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i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. martha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

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please, untitled document was my father, call me untitled document (1)

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i keep thinking about how it feels as if we have developed ourselves an obsession with "healing" these days – and a friend said something that really stuck in my head – "if you're part of a community where you're always trying to heal, then that means that you always need to be sick". like i think that we're all taking this ideal of healing too far saying that everybody needs therapy all the time and resetting your gut biome or surrounding yourself with positive energy or whatever it is that you can come up with. you're always focusing on something that is "wrong" and that needs to be eliminated, after which everything will be okay again. it all sounds like just another way of maintaining an illusion of control over your life and i don't think it's doing us any good

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Me: You know how when you were a kid and you’d wish that you’d get sick or injured in a way that would justify why you didn’t live up to your potential?

Everybody, apparently: No?

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my favourite lines from star trek tos

“What are you? What are those?” “I call them ears.” “Are you trying to be funny?” “NEVER”

“We’re going nowhere mighty fast”

“The Garden of Eden was..just outside Moscow”

“Sir, there is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder” *pinches the guy’s neck*

“I’m a doctor, not an escalator!”

“Sometimes I think if I hear that word ‘frequency’ once more, I’ll cry.”

“Logic, logic, I’m sick to death of logic!”

“That was in the late 1960s” “Apparently captain, so are we” *zoom in on Kirk’s face* “WHAT?!”

“He had too much happiness”

that scene in The Trouble with Tribbles when Scotty told Chekov that vodka is for babies and real men drink only scotch

“How do Vulcans choose their mates? Haven’t you wondered?” *awkward silence* “I guess the rest of us assume that it’s done quite..logically”

“Captain, you make a very convincing Nazi” *theatrically offended face*

“Please, Spock, do me a favor and don’t say it’s fascinating…” “No. But it is…interesting”

“Lieutenant Sulu..is chasing a crewman..with a sword??”

*three witches appear and curse them* “Spock, comment.” “Very bad poetry, captain.” “…” “A more..useful comment, Mr. Spock.”

“What is that? Is that a uniform of some kind?” “This little thing? Just something I slipped on” *flutters eyelashes*

“Captain’s log, stardate… Armageddon” *cue dramatic music*

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I love these two and I love this forgotten show

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The Unhinged or whatever that chinese bl show was called

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STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES — 1.22 "Space Seed"

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Excuse me? Is that a Sterek reference in my Deadpool!?! I cackled so hard. (Deadpool #7)

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Hannibal 3x13 - “The Wrath of the Lamb”

Happy TWOTL Anniversary! (August 29, 2015)

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I have polls now ahaaahahhhahahaaaa

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Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

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