the imperial chinese examinations are a godsend for enjoyers of pathetic historical men such as myself. they gave rise to so many types of guy, such as: guy who failed the examinations like forty times and despondently wrote one of the great works of chinese literature between failures; guy who failed like ten times and decided “you know what? this is bullshit. this all has to go” and started a brutal peasant uprising; guy who just barely passed and was suddenly thrown into a very high military position, which he has ABSOLUTELY no training for; and guy who failed several times, faked a degree, got hired by harvard to teach chinese, had his fake degree discovered after he got to boston, begged harvard to let him teach because otherwise it would be really embarrassing for them all, taught like seven students, and died of pneumonia

THE FENG SHUI OF THIS WEBSITE IS FUCKED

the fact that generative A.I. has created a completely new fundamental doubt in reality (checking to see if an artwork we see is manmade or not) and doubt in the instinct of enjoying art is unforgivable. its sickeningly tragic, and i mean it. NOTHING is worth this price and i hope that everyone will one day realize this.

minnie bruce pratt, from sinister wisdom issue 122: How Can A Woman Who Is With A Trans Man Call Herself A Lesbian? spring 2024

[“I leave for the airport, Leslie comes downstairs with me and puts me in a cab. I look back, waving until she is out of sight. The driver smiles approval at me, at us:" You'll have to call him, or he will you."

At twenty, I was the girl who wanted both love and respect. Through the twenty- five years since, I've waited for the moment that always comes, when the male husband or the female lover looks at me and their smile slips from tolerant, amused, to contemptuous.

How I tried to smother that younger self so I never saw how people despised me, the girl self.

But Leslie always says to me," I call you ‘Girl!' for an honorific— for being so smart and so brave."

I've always thought of you as yourself, raised a girl, living as a woman, living as a man, living as yourself, true to yourself, my stone butch lesbian trans masculine muscular hilarious funny tender sentimental brilliant revolutionary sexy communist lover.

I loved you because of your gender beauty. The ways you were more than all the pronouns- she, zie, s/ he, he, zhe, sie, ze.

I loved the multiplicity, the everything that was Leslie. And never denied the dear secret places that had been hurt and assaulted, never denied anything of who you were.”]

Is oomf a monk

tracy chapman
talkin' 'bout a revolution

Kermit and his human friends Fanny and Shola in 1972, and reunited in 1989.

every gay celebrity in korea showed up to xlov's album rollout holy shit

by magdalena gerber

- Karese Burrows, from “You Are Going To Live”, Eunoia Review

Photos from Olivia Bee's collection "Kids in Love"

"There will only be Palestine, in its entirety" Palestinian Women (1974, 11) dir. Jocelyne Saab

the co-founder of 'crips for esims for gaza' and disability advocate, alice wong, has died according to her twitter account.

alice's disability advocacy naturally led her to palestine solidarity as the quote from the blog post announcing 'crips for esims' illustrates:

We also recognize that everyone in Gaza is now disabled due to the massive number of deaths, new disabilities, life-threatening illnesses and destruction of medical facilities going on. Such destruction also debilitates the land, water, and air, which will impact Palestinians and all surrounding life for generations to come. We owe our kin in Palestine to throw sand on the gears of genocide with our every breath. [source: the disability visibility project]

since december 2023, crips for esims for gaza has raised well over $3.1M and bought and maintained over 5,000 esims, undoubtedly saving lives.

in the past few days there has been intense winter flooding in gaza. donate to honor alice wong's memory–to keep people connected, to give disabled people the tools to advocate for themselves, to refuse to let palestine be silenced.

the way she squints oh my god 😭😭😭💗

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