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Wed, 27 Jun 2018 00:43:14 -0400

gunpowder-tea:real lgbt solidarity

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:38:45 -0400

gunpowder-tea:

real lgbt solidarity

static-behind-green-eyes: recoveringfangirl: feltcustoms: sixpe...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:36:51 -0400

static-behind-green-eyes:

recoveringfangirl:

feltcustoms:

sixpenceee:

To commemorate the violence against LGBTQ members, Pride Shield created a bulletproof rainbow flag. The thematic installation is made up 193 pride flags, one for every country in the world. When positioned together, they defy bullets, which aims to encourage the importance of togetherness. (Source)

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This. A thousand times this.

I literally started crying watching this

I have that familiar lump in my throat before crying.

cedricdigory: u guys i literally want a female remake of every movie ever, every single film that...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:31:04 -0400

cedricdigory:

u guys i literally want a female remake of every movie ever, every single film that men hold dear, every single fucking motion picture that men nut over, i want it to be remade and be female lead. die hard starring angelina jolie, fight club starring kristen stewart and saiorse ronan, pulp fiction starring jodie foster and viola davis, the godfather with meryl streep, dirty harry starring cate blanchett, american psycho starring margot robbie, training day with laverne cox and alicia vikander, james bond with gillian anderson, i want them all!!!!!!

unthrifty–loveliness: unthrifty–loveliness: Just so we’re clear, if I point out that you did...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:44:22 -0400

unthrifty–loveliness:

unthrifty–loveliness:

Just so we’re clear, if I point out that you did something racist, that’s not the same as me thinking you’re irremediably terrible. You did a racist thing.

You think you don’t do racist things, homophobic things, etc? You do. I caught myself in fat phobic and homophobic lines of thinking/speech just this morning. I’m fucking gay married. Nothing disqualifies you from acting in a way that reflects the society you exist in. We are obliged to fight it. Why not fight it in honesty and with camaraderie?

captainmarvels:Evangeline Lilly ending male actors in 78...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:46:44 -0400

captainmarvels:

Evangeline Lilly ending male actors in 78 seconds. (x)

thecringeandwincefactory: nentuaby: original:...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 03:29:47 -0400

thecringeandwincefactory:

nentuaby:

original: https://twitter.com/Manda_like_wine/status/977299937963765761

My god this is applicable to so many situations: this is in no way a WE situation.

odd-peasant: pakistan365: Palestine TV correspondent Hana...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 16:20:22 -0400

odd-peasant:

pakistan365:

Palestine TV correspondent Hana Mahameed carries on working after being targeted by Israeli soldiers.

Women are fucking awesome

jennyslateswife: while i get and agree with the fact that gay people should probably play gay...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 06:09:07 -0400

jennyslateswife:

while i get and agree with the fact that gay people should probably play gay people and gay stories are best written by gay people, the fervor to prove that “straight people shouldn’t play gay characters!!” is what the interviewer used to forcibly out lee pace so like

idk maybe slow your roll and realize that like… actors can be closeted, content creators can be closeted, and tbh this “you can only write your own experiences, never write someone else’s” rhetoric is also a bigot’s fucking wet dream?? like the perfect excuse to never write diverse characters?? and to say that they have nothing in common with people who don’t look/love/exist the same way as them??

yeah, the author of simon vs the homo sapien’s agenda is a cis straight woman, which means love, simon (though directed by a married gay man with multiple gay characters played by gay/bi actors) is based on a novel written by a straight woman… but this straight woman literally ends her book acknowledging the LGBT teens who helped her write the book and make sure she was writing it appropriately.

this is the content we want

listen… EVERY SINGLE piece of media EVER involves some level of writing about experiences that are not your own, especially if it’s diverse. even bland stories just about white people involves an author writing about genders that are not their own. if you want a story with characters of color, white authors are going to have to write about those perspectives. if you want gay characters in every story, straight authors are gonna have to write about those perspectives. even LGBT narratives might involve gay authors writing about bi characters or cis authors writing about trans characters.

what we HOPE FOR when they do that is that they talk to people… actually belonging to those groups to learn what is and isn’t appropriate and true to life. which is what the author of simon vs the homo sapien’s agenda did.

it’s exactly what she did. she literally worked in a support group for LGBT and GNC kids, saw they did not have cute love stories written for them after they told her this, and then worked with them to give them the love story they craved.

