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Stemme and Roots (opens the original)
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Recently, I found my old suit. The first time I wore it, I was a kid and I fell in love. It was the late morning sometime around 2012 and I was strutting around the house and on the street outside in my attire. You couldn’t tell me shit. I was a lil’ prince given my first crown.Gaining access to autonomous masculinity was always an uphill battle. Growing up, femininity was the standard. My attempts to access tomboyism were either barred, judged or covered with Ts and Cs. Feeling like your femini
Don’t call me ‘bambi’ (opens the original)
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Susan E. Sears, in The Alyson Almanac (1990) first coined ‘bambisexuality’ to describe ‘physical interaction centered more about touching, kissing, and caressing than around genital sexuality’ (The original wayback machine link seems to be broken and parts of the book are omitted on the Internet Archive without a login, so we gotta take the LGBTQIA wiki’s word for it).This b
Reading Is a Necessity. (opens the original)
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Across every site there seems to be a large amount of online leftists pushing back against reading theory. Twitter, Instagram, Substack and so on, are all these short form videos, posts and now articles arguing the push for theory and academia is holding the Left back, that we need to focus on empathy and lived experience, some analysis which claim the push for reading is actually ableist, classist and in some cases racist and overall, the idea that it’s oppressive and elitist to expect leftists
Are We Not Allowed Privacy Anymore? (opens the original)
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I was watching Youtube Shorts and I got a video in my feed about a guy wearing a hidden camera who went into an empty diner. The diner had been there for around 50 years with the same owners, a husband and a wife. The Youtuber goes into the diner, says hello to the man and asks for some pancakes and a black coffee, recording the whole interaction from the greeting to his final bites. He also asks the man and woman about what it was like running the diner back in the day, about how they met and w
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