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Golem
PT: Golem /end PT
ID: a flag with five uneven horizontal lines. The two first are bigger while the fourth one is smaller. Their colours are from top to bottom, dark brown, brown, beige, soft red and dark soft red. On the upper left corner there is a symbol, a brown circle with inside a small black circle on top and two black triangles underneath the circle, forming a golem's head. END ID
Golem: a queer Jewish individual who defines themselves as protective, defensive, supportive, helpful and/or have a tall, chubby, fat, an imposant body type/shape in any other way.
Everything in the design are in reference to the clay that golems are composed of.
Wanted to make a Jewish exclusive presentation label because I haven't seen any yet. I want to do more of those, inspired from creatures of the Jewish folklore! I don't have any idea yet, feel free to suggest anything. :)
Under cut separated parts of flag.
ID: the golem symbol isolated, on a transparent background. END ID
ID: the flag without the symbol on it. END ID
Hey remember when they found over 200 bodies of native children buried behind a residential school and the world cared for... what, a week?
They've counted about 6,000-7,000 now, for those of you who do still care
OKAY PEOPLE LISTEN UP
THIS:
Is the petition to save Craig of the Creek from having its fifth season and spin-off being cut in half by Cartoon Network.
This show celebrates diversity in a way that hasn't been done since Steven Universe. It has incredible rep in the form of queer, BIPOC, and disabled characters, and more. Don't let CN give it the short end of the stick.
This- this is SO true
important!!!
transcript:
A person with a somewhat masculine voice says in a higher pitched tone, “Blue hair is weird!” They then change their voice to their regular tone, and say, “I’m gonna teach you this how I would teach a child. I don’t know your life story, but for the sake of making this an educational video, I’m gonna use stereotypes, so only take what resonates with you.
One child is born in a seemingly functional, to their awareness, loving family, while the other is getting quite the opposite. You can’t choose that you’re born with it, so you’re put out in this world and the majority of your peers are like you, and the majority of your teachers, parents and authority are like you, and the majority of the media out there is showing people like you. So all of the kids that are not depicted by this media feel erased and different immediately from the time they’re born, how they are born. You may feel too feminine as a boy, too masculine as a girl, like you’re in the wrong body, like you don’t think exactly neurotypically as everyone else, you’re too thin, you’re too thick, you’re too dark, you’re not dark enough. Kids like this immediately understand the struggle of not being accepted by the majority, and if it’s not the peers doing it, keep in mind they have the same authority and media only depicting the majority of one type of person.
So both the outcasts and the masses are gonna ask the same question of how do I fit into society, and the majority of the authority and media is gonna be saying things like “God is the answer,” “man marries woman,” “girls are this way, boys this way.” You have a set amount of rules that if you have no reason to question, you’re not gonna disagree with. But when this world has taught you it’s not for people like you, you’re gonna ask, “why is it that way?” which brings us to, “who is teaching us this?” Oh, people from this era or earlier, who’s making this stuff, people in this era or earlier, “Let me do my research on who taught them that stuff.”
A common flaw with human beings is that they accept societal norms that are only in place for a little bit over their lifetime because they never lived to see a reason to question it. When you are born in a world that’s seemingly against you, you have reason to research why these traditions are in place, and you say, “Wow, if I happened to be born in the 1900s, pink was for boys and blue was for girls, and cheerleading is for boys and heels are for men, and the bible was changed to be anti-gay”. It’s almost like what we are taught is unreliable and not inherently factual, and in the time this was being taught, no one in the masses was disagreeing.
Everyone’s born in a box, but we weren’t all born with default settings, so we learned that humans can express themselves however they want. The way you think that only natural hair colors is normal, or how you dress is the right way, or blue hair automatically makes you weird, or pronouns equals liberal, that is taught to you. If this existed in the 1900s, this would be awesome [he points at blue hair], and this would just be english language [he points at pronouns]. When you’re wildly accepted by the masses, I see why you wouldn’t want to step down, you’re at the top of the pyramid. But the reason that we dye our hair blue is that the only people that wildly accepted us are other people who weren’t afraid of being different.
Now listen, maybe you just like authentically being a part of the masses, maybe your true self likes this stuff, that’s fine. But you also have to acknowledge that you were taught to avoid anything that would get you bullied or a negative reaction by the masses. So therefore, who’s really the top of the pyramid? [He flips the pyramid drawing upside-down].”
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Pride, Awareness, Acceptance, Remembrance, and Visibility Events Calendar
(This is an incomplete list and will be updated as needed.)
January:
Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
Thyroid Awareness Month
World Braille Day (Jan 4th)
Trans Prisoner Day of Action and Solidarity (Jan 22nd)
International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan 27th)
February:
LGBTQ+ History Month (UK)
Black History Month (USA/Canada)
Polyamory Week (Canada, week of Valentine's Day)
Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week (first full week after 14th.)
Chosen Family Day (Feb 22)
Rare Disease Day (February 28th)
March:
Women's History Month
National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
Bisexual Health Awareness Month (#BiHealthMonth)
Disability Day of Mourning (March 1st)
Zero Discrimination Day (March 1st)
Dyscalculia Day (March 3rd)
International Women's Day (March 8th)
National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day (March 10th)
World Down Syndrome Day (March 21st)
Neurodiversity Celebration Week (March 21st-27th)
Atheist Day (March 23rd)
World Bipolar Day (March 30th)
Trans Week of Visibility (week of March 31st)
International Transgender Day of Visibility (#TDOV, March 31st).
