#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌

[mogai-sunflowers]

pls ppl I’m begging you. Draw fat trans people. Just saw an artist post 10 drawings, each of a different transmasc person, and they were all suuuuuuper thin, I love seeing transmasc art but please it’s such a gut punch to be already struggling so much with your transition due to your weight, and then see stuff like that that just reinforces my fears that I’ll never be able to transition because I’m not skinny enough. pls learn how to draw fat people and fat trans people. draw fat people draw poc draw disabled people please please please please

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #trans #trans community #queer #queer community #fat positivity #fat trans

[mogai-sunflowers]

femme lesbians who use he/him pronouns are literally so fucking cool like. people always try to explain he/him lesbians by saying “well it’s like butches cuz they’re masculine” and don’t get me wrong: he/him butch lesbians have my heart but he/him femme lesbians are literally just as real and valid and if you truly want to learn to believe that pronouns truly do not equal gender, then you’re going to have to stop thinking that “he/him lesbian = butch lesbian” because then you’re just trying to say that lesbians can use he/him if they’re masc enough but im here to tell you: literally any lesbian can use he/him pronouns. you can be the femmest of femmes and still use exclusively he/him pronouns and literally none of that invalidates anything about you.

so long story short: he/him femmes, especially femmes who exclusively use he/him, are literally to die for. i fucking love you <333

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #cw swearing #swearing cw #lesbian positivity #femme #he him lesbian #hesbian

[mogai-sunflowers]

i just saw a post that was well-intentioned, and it was about how trans people can give themselves self-examinations for their breasts for breast cancer, and while I applaud the effort that was put into it, it fell into a very dangerously common ignorance that many medical diagrams fall into- it only showed the symptoms and what to look for on pale skin. Symptoms such as reddening and rashes look different on different skin tones, and if you only teach about looking for them on pale skin, you will miss it in other people.

i am not a medical expert, so this post isn’t about medical advice, though I will link a resource for trans poc who are interested but i digress: to other white trans people who know more about the medical sides of transitioning, if you’re going to make a post about it that includes medical diagrams and symptoms, please PLEASE make sure you have done your research about how symptoms present on ALL skin tones, because it’s vital.

now this isn’t trans-specific and it is a medical guide so may be a bit more difficult to go through, but it is called ‘Mind The Gap’ and it was written by a Black medical student named Malone Mukwende a few years ago and it shows how to diagnose and discover different symptoms across different skin tones. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/this-med-student-wrote-the-book-on-diagnosing-disease-on-darker-skin

tagging @metalheadsforblacklivesmatter @transgenderteensurvivalguide @genderkoolaid @doberbutts

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #trans #trans community #trans issues

[mogai-sunflowers]

🇵🇸 Free Palestine- A guide for getting involved (Somewhat USA-focused)! 🇵🇸

This post is going to get very long, so I'm trying my best to break it up into manageable sections! Some parts of this post are applicable to people outside America, but at this time, I'm only knowledgeable enough about the movement in America to make a post about it!

Find Out About Local Organizations To Get Involved With

The best place to start is to find out what's already happening locally! If you live in a large/larger town/city, chances are something's already happening nearby!

For Americans: Look here to find out about the closest PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation) chapter to where you live! They are involved in direct activism all across the US!

Find out if there's a PYM (Palestinian Youth Movement) chapter near you! They are extremely active

For college students in the US: Find out if there's an SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) chapter on your campus! If there isn't, try founding your own! Look at their website here to learn more!

Also for college students in the US: Find out if there's a YDSA (Young Democratic Socialists of America) chapter on your campus!

Participate in BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions)

Find out how to get involved here

Hold Local News Outlets Accountable

Find out about the local news outlets in your area

Keep up-to-date with their publications

If it's a digital source, search it for any and all publications related to Palestine and Israel- if this search yields results, are the articles supportive of Palestine and its supporters?

If you encounter an article/multiple articles that lean towards or outright try to justify Israel's actions or spread propaganda, then you can do a few things-

1) If the article is digital, make a public comment correcting any misinformation in the article. Try to keep your comment straight to the point and factual.

2) Find out who wrote the article and reach out to them personally to discuss said article and the issues you have with it. Share your point of view and discuss misinformation and harmful language contained within the article.

