Tag: important

“Straight couples shouldn’t be at pride”

itarille0797:

thebaconsandwichofregret:

ugly-bread:

dragon-from-the-burning-mountain:

anidragon:

moshingtothesherlocktheme:

Well uh…

1.) one or both of people you see as a “straight couple” could be pan/bi/poly/ace

2.) one or both of them could be trans or non binary

3.) you could be misgendering someone

4.) They could be there to give moral support to a queer friend or family member who didn’t want to go alone.

Number four is important

5. They could be there because they support the cause stop fucking gatekeeping

6. They could be there in memory of a loved one, don’t forget Pride used to be a memorial as well as a celebration. I know a good number of straight people who go to Pride to celebrate the lives of friends and family who have died because they want to remember them as they lived, happy and joyful and surrounded by a community that loved them.

ALL OF THE FUCKING ABOVE.

7. They could be questioning or closeted about their gender and/or sexuality, or not ready to question their gender and/or sexuality, but still want to attend pride, either to experience being around people like themselves or to ‘test the waters’ in an open event that doesn’t have the loaded weight of walking into an explicitly queer space like a club, social group or community centre. These people might be closeted or questioning forever, or attending pride as a ‘passing straight’ person might be their first step into a deeper community engagement.

8. Open events are so important for this segment of our community for reasons of safety, too. People who CANNOT be open in their personal life can watch a parade or go to a park event without it being as implicitly indicative of their identity. Very important for vulnerable people (teens, disabled people, etc.) who are dependent on carers who might be unaccepting of their gender or sexuality.

How to dress your pākehā child up as Maui or Moana without appropriating Pasifika culture

letstalkdisneyk:

notcaycepollard:

What happens when your child asks to ‘dress up’ as Moana or Maui?

More specifically, what is the most appropriate response as a Pākehā parent when your child wants to dress up as a Polynesian heroine or hero?

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How to dress your pākehā child up as Maui or Moana without appropriating Pasifika culture

afishlearningpoetry:

The Biggest Upset In Oscar History with Moonlight, The Worst Snub with The Color Purple, + the Role of Race, Sexuality, Gender, & Time with the Academy Awards

Including The Color Purple being banned from libraries, Alice Walker’s Beauty In Truth, Steven Spielberg’s admission of holding back with Celie and Shug in the film, Allison Swank’s Africa On Film: Out of Africa, Geoff Nelson’s The Unbearable Whiteness of La La Land, Steven Thrasher’s ‘moonlight, trayvon, the oscars, and america’s fear of black boys’ and how La La Land was always planned to be this way.

See also: A Timeline of Other Gay Films Being Snubbed up to Moonlight, La La Land Straightwashed Rebel Without A Cause Decades Later, and The Blank Slate of La La Land.

Bonus: Recent examples similar to Out of Africa:

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cognitivedissonance:

That last tweet

I think this is really important, as are the things coming out from veterans of conflict who fought fascism and Nazis on the front line, whether in war or in their communities. We need to look to the elders among us as to how to deal with this present. Whether those elders are black, Hispanic, queer, Jewish, Roma, migrant, disabled, Native/First Nations, white, Asian, or something different entirely or any combination of intersectionality of identities – these people have fought this kind of hatred before. They have knowledge. They have understanding. They have tools that they can give us, and they have the strength and resilience that comes from surviving terrible circumstances.

myautisticpov:

It can be difficult when you’re disabled to consciously prioritise yourself.

To admit that you’re having a bad day and that you need to step away from everything that isn’t essential to your day-to-day survival.

Often, your subconscious can handle rationalising why you’re pushing off tasks.

The world won’t end if you live off Pot Noodle for a few days or the kitchen isn’t clean or you don’t shower over the weekend.

But right this second, in this political climate, it’s very easy to feel as if the world might end if you’re not marching or phoning people or engaging with incredibly heavy subject-matter constantly.

And everyone always tacks on “if you’re able”.

“Everyone should be doing this! But, like, I mean those who are able. Don’t feel bad if you can’t. But also, here’s a list of ways to engage with it anyway if it’s difficult for you. No pressure, but this person did it and they hate phone calls!”

But what about those of us who are nebulously able?

Who could maybe push ourselves, but at the expense of the essential day-to-day stuff, like our jobs or studies or basic self-care?

So here’s a reminder to everyone who is nebulously able: doing shit like this is for good days.

And it’s not even the first thing to do on a good day because you have to put the hoarding for bad days first.

Wait for a good day.

Make sure you’ve caught up on basics like shopping and cleaning and all of those things that shouldn’t have gotten so far down your list.

Make sure that engaging with these kinds of topics isn’t going to drain you of spoons that you need for the near future.

Then prioritise this stuff.

You’re no good to any cause if you’re burnt out.

reyton:

Mark Hamill speaking to fans at Oxford Union. 

He gets it, gets why seeing yourself in a character is important, and that is so rare. Too many creators and authors and actors get wrapped up in what their intent was when creating/writing/performing, and don’t see that the moment the work is out there, it’s open source for head canons, interpretations, fanworks and meta. This is all the more important for people of marginalised groups. So of course Luke is gay, if you read him that way. The power is YOURS not Mark’s, and he’s not so egocentric that he misses that. This should be far more common than it is, this generous acceptance of fan interpretation and evolution of canon.