#queer harm reduction

[featheredpheonix]

Incredibly disappointing behavior made all the more cynical by it happening just after Pride Month

[waambles]

SCARY QUEER PERSON!!!

Feels good to be back 😈 and I’m DONE CENSORING MYSELF. LONG LIVE QUEER FREEDOM AND JOY!! ☀️☀️☀️

[bigangrybutch]

Hey folks! My name's Bou, I'm a 24 year old butch dykefag, and I've been making art for most of my life.

All the art you'll find on this blog are original characters of mine, (Along with my friends OC's as cameos haha)

Themes of body positivity, recovery, harm reduction, mental health, sexuality, and gender are important topics for me as a someone who has a history of self harm (currently recovering), and has Schizoaffective disorder, BPD, Anxiety, PTSD, RSD, and Anxiety. You will see a lot of these topics within my characters. Many of them struggle with addiction, mental illness, and have disabilities.

With all that said, welcome to my blog, I hope you enjoy your stay! ♥️💀

[vizthedatum]

It’s hard to show up for others when you can’t show up for yourself.

[bfpnola]

Hey everyone! @bfpnola is currently updating its health document of the Liberation Library to cover a wider range of topics and expand global accessibility. To make finding information easier, we’re currently organizing resources by location but we’ve run into two small categorical roadbumps! And we don’t have any youth volunteers from these areas, so that’s where you come in!

1️⃣: Should Russia be categorized under Europe or Asia? Our Chief Health Officer for the time being just has written “Europe & Russia”

2️⃣: Should Cyprus be categorized under Europe or Asia? Geographically, Cyprus is a part of West Asia but is culturally Southeast European!

[owlbelly]

tomorrow @sadish-radish & i are celebrating having known each other (and by that i mean basically "been inseparable") for half of our entire lives, which has included multiple kinds of relationship & resulted in forever-family status

it's insane to think about who we were before we met each other & who we are now! queer people are out here inventing entirely unique & kind of indescribable ways of relating to each other & personally i love that for us

[optionalcausality]

This is partly me being grumpy, but. If you're queer and talking to someone you're not comfortable outing yourself to, then don't out anyone you know to them.

[benji-screem]

I'm just testing stuff, they would mostly be advocacy stuff and harm reduction education, I also want to try and make them specifically to fit/work for mobility aids!

[transfloridaresources]

[Photo ID: Orange and purple colored graphic with various swirl textures. Illustrations of a Transformer character and a human are around the text that reads: Frenzy's Bananas Birthday Bonanza!!! Friday, September 29th 2pm-8pm. Join us for a day of fun, food, and festivities at Frenzy's fundraiser birthday bash! Ring toss, bracelet making, slime creation, candle carving, & more! Food will include GF and V options. Please alert us to any food allergies! Suggested $10 minimum donation for attendees. RSVP FOR LOCATION. /End ID] Please email TeamKombatikon@protonmail.com to get the location. Graphic and event courtesy of kaoncitymedix. Fundraising will support harm reduction work in the Tampa Bay Area. If you don't have money to donate, attend anyway! Come have a safe, fun queer/trans time :) Please share to spread the word!

[saint-logan-makes-art]

“Harm Reduction Kitty”

Public Health Campaign

Graphic Design

[curhartwrites]

