Biological sex is not and has never been a binary. The complexity of the natural world cannot be contained in neat little societal boxes. Stop using science to justify your bigotry.
THE WOMAN KING (2022) - In this sweeping, historical epic inspired by true events, General Nanisca (Viola Davis) of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the 1800s African Kingdom of Dahomey, trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.
Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, written by Gina Prince-Bythewood and Dana Stevens, and starring Viola Davis, John Boyega, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, Hero Fiennes, and Adrienne Warren.
Releasing exclusively in movie theaters on September 16th, 2022.
“Fully accessible” is a phrase that needs to be abolished yesterday.
It tells me next to nothing about whether I’ll be able to access a venue/ event. Even as a wheelchair user, all I can assume from “fully accessible” is that there’s probably step-free access which isn’t enough.
It doesn’t tell me the width of the doorways. It doesn’t say whether there’s a changing places toilet, an accessible toilet, or an “accessible” toilet without room for a wheelchair. I don’t know if there’s music in the background, a quiet space to retreat to in case of overload/ emergency.
Not to mention that conflicting access needs exist - it’s literally impossible to be “fully accessible” to everyone.
When I’m looking for access information, I’m looking for a list of information and contact details for any questions.
no but like. there’s something so surreal about changing your hair and wearing the kind of clothes you want after a lifetime of pretending you’re someone you’re not and an even longer lifetime of rediscovering yourself to become the person you want to be and then finally getting to look in the mirror and going wow !!! yeah !!! that’s me !!!! i want that someday and i hope everyone who doesn’t feel like that yet will too soon
Not to be that person but I feel like sometimes Shrek being so memeable prevents people from seeing how truly revolutionary and radical the first two films really were. A children’s fairy tale that argues that no, ugliness does not mean bad and beautiful does not mean good. A fairy tale that argues that everyone deserves love, even those cast out of the margins of society. A fairy tale that dares to have a female protagonist not be conventionally attractive or helpless. A fairy tale that argues that love does not happen at first sight, but is grown through mutual respect and interest. That’s pretty fucking sick if you ask me
I literally do not care what the Bible says about any political issue. I am not Christian. Christian scripture should have zero effect on my life or my personal freedoms.
One thing I’ve realized during the pandemic is that NTs are actually pretty rigid. Despite the fact that a certain rigidity of thinking and need for routine are often mentioned as hallmarks of neurodivergence (most often for people on the spectrum, but it does come up occasionally for other things like ADHD, anxiety, etc), the antimask crowd is overwhelmingly NT.
Among ND people I know, the response to masks has varied. Some really like them, because they don’t need to spend a ton of energy thinking about their facial expressions. Some have basically gone “I don’t like them, but whatever. It is what it is.” And a small few have had sensory issues they can’t figure out a work around for, so they just do curbside pickup and avoid situations where a mask is needed as much as possible.
And when you think about it, it’s not very surprising. ND people, whatever our individual issues, are pretty used to having to move through a world not designed for us. Why would a pandemic be any different?
Meanwhile, we got to witness NTs having meltdowns because they couldn’t get a haircut. The pandemic had interrupted their routine, and they couldn’t handle it. For the first time, they were living in a world that wasn’t designed around their desires.
So apparently rigidity and a need for routine aren’t a ND thing, so much as what happens when human beings live in a society that isn’t designed around their preferences.
yep, 95% of nt life is ritual, it’s just so normalised it’s invisible to them but we damn well notice
[ID: tags which read, “#i didnt think about it till now but plenty (caps) plenty (end caps) of NTs were exhibiting the maladaptive behaviors that have defined many ND disorders #so turns out they arent really symptoms of being ND but of living in a world where ur routine isnt respected and ur needs arent met always #so then why are we using those as criterion for diagnosing ND people? instead of idk. meeting them where theyre at #or anything else really. anything else”. a minor typo has been corrected in this transcription for accessibility. end ID]
Trans allyship includes multigendered people. It includes the he/shes, the people who are boygirls, the people who have “contradicting” labels, the people who are fluid, the people who are ever-shifting in their gender, the people whos sexualities feel complicated by their gender, and the people I couldn’t include here because there are just so many different ways for people to exist as a multigendered person.
If you are to exclude multigendered people or people with a complex relationship with gender from trans liberation, you are doing your allyship in a backwards way. I do not want trans liberation if it means excluding fellow trans people. I do not want trans “allyship” that only loosely supports passing, binary, conforming, non-complex trans people. Liberation for all trans people. Not just the ones you personally like.
Body language is completely unique to every single individual person and the science of body language is almost if not completely unreliable and if I have to listen to one more person claim they can “read” me by my body language I’m gonna flip.
MULTIPLE people in my life have told me they can “tell” I’m “self conscious” because I look at my feet when I walk and they say it like they want me to open up about some social insecurities, like I have some wall they’re about to break down and we’ll have a moment
And I tell them the same truth every single time:
As a kid we had two MASSIVE Holly trees in the backyard and my dad and my uncle, both well meaning but perhaps poor planners, said “yes a great place for a swing set is directly beneath those.”
So they built it there and the issue is that entire section of yard was a Minefield of dried Holly leaves with one final mission before they became dirt which was to Stab themselves into a child’s foot
And being that my siblings and I had some feral rage aversion to wearing shoes, we took to running to the swings on our tiptoes, staring at the ground for the leaves
And to this DAY I still look at the ground when I walk out of habit formed by a decade of that
And NO body language guide and NO BBC Sherlock wannabe would EVER source that
“I can tell you’re lying because you’re playing with your hair.”
I’m playing with my hair because I have ADHD and can’t stay still.
“I can tell you’re lying because you’re looking up and to the side.”
I’m looking up and to the side because I have ADHD and can’t hear you if I’m looking directly at you.
“I can tell…”
shut up shut up shut up shut up
Isn’t amazing how much of neurodivergent body language is considered ‘indications of lying’?
Reading body language accurately depends entirely on establishing a person’s unique baseline.
A behavior is only a red flag if the person has never done it. Anyone that actually studies human behavior as a profession will tell you this. Unfortunately, police are not part of this profession.
I look at my feet when I walk because I’m a fall risk. If my left leg goes out for some reason (oh, like FINDING A FUCKING GOPHER HOLE OR SLIPPING ON MUD FROM MY SCHOOL OVER-WATERING), I could be seriously injured. For instance, fracturing my hip. Yes, all of these have happened to me. People have a multitude of reasons for a multitude of behaviors. It’s almost like we’re individuals!
idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each other’s clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and it’s lowkey killing the mood a little
Alternatively: it’s not killing the mood at all but it’s totally making both of them giggle like they’re twelve and possibly get lowkey competitive in a subconscious way about who has the most to drop.
The more that I think of it the more I’m seeing the incredible intimacy of letting someone know where you keep your backup knife.
Like my god, the trust involved in letting someone undress you and learn your secrets instead of popping into the bathroom to change where they can’t see and hiding all your weapons under the sink
…Oh
second alternative: you go to hide all your weapons under the sink but there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink.
awkward
It’s not that there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink that makes it awkward so much as that there’s so many weapons hidden underneath the sink that they fall out of the cabinet with the unmistakable sound of a knife-alanche, and then the other person comes in like “I can explain!” and you’re just dead-ass standing there with your own armload of weapons like “I can also explain.”
Married version is shoving your hand in your partner’s clothes when you’re out of weapons because you KNOW where their spare is. Or wearing a weapon in a spot you can’t draw from yourself because its now spare storage for your spouse’s weapons.
Every single one of you is a genius
why did I read that as “stripping each other to the bone” and was like ‘sure that’s normal’ and kept reading
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