3) Find out the editor of the article, and write a 'letter to the editor'. Such letters may have a word limit varying between different news outlets, so keep your letter brief yet powerful and deconstruct your issues with the article

4) Reach out to the owner of said publication and ask if you can try your hand at writing an opinion piece for them. Sometimes, it can take awhile to get one of your opinion pieces accepted, but if it's something you're passionate about, keep trying!

If a particular news outlet has a repeated pattern of dehumanizing and villifying the Palestinian freedom cause in their publications, try getting in touch with local activist groups! They can help- from organizing letter campaigns to actual protests outside the news headquarters!

Urge Your Town/City to Pass A Ceasefire Resolution-

First, check and see if there's already an organized movement in your town or city to pass a ceasefire resolution (via pressuring your local town/city council)- NOTE: If you live in a very small town, the chances are smaller that there is already an organized movement- but that doesn't mean you can't help to start one

If there is already a movement, find out when the public comment sessions for your town's/city's council are, and find out how you can sign up to speak- if you do so, you can also try and connect with the organizers of your local movement for advice on writing a statement in support of a ceasefire resolution

An addendum to the previous point: if you sign up to speak, find out if you can also provide a visual presentation for your statement- these are often especially powerful

If there isn't an organized movement yet, that doesn't at all mean that one can't be started. I recommend reaching out to the nearest town/city you know of that has an organized movement for a ceasefire resolution

Send emails and letters, and call, to all your town/city council members to consistently urge them to pass a ceasefire resolution

Pressure Your Representatives to Vote against Aid to Israel-

This is not US-specific- if you have representatives of your local area on the national level, you can pressure them through calls, emails, letters, setting up meetings, and direct action, to not sign off on aid proposals for Israel

Setting up meetings is particularly impactful- you have a chance to speak with them or their reps one-on-one with your point of view

Call/email EVERY DAY! Pressure only works if it is consistent, and ask your friends and family members to join you in contacting them to build even more pressure

Donate To-

These fundraisers to help various families leave Gaza

Your local/closest Palestinian Children's Relief Fund's chapter

1 or more of the Global Rahmah Foundation's projects for Gaza

ANERA

HEAL Palestine

Local drives for the World Food Pantry and other local fundraisers are also super important!

This is not an all-inclusive list of ways to support Palestine, it's just intended to be a guide for getting involved for people who want to get involved but aren't sure where to start. Please suggest or correct anything for this post, and please spread it around! @fairuzfan @palipunk @tamarrud @el-shab-hussein @apollos-olives @metalheadsforblacklivesmatter @bfpnola

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #palestine #free palestine #anti zionist #anti zionism #from the river to the sea #palestine resources #stand up for palestine

[mogai-sunflowers]

when it comes to protests, politicians have a lot of training to be all calm and "professional" in public- but behind closed doors, they aren't calm. even fucking netanyahoo admitted privately that he was extremely worried by the amount of protests for Palestine- so if you think all our organizing and protesting is doing nothing, think again- that's what they want you to think. don't let their stoic facade fool you- they're scared, and we will continue to make them scared.

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #palestine

[mogai-sunflowers]

unfriendly reminder that using things like low IQ and difficulty with reading comprehension as insults isn’t the gotcha you think it is. using low IQ as an insult just shows how you equate ID with moral failing/human failing, similarly with those “reading comprehension on this website sucks” jokes.

i assure you, the troll you’re trying to epically own won’t care if you make fun of their IQ or reading skills, but the person with ID or another mental disability who happens to see your “joke” is now reminded that people see them as a laughingstock and not as a real person with real feelings.

i understand that many people who make these jokes have no ill intent and aren’t really thinking about the implications of their words, so im not trying to say you’re a bad person if you make these jokes, but i am saying you should reconsider your words and how they could actually affect someone else because ableism is ingrained in everything and it takes work to root out casual ableism in your everyday actions.

