so many people in this world are queer. this is a side project of mine to show just how many of us there are. you are not alone. 

RE: nazi punching

irltrash:

i wanna talk about a thing and that thing is trump and the door he’s opened for full on fascism in america. this is a thing that i have refrained from discussing in the past because A) there’s already a lot of #discourse out there about it and B) because i have never been as scared about it as i am right now. this might be a long thing but if you have the energy to read it all i really hope you do.

i just want to preface this by saying that i loved/still do kind of love america. my father is an immigrant and my grandparents are immigrants and growing up i had a very strong sense of patriotism instilled in me. i was raised by people who have a sort of reverence for the american dream and the kind of life you can make for yourself and your descendants and freedom and that kind of thing and that reverence has never left me or my worldview. so up until this exact point in time, actually, i held america in a very high regard. this was a country, i thought, where we stood up for each other. a country where we didn’t pinpoint our differences, but celebrated our similarities. we were bound together, i assumed, by our basic humanity. and even the lowliest, most disadvantaged person (like my father) could rise to the top by applying themselves and and using their unique talents to contribute to society.

i do not feel like that anymore. i can safely say that the past year and a half or so, this election cycle, have been the most terrifying parts of my life. i am still very young. to give you a clue, president obama was president for half of my life. i have literally never experienced fear like this. this is fear for my life. i am telling you this because of recent events, particularly the rise of fascism and neo-nazism in america. i don’t think that this post will be the be-all end-all of discourse about the ethics of punching nazis, obviously, but i want to put some things into perspective from a very human point of view for you.

some of y’all say it’s irresponsible to fight violence with violence, or that hate as a response to hate lowers us to the same level as oppressors. i have no disdain for people who say that. in fact, i used to hold the same point of view. my parents and my grandparents are very religious people, and that influenced my viewpoint on social justice and made me believe i should turn the other cheek. recently, however, i have come to realize that there’s a difference between turning your cheek to a blow and exposing your throat to be slit by a killer.

as we all know, nazis believe in the mass genocide of all races besides their preferred race. they view anyone who differs from this norm, be it in sexuality or ethnicity, as subhuman. nazis genuinely and legitimately want me and people like me dead. i am a black, bisexual woman. i am the child of an immigrant. nazis want me dead. richard spencer wants me dead. richard spencer wants people like one of my best friends, a vibrant and intelligent young woman who happens to be Jewish, dead. sure, he hasn’t come up to me in the street and held a gun to my head, but his compatriots have infiltrated the government of a country that i used to revere and they want to make sure that i can no longer thrive here. they want to legislate people like you and me out of existence, and they will do it if we don’t stop them. they have already started.

let me tell you this right now: this is not something that is up for discussion. if you are standing in front of a nazi, who represents the extermination of people like me, you better fucking punch them. you better do your fucking best to invalidate, delegitimize, and obliterate them. nazis lost the right to a friendly conversation when they decided that they stood for genocide. punching a nazi does not make you just as bad as them. debating whether or not nazis are worthy of punching, debating whether their viewpoint should subject them to violence makes you as bad as an oppressor. acting like their viewpoint–which is literally death to other human beings for no good reason–is valid, or has a right to be discussed, makes you as bad as them. because that means that you’re opening up other people’s humanity for discussion. i am not up for discussion. people like me are not topics of discourse. our lives are meant for bigger and better things than that. our lives are meant to be respected. our lives are not hypotheticals.

last night i laid in bed staring at the ceiling with tears streaming down my face because i realized the enormity of the situation that we are in. i was crushed when trump was elected, obviously, but i still held onto the faith i have in america. i held onto it right up until last night, because i truly believed that if we banded together, we’d be able to resist at least some of the bad things that were going to be thrown at us. and then i logged on this fucking website and i see y’all debating whether or not you should punch nazis, who are murderers, who all hold malicious intent and the will to destroy within their hearts.

anyway, i guess this is the end of the thing i’m trying to say: punch a fucking nazi. baseball isn’t america’s favorite pastime. nazi punching is, and should be. punch a nazi, trip a nazi in the street, key a nazi’s car. i never thought i’d ever advocate for violence against anyone. i also never thought i’d have to clarify to people that i am a human being and i deserve to be treated as such. nazis don’t care about us. they are evil. you can do everything right, and they will still want you dead. you can be a straight A student, conventionally attractive, kind, well-spoken, compassionate, etc., and a nazi will still want you dead. they don’t see us as human. they will never recognize that. they will never acknowledge it. and you and i do not deserve that. so: sock the white supremacists in the jaw.

before i finish this, i also have to acknowledge that i’m not even the best person to share my opinion on this. i am a woman of color, but i’m not Jewish or Muslim, and those are demographics who are facing some of the greatest dangers right now. i strongly suggest that you seek out their voices as well, and in seeking them out, i hope that you also dedicate yourself to protecting them and supporting them best as you can.

in closing: this is one of the hardest things i’ve ever attempted to articulate in my life. the respect i have for america’s people, the love i have for my fellow citizens and for people who come to this country in pursuit of a better life like my parents did, the people who have always done their best to uplift one another and keep each other safe? that will never go away. but my faith in america’s supposed core values? the values that we share, the values that unite us, the ones that guarantee us life, liberty, and happiness, the ones we strive to uphold that set us apart, the supposed celebration of similarity and open-mindedness that i believed in for my entire life? my faith in those things needs a little renewal.

don’t forget to donate to the ACLU and/or other charities who protect the rights of people who need it most. if you made it this far, thank you, and please punch a nazi.

(via bigfruit)

coolskelaton95: not every heterosexual person is straight, for example, an agender person exclusively attracted to bigender people is still heterosexual... i didn't appreciate that comment on my work(as crappy as it may be)

Your work wasn’t crappy. I realise now that that was rude and immature of me. I’ll fix it now. I didn’t mean to upset you. I apologise.

ceterosexual people deserve respect
ceteroromantic people deserve respect
panromantic people deserve respect
polyromantic people deserve respect
heteroromantic people deserve respect
biromantic people deserve respect
homoromantic people deserve respect
heterosexual people deserve respect

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bigender people deserve respect

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also if you’d like to submit flags, you are completely welcome to it. I realise it may seem like I forgot to make and represent some genders and sexualities but I just hadn’t finished. Thank you for submitting these. ❤

Hey! I’m Nikki. I’m pansexual, demiromantic and agender-flux.

Thankfully, people are very accepting of my sexual orientation. I’ve come out to my mom as pansexual and demiromantic and she’s totally fine with it. Nobody that I know in real life knows about my gender, though.

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holy shit……it’s been TWO MONTHS!! im so sorry to all my loyal followers. school has been HELL. im gonna try to be on here more. working on flags. i need to answer some messages and post some submissions. again, im so sorry!!

sorry for not posting lately! i havent been feeling very good. so, lets just say im on hiatus? i’ll try to post soon but i dont know when that’ll happen. sorry guys. i love you all <3