DELETE THIS POST

man, i literally teared up the first time my friend used they/them for me, in public. it amde me feel so warm and loved!

its all fun and games until you hear someone say it

instrument or sport if applicable in tags. if you wish

RESPECT BLACK SCHOLARSHIP

an explanation is not owed

Just a reminder my blog is trans inclusive. It’s bi inclusive. It is pan inclusive. It is intersex inclusive. It is ace/asexual inclusive. It is aro/aromantic inclusive. It is queer inclusive.

I don’t support terfs or exclusionists.

If you came here looking for an ally in your bigotry you came to the wrong blog. Go away. You are not welcome here.

you cannot tell if an author is straight or cis by whether they write “good representation.”

if you don’t want anyone to have to out themselves to defend their “right” to write about queerness, then when you encounter a queer narrative or character you dislike, you have to smack down assumptions that the person who wrote it wasn’t queer.

i keep talking about this because i think it’s important; and it’s certainly not the death of criticism. you can read a text critically without making assumptions about the author’s identity. you can talk about why you don’t find a piece of representation meaningful to you, why you think it’s badly written or even offensive. but if you say that it is any of those things because the author is straight or cis, no matter how obvious that may seem to you, you are out of bounds. i don’t have to go far to find examples of authors who have received that “feedback” and had to say “i’m sorry if i didn’t get this right, but i am a member of the lgbtq community.” sometimes they only realized they were queer because they wrote those stories. and this is also true for a lot of actors who have played queer roles, who have been accused of “stealing” those roles or not acting them convincingly and authentically.

i’ve seen the damage that causes and to me it’s not a game that’s worth playing.

in judaism, dance means freedom

jojo rabbit (2019), dir. taika waititi // hey alma articles by emily burack and molly tolsky // two rabbis, becca walker and her wife ariella rosen, dance the hora at their wedding // vintage tshirt with quote attributed to jewish anarchist emma goldman // still dancing: an interview with illya kaminsky

getting replies on posts is one of the most fun things on this site for me and i just want u all to know u are EXTREMELY welcome to reply to all my posts even if u think its silly or irrelevant or just an emoji i dont care this blog is a talking zone not a silent aesthetic zone