by every community we’re in, and people quickly forget that we’re even there, let alone that being a trans man is still massively traumatic in this society.

The consequence is they don’t think we’re worth mentioning.

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On Friday, 27 July, Mexico City approved a bill banning therapies that claim to “cure homosexuality in a historic vote with 49 in favor, 9 against and 5 abstentions.

The local congress also approved the punishment of up to 5 years in prison for members of churches, medical specialists and psychologists who administer violent treatments to “reverse” the sexual orientation of the members of the LGBT community.

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I’ll start a separate blog for the non-Tanglefoot stuff soon, but in the meantime here are some fighters I drew while testing out a new pen (Pentel SES15C, a new favorite) (not remotely waterproof though, learned that the hard way). 

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Tell us your dark past Kaveh

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the morrigan’s heir

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i miss airports. i want to go on an airplane. i also really really don’t want to go on an airplane during a pandemic

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Ain’t baby yoda that Russian witch who lives in the house with chicken feet