just want to say that countries like sweden and austria deporting brown and black gay men and forcing them go back to uganda or afghanistan or other nations that kill and jail people for being gay because those men don’t “look or act feminine/gay” is a blatant example of racialized homophobia. and this is why i keep reiterating that orientalism is dangerous for lgbt people of color, why i keep saying that homonationalism plays such a huge role in the oppression of lgbt people of color – and i say this bc it’s not just cishet whites who spread these homophobic and racist stereotypes about what “looking gay” entails, but it’s also white gays who back them up by talking about how “inherently homophobic” nonwhite / nonwestern people are, and how nonwhite / nonwestern people are “failing” to live up to some gay Gold Standard of appearance / gender non conformity and gender expression / gayness itself. fuck all white people, gay or straight, for putting the lives of nonwestern lgbt poc and nonwhite lgbt refugees at risk.
I’m sorry but WHAT THE FUCK IS GOIN ON??
Sweden is deporting an openly gay Ugandan football player back to Uganda, which is a country that criminalizes homosexuality and where gay people can be killed for being out. This is very similar to when Austria rejected a gay Afghani teenage boy’s asylum petition on grounds that he didn’t “look or act gay, so he’d be fine in Afghanistan”. Essentially both incidents highlight the how state violence, racism, imperialism, and homonationalism all coincide to oppress LGBT people of color / LGBT immigrants and refugees / LGBT nonwesterners.
I also want to say that yes it absolutely is the fault of the countries of origin for being violently homophobic, but 1) in Uganda’s case for instance, growth of homophobia within the culture came about as a result of white / Western christian missionary propaganda (many Christian missionaries still go to post-colonial nations and in addition to trying to convert local populations they obviously spread homophobic rhetoric) and 2) we absolutely shouldn’t try to justify or minimize the very real danger of homophobia and its perpetrators in nonwestern countries by blaming everything on colonialism, but the fact remains that these countries haven’t been able to cultivate the types of LGBT rights movements we see in the west because colonialism stifled that growth and progress. Like you can clearly see how overtly homophobic western countries still are, and most of them never experienced colonialism or imperialism – and so if even they have taken this long to have solidified LGBT rights movements, imagine how long it will take a country that only gained independence within the last 75 years.
… this is the oddest blood libel I’ve ever heard of???
Feathered dinosaurs are a zionist plot.
This just in: all dinosaurs are Jewish. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
I have, indeed, been saying this for years.
This is true, the practice of Judaism within the Dinosaur community has been well-documented by scholars:
I…I don’t understand. Is she saying that Jews brought the fossils out or that dinosaurs are real and we hid them and Christians had to uncover the truth?
I think she is saying that Jewish people painstakingly hid dinosaur fossils all over the world to trick Xtians into thinking that the Creation story wasn’t true
There are layers of fun, antisemitic and anti-science flavour here
Also, who’s going to tell the birds they don’t exist? That is the main question
an educational graphic about critical thinking for tumnblr
The all important journalist questions, and then some.
A missing line from Why:
“If you really want to be
a critical reader, it turns out you have to step back one step
further, and ask not just whether the author is telling the truth,
but why he’s writing about this subject at all.“
That is an excellent addition.
One other one for How: “how could this be exploited by someone acting in bad faith?” Closely coupled with a What: “what are the limits on the ill-effects this could produce?”
And a quick check for double standards: “who, or what, is the speaker not applying this principle to?”
(This is also a great guide for interrogating historical documents such as, say, a constitution, a press release, a speech, a letter, a diary, a bill of rights, political policies, &c)
I need to grab this and adapt this for my little filmmaking courses.
Because these questions are equally indispensible when YOU are the author of the script, the book, the story, the speech.
why isn’t anyone allowed to be wrong anymore? it’s okay to be wrong. no one should be terrified of every tiny little mistake they might make. being wrong, and realizing you were wrong, is how you learn and grow and change.
When other people, especially older people, try to ‘educate’ you about how ‘sexuality is complicated’ and how ‘you might not be ace’ and that ‘you’re probably confused’ and that ‘you’re probably [this] instead’,
You run.
Sexuality is indeed complicated, and yes, you might not be ace. But these kinds of people couldn’t care less either way.
Helpful people give you the freedom of choice – whether that choice lasts a lifetime, or until the next morning. Helpful people give you the agency to make your own decision about your own, personal, private identity.
If someone is trying to collectively discourage questioning aces into forgoing their ace identity? That’s not helpful. That’s an illusion of help under the guise of liberation. They’re trying to make you into something they want you to be.
Whether their advice is helpful or not, to any degree, this type of gaslighting and manipulation is not what you deserve. You can get the same kind of answers and help and support from people who aren’t damaging and toxic.
Find people who will let you be ace. Find people who will let you be yourself.
– Fae
^As someone who’s experienced something similar as a bi and trans person, this right here.
You deserve to be respected for who you are.
A supportive comment is “Hey if you find your identity changing it doesn’t mean you were previously a liar it just means you’re still learning about yourself and that’s okay!”
A suspect comment “you’re too young to know your identity. It’s probably going to change”
My gender identity and sexuality changed a LOT as I discovered words that described my experiences and grew to know myself
But then I know people who have known since they were like 5 what gender they had and that they fancied the same gender
No one other than you can know if your self perception changes and frankly the rest of the world should take the stance I take with my kid: whatever YOU tell me at this moment is who you are is what I will respect it and if you change your labels later I will just take in the updated information and respect it without adding any opinion because YOUR identity is not about me
when two socially awkward people try to talk to each other at work.
my friend is going back to Ukraine to continue his medical studies, so we spent the day hanging out, buying comics/manga and watching a movie (Christopher Robin, if you wanna know, charming movie!)
It was a bunch of fun but I’ll miss him :,D
Speaking of manga, did you know there was a manga called “My girlfriend is a T-rex”?
Because there is! I saw it and had to buy it, couldn’t find the first volume but I couldn’t just leave it there no could I?
God bless those crazy Japanese :,D
I am, in fact, completely serious.
my friend is going back to Ukraine to continue his medical studies, so we spent the day hanging out, buying comics/manga and watching a movie (Christopher Robin, if you wanna know, charming movie!)
It was a bunch of fun but I’ll miss him :,D
Speaking of manga, did you know there was a manga called “My girlfriend is a T-rex”?
Because there is! I saw it and had to buy it, couldn’t find the first volume but I couldn’t just leave it there no could I?
Yes it’s a real service. I do volunteer work for a rape crisis support service in my city and texting is one of the features we provide as well. But just to boost its credibility, I tried it myself:
reblog to save lives!
REBLOG
😭 Thank you.
Especially right now…
putting this in my phone
This has never taken fewer than 20 minutes to work for me.
Rex's place 