get educated

ot4s:

a masterpost of posts about how oppression works and why cisphobia / reverse racism / heterophobia isn’t real. please stop complaining about it now

• why can’t i say the n word?
• why everybody shouldn’t just be nice
• “but not every white guy is like that!”
• reverse racism is not real
• why some queer people dislike macklemore
• why adding more POC to a piece of media is not the same as adding more white people
• “why doesn’t the A stand for ally”

thingsyouwishedyouasked:

failedwillsave:

lava-is-soft:

 

Important

There is a significant difference between consenting BDSM and abuse.

queerfucker:

posters being put up by the cool cats in the Queer Resource Center at my school. credit to them!

eatthechildrenmoar:

there is no set way to be a woman (✿◠‿◠) 
there is no set way to be a man (◡‿◡✿)
there is no set way to be non-binary  (•◡•) /

just wear what you want and act how you want it doesnt matter your identity is still valid

Let me explain you a thing

flowersandfemme:

nerdburger1995:

These are my legs

But sometimes these are my legs, and that is okay

but when you use these

To move this

Without my permission, apparently you don’t understand that is like picking someone up and carrying them
because you are moving my legs

without my permission, and that is not okay.

Do we all understand now?

THIS. A MILLION TIMES, THIS.

catskid100:

Repeat after me:

• Crying because you’re sad is not immature
• Crying because you’re sad is not immature
• Crying because you’re sad is not immature
• Crying because you’re sad is not immature
• Crying because you’re sad is not immature
• Crying because you’re sad is not immature
• CRYING BECAUSE YOU’RE SAD IS NOT IMMATURE 

Abusive Friendships

aboveabuse:

Abusive friendships are rarely discussed, with the role of abuse being mostly emphasized in romantic and familial relationships. However, friendships can be just as abusive, especially if the friend is someone close to or important to you.

I’ve had experience with abusive friendships, and the most common I’ve seen and heard of is emotional abuse – here are a few examples of this:

• if your friend constantly demeans you, treats you like you are lesser
• may blame sadness on you, always expect you to fix their emotions and problems for them
• becomes jealous of other friends – refuses to let you have friends outside of them, thus isolating you
• making suicide threats if you don’t meet their requests (this is different from your friend simply being suicidal – this is often repetitive and is clear that it relies solely on your actions)
• and any other signs of emotional abuse.

Friends can also be abusive physically (which can be discounted as playful and friendly – but if it is causing physical harm that you are not okay with, it is abuse), and sexually.

The important thing to remember is that the abuse is not your fault, and the abuser being a friend does not discredit the abuse whatsoever. It is not okay for a person to treat anyone this way, and definitely not a friend.

(Critique and discussion on whether or not there are problematic elements in our posts is always welcomed!)

geekgirlsmash:

Actual Suicide Prevention

(Source 1, Source 2)

celestialdeth:

thorin-and-twerkteam:

emotional abuse is when someone does something to hurt you, and when you express your feelings, that you’re upset, they turn it around to be something you did to hurt them and they force you to apologize for it, and your feelings, like always, are rendered invalid and silenced, forever damaging the ability to trust others with your feelings because they always are used against you.

This hits way too close to home