Just me crying in the bathroom so I don’t wake my partners with this, fuck.
So to sum up: CT and DC have passed laws making it illegal to extradite someone to another state if they are being charged in that other state for crimes pertaining to abortion or trans health care, and makes it legal to sue and get your money back if you are targeted by a TX-style “bounty” law. DC also includes “crimes” of consensual adult sex, gay and interracial marriage and cohabitation and providing or using contraception.
This is, as the thread explains, basically legal interstate warfare. CT and DC’s laws bar compliance with such laws.
This is, on one hand, kind of terrifying, because this is where we are now. It’s going to get worse long before it gets better.
On the other hand… holy shit, someone fucking did something.
My second OC for #BlackFaeDay is a fire fae blacksmith who can craft any armor or weapon you need–and enchant them with spells to give you an edge in battle ⚒️⚔️🔥
image description: a dark-skinned Black person with pointed ears, white markings around her eyes and long dark hair in a ponytail holding a sledgehammer with a long handle, wearing a black & white African print skirt and a leather halter top that laces up the front, and silver wrist cuffs, standing in a room with stone floor and brick walls, in front of a chair, forge and bellows. She is flexing one arm in the first photo. In the second photo she is holding out one hand towards the camera with flames coming from her palm, contained by her fingers.
So, I just discovered recently that today, May 14th, is Black Fae Day and there’s a whole costume event for it, too!
For those unfamiliar, Black Fae Day is supposed to bring up awareness to the huge lack of black women (and black people, in general) in fantasy media, and it’s often celebrated by black people dressing up as fairies, elves and all sorts of mystic beings.
So, to celebrate, here’s a TikTok comp of short videos about Black Fae Day!
Because sometimes a nigga just wants to go on an adventure, slay a dragon, to be a monarch, study magic and/or to be wed to a fairy.
We are so much more than the racism and trauma that we go through, and people need to acknowledge this ASAP.
a water fae returns to her home, she’s been gone too long as it is 🌊 #BlackFaeDay
image description: a dark-skinned Black woman with long black curly hair wearing a backless floor-length pleated dress that is a pale pink ombre that lightens into white, then light blue and becomes dark blue at the hem, standing in front of a waterfall, in a shimmering lake. She has blue glittery makeup and pointed ears.
Shortly after (maybe even the same day) the Roe decision is officially published, the TX AG will announce that because of it, he believes he and TX are no longer held by Obergefell. Abbott will instruct clerks to stop issuing marriage certificates to couples who are same-gender (toss in smth about “original unredacted birth certificates” for full shittery), and possibly void current certificates which aren’t solemnized. The state will then sue to void all “illegal” marriages they were “forced” to perform.
It’ll be upheld all the way up the chain.
I’ve been saying for years this is all a long game.
There have been arrests in multiple states at gay bookstores, theaters and bathhouses which I also predicted last year would be the cases they will try to push for Lawrence.
So many things are based on the “right to privacy”: the right to teach your children your own language, the right not to be forcibly operated on (specifically sterilized), the right to own and create pornography (or “specific kinds” of pornography, and please do not forget that ANY queer lit is viewed as porn by these people), the right to have queer sex in your own home, the right to live with a relative, the right to access contraception, the right to marry someone of a different race, the right to access transition care… and Alito just said “nah.”
Us older queers have been saying and saying that this is all so tenuous and so fragile and there are better things to fight about than all the stupid shit people want to fight about.
Are you finally fucking listening now?
What do you mean the right to live with a relative?
I totally get all the others but that one confused me…
When we discussed the Shawnee, KS “you can’t live with someone who isn’t related to you, no groups of 4 or more unrelated adults” thing the other day, the reason why they don’t just limit how many people in total or whatever is because of this case. Here’s a more thorough syllabus of the case.
This is predicated on the right to privacy, and without it, we can have laws which allow cities and towns to be extremely intrusive about who lives in your home with you, even in a home which you own. This wasn’t a civil thing, and it wasn’t, like, a landlord seeking to restrict the people who live in a home he owns. The case dealt with a homeowner whose two sons and two grandsons lived with her, and she was convicted of a crime because her grandsons lived with her.
So yeah, the right to live with a relative - the right to determine, in essence, what your family looks like, and the right to not be forced to live in an “ideal nuclear family” or whatever - is one of the rights predicated on the right to privacy, and it is in fact one of the cases upon which Casey relies.
So, there’s apparently research coming out now about microplastics being found in people’s bloodstreams and the possible negative effects of that and I feel the need to get out ahead of the wave of corporate sponsored “be sure to recycle your bottles!” or “ban glitter!” campaigns and remind everyone:
It’s fishing nets. It’s fishing nets. It is overwhelming fishing nets It always has been fishing nets. Unless regulations are changed, it will continue to be fishing nets.
The plastic in the ocean in largely discarded nets from industrial fishing. The microplastics are the result of these nets breaking down. The “trash islands” are also, you guessed it. Mostly fishing nets and other discarded fishing industry equipment.
Do not allow them to continue to twist the story. Do not come after disabled people who require single use plastics. Do not come after people using glitter in art projects and makeup. These things make up a negligible amount of the issue compared to corporate waste, specifically in the fishing industry. Do not let them shift the blame to the individual so they can continue to destroy the planet and our bodies without regulation.
Industries are incredibly resistant to taking responsibility for their own waste, to the point where “consumers are responsible for industrial waste” is somehow considered a sensible, ethical, worthy sentence.
It is actually perfectly reasonable to say that “industries are responsible for industrial waste” and “the effects of industry can, should and must be fixed by industry” and “Industry can, should and must be held responsible for its impacts on the commons, such as air, water, oceans and land.”
