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11:56pm August 14, 2012
twocentsormore:

grrrl-foxxx:


This weekend, activists in Uganda - a country where homosexuality is punishable by death - held their first Pride. 

heroes

(…I’m also guessing that people who say things like “I bet no one identifies as genderqueer in Somalia” never actually bother to look up whether things like this happen, since they seem to care more about snarking on other people’s identities than facts.)

And someone else pointed out (I’d point to where if I could find it) that the reason that people with unusual genders are so badly treated (and therefore often in hiding) in PoC cultures is because of white people. Because often those cultures had tons of genders other than male or female, before white people got there and destroyed that part of their cultures as much as possible.

twocentsormore:

grrrl-foxxx:

This weekend, activists in Uganda - a country where homosexuality is punishable by death - held their first Pride. 

heroes

(…I’m also guessing that people who say things like “I bet no one identifies as genderqueer in Somalia” never actually bother to look up whether things like this happen, since they seem to care more about snarking on other people’s identities than facts.)

And someone else pointed out (I’d point to where if I could find it) that the reason that people with unusual genders are so badly treated (and therefore often in hiding) in PoC cultures is because of white people. Because often those cultures had tons of genders other than male or female, before white people got there and destroyed that part of their cultures as much as possible.

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