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Philippe Caza, Kris Kool ''Burning Joy'', 1970 Source

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an unfriendly reminder ☺️

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Palestine, between 1921 and 1923. Scholten, Frank (1881-1942)

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from Original Plumbing, a publication for and by transmasculine people.

What's your favorite part of being a transsexual?

"While I often wish I was born a bio boy and didn't have to go through all of this, it's more often that I find it a blessing to have lived and experienced both sides of life, sex and gender and get to play in-between. To have been a girl, a woman, a lesbian, a dyke, a tomboy, a 'questioning', a boy, and now a queer man is pretty amazing and fucking hot!"

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How well are you working with the principles of Nature? Reposted from @vodou_film The importance of Principles are that they can effectively guide us into productive states of being at all times…so important to know them intimately in order to also grow spiritually!

@bayyinahbello

‘The principle of OGUN is about Justice’ - Prof Bayyinah Bello Learn more: www.vodoufilm.com https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdy7-9eDf8E/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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if its the tropical flavours the yellow/orange. if its the standard flavours blue or red

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Just a little PSA for all our mental health (and chronic pain*) spoonies out there! A lot of doctors neglect to mention this little side effect, which means a lot of us are suffering extra from the heat without knowing why.

*Many psych meds are used to treat chronic pain as well, if you didn’t know!

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Resources around talking to other people about masking?

My partner (live together) wont wear a mask and it makes me not want to be around them.

This is a "dump them" situation, sadly. If they don't value your health and needs, you can do so much better. Time to start a fight about it. Plenty of resources over at the archive (linked in my pinned post) to back you up.

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Happy Pride!

Help a Queer+Trans Black Disabled Couple Survive:

my wife and i are two disabled Black trans folks living in Texas, and are unable to consistently find or maintain gainful employment due to both our disabilities and being visibly queer and trans. we have a litany of bills and other expenses we can't afford, a registry of things we need to buy/replace, and no way to take care of any of it without mutual aid+community support. any support folks can provide (either towards my three links, my wife's links, or our shared kofi / patreon ) seriously go a long way towards keeping us housed, fed, and able to stay alive. Thanks so much in advance for reblogging (DO NOT TAG THIS POST PLEASE IM BEGGING PLEASE DONT TAG THIS POST YOU ARE NOT HELPING THE POST SPREAD EVEN A LITTLE I PROMISE.)

more details on what we are asking for money for under the cut 💚

6/1

$0/$60 needed by June 30th

$0/$60 needed by june 15th

after paying off all the bills that come out the very first of the month, im back at zero for replacing my phone, which i have to do soon. additionally, my wife and i's share of the phone bill on our new plan is due around the 15th, and while the friend we share a phone plan with doesnt mind if we are a bit late paying, ne works constantly and have nir own expenses, so it would be really shitty of me to expect nem to eat the entire cost of our share to keep service on bc we had to pay nem late. i highly doubt folks will really contribute, as making a smaller short term goal usually makes people feel done with helping and move on, but maybe ppl will feel the pride spirit and decide to put their dollars towards tangibly helping real queer people instead of another nonprofit or god forbid Tumblr or AO3. anyways, thanks again if u read this far for rbing, donating, or whatever u can do to support my little family 🫂💚

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"men don't need to be afraid walking around at night"

Unless they're black

"men make more than women in jobs"

Black men make less than white women on average

"men don't get followed around by people who mean them harm"

Black men are heavily policed and regularly jumped and killed for just walking down the street

"no one tells a man what he can and cannot do with his own body"

Black men are repeatedly assaulted and have their hair forcibly shaved or cut for wearing their hair natural and in culturally important styles. Black men who choose body modifications like tattoos or piercings are branded as thugs. Black men who have children and black men who don't have children are both regarded as players, hounddogs, absent fathers, and baby daddies, as if the logical answer is that no one's first choice of partner and father of their children would ever be a black man.

"no one judges a man's worth based on his clothes"/"a man isn't ever in danger no matter what he wears"

Black men are required to look presentable and professional according to eurocentric standards, push themselves into clothes not made for their bodies, and be highly uncomfortable in their daily lives or else risk 'fitting the profile' or 'matching the description' and getting detained by police AT BEST for the crime of existing in public. Black men wearing comfortable clothes are seen as sloppy, thugs, gangsters, street rats, hood and ghetto.

"no man fears rape"

The rape and sexual assault of black men ties directly to black buck stereotypes and black fetishization to the point where liking a black person or having your dating pool be open to black people is treated like a sexuality much like being gay. People are both threatened by and aroused by our bodies and that leads them to perform extreme acts of violence on us, including rape, SA, coercion, trafficking, and more. Much like how "tranny" and "lesbian" is a porn category, so is Big Black Cock. Sometimes with us featured as the rapist. Sometimes with us featured as the victim. Almost never with us featured as intimate, passionate, loving, tender. Black men are either to be feared and reviled, or to be broken and forced to submit. Direct ties to slavery with white people still getting off to our suffering.

Just say you don't care as much about black people's suffering and go, jesus.

I have privilege because I sometimes pass as a man? Try walking in my shoes for a while. Turns out being a black man vs being a black woman isn't always so different.

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THE FUCKING ICE REPORT AAAAAAAAAAA

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liberals be like he bombed a country…. without congress approval

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"Desperate, hungry people in Gaza continue to face the inhumane choice of either starving to death or risk being killed while trying to get food,” UN spokesperson Thameen al-Kheetan said in Geneva.

” But here in Gaza… we no longer speak of choices — because we no longer have any,” This is what @zinaanqar16 father told me

Ahmed, a father of four, sits helplessly as his infant daughter cries without tears — her mother has no milk left, and hope has vanished from his eyes.

He told me:

"If I stay, I die with them in silence. If I go out, I may die alone. But I can’t bear to watch them starve and do nothing." He’s not asking for a dignified life — just a piece of bread to extend his children's lives by one more day. Just one can of baby formula… to keep his daughter from dying slowly.

In Gaza, fatherhood means offering your body to feed your children. It means becoming a potential martyr just to bring home a sip of water. It means walking into death — only to delay the death of those you love.

What kind of world is this? What conscience allows a people to be trapped between starvation and fire?

Save those who remain in Gaza… before silence becomes a mass death certificate. Please donate help Zeina’s Family