Hello everyone. I’d like to sincerely apologize for disappearing for so long. I’ve had a lot of real life things unexpectedly come up, and I honestly don’t know when I’ll just be able to sit down and make new posts, though I hope to have the time soon.
Thank you all for following me. I hope I can make it up to you for disappearing.
Transgender people, the majority of whom have never had problems voting in the past, may now lose their right to vote due to dozens of new voter suppression laws. Over 25,000 transgender people could have their voting rights taken away. In response to these dubious new laws, we have released two resources to help transgender people reclaim their voting rights.
Definitely take a look at this website if you’re eligible to vote this upcoming election! It’s extremely important, considering that Romney will literally try to take away our basic human and legal rights. Spread this around as well so your trans* followers can see it.
Non-Caucasian people can have “white” skin, but that doesn’t mean they have “white privilege”.
Assuming that anyone has “white privilege” if they have the right skin color is erasure of anyone who has “white” skin, but is not Caucasian, and thus doesn’t not actually have “white privilege”.
Intersectionality is a real, valid thing.
But, that doesn’t mean that people who have to “only” deal with one “-ism” have an ‘easy’ life.
Or even an easier life, depending on their family/social situation/where they live/economic situation/etc.
Yes, a POC who is also trans* will probably have a harder time then someone who is a POC and cis. However, that doesn’t mean that the POC who is cis doesn’t have problems.
This goes for everyone.
And even then, where the ‘intersections’ lie changes from country to country.
(I’m not sure if this is worded the best, but I can’t think of a better way for it to be worded. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know, and I’ll fix it, ASAP.)
IMAlive is a live online network that uses instant messaging to respond to people in crisis. People need a safe place to go during moments of crisis and intense emotional pain.
If you don’t remember Sophie M Herold, she is a German girl, who is extremely homophobic and transphobic. She has found out LGBTQ persons names, addresses, personal info etc. And set up her own database.
Her intentions with this are harmful.
She is sending out this information, your information, your best friends information, someone you love and care about. She’s sending it to hate groups, malicious people, people with bad intentions.And if you think I’m blowing this out of proportion, people have been kicked out of homes, disowned by families and even MURDERED. Yes, murdered. Innocent people who have done nothing but love.
She has had numerous blogs and each have been removed. Tumblr staff are aware of her, and as far as I’m aware she currently doesn’t have a blog, but this does not mean she isn’t still on peoples tumblrs, asking via anon where you live, what your name is.
An email I received today. She’s sending out information of same sex couples with children so the children can be kidnapped. She entitled it “Time to strike back”. If that doesn’t suggest harmful intentions I don’t know what does.
Please be extremely careful what you post on tumblr, on twitter, facebook, anywhere. Do NOT give out your full name or your address, or even the town in which you live. Look out for one another, and don’t answer any suspicious anons. Especially if they use your name in quotation marks.
Sophie M Herold is still out there, she always will be, so please spead this message and warn people. She’s attacking in silence. We don’t need more people dying because of her actions.Thank you.
Yes, it’s okay to have kinks. But, if your kink could be triggering for others? You should warn for that- and someone asking you to warn for it isn’t shaming you.
It’s okay if, say, non-con/dub-con/rapefic gets you off, but please warn for it. For other people’s sake.
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“i’m so depressed,” posted the caucasion heterosexual cisgender teenage girl on her blog
“I’m so depressed” posted the person who is clinically depressed and who cannot help their depression despite their privilege because depression does not exclusively affect certain groups.
AnonymousThough a kink shaming one would be good, with points such as ‘some kinks are genuinely problematic’ and ‘Someone being triggered by your kink isn’t necessarily kink shaming’ (for example “Could you put a warning for x kink” =/= “You’re a horrible person for liking x kink”)
I do agree with the “Could you put a warning for x kink” =/= “You’re a horrible person for liking x kink” one, and I’ll make a FYDBAD post about it, but I have to disagree with the ‘some kinks are genuinely problematic’ aspect, because, as long as the kink is happening between consenting adults/is fictional (without actually hurting real people), I don’t see a problem with it.
However, I can see a kink having problematic aspects, such as rape play. Between consensual adults, it’s fine. But, if it’s getting discussed outside of the confines of the two adults, and outside the realm of their personal lives, there should be warnings for it, and it needs to be acknowledged that there are problematic aspects to it, even if having the kink itself isn’t problematic.
Does that make sense? :)
