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The thing about being nonbinary is that talking about it as a removal from gender norms is… already how I feel about being a woman? Like I’m a woman because it’s an arbitrary label that was put on me, I don’t ascribe to any particular ideas about what that means. In my mind calling myself nonbinary wouldn’t make a difference because it’s just another label and I’m still the same person inside. I think I like calling myself a woman because it widens other people’s ideas of what a woman could be since I get clocked as nonbinary a lot (which is a huge compliment). Idk

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I'm gonna reblog with some videos of people speaking various American Indian/indigenous American languages, because I think most people don't even know what they sound like. Not to be judgement of that—just, you know, I think people who want to be informed should know what they sound like!

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#cw: sexual assault mention #cw: abuse #cw: violence

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WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that the following program may contain images and voices of deceased persons.

—Australian Broadcasting Corporation Indigenous cultural protocol warning

As for all men who shall enter this my tomb… impure… there will be judgment… an end shall be made for him… I shall seize his neck like a bird… I shall cast the fear of myself into him

—tomb curse of Khentika Ikhekhi, 6th dynasty Egyptian official

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Rest in peace to a legend

Lived to 97 years old, invented the Jello Shot, Wrote some of the best satire I’ve ever heard.

“If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.” - Tom Lehrer

Listen to Poisoning Pigeons in The Park, Listen to The Elements, Listen to The Masochism Tango. His contributions shall not be forgotten.

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what resembles the grave but isn’t by Anne Boyer

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I remember a really formative interaction I had as a teenager. Well actually it wasn't formative, I was already formed. But it was... vindictory? It was a moment when I realized in a crystal clear fashion something I already implicitly believed.

I was talking to a friend of a friend of my parents, and she had been to Japan a number of times, and I was interested in Japan, and so we were talking about that. And we were talking about Japanese food, and somehow the topic of spicy food came up. And she was saying how it was hard to find spicy food in Japan. And she struggled for a moment to express why this was. She hesitated, and said something like "...I'm not sure how to say this, I don't want to stereotype, but... the Japanese, uh, the Japanese palate is not very, well, it's not very amenable to spicy food, I mean..." and she sort of looked at me expectantly for social approval of this potentially non-PC(?) comment, but instead of accepting or rejecting it, I simply suggested to her "you mean spicy food isn't very popular in Japan?". And as soon as I did she was like, "yes! yes! That's exactly what I'm saying!" and the conversation moved on.

In that moment I realized something like, well. We can chose to see and conceptualize the world in different ways, and there are certain common ways that seem deeply flawed to me, and I have a better way and I'm going to use it. Just, setting all social or political implications aside, you can think about the world in terms of essences or you can think about the world in terms of descriptions. You can add extra features to your model, develop a richer ontology of... classes and types and whatnot, or you can not do that, you can stick to a weak ontology and just describe. What is "the Japanese palate"? I don't know. What you mean to say is that spicy food is not popular in Japan.

And when you do this, you know, when you just describe, when you avoid essences, you also demystify. There's nothing here. I mean, there's something here, there's a fact, but it's not of any more import than it is literally of. Monster truck rallies aren't popular in New York and spicy food isn't popular in Japan. Things are just things, people are just people, events are just events. It's very hard to articulate what I mean here in language, because as all my thoughts this one is principally non-linguistic. I'm not sure I'm doing it justice right now but I'm at least approximating it. You don't have to, like. You can just.

I guess that's what it is. This is also why I don't like the term "the West", unless you're using it in some really circumscribed way. Because, what is this? What is this way of speaking, speaking in terms of essences and needless abstractions and muddled, conceptually loaded narratives when you could just say, you could just describe. You don't need all this cruft. And moreover it does a disservice, it does a disservice to people and the world, both of which are real and actual and not made of cruft and nonsense as you purport them to be. Well anyway.

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The idea that Israel could defend itself from the charge of forced starvation by saying “we’re letting enough food in, it’s just being stolen and diverted by Hamas and criminal gangs, if it weren’t for them, no one would be hungry” is so fucking infuriating because that doesn’t even make any sense!

Food is not valuable enough to even be worth stealing and looting unless you’re in a fucking extreme food shortage and famine. When have you ever heard of a criminal gang that made a profit stealing and selling food? That doesn’t happen, it doesn’t exist. It’s conceptually impossible in an economy with adequate food supplies.

And then their other defense that boils the blood is their whining as if the expectation is that Israel itself is supposed to provide the food. No one is demanding that. All anyone is asking is that they stop forcibly blocking (at gunpoint!) everyone else on Earth who is trying to get into Gaza to bring food aid.

This is a crime against humanity. That’s not hyperbole at all, it meets the precise international legal definition of crimes against humanity.

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Welcome to the Celluloid Rainbow! There’s a drive (or youtube) link for the films beneath every gifset! Here’s the catalog on letterboxd, for easy browsing. Be mindful of trigger warnings, check for more information online if needed, and please reblog to spread the word if you download!

EDIT: New plan! since my drive is full I’ve decided to make a profile on ok.ru and put the films there. All the previous posts are STILL LINKED TO MY DRIVE so don’t worry about that those are still working, and since I still have some left to go over there a few new films may be linked to the drive as well. HERE is the site I use to download ok.ru videos (let me know if it’s ever down!), and HERE is opensubs, so you can find subtitles in the language you prefer! There’s also a firefox add-on to download directly from ok.ru HERE.

EDIT2: I’ll be taking a little hiatus to write my graduation paper, don’t know for how long exactly. So, no new movies, but there’s currently 500+ films on this blog!

EDIT3: I’m back. sporadically. we’ll see how it goes.

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the absolute damage the word “empowering” has done to modern feminism and young women’s minds as a whole should be studied. the 9/11 of linguistics fr.

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occasional posts from users

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FUTUR DREI (2020) dir. Faraz Shariat Parvis, the son of exiled Iranians, copes with life in his small hometown by indulging himself with pop culture, Grindr dates, and raves. After being caught shoplifting, he is sentenced to community service at a refugee shelter where he meets siblings Banafshe and Amon, who have fled Iran. As a romantic attraction between Parvis and Amon grows, the fragile relationship between the three is put to a test. (link in title)

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what is the deal with male-identified, female-presenting characters in japanese media? is this a traditional cultural role in japanese society? is “trans woman” not as common a concept/identity? are japanese people just weirdly horny for femboys?

i feel like this keeps recurring in works imported to english from japan, but tbf it only ever rises to my attention as boring fights over whether a character is “really” trans. so i’m sure my impression of how common/normalized this phenomenon is isn’t very accurate.

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apparently written imperial exams became a thing in china around ~600 AD. 1400 years of written exams determining your success!

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twitter feed simulator

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I think the hardest part about addressing child abuse is getting people to acknowledge, not just intellectually but actually responding accordingly, is that the biggest threat to children, the biggest risk of abuse, is family and parents.

it is of course most often parents who are crowing about needing to protect children (often against far smaller threats than family), and pointing out that they are, statistically, the biggest threat to their kids is not gonna be received well.

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have any of you ever [checks notes [notices a massive amount of fine print [breaks out the magnifying glass [starts reading [wanders out of the room]]]]]