I thought y'all were overreacting

Got a person in a work group at school who’s an animal rights activist and outspoken vegan. They sent us a video of one of their peers getting beaten to hell by cops at a rally in NC, and I responded with condolences and bits about cops having violent ego problems. And then???? She started defending all cops????? Because there were “good ones” who talked their fellow cops out of arresting her the same way??????? You just saw your friend get worked the fuck over in broad daylight by wild-eyed rampaging crocodiles but you’re not gonna judge the crocodiles who decided you would live in that moment

But then I went to the comments section of the page that posted the video calling for support. I did not think that outspoken vegans who dgaf about systemic social abuse were a real thing. What in the living fuck

patbob-spongerick:

Friendly reminder that Spongebob and all his friends (and even enemies!) would hate terfs 🌟

Stahp following me

Follow @noornavillus instead

onlyayangel:

onlyayangel:

the president of the grammys really said women didn’t get the recognition they deserved because they need to “step up,” yet he said he can’t wait to see taylor swift next year……… boy bye

kesha sang about healing after being raped and she lost to a bland song about the shape of a woman’s body. lorde wrote a whole album about being cheated on and the struggles of being a teenage girl and she was the only aoty nom to not be asked to perform solo. lady gaga’s album was about the passing of her aunt and how to deal with a loss and she didn’t win. sza, who was the most nominated female, wrote an album about the hardship and beauty of being a black woman and lost in every category. all of these women wrote about their emotions and setbacks, and they were all snubbed. but go ahead, give taylor swift multiple grammys because she wrote a catchy song about how “bad” she is for tricking a black man into looking like a villain.

ayellowbirds:

starlightomatic:

starlightomatic:

a jewish kid was murdered by a nazi last week in california and almost none of the articles about it are mentioning that he was jewish or that his murderer was a nazi

he was taken into the woods by someone he thought was a friend and killed. hits pretty close to home bc multiple relatives of mine, including my great-great-grandfather, were taken into the woods by their own neighbors and killed during the holocaust

Jewish and openly gay. This article is the most frank about it that i’ve seen.

“That’s What Friends Are For”

noornavillus:

Okay check it:

I left my first school as a Mess and transferred to a place I barely knew anything about in a city I had hoped to never see again because it was the nicest place that I could go to while living with my parents, which I have to do now for financial reasons. First school screwed up the paperwork, and I ended up spending a lonely year waiting for the next chance to apply. This past week was my second at the new school. I don’t know anyone, I don’t know how to meet people; all I have right now is my work. I have one friend in the city who has a super busy work schedule and I can pretty much never see. Essentially, my relationships to the people and places around me for the last year and a bit have been entirely practical and emotionless. This weekend I realized that I had lost all my personal records of the work I’ve done and the photos of myself from the last five years. Last night I cried real big and bad for all of it. I didn’t know how to manage the loneliness anymore.

Today a friend from that first school, who I haven’t heard or seen trace of in that whole year and a bit, messaged me asking about where I was and what I had most recently written. I told him it was just a two paragraph response to a reading for homework, but he insisted that I send it to him, because he’d never heard of one of the figures I mentioned in it. This dude is one of the best influences I’ve ever had in my life; certainly the best influence I had at that school. He liked what I wrote.

Then, he called me on messenger. He asked me everything about my studies, and told me he was stoked that I was going where I was going because he actually had super wanted to go there when he was applying for postgrad. “I’m honored to know an anthropology student at [second school].” I was stunned. And as we spoke, I realized that all my classes were pretty dope, in fact. I started feeling great about my situation. He didn’t sit there and tell me my life was great while I struggled to believe him out of shame. I realized that it was fine, that I had stuff to look forward to today, tomorrow, and every day, built into my life. He’s living with his parents now, too. We talked about a job he just applied to, which I really, really hope he’ll get. He recalled when I’d said that one day we would “find each other again” and live in the same town, and we shared that neither one of us were entirely confident in that thought, but now there was a real possibility of it. All the while, we laughed those laughs you laugh just because you feel good enough to.

Friendship, support, and positive influence. Look for them, identify them, and eat them like you’ll never eat again

^follow me, not not-me, which is still me, but not really me. Not anymore. U feel?

lcfayctte:

what “not all nb ppl are trans" means
• not all nb people identify as trans for personal reasons

what “not all nb ppl are trans" DOESNT MEAN
• only the nb ppl I deem “trans enough” are trans and the others are cis

genderfluiddiscourse:

non-binary positivity and “support” is pointless if you’re only willing to view non-binary people as either “male-aligned” or “female-aligned”

genderfluiddiscourse:

Maybe people should consider why it is that so many discoursers are exorsexist yet they don’t get called out until they’re exposed to be transphobic to binary trans folks.

Could it be that our suffering isn’t considered as important or real, or not an ‘actual’ opression or form of transphobia?

genderfluiddiscourse:

I’m not accepting non-binaries as the disposable group anymore, not in the trans community, not in LGBT+ or marginalised groups in general.

Exorsexism shouldn’t be treated as the acceptable form of bigotry.

We’re not ‘overreacting’ or ‘nitpicking’ or ‘going too far’ to point it out.

It’s not less harmful than transphobia against binary trans people.

It’s not less important of an issue than other LGBT+ issues.

There’s a fucking place for us in this world. You’ve tried to silence us and get rid of us and abuse us to force us to be someone we’re not. 

And if you aren’t going to help us fight exorsexism and break down the notion of a binary, if you perpetuate it and don’t see it as a real problem, you’re just as much an enemy as those who actively spew their hatred at us. 

To lose all your privately saved project files and written drafts and photographs of yourself from the last several years is realize that you don’t actually go about your daily life with any meaningful sense of being real