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It severely bothers me that more people aren’t talking about this loudly…

Those who control information, control how they are viewed, remembered, and revered; and others…hated.

Christianity controls most public information, as one of the most conquering religions in the world and so many people being a part of it from birth and generation, and it has for a long ass time.

(Public information as in things allowed in school, stigmas, etc. Things you don’t need a special interest in and to dig up or specifically search for.)

Of course they would paint themselves as the good guys, can’t you see that?

It infects deeper than you may realize. You must think critically.

Live by this reminder when you are looking at history.

When reading recorded myths and legends and lore.

When people try to tell you a specific people, your specific people are bad.

When you are studying your practice.

When you are learning about other cultures and practices.

I go in depth after “keep reading”.

Call it out when you see it. Remind them to stay in their lane and they can’t take what is clawing its way to be rightfully rebuilt after the desolation from their blood stained hands.

If they choose to follow a religion that destroyed and incinerated other religions, cultures, communities and people to get where they are now, they cannot be ignorant of the foundation of bodies it has built it on or they just are one of the perpetrators.

It’s high time more of us do so and publicly, not just online, but even to the point of organizing on the streets.

That more of us don’t shy away from “offending” them, as if they deserve the audacity to be after what their people have done to countless others — what they’re STILL doing around the world.

And if it is still happening, it has been happening all along. “Peaceful conversion” does not truly exist in this context.

If they are truly culturally sensitive, great. Just great and move on. That’s the very bare minimum that the people associated with their practice haven’t reached since its wake and they don’t get a medal for that as they should’ve been respectful the entire time. Likewise, they should be calling out their own if they truly love all.

And what does that look like?

Well, if they just have to mention it, which they don’t, a more sensitive approach would be saying something akin to “I am Christian, but I recognize this culture is different from my own, I am aware of the part my people had in its oppression, but I respect its ancient roots and their way of life and hope that they continue to grow and relearn their old traditions.” The way you would if you are recognizing privilege you may have.

They do not even need to mention their own faith, whatsoever. They don’t need to and shouldn’t say “god bless you” or “I will pray for you” on content for polytheistic, animist, or other cultures than their own. They could just express appreciation and admiration and regular well-wishing and leave it at that.

How often do you see or hear people say anything like this?

If they aren’t showing any proof of respect for other cultures or people of all kinds, the way they claim their demigod teaches, they deserve to be lumped in with the others.

Be wary of the ones that proclaim against this fact in the face of accountability. They’re often truly enablers or perpetrators. I have seen others, people who their demigod supposedly loves, burned by them, and throughout my life, I have been as well, recently too.

Do not let them continue to claim innocence, to claim safe spaces others have built of their own.

Do not physically harm them, of course, unless you are hurt first, as with all others; as we don’t need to push their narratives or stoop to their level.

You will not be able to stop them, but overwhelm them that their jealous god is null when they force their messages on content or in spaces for cultures, and people that are not theirs. Content and spaces made for people of ancient and natural elder cultures.

The cultures they truly descended from, that their earlier ancestors fell at the hand of, and never returned to.

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i really don't like how some queer people treat intersex people. and by don't like, i mean i really fucking hate it and this shit needs to quit.

i find it incredibly ridiculous that a lot of queer people will try to erase intersex people from the queer community as if we don't belong here. and that's bullshit. it makes me sick as a matter of fact. it makes me sick the way some queer people will look at an intersex individual who is trans and say "you're not trans because [insert some bullshit reasoning as to why someone who's intersex can't be trans that both stems from, and feeds the harmful stereotyping of intersex people]". it makes me sick that some people will say the same about intersex people who are cis. it makes me sick that some queer people will hear someone say they're intersex and ask about their fucking genitalia. it makes me fucking sick to see some queer people just blatantly deny the existance of intersex people.

it makes me sick. it makes me angry. it makes me sad. it hurts me more than i can put into words. and for the love of god i hope it makes you angry too, even if you aren't intersex. you don't have to be intersex to understand and acknowledge the oppression we face and how we're treated by parts of our own community.

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Shag haircut with the half-processed bleach bangs is a universal, nonbinary constant, I see.

there’s been a really bizarre trend in the past couple years of TERFS/radfems getting pissed off about biology posts. posts about the bilateral gyandromorph cardinal (one half male, one half female), posts about older hens beginning to crow and act like roosters, posts about animals being animals. and it’s hilarious because they interpret these posts as some kind of agenda. no! these are animals not choosing any gender identity or sexuality but being born into bodies they have no control over. weird how that happens in nature huh

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the lack of recognition of how bathroom bills affect intersex people is intersexism.

this laws are usually pushed under transmisic agenda, and it's fair that trans rights advocacy addresses transmisia in these campains and laws. but these laws also affect intersex people.

some intersex people look visibly sex variant. and they are also seen as a threat to the sex and gender essentionalism. transmisia and intersexism are intertwined and may become inseparable in some parts.

intersex people are also at risk in gendered spaces. we can also be harassed, banned, charged for "violation," face various violence.

it's important to recognize that risk and remember about intersex people in discussions of these laws.

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No, they need to give me their license so I can use it like some kind of arcade token for my own. I drive safely and treat every car like a semi truck at least.

