trainthief:

trainthief:

It’s Mormon conference weekend, which happens twice a year, and is when all the Mormons stay in and listen to new talks given by their leaders all day long on Saturday and Sunday. It’s consequently also a very scary time for the gay community in Utah, and the whole weekend we often send and receive lots of texts checking in, making sure everyone’s okay, asking if they’ve heard the latest awful talk condemning us. There’s real world applications to everything that happens there. Parents are “moved” to disown their children, coworkers and friends and neighbors are reminded to Other us and treat us accordingly. Suicide rates increase significantly. I remember the year after they announced children of gay parents would have to formally disown them before they’d be welcome in the church, and for two weeks afterward a group chat updated the gay community in my area almost every day with a handful of names who were not longer with us. A talk just concluded that said confusing both your gender identity and your gender role is the influence of Satan, which is deeply harmful to young trans kids and to young women. This isn’t a fun or sexy post for your timeline it just sucks and I hate Mormons and I can feel how difficult this next week is going to be as a result.

I just… I know it’s easy to just joke about Mormons and consider them harmless cause Utah is just one state and who lives there?? But like, I do. And lots of gay and trans people do, as well as poc, and young women who have had their whole lives and concepts of self defined by this bullshit. It’s the popular culture and it’s the state laws and it’s everything it’s not just something people do in Sundays. A friend of mine went on a Mormon mission and realized he was gay after he’d been having psychosomatic seizures. For four months. Because he’d been trained to repress it so well. Like you all KNOW it’s important to me to love and respect all religions but that’s not a fucking religion they’re absolutely evil and making millions of dollars off of this shit and it makes me so mad.

lezzyharpy:

i just wanna say seeing articles about how america is “regressing into a developing nation” should be a tipoff that “developing nation” has never meant a country that is on some path towards becoming a prosperous G5 nation or some shit, it has always been an obfuscating euphemism for a country with low standards of living due to structural exploitation, but calling it what it is would lead to asking just whos doing that exploiting, so we stick with these bullshit titles instead

caffeine-for-college:

c-maj:

“biological sex is a social construct” doesn’t mean “chromosomes, anatomy, hormones, and genitalia don’t exist”. it means “these exist, but assigning roles, labels, and expectations to certain combinations of these characteristics is a social construct, and an unnecessary and pointless (actually harmful) one at that”.

Nobody is denying biology, transphobes are denying autonomy.

edgebug:

the-stray-liger:

edgebug:

people back in 2012 were too cowardly to ship the onceler with the lorax so they had to ship him with himself but you KNOW that if The Lorax (2012) was released today y’all would be all over that lussy

Op turn on your location I just want to talk

jesus was also persecuted in his time

megalunalexi:

bogleech:

If you have billions of dollars it shouldn’t be a crime to steal from you. You’ve got enough money that your security should be your own responsibility and anyone who manages to swipe from your hoard deserves applause for besting a supervillain

Over a billion and you reach the social connotations that dragons have, as in stealing from you is considered a Challenge rather than a Crime

shromo:

Send me your headcanons about my characters and I’ll tell you if they’re correct or not