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Why do I think that, if Miraak was asked whether he's a Dragonborn, he would respond "I am not A Dragonborn, I am THE Dragonborn"?
PAY FUCKING ATTENTION TO IRAN
I am FURIOUS and BAFFLED that major news outlets are not covering what’s going on in Iran right now and I don’t fucking have a twitter so I can’t make noise over there, even though apparently that’s the only social media platform people pay attention to????
Students at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran have been one group of many students and professors across the nation protesting, and NOW, the regime’s security forces have LOCKED THE STUDENTS IN THE UNIVERSITY AND ARE ARRESTING THEM IN MASSES AND SHOOTING AT THEM IF THEY TRY TO ESCAPE OUT THE GATES.
You have DOZENS of teenagers running for their lives in the dark while their parents and fellow citizens are protesting outside the gates chanting “free the students”. And NOW, the they’re sending more repression forces to the University!!
A BBC article says it’s unable to verify the events at the university in the same space it writes that VIDEO FOOTAGE on social media shows students RUNNING FROM SECURITY FORCES ON CAMPUS.
THE AUDACITY.
Share as much as you can about this on all of your social media platforms. Tag as many human rights activists and groups and news outlets you can think of to get the information out there. And if you have any friends or family in Tehran, let them know if they already don’t that people are mobilising to the university. Help the students!! Use the hashtags that are going around on social media (#mahsaamini, #jinaamini, #opiran, #iranprotests, to name a few).
I’m adding photos from instagram that give more information. Follow @1500tasvir on instagram for on the ground footage, @middleeastmatters, and @golfarahani to name a few.
[If someone has the time to ID these, you are more than welcome to.]
October 3, 2022 - Protesting Iranian schoolgirls kick their pro-government school director out of their schoolgrounds. Students across Iran have been occupying their schools in protest after the death of Jina Mahsa Amini. [video]
Reblog if you’d be okay if your friend came out as transgender
let’s see how many transphobics we can weed out
Reblog this if you slept with my ex-wife Susan.
Trying to prove a point to my divorce lawyer.
10.15.14
Jon teaches Bill about white privilege.
Cicero unprovoked when you're sneaking through a draugr infested crypt
Germany elected two trans women into the Bundestag for the first time.
Translation:
Nyke Slawik and Tessa Ganserer are the first trans women in the Bundestag
With the Greens Nyke Slawik and Tessa Ganserer, two trans women enter parliament for the first time. They want to get involved in queer political issues - but not only.
Nyke Slawik and Tessa Ganserer from the Green Party made history in the Bundestag elections: they were the first trans women to enter parliament.
Although Ganserer was far behind the CSU direct candidate Sebastian Brehm in her constituency of Nuremberg-North, she had nevertheless secured her place on the state list of the Bavarian Greens. “I am still overwhelmed, but I am really looking forward to my new task in Berlin,“ Ganserer tweeted on Monday morning with the hashtag #QueerRepräsentanzMatters [translates to: Queer representation matters].
Nyke Slawik also entered via her list position. She comes from NRW, her constituency was in Leverkusen, where SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach won the direct mandate.
“I have meanwhile received congratulations from Poland, the UK and the USA. Our trans election success is going around the world,” Slawik wrote on Twitter on Monday night.
There has only been one trans MP in the Bundestag so far, Christian Schenk of the Left Party, but Schenk only came out after his term of office ended in 2002. Victoria Broßart of the Green Party and Ria Cybill Geyer (Brandenburg) of the SPD were other trans women on the electoral lists for the 2021 elections, but they did not make it into parliament.
Tessa Ganserer joined the Greens because of “classic environmental issues” such as mobility policy and nature conservation. “They drove me to do politics for years, and I didn’t give up these interests when I came out,” she said in an interview with the Tagesspiegel, “my heart beats for the forest”. This was already evident in her early years before her political career, when she completed an apprenticeship as a forester.
Ganserer still sees many gaps in the law on queer issues
The 44-year-old is also the queer policy spokesperson for the Green Party’s parliamentary group in Bavaria and has championed the interests of the queer community in recent years. She sees the biggest gaps in the law on parentage, which discriminates against lesbian, non-binary and trans parents, and the “degrading transsexual law”, which Ganserer says needs to be replaced by a self-determination law.
“The fact that I have to go before a judge so that the state accepts me as I am; that I have to endure psychological assessments; that I have to put up with degrading questions, that is against human dignity and violates the right to self-determination of the Basic Law,” Ganserer said.
She herself was listed on the ballot papers in the federal election with her deadname, i.e. the first name she has renounced. Her female first name “Tessa” was merely in brackets. She wrote on Twitter that the mention of her deadname had “exceeded the level of humiliation”. As a result, she applied to change her legal name and gender according to the so-called “Transsexual Law.”