this is a good thing. this is progress for lgbt people. this is the path we need to walk towards getting LGBT content created by LGBT authors.

when you attempt to take the ~moral ground on protesting this film, all you’re doing is telling people who fund these projects that gay products don’t sell. they don’t get the nuance of what you’re going for. and, chances are, you’re looking like a fucking hypocrite, because i can promise you most of the canon gay characters you stan profit a cishet somehow (if they’re even canon).

so, y’unno, as someone who has read simon vs the homo sapien’s agenda AND seen the fucking movie let me tell you!! it’s fine!! it’s diverse beyond having gay character, it’s written respectively, and it hit home on a lot of experiences i WISH i had as a gay teen. it’s corny, it’s silly, and it’s all i ever would have wanted at 13, 14, 15

if you don’t want to see it, just fucking say so! but don’t act like you’re doing it on moral grounds. you can just… not like a movie or not want to see it without it being some moral victory.

mercedesrollinballer: Rositara is real, y’all!

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 06:01:31 -0400

mercedesrollinballer:

Rositara is real, y’all!

rudescience: mariogolmez: vixencanaries: feliscybernicus: varpusvaras: therunninglifechoseme: ...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 05:54:07 -0400

rudescience:

mariogolmez:

vixencanaries:

feliscybernicus:

varpusvaras:

therunninglifechoseme:

bookavid:

jenniferrpovey:

syrenpan:

jenniferrpovey:

stealthydice:

buckmerogers:

kieren-fucking-walker:

rememberthehuntress:

desuke-dragonqueen:

Okay non-European tumblr, I’m gonna explain to you why ‘white’ isn’t as simple here as it is in the rest of the world

- Shades of white in Europe range from ‘freshly fallen snow’ to ‘I am frequently mistaken as being from the Middle East’

- White European is a thing. When you fill out a form, under ethnicity, there are several options for white; white British, white European, white other. Because people make that distinction

- There are Europeans who don’t class their ethnicity as their skin colour, but as their nationality. I have family who don’t think of themselves as white, they just think of themselves as Italian and don’t really give much thought to their skin colour

- People here in Britain always question if darker skinned white Europeans are ‘actually white’. I get it a lot myself. My response is always ‘well I’m not anything else, so obviously I must be’

- Despite being white, a lot of Europeans from Italy, Greece, Spain etc, don’t feel white in the traditional sense. We’re not white like white British people. We’re not white like white Americans. We’re our own white. White British is one thing. White Italian is another thing. White Greek is another, etc

- Which is why we have this notion here in Europe of ‘nationality over race’. Being white isn’t as important as where you’re from

- So this really only becomes an issue if you’re an immigrant

- So being white in Europe doesn’t save you from racial discrimination, because sure, you’re technically white, but you’re not white white. Not the right white

- Here in England, Europeans with really blatantly foreign names, such as myself, find it more difficult to get job interviews, because they take one look at our name and don’t bother reading the rest of the CV. A guy I know was actually told by his boss to reduce the pile of CVs he had by ‘chucking away any with a name you can’t fucking pronounce’

- And then even when you do get an interview, half the time you walk into the joint several shades darker than everyone else and feel like you’ve walked into the ‘Swedish supermodel’ clubhouse and you just know you’re not getting hired

This is all basic stuff and it’s very much taken for granted here. Race and ethnicity are not as clear cut, so it can be very confusing for non-Europeans to wrap their heads around. Which is fine. But I implore you to stay in your lane, because when you say things like ‘no white person anywhere in the world ever knows what it’s like to face racial discrimination’, it’s really fucking offensive to all of the European immigrants who are denied jobs, harassed by the police and beaten by racists, because foreign is foreign to these people, and they don’t give a shit if you’re technically white. So when you mean white American, say white American.

This doesn’t just apply to “darker skin” Europeans either (which I’m sure some Americans would argue are POC for some reason or other). Try being slavic in Western Europe. Hell, try being Sinti or Roma in any part of Europe.

Especially in the UK you can be as white as you like but if you aren’t from Britain (or in some cases just England) then you face discrimination. It really isn’t that clear cut in Europe and it drives me mad when people say white people can’t experience racism because that’s such a US-centric idea.

And if you’re from anywhere in South-East Europe then you should prepare for your country to be slandered in every UK paper. Seriously, you can’t turn on the news, go on the internet, read a newspaper, without being told how Romanian, Ukrainian, Polish people are a drain on the UK’s resources and they should be banned from the country. And guess what?

(That’s Mila Kunis. She was born in the Ukraine.)

(Sebastian Stan. From Constanta, Romania.)

(Mia Wasikowska, from Poland)

(Nina Dobrev, who was born in Bulgaria.)

They are white! Just because they are white, it doesn’t mean people from their countries cannot face horrible discrimination, and it doesn’t mean that they can’t be constantly told that they don’t work as hard as people from Western Europe, and that they don’t deserve basic human rights.

So just before you force your ignorance onto people who don’t hold the same views as you due to where they live operating in a different way, just remember that not everybody lives in America.

Here it is guys, the post that finally puts what I’ve been trying to say for far too long into words!

…I didn’t know Sebastian Stan was Romanian.

But as somebody who has lived in England and the US, I can vouch for all of this. The race issues in Europe and the race issues in the US are not the same.

For the last few years, there has been an awful backlash against immigrants from Poland, with some of the same language used that Americans use about “Mexicans” (By which, half the time, they mean anyone from south of the US/Mexico border).

It’s worth understanding that

1. Racism and discrimination are everywhere.

2. They don’t take the same form everywhere.

I have lived in England for over 10 years now, and can confirm all of the above. As soon as I open my mouth people can tell, of course, that I was not born and raised British.

I was yelled at in the street because a lady thought I was Polish. People have pushed their chairs into my parents and insulted them in a restaurant because they were recognised as Germans.

Being white is not that cut and dry over here.

And being “socially” white as opposed to just pale skinned evolves over time. I mean, there have been times in America when Irish and Italian people have not been considered “white”.

READ THIS POST IF YOURE AMERICAN

I’m American and this is the FIRST time I’ve ever heard any of this. I always think I’m up to date on world issues but wow I am not. Thank you to everyone for sharing!

About discrimination between nations in Europe, speaking Finnish and Sami languages in schools in Sweden was forbidden from students because Finns and Sami people were considered to be the lower race.

Of course Europe has racism against black people, but yes, thinking about Europeans being “white” as whole is weird because a white Finn and a white Greek person couldn’t be more apart with their cultures.

Yes, all of this, and let’s not forget people like the Finnish speaking Finns have historically and from some cultural standpoints a lot more common with native Americans and the Asians and Blacks in America than white Americans, despite our recent “rise” in the social rank of race.

Less than 100 years ago we were considered mongoloid (and while it’s not entirely wrong, though Uralic or North-West Asian and Caucasian mix would be lot more accurate), and were oppressed by another nation (Russia) that tried to enforce cultural and linguistic genocide on us, and before that we were oppressed and practically enslaved by Sweden, not all that differently as in any other colonized nation–which we were for 800 years.

For all intents and purposes, our “whites” are the Swedish-speaking Finns, who to this day continue to be a lot more privileged than the Finnish-speaking Finns, on average.

In Italy, Southern people are considered less than Northern people and I, as a Northern people, can assure you sometimes it’s pretty bad. Mostly thanks to an idiotic right wing party that thinks that Italy should be divided in two: over the Po and below the Po (our longest river). They even think our ancestors are Celts lmao. Also a lot of people from the South are “less white” (again it’s stupid but whatever it’s just to make you understand), because they have ancestors from Africa so they are mixed, therefore their skin isn’t white as snow.

Also in Italy people from slavic countries are often victim to xenophobia, people are always ready to see romanians/albanian/russians…etc as culprits for everything, and it’s not unusual to hear someone says “this hairstyle makes you look like an albanian!” or “why are you going out dressed as a romanian” yeah they use slavic people as an insult bc people are led to think that they come here just to steal everything from us. And guess what most of them are white as snowflakes!

I’d like to point out that also italian people have faced discrimination from other european countries. We were, and sadly often still are, always seen as part of the mafia and therefore dangerous, or inferior and poor (y’all can find signs saying pretty nasty stuff online, and i’m leaving this here even tho it’s in Italian), i’ve heard a lady telling his son to stay away from me and my family because we were speaking italian and so we could do “bad things” to him and there were times when in shops we were made feel not welcome because we are italian…..and guess what my family is white.

So please when you are outside the us don’t try to apply your “racial standards” bc they are not valid in europe.

