I Had So Much Fun Translating Their Actual Outfits Into Something That Would Work For The Time Period

Photos and final product for Mq. & Mrs.’s amazing lgbtq coloring book for kids.

Model : Alicia Michele

A few years ago a roommate abruptly decided to move out to live with her boyfriend, and I ended up spending half a year sharing an apartment with someone I had never met before: an Egyptian girl with very limited English.

She was confused by my appearance and asked me “boy or girl?” It took me a while to understand what she was saying, but eventually she got the point across, and I told her that I was a girl. She seemed unsatisfied, and I explained that I was transgender. Unsurprisingly, she didn’t know the word.

We ended communicating by typing our respective sentences into Google Translate. Unfortunately, whatever the Arabic word for “transgender” is, it wasn’t a word she knew either. Eventually I ended up typing in “I used to be a boy but it made me unhappy so I decided to be a girl.” She stared at it for a moment then asked “You are happy now?” I said yes, and she smiled and looked thoughtful.

A couple hours later she came up to me and said “You and me, we are sisters,” and gave me a hug. “You say you are girl, you are girl.”

Scotland will incorporate LGBTQ history education nationwide

Equality campaigners hail new inclusive curriculum as ‘monumental victory’

Scotland made history recently by becoming the first nation in the world to mandate teaching about LGBTQ history and social movements in public school curriculum. 

State schools will be required to teach pupils about the history of LGBTI equalities and movements, as well as tackling homophobia and transphobia and exploring LGBTI identity, after ministers accepted in full the recommendations of a working group led by the Time for Inclusive Education (TIE) campaign. There will be no exemptions or opt-outs to the policy, which will embed LGBTI inclusive education across the curriculum and across subjects and which the Scottish government believes is a world first.

Jordan Daly, the co-founder of TIE, said the “destructive legacy” of section 28 had come to an end. This legislation, introduced in 1988, banned local authorities in the UK from “promoting” homosexuality, until it was eventually repealed in Scotland 2001 and in the rest of the UK two years later.

Daly said: “This is a monumental victory for our campaign, and a historic moment for our country. The implementation of LGBTI inclusive education across all state schools is a world first. In a time of global uncertainty, this sends a strong and clear message to LGBTI young people that they are valued here in Scotland.”

Incredible. I can’t wait until the day when this is the standard around the world.

Straight men be acting like angsty lesbian couples and I'm so sick of them /j

Homophobic Mom.. Turned Supportive?

OH MY GOD Y’ALL 

okay backstory: for those of you who don’t know, my parents are super religious and homophobic. They have told me I’m going to Hell and threatened me… bad stuff. It has been truly an awful experience.  now YESTERDAY: my mom just starts pouring her heart out to me about how she wants me to be happy and trust her. She said she wants me to be around when she’s old and not to push me away. My mom has never really cared about me. This was all weird. Then she hits me with the: I don’t care if you’re gay, straight, bi… whatever you are. (Because she knew I was gay but thought I “fixed” it.)  It took me a lot of talking to her to believe she changed. But I came out to her. And she accepts me. It gets better. I promise. If you’re struggling with your parents not accepting you, remember there is hope. I know. You don’t think there is. I thought she’d never accept my sexuality. She literally wanted to send me to military school because I’m gay. But she changed.  Never give up. 

Omg I love this

Addicted to Addict

Old lady Margaery, don’t enjoy this TOO much

Lost In Your Eyes!

Remember when I asked for sketch ideas and said I'd do THIS one (below) digitally, after I rewatch this longform? Well it's finally done, an odd balance between messy and thought-out, but I like this play quite a bit so I had fun 💕 tysm for the suggestion!!

i heard y’all like infographics, so i thought i’d make a little something about us oriented aroaces!! 💙 💙 💙

“…I suppose no one truly admits the existence of another person. One might concede that the other person is alive and feels and thinks like oneself, but there will always be an element of difference, a perceptible discrepancy, that one cannot quite put one’s finger on. There are figures from times past, fantasy-images in books that seem more real to us than these specimens of indifference-made-flesh who speak to us across the counters of bars, or catch our eye in trams, or brush past us in the empty randomness of the streets. The others are just part of the landscape for us, usually the invisible landscape of the familiar.”

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet