#queer issues will be targeted

[ladyimaginarium]

as an indigenous two spirit queer person, for upcoming pride month & indigenous history month for the love of fucking g-d can we FOR FUCKING ONCE unite under ONE UNITED queer community & stop whining & bitching over who gets to use what term & over bullshit that doesn't even matter when people are literally in concentration camps all around the world & queer people are in danger & to look at your local communities & center indigenous voices (& other queers of color) in your activism. get yourselves together holy fucking shit.

[9x07]

how many times do we need to learn as people that irony and hyperbole can be harmful because 'jokes' aren't easily distinguished from genuine thoughts and feelings until we stop rewarding people for speaking or posting about violence

like even if you're joking/don't actually believe that/think whoever you are insulting is bad/immoral/fictional therefore deserves it - ad hominem attacks always do more harm to the people who share those characteristic then the individual you intend to cause harm to or discredit

[a-polite-melody]

Look.

Even if it were true that every big name blogger talking about transandrophobia is a transmisogynistic trans man

That shouldn't deny every and all trans man and masc the opportunity to speak about the oppression that affects them.

That, "the coiner of transandrophobia—" or "the big name bloggers talking about transandrophobia—" or even, "everyone I've seen talking about transandrophobia is a transmisogynist," is used as a blanket statement to systemically deny language to trans men and mascs is, in itself, a form of the infantilization and silencing and forced invisibility trans men and mascs face.

Call out transmisogyny when you see it. Sure. No one wants that to stop happening.

But stop pretending that trans men and mascs having a word is in-and-of-itself transmisogynistic, or coming up with reasons that it must be. It's not trans men and mascs speaking on their oppression that is causing the transmisogyny they may be also saying, it's the transmisogyny. It's not productive to place the blame for transmisogyny on something that isn't the transmisogyny.

Even if every single trans man and masc were violently transmisogynistic, what would need to change would be their attitude and views on trans women, not their being able to talk about their own oppression.

[hussyknee]

Sincerely wondering whether the people on this site understand that the majority of trans people live outside the Western hemisphere (People of The Global Majority includes trans folk), that even most in the West have not transitioned and may never be able to other than socially, and that most are closeted. And the majority with consistent internet access aren't on any social media other than maybe Facebook. I know this is the white USAmerican performative politics hellplace but Idk how y'all can call this the neurodivergent trans site without centering y'know...the majority of living trans people in the world.

Like maybe ask yourself "is this issue any fucking use to a closeted trans person of colour without healthcare who probably doesn't speak English or am I just trying to harrass anybody within reach" before dropping your internet takes or losing your entire shit over one.

[hazmatazz]

I need everyone that sees this post that lives in the US to go to this website and search up their state and look at the bills being passed.

They are tracking currently 427 bills being passed or that HAVE passed that may negatively affect LGBTQ people. Especially minors.

Even if you can't vote or protest or anything it is SO important to know these things and try to spread awareness. These are our rights, our livelihood, and this is a fucking slippery slope.

Please. Please. I understand not being politically aware, I wouldn't consider myself politically aware. I understand not wanting to hear bad news. I get that, but this is our life, you need to know about it.

[oldtvandcomics]

Happy Queer Media Monday!

Today: Badhai Do (2022) (Title translates to “Give the Good News”)

(The two main characters hiding in a closet, from a promotional poster.)

Badhaai Do is an Indian comedy movie about a gay police officer and a lesbian sports teacher, who get married in hopes of getting their families to stop nagging them about being single. Hijinks ensue, as they both pursue their own romantic relationships on the side, try to keep up the semblance of a good couple, and need to find an explanation about why after a year, they still don’t have any children.

It is a funny movie, that is clearly made with the aim to humanize queer people and champion equal rights, which it is really good at. It also has a very realistic feeling to it. I have no doubt that many queer people have lived, and are still living, this exact same life. It is especially nice that, all in all, it is a happy story. We as a community do tend to have a slight tendency to assume that the only way of being happy is to be 100% out, which is why we really need more stories like this or The Blue Caftan (2022), where gay people in more traditional societies live perfectly happy and fulfilled lives.

Badhaai Do is available on Netflix.

Queer Media Monday is an action I started to talk about some important and/or interesting parts of our queer heritage, that people, especially young people who are only just beginning to discover the wealth of stories out there, should be aware of. Please feel free to join in on the fun and make your own posts about things you personally find important!

