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Marlene Dietrich is detained at a train station in Paris in 1933 for violating the ban on women wearing trousers.
As with all german actors in the 30's, you always gotta check the World War II section of their Wikipedia page. Well im happy to report that Marlene Dietrich was in open opposition to the Nazi regime, and in 1937 donated her entire salary for a film (over 9 million dollars in todays money) to helping Jewish refugees :)
<3 SHE WAS A FABULOUS HELLA QUEER ICON <3
Now is an excellent time to tell your Democratic Congress Critters trans Healthcare is important
If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options:
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/
This is extremely important, y'all. They're trying to Hyde Amendment trans care for people of all ages.
Medicaid and Medicare coverage would go away, no matter what state you are in. ACA plan coverage would go away. Hospitals would fully just have to stop offering trans care, full stop, or lose their federal funding.
I know we hate the phone but we absolutely can't sleep on this. If you have a Democrat rep, you absolutely have to tell them to hold the line against this.
Please do not let this pass silently. Please call your Representatives and Senators, yes call them and leave a message. This cannot be tolerated, this will kill so many people who are just trying to live our lives.
Funny, very very funny, how many fucking worthless idiots say "vote blue or trans people die" WELL LOOK WHAT BLUE IS FUCKING DOING YOU FUCKERS!
They are ALL our enemies. Every. Last. Single. One. Of. Them. They all need to die. Everyone. Everywhere. All must burn. All must end.
You say "sacrifice the people who aren't us" you say "ignore that they finance genocides" AND SOMEFUCKINGHOW YOU IDIOTS ARE SURPRISED THAT THEY TURN AROUND AND DON'T PROTECT US!
Turns out, throwing people under the bus DOESN'T ACTUALLY PROTECT OUR PEOPLE. Because OF COURSE IT DOESN'T.
We get NOTHING. Fucking NOTHING abandoning other oppressed groups to save ourselves.
They all want us dead. Red, blue, fascism is fucking purple.
They don't care about us. They don't protect us. They just want power for the sake of power, and are all on the same side. You're so scared you're desperate for someone to actually care, but they don't. Nobody does. Nothing within the system will save us. Nobody looking for power will be on our side. We will always be the enemies of the empire.
That doesn't mean it's hopeless. That means shut the fuck up about playing a game whose only goal is innocent deaths.
If you will look at the date for this article it was posted in late July and we have had three such negotiations since then including the one just past.
In all of them, the Democrats held firm and actually had our backs. We are loud enough that they now know they can no longer throw us under the bus for the first time in my life.
Voting in more progressive members works.
Calling Congress Critters to remind them out lives and rights matter works.
Both sides are not the same. One absolutely wants us all dead. The other will actually listen and contains an essential core of people who do care.
Right now there is a threat from the center to primary our progressive allies in congress and that really is a danger because it can undo the progress that is still pretty fragile, but measurable.
I like that Democrats stood firm and fought for us in late summer and all this fall.
I WANT THAT to KEEP HAPPENING!
Your bullshit defeatist Both sidesism helps the fascists.
Don't help the fascists while pretending that's not what you are doing.
nobody is "abandoning" other oppressed groups by voting in the people we can push to defend oppressed groups.
bro, if you don't have the time to fill out a ballot every once in a while or make a five minute phone call to say "I'm your constituent and I would like you to support this" now and again, I sincerely doubt you have time for literally anything else. especially typing up essays about how much everyone shouldn't vote on tumblr dot com.
it takes away nothing from anybody to vote. you can do both. hold the line and push for more. this is extremely basic strategy.
and I think it's fucking strange to imply that it is entitlement to want to defend access to frequently life-saving transition healthcare, particularly when many of those most vulnerable- trans children- also cannot vote.
I think it's fucking weird to imply that transition healthcare is a superfluous whim that can and should be sacrificed for "the greater good", particularly when doing so doesn't actually advance rights for anyone else and, in fact, further endangers those folks right alongside us.
This whole "trans people are actually super privileged and it's so gross and entitled of them to want rights when other people don't have theirs yet" song and dance is insidious transphobic bullshit, and I am getting very tired of it.
“are you a boy or a girl?”
“well i’m actually multiclassing so i have levels in both”
2 genres of fanfiction:
1) put that guy into situations
2) take that guy OUT of situations for the love of GOD let them REST
Cryptozoology is my favourite kind of fake science stuff. Wish there was also cryptobotany, like mothman but its just a really big fern in the middle of a field with literally nothing else around it , that spawned in the dead of night, might have killed a few people and never shows up in photos, and no one is sure its even real
Cryptogeology is also like "Yeah, that mountain likes to move around. Nobody's seen it do it. But I've been tracking it since Saskatoon."
"There are no mountains in Saskatoon."
"Not anymore, there aren't."
Cryptogeography: didn't used to be a France there
Cryptogeometry: I've seen shapes you wouldn't fuckin believe.
