Brianna Ghey had family support, friends, and a popular TikTok account. These support systems are crucial but even they can’t withstand the cruel, public attacks on trans livelihood. These “debates” over our humanity have deadly consequences.
Brianna rightfully holds significant media attention during this troubled time. But she was not the only trans teen killed recently. Just in the U.S., Ariyanna Mitchell, Katie Newhouse, and trans siblings Jeffrey "JJ" Bright and Jasmine Cannady - all trans youth of color - lost their lives to violence. Every one of their names should be remembered in the fight to end trans dehumanization.
the first girl i ever dated, she was the most precious thing on earth, and she still is. but we lasted at most a week and a half, because we didn’t know who we were, we didn’t know or expect what was to come, but it’s been almost a year and a half since i first dmed her, and still she’s one of my best friends.
people say first loves will do the most damage because it’s the first, but this girl, she will forever be one of the most amazing people i’ve ever met
Book 1:
Crushes, friendship, good v. evil. Characters are loveable, and relateable. Absolutely iconic. Ending is adorable.
Book 2:
Female empowerment! Everyone is still loveable in their own little way. Nothing too crazy, just glad the babies are okay.
Book 3:
Tedros, you ignorant slut. Some insanely cute tagatha moments. But book 4 will straighten everything out, right?
Book 4:
Hell fire. Absolute madness and chaos. Tedros proves to be even more of an idiot, and Agatha is just strugglin ™️. Reader is advised to put the book down multiple times to avoid angrily combusting.
Morning routines in the bathroom aka: sometimes you’ve just gotta tell your bro that he’s pretty ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bonus:
BONUS bonus:
Bisexuals, you get an icon!
Asexuals, you get an icon!
Gays, you get two married icons!
Non-binaries, you get an icon!
Trans individuals, you get an icon!
Lesbians! All the icons!
Pansexuals, you get an icon!
And useless gays, you get Kyle
i'm seeing people losing hope for palestine i'm begging you seriously please don't. the death toll is high but there are still people alive, there are still journalists risking everything to make sure the world sees what is happening. please continue protesting if you have the option to, keep demanding for a ceasefire and keep talking about palestinians both alive and dead. you have to keep going until the very end or else you really did fail them.
Imagine courting a girl the old fashioned way. Like writing love letters and poems for eachother. Imagine wooing her with gifts addressed to her. Imagine shyly kissing her hand when you greet each other and talking her out for romantic walks along a canal in the countryside. God I'm gay and yearning
i love women so so so so SO so so SO much. i love them platonically, romantically, sexually, in a feminist way, in a dyke way, i love them in every possible sense of the word. i love women!!! i love their soft nature, i love how kind and attentive women are, i love how nurturing and caring they are. i love how gorgeous they are and how they carry this beautiful energy with them wherever they go. i love women. i was put on this earth to love women. it is my sworn duty to love women and i WILL
So I know this isn’t our main concern right now but am I the only one who thinks the Akutagawa siblings make really hot vampires lmao
The problem is that America has beaten down its people for decades and gotten them weak and desperate and now promises a way out, a way to transcend and rise above, through selling out their fellow man. They encourage contempt and hatred as one way ticket to not being included with the masses being death marched to poverty or imprisonment or whatever other bitter end surely awaits the people they’re told are beneath them. An embarrassingly large chunk of white men are just straight up nazis these days as a way to dissociate from the rest of the carnage around them, even if they’re broke and uneducated and from an impoverished background themselves. They’ll vote for and align themselves with anything for a taste of power and control that makes them feel a little less helpless. The same goes for minorities. They’ll punch down if they think it’ll get them somewhere, even if in reality they’re punching sideways. I don’t know what else to say, really. Everybody is so incredibly hateful. We are a loveless, disrespectful nation. We are so spread thin by our government that we would sell each other out in a heartbeat for an ounce of relief. This is what we’ve come to.
It’s not even about Trump at this point. He’s gonna get in office and do whatever he does and it’s gonna be a mess but whatever. This is indicative of deeper problem. This is just the ugly consequence of the already present reality in this country that we all just despise each other. There is no solidarity and there is no love. Trump being in office or not doesn’t change the fact that America is a breeding ground for violent hatred. Trump has given people a shining example of how to give in to the worst parts of your human nature and make it the problem of everyone around them. I don’t even know what we’re supposed to do about that. I don’t know if that’s something we can come back from. And if anything COULD be done about it, Trump certainly wouldn’t do it. Honestly, Kamala probably wouldn’t have either. We are so deeply fucked.
However, I must say, if you voted for Trump, I hope that peace never finds you. Instead, I hope clarity strikes you someday like a clap of lightning and you have to live the rest of your life with the knowledge and guilt of what you’ve done and who you are as a person.
Love yall. Shit is so bleak but the world keeps spinning until it doesn’t, I guess. We can’t count on the government for literally even a shred of progress or hope so just keep up the good fight in your own personal lives. That’s literally the only thing to be done at this point. Stay safe out there. Maybe buy a gun.