All aesthetic, rant/discussion and NSFW posts now live on gutsunderground.
All memes, articles, fan art and general posts are staying on here.
This is being done in order to declutter the two as i plan on posting my general thoughts more and didn’t want them lost in the wave of general stuff I’m reblogging.
also hot take maybe but usamericans belief that west europeans expressing any kind of negativity towards usa is unfair is based on presumed ignorance of both parties. like are we going to pretend all the shit usa pulled in post wwii europe didn’t happen?? filling west germany government with nazis/intervention in italian elections/military bases/etc. i can go on.
I know people like these probably mean well, but this shit is so condescending. The support for gay marraige in Japan (and LGBT+ rights in general!) is the highest in all of North Pacific, higher than Taiwan, a country that its loyalists would have you believe is the only country in the region with “gay marriage” (It does not provide the same amount of benefits as hetero marriage). I’m not even going to get into how the USA is about to have gay marriage and sex illegalized in much of its territory and get right to the point in the paragraph below.
Gay marriage isn’t even legal in Japan because of the West, specifically the United States, and its continued occupation of Japan, as well as the CIA’s funding of Japanese reactionary parties in the 1950s - 60s (a fact that the CIA openly admitted to in the 90s). Japanese government headed by the LDP that rules against the wishes of anywhere between 55% - 80% of the population’s wants and needs, depending on the issue, is a product of Western stranglehold on the Japanese archipelago and a product of resulting gerrymandering that’s made it hard for the Japanese populace to get politically active. If you want to talk about how gay marriage “isn’t even legal in Japan,” agitate to get the USA out of Japan, because the USA and its puppet government is the force holding back LGBT+ rights, continued reconciliation with Japan and victims of Japanese Imperialism, wealth distribution, and much more in Japan.
In general, Japan exists as this Schrödinger’s Tolerant Place for Westerners, for whom they draw upon a vivid LGBT+ mass art scene as being different from Western mass art scene, but also turn around and say stuff like this. Well, the contradiction was created by the West, and it’s unfair to the Japanese people for Westerners to frame the situation as if the Japanese people are intolerant in situations like this after creating the material condition in which anti-LGBT+ politics exist in Japan.
dont tag as d@n@tion because……..goddamn tumblr, but:
Hi, I’m Medb, a Trans fem Numunu (comanche), begging for some help: i have been stuck for the past few years in a rather racist and queerphobic part of massachusetts, which has taken a major toll on my mental and physical health. Following my latest Scare, this time a landlord trying to evict me over misunderstandings, I’ve decided i want out enough to ask.
The goal is to get to New Mexico, Sanctuary state and located within my actual homeland too, as a bonus. that way i can get myself, well, well set-up and not need a reset again.
So if anyone wishes to help me, my main goal is to get around, hopefully, though i dont expect too much, 4000 dollars for first month, last month, and security deposit on an apartment, plus furniture, expenses for the next few months in case the jobs ive applied to fall through, and cushion. but in the end, literally anything helps.
One of the most enduring and influential anti-colonial theorists of all time, Frantz Fanon became acquainted with racist colonial violence growing up on the French Caribbean colony of Martinique. During World War II, Fanon enlisted with the Free French forces, and experienced further racism from Europeans during his time fighting fascists on the continent. After the war, he studied psychiatry as his political consciousness continued to grow, and in 1952 he published Black Skin, White Masks, which discussed the psychological impact of colonialism on Black people. He worked as a psychiatrist in Algeria for a time before deciding that he could no longer support the French colonial project in Africa and defected to join Algeria’s National Liberation Front in its struggle for freedom. He continued to put out a number of influential texts, including his last and most famous, The Wretched of the Earth. In poor health, Fanon died in 1961 at the tragically young age of 36, but his legacy is outsized for his age, having influenced a bevy of revolutionary figures, including Che Guevara, Malcom X, Kwame Ture, and Huey P. Newton.
“To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.”
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