Hi Fedi Family,
In 2008 Californians voted for Prop8 that defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman in the California constitution. While this was defeated in courts this draconian Prop8 language is still in the California constitution. Justice tHomas and the right wing SCOTUS is openly hinting at destroying precedent and trampling rights. If they overturned Obergefell - the Prop8 language in the California Constitution will act as a “trigger law”, raining havoc on queer families like mine across California.
Please spread the word to vote “YES” to repeal Prop8 (2008) from the California constitution in Nov 2024. Talk to your friends, family and colleagues about it.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell I completely agree with you, no one's rights are safe. They may come for some sooner and others later, but they'll come for us all.
@hyakinthos You are absolutely right. There are times when Rs collect signatures to inflammatory propositions some unconstitutional just to get their base riled up.
While many reputable companies have pulled out of Russia long ago, American language learning company Duolingo has continued its business in Russia, reveals TASS.
In April, the company was told to censor its app, so Russians can no longer see ANY reference to the existence of #LGBT persons, and instead of ending its business in Russia, the company chose to help the dystopian regime and comply, writes Latvian-based newsmedia Meduza.
In the 19th century there was a panic about masturbation and its effect on the nation on both sides of the Atlantic.
At the beginning of the 20th century there was a panic about women's liberation, in sex and politics, destroying society.
By the mid 20th century there was a panic about sexual liberation and free love.
Later, in the 70s and 80s, there was a gay panic and gays were presented as predators and deviants.
Now, in the early 21st century, there is a trans panic and its trans and non-binary people who are seen as the social threat.
These are five separate panics across over 150 years, But, actually, they're not separate at all: they are the same panic generated by the same people that comes again and again and again in waves. Its a panic generated by the sexually puritan and socially authoritarian whose politics is that of coercion and control.
This tendency is the ultimate enemy of all lovers of social and personal freedom.
@autoerot1ca
But look where we have ended up: Children are sexual abused at record low levels. Some abusers get prosecuted. Domestic abuse is socially unacceptable. Many women leave abusive men.
Society has changed.
@autoerot1ca It's the tendency of people who have what they think they want (privilege) feeling no real satisfaction with it, instead seeking gratification from a 'cause'—that is, chasing scapegoats whose very existence gives them an enemy who has less power than them.
It's been called The Paranoid Style In American Politics, and it's very old.
Ever has it been so, but Joanne's always had that Nazi streak about her. Remember, the goblins were a woefully anti-Semitic caricature from the very first book, and the preservation of the boring, discriminatory, hateful Status Quo turned out to be the thing that Harry Was Destined to Do.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Are you or someone you know 50 years or older and a member of the LGBTQI+ community and living in California? If so, consider completing the first statewide survey of LGBTQ+ older adults.
@Wolfie_Rankin Transcription for those that can't read the text in the screenshot of the Twitter thread:
Dave Wiskus: The app store team at @LGUS has informed us that the inclusion of "LGBTQ+ content" is a violation of their policy, and we need to remove the Nebula app in 46 countries.
Lest anyone claim "it's the law," we have NOT received any such claims from Samsung, Apple or Google.
Hey folks, if you like retro pixel art arcade adventures, with casts of extremely LGBTQ inclusive characters, and dancing skeletons who can see through time - you might like my in-development game, Quantum Witch!
I'd love you forever* if you followed @QuantumWitch where I post updates, art, and music from it.
"The antifascists today not only managed to break police lines but also kettled the fascists for 2+ hours, effectively denying them the space and ability to demonstrate." #DefendPride#LGBT#LGBTQ#Pride#Pride2023#Ottawa#Ontario
Bonne rentrée à tous et toutes, y compris aux mineur.es trans qui font leur rentrée cette année dans un cadre de tensions.
Pour rappel, ces mineur.es ont des droits, et il est du devoir des établissements, des équipes, et des accompagnant.es, de les respecter. On vous a préparé une petite session de rattrapage si vous n'avez pas tout suivi.
Actuellement en France la ligne directrice sur la façon dont on doit gérer l'accueil des élèves trans est gérée par la circulaire du 29 septembre 2021, dite "circulaire Blanquer", dans le cadre de la lutte interministérielle contre la transphobie et l'homophobie. Cette circulaire rappelle que "La transidentité est un fait qui concerne l'institution scolaire". Pas une idéologie. Pas une croyance. Un fait. https://www.education.gouv.fr/bo/21/Hebdo36/MENE2128373C.htm
On rappellera que si cette obligation d'acter le changement est conditionnée à l'autorité parentale, elle ne l'est pas à l'autorité professorale : le respect des droits des élèves trans n'est pas d'après ce texte conditionné à l'opinion des équipes. Il n'existe pas de "clause de conscience" en la matière, même si chacun.e est bien sûr libre de ses opinions privées.
When you hear DeSantis/GOP apologists say that calling these anti-LGBT bills "Don't Say Gay" is being blown out of proportion, here is yet another example of how it is actually exactly what they are doing. It isn't about "protecting kids" it is about fucking with LGBT people and shoving us out of society like "the good old days" they keep pining for... #LGBT#LGBTRights#uspoli#DeSantisnews.yahoo.com/florida-teacher…
This month is my 5th wedding anniversary. My wife and I grew up in conservative Abrahamic faiths in Southeast Asia and, somehow when we found each other all hell did not break loose; our families accepted us, and now we are able to build a life we could have only dreamed off, far far away from home.
The Kiwis married us, and the Californians gave us a home. We are thankful. Immigrant life has been immensely difficult, but ultimately worth it.
Petit questionnaire de mon cru pour recueillir les besoins en matière de conciliation entre travail et vie hormonale et procréative.
Durée : 8 minutes.
Dispo en privé pour toute question. Merci de votre aide pour (re)diffusion.
Relance du questionnaire sur la conciliation entre la vie pro et la vie hormonale & procréative, pour une étude en cours.
Dispo en privé si préférence pour échange direct.
300 pers répondantes pour le moment.
Des réponses édifiantes illustrant l'inadaptation des conditions de travail aux effets de la vie hormonale tout au long de la vie, jusqu’à des prises de risques au travail.
Et le gouvernement entend conditionner le remboursement des protections des jeunes au fait qu'elles utilisent des protections lavables... parce, le bilan ecolo des gonzesses, quand même quoi. 🩸
C'est vrai qu'en bossant à temps plein, en s'occupant du ménage, des courses, du care des enfants et des parents et en manquant de flotte, on a que ça à foutre.
All this hate feels like it's being used as a smokescreen for the failures of Conservative Premiers in Canada.
Just stop.
#LGBT Canadians are Canadians. Their rights and freedoms are just the same as yours and mine. In fact, they had to fight HARD to get where they are now in Canada.
I would like to observe that, at least in order to keep its credibility, Human Rights organizations need to not choose sides, and report the same violations when they are perpetrated by the “underdog” - like Hamas, or in the West Bank.
For example - absence of due process in the case below:
A plaque commemorates two men who "lived in a course of uninterrupted friendship for 60 years..." on the north wall of the sanctuary in St Stephen's Church, Canterbury.
The two Williams met when they were aged 16 and 20.
