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My name is: Michelle, but most people call me Dark online.

My gender-pronouns are: They/them/their.

I am: 26 years old, a feminist, liberal, an atheist, an omnivore, and an ISFJ.

The Feminist: Intersectional, body positive, pro-choice, and sex positive.

My privileged identities include: Female assigned at birth (trans* privilege), white, able-bodied, allistic (?), dyadic, monogamous.

My non-privileged/oppressed identities include: Gender-fluid, fat, gray-a, neuroatypical, and gay.

I have: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder.

I like: Pets & animals, animal welfare, pet care & pet care education, ~*SCIENCE!*~, anatomy & physiology, roleplaying, anime/manga, computer & video games, rock & metal music.

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Anonymous asked
Have you seen fyeahbiphobia? It's the radscummiest thing I think I've ever seen.

I haven’t seen it but I’ve heard of it’s existence. Radscum gonna be radscum.

I’d argue that I’ve seen radscummier, though.

ionicaq: bisexual-community: nerdpoet: Tumblr, I saw this on the train today and I don’t even know what the fuck to do. I’m so livid. Can we tumblr-bomb these assholes? Holy Mother!!! What COMPLETE Bigots! WHAT?? I think this definitely needs a fucking Tumblr bomb.

ionicaq:

bisexual-community:

nerdpoet:

Tumblr, I saw this on the train today and I don’t even know what the fuck to do. I’m so livid.

Can we tumblr-bomb these assholes?

Holy Mother!!! What COMPLETE Bigots!

WHAT??

I think this definitely needs a fucking Tumblr bomb.

Yesterday I learned that a friend of mine has started dating a guy with blonde hair....

thelostgirl21:

murasakiyugata:

Yesterday I learned that a friend of mine has started dating a guy with blonde hair.  Which really doesn’t make any sense to me, because her last boyfriend had brown hair.  When I asked her why she doesn’t find any brunette guys attractive anymore, she told me she thinks either hair color can look good if it’s on the right person.  What the fuck?  I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m totally cool with people being attracted to whichever hair color they want, but pick a side, you know?  I think she’s probably just doing this for the attention, or maybe she’s going through a transitional period where she figures out what she really wants.  But either way, it’s creeping me out.  I wonder if she’s gonna try to have a three-way with a blonde and a brunette or something.  I don’t know.  She’s never struck me as promiscuous before, but I guess I didn’t know her as well as I thought I did.

Perfect analogy is perfect.

ASK: What's the story about Dan Savage? (I made this response post re-bloggable for those who requested it).

projectqueer:

(TRIGGER WARNING:discussion of cissexism, cissexist language/slurs, suicide (it gets better campaign), rape apologism, victim-blaming, body-shaming, slut-shaming)

Updated: December 11, 2012 (new links, new sources!)

While Dan Savage has done things for the gay and lesbian communities, he DOES exclude and/or outright INSULT many minorities within the queer community - namely bisexuals, pansexuals, and those in the transgender*, genderqueer, and gender non-conforming communities. He willfully spreads misinformation, lies, and stereotypes.

Sources for these accusations are located and proven here:

He HAS also proven to be a rape apologist, slut-shamer, ableist, AND racist a number of times.

While I think that the It Gets Better Campaign was a well-meaning project, it DOES offer false hopes - especially if members of the community are excluded/ignored. The truth is, it offers hope for the few privileged queers who believe in it. And frankly, IGB is more of a PR campaign for those who take part in it than anything else.

QueerWatch discusses this much further here.

I also suggest reading this.

When these accusations are brought to Savage’s attention, he either does not respond or reiterates the fact that most of his worst statements occurred a number of years ago.

The problem is: THESE ARE RE-OCCURRING ISSUES!

If anyone is interested, there is also a tumblr just for Dan Savage regarding all the aforementioned topics located here.

BiNet USA Wins Over Google in Search Term Dispute

goshdarnbisexuals:

bialogue-group:

After a campaign by BiNet USA and bisexuals worldwide, Google has removed “bisexual” from its list of banned words.

Los Angeles CA 4 September 2012 - BiNet USA is pleased to confirm that Google Inc. has unblocked the term “bisexual” from its search algorithm. Now that “bisexual” is allowed, terms such as “bisexual quotes”, “bisexual rights”, and “bisexual parenting” are automatically suggested to Google users.

“It’s not every day one of the biggest companies in the world changes its mind, but we are thankful that Google now sees bisexual people just like everyone else,” said BiNet USA President Faith Cheltenham. “It will take time for bisexual search terms to be ranked as they were before the ban, but now bisexual people and their allies have a fighting chance to be seen, heard, and understood.”

Since late 2009, Google has had “bisexual” on a list of banned words; such words were de-prioritized by the Google search algorithm, leading to a drop in search rankings for all bisexual organizations and community resources. Since its search engine would not auto-suggest or auto-complete any term with the word “bisexual”, Google made it harder for any user to find bisexual content, whether that be on coming out as bisexual or finding local support groupsacross the United States and elsewhere.

BiNet USA spearheaded a campaign to get Google to unblock the word and stop harming a deeply marginalized community even further. Click HERE for full Press Release

Just putting this here in case anyone wants to tell me that bisexual invisibility/biphobia isn’t a problem!

amajor7: Dan Savage (founder of the “It Gets Better” project) is a perfect example of the whole “LGBT pride so long as you’re only a white cismale and nothing else” community. Here are a few of the things he’s done: He has called trans* people “trannies” and “shemales”, as well as told a parent they were selfish for not waiting until their child has graduated from high school to have their sex-change operation. [x] He has attacked a rape survivor over her relationship with her husband [x] Savage falsely labeled Washington State Attorney Rob Mckenna as transgender as a joke(?) [x] He has stated that “avoiding bi guys is a good rule of thumb for gay men looking for long-term relationships.” [x] You can find more of his sexist, racist, transphobic, biphobic comments here.

amajor7:

Dan Savage (founder of the “It Gets Better” project) is a perfect example of the whole “LGBT pride so long as you’re only a white cismale and nothing else” community.

Here are a few of the things he’s done:

  • He has called trans* people “trannies” and “shemales”, as well as told a parent they were selfish for not waiting until their child has graduated from high school to have their sex-change operation. [x]
  • He has attacked a rape survivor over her relationship with her husband [x]
  • Savage falsely labeled Washington State Attorney Rob Mckenna as transgender as a joke(?) [x]
  • He has stated that “avoiding bi guys is a good rule of thumb for gay men looking for long-term relationships.” [x]

You can find more of his sexist, racist, transphobic, biphobic comments here.