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black_flag, 8 days ago to trans

When Elon Musk wrote out the sentence "cis is a heterophobic word" he proved that, in this world we all live in, you can be both the richest person alive AND stupid AF.

But it is the perfect example of the fact that anti-trans hate is based on not even understanding what you are talking about - nor even trying to. Its ignorance worn as a badge of pride.

#trans #nonbinary #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queer

black_flag, 11 days ago to trans

Gays and lesbians who are anti trans rights. Women who are anti trans rights.

#trans #gay #lesbian #queer #nonbinary #lgbtq #lgbtqia #women #feminism

black_flag, 14 days ago to movies

What is the most subversive movie ever made?

I want to make the case that its BLADE RUNNER.

We are supposed to think here that Deckard, the cop, the bounty hunter acting on authority, is the good guy.

Only he's not. He's a puppet, a stooge, inauthentic.

The good guys in Blade Runner are the replicants - created, artificial, self-determining, self-actualising, aware of their self-worth, authentic. They fight for their freedom against all comers.

"That's the spirit!"

#movies #film

black_flag, 18 days ago to trans

A woman gains nothing when JK Rowling is gratuitously cruel to random trans women on the internet. It doesn’t gain a woman equal pay, opportunities in sport, protection from sexual violence or protection from misogyny. In fact, many women would say their experience of misogyny has increased markedly at the hands of Rowling fanboys. She is hurting real people, people who just want to live their lives in peace in order to claim some hollow victory by destroying all around her.

#trans #lgbtq

black_flag, 20 days ago to random

Cabin in Alaska for rent. Usually peaceful.

black_flag, 21 days ago to trans

If the same people go after trans rights, gay + lesbian rights and women's rights, and if these people are always traditionalists working in the cause of a strictly defined social conservatism, then isn't the problem that a patriarchy wants to control the sexual lives and gender expressions of others, to restrict personal freedoms and to create incarcerating and incarcerated lives?

The fight is between freedom and unfreedom.

#trans #gay #lgbtq #women #queer #lgbtqia #lesbian #nonbinary #pride

black_flag, 22 days ago to movies

Have lined up a Nicolas Cage Fest for the weekend featuring the following recent films in which he appears:

Color Out of Space
Pig
Prisoners of the Ghostland
Renfield
The Flash
Dream Scenario
Mandy

#movies #film

Nicolas Cage meme. He gets off the bus in Con Air and his mullet blows in the breeze.

black_flag, 23 days ago to politics

Possible new defections to Starmer's Labour Party include Satan, Laurence Fox, anyone who wants to drown migrants in the sea, that batty Headteacher woman, Nigel Farage, the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Zippy from Rainbow.

#politics #ukpol #uk

black_flag, 26 days ago to mentalhealth

Physical wounds leave scars for life. So why wouldn't psychological ones too?

#mentalhealth

black_flag, 26 days ago to politics

A certain kind of man who thinks he is an "alpha" or a "lone wolf" should stop digging.

Other men aren't safe with men.
Bears aren't safe with men.
Women aren't safe with men.
The gender divergent aren't safe with men.

The common problem is a kind of man and the culture of that man.

#culture #criticism #politics #men #bear

black_flag, 26 days ago to random

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins; not through strength but perseverance."

(Buddhist proverb)

black_flag, 30 days ago to random

Beltane.

Were we all pagans we'd be in the forest wearing masks having sex with each other.

And, really, wouldn't that be better than whatever shit this is?

#Beltane

black_flag, 1 month ago to politics

How appropriate that today should be St George's Day, a day for idiots to post AI images of bulldogs, lions, Spitfires and knights templar and call this "Englishness", the Angles, from which the word "English" derives, being a Germanic tribe of migrants.

Today they would be illegally sent to Rwanda by a violent government of abject psychopaths led by a man of Indian descent whose own parents migrated to Britain from East Africa.

You couldn't make this shit up, could you?

#England #politics

black_flag, 1 month ago to random

"And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, 'cause I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very,,,"

(Tears for Fears)

black_flag, 1 month ago to politics

“The only way in which a state of
social freedom can be obtained is for each person who is oppressed to act as if they were at liberty, in defiance of all authority to the contrary, and evading or overcoming by force all force by which they are opposed or pursued. The liberty of each is created by their taking it.”

(Peter Kropotkin - altered by me for inclusive language)

#politics

black_flag, 1 month ago to random

When @mrscherryb appears on the timeline...

video/mp4

black_flag, 1 month ago to politics

How is thinking the world would go much better if everyone were motivated by personal greed working out?

#politics #economics

black_flag, 1 month ago to trans

Fleeing is an entirely reasonable and natural response to being targeted and put in danger (either by war or political violence against you as with some trans people in the USA).

What we need is to help people do it more and organise ways people can move safely and with support. This probably means all of us stepping up as and when we can.

We either help each other or we leave each other without help. There's no in-between.

#trans #lgbtq #nonbinary #lgbtqia #queer

black_flag, 1 month ago to trans

The UK's Transgender Action Block with their to the point statement on the recently published and despicable Cass Report.

More of this please and less handing over of yourselves to others. Take don't beg.

#trans #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nonbinary

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black_flag, 1 month ago to trans

"Cisgender-Heteronormativity isn't natural. It's just common. We're deconstructing, rewilding, denaturalising the oppressive structures we face and making room for diversity to flourish and blossom.

Genuinely beautiful."

(Mallory Moore)

#trans #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nonbinary #queer #gay #lesbian

black_flag, 1 month ago to trans

You might find it amazing that a supposed medical report into the treatment of trans people didn't interact with ACTUAL TRANS PEOPLE. (It did interact with plenty of antis and treated them as neutral and reasonable.) But so much did NHS England's Cass Report not interact with actual, real trans people that it resorted to generating AI pics of them.

These bigots are literally making up people to get mad at.

#trans #lgbtq #nonbinary #lgbtqia

black_flag, 1 month ago to trans

Gender critical tactic: when the scientific community in general, not least the experts in the fields of pediatrics and gender services, don't validate your bigotry or that of your financial and political backers, simply use politics to generate fake science which comes to your pre-determined conclusion.

This is a tactic used by eugencists for at least 125 years.

Its latest face is Hilary Cass’s report on gender identity services in England. Its politicised trash. #trans #nonbinary #lgbtq

black_flag, 2 months ago to philosophy

I've said it before and I'll say it again: if you're not creating something then you're not living. You're just existing.

And that could be anything. It could be a garden, a book, a picture. It could be a friendship, a building or a boat. It could be some music, a party or a revolution.

Create something. Its good for you.

#philosophy #mentalhealth

black_flag, 2 months ago to politics

Everyone says they hate people trafficking until the person trafficked is Shamima Begum.

Begum was a British 15 year old girl groomed by a Canadian govt spy into joining ISIS. The UK, who covered that bit up, now want to permanently block her from returning home.

She is a victim of govt malfeasance and yet another human pawn in bullshit political games.

#politics

black_flag, 2 months ago to trans

According to the new UK government definition of extremism you are extremist if you engage in:

"the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on...hatred or intolerance, that aims to:

negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others".

This is the gender critical and sex realist movement in a nutshell.

I look forward to them getting dragged.

#trans #lgbtq #queer #nonbinary #ukpol #politics