On The Third Day Of Pride, I Just Want To Remind You That It Is Not Shameful To Be In The Closet. Not

On the third day of pride, I just want to remind you that it is not shameful to be in the closet. Not this month. Not any month.

It’s shameful that people have scared you with their words and actions to the point that you need to hide who you are.

It’s shameful that people are outed against their will by people who they trust. It’s shameful that people are outed by strangers who are just assholes. It’s shameful that people are forced to come out because they’re manipulated by people who can’t respect boundaries.

The closet is stressful and tiring and can feel suffocating and alienating. I don’t know of a single queer who has enjoyed the experience of being closeted.

But it’s not shameful to protect yourself. it’s not shameful to make the best decisions for you that keep you safe until you can find a better, more open, more joyous place.

And you can still have joy in the closet. You are as queer in that closet as you are outside of it, and I’d rather you stay safe in it until it’s safe for you outside of it.

To all my closeted queers: I love you. I see you. Pride is for you, too.

ME AS A FOXXXXXX

Regarding @/Necromantics

It has recently come to my attention that the tumblr user Necromantics, aka Tomb has said some really disgusting things within the confines of his discord server.

Read ahead at your own discretion.

Content Warnings: ableism, nazism, r@pe/Sexual Assault, drugs, drug addiction, use of slurs

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juicefromspace

11 months ago

in my local queer bar someone graffitied the single occupancy disabled stall sign* to read “quadruple occupancy” and i’m so fucking done.

*grafitti on the bathroom doors is perfectly normal and encouraged at this bar. the issue is vandalizing a disabled stall with a joke about misusing it to fuck.

i pointed it out and how fucking upsetting it is to have our fucking BATHROOMS be the butt of endless jokes about drugs and sex and uncleanliness and laziness CONSTANTLY. it’s fucking insulting to have the active misuse of the only place a cripple can fucking pee be treated as a haha funny by people who don’t suffer from it and in fact often PERPETRATE that.

when i brought up that it’s way less funny when you’ve had those jokes made to you constantly when you’re just trying to piss—a right constantly denied to cripples—an abled person just went “yeah, we’ve all been in middle school!”

they didn’t respond when i said “oh, so you’ve been a middle schooler with a wheelchair?”

ableist abuse from peers was a major factor in my losing my right to education, and the rest of it was not being given basic accomodations. i’m not interested in entertaining it from grown-ass adults.

(also, given that tonight is, i shit you not, TRANS NIGHT, you’d think people would have an idea of how humiliating and shitty it is to have the only bathroom you can use mocked and misused for sex.)

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juicefromspace

9 months ago