#usamerican south

[socialist-microwave-laser]

lately i've seen an uptick in people asking queer folks from "red states" why we stay here, why we love it here, aren't we just asking for these repressive laws. yesterday, one of the worst laws to date was passed in the state of kentucky after the governor had vetoed it, even after hundreds of people showed up inside and outside the state capitol in opposition. i wanted to share this clip to answer those questions and show why some queer people in "red states" choose to stay

the majority of kentuckians were against this bill passing. most people who came to speak in favor of it were from out of state. appalachians have a tradition of not backing down from a fight, especially when that fight is against greedy entities trying to strip our humanity away from us

kentucky is a family. we showed up outside the capitol as a family, we are working to prevent this law from going into effect as a family, we will survive as a family

[hussyknee]

If you think being anti-communist means being pro-capitalist, it means you have a bad case of Western cultural imperialism and never heard of politics other than your own, and you should do something about that internalized colonizer bullshit before trying to call yourself a leftist. And don't ask us to educate you because we're fucking tired and you literally live in the hemisphere of the highest internet penetration and accessibility to the Anglo knowledgesphere. Do your fucking homework.

[allgremlinart]

Yankee as an overseas American insult is always wildly different levels of effective because one half of the country will be like "fuck yes Derek Jeter" and the other half. well they WILL be deeply insulted probably. if they care about that sort of stuff

[moonshynecybin]

Big bart of bezz having so much bi energy genuinely comes from him being a proud romagnolo he's so insane about his identity it makes ME go insane

is emilia romagna the bisexuality capital of italy

[poetka]

Ik i-fans are often dancing on the edge of koreaboo-dom but imho it's nothing compared to the way kpop idols worship USAmerica. The Walmart photoshoots etc are actually so weird... It's everywhere in the industry but I'm saying this specificly after seeing Taemin's comeback photodumps that suggest he will be cosplaying as "trailer trash" living in the desert and that is so much worse to me than idk fangirls looking up ulzzang makeup tutorials or going out to eat bibimbap.

Most of the i-fans in western online spaces are American and they might not even notice the things that they see as the norm but for a non-American like myself it's quite jarring and really depressing too how their culture is taking over the whole world. I specifically got into kpop some 11-12 years ago because it was so different. And look at it now - everything is targeting American audiences, it's becoming indistinguishable from western pop music (again - you might not even notice it if this is all you know)

[dilfsisko]

This heat wave is going to kill me I think

[pandora-midnight]

The vast majority of the left has repidly devolved into accelerationists, authoritarians, and sccelrationist authoritarians. Ideologies we used to all rightfully know are actually terrible praxis.

And the worst part is basically no one seems to care.

[animalnarratives]

why r u pretending to be from iowa on twitter 😭

lying is the most fun a girl can have etc

[socialist-microwave-laser]

day one of learning banjo!!! i haven't tried playing a string instrument since fourth grade, when i was so worried about my finger placement that i would memorize my sheet music so i could watch my fingers lmfao

i'm using pete seeger's book on how to play the banjo for now. i'm excited!!! i wanna keep playing!!!

[hussyknee]

Twitter feels like an even split between pro-Palestine supporters and the most horrific kind of racists, Zionists and white supremacists. Tumblr is by comparison overwhelmingly in support of Palestine. And yet the level of dehumanization, isolation, Othering and casual racism on here is so much more unbearable and suffocating than Twitter could ever be.

Tumblr wants to be seen as the anti-racist good guys on the right side of history while reinforcing the racist white supremacist western-centric status quo. Black and brown people are given platform under strict conditions of what values can be challenged and how far white comfort can be pushed. It's on Twitter that we have our own communities, our own power of advocacy, and a collective drive to interrogate and dismantle structures of power.

