#Respectability

The degree to which people don’t know how to make proper Venn diagrams hurts my heart This is what is currently breaking my brain The circles should be female, non-binary,
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It's crazy the difference it makes when people are caring and gentle.https://twitter.com/champagneamzii/status/1282743508223307776 I see a lot of people romanticizing "being a baby". But it's not the age that inherently ma
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@boards Was digging up some old stuff I'm curious if you'd ever consider accountability for the extreme transphobia I got on the board back in the mid to late 2000s
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So a lot happened this week that stirred the hornets' nest across the Black Twitter diaspora.I'm gonna double back to this @BBCAfrica post. Many folks cite incidents like it as
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Okay. Here's the promised about why mocking people for problematic things, even if they're bad people, is still problematic: I'm scrolling my timeline & I see one of my mutuals
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I think a major problem with how queer representation is looked at is that at some point people took "representation" to mean "role modelship" & people have been screaming about
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https://twitter.com/kelsey_dallas/status/1233496330619772941 This statement is a distillation of the problem with the politics of the black church "now you've got black lives matter" Y'all better stop hating on these activ
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Why is it for migrants to justify our right to exist on any particular land? "I am fleeing war", "I contribute to the economy", etc. No. It should be fr
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Heterosexual/hetero-apparent marriage exploits women, period. The model of monogamous man-woman marriage was literally institutionalised to advance patriarchal agendas at women’s expense. Y’all mad at gay men for doing the same
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i was having a convo abt the "some fic writers are here for the Wrong Reasons" discourse i see a lot among army, so here's some vague thoughts, bc what's
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so you get a lot of context-appropriate looseness about what you associate with your culture very quickly being reified into very inflexible, almost mandatory? identity markers, despite their totally arbitrary
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In early 2017, I was a guest on @donlemon’s show. His response to my analysis of Steve Bannon being a white nationalist & making Trump a 1 term president stayed
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See it’s not rocket science though is it - find a group of people to marginalise and hate, create conspiracy theories and lies, inflate issues surrounding those people and turn
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THREAD...The transphobic bigots have been saying that we need "more research" into ROGD.For once I agree with them...We need more research into how a transphobic concept was given the respectability
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TW CSEM mentionI really don’t believe that RPF shippers are morally equivalent to those who traffic in CSEM, I just worry about what’s going to happen to public discourse about
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Yes.Well, I think it's ridiculous to belive white supremacy and deference to the white gaze is absent from HBCUs. It begot many of them!https://twitter.com/LandoGoesWest/status/1266024428237815815 Plenty of HBCUs are super invested
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