spontaneous, decisive queer mama hen who loves traveling, kids, beer, planning, and dancing. one day i'm going to marry maggie gyllenhaal...or a lumberjack.
Interlocking Cast Iron Skillets of the Mid-Western states- you can get a custom one made of your state
- Don’t assume those you intend to help even wanted your help.
- You are not there to ‘help’ anyone. Help assumes you are in authority and they depend on you.
- You are there to work with people.
- Those people are not charity cases: they are human beings with feelings history…
[We should not be putting civil rights issues to a popular vote, to be subject to the sentiments, to the passions of the day. No minority should have their rights subject to the passions and the sentiments of the majority.]
Newark Mayor Cory Booker Responds to a Question about the NJ Marriage Equality Referendum
Booker 2016
See, this is how you talk about it.
You DON’T say “marriage equality is JUST LIKE the separate but equal stuff POC dealt with, come on folks, this is civil rights all over again, gay is the new black!”
You say, “this is a civil rights issue, and it should be a given, not something voted for; this is a minority.”
I want Cory Booker to be the second African American guy to become President, after we get a few African American women in there.
(via femmesandfamily)
Catherine Brennan is a lawyer in Maryland who is using their legal leverage to intimidate trans* women and their supporters from retaliating against Catherine’s venomous attacks on trans* women.
One such supporter, myself (queernonymoose on tumblr), has set up a tumblr post campaign basically outlining who to contact (the Maryland Attorney Grievance Board) to report Ms. Brennan for unethical behavior. Catherine Brennan has repeatedly sent Tumblr false accusations of my posts containing copyrighted information, and has gotten Tumblr to delete 6 posts of mine (two of which were the actual post campaigns with said information above, and one stating that I had received a complaint letter from Tumblr).
Tell Tumblr that false reports are bad, and that someone trying to claim legal power to push those false reports through is just as horrible and unethical!Catherine Brennan’s tumblr name is bugbrennan.
For evidence of her abuses, and her false reports, please contact me via tumblr at http://queernonymoose.tumblr.com/
Want to file a grievance?
Due to numerous grievances and complaints of stalking, mistreatment, and abuse against trans* women and their allies, I am conducting a campaign for those with similar grievances to contact the Maryland Bar Association and/or the Maryland Attorney Grievance Board.
To contact the Attorney Grievance Board, visit here.
To contact the Maryland State Bar (which doesn’t handle complaints, but you are free to let them know about Catherine Brennan), visit here.
Catherine Brennan is clearly upset and knows that these grievances can come with serious consequences, hence why she has taken such drastic actions.
Please reblog widely and report this transmisogynistic radical feminist!
(via femmesandfamily)
Why “douchebag” is an awesome insult:
When you call someone a douchebag, what you’re literally saying to them is,
“You think you’re so great, but your existence is actually totally unnecessary and your main function is probably toxic. Also you shouldn’t be allowed near anyone’s genitalia.”
i am in love with whoever wrote this
What men mean when they talk about their “crazy” ex-girlfriend is often that she was someone who cried a lot, or texted too often, or had an eating disorder, or wanted too much/too little sex, or generally felt anything beyond the realm of emotionally undemanding agreement. That does not make these women crazy. That makes those women human beings, who have flaws, and emotional weak spots. However, deciding that any behavior that he does not like must be insane– well, that does make a man a jerk.
And when men do this on a regular basis, remember that, if you are a woman, you are not the exception. You are not so cool and fabulous and levelheaded that they will totally get where you are coming from when you show emotions other than “pleasant agreement.”
When men say “most women are crazy, but not you, you’re so cool” the subtext is not, “I love you, be the mother to my children.” The subtext is “do not step out of line, here.” If you get close enough to the men who say things like this, eventually, you will do something that they do not find pleasant. They will decide you are crazy, because this is something they have already decided about women in general.
—Lady, You Really Aren’t “Crazy” (via sparkamovement)
ouch
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yeah. i got really tired of my ex “putting up with ‘my crazy’.”
