I never post personal stuff on this blog, but I wanted to share something with you all.
Until last spring, no one but my platonic partner knew I am not cisgender. I talked about my gender identity exclusively with people online, trying to understand how to deal with being non-binary without…
What would life be like if none of us hid our emotional scars from each other? If when we looked at each other, we didn’t see people who had been broken (and therefore deserve our scorn, shame, or pity.) What would happen if all we saw was the whole, made more beautiful by their golden scars?
I’ve noticed something recently. I have several followers who have been sexually abused by family members. It’s gotten me thinking, and there’s something I want to say:
Thank you.
I know that some of the positions I espouse, and the things I post, can be challenging to people coming from those…
These are the best kind of allies, the kinds that don’t generalize, and who look outside their immediate experience to acknowledge that every case is different, every situation is unique. We do need to make a distinction between consent and non-consensual acts. Otherwise we’re punishing a whole group of innocent people for the crimes of another.
Read his full post here: https://thefinalmanifesto.tumblr.com/post/86461366806/i-have-something-to-say
Top 50 listing features the “Best of the Best;” Number of top-rated schools increases to 50, based on growing progress in creating LGBT-friendly campuses
(Friday, August 15, 2014) Campus Pride announced today the annual Campus Pride 2014 Top 50 LGBT-Friendly Colleges & Universities….
Thank you for this important resource! If you’re college-bound soon, this is a list to bookmark!
Campus Pride releases 2014 Top 50 List of LGBT-Friendly Colleges & Unviersities
(This is an old post I made on August 2014, about a website that reviews library books. It is about censorship)
Not going to lie.
This site make me sick.
⬆ These arrogant people sitting around judging others by their own limitations in understanding… I was just looking around for a good source of information about cousin marriage throughout history and I came across a book, then this page. I wanted to write a comment so badly but that option no longer comes up (old post I guess)… I’m glad not everyone in the comments below are completely ignorant.
But it makes me so sad to see some of the things said by a person that had cousin marriage in their own lineage… that’s how deep the stigma goes – that it would even cause someone to make judgements about their own family members. Sad, when even strangers that have never had it in their family are capable of being more sympathetic.
Books like this are so necessary in brining to light a topic that has so many misunderstandings attached to it and presenting it just as it is. It’s unfortunate that some people’s one-track minds can’t process the possibility that someone can love their cousin as their #1 choice of a partner, not as a last resort or due to GSA or because they were the “safe” option…
I feel like the key to getting grandchildren and children to accept the cousin marriage of past relatives is to come out early. Not too early that it’s incomprehensible to them, but not so late that they have already internalized the blindly perpetuated stigma.
I’m going to try and forget the anger I feel towards the haters and read the book because I feel I can learn something from it and share some valuable information with more open-minded people who know what empathy is.
(This was a casting call from August 2014)
Against all odds and everyone’s opinion, are you dating, marrying or involved with your COUSIN? Are you tired of disapproving family, jokes about your relationship and want to clear the air? Or perhaps you’ve kept your cousin-romance a secret and want to share your story?
We’re casting cousins…
This might be worth checking out for some of you. It would probably be best to e-mail them and find out the details of the project first, however, before you give out your information – just to protect your privacy and make sure you know the terms.
Coming out and educating people about these relationships can play such an important role in challenging discrimination and overriding ignorance. Just look at how far the LGBTQ community has come, by sticking together and being open about their identities.
No doubt it would take a lot of courage, but if you live somewhere where being with your cousin is legal and you don’t risk prosecution for discussing it openly, I urge you to consider participating. For the sake of others who are like you that are not so fortunate. Take advantage of these opportunities. People are capable of changing their minds for the better. Putting a face to the issue can make the difference between creating a more accepting society for you to live in and being pushed further into the closet by people who’s ignorance remains unchallenged.
They know the myths. Only you know the reality.
Here’s the casting call website: http://www.lescasting.com/
(Source: lescasting-blog)
(post from August 2014)
The trailer for the movie ‘Friends from France / Les Interdits (2013)’ – English Sub
Directed by : Anne Weil, Philippe Kotlarski Produced by : Les Films du Poisson Genre: Fiction – Runtime: 1 h 40 min French release: 27/11/2013 Production year: 2013
“There are so many people outside of your family. Go marry/have sex with one of them, instead. It creates friendships between families.” There are plenty of people within one’s own race, too, but that is no reason to ban interracial marriage. I have many friends outside of my family to whom…
Reblogging for my new followers.
Thank you so much for writing this, fullmarriageequality!! Now I had something to refer someone to… someone on YouTube. You said a lot of the things I wanted to say as well, so I left a link for this person to follow, along with this message on their YouTube page:
I saw a video you made awhile ago where you were saying that people who are related shouldn’t be romantically involved with each other because they are harming the ‘genetic health’ of the human race. I left a comment but not sure it showed up… I used to admire you a lot but after you said that I was very disappointed in who I thought you were… Maybe you can take a look at this link, because it might show you this topic from an angle you didn’t consider before: http://fullmarriageequality.tumblr.com/post/82327461255/not-a-good-reason-to-deny-consanguineous-love-19 I’m part of the lgbtq community too, but I don’t draw lines for other people’s love lives because I wouldn’t want them doing that to me. Just because you don’t understand consanguinamorous relationships doesn’t mean it’s ok to dictate how they should live and love. As for making children, that’s their business. No one can control whole generations of humanity’s ‘health’ and that has nothing to do with their freedom to LOVE. As long as they get tests done to weigh the risks before having their own kids and raise them the best they can, that’s all they are responsible for. When people fall in love they don’t think about the ‘genetic health’ of the whole human race.. and they shouldn’t have to. they are only responsible for making sure their own family is healthy if they decide to have one. And after that, their children are responsible for the families they make, etc.
Someone found my blogspot asking if consanguinamorous relationships work.
What does it mean for a relationship to “work?”
rainbowamory 