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hard to believe we’re only 3 years out of the glee era. feels like glee was cancelled in 1880

Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.
Reblog to save a life?

matd:

when i’m gay and i can’t sleep because i am thinking about h*lding a girl’s hand:

qwertybard:

slurhater:
seriously though bisexuality being defined as attraction to men and women is a heterosexual’s definition of bisexuality actual bisexual groups and organizations have been defining it as attraction to two or more genders or same and other genders since the nineties and plenty of nb people actually id as bi and refusing to accept how we define ourselves is so absurdly biphobic and heterosexist and jfc it’s 2014 can other queer people fucking realize and acknowledge this
The purple stripe on the bi flag is meant to represent attraction to nb genders and the bisexual manifesto published in Anything That Moves includes the lines “Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature … In fact, don’t assume that there are only two genders.” That was published in 1990. It’s older than a lot of people here, including me, and older than terms like “pansexual” and “polysexual” by at least a decade. Bi history is important.

nycoffeeshop:

Teach your children to appreciate nature and love their bodies and most importantly, to keep an open mind towards things and people they don’t understand.

I’m writing a novel
(I think) in which
the things that in this century
are called bipolar
immigrant lesbian
are actual superpowers
Raise your crazy hand if you’ve imagined
how in another time
you’d be a witch a shaman! or just
another migrant locked up & labored into fine mist

Ana Božičević, from “Busted Xmas Card,” Joy of Missing Out (via lifeinpoetry)

My mom refused to call me disabled or to let me call myself disabled / there is good intention here / to empower and take away limits / to refuse pity and erase difference / to equalize all bodies and uphold the humanness of every body

But there are shadows here too / a deep submemory reaction and revulsion / a desire to fix imperfection and eradicate inconsistencies and disruptions of pattern / to solve problems of deviation

Bronwyn Valentine, from “Movements of the Uncontrollable Body Part One,” published in Monstering (via lifeinpoetry)

bioethicists:

questions men should ask themselves more often
- am i being unnecessarily forceful/loud?
- am i talking over others? are those others mostly women?
- why does this person feel like that? how can i acknowledge their feelings?
- does she seem comfortable around me? if not, why?
- am i devaluing women as a joke/when they make me angry? am i insulting women’s appearance and sanity whenever they make me angry?
- am i listening to other people’s knowledge/experiences or am i only talking about my own? how can i share my knowledge/experiences in a respectful way that doesn’t monopolize conversation or infantalize others (primarily women)?

shewhosoothes:

let lesbians be butch. let women be gender nonconforming. trans, cis, nb, et all. let women be gnc without suggesting this somehow makes them less of a woman or that they should just “be men.” butch lesbians are women; gnc women are women. the desire to be gnc does not take away from their womanhood.

presidentgay:

gay culture is struggling to find things to have small talk about with straight people but instantly having 1000 weirdly obscure common interests with gay people that don’t even revolve around being gay just gay ppl like the same weird shit and i love that about us

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