I’ve been using this website since 2010/2011, this is currently my third account. I’ve carried this blog through two of them.

The unique format of this website and the ability to post whatever we wanted anonymously is how the LGBTQIA+ community came to flourish here. We could post things here that we couldn’t on other more conservative platforms and it could spread to others in a short time.

Trans, nonbinary, and queer culture and language grew by leaps and bounds on this website. This website made nonbinary mainstream, exploded our vocabulary, provided transition resources and knowledge we couldn’t find anywhere else, and made queer culture accessible to even those of us living in small Christian southern towns with no lgbtq community whatsoever.

Tumblr introduced me to the words I didn’t know I needed until I found them. I’ve made friends here. Connected with other trans and queer people here.

So in a way tumblr has been a blessing.

But. This website has also provided a platform for the worst voices in our communities to become the loudest.

And for that, I can’t be sad at all about the slow death of tumblr.

I think it was a useful enough community BUILDING platform, but for precisely the same reasons it was it’s also absolutely dreadful at community maintenance. We’ve matured as an online, cultural space now, and would be better served by infrastructure that lets us define our own spaces with our own rules–like I genuinely think queer community would exist more coherently and empathetically in something like a forum or even a reddit with the overhead tools and guiding philosophy provided by something like AO3, but tailored for social media rather than fanfic hosting.

Pillowfort seems promising there, if they can pull it off. If not, hopefully another option will come along. Either way it’s a little sad but to me it just means its time for us to evolve, and honestly I cannot wait to leave the worst of Tumblr behind. It was nice while it lasted.

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

aphony-cree:

sp8b8:

class-isnt-the-only-oppression:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

Happy Pride Month Eleanor Roosevelt was queer, the Little Mermaid is a gay love story, James Dean liked men, Emily Dickinson was a lesbian, Nikola Tesla was asexual, Freddie Mercury was bisexual & British Indian, and black trans women pioneered the gay rights movement.

Florence Nightingale was a lesbian, Leonardo da Vinci was gay, Michelangelo too, Jane Austen liked women, Hatshepsut was not cisgender, and Alexander the Great was a power bottom

Honestly just reblogging for that last one

Probably not historically backed but fuck yes

Eleanor Roosevelt wrote love letters to Lorena Hickok

Love letters Hans Christian Anderson wrote to Edvard Collin contain elements that appeared in The Little Mermaid, which he was writing at the same time

Several people who knew James Dean have talked about his relationships with men

Letters and poems allude to a romance between Emily Dickinson and at least two women

Nikola Tesla was adverse to touch. He said he fell in love with one women but never touched her and didn’t want to get married

Freddie Mercury is well known for his attraction to men but was also linked to several women, including Barbara Valentin whom he lived with shortly before he died. Friends have talked about being invited into their bed and walking in on them having sex (documentary Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender)

Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are two of the best-known activists who fought in the Stonewall riots

Florence Nightingale refused 4 marriage proposals and her letters and memoir suggest a love for women

Leonardo da Vinci never married or fathered children, was once brought up on sodomy charges, and a sketch in one of his notebooks is 2 penises walking toward a hole labeled with the nickname of his apprentice

Condivi said that Michelangelo often spoke exclusively of masculine love

Jane Austin never married and wrote about sharing a bed with women (Jane Austen At Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley)

Hatshepsut took the male title Pharaoh (instead of Queen Regent) and is depicted in art from the time the same way a male Pharaoh would have been

“Alexander was only defeated once…and that was by Hephaestion’s thighs.” is a 2,000 year old quote

I want to hire you to follow me around and defend my honor with meticulous research

hello, femme lesbian here. please don’t use the term femme when referring to men. trans men included. feminine men included. just say feminine. femme is a lesbian exclusive term, and has history behind it.

landofsomethingsomething:

I am a femme bi cis woman, my wife is a femme bi cis woman, our best friends are a femme trans lesbian and a butch lesbian. Keep this rad*fem rhetoric in your nasty exclusionist circles where it belongs bc I’m old, i know my queer history, and I ain’t part of that game.