Reading the most heartbreaking parts of Harrow the Ninth and really feeling lucky that I know the kind of love that makes sense of it.

passing tip: learn to respond to misgendering by releasing the safety on your Glock 19

Zohran Mamdani calling it a genocide on The View and getting applause.

i will never suffer a boymoder

Damn why is my girlfriend so smart and perfect and beautiful whats up with that is she trying to kill me or what

Transgender for everybody right now

This is actually insane because we absolutely do not elect the president. The electoral college does. We don't have a direct representative model in the US in any shape.

I said "killing children is never okay" and got called antisemitic because apparently "everyone kills children not just isr*el" and I'd just like you all to refer back to my stated belief that, again "killing children is never okay"

I don't care if a beautiful bisexual woman has a boyfriend. That's my son-in-law now.

Love is about smelling like them the next day :)

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2 When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline. 109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

From today's lecture deck:

Both of these are good examples of "I still kind of like engaging with this material but I need a grown up version of this now" which is like, niche but I think I'd like more of it. I think the cozification and defanging of media is a dangerous, dangerous thing, and we deserve stories with teeth.

There is a core thrust of reactionary politics that promotes escapism as a tool of disarmament. They have made the world so hard none of us want to live in it. But this world is worth fighting for, too.

The Magicians says yes, it makes sense to cope with the trauma of real life with cozy, painless fiction. Real life sucks. Being depressed and rotting away into the trappings of one's childhood is an entirely normal response to this. But is that how you want to live forever? Can you have more?

My favorite story about escapism has to be The Magicians (2015) because it treats the desire itself as value neutral, and then spends seasons slowly and methodically taking it apart and showing us how deeply dangerous escapism is, how it traps us from ever growing up and ever, truly, healing.

Conservatives say "freedom of speech" when they really mean "freedom to call people slurs"

I'd very much like to live in the world these people live in, where lesbians and lesbian works are everywhere, thriving, and unavoidable. What a beautiful and amazing world that would be. How fragile and bigotted you must have to be to think that's a shitty world to live in.

NRE has absolutely nothing on Getting back Together Energy.

Lesbian literature exists as ephemera, as miracles in the dark fog of life. Very little of it ever goes mainstream compared to every other kind of work, and that which does is often bent and twisted for a straight audience. The good stuff thrives purely by community and the ecosystems we build.

Can't understand people that spend all of their time shadowboxing lesbian literature as if it's the very cause of your oppression when you could read literally anything else

what it feels like to be head over heels in love with someone and feel your heart open to falling in love all over again.

🙃🙃 where did he even get this fit

accidentally gave my girlfriend my ex's big t shirt to wear i'm so sorry honey i don't know whose that is, I don't know any other women

the thing is, the underlying implication of “irreversible damage” is of cause damage to the means of reproduction. it is implying that -becoming sterile- is a fatal flaw to a human that makes them worthless as a (reproductive) asset of patriarchy.

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

I’m a museum of things women have done to me to leave their mark

what do you think the gendered child means? she literally ate all the gender

That part.

Guy who said (with his husband in the front row) that he would "take a straight pill" should shut the fuck up, actually.

yuri between immovable object and unstoppable force

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.

seeing my boyfriend after three weeks gonna be eating that thing like eve ate the apple

My favorite part about Silksong is that Hornet is kind of a bitch and she's really, really funny. We need to let more female protagonists be funny bitches.

Transgender people need our support and solidarity more than ever. We either come together or we all fall. That’s where we are.

Charlie Kirk was spreading lies and inciting violence against trans people right up until the moment he died. That is not "the right way" unless you think "the right politics" is violence against minorities.

that the goal of feminism is to free women from "woman" and free people from "men"

everybody get on hormones right now

As a trans nonbinary woman on E and T, transition is a broad set of tools I use to exercise my agency as a person internally but also to create legibility as a woman externally. Estrogen is responsible for many of the physical traits we culturally assign as feminine, there is no polite way around it

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

Nope gotta delete that, no way I am going viral on behalf of *that*.

Good morning lovers and dreamers

Your honor can I eat it from the back sloppy style

Her: can you check out this bug bite? It feels pretty bad Me, crying: you let other bugs bite you?

Immediately adding this into my lexicon.

Do you wanna get progressively feed the darkness in each other until it consumes us both in a horrific conflagrarion or are you going to be weird about it