kidagreen

kidagreen, 11 months ago to random

I’ve been on the internet for a long time and have never asked for aid before, but I’m in a bit of a bind. My phone died and I have to have one to be able to work and live. I found a refurbished one with the minimum specs I need for $192, as shown in the screenshot of the order, and put it on my credit card in the hopes I will have that much by the time the bill comes due. If anyone happens to have a few spare dollars to help out a chronically ill queer woman in the rural southern US, it would be so greatly appreciated. My CashApp is $AGreenPlace and my Venmo is @AGreenPlace. Thank you!

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Crowdfund

kidagreen, 1 year ago to random

IMO, an underrated fictional #lesbian romance (between two WOC!) is Delle Seyah Kendry and Aneela on the SYFY series #Killjoys, which blew my mind because it aired during the Bury Your Gays era. Aneela and Kendry both started out as terrible, vicious people who, in part through their love story, gradually learned to aim their anger and ruthlessness in more constructive directions and use their power for good. It was the first queer romance I ever saw that had a redemptive aspect to it, and the women remained powerful and formidable while trying to atone. Several of their lines and exchanges live rent free in my head (warning for spoilers):

Kendry: “Everything falls, Aneela, from fathers to empires. But we are queens. And queens... rise.”

Kendry: “Be careful.”
Aneela: “Be BRUTAL.”

Aneela: “If you want to stay human, I will hold your hands when you turn gray. I will bury you with honor and burn worlds in your name, and you will not be forgotten.”
Kendry: “Or?”
Aneela: “The war is over. And we have a son and an empire. And I need my queen.”

The show also contained one of the fiercest, strongest #QueerPlatonic relationships I have ever seen, some disaster bis, and an adorable M/M romance, and none of them got buried either! This show buried none of its gays! And it didn’t get canceled before its planned ending, so the story arc is complete!

#LesbianVisibilityWeek #Queer #LGBTQ #TV #SFF

kidagreen, 1 year ago to random

For all that I enjoy technology, I also love the continuity of doing things my ancestors likely did hundreds and thousands of years ago: Getting up at night to tend the fire. Eating fresh-baked bread with cheese. Singing a baby to sleep. Covering new-sprouted plants with straw to protect against a late frost. Praising my proud cat for the mouse she brought me. Bathing in a cold river in the morning.

Growing up in rural poverty, I used this idea of legacy as a way to cope, to find meaning in difficulty: I am doing what humans do. My foremothers ten thousand years ago hauled their water and foraged for food and checked for snakes before squatting in the grass, and I can do it too.

#History #Humanity #Legacies