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#IfTransTalkedLikeCis
- @nataliereed84: Oh, you're cis? Nice to meet you! So, what's your vagina like?
- @nataliereed84: Wow! You look great! I never would have gussed you were cis!
- @Mowgli3: "But how am I supposed to learn what cis bodies are like if I can't ask you everything about yours?"
- @AndyTehNerd: But how can you be sure that's your gender? What if that's just what you were raised to believe?
- @nataliereed84: But are you SURE you want to remain male? How do you know for sure this is right for you?
- @AndersStarmark: Of course I support you. But I just want you tone it down. You're scaring people, and scared people are dangerous.
- @nataliereed84: But "cis" people might regret not transitioning! We need strict criteria for diagnosing cisgenderism to prevent that.
- @AndersStarmark: I don't believe Cises get raped. Who'd fuck one of them?
- @LanaLangton: Yeah you can come clubbing with us but only if you promise to act like a girl.
- @AndersStarmark: This magic ring will keep your gender the way it is.
- @nataliereed84: People with mental health disorders might think they're cis when they're really not. We can't trust their choices.
- @LanaLangton: You must declare your cisism immediately when you meet me or any of my friends else you are deceiving us.
- @nataliereed84: It's not my fault I'm not attracted to cis ppl. I just find your bodies icky. It's just my sexual orientation!
- @nataliereed84: No, but what's your REAL name? You know, the one you actually chose.
- @nataliereed84: Wait, so you think you're a womon-born-womon? Isn't that just equating sex with gender and buying into the patriarchy?
- @LanaLangton: sorry if you find what we say offensive it's just we're not used to actually talking to cis people & its only 'banter'
- @nataliereed84: Look son, I understand you identify as your birth sex, but why can't you just transition to being a butch lesbian?
- @AndersStarmark: No, I'm sorry, you may not use the ungendered restroom. A gendered one? No, never heard of them. Wouldn't work anyway.
- @nataliereed84: Isn't it a bit selfish to go around claiming you're really your birth sex and expect us all to just go along with it?
- @nataliereed84: You may think you're a woman because you're XX, but I think of you as male, and you need to respect my beliefs.
- @nataliereed84: But if we let cis men use the men's room, what's to stop one of them from raping your children!?!?
- @kinetictheorist: I'm glad your granddad died before finding out your cis
- @PeregrineTwist: so you mean your cock is ATTACHED!? How do you sterilise and wash it properly?
- @maeveregan: Oh, your new partner is cis? So do you actually have sex or what?
- @nataliereed84: Son, you say that you're a boy, but I think you're a bit too young to be making that decision.
- @nataliereed84: Honey, I know you think you want to remain male, but are you sure this isn't just a mid-life crisis?
- @AndersStarmark: I'm a psychologist. I can help you cope with your reluctance to transition. Just relax. Let me help.
- @AndersStarmark: You know, for a cis you're pretty attractive. I'd even call you fuckable.
- @MaeveCaitKelly: Wow! You're such a convincing cis person, I just thought you were normal! Well done.
- @sashapixlee: Dude, she looks like she might be cis. Be careful, bro
- @sasugakirin: Just because "grue" is used to hurt you cis people all the time doesn't mean I can't reclaim it.
- @BecciCath: No, Cis Identity Disorder shouldn't be removed from the DSM, I mean, being cis is a lifestyle choice, so u must b mad
- @Dru_Marland: You're cis? -honestly, I'd never have known, you look so good
- @AndersStarmark: If you cis people didn't scare people of we'd have opposite sex marriage a long time ago!
- @Dru_Marland: "Are they real?" (gropes stranger's breasts)
- @AndersStarmark: I think you're taking it a little hard when someone truegenders you. It's just a label, it's nothing serious.
- @LadyJaya: You mean your breasts started growing when you were 12? Can I feel them? They seem so real!
Holland’s tulip fields from above. Like the world’s most beautiful bar graphs.
Via the so-good-it-should-be-illegal blog Aesthetics of Joy.
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