April:
Autism Acceptance Month
Queer & Trans Kink Month
Arab American Heritage Month
Sexual Assault Awareness Month
World Autism Acceptance Day (April 2nd)
International Asexuality Day (April 6th, may change yearly)
National Deaf LGBTQ+ Awareness Week (second or third week, alternates yearly)
Day of Silence (date varies)
National Transgender HIV Testing Day (April 18th)
Nonbinary Parents Day (third Sunday)
Anniversary of "Genderqueer" being added to the dictionary (April 20th, 2016)
Lesbian Visibility Day (April 26th)
May:
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Jewish American Heritage Month
Mental Health Awareness Month
EDS and HSD Awareness Month
National Day of Reason (first Thursday)
International Family Equality Day (first Sunday)
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (third Thursday)
National Honor Our LGBT+ Elders Day (May 16th)
International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (May 17th)
Agender Pride Day (May 19th)
Harvey Milk Day (May 22nd)
Pansexual and Panromantic Awareness and Visibility Day (May 24th)
World Thyroid Day (May 25th)
World Multiple Sclerosis Day (May 30th)
June:
LGBTQIA+ Pride Month
Global Day of Parents (June 1st)
National Gun Violence Awareness Day (first Friday)
Pulse Night of Remembrance (June 12th)
Learning Disability Week (third week)
Autistic Pride Day (June 18th)
Anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges (June 26th)
National HIV Testing Day (June 27th)
Stonewall Riots Anniversary (June 28th)
July:
Disability Pride Month
Abrosexual Awareness Day (July 2nd)
International Femme Appreciation Day (First Saturday of July)
Queerplatonic Relationships Day (#QPRDay, third Saturday)
International Nonbinary People's Day (July 14th)
Nonbinary Awareness Week (week of 14th)
International Drag Day (July 16th)
National Parents' Day (USA, fourth Sunday)
International Self Care Day (July 24th)
August:
International Childfree Day (August 1st)
Autistic Dignity Day (August 8th)
Gay Uncles Day (second Sunday)
Polyamorous Awareness Week (third week)
International Butch Appreciation Day (August 18th)
Transgender Flag Day (August 19th)
Wear It Purple Day (Australia, last Friday)
International Day of Protest Against ABA (August 31st)
September:
Bi Pride Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15th-Oct 15th)
Bisexual Awareness Week (week of Sept 23)
Celebrate Bisexuality Day (Sept 23)
International Day of Sign Languages (Sept 23)
International Safe Abortion Day (Sept 28)
National Day For Truth and Reconciliation (Sept 30th, Canada)
October:
LGBTQ+ History Month (USA/Canada)
National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept 15th-Oct 15th)
Augmentative and Alternative Communication Awareness Month
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
ADHD Awareness Month
National Kink Month (USA)
Black History Month (UK)
International Lesbian Day (Oct 8th)
World Mental Health Day (Oct 10th)
National Coming Out Day (Oct 11th)
National Freethought Day (Oct 12th)
OCD Awareness Week (second full week of October)
Trans Cake Day/Cake For Trans Friends Day (October 14th)
International Pronouns Day (third Wednesday)
Spirit Day (third Thursday)
Intersex Awareness Day (Oct 26th)
Asexual Awareness Week (last full week of October)
November:
Native American Heritage Month
Autistics Speaking Day (Nov 1st)
Intersex Day of Remembrance/Intersex Solidarity Day (Nov 8th)
Transgender Rite of Ancestor Elevation (Nov 12th-20th)
Trans Parent Day (first Sunday)
Transgender Awareness Week (Nov 13th-19th)
Nonbinary Children's Day (Nov 13th)
Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR, Nov 20th)
National Polyamory Day (Canada, Nov 23rd)
December:
World AIDS Day (Dec 1st)
International Day of People With Disabilities (Dec 3rd)
Bisexual Pride Flag Day (Dec 5th)
Gender Expansive Parents Day (Dec 6th)
Pansexual Pride Day (Dec 8th)
Human Rights Day (Dec 10th)
Here's to Quannah Chasing horse, who yet again has won this year's Met Gala theme. And to everyone who wore pink, showed off curves, and embraced styles antithetical to the racist fatphobic myoginist the event was themed to honor this year. Memes by ennan.
Before I get back to fully posting normally I also want to put this out there,
If you live in the United States,
If you become a member of the Satanic Temple you are legally protected by your First Amendment right for "Freedom Of Religion" to your own bodily autonomy.
The Satanic Temple is legally recognized as a church by the IRS and the Federal Court System. The are in multiple lawsuits against states such as Texas, Idaho, Missouri, and Arkansas that are implementing strict abortion bans.
This Bodily Autonomy also includes LGBTQIA+ members and Transgender individuals seeking medical attention
You can contact them and they will fight for you and your rights to practice your religion
This link brings you to their RRR Campaign page for more information:
Signing up is free and you can easily find a congregation near you, and it's not exclusive to the US, but for what's currently happening in the US following the presidential election, I'm making this post for you. You're also able to purchase a membership card and certificate after you join but joining is completely free.