It reinforces what I have known for a long time— Tumblr's hatred of Twitter and TikTok is based primarily on refusing to tolerate the reality of equal representation, leftist action and racial justice. A true diversity of power and perspectives is messy, chaotic, conflict-driven and upends the sense of stability and space that can only come with a homogeneity of racial demographic. The majority of disenfranchised people understands that power structures and bureaucracies are built on purpose to exclude them — the poor, the sex workers, the incarcerated, the ghettoised, the disabled, the colonized. We have to fight to be heard, and our reality and political investment cannot be separated from the minority trauma that informs them. True equality entails not having to funnel that trauma through behaviour and ethics that makes their expression more palatable or considering of others; it removes all respectability politics and allows us to behave with the same unpunished toxicity that is unleashed on us by white and western people. Conflict, cacophony and having to tolerate the untempered emotions and self-interest of all groups is the price of true diversity and honest dialogue. It also primarily empowers Black and brown people and disempowers whites. In contrast, the "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" on predominantly white-driven and Western-oriented spaces is a simply a neoliberal farce that requires us to perform our own humanity and ask validation from whiteness. This is why you see only the worst aspects and negative effects of Twitter and TikTok and use them to reject the the platforms wholesale while creating a narrative of moral superiority around Tumblr's relatively low levels of conflict and glossing over the receding presence of Black and brown people in its userbase.

Race is not a layer of oppression. It's the fundamental bisection that creates the underclass on which the colonial capitalist world order is built. It's the caste hierarchy of humanity; who gets to be labourer and profiteer, the exploiter and exploited, the worker and producer, the consumer and consumed, the masses and the individual. The living bodies and embodied lives. The experience of every other marginalization is shaped by its waters. White women and queers will neither understand nor share in the oppression of women and QPoC from both diasporas and the Global South. Even further, every marginalization becomes a weapon against BIPOC in the hands of its white demographic. Black and brown people of those marginalized communities will always only be a token and shield for their white counterparts, while being the workhorses behind their struggles.

It doesn't matter how many times you post "Free Palestine" when we know its only the product of your preoccupation with your own personal moral landscape. Politics based on egoism will always be eclipsed by threats to your material reality. This is why a userbase that spent its entire existence grandstanding against Nazis now cannot see Zionists as Nazis and begs people to participate in a political establishment that has revealed itself to be a genocidal white supremacist regime in the clearest possible terms. Fascism against its own enfranchised is the end stage of an empire that has begun to collapse under the weight of its war-mongering and now resorts to eating itself to survive. No amount of moral distance between yourselves and its machinery of death, no amount of scapegoating the lives crushed underneath it, will stop the roofs you sheltered under falling on top of you. This the truth that the colonized, enslaved and indentured people that built your house have lived all along.

[advestager]

A/I STAN IN THE DASH. I REPEAT A/I STAN GOT THROUGH MY FILTERS INTO THE FUCKIN DASH THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[moonshynecybin]

okay, but marc would be such a libero in a volleyball team

the only problem would be he wouldn't be allowed to serve🤭

frantically googling volleyball terms and then nodding like i understand what you're saying: YES !

[90sbee]

being a poc doesn't give you a pass to laugh at countries in the global south losing their democracy btw. no country deserves a dictatorship bc of 'karma'. please just enjoy your privileges of living in a 1st world country and leave us alone.

[fridayyy-13th]

Sparklccc!!! (I think that's what the glittery one says anyway lol)

aw, thank you!! sparklccc right back at ya :D

(ask game)

[teddytoroa]

sudden visceral memory of a theyfab i used to know back in 2014 who started out as a binary trans man, then transitioned back to female and started to tell everyone they were a trans woman. never sat right with me. im all for gender shenanigans and detransitioning is cool if u wanna ofc but calling yourself a trans woman and insisting ur as affected by transmisogyny when ur like. bepussied your whole life. idk man that just feels off to me. not my call to make but im glad i stopped being friends w them.

[madtomedgar]

I thought yankees trying to use y'all was painful but when Europeans do it... Ouch.