She also wants to remain true to her core topic: the environment
With regard to trans people, Ganserer also calls for a legally anchored right to medical care in addition to a reform of this law. What is also needed, she says, are nationwide regulations for financial support for families with same-sex parents wishing to have children and a reform of the General Equality Act. Anti-discrimination offices should also receive more support.
However, Ganserer also wants to remain true to her core topic, the environment. In the interview she said: "It would be a real thrill for me to be allowed to make policy on these issues for the Greens in the Bundestag.”
Nyke Slawik calls for more diversity among MPs
At 27, Nyke Slawik belongs to a different generation than Ganserer. Slawik told the Tagesspiegel before the election that more diversity is needed among MPs so that there are finally people sitting there who not only talk about different realities of life, but also know them and can empathise with them.
Slawik was not only alluding to the fact that she is trans. She also alluded to her family background: she comes from a working-class family, her parents met as machinists. She was the first in the family to go to university.
She herself was often “uncomfortable” being “so much in the spotlight because of my identity. But there is so little visibility and so much legal discrimination that I have decided to deal with it head-on,” said Slawik. She hopes “that today we can open a new chapter of self-determination in politics and end the years of infantilisation of queer people”, she tweeted on the election night.
What happened in Hungary?? Is there any way we could support you guys?
you can donate to budapestpride, háttér society and labrisz lesbian association! ill add more organizations if i can think of any
if there is an article in english about the situation i cant find it right now so i'll attempt to sum it up
basically our pseudo fascist government granted themselves emergency powers at the beginning of the pandemic and among other things they have been using it to slowly take away thw lgbt community's rights and freedom. trans people can no longer change their name and gender marker and gay couples can no longer adopt children
and most recently (last night actually) a law that is supposed to protect against child predators was changed so that "sex education in schools cannot promote the changing of one's sex or homosexuality" on top of that sex education programs can only be done by the school or a database of organizations maintained by the government. the breaking of these rules (aka telling kids its okay to be trans) would get both the organizer AND the principal of the school into major trouble (think jail)
additionally children under 18 cannot be shown advertisements or educational content containing homosexuality or transgender "propaganda" these materials MUST be marked 18+
40% of all hungarian lgbt individuals have admitted to suicidal ideation, with 30% percent admitting to attempting it. our government is framing this as the protection of the children but what it will actually do is kill even more lgbt kids.
im incredibly angry so i'm sorry if this is not well phrased but this needs to stop because the path we're heading down is gonna end really fucking bad for the hungarian lgbt+ community
To all my followers who are citizens of the EU and of voting age, please consider signing and sharing this EU citizens' initiative requesting that the European Commission stop upholding intellectual property rights regarding COVID vaccines and treatments and make them a public good instead.
In order for the European Commission to read these proposals this initiative needs a lot more people signing that it has now, so every person counts.
April 14th 2021 - 11th Anniversary of Peter Steele's death.
Rest in Peace, Green Man.
10 Years Today
Peter Steele, 4th January 1962 - 14th April 2010
You are missed.
sleep tight, boss.
not to like make a huge fucking post about shit that’s been talked to death but it really genuinely scares me how many straight girls think it’s normal to just… not like your partner. like they think it’s normal and okay for their boyfriends to openly think they’re stupid and annoying and to be totally derisive about their interests and for them not to be friends or have things in common or enjoy each other’s personalities or encourage their interests? you are supposed to be friends with the person you’re in love with. you are supposed to want to talk to them about the things that make them happy. you do not have to settle for people who treat your entire personality as a burden outside of what you do to cater to them.
July 14 2019 - A woman deplatforms famous Brazilian Catholic priest Marcelo Rossi, who has previously called homosexuality a disease (to clarify, because people are apparently easily confused: she didn’t push him because of that remark, but it’s still funny). [video]
I'M MOTIVATED!
OP: RamenRedux From: https://www.reddit.com/r/DevilMayCry/comments/8t2b6o/im_motivated/?utm_source=reddit-android
In Valentine’s Day lawsuit, Japanese gay couples sue for marital rights
TOKYO — Thirteen gay couples filed Japan’s first lawsuit challenging the country’s rejection of same-sex marriage Thursday, arguing the denial violates their constitutional right to equality.
Six couples holding banners saying “Marriage For All Japan” walked into Tokyo District Court to file their cases against the government, with similar cases filed by three couples in Osaka, one couple in Nagoya and three couples in Sapporo.
Plaintiff Kenji Aiba, standing next to his partner Ken Kozumi, told reporters he would “fight this war together with sexual minorities all around Japan.”
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YOU hates terfs
Today would be Peter Steele's 59th birthday. Happy Birthday and rest in peace, Green Man.
4th January 1962 - 14th April 2010
fuck it
i dont want girls sexualising mlm relationships anymore. at all
i dont want them fetishizing our relationships bc they think it’s sexy
i dont care if its a “way for them to express their sexuality”. that aint right and its messed that they can say that they want men in the porn industry to stop fetishizing wlw relationships, only to do the same bc its “fandom”
what a deal.