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #ableism discussion #this post is not directed at a mutual/friend/follower of mine #but it is directed at someone within the mogai community who i just saw make a very rude comment about IQ #made my blood boil because it was very blatantly ableist

[mogai-sunflowers]

again. irl queer people don’t care. I’m in a room today with like 6 other queers and we all have known each other for like a few days and just start talking about how labels are personal and just be yourself and they all know I’m a bi lesbian and a couple others said they relate to me and use queer because of it and like. gahhhhhh. exclusionists are missing out on this kind of connection and that saddens me. but you are not alone. and they are just the confidently incorrect minority.

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌

[mogai-sunflowers]

aphobes won't like this one but being aro is the queerest thing about me. yes, i'm genderqueer. yes, i'm a bipan lesbian. and i am infinitely proud of those things. but being aro is the biggest part of my queerness. being aro is the part of me that stares me in the face everyday because it's so prevalent in my day-to-day life. being aro is the thing that has challenged my view on relationships, love, and society- and on the queer community itself. when i just identified as bi/pan, but didnt know what aro even was, i was happy, but i still thought the whole point of the queer community was that romantic love was the goal. being bi is beautiful and radical, but for me, it wasn't what made me rethink society and the actual structures of romance. only when i learned i was aro did i start to learn about the concept of amatonormativity and how to truly fight for queer acceptance, not queer acceptance under the guise of "romance is the goal but queer people shouldn't be excluded from it". so yeah. you can take my lesbianism, hell you can even take my genderqueerness, but you can pry my aro pride from my cold dead hands. not gay as in happy but aro as in fuck you <2

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #aro #aromantic #aromantic pride #aro pride

[mogai-sunflowers]

idk man like. as an aro who loves using the word ‘love’ and relates a crap ton to non-romantic love in a very deep sense... i don’t get what the whole problem with loveless aros is like??? it’s an emotion for some people. i feel like no other emotion is used by others to define humanity and it’s so weird. like i get that it’s very normalized for people to compare love to caring about other people on any level so if that’s your upbringing then seeing “lovelessness” can be a shock to the system if you don’t get what it actually means but when people just double down and refuse to even learn then that’s annoying. being loveless doesn’t mean you’re some big bad horrible person who doesn’t care about basic human rights or compassion it’s just a relationship to an emotion like what is the big problem???????

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #loveless #loveless aro #aromantic #aro

[mogai-sunflowers]

if you see "Zionist" and think "Jewish", that's a problem.

if you see "anti-Zioinist" and think "antisemitic", that's a problem.

i know semantics doesn't seem like the most important thing to be talking about right now, but believe me, it matters.

politicians are trying to officially make anti-zionism fall under antisemitism. this whole "semantics debate" is not just semantics and it's not just a debate. people in power are actively using the misinterpretation of anti-zionism, to ruthlessly suppress pro-Palestinian activists, INCLUDING Jewish pro-Palestine activists. in fact, many of the largest demonstrations in support of Palestine have been held by Jewish people. by defining zionism as equivalent to being Jewish, politicians are deliberately silencing the millions of Jewish people who stand up for Palestine.

in Israel itself, the IOF has repeatedly raided synagogues that had an openly anti-zionist stance and horrifically beaten the people inside, including literal rabbis- because they don't fucking care: to them, Jewish anti-zionists are just as much the enemy as gentile anti-zionists.

this isn't a meaningless online discourse about words or semantics, these words have meanings and knowing them can mean the difference between propaganda and allyship.

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #palestine #free palestine #from the river to the sea #palestine will be free #antizionist #anti zionist #anti zionism #fuck israel

[mogai-sunflowers]

okay maybe a hot take but even though I’m as ACAB as they come, I don’t. uh. Love those jokes about how cops are pigs because they eat donuts like crazy. Because I see people MUCH more willing to call cops pigs if they’re fat. I only ever see the “donut” jokes about fat cops. and believe me, fat people see those jokes. I hate cops more than pretty much anything but if you are so willing to make fun of them for being fat or “donut eaters” because of their body type then maybe don’t because there are much better things to criticize pigs for. People act like “pig” is a synonym for “fat ugly cop who just sits around eating donuts” but it’s not. All cops are bastards, all cops are pigs. Fat cops are not pigs because they’re fat, they’re pigs because they’re fascists. Stop throwing fat people under the bus in your righteous anger at cops.

not to mention that being ACAB is about fighting anti-Blackness and other forms of bigotry, but fatphobia is intrinsically rooted in racism, anti-Blackness, misogyny, and queerphobia, so defending fatphobia is not very ACAB of you in the first place.

anyways fuck ALL cops.

