sev @sev@witches.town
Not entirely covered in spikes. Queer cis feminist geek. In the PNW of the US, on unceded Duwamish territory. She/her.
(note this account is way more explicit than my twitter account.)
another reminder Afficher plus
welp, I went looking for figure drawing reference that wasn't yet more skinny white girls annnnd I ended up in gay boy porn tumblr. Oh, my.
Two things about this pose I should remember that I didn't enjoy, for future reference: Can't see the model's face; can count ribs.
#NSFW Fixing a car dent with a sex toy Afficher plus
oops follow requests don't show up in my notifications. Sorry that took so long, y'all.
...we worked hard to reclaim 'queer' and I'm not really willing to give it back up. I don't need you to use it. But it's still my word for me.
On the gripping hand, I'm pleased (even though I'm sometimes confused) that 'gay' has lost the connotations it had when I was a baby queer. See, back then, 'gay' was the word assimilationists used -- it signified you weren't one of *those* "scary homos". You weren't "queer as in fuck you". So I hear people nowadays self-id as 'gay' and my first thought is, wait, I didn't think you were that conservative? And then I figuratively slap myself and try to catch up with the times.
On the one hand, I strongly believe that each generation of activists gets to define their own terms. Every couple of decades our vocabulary shifts, and that's a good thing! That's people coming into their own as the driving force of the movement and that's how movements actually last longer than a single generation. So that's why the queer & trans vocabulary I learned in the waning days of second-wave feminism is dated at best, and a lot of it's even offensive -- and so are the words I learned to replace them. Feature, not bug.
On the other hand, history *does* matter and I dunno how to feel when I encounter (frex) "queer's a slur, don't use it." (cont'd)
ugh I sketched today but it was all *terrible* so I'm not inflicting it on anybody.
Sex-adjacent Afficher plus
Kink, sex Afficher plus
I wanna post something smutty but everything I write just comes out *smug*.
Oops. Had too much fun, can't talk about it.
1. Content warnings, I maintain, are equivalent to lowering your voice; to letting people self-select into the audience for whatever you're saying.
2. Phrasing it as "put a content warning on politics" is appreciably a really bad way of saying the various different things people meant by that.
3. Lowering your voice is sometimes the polite thing to do; asking someone to lower their voice is often a repressive thing to do.
I am *so* lucky.
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This year especially there’s an uncomfortable feeling in the tech industry that we did something wrong, that in following our credo of “move fast and break things”, some of what we knocked down were the load-bearing walls of our democracy."
If you care one bit about what tomorrow's internet is going to look like, please go and read Maciej Ceglowski's great talk about how we can "Build a better monster":
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Hey #POC #QPOC #QWOC #WOC on Mastodon I wanna talk to you!
I'm Tiara, queer immigrant woman of colour currently based in Australia. A huge chunk of my Mastodon presence right now is about race on Mastodon (or complaining about coder bros) but beyond that I'm also interested in arts, writing, games, performance, travel, intersectionality, liminality, and signing up for anything interesting.
Come say hi :D
"default" has a really funny meaning around here. *sets default post privacy to 'unlisted,' for the third time*
I'm engaging with social media in the bathtub. 1994-me & her IRC habit are soooo jealous.
According to https://mkremins.github.io/genderquiz/ my gender is "Under Construction."
I know I'm a work in progress but I hadn't realized everybody can tell.
*gets self-conscious, hides*
slept twelve hours. Now I'm disoriented, dehydrated, and menaced by an anxious cat.