hey i wrote about the intersection of gay culture and gym culture and how lockdown presents a perfect opportunity for us to 'neautralise the body' via
@GuardianAus
What's the German word for the rich publicly donating money to under-funded public services while simultaneously using loopholes to avoid paying taxes that would have funded those very services in the first instance
@kvetchings
bingo. my big takeaway from therapy was: "it's frustrating that i'm here taking an individualised approach to my anxiety which is actually just a response to a broader structural issue that nobody wants to address"
it's incredulous that a THEORY of violence (that a free Palestine is predicated on the elimination of Israel) is taken more seriously than the actual, physical PRACTICE of violence, death and devastation against Palestinians and their land.
Australians will literally steal land from First Nations folk and then have the gumption to push back on the idea that people experiencing homelessness could seek shelter in vacant properties "how would you like to have someone squat in your place that you own" lmao ok
@VanityFair
this is disrespectful and disappointing, ultimately representative of the god-awful reporting that helped Trump secure his win. Cheers to you,
@VanityFair
🥂
Almost every "condemn the Left for not condemning Hamas" op-ed that's come out of the last month has either refused to cite their examples, or used individual bad actors to make sweeping generalisations about an entire political movement.
@davidmackau
people are confusing stigma with homophobia. Is it homophobic to have targeted public health campaigns? No, it's vital. Will it drive stigma against MSM? Yes, bc we live in a society that ascribes innate virtue to both heterosexuality and living without disease.
ok everyone's retweeting that Queer Eye video but what did you really expect from five men who use the forces of capitalism to assimilate others into normative standards of beauty and consumption. Stop looking towards random celebrities for thought leadership plz.
Salient reminder that every track on this new Kim Petras Halloween album is written/produced by Kesha's alleged abuser, Dr Luke (who has rebranded himself as MADE IN CHINA)
As
@jessicabennett
rightly mentions in her latest
@nytimes
piece: what good is this feminist redemption and public rehabilitation of maligned women from the past when it does nothing to influence or impact the narratives of the present?
desperately needed an antihistamine at midsumma yesterday so I took to Grindr with "👀 4 antihistamine"
didn't get any replies but my boyfriend screamed "DOES ANYONE HAVE AN ANTIHISTAMINE" into the crowd and I gotta say the queer women came through
@JenAshleyWright
the language is also exhausting. the way we've normalized "unborn babies" as if we ever define things by what they might eventually become. maybe i'll start describing myself as a "pre-dead man"
My housemate is a social worker working in family violence. Yesterday she told me that when she tried to contact the family violence police unit she was told that some of them had been diverted to doing self-isolation spot checks as part of the coronavirus task-force.
Episode 6: "The Secret"
The Oprah-approved bestseller with three simple tenets: Science is fake, attitude causes everything and poor people don't want to be rich.
clubbing in 2022 just isn't hitting the same as clubbing pre-2020 for me and i'm not sure whether it's just being 2 years older, being 2 years out of practice, or whether it's covid's impact to the city and party scene. anyone else feeling this way?
the "no sex scenes" discourse has been created and amplified by literal teenagers who watch films almost exclusively with their family members. the only difference between us and them is that we didn't have a mechanism to create viral discourse from awkward moments at their age.
House inspections today! 🥰
- an agent changed it from 9am to 8:30am without notifying 🤡
- an agent left 5 mins into a 15 min inspection 🤡
- an agent advertised a 1 bedroom as a 2 bedroom 🤡
- an agent couldn't get into the property 🤡
Love Melbourne's renters market 🥰🥰
Can I just say: this last year i've read so much on fat liberation, fat justice and fat activism - and it's completely transformed the way that I think and talk about bodies. I absolutely recommend - for both your relationship to your body and in how you consider and treat others
my favourite part of the taylor swift disney special is when she's like "it's 8.30am and you're probably wondering what i'm doing awake"
taylor it's 8.30 am lol
my parents remain hesitant about the vaccine, and no amount of data, expertise or infographics made them budge. it wasn't until i told them that it would personally mean a lot to me that they booked their appointments. they get their second pfizer next weekend.
excited for my gay-free weekend in melbourne! gonna fly a drone, watch the ufc, reproduce, learn to drive, drink bourbon, buy a bagged roast chook, wait in line at the provincial, listen to joe rogan and attend a drag brunch
been sitting on this news (mainly because my partner wanted to tell people in person??? 🙄) but............ his partner visa was granted last week 😭😭😭😭😭 he can officially live and work in australia 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
"Redemption plots are, in theory, supposed to teach us about empathy, about the inherent humanity of even messy, imperfect women. But what good are they if they can’t help shape the way we treat one another now?"
@jessicabennett
asked a smoking Ashley Benson for a cigarette outside a vegan mexican restaurant on the LES and she said "sorry I don't smoke" before exhaling smoke in my face (fyi
@whoweekly
)
merry christmas 🎅 Manchester airport security just inspected my cabin bag and pulled out a bag of butt plugs in front of my boyfriend's parents, and a happy new year! 🍾
This revamped D.C. hotel opened with a “female empowerment theme” that features:
• A portrait of RBG made out of 20,000 hand-painted tampons
• Cocktails named “the huntress” and “empowermint”
• And a head chef who is male.