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"the sex is binary, it's biological reality"

and then you need to enforce it's reality by mutilating infants' bodies without their knowledge and consent with mostly cosmetic goals*

and then you need to enforce it's reality by having gender mark in every possible document

and then you need to change this mark back and forth if the intersex person "falls away" of their assignment too much and it's more convenient to push them in other box

and then you need to enforce it reality by pushing childrens and adults on "treatments" of their intersex variations by fearmongering, coercion, and/or blatant lie (or without their knowledge at all)

and then you need to enforce it's reality by hiding their own medical history from intersex people

and then you need to enforce it's reality by artificially lowering the statistics of intersex variations' frequency

and then you need to enforce it's reality by selective abortions of intersex fetuses

and then you need to enforce it's reality by giving people no opt-out of it

and then you need to enforce it's reality by gatekeeping transition as much as possible

and then you need to enforce it's reality by refusing to add any way of opting-out a bit, like neutral gender marks, ban of unnecessary surgeries on infants and using active monitoring instead, etc.

if you need to ban back and forth to protect "reality," you aren't protecting reality. you're just trying to push people in your wrong narrative.

*some variations cause things that require immediate intervention, but 1) not all variations, only some; 2) immediate intervention should solve acute problem, and not focus on cosmetic part and tries to create binary-looking genitals

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Am I wrong to be disappointed in the gettys queer history exhibit? I adored seeing everything and everyone don't get me wrong, but there was one photograph for intersex people. It was someone's genitals. The info board only said they didn't know the name of the subject and it was likely taken for medical purposes. People were gathering in that corner and gawking. My only representation in the queer art history space was a nonconsentual picture of genitals. That was it. The only representation they had for intersex history was a waist down picture of someone's genitals. Not our activism, not Hermaphrodites with Attitude, not our lives, not our faces, not our books, not the celebrities or athletes with variations, not our myths or statues or ancient art, just genitals. I left the event early, because I couldn't stop looking at people and knowing that if I talked to them about being intersex all they would see would be genitals, because I knew that after the whole exhibit they would all only know me as genitals.

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"wait, but what do I say to describe people who cannot get pregnant?" a guide.

Men cannot get pregnant: INCORRECT. Transgender men are men and many are capable of getting pregnant. Also, excludes the plenty of people who are not men who cannot get pregnant.

Cis men cannot get pregnant: INCORRECT. Intersex men who are technically cis, but have uteruses and ovaries, may be capable of pregnancy, even if it's unlikely. Also, excludes the plenty of people who are not men who cannot get pregnant.

Cis perisex men cannot get pregnant: Correct, but excludes the plenty of people who are not men who cannot get pregnant.

People without uteruses cannot get pregnant: Correct, but excludes infertile and menopausal people with uteruses who also cannot get pregnant.

People who cannot get pregnant: CORRECT. Excludes no one.

To use inclusionary language, you don't need to rip through the reeds in search of wider terminology when you could quite literally say things exactly as they are. Inclusive language isn't "overcomplicated" at all. It's straightforward.

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Adding onto this: There is literally no point in being a shitty person.

Redirect that energy to the powers and shitty people that oppress everyone who isn’t a straight cisgender rich white conservative Christian man.

You could make a real impact and people that genuinely matter will like you — which is a better feeling that that meaningless high you get from being an asshole to everyone around you and getting validation from other shit people.

Having experienced a lot of it in my 20s, I think some of the worst, pettiest, most straight up this-is-just-bullying-you're-passing-off-as-praxis incidences of Queer Infighting endemic to young people can be best understood as attempts to exercise power by people with very little power.

Like you're 22, you're queer, you've just become a Marxist, the scope of World Suck is overwhelming and you have $30 in your bank account. What can you do to feel like you have any power? Well, you can try to get your frenemy cancelled for cosplaying a character from a problematic show. You can write a public callout post over someone's obviously friendly use of a slur you don't think they technically have the right to reclaim. Doing this stuff can make you feel like you have power and your actions have an impact. Unfortunately the impact in question is a negative impact on other marginalized people. But that often takes some maturity and self-reflection to notice.

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Bullshit.

Martin Luther King isn't evidence that peaceful protesting works. He's evidence that even if you're peaceful, they'll still kill you.

The change wasn't in response to people listening to Martin Luther King. The change was in response to the riots that happened after he was murdered.

If you're able to command that protesters be peaceful, then you're able to command that the ruling class be peaceful. And if the ruling class were peaceful, the protests wouldn't exist.

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I realized that I need to finish at least 5 examples before I can open emergency commissions, as I find it very difficult to thanks to my ADHD.

I made a poll asking if I should do a poll series to determine which WIP I should finish first and “Yes!” Won!

First poll is at the bottom!

There will be a week to get as many opinions as possible between two, watermarked WIPs I like the most. Because I would like to finish either option, I am really curious about which one people think is more interesting of the two and go from there. I think I am going to try taking the “loser” and putting it up against a new WIP in the next poll.

My main two reasons for having so many WIPs are:

1. I get a new idea

Or

2. I don’t like how it’s turning out.

And it can alternate between the two sometimes :/

In order to attempt to prevent this, I will be writing down my new ideas quickly and going back to the WIP because if I sketch the new idea, I might get carried away.

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Here’s the first one!

1. This is a random character I started doodling on an Apple Store iPad while waiting for my wayyy cheaper, refurbished one because I couldn’t wait to draw (after having drawn on Procreate Pocket for too long and the friction ripping up hundreds of rubber stylus pens). I used one of the stock pictures that was on the store set gallery as reference. I couldn’t send it to myself, so I had to take a picture and redo it on my own iPad.

2. This is my version of Lady Loki in the final scene in the Loki Series. I made her design a lot less…Ancient Greek…pajama…looking…into something more of a modernized, old Norse Seeress or Völva. I also took inspiration from some fabrics I found that are kind of reminiscent of the story and would love to make a cosplay with! This was a while ago, so I might redraw it better.

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