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lesbeanlovinglesbians:

I want to give a shoutout to all Asian lesbians, especially the ones who had to grow up not knowing it was possible to like girls, since the mere mention of homosexuality was or still is taboo in our cultures.

I want to give a shoutout to Asian lesbians who are butch or gender non-conforming. Asian women, especially East and Southeast Asians, are portrayed in media as being feminine and submissive, making those of us who do not conform to these stereotypes feel alienated from the porcelain dolls society wants us to be.

I want to give a shoutout to Asian lesbians who still live in Asia. I am fortunate enough to live in a country where I can legally marry a woman I love, and where there are laws in place protecting me from homophobia. Taiwan is going to be the first country in Asia allowing for same sex marriage this year, but that monumental ruling that is going to pave the way for LGBTQ+ rights in Asia was almost thwarted by a referendum in November 2018, when the majority of Taiwan’s voters decided that marriage should only be between a man and a woman. Fortunately, the Taiwanese government is still going to follow through with allowing same sex marriage before March of 2019, but the majority of countries in Asia still do not have protections in place for us. In some countries, merely expressing our love for other women could lead to our arrests or even deaths.

Asian lesbians do not deserve to be shunned by our families, and god forbid be arrested or killed. We deserve representation, we deserve to be accepted, and we deserve rights.

If you’re an out lesbian living in Asia, I want you to know that I am in awe of your bravery.

grodyego:

going through ao3 trying to find literally anything fucking good like

i havent talked abt nitw in forever but is there any cuter ship name then maebea? No

strangeauthor:

mothfurry:

glassaxolotl:

purple-penntapus:

Even LGBT people are afraid to create LGBT rep half the time because you fucking goblins critique things with LGBT rep so harshly that the second it does something that you personally don’t like it gets treated even worse than the shows that have absolutely no rep in them.

Demonizing every show that is earnestly trying to provide the rep we’ve been lacking is NOT THE WAY TO GET BETTER REP

YEPPPPPPPPPP

(Cough) That nonbinary dating sim the Dream Daddy devs were working on (cough)

I’m nonbinary and I WANTED that game dammit!

the racist one? The racist one that was rightfully criticized for being racist?

the whole post is about op being mad at people for calling out racism and transphobia in office type just fyi

luzonbleedingheart:

luzonbleedingheart:

seeing ppl who’ve watched into the spider-verse blunder their way through portraying miles’ identity n personality as a young black boy is SO funny like the first 5 minutes of him sitting in his room, interacting with his parents, and walking through his neighborhood establishes so much but i still see yall running around talm bout homestuck and miles being a memer or whatever the fuck

why focus on miles the gen z kid or miles the lgbt/neurodivergent metaphor or miles the generic that you’re clearly projecting on as a white person when you can see and treat miles for what he actually is: a teenage afro-latinx boy (who very likely has adhd !)

fashionbi:

white gays in fandom: [try to claim spiderverse as a movie for them almost exclusively, make a bunch of posts abt miles doing a bunch of ooc shit]

me, internally: this is indicative of a larger problem in fandom where white gays and white people in general love a movie but realize they can’t fully put themselves in the shoes of the lead bc hes black, so they remold his character into something more palatable and generic so they can be more comfortable making their jokes and headcanons or what have you

me, externally: miles wouldn’t read homestuck bc its bad

thewugtest:

Anyway… death of the author and all that, but my point is that a work is not honestly ~*progressive*~ in a tangible way if said progressiveness is unintentional or requires things like headcanon or opinion-based analysis to even exist.

Loki isn’t “canonically gay” in the MCU just because Jeff Goldblum winked at him once. Colin fuckin’ Firth in Kingsman isn’t even canonically gay, because all references to potential gayness are either potential lies or only implications.

Which doesn’t mean you can’t headcanon things or enjoy them or even treat your headcanons as being true! It’s just that you need to quit it when you get up to measuring whether the source material is actually Woke or what-have-you.

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