This is important. I am an Albanian from Macedonia where 25% of the population here is Albanian yet we still face discrimination just for being another nationality even though we’re born in our rightful place. Especially here in south east europe there’s a lot of hate against neighbouring countries just for their nationality. Skin color has nothing to do with it. So the white calling really irks me when heard from an American towards a European. Calling a European person white really puts them in one bag with all other nationalities. So dont.

isabella-study: We really need to normalise exercising and eating well for reasons other than losing...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 05:50:17 -0400

isabella-study:

We really need to normalise exercising and eating well for reasons other than losing weight or building huge amounts of muscle. I’ve started going to the gym recently to relieve stress and help me sleep but despite the fact that I fit into shirts and skirts in size small, I’ve been asked if I’m trying to lose weight numerous times.

Here’s a list of non-aesthetic reasons to exercise:

relieves stress

keeps you healthy

improves sleep

can have a positive effect on mental health

makes you stronger and fitter

something to focus on other than work/school/uni

IT’S RECOMMENDED AS PART OF A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

dredsina: that’s not a dumb question! there are a couple of ways...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 05:49:02 -0400

dredsina:

that’s not a dumb question! there are a couple of ways to do it, but i’ll show you the two that i usually use

the method i use most often is to take my line layer

and lock the transparency, as such:

all you need to do after that is just take the paintbrush (or your tool of choice) and draw over the area you want the color in. because the transparency of the layer is locked, the color can only go on the opaque parts of the layer, which in this case is my line art.

TIME OUT!!!! the drawing you linked me to as an example (http://dredsina.tumblr.com/post/39772819254) started as a pencil drawing that i scanned. if i were to attempt the previous technique with my scanned drawing, it would turn out like this:

because there is no transparency in my scanned layer! it is a solid image. the technique wouldn’t work. to make it work, i would need to turn my scanned layer into a transparent line art layer, which is what i did for this particular drawing. how to do this is to go to your “channels” tab:

click “load channel as selection”

then, making sure the tool you are using is a selection tool (marquee, lasso, or magic wand), right-click the work area and click “select inverse” (if you are not using a selection tool, this particular menu will not show up when you right-click)

now create a new layer!

then, using the paint bucket tool, fill the area with black (or whatever color you want the lines to be). make sure your paint bucket options are as such:

you now have a layer where everything “white” is actually transparent – an isolated line art layer!! cool!

TIME IN!!!

there’s another option i use occasionally, though this is actually a technique i usually use for flat colors.

how it goes is that i make a new layer above my line art layer

draw the color i want in the area i want it to be

right-click the color layer and select “create clipping mask”

and that will make it so the contents of the selected layer will only affect the opaque (and translucent) elements of the layer below it.

et voilà! sorry this post was so long, but i hope it helped!

neglectedrainbow: neglectedrainbow: neglectedrainbow: neglectedrainbow: straight people stop...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 05:27:49 -0400

neglectedrainbow:

neglectedrainbow:

neglectedrainbow:

neglectedrainbow:

straight people stop trying to profit off of gay audiences while doing absolutely nothing to actually help us challenge

btw this is about the new rita ora song called “girls” which features the chorus “sometimes, i just wanna kiss girls, girls, girls / red wine, i just wanna kiss girls, girls, girls.”

except literally all of the four singers are straight. and the song was written by five men and cardi b.

about the song, rita said “at first listen, you’ll be like ‘oh wow. she’s definitely letting us know that she likes girls.’ but it’s not that…the song is basically about females complimenting other females and supporting each other”.

so like. she’s singing this song (written by almost all men) about girls wanting to kiss girls, and then frantically pulling a no-homo and saying that the song is about feminism somehow. not girls loving girls. which completely invalidates the love of women that wlw like myself actually have.

and her trying to immediately advertise and sell the song as a “bisexual anthem” when it features no actual bisexual artists. the lgbtq community is not a marketing campaign.

and there’s this:

because, oh, of course. women wanting to kiss women is “twisted.” thanks rita.

(also the song’s inspiration is apparently katy perry’s “i kissed a girl” so no wonder it’s a mess tbh)

tl;dr: rita ora, charli xcx, bebe rexha, and cardi b released a song trying to profit off of the lgbtq community and wlw specifically while doing literally nothing to actually help our community and marginalizing the voices of actual lgbtq artists.

the song’s just trying to take our money, treat us like nothing more than a trend, and exploit our love. please, instead of listening to this garbage song, support actual lgbtq artists.

as always, hayley kiyoko has given a perfect response. exactly what i was trying to say <3

more good responses from wlw about this:

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and while you’re here:

<3

elodieunderglass: pervocracy: allthingslinguistic: The...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 05:00:32 -0400

elodieunderglass:

pervocracy:

allthingslinguistic:

The International Phonetic Alphabet consonants found in English, with keywords and relevant parts of the mouth highlighted and colour-coded. (Source.)

