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I'm sorry to play into fearmongering but.
We are now officially in the GENOCIDE phase of things. They are calling for the elimination of us, directly, in those words.
So, anyone who still calls themselves an Ally:
Now is the time to stand up and ACT against these genocidal maniacs. No more playing softball, either. I dont want to see ANY of that weaksauce "I may disagree with you but we can be friends" horseshit. You need to stand up to any conservatives in your life, here and now, BEFORE they start taking trans lives en masse. This means openly and directly confronting them, telling them that if they continue to side with hate you will cut them out of your lives, and following through with it. And thats the baseline bare-minimum here, by the end, you should have ZERO conservative friends, because they either gave up their hateful ideology or you gave up on them. If you wanna go more advanced, you can try this method which successfully shut up one of their comrades:
Are you scared to? TOO BAD. We're ten times as scared as you BECAUSE THEY PLAN ON ATTACKING US! If you cant stand up for us in any solid way then I hearby revoke your ally card, you do not stand beside me. You can have the coward card instead, and sit feeling like shit for how worhtless you were when it came down to it. You SHOULD feel like shit if you can't use your privilege to stand up for someone.
And for my fellow trans people:
please, hang in there. I know it feels like we've been at war for ages, making headway only to lose it the very next day. And so often it feels like we're the only ones fighting anymore. And then to be told you have to keep up going to work and surviving in this hell country each day??? That's hard, that's exhausting!
You should NOT have to feel guilty at all for not being able to do anything about this. Surviving is enough, and your survival is so so SO important! So do what you have to to survive, turn off the news and blacklist some phrases and tags if you feel overwhelmed. Do some comforting activities today. And remember, no matter what they do, they will NOT erase us!!! We will survive as a whole even if we must witness suffering before this is over.
And to the conservatives:
If you are questioning if you're on the path of good, good. Question further, google "anti-trans debunked". I cant speak for everyone on my side, but I know some of us will accept you if you turn back and learn the harm you've been causing.
But if you're all for this? Your days are numbered. I'll PERSONALLY make sure of it. I will do whatever it takes to ensure the safety of my trans brethren. You're the ones who should be scared, genocidal scum.
Please, help us sign this for the Lgbtqia+ community to be respected ❤️🏳️🌈
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This. All of this.
because this issue is much bigger than that 144p video…
first, shout out to the cishets who get it, and to the queers who honor their identity, authenticity and the queer/queer-friendly spaces they’ve helped build (even if just on the internet!) 🌈
let me also preface: had that 15-second clip undeniably shown JK’s face in 4K, i wouldn’t even be writing this post. though AI exists and is creepy af, i would simply bite my tongue and anticipate the fact that he and JM may not be/have been an item. because while i root for JM and JK as a couple with rainbow bells on, i’m not about to drink no TKK-tainted kool-aid to satisfy some kind of personal, selfish fixation.
ok. i'm just gonna say it:
i think some people in the Jikook fandom are homophobic (or harbor internalized homophobia, if they’re queer) and don’t even realize it.
the people who jumped to the “girlfriend” conclusion don’t live a material queer reality, and favored a random 144p, grainy-ass clip of shady origins of so-called “JK” with an unknown woman during (surprise!) his 3D promo, over a whole-ass decade of JK and JM doing couple-y things all caught in 4K! 🌈 (not to mention their families of origin and tattoo artist who openly support them).
and i notice how quick some people believed - since a woman was in the clip - that this unknown, possibly staged "relationship" must be more “valid” than the one JK seems to be in with an achillean who just wrote him a whole-ass love letter in song, and flew from literally the ends of the earth just to see him on Silver Day.
it’s giving heteronormativity, heterosexism and homophobia.
but today, that man really said “ain’t no girlfriend” with his whole chest because he “don’t need one”! (it’s the classic gay go-to response for me. 💅)
as for the polyamory/non-monog option: like i said in my last post, Jeon “Victoria Justice” Jungkook ain’t having it, i’m sorry.
even if JK and JM weren’t dating, why was the girlfriend option the go-to default? why couldn't she be a platonic friend? or a relative? but 15 seconds of grainy footage of Bootleg JK setting up The Real JK (or some poor, unsuspecting Asian man in an Asian country minding his business) was all it took, huh?
speaking as someone who lives a VERY REAL QUEER MATERIAL REALITY (as in, my wife and i are both sapphic and are “read” in society as 2 women whose connection people at first sight can’t quite figure out 💀), and who has been deeeeeeeply harmed by homophobia and lesbophobia over and over again, this whole situation stings.
~ do you know how many times my own partner has been assumed to be my roommate, my very platonic friend, a stranger who i don't even know… anyone but the person i lie down with at night, anyone but the person i shower with kisses after work, anyone but the person i engage deep, meaningful conversation with and crack dirty jokes with at the dinner table?
~ do you know how many times we’ve gotten separate checks by default at the restaurant because the server just assumed we’re not a couple?
~ do you know how many times people - sometimes, even other queer people! - have tried to push cishet men into my sapphic safe spaces when i don’t want them there because their presence with their combined identity at the top of the social (gender-sexual orientation) food chain makes me feel uncomfortable?!
trust me - this is not an exhaustive list.
the same queer people who cry “qUeEr eRaSuRe” (which, valid because queer erasure is real - i'm pointing out the hypocrisy here) are the same ones who were hella quick to dismiss 10 years of a relationship between 2 achilleans filled with a kind of love that - if shown between a man and a woman - would undeniably be called “romantic” out the gate.
so which is it?
are you honoring (your) queerness? or are you falling back on internalized homophobia? because if it's the latter, i say this with love: please work that sh!t out. trust me - heteronormativity ain’t gonna save you, honey.
and for all the cishets who jumped to the conclusion that JK had a girlfriend: you’re a major reason why people like me and other queers suffer so much harm in the name of invalidation and queer erasure. the least you can do is put in the fcking work to make the world a safer place for queer and trans people.
and let me emphasize: this is not me "accusing people of being homophobic for simply not believing in Jikook” - this is me calling out those who immediately defaulted to 15 seconds of unauthorized, toaster-quality, heteronormative activity over 10 years of queer (achillean) love.
up until literally today, JK has talked non-stop about and has gestured his love in grand ways to JM, and vice versa.
you don't have to support Jikook, but please - take your homophobia and heteronormativity with you on the way out, will ya?
anygays... carry on. ☀️🌙