With that in mind, we’re all gonna remember that JKR is a terf who has literally been cited by legislators engaged in legislation that actively harms trans people, and we’re not gonna give her any more money.
That means not streaming the new show on Netflix, because regardless of how much influence she has on the production, she gets paid for it.
We’re gonna make the show flop. We’re gonna show Warner Brothers that we don’t forget (of course, how would we forget, it isn’t as if she’s stopped), and that their business association with terfs is no longer profitable.
It is NOT like Lovecraft, because Lovecraft is very dead and his works are in the public domain. By consuming Lovecraft media, you are not giving any money to old Howard.
reblogging this again to say some googling led to the tentative conclusion that the new remake will be on HBO max, which is owned by WarnerMedia. Netflix hasn’t hosted anything Harry Potter since early 2020, presumably because Warner is trying to direct the hp audience to their own streaming service.
Remember she also takes any support of her work as agreeing with her bigotry
^ link to the post/full thread of where I got this tweet
She actively funds anti-trans causes and is basically the spokesperson for UK terfism and quite honestly her influence probably was related to the recent UK anti-trans laws. Part of the reason she’s so powerful is because she has money. Cut off her money supply. Please boycott her.
Caption: [So, you’re nonbinary. You’ve got your nouns figured out, you got your pronouns figured out. What could possibly go wrong? Until, there’s a formal setting. You have to use a title. You don’t have a doctorate! So you go online, you look “what are gender neutral titles”, “nonbinary titles” and everything everywhere says “mx”. It’s fine. You just don’t feel like its right for you. So what do you do?
Hi I’m Tuse, I’m nonbinary and I’m a huge linguistics and history nerd. And I want to share some alternate options for nonbinary titles. Let’s start with what we already know. Mister and Missus. Those are the base gendered titles in English. Mrs. comes from Mistress. So, mister and mistress. The ending of those “-ter” and “-tress”, those are the modern English forms of the Latin tor and trix.
So one great option is just removing the gendered ending. So just “Mist”. I really like this because its simply, to the point. I like to shorten it with “M”. But my favorite option is- Latin didn’t have two grammatical genders. Latin had a neuter gender. And so, the neuter equivalent of “tor” and “trix”, is “trum”. So “Mistrum”.
I really like this, I use it for myself. I like to shorten it as “Mm”. And I really like it because it is unambiguous. It is very clearly not mister, not mistress, not missus, and not miss. That’s what I like to use for myself. I love exploring other options for nongendered titles and nongendered language in general.
We have a tendency to come up with one option and then expect everyone who doesn’t fit into the two binary options to use that third option. And we don’t have to do that. If you have other options for what you like to use as your title as a nonbinary person, I would love to hear it. Please share!]
Note: Because this was being commented a lot on the original video, of course these work in English and not necessarily other languages. That doesn’t mean that they can’t be helpful, just that they might only be helpful in English.
Glad that other languages note was shared at the bottom. Living in Canada where both French and English is regularly spoken, I think if I saw “M.” I would have assumed “Monsieur” (Mr.) and if I saw “Mm.” I would have assumed a typo missing an “e” - “Mme” for “Madame” (Mrs.). Love this linguistic reasoning, though!
I wouldn’t normally comment on the met gala outfits openly but. In defence of Elliot Page. I feel like a lot of people are missing that this is his first gala since coming out as transmasc and even without considering the green rose in his lapel (an obvious dual oscar wilde green carnation and prom flower reference), his outfit Yells “teen trans boy’s first prom suit, borrowed/bought a size too large because it was the smallest available”. The obviously overlong sleeves. The cut of the jacket collar. The overlong suit pants. The massive chunky black sneakers. The massive green rose in his lapel.
There’s no way it isn’t an intentional exaggeration of the young american transmasc experience. He understood the assignment, you all just aren’t understanding him
I want to be a house un-flipper. I want to buy expensive houses and make them look so shitty it devalues the entire neighbourhood
I did this. I wouldnt call it making it shitty, but some people have scoffed and said I “Redneck’ified” the neighborhood. I moved to a suburb in 2009, it’s not HOA thankfully but older people acted like it was. I got cops called on me for my lawn being too tall the week I moved in, like 8 inches and such and they continued to do this often for my grass and my dogs being “too stinky and an eye sore to their view”
I have asthma and can’t use a push mower. I don’t own a riding mower. I can’t mow my lawn timely. I’m also not gonna pay a company to mow here 2x a week. I have a relative mow the front portion of my yard a few times a summer and we call it good. I then rewilded the property so the native plants manage themselves, my backyard is a meadow now. I have lots of trees.
People stopped fussing about the lawn eventually and these old huffy folks eventually moved away. I got chickens, turkeys, quail, rabbits in the meantime. My place is a hobby farm. I planted crops and gardens. My yard isn’t immaculate but it’s okay. I have corn and watermelons growing in my front lawn.
From then on, a neighbor turned a spare acreage across the street into pasture and got a pair of donkeys. A herd of feral guineas roams the whole neighborhood. I’m the poultry lady here. A guy talked to me about turning his property for pigs recently. Someone on another street turned extra lots they bought into a meadow for their herd of goats right in the middle of the suburb. On the other side of the neighborhood someone has horses in a nice big field. At the road entrance to the neighborhood, the first house you see is another hobby farm of a couple dogs, a 4 wheeler, some really happy kids and chickens. And their house is really beautiful too.
All of this because I stopped mowing my lawn regularly when I moved in.
