It's depressing to think of homophobia still existing in the future.
Read this story from Darryl R. Scott on Medium: https://fanfare.pub/baron-harkonnen-is-frank-herberts-hatred-of-his-gay-son-6d65342734e3
What Did Frank Herbert’s Gay Son Think About Baron Harkonnen?
It’s ironic that SF likes to define itself as a literary genre that boldly goes where no other genre has gone before, but has a few malcontents who absolutely lose their collective shit whenever…
“Hell is truth seen too late. — Thomas Hobbes.“
Read this story from Darryl R. Scott on Medium: https://medium.com/counterarts/the-fire-this-time-15341da5665b
The Fire This Time - Counter Arts - Medium
It’s disturbing to witness the elevation of stupidity as both a rigid moral virtue and a vicious, burn-it-to-the-ground political strategy, but unfortunately that’s where we’re at in the…
A photographic odyssey of a community that won't hide in the closet anymore.
https://aninjusticemag.com/without-apologies-portraits-of-pride-fdd924c21b48
Without Apology: Portraits of Pride - An Injustice!
“It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.” Throughout the long and turbulent existence of the United States…
I didn't know pouring water 💦 on someone's head was an offense punishable by death.
Sorry. I forgot. That's only applicable to uppity non-binary POC.
They'll probably interview one of the killers ten years from now, and she'll whine about how 'awful', she feels.
Nex never got to grow old.
https://www.them.us/story/nex-benedict-describes-being-jumped-school-bathroom-new-police-bodycam-footage.
Nex Benedict Describes Being "Jumped" in School Bathroom in New Police Bodycam Footage
In the video, Nex and his mother describe the extensive bullying he faced at Owasso High School.
In functional civilizations, transformative societal changes are always pragmatic and incremental. I think progressive purity ponies live in a privileged world that can afford to pontificate about abstract utopias that are, ultimately, unattainable.
