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🫵 STOP! you are doomscrolling. tell me your favorite animal instead

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i don't think bodily autonomy for minors should be a luck of the draw type thing where you have to cross your fingers that your parents are chill about it.

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(gesturing towards your little sister) you know that thing would eat you if you died, right?

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I’m sitting in a climate summit rn and I really need to remind people that agricultural trafficking is a bigger issue than sex trafficking AND sexual assault happens to trafficking victims in EVERY field to the point that it’s kind of disingenuous to call it/focus on ‘sex trafficking’ the way it’s disingenuous to complain about sex work being ‘exploitative’ or the source of sex trafficking as if hotel workers, restaurant workers and so on aren’t known to be exposed to extremely high amounts of sexual harassment and assault.

anyway apparently some 70% of the children trafficked into child labor in the US are in the agricultural fields to put veggies on shelves and houseplants in home depot.

just something to think about.

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my tumblr is older than 2/3 of my children lol

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when gerard way sings "the broken, the beaten, and the damned" and when kermit the frog sings "the lovers, the dreamers, and me" they're talking about the same people btw

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Guys, queers. Specifically my fellow queers.

I work at a library. We do this thing where, every so often, we weed the collection. It hurts to see books go, but it's necessary to make sure there's room in the library for new materials.

I have seen so much support for the library in text, and I've seen folks pass around those beautiful "queer your library" flyers. Keep doing that. That's great. Nothing wrong with that. But you HAVE to turn your words into action. We MUST remember to actually go to our local organizations and libraries and actually, with our own fucking hands, interact with these materials we want to see more of.

My branch is medium-sized for a library, maybe a little small. We don't have as many materials as I'd like, but we have fundamentals. Tell me why, even with all the verbal support I've gotten from my local community for the library as a resource for our LGBT+ community, every single trans biography and a good chunk of our vaguely queer theory books were on the list. This isn't a scheme to take the books off the shelves, it isn't another bigoted American governmental push. The only thing we look at when we weed is how long it's been since the last time the item was checked out.

Three years.

No one in my community interacted in any meaningful way with the few books on trans life and history we physically had on the shelves for three fucking years.

I promise you the materials you want and need are there, but this isn't a horde. This isn't a static safety net. You have to use them. You MUST use them or, in the future, maybe in three years, they *won't* be there anymore.

This isn't a vague post, there's no one person I'm hinting at or calling out. I'm not even talking directly to anyone who's directly in my line of sight. I just want everyone to hear this. Big library, small library, whatever. Doesn't matter. Please, we cannot be losing our shelf visibility like this.

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self discipline is so hard like. i know the sucker who's in charge...a pushover who hates authority and loves hedonism

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i wonder what they’re thinking about

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It's impressive how Neil Gaiman vanished from the internet. Wish Rowling would do the same.

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helen “trans people are perpetuating gender steriotypes” joyce is now upset that the scientific american is writing about how women were hunters too back in the day, not just mothers and caretakers. feminist win!

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reblogging myself bc i am dwelling on my grief

we memorialized my baby with a lovely “mo-morial” on saturday. the weather was perfect. my neighbors with a strong assist from a member of my chosen family made and installed the garden sign. it was a beautiful ceremony. i am so, so sad. i wanted him to really be at the party. not just there literally as a dead spirit. i hate this. but i love my sweet baby bean.

i am 100000% persevering out of spite and/or so i can die fighting against the current *gestures vaguely as the us sociopolitical situation*. and 1000000000000% to be here for my living children. i don’t know how i’m continuing to go on but i am.

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.