It’s truly a thing of beauty and the homes are getting more affordable! Because someone in a local fb group complained a few months ago about it “I can’t sell a house here for the highest I want to because of all these places here! This used to be a decent neighborhood!”
You don’t have to make things downright shitty. You just have to stop mowing your lawn regularly.
These tweets are from Dara Kass. She’s an MD. Please take her advice on how to deal with this current situation. Read. Take notes. Memorize it. And protect yourselves.
All of you.
Planned Parenthood has a full explanation of SB 8, its consequences, and the steps that PP and other groups are taking to fight it.
I think that if you can, it’s good to get an IUD. If they do manage to ban birth control too, you’ll still probably be good for years.
Mugshot of John Wojtowicz who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for robbing a bank in order to fund his partners sex change. August 23rd 1972, New York
also when they made dog day afternoon and bought the rights to his story he used the money to help fund edens surgery so he ended up able to help after all (after serving six years in prison for the heist)
other great facts:
- he based his bank robbery plan off The Godfather and Al Pacino ended up playing him and John Cazale played his accomplice - referred to himself as ‘the gay Babe Ruth’ - when he got out of jail he applied for a job as a security guard at the same bank with a T-shirt that said ‘I robbed this bank’ and put Al Pacino down as a reference - the robbery attempt was broadcast on TV and a crowd of LGBTQ activists came to cheer him on
Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) has been suffering from Dementia for years. She’s lots most of her money, the home she loved and there is a fight for her conservatorship
Her sister has set up a GoFundMe site for her. The link is at the very bottom of this post. Please share this information.
Read the article below and please donate if you can. Even a couple dollars will help.
Y’all went hard for Free Brittany over conservatorship now do the same for Nichelle
So I read the entire thing, and this one is slightly more complex than “dad is abusive conservator.” So I’m going to lay out here what’s going on:
1) Nichelle has dementia.
2) In 2010, this guy approached her all “hey so I want to make this movie with you as a costar, very good contract, please accept.”
3) she did.
4) he was lying.
5) during the next several years he moved onto her property and became a squatter, billing all his utilities and expenses to Nichelle. In other words, she’s paying for the privilege of him using her property.
6) during this time he also managed to get her to give him power of attorney over both financial AND MEDICAL decisions. Much of her savings has just kind of vanished, and it seems likely he’s been leeching it away.
Okay. So, recap: this guy is NOT a conservator. He got power of attorney, which is actually a very good and useful thing when appropriately applied. (Basically, it means if you become incapacitated you’ve already selected a person to handle certain kinds of affairs for you.) In this case, however, it’s pretty clear POA is being abused and seriously misused.
7) Nichelle’s son managed to become her conservator, with the goal of kicking the deadbeat off the property and ensuring his mom has access to her hard-earned funds so she can be old with dignity. (In a perfect world, this is how conservatorship would always be used. His interest is in protecting the person, not making a profit.) He has become her primary caretaker.
I don’t know how advanced Nichelle’s dementia is, but I can tell you from experience that as the disease progresses, being a caretaker can become a full-time job, and that, yes—this is one of those extremely limited cases where conservatorship might actually be a good idea. My grandmother had Alzheimer’s (not all dementia is caused by Alzheimer’s, but all cases of Alzheimer’s are dementia), and nearly burned down the house once because she turned on the stove, forgot she’d turned it on, and went to take a nap. Having someone of sound mind who can make arrangements for things like appropriate in-home care so this doesn’t happen is deeply important.
8) deadbeat is fighting to get conservatorship removed—and possibly reassigned to himself. That part is a little less clear. What is clear is that he does not have Nichelle’s best interests at heart.
9) this fundraiser is to help with legal fees to get deadbeat off the property and help assist Nichelle and her son in securing what’s left of her assets.
So just so we’re clear: in this case we are actually fighting FOR a conservatorship. However, this conservatorship is to protect someone with an actual medical diagnosis that means she has diminished mental capacity to care for herself (literally, that’s what dementia is: loss of memory and cognition on a scale significant enough to interfere with daily life), and to ensure that what is hers, REMAINS hers.
Reblogging this version for the commentary, since people seem to be unclear about the situation.
there’s this interesting tendency that especially young ppl have when it comes to art where they want to “consume” art by women, lgbt ppl, poc, to make themselves more feminist, anti-racist, etc, and then when they discover these artists have flaws too, that they aren’t perfect representatives of the social movement that’s being projected onto them, they don’t know what to do with that so instead of engaging with these new perspectives they return to art by straight white men who avoid saying something wrong on these topics by simply not speaking of them at all
Most targets of “cancel culture” are women and people of color for this reason.
There’s also something very paternalistic about judging art from anyone who isn’t a white man by how flawless and “non-problematic” the representation is in their art while we judge (mostly white, mostly western) men by the metric of good prose, good characterisation, themes and narrative for example, when it comes to books. It feels as if the “universal” work is reserved for them, while everyone else gets to sit at the kids table and get an award for stuff like “book with most likeable bisexual character”.
the thing i love about archaeology is that it makes the simple things, the mundane things, the taken for granted things, seem so magnificent. a handful of seashells discarded after the meat inside was eaten? incredible. a stone hand axe used to chop down trees? amazing. a piece of cloth worn by a hunter? tremendous. it really makes us realize how special the human experience is, and how vast our potential is as a species. we are capable of so much magnificence, but we rarely take the time to step back and look at all we’ve been able to accomplish. if you haven’t realized by now that everything around us is truly miraculous, then you haven’t been paying attention.
