Protip: for any cis people who don’t already know, the phrase “this person” is an extremely obvious way transhobes often degender and/or misgender trans people.
you should generally not use that phrasing. especially if you are criticizing someone who happens to be trans.
K Cups -$200
Printer Toner -$150
Robes -$800
Bribes +$3,600,000
Clerks -$150
someone who is good at justice please help me budget this. my democracy is dying
seeing a lot of "actually Project 2025 considers any LGBT text or subtext to be pornographic, that's what they're trying to ban" and maybe could use a little more "but also it's wrong to ban actual porn, porn is fine"
"UwU no pawitics"
I'm not the one who decided that gay people should go to jail for 15 years to LIFE just for fucking other consenting adults.
I'm not the one writing thousands of bills specifically targeting transgender people.
I'm not the one taking away my right to gender-affirming care.
"No one came to me and said, 'We would like to use this'... This is my livelihood, and I put time, resources, money, and staff time into creating this content. There's really no shortage of work."
I think a lot of people are just ignorant (wilfully or otherwise) of that fact about claiming to be "apolitical". Like, even making that claim is a privilege.
also and I feel like I buried the lede here:
it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media.
Imprisoned.
Psst:
Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders.
Pass it on.
When I worked at a grocery store this college twink would come in wearing a Reagan Bush shirt and I'm like wtf dude.
Could have not been gay but I wonder if his boyfriend knew that