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #tw fatphobia #tw police #tw cops #ACAB #all cops are bastards #black lives matter

[mogai-sunflowers]

happy indigenous peoples day!

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #my queue ran out a few days ago i will start filling it up again now that im on break

[mogai-sunflowers]

the more I get involved in community activism, the more I’m realizing that being aromantic is not going to sentence me to loneliness.

when I’m surrounded by hundreds of people wearing keffiyehs just like me, I’m not alone. When I’m giving a speech in front of a crowd of people who are waving Palestinian flags, I’m not alone. When I’m texting my Palestine gc giving them tips to stay safe at a national march, I’m not alone. when i am completely by myself, I am still not alone because I have community and solidarity.

queerness challenges the idea that traditional family and romance are the only ways for connection. last year, I was surrounded by friends dating and forgetting me once they started dating, and I was miserable because I thought I’d always be alone. Now I realize I never was

so for me, activism and community work are not just my passion, they are my social outlet and they are the absence of my loneliness. just aro anarchosocialist things <222

anyways free Palestine, Yemen, Sudan, the Congo, and all occupied people!

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #solidarity #palestine #free palestine #anarchist #aro #aromantic #queer anarchy #queer #queer pride

[mogai-sunflowers]

i love you autistics i love you special interests i love you asking your friends for consent to hug them i love you autistic friends sharing special interests with each other i love you stimming i love you autistics who mask i love you autistics who cant mask i love you autistics who dont mask even though they could i love you sensory-friendly fabrics i love you quiet environments i love you autistic trans people i love you autistic cis people with a unique view on gender i love you autigender people i love you autistic women i love you autistic men i love you autistic nonbinary people i love you autistic poc i love you autistics with wEiRD obscure special interests i love you weirdo autistic queers i love you tone tags i love you respectful friendships between autistics and neurotypicals i love you infodumping i love you rambling so much you forget you’re making a pust on tumblr dot com i love you autistics i love you-

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #autistic community #autistic #actually autistic #autistic pride

[mogai-sunflowers]

shoutout to trans men who have long hair! trans men who want to cut it but aren’t out, gnc trans men who like long hair, trans men whose hair has cultural importance so they don’t/can’t cut it, trans men who just like having long hair! y’all are awesome <33

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌

[mogai-sunflowers]

honestly shout out to “visibly queer” people. shout out to us because it’s really fucking scary. i think people think that if you’re visibly queer you’re automatically confident and unafraid and while I’m sure that’s true for some people, in my experience that’s not the case. I make a choice to be visibly queer because of the amount of times people have told me that it makes them feel safer to be themselves. That doesn’t mean I’m suddenly completely unaware of what could easily happen to me every time I leave my house. It’s more than nerve-wracking. I’ve even seen people say that the visible queers are privileged because clearly we’ve never faced discrimination otherwise we wouldn’t have the freedom to be so open but that’s really dismissive of the work so many of us have had to put in to be confident enough to be that way. i see the eyes on me as I walk down the street and they burn into my skin. It is scary. I see a lot of support for people who have to hide their queerness, which is not a moral failing in any way, but bravery isn’t just one thing. Visibly queer people are not silly stereotypes. Twinks who fit every gay guy stereotype proudly are not your enemy they are your fiercest allies, so are the genderfucky trans people who don’t make an effort to pass as cis and the butches and studs who are fucking proud. We’re brave and just because we appear so confident and impenetrable on the outside doesn’t mean we don’t have the same struggles or support needs. So just shout out to us. I’ve had a few… experiences… lately and it’s made me reevaluate my decision to always be so open, but I’m willing to risk my safety to make a change and make others feel safe and I and others are brave for that and deserve your love.

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #queer #queer community #queer rights #queer issues #lgbtq community #i am so thankful for all the queer people who’ve come before me and have made it possible #for me to be like this now #im actually writing a song rn about Marsha and Sylvia and how they and others have changed me #might share it here at some point when I’m done #in my queer feels rn #and my anxiety is through the roof #im kinda dying lmao #kinda shivering like #i hate this it’s scary