[butchlifeguard]

ive seen more posts bitching about people who say 'i hate men' than actually saying it. i mean this kindly bc im men but get over yrselves 💀💀

[tiredyke]

queer men can never just shut up when it comes to discussions about queer women. they always gotta interject with “um but what about ME and MY ISSUES #misandry” read the room oh my god

[fagnumopus]

Ppl are really weird for hating on Brooklyn 99 for being "cutesy cop propaganda" when they literally built up the whole series to a conclusion of "the police force is inescapably corrupt and built on a foundation of violent racism, and trying your best as an individual may be the best thing you can do to ensure civilians have at least one cop out there that won't shoot first and ask questions later, but your efforts will only go so far as that individual and you can never fix this rotten corporation with anything but efforts to destroy it"

This isn't to say that the first few seasons don't have some genuinely fucked up moments that are complete oversights whose punchlines are a cop committing some form of power abuse, but the writers of the show literally learned more as the show went on, tackling even more complex issues and criticising the police more and more. They delayed the last season because they didn't want to release a fucking cop show season during the height of protests against police brutality against Black and brown people that didn't address the systemic way police are corrupt, and rewrote major aspects of the season to touch on not only anti-Blackness and corruption cover-ups, but also on how useless and especially selfish white guilt is when faced with the reality of systemic oppression

[theophagie-remade]

I don't have much to say about Magne other than there was an Attempt, but. That time when Twice and Toga got angry with Overhaul for misgendering her was already indicative of what I'm going to get at in a sec, and obviously it was especially relevant because it was a direct show of respect and support from people who very clearly cared about her (and who called her big sis already as it was!!) (×2 imo because Twice was intentionally written to be the readers' insight into the LOV, and the character with whom they were supposed sympathise with the most at/since the beginning, so it's especially important that the first one who spoke up was him), but the story's progression (especially in recent years) is what most assures me that despite a rather poor execution (definitely not the best, but also certainly not the worst) Horikoshi did mean well with her. "People bound together by the chains of society always laugh at those who aren't" :(

[em0-opossum]

I feel like because social media is so catered to each person to the point where we don't see anything we don't want to, a lot of us don't realize the extent that transphobia is going to and how normalized it's becoming not only in laws and people who are political, but in (American) society right now. I rarely use youtube on my phone and am not logged into my account, so my recommended shorts and videos are pretty generic/whatever is popular or cater to whichever video I watched most recently. every so often I see a short I like and click on it, and when I inevitably end up scrolling through more shorts, the amount of blatant transphobia I'm seeing is INSANE. A lot of it is making fun of trans people and arguments on why trans people shouldn't be allowed in [x space], but as we're seeing in laws being passed right now, these mindsets quickly become so much more dangerous. this isn't just some political obstacle, their goal is to spread transphobia until they fucking eradicate us.

[snekdood]

Quite honestly, i think people just dont like to acknowledge how many times i have been victimized bc it doesnt work for their narrative of the Scary Bad Trans Guy With No Regard For Others And Likes To Kick Puppies And Doesnt Know Real Pain Or Trauma

[entropy-sea-system]

Really don't understand the obsession with calling identities 'rare'. Even if an identity or experience is rare, we still deserve respect and acknowledgement. There is also no way to know how rare or common an experience is, especially when there are layers of social norms that would make it taboo for one to actually openly admit they experience it.

[eldritch-bf]

“What if you were writing a profile on someone named Janet and I was your editor, and I was like, ‘I’m sorry, for balance, find someone who wants to kill Janet’?” This week, Tuck Woodstock, host of Gender Reveal, takes us on a journey through the New York Times’ coverage of trans issues—and in the end, he points the way to a better future.

A great episode talking about how journalistic objectivity has come to mean “doesn’t have any empathy for or connection to the people they’re talking about” and journalistic balance has come to mean “treating non-authoritative sources as equal to authoritative sources” particularly when it comes to the NYT’s coverage of trans topics.

[problemnyatic]

My country’s education is shit as well, but we know how to google before making fools of ourselves on the internet. Guess American genes are inherently mutated so you don’t know how to start looking stuff up for yourselves, so sad, some first world country should come save you.

You're right, I'm so sorry. I'm personally responsible for american imperialism, i'll kill myself right away sir I'm so sorry sir

[yakityyaku]

very funny (irritating) to me that everyone whined and yelled about stupid rainbow capitalism and how performative wokeness/allyship is a net bad we should all refuse to support and now like.

tumblr is doing nothing for pride and target isn't selling much (if any) of their pride collection offline except at certain stores (in democratic areas, basically) and build a bear has a much tinier collection than normal and all the actual pride stuff is on their "adult" website (not sure if it's in stores, but pride = adult is a hell of a message)

there are genuinely good criticisms for performative allyship in all its applications. it shouldn't be the only thing we expect from people and companies. but if all the shit I see being called performative stopped tomorrow then in terms of the LGBTQ+ community especially we just. wouldn't talk about queerness or queer issues or celebrate pride or do anything.

open your fucking eyes. we are very close politically to having gay marriage rolled back. now companies are basically being let off the hook to even make a miniscule effort (which matters to the people who don't have access to any other kind of support in their communities! which normalizes the community in public spaces!) because the only reaction they have gotten over the last few years are negative ones from BOTH sides.

we are so entrenched in discourse at all times for the sake of our OWN performance of who is the wokest and who is REALLY an ally or a good community member that we have basically handed over all the work of activists of the last several decades to the other side because we'd rather scream at each other over fucking chicken restaurants and shit than the real life backsliding that's happening.

and this goes for other shit too. feminism, poc rights, all of it.

also. trans rights aren't discourse and aren't just culture war arguments. in case any terfs think they can spin this to be antitrans.