minimightymina

[minimightymina]

Now is the time to stay engaged. Stand together with your neighbors. Expand your solidarity.

[minimightymina]

The Hunger.

[minimightymina]

Juneteenth is not 'Freedom Day'

Juneteenth was not when slaves became free.

Juneteenth was when Major General Gordon Granger brought the message over to Texas that the American Civil War was over, and that finally, they could enforce the end of slavery.

This day was June 19, 1865; seven months after slavery was abolished in the United States of America.

Seven months after slavery was abolished there were roughly 250,000 black Americans within Texas alone, that were not told they were free. They were not allowed to be free. Major General Gorden Granger with 2,000 union troops went to Texas with the purpose of freeing the remaining forced slaves.

Juneteenth was not the end of slavery in the United States of America.

Slavery in the United States of America continued well into the 1960’s; 100 years after:

The Emancipation Proclamation, when President Abraham Lincoln declared on, January 1, 1863, that all people who lived within any State or any part of a State shall and forever be free.

The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution; abolished slavery on December 6, 1865.

The ratification of the 14th Amendment in 1868 which defined black Americans as equal citizens.

Juneteenth.

The first bans of the Slave Trade were in 1803, and the United States of America continued to oppress black people and promote slave labor across the nation for another 60 years. Black people were enslaved on the land within the current United States of America for over 200 years; some were freed around Juneteenth, but not all were that lucky and had to continue to suffer for another 3 generations. Those who were freed still had to suffer through legalized discrimination. With Jim Crow laws that were not abolished until 1964.

Only three generations ago did black people in the Untied States of America start obtaining rights as citizens without legalized discrimination.

[minimightymina]

[minimightymina]

tara hajimiri, this little girl was martyred in tehran by israel. she was just eight and dreamt of being a gymnast.

[minimightymina]

The other night husband and I were watching a documentary about the yeti where they were doing DNA analysis of samples of supposed yeti fur, and every one of them came back as bears.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

Bears. They’re everywhere. Be wary. Anyone or anything could be a bear.

[minimightymina]

https://dieworkwear.com/2022/08/26/how-to-develop-good-taste-pt-1/

From the comments "In my experience clothing on anyone looks best when it is done with confidence. We are all different shapes and sizes. I was really struck by your post on dressing well that included John Goodman in a faded t-shirt and jeans. He rocks it!"

Excellent advice, whatever gender or style one is looking for. Thank you

I'm a trans guy and Derek, I can tell you my wardrobe has improved a huge amount simply by reading your threads. The "dress for your body type" stuff never worked well for me; your threads about putting together an intentional look and for getting a good fit - that's 99% of the game.

[minimightymina]

Insane tumblr ad pull

[minimightymina]

Dang, alright pop off Danny

[minimightymina]

i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

[minimightymina]

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.

[minimightymina]

Not my white ass locked in the duke’s dungeon again because I fucked his favorite jester 😩

I didn’t know he was so territorial over the silly little guy 🙄

[minimightymina]

Religion is so much more fun when you get a bit silly with it. My grandma was catholic by birth but buddhist by blood so when I was younger she had a Buddha statue with several rosaries slung around his neck and incense and fruit peppered around him like little guards

[minimightymina]

there’s a guy at work who’s forcing everyone in the breakroom to gender me right by yelling my name at any given moment 

he also said he was sorry he read my deadname on the worksheet but was “going to get black out drunk and probably forget dw” 

edit : im a trans guy, im out and on T but im very short that’s why my buddy asserts my gender for me i repeat he’s not outing me he’s doing it to keep me from being misgendered