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Love the person.

I hate when a post says “I love freaks” but then lists everyone EXCEPT the “classical” freaks: autistics / mentally ill people / kinksters / queer ppl / furries / cross dressers / what the fuck ever else they can come up with

… but absolutely NOT ppl with deformities and limb differences and face differences. we straight up do not exist to people on this site unless they’re mocking us and it fucking sucks

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(Image description: nine color blocks in hues of the diversity rainbow flag. Lavender is for diversity, pink is for sexuality, red is for life, orange is for healing yellow is for sunlight, green is for nature, turquoise is for magic, blue is for serenity, purple is for spirit. End image description.)

“In March 2017, shortly before his death, Gilbert Baker created a new version of the Rainbow Flag, by adding the ninth stripe in lavender color, next to the stripe in hot pink. This color is meant to represent diversity, something Baker thought is endangered in present-day America.”

The video of Baker creating the diversity flag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef5sXewQWbA

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Celebrate trans joy. Our transness is not defined by our suffering, transness is defined by our happiness and authenticity.

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hey all

so in a more practical application of the "larp a republican if you're gonna call them" post that got huge, North Carolina is about to have abortion access slashed if nothing's done about it.

SB20 got passed and went up to Gov. Cooper who vetoed it, but there's very very slight veto-proof supermajority in the legislature. Unless at least one Republican breaks ranks the veto will be overridden.

I made a google doc to organize, and you don't have to be a North Carolinian to participate:

Even if you can't participate, please share. A lot of people might lose yet more of their rights very soon.

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Surprising hope coming from Louisiana! The state senate voted to table a bill that would ban trans youth healthcare!

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discovering the queer country scene has honestly been so healing because most queer musicians i've seen recommended for years i just couldn't really connect with because it wasn't the sort of music i listened to or had investment in and with queer country it's like. yes. this is the language i speak in. this is Fuck You, I Belong Here Too, not just as a queer person in the country but as a rural person among (sub)urban queers, and saying it with a laugh. when will my hometown take pride in me, goddamn it

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My ability to proofread increases by 1000% after I hit “Submit”.

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#somuchawesomeness

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[ ID: A series of images: the bisexual flag, the pansexual flag, the genderfluid flag, the transgender flag, the genderqueer flag, the intersex flag, the classic rainbow flag, and the agender flag, all with the words, “I won’t apologize for who I am” written on them in big letters. ]

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Photography of Bagai Family: Courtesy of Rani Bagai and the South Asian American Digital Archive

APAHM Spotlight: South Asian American Digital Archive

As part of our Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM) campaign, we are shedding light on some important subjects that have affected the community and continue to do so. Immigration is one of those subjects and continues to be a big topic globally. It’s imperative to keep in mind that the goal of people who migrate is most often to create a better life for their family and seek opportunities that are not available in their home countries.

Our friends at the South Asian American Digital Archive provide incredible documentation and stories about the South Asian American community. With their help, we’re going to shed a little light on one family’s immigration journey. introducing the Bagai family. The Bagai family arrived in San Francisco in 1915 after fleeing India, which was under British rule. The family consisted of Vaishno Das Bagai, Kala Bagai, and their three sons. At a time where most South Asian immigrants were men, the San Francisco Call & Post dubbed Kala the “first Hindu woman to enter the city in ten years” and referred to her nose ring as “the latest fad from India.”

The Bagai family’s goal was to settle into their new home and start fresh. Unfortunately, during a time of growing anti-Asian sentiment, they faced multiple cases of harassment, denial to their own homes, and also endured racist laws such as the Alien Land Laws which specifically prevented Asian immigrants from owning land in many of the West Coast states in the United States. What made things harder for the Bagai family was the ruling of the 1923 Supreme Court case: US vs. Bhagat Singh Thind that denied citizenship to South Asians on the grounds that they were not white. Though Vaishno Das Bagai had gained his citizenship previously, this ruling ultimately led to his denaturalization.

The lasting effect of losing his citizenship, Vaishno Bagai took his own life in 1928. In his note, he wrote, “Is life worth living in a gilded cage?” The denial of this right that had been given to him and his family is an issue that we are still seeing today where many immigrant families are finding it increasingly difficult to apply for citizenship. The process is not as easy as it looks and the red taping of the process can take up to 20 years, as it did for Kala Bagai when she and her family were finally naturalized.

Make sure to connect with SAADA to find more stories about the South Asian community. We’ll be continuing our coverage of APAHM throughout the month. Follow @action to keep up!

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Three Weary Wolves by Daniel Parent

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Important about the Tumblr “Purge”

Tumblr has made and official statement on twitter about what’s going on:

We’re committed to helping build a safe online environment for all users, and we have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to media featuring child sexual exploitation and abuse. As this is an industry-wide problem, we work collaboratively with our industry peers and partners like NCMEC to actively monitor content uploaded to the platform. Every image uploaded to Tumblr is scanned against an industry database of known child sexual abuse material, and images that are detected never reach the platform. A routine audit discovered content on our platform that had not yet been included in the industry database. We immediately removed this content. Content safeguards are a challenging aspect of operating scaled platforms. We’re continuously assessing further steps we can take to improve and there is no higher priority for our team.

Please please please, for the love of everything, stop spreading fear in our community. They are not purging your blogs for having NSFW content. If your blog gets deleted and you didn’t have any of the above mentioned content, or something that could be percived as such, then please contact Tumblr Support to regain your blog. They can be contacted via the form here.

Please reblog so people stop spreading false information and cause unnecesary fear.

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(by rob.sese)

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