gabriel's room

martin niemollers poem 'first the came for' is specifically about the demographics he hated the most. its not meant to be a list of victims of the holocaust but a cautionary tale of how hatred corrupts and destroys 'good people.' its sort of insulting to…

set aside criticism of mamdani as politician for a moment.

i dont get why the cops took so long to press charges in the d4vd case. in case you missed it, last year, police discovered the body of a child in singer-songwriter d4vd's car. that child was celeste rivas hernandez. she was 13 and had met d4vd online when

part of my Thing is treating manhood as simply another identity rather than the default that its assumed to be. that involves sometimes the appearance of empathy for misogyny, but i think understanding manhood and how it operates matters in how we view th…

first, a definition. according to talia bhatt: ... transmasculinity is subject to regendering.

blueskys alt text feature has been a wonderful tool in adding to the sites lefty bona fides. would a site run by fascists even consider accessibility features?

when i was 17 i spent a summer in japan as an exchange student. i stayed with a family in kyoto prefecture and was absolutely enamored by shino and buddhist shrines. because this was a million years ago, i mostly got around with paper maps and signs, and…

ive been an atheist for over half of my life at this point and i remember my initial excitement at discovering richard dawkins and christopher hitchins as a young man. i had recently left catholicism at age 15 and was trying to find some way to understand…

i had a friend question this particular line in my last post so i figured i would take the time to explain what this means. i think its easy to read genocidal intent where there is none and i could be wasting my time here (lets be real, when it comes to i…

rahaeli is a former dreamwidth moderator and has carried that label with her for fucking decades at this point. because she was a mod on a niche blogging website during the heyday of niche blogging websites, she therefore has the expertise to weigh in on…

Eurt si em tuoba yas yeht gnihtyrevE recently i watched a video by kayla says on benson boone that deeply troubled me. in it, she discusses the online backlash to rising pop star benson boone and the artists response to it. kayla is a considerate and thou…