Thank you so much!!! I haven’t seen the movie with Liam Neeson but there’s a part in the book where it says that when Jean Valjean had trouble noticing that Cosette had a crush on Marius because he’d never had one himself, and I thought that maybe the reason why he seemed so uncomfortable at Marius and Cosette’s wedding was because he hadn’t realized that attraction was a real thing before then.
I don’t often get political… but something has happened
Trump. He and his administration are trying to change the law so that whatever gender you were “born as” is your unchangeable sex/gender.
[1.4 MILLION AMERICANS]
This is from a new New York Times article, regarding the technicalities of what has been said. They go even further to discuss what they accurately call “biggest battlegrounds” for transgender students: the bathrooms and locker rooms.
We can’t be quiet about this. They are trying to erase who we are. To make it so that we just DON’T EXIST. As a transgender male who lives in America, this scares the shit out of me.
As I said, I don’t normally get political on my blog, but you all need to know about this.
don’t let this happen
“wrongfully extend civil rights protections to people who should not have them”
If that doesn’t send a chill down your spine I don’t know what to say
List of people who throughout history have thought that people “Shouldn’t have civil rights protections”
hi, welcome to the united fucking states, how may we discriminate you?
Everyone needs to see this. We can’t just let them discriminate against us, we have rights and we should fight for them. Our government is actively trying to push down minorities and no one is talking about it. This affects me and many of my friends. This could affect you or a friend you have. Even if this doesnt affect you, SPREAD THIS INFORMATION AND BE AN ALLY. We’re not gonna live in a broken country where freedom and equality is preached but only certain groups have those rights to equality and liberty. We shouldn’t have to live in fear of what human right our government is gonna strip away from us next. Please spread this.
You cannot define people out of existence, it’s literally impossible. Legally you can take away our rights, but you will NOT take away who we are. We will identify ourselves however we choose, and your fucked up ideals will never take that away.
It’s Asexual Awareness Week and I want to try an experiment.
Ever since June, this blog has been posting pictures of aces spotted at Pride events, in order to show that we exist and we belong. Now I want to show where we exist, namely, that we’re everywhere.
Here’s what I want to do: I’m going to start with some blank maps and I want to fill them in. But I don’t just want to color in the states or countries when someone says “I’m in Nebraska!” or “I’m in Lichtenstein!” or wherever. I want pictures of visible aceness in all of these places. Ace flags at famous monuments, demi t-shirts on the street, gray-ace chalk markings at Pride, that sort of thing.
I’m going to need your help for this.
Here’s what I need you to do.
Grab an ace, gray-ace, or demi flag or acey clothing of some kind. (It’s okay if the flag is printed or hand drawn!)
Go outside. If you can go to a famous landmark or nice view of some sort, that would be great, but you don’t have to. A local park would be fine, even the sidewalk in front of your house would be okay in a pinch. (If you already have a good picture, you can just send that in. If you don’t have or can’t take a picture, an artist’s rendition of what it would be like to take an ace flag to someplace awesome in your local area will be suitable.)
Take a picture of the aceness wherever you are. You don’t have to be in the picture if you don’t want to, but some visible ace symbol has to be.
Submit the picture to acespotting, putting your state/province/country in the caption. You can do that here: https://acespotting.tumblr.com/submit And make sure you give me your location, since that’s the point of this experiment! Province/Territory in Canada, State/District/Commonwealth/Territory in US, and Country anywhere else. (If you’re logged in, your username will be associated with the picture, so if you don’t want that, you can either log out or use an “Incognito” or “Private” browser window to submit anonymously.)
I’m also going to need your help to track down aces in obscure places and convince them to participate. California will be easy. Nunavut will be hard.
I’m hoping that we can completely fill the Canada/USA/Mexico map by the end of Ace Week. I’d also like to get at least half of Europe filled in. And as amazing as it would be to get every single country on the world map represented, I think I’d be happy to get something on every continent. (Who knows someone in Antarctica?) And if your place isn’t really on the map (Like, say, Puerto Rico…), send something in anyway and I’ll get it added.
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