Cabinet Derg @Motodrachen@awoo.space

I'm seeing a few new people cautiously say things like "let's enjoy this place before the bad people get here" and I just want to say:

Don't worry! They're already here! But thanks to the heroic work of your instance moderators and admins, you will never see them. And if they do show up then your mods will get rid of them: unlike Twitter, the reporting functions here are reviewed by real people who don't care about turning a profit, and instead focus on enforcing community guidelines

The Pokémon of the day is: Goodra!
Discuss! #PokemonOfTheDay

Speedpainting 27092019. #art #illustration #mastoart

like, damn, it's really true that the exclusive tying up of legal rights into the institution of marriage creates problems for polyamorous families, whether gay/trans or not, and the sorts of families that gay people form, even if they can get married (to a single person) now!

isn't it interesting how, if you take things like "the right to set people as your (next of) kin in the case of death and illness" that are exclusively granted by the state through marriage, and you instead make them rights that people can access on their own terms and set by themselves, that ends up benefiting poly people (queer or not) and queer people (poly or not)?

isn't it interesting how the economic (tax-based, for instance) incentives to form nuclear families of two adults & some number of children are a material, economic burden on queer people & poly people?

interesting, also, to note that multi-family, multi-generational, high-occupancy homes are more economically secure & efficient!

imagine... if instead of all these incredibly rancorous conversations about what 'is' and 'isn't queer', starting from the premise that there is one correct answer and it matters a great deal,

we sat down and talked about WHY people see gayness and transness and aceness and kinkiness and polyamory as related concepts, and material/economic/practical situations where the different experiences within that tangle shed light on one another?!

crazy concept, but it's called coalitionism and people do it all the god damn time!

Kids these days.#OurStreets

"we won't return to normality because normality was the problem"
#chile