Pronouncing each of these in sequence is a very strange and amusing physical sensation, and I highly recommend it.

haha look it’s where those noises live in your dang FACE, TRY IT

gorps: ferafish: anachronistic-nostalgia: “omg this advertisement is so progressive and so good...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 04:57:00 -0400

gorps:

ferafish:

anachronistic-nostalgia:

“omg this advertisement is so progressive and so good and it’s doing such great things for representation and the world and—”

it is an advertisement. it is trying to sell you something. it is using your liberal ideologies to sell you more bullshit. it sees you as a marketing demographic. corporations do not fucking care about you brands are not your friend this will not save you.

I know corporations are just trying to sell me shit, but hey, they actually think advertising to my demographic is worth it. Like, hey, there was a time when including gay people in ads could lose a corporation a hell of a lot of money from people boycotting. Now, they’re worth the risk. Yeah, it’s all for the money, but it’s nice to know I’m worth it to advertise to.

I really hope you realize how incredibly sad it is to read someone saying “I’m glad people think I’m valuable enough to exploit”

libraryofcongresshh: Source: advocate.comT This photo was taken,...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 03:17:40 -0400

libraryofcongresshh:

Source: advocate.comT

This photo was taken, and the first Ugandan Pride was held, in 2012. Five years later they’re still celebrating Pride. Despite the fact that they face police raids and arrests, they’ve made this an annual event.

This is the epitome of courage. I have no other words.

lexa-kom-skaikru: thecommanderofthe100: Emily Andras, always...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 18:20:23 -0400

lexa-kom-skaikru:

thecommanderofthe100:

Emily Andras, always keepin’ it real! 👭🦖

What I’m seeing is that writers and movie makers are trying to make change and start to catch up to TV in terms of LGBT representation but then when it comes to the final cut there’s always some mysterious time cut… wonder who’s to blame.

a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy: bal-lantine: ttracer: draw women in post-apocalyptic world settings...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:33:47 -0400

a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:

bal-lantine:

ttracer:

draw women in post-apocalyptic world settings with armpit hair, leg hair, bushy brows and pubic hair ya cowards,, draw brown women/women with dark thick hair with arm hair and happy trails and sideburns and mustaches i’m sick of seeing silky smooth soapy clean make up wearing post apocalyptic dolled up women next to stinky sweaty crusty men with dirty nails and sweaty clothes and sweaty greasy hair and 3m long ugly beards

or, if you must depict women maintaining that shit, at least be interesting about it. I can actually buy someone shaving/putting on makeup if that’s their way of coping, something they do to tether themselves to the past or an ellusive feeling of normalcy. So show me the EFFORT put in, yeah? Show that woman risking a zombie horde because she spotted a fucking tube of scarlet lipstick and christ she hasn’t seen that color in five years but it’s what she wore on her first date with her now-dead husband. Show me the girl who is quietly starting to fucking lose it but covers it up with fanatical commitment to her appearance because if she gets these eyebrows right, maybe no one will notice how she stares at things that aren’t there.

I find it completely plausible that some women would go to incredible lengths to maintaining their appearance, because they’ve been socialized all their lives to caring about it, because it’s a part of their identity. So show me how that part gets negotiated with once the world has gone to hell.

Catch me in your local bunker doing a smoky eye with the ashes of my former life.

stonersquabbles: The fact that the gay community needs like 18 app major apps just to fuck or meet...

Thu, 21 Jun 2018 02:21:36 -0400

stonersquabbles:

The fact that the gay community needs like 18 app major apps just to fuck or meet someone is very telling. Grindr for white twinks, scruff and growlr for white bears and chasers, jack’d for anyone who isn’t white (and weed), etc… Half of the profiles on Grindr say things like “No fats, fems, or blacks”, “Asians, move along” or “White only please. Not racist, just a preference.” We scream at the world for treating us like outcasts yet we segregate and marginalize ourselves. Don’t ever forget that misogyny, transphobia and racism are just as present in the lgbtq+ community as it is amongst heterosexual people.