wickedkhaleesi:

spacevinci:

fuckyeahsexpositivity:

peppermintfeminist:

katodown:

agnellina:

grantaire-put-that-bottle-down:

hey there LGBTQ kids who are also Christian/Jewish! If you feel like you’re disobeying God, questioning your faith, or feel wrong and dirty for loving who you love, there’s this fantastic site I found today called hoperemains that accurately and thoroughly combs through scripture and its (many) mistranslations, validates your orientation, and basically let’s you know that you’re not pissing off God. It’s insanely thorough and after reading through every page on the entire site it’s super helpful. Go check it out!

No no no! Jewish LGBTQ kinderlach! Go to Keshet! 

hoperemains is completely from a Christian perspective, and not pluralistic or interfaith at all.

If you reblogged the first post from me please reblog this amendment so the Jewish peeps can access this resource too! 

Trans Jewish kids, you can go to TransTorah as well!

Muslim LGBTQ kids, you can go to iamnotharaam! It’s run by a mod squad of different genders and orientations, and they take submissions from everybody!

–BB

MAY ANYONE WHO REBLOGS THIS BE ELEVATED TO THE EQUIVALENT OF SAINTHOOD IN THEIR RELIGION BLESS ALL OF YOU OH MY GOD.

REBLOGGING THIS AGAIN BECAUSE IT’S SO FREAKING IMPORTANT TO ME AND ALL MY FOLLOWERS TO READ THAT DEAL WITH GRIEF AND GUILT WHILE BEING LGBTQ AND RELIGIOUS

dunyun-rings :

ruin your own damn day

So replies are back now. Yay, I guess. But now I’m getting replies, and I don’t know how to respond to them. Making a whole new post is such a pain in the ass. Honestly, if you want to talk to me, send me an ask or catch me on the messenger. If you just want to respond to a post without starting a dialogue, then leave a reply. Just know that I won’t respond.

arrghigiveup:

Wow I am still incredibly enraged about this, so let’s talk.

So I was watching a hockey game yesterday featuring my second favourite team, the Washington Capitals. They were playing one of their rivals, a team who is led by a man who, rightly or wrongly, is constantly marketed as the “best player and face of the NHL”. I don’t care whether or not you think he deserves that rep. What irritates the fuck out of me is that he is constantly mocked and taunted for being “soft” and a “crybaby” (he really isn’t, but again, besides the point), and the all-time favourite, SUPER WITTY joke of fans of practically every other team is to twist his name from Sidney Crosby to “Sydney Crysby”, or “Cindy Crybaby” or something along those lines. Yeah.

Yesterday, this game between rivals very quickly turned into a shitshow, fights broke out on the ice, and immediately after the scrum, this utter gem appeared on the official Washington Capitals account:
“Crosby throwing punches at Oshie. Big surprise who ends up on their back… ‪#‎CapsPens‬ ‪#‎RockTheRed‬” (https://twitter.com/washcaps/status/711697547354632192)

And it was one tweet. One tiny tweet out of trillions. It shouldn’t be a big deal. But context matters, and the context is that it was one more fucking pebble to add to the fucking avalanche of homophobic, sexist, and misogynistic “jokes” that come from media, fans, and players alike. It was one more thing to add to the fact that up until last year, there was no professional women’s hockey league. That women’s leagues in every sport are paid a pittance compared to their male counterparts. That OLYMPIC MEDALLISTS have had to debate over whether to give their gear to the Hall of Fame when requested, because they could barely afford new gear. That famous female athletes like Serena Williams are constantly criticised for their looks, as though that matters one whit to their ability to play. That the efforts of female athletes are constantly put down despite the fact that they frequently work harder than the men (yeah, I said it; you try juggling an Olympian’s training schedule with a day job, a day job that you have to have because again, they refuse to pay you). That domestic violence and sexual assault is horribly, depressingly frequent in professional sports.

That in the world of professional men’s sports, there are vanishingly few figures who dare to be “out” about any sexual orientation other than “straight”. That in the National Hockey League, there are none, even if you damn well know that statistically speaking, there have to be SOME.

That one tweet was yet one more reminder in a whole slew of constant reminders that in society in general and sports in particular, women are valued less (I’m not even going to go into about how the LGBTQ community is valued because it will drive me to drink). That they are perfectly fine with taking our money, but that really when it comes down to it, they don’t really care about us. That it’s an INSULT to be compared to a woman, to have any feminine traits at all. And to have that reminder come from an OFFICIAL TEAM ACCOUNT of a team that I like was just a slap in the face.

Guys, if you think that women don’t like sports, don’t like geeky things like gaming, don’t like science or maths, don’t like [insert whatever bullshit thing you can think of here], you are wrong. There are so many of us. But if there are fewer, this, THIS is why. Because we are told CONSTANTLY, in all sorts of ways and on all sorts of levels that we are not welcome.

miyacchis:

I teach at an international school in Tokyo and one of my first graders told me today “I don’t like Trump. I like the grandpa.”

piggyschuyler:

Hi everyone, I have permission from @butterflyinthewell to make this post.

I was trolling through Autism $peaks website and found one of Cyndi’s (butterflyinthewell) youtube videos on their website without her consent/permission. They never asked her if they could use the video, they never gave her credit, but instead they stole her creative content for their own gain. 

We are working to get it off of the website but need your help! There is a comment section under the videos on autism speaks website (link to videos) where you can leave a comment saying she openly dislikes and doesn’t support autism speaks and that she didn’t give them permission to use her video. We need to try everything we can to get her video off of their awful website.

You can also email webeditors@autismspeaks.org saying that they didn’t have her permission and that she openly does not support autism speaks.

Autism Speaks stole her creative content without asking, giving credit, or acknowledging her feelings. Autism Speaks stole and spoke over an autistic person once again.

Everyone help Cyndi if you can! She does not deserve to be harassed and stolen from.