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Aaron and I did something similar with balloons.
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Only one of these mooks is on actual drugs… XD
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“Same’s true of the Black Widow. Scarlett Johanssen looked great in that outfit, but she seemed to be there only as eye candy. The shot in the middle...”
I might have reblogged this already but whatever.
eeeee I love her
oh yay the english version!!
FUCK. YES. THIS.
I think I just found my “forever reblog.”
Because THIS is what I’m always trying to talk about.
How I identify
how do I come up with something that adequately encompasses
everything I am
everything I have been
and everything I could be?!
I have known myself as a girl, as a boy, as a man, as a transman, and as a eunuch. Some of these things I will never be again, some of these things I am currently, others I may not be right now but will be again, maybe in ten minutes maybe in ten years.
I have loved and fucked the length and breadth of gender and I still feel like a blushing virgin some days. I have been straight, I have been afraid of being “turned gay” and then come to accept my same gender love, and I have been asexual and so many times it feels more comfortable to me than anything.
Sometimes my identity is about me, sometimes it is about me and one or a couple of others and sometimes it is about me in a whole community. I worry about calling myself this or that because of how others who also use those identity labels will feel about me “representing” them whether I mean to or not.
I don’t expect to ever stop worrying about these things, but I will also continue to explore and to play and to endure and revel in them. “Worrying” is just another way to prompt me to be mindful of how I and others use our identities.
It’s a Queer way to live, but it’s a good one.
EMBRACE ALL THE IDENTITIES
<3 <3 <3
I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH ^THIS^ GIFS.
I give up ever trying to explain anything about my sexuality ever again. I am going to print this out and carry it in my pocket and show it to people when they ask.
Sooo…
If bigots are allowed to vote on whether certain members of their state population are allowed to enjoy basic civil rights (a basic HUMAN right, according to The Universal Declaration of Human Rights)…
Why don’t we let state populations vote on whether we should, say, rescind women’s suffrage? Or suffrage for non-white citizens? Because I can name at least one state off the top of my head where that amendment has a good chance of passing.
No?
Oh—you mean we don’t let bigots vote away civil rights?
Well color me confused.
I just read a shocking news article on NRK.no. I thought this might be something my followers would be interested in, so I’ve translated it into English.
Please be aware that I’m not a professional translator. I’ve [bracketed phrases] that were originally idioms that I had to switch out, or words that I found difficult to translate in context. Credit for the article goes to Su Thet Mon of NRK. Original article HERE.
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Military service is obligatory for all Turkish men, unless one has a valid physical or psychological reason to be released from the obligation.
The Turkish military classifies homosexuality as a mental disease and homosexual men are therefore exempt from military service.
But it is a humbling affair to convince military authorities that one is actually homosexual, writes BBC.
Requires photographic evidence
“They asked me about the first time I had anal sex, oral sex, and what kind of toys I played with as a child. They also asked if I liked football and if I dressed in women’s clothing,” says ‘Ahmet.’
The young man in his 20-ies stepped forward and told Turkish [officials] about his sexual orientation in hopes of being released from conscription.
“I was told that I didn’t look like a ‘normal homosexual man’, because I had a little bit of beard and looked masculine. They asked me to show a picture where I was dressed as a woman,” says Ahmet to BBC.
He didn’t have a picture of himself in women’s clothing, but went along with showing the military officials a picture of himself kissing another man.
Another earlier soldier, “Gokhan”, tells that he had to show pictures of himself while having sex with another man to prove that he was homosexual. [Translator’s note: This is their phrasing, but they mean “pictures of himself having sex”.]
“The face must be visible and the pictures must show that you are the passive one in the [relationship],” says ‘Gokhan’ to BBC.
Medical diagnosis
The Turkish gay rights activist Nevruz Ebru Aksu says to Gaysir that a homosexual man who doesn’t want to join the military must also be examined by a military doctor, in order to determine if he has had anal sex or not.
“The doctors are pressured by their superiors to diagnose homosexuality. It is medically impossible and, [to say the least], unethical to define sexual orientations,” says a psychiatrist who has worked with a military hospital.
“Homosexual men in the military can bet on ‘discipline problems.’ But we have to make sure that those who say they are homosexual, actually speak the truth and aren’t just lying to [get away],” says Armagan Kuloglu, a pensioned general in the Turkish defense.
Homosexuality is not punishable in Turkey. The everyday lives of many of the land’s gays and lesbians still suffer from stigmatization, violence, and harassment, especially in the [urban areas].
In 2008, Ahmet Yildiz (26) was shot and killed after he stepped forward as homosexual to [be spared] the military. According to the prosecution, he was murdered by his conservative father.
- Gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and straight allies: We need to FIGHT for marriage equality! Everyone has the right to marry the person they FALL IN LOVE with! This is fundamentally about gays and lesbians having the SAME RIGHT as straight people to raise children, unite their families, and form lifelong partnerships!
- Pansexuals, demisexuals, omnisexuals, asexuals, androphiliacs, gynephiliacs, dendrophiliacs, queers, genderqueers, transexuals, agendereds, bigendereds, intersexuals, [prefix]romantics, kinksters, homoflexibles, heteroflexibles, androgynosexuals, swingers, Doctor Who-sexuals, and the enitre Internet: Should we... say something?
- Little voice inside: Shh, no. Just... let this play out. For a sec.
Chris Colfer and George Clooney in the West Coast premiere of “8”
Benefit Reading for Marriage EqualityNot going to lie, I almost cried at this.
I passed “almost” going 90mph.
I laughed, I cried, I jumped out of my seat and cheered.
They’ll be posting the full recording on this page shortly.
For those of you who don’t know: YouTube—yes, YouTube itself—just livestreamed a play about the prop 8 court hearing, starring A-list names like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Kevin Bacon, Chris Colfer, Jamie Lee Curtis, George Takei, and many others.
Quote of the evening?
We are running the last leg of this civil rights race.
Prop 8 has been ruled unconstitutional by a judge’s panel in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. It is strongly believed that it is destined for the Supreme Court.
Soon.
The evident institutionalization of gay hatred, fear, and invalidation was MORE emotionally traumatizing for me than the bullying from my peers. It was WORSE because it came from ADULTS, it promised me a DARK FUTURE, it told me that there was NOWHERE TO GO FOR HELP, and IT VALIDATED THE ABUSE I RECEIVED FROM MY PEERS AND TOLD ME THAT SOCIETY TOOK THEIR SIDE.
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THIS is amazing
Best thing I’ve ever seen.
omfg funniest thing i have watched in a long time,love it
everytime i see this - REBLOGGED LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER.
OMG THE DRAG QUEENS LAWL
THE END O.M.G LOL
SPREAD THIS LIKE HERPES CHILDREN.
So many F bombs o-o
But the message is lovely….
also. THE GUEST APPEARANCE HOMG
I am so amused right now.
AMAZING
Awesome.
I am just so pleased. This is perfection.
would’ve been better if kingsley was in this!
oh god, i love this. don’t hate on the homos.
Ohgod that little girl. l;skdfj;lskdjf “DANCE, BITCHES.” LMAO
GNDSU9IGNIOUGTNOIGTE THE LAST PART “WHERE AM I I JUST BORROWED THIS TOP” FNDIJGOPIGTRD
I LOVE THIS
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Sec 5.2(1)(c) of the ID screening regs of Aeronautics Act: “An air carrier shall not transport a passenger if the passenger does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification he or she presents.”
Canada, you’re disappointing me. Additionally, I think it is of note that this has way more to do with passing privilege than pre/non-op (though for some people that does make passing as cis more frequent), though another example of this going poorly I can think of is someone on hormones who doesn’t have their identification changed. I don’t know why it can’t just be, if you in general look like your picture on your ID (or have some paperwork explaining why you don’t).
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Not even just trans people, but anyone who doesn’t present their sex convincingly, whether by design or by nature.
Heck, it might be politically incorrect to point out, but some insulated people have difficulty determining sexes across racial lines.
Then there are people who fall in an ambiguous place on the sex line anyway. They might be legally defined as one sex or the other, depending on various biological aspects, but those may or may not include their secondary characteristics.
In many people, advanced age makes sex more visually ambiguous.
Some people have hormonal disorders that prevent the absorption of hormones during puberty, leading to the stunted or completely halted development of adult characteristics that we use to judge “sex”.
Some people just say “screw it” to the traditional gender presentation of their culture, and when you take a lot of those arbitrary things away, the line between a masculine and feminine appearance grows very thin indeed for a slew of people.
Trans, genderqueer, just-not-that-obvious, intersexed, very old, very young—whatever the reason that you are not obviously the gender listed on your ID, you should be horrified at this law. It doesn’t just discriminate against an obvious few: it forces all of us to live in and strive to accommodate a binary world. That is not only Not Okay, it’s frankly depressing.
The fact that we list sex on people’s IDs is disturbing, Orwellian, and misguided to begin with. Honestly, it’s a bit sick. We should be taking a step forward to have this archaic practice removed, not backwards to laws like this.
