happy birthday to the bi flag
Some people really need to step back and realize what really started the LGBT community. Why we specifically came together in our activism.
It wasn’t a bunch of people saying “oh wow we’re weird together” but a group of people coming together who faced similar circumstances of homophobia+transphobia. People who were being murdered by their government. People being put on the streets, losing their jobs, and losing their lives.
Watering down our history of it was a bunch of weirdos who wanted to be weird together ignores everything we’ve been through making us have to group together. Ignores the whole generation of voices lost in the AIDS crises. To murder. To police raids. To being thrown out of their homes. These acts are what made us come together out of survival. Not because we wanted to join a club.
staff You are recommending that I follow a nazi blog I blocked last night. Your site promotes anti-semitism to Jews. Your site shoves Nazi Swastikas in the faces of Jews. It’s bad enough that the Nazi blogs seem to be sprouting up like weeds on a site that claims to have an anti-hate policy, but to actively promote them to people who have taken the steps of blocking these blogs is beyond the pale. Clean this place up. It’s turning into Stormfront.
I encourage everyone who sees this post, Jewish or otherwise, to reblog it. Tumblr has been ignoring the growth of Nazism on this site for too long. It needs to end.
The way that we learn about Helen Keller in school is an absolute outrage. We read “The Miracle Worker”- the miracle worker referring to her teacher; she’s not even the title character in her own story. The narrative about disabled people that we are comfortable with follows this format- “overcoming” disability. Disabled people as children.
Helen Keller as an adult, though? She was a radical socialist, a fierce disability advocate, and a suffragette. There’s no reason she should not be considered a feminist icon, btw, and the fact that she isn’t is pure ableism- while other white feminists of that time were blatent racists, she was speaking out against Woodrew Wilson because of his vehement racism. She supported woman’s suffrage and birth control. She was an anti-war speaker. She was an initial donor to the NAACP. She spoke out about the causes of blindness- often disease caused by poverty and poor working conditions. She was so brave and outspoken that the FBI had a file on her because of all the trouble she caused.
Yet when we talk about her, it’s either the boring, inspiration porn story of her as a child and her heroic teacher, or as the punchline of ableist, misogynistic jokes. It’s not just offensive, it’s downright disgusting.
the reason the story stops once hellen keller learns to talk is no one wanted to listen to what she had to say
how’s that for a fucking punchline
Another part of the story that is often conveniently omitted is that Anne Sullivan, the “miracle worker” in question, was also a visually impaired woman (and abolitionist) who faced her own struggles finding accessible education. That was why she was able to teach Helen Keller and connect her with resources that would allow her to flourish in academia. When Helen Keller was railing against poverty-induced diseases that caused blindness, she was talking about things like trachoma which was what had caused her friend’s vision loss.
The fact that Sullivan is often portrayed as able-bodied in retellings of their story is indicative of the narrative that is most comfortable for an ableist society: that accessibility and equality are gifts bestowed upon the disabled by able-bodied heroes. Disabled children are never taught that they have the power to lift each other up, and that’s a crying shame.
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Can I please get a new nurse?
how is this a universal experience?
male high school bullies: become cops
female high school bullies: become nurses
Speaking of fictional lesbians, the women from Hisone to Masotan? All WLW. Except for Eru Hoshino, she’s the Token Straight.
Evidence:
- Hisone has a bob cut, which legally means that she’s bisexual
- She’s also the Odd Girl Out from the get-go, so definitely an awkward bi at that
- Okonogi is a good boy and Hisone has good taste in guys
- Nao is a lesbian, the crush she had on Uniform Fetish Guy was just comphet (not like he cares about anything except designing suits)
- Liliko has no confirmed love interests of any gender, but it’s clear that her and Hitomi are very close/end up walking away together in the final episode. So one can only assume that they entered a relationship; peak lesbian/bi solidarity, if I do say so myself
- I mean, Hitomi is very clearly interested in men too, but you can’t argue that her and Liliko don’t have a thing going on
- Sada Hinomoto is canonically a lesbian, and while her story is a sad one, she still lives her best life, and I’m proud of her. Plus she’s the badass old lady lesbian that we all desperately needed
- Zaito really is kind of a dick, but becomes slightly less of one by the end and definitely genuinely cares about Hoshino, but let’s face it; only that kind of girl would fall for him (that kind being str8)
Anyway thank you for coming to my TED talk, have a nice night and don’t forget to like, comment and subscribe!
Speaking of fictional lesbians, the women from Hisone to Masotan? All WLW. Except for Eru Hoshino, she’s the Token Straight.
My mom and I started watching Stargate Atlantis the other night and I’m pretty sure Dr. Weir is a lesbian
I now stan three (3) lesbian characters who used to be with men but decided fuck that, they gay af.
My mom and I started watching Stargate Atlantis the other night and I’m pretty sure Dr. Weir is a lesbian
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