ITS HEREEEEEEE

THANK YOU SO MUCH @beefyrog

(Ignore my messy desk LMAO)

Black asexual singer Jourdain Pauline was sexually assaulted by the streamer Tylil and she's facing mass online abuse saying she can't be sexually assaulted because she is asexual.

What happened to Jourdin Pauline is what every Black asexual person's been saying since day & a horrifying viral example of what we've been going through for years. Antiblackness & compulsory sexuality have always been linked. It's time to wake the fuck up, ace or not. The core of ace discourse was/is about reinforcing compulsory sexuality not education. 'Not understanding' asexuality, good or bad faith, is used to justify its erasure. It's a classic conservative idea that what doesn't instantly make sense has no right to exist.

The reactionary idea that human sexuality that isn't cisheterosexuality shouldn't exist is tied to anti-victim/survivor rhetoric. When an asexual person is sexually assaulted, the viewer focuses on their 'confusing' nature as the problem instead of the violation + violator.

The idea that Jourdain Pauline deserved to be assaulted for not being cisheterosexual is a chilling but common anti-queer rape culture talking point. Her SA is being justified because she's asexual.

Jourdin Pauline isn't the first Black asexual woman to be sexualised and sexually humiliated due to conservatism. The eroticisation of Yasmin Benoit and Matt Walsh's harassment of Latoya Raveneau come to mind. Most Black ace women know this sexualisation too well.

Most if not all women under patriarchy have faced some form of sexual violence. But because asexuality specifically is seen as going against human nature, it's believed that it needs to be corrected with forced sex/sexual acts. And this belief is commonly shared, even with 'progressives'

What else is left to say really? When you centre whiteness in queerness & support rape culture out of spite for queers you hate, you create the perfect condition for antiblack sexual violence like these to thrive. No one listened to us. The Black asexual is always collateral damage.

The Black asexual is always collateral damage, of white allosexual queers who erase us under the guise of 'progressive' acephobia, white asexuals who engage in puritanism for their own benefit & Black cishet people who believe their sexuality will give them approval from white society.

With the rebrand of fascism, more and more asexual people especially women are gonna come out with being (correctively) SA'd & only very few leftist leaning people will do anything about the rape culture in front of our fucking eyes. It's disgusting.

And I absolutely expect the white asexual/aspec community will ignore Jourdain Pauline's assault & sexualisation like they ignored Latoya Raveneau & Yasmin Benoit. Or give out shallow 'support POC' posts like usual. We're only sexual perpetrators to them, never victims.

I'm gonna encourage other Black aspec figures to help boost this story & support one of our own: @gentlegiantace93 @blkaroculture @asexual-goddessss

Tag for visibility: @avenpt

Note: It's still FUCK this hellsite and it's rasclart users and I'm still never giving you lot my hard work again, but if you learn anything from this post, it's that antiblackness and rape culture, the ones you enable on here and beyond, the one I've been warning you all about, the one I got harassed on here by white queer people and non Black queers of colour across the entire gender and sexuality spectrum for, exists in the real world and the consequences are deadly. If you feel bad reading this, you should.

Fetishizing nyc the same way people do japan

See this little tab? This is new York engineering at play. It keeps you from spilling hot drinks on yourself, meaning you can pull the tab open when you're ready to drink your cawf-ee (coffee). New York is living in 2050.

This is what New Yorkers are already doing

One two three four i declare a clit war

Five six seven eight i cast clit obliterate

btw if youre young and scared of doing adult things without your parents ive learned that like 90% of the time you can just tell the doctors office or the dmv "haha sorry ive never done this without help before... can you show me how to do this?" the employee will not care. if that means anything to you

I can clearly remember the moment I first realised my mother and I were living on completely different planes of existence. I was 7 years old and I came home from my school's first track and field day having placed second or third in every event. the teachers had been making jokes all afternoon about how many times they had to call my name. my friends thought I was cool as shit. my enemies thought I was cool as shit too, come to think of it. I was proud as hell. so I get home with the entire front of my shirt covered in ribbons like I was a military dictator who'd awarded himself every medal, I walk into the kitchen and tell my mum all about my day, and she goes "oh, that must be disappointing not getting any firsts." and I'm like no?? first of all the first place ribbons are red and I don't like red. second of all look at me. there's literally nowhere left on my body for accolades. I am fucking Jacked of All Trades. how could this possibly be a disappointment.

DB Cooper mystery solved: he survived and used the money to start the film website "IMDb" (I am DB)

humans will see a swamp and build a city on it and then spend the next 2,000+ years struggling to keep it from turning back into a swamp

everybody saying a different city is cracking me up

YES! MOST OF FLORIDA! And they keep destroying more swamp to build hideous condos on top of it and then the condos sink into the swamp and no one is happy. It gets to a point where you’re like. Go live anywhere else. Why are you still doing this to this poor wetland?

SANS IS NONBINARY?!

HUH?!

the floating head of wisdom

Please don't fall victim to internet misinformation. There is no floating head. It's a regular horse, it's neck is just hidden due to the position of the camera. I made an image to help you understand the what's actually going on.

Thank you for the clarification

I'm Youssef from Gaza.

I'm a father of three young children: Lana, Abdul Karim, and Adam.

Our tent flooded, and the cold seeped into my children's bones until they fell ill.

I watch them shivering before me, with no roof to protect them and no fire to warm them.

This isn't a plea for charity… this is a plea for help.

We need £10,000 immediately to buy a caravan that will end this suffering.

Every minute of delay means more pain for a sick child.

If you have compassion in your heart, donate now.

If you can't, don't remain silent… spread the word, because silence here is cruel.

✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #591 )✅️

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Hello everyone, my name is Eman.

For a while, our days passed in darkness after the Rapid Support Forces attacked the power plant at the Merowe Dam. No electricity, no sense of time, just long nights filled with worry and waiting. Life felt heavier than usual, but somehow we kept going.

By God’s mercy, the electricity has finally returned. It may seem like a small thing, but for us it felt like a breath after being underwater for too long. A reminder that not everything is lost, that we are still here.

I will continue posting about my campaign, not because it’s easy, but because it’s necessary. I’m trying to build a safer, more dignified life for myself and my family in the middle of circumstances none of us chose. Every bit of support, every share, every kind word truly matters more than you might imagine.

If you’re able to stand with me, even just by sharing my story, please know that it means the world to me.

Thank you for listening, for caring, and for being here.

PLEASE SHARE AND DONATE

@sayruq @heritageposts @virovac @el-shab-hussein @northgazaupdatas @fadingplaidtrashpatrol

$1,476 has been raised, and the last donation was made 16 days ago! Please donate and share. As mentioned above, Eman does not have access to electricity for days! The RSF has bombed the dam! Now, with electricity returning, let's help her purchase essentials as well as rebuild her home. She is also helping other families! So we can do that by reaching the 2K mark! There is $524 left to go! [Keep in mind with the currency exchange! $10 USD = $13 CAD].

This is a legitimate fundraiser. It has been shared by @/el-shab-hussein. You can read more about it here.

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