I'm on the Board of Directors for a small venue called The Painted Mug Cafe here in Philly. It's mostly an event space and show venue right now, but our goal over the next few years is to be able to open for regular cafe hours. It's important to me. Everyone on the board is Queer, and we created this space to fill a need in our community. Most of the Queer spaces in our city are bars and clubs, and none of them are accessible to disabled Queers like me (I'm mobility impaired). They're loud, dark, closely-packed places accessed by steep flights of stairs, where there is rarely a place to sit down, and where the imperative of most people in the space is to drink and flirt. Don't get me wrong, I like to drink and flirt. Those are two of my favorite pass times. But that's not true of everyone, and it's not true of any of us 100% of the time. Some of us are Party Gays who want to show up to a place full of moving Queer bodies, get blissfully intoxicated, dance and sing along to loud Queer music, and stumble home in someone's arms. And that's beautiful. I love everything about it. But some of us work more than one job and can't be out until three in the morning, or we're neurodivergent Queers who are uncomfortable in loud spaces with bright colorful lights. Some of us are physically disabled and can't safely be in a place where we might be knocked over by enthusiastic drunk dancers. Some of us have kids. Some of us are kids. Some of us are in recovery for substance use disorder, and are uncomfortable being in bars. This is why I love being a part of The Mug. We serve coffee and mocktails, and baked goods made by a local gay pastry chef. Our walls serve as a gallery space for Queer visual artists in the city. We host sober karaoke, all-ages drag shows, non-competitive and encouraging workshops for new performers, and weird theater and music. The money that we make goes directly into keeping the lights on and paying our staff a fair wage for their labor. Everything after that is being saved so that we can make the building more meaningfully accessible by adding a ramp, widening hallways and door frames, and remodeling our bathroom. Everything we do is in service to our community. We talk to our neighbors. Our featured performers let us know when they're home safe after a show. If someone on our staff shows up to a meeting and says that they're struggling to pay for groceries, we feed them. Being a part of this feels vitally important to me. When I left my hometown and ran to Philly looking for community, the Queer people here were ready to catch me. It's a blessing to be able to give some of that love and labor back to them now that I've been here long enough to have grown some roots. But it's also frightening, especially lately. Queer and trans people are always facing friction, but it's getting especially heated right now all across the country, and we're here being very loudly Queer and trans. If you're in Philly, come show us your support. Come to events and see what we're about. Donate so we can continue to build a haven for our community.

https://thepaintedmugcafe.com/

[vizthedatum]

The idealization goes both ways.

When I've been idealized at the beginning of a relationship, the really big problem from my end is... I idealize them, too.

I want to believe in the chemistry, intense attraction, the "alignment," etc. SO SO BAD - and I wear extremely rose-colored glasses hoping I've found a person I could build a life with.

It's hard for me to see the person they are because I'm falling for the person they *could* be or the person they *want* to be (often mirroring me to varying degrees).

I get swept up, you know? It feels so good, and I'm craving the love and attention so badly - I can't resist it - I dive right in.

And I do think that my love is genuine. When the initial fire starts going down, I do justify to myself that I'm in love with a person, not a caricature... and often, I end up loving them more, when I see their humanity.

I think that's when I can't apply all my previous lessons - what do I accept as part of the process of relationship and connection? what do I NOT accept?

Something I'm really understanding/realizing now: I need to accept a person for who they are at the current moment, with the information I know from past experiences, throughout the whole relationship.

When you're a person who often had to set aside their own feelings and needs (especially in childhood) to keep the peace, it becomes SO EASY to just let things slide in a relationship (and I'm not talking about when someone is sick or has a legitimate excuse for something... I'm talking about when someone feels hurt or feels like their trust in the other person goes down - stuff like that).

You justify to yourself that it won't happen again, or it was a mistake, or even that the issue is resolved...

That's why it's so important to feel what you're feeling, EVEN IF YOU FEEL ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED AND UNSAVORY. Losing connection with who you are, your values, and how you're feeling... only snowballs all of this.

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Then, when you can share your hurt with your partner (which is something all people in a relationship will have to do at some point), that's when the real test comes in: how do they react?

Remember how they react and how you feel afterward.

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And honestly? If the other person thinks you've hurt them or something... and they're not satisfied with the resolution both of you came up with? Ask yourself why they want to be with you if you can't necessarily change that behavior. Ask yourself if you're okay with continuing to impact their trust and/or hurting them?

[wild-at-mind]

TW abuse talk

Hey, remember that era of tumblr when it was completely acceptable and social justice-y to say: let us describe our perfect gay trans nonbinary world which we were going to build, our utopia. What would we do about rapists and abusers you ask? Well we will just kill them! Easy solution!!

[spite-and-waffles]

I'm so tired of encountering antis in this godforsaken fandom. Even for people who aren't antis, their presence is horrifically normalized and tolerated. These people are radfems, queerphobes and racists who pose as socially aware conscientious moral purists; their ideology literally stemmed from exclusionists and racist white gays. I'm losing patience with people who tolerate them as well. You can't stay neutral in the face of poisoned wells; it makes you part of the problem.

[mycochaotix]

Advice for new psychonauts :)

[mycolancer]

Support disabled creators and business owners over those abled this Black Friday!