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psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com
psychmesu

https://hoosier.social/@thekitmalone/113606327954386083 thekitmalone@hoosier.social - Reminder that under the current US administration gender markers on passports can be changed via simple self attestation and that a passport is a primary identification document in all jurisdictions, even those that ban gender marker updates by other means.

You probably have a couple of months at minimum before the incoming administration gets around to rescinding that rule but why wait?

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/need-passport/selecting-your-gender-marker.html

#trans #lgbtq

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anonymiss@despora.de
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#China censors #Arcane Season 2 and completely ruins Cait & Vi’s #ending

Source: https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/arcane-season-2-china-censors-caitlyn-vi-relationship-ending-2990769/

The Chinese #government has long banned the depiction of #LGBTQ+ relationships in movies and TV shows in restrictions that are part of broader media censorship policies enforced by regulatory bodies within the country.

The #game of the #series comes from China, so the world is allowed to see romance but not China đŸ€”

#love #romance #entertainment #censorship #freedom #politics #Problem #story #fail

China censors Arcane Season 2 and completely ruins Cait & Vi’s ending - Dexerto

The ending of Arcane Season 2 was a happy moment for Caitlyn and Vi, unless you were streaming the League of Legends series in China.

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claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social
Radio Free Trumpistan

I can hear Oklahoma's Ryan Walters bawling from here.

â™Č DoomsdaysCW - 2024-11-20 03:13:09 GMT

#Trump names #LindaMcMahon as his pick for Education secretaryBy Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins and John Towfighi, CNN

Tue November 19, 2024

"Trump’s education secretary could potentially be tasked with overseeing the [#DepartmentOfEducation]'s demise after the president-elect repeatedly called for abolishing the agency on the campaign trail.

"It would be difficult to get rid of the entire department, which delivers federal funding to nearly every public #K12 school in the country and manages the $1.6 trillion federal #StudentLoan portfolio. And shutting it down would require an act of Congress.

"It may be more likely that some programs are moved to other federal agencies. The overarching goal for many Republicans is to reduce the federal government’s role in local education, which could be achieved by retaining funding programs but delivering money to states and schools with fewer strings attached.

"Under the new education secretary, the department may use the formal regulatory process to undo changes the Biden administration made to #TitleIX that sought to expand protections for #LGBTQ+ students. A new rule could potentially say that Title IX prevents #trans students from playing on girls’ sports teams, something Trump campaigned on."

Read more:
cnn.com/2024/11/19/politics/li


#TrumpAppointments

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psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com
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https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/113402434868018343 MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social - Ever wonder what happened to the “Trick” in “Trick or Treat?”

It all started when Halloween was brought to the U.S. by Irish immigrants who were fleeing the Great Famine of 1845-1852. Back then, the holiday was celebrated quite differently than how most Americans celebrate it today. Early Irish-American Halloween celebrations usually began with a big meal, with foods and rituals to divine the future. A traditional Halloween entree was colcannon, a casserole of mashed potatoes, milk, onion and kale, served with lots of butter, if one could afford it. The cook would hide prizes in the colcannon. Finding a ring meant you were the next to get married. A coin indicated you’d have good luck for the rest of the year. Alternatively, they might scoop the first and last spoonful of colcannon into a girl’s stocking and hang that from a nail in the door. The next person to enter through that door supposedly would be her future husband.

Another Halloween treat was barmbrack, a sweetbread filled with fruit, and sometimes hidden prizes. In this case, finding a ring foretold of an impending romance, whereas a thimble meant you would never get married. A piece of rag meant bad luck or poverty. If a girl ate an apple while combing her hair in front of a mirror at midnight on All Hallows Eve, she would see her future husband gazing back at her. If she walked out into the night, blindfolded, and was led to a cabbage patch, she could predict the size and shape of her future husband by the size and shape of the first cabbage she picked. And if she peeled an apple and let the shavings fall to the ground, she might be able to discern her sweetheart’s initials.

The traditional Halloween supper was followed by bonfires, games, and Mumming, a ritual in which people in costumes (often in drag) marched door-to-door, performing rhyming plays, usually humorous, and often in exchange for food, treats, or even booze. Mumming was practiced in Ireland, Scotland, Mann and Wales, as well as several other European countries, going back at least as far as the Middle Ages. And it is still practiced in parts of the U.S., particularly in Pennsylvania, most likely as a result of the Irish and Welsh who immigrated there in the mid-1800s, many to work in the coal mines. Tolstoy portrayed mumming in War and Peace. For a fascinating history of Irish mumming, check out Henry Glassie’s, All Silver and No Brass (1975).

Mumming was likely the origin of trick-or-treating, as mummers sometimes threatened mischief if treats weren’t provided. Some of the pranks and mischief people did back then included removing the hinges from people’s gates; placing farmers’ wagons or livestock on top of their rooves; stringing ropes across walkways to trip people in the dark; mowing down their shrubs; knocking over swill barrels and outhouses; and even detonating small bombs. By the late 1800s and early 20th century, however, Halloween pranking had taken on a much more anti-authoritarian edge. Kids would vandalize their principal’s home, set off fire alarms, throw bricks through shop windows, attack well-dressed pedestrians and streetcar passengers with bags of flour, and strike out against authority, in general. Sometimes, homeowners would fight back, shooting kids with buckshot or saltpeter. By World War II, the authorities were so alarmed that they started to claim that these pranks were threatening the war effort by wasting scarce resources and disrupting the sleep of weary war workers.

Efforts to sanitize the holiday began in the 1930s, when “The American Home” magazine, and radio shows, like the Jack Benny Show, began promoting the idea of parents taking younger kids out trick-or-treating responsibly and politely. In 1950, the Senate Judiciary Committee, under President Truman, tried to transform Halloween into a more family-friendly holiday, renaming it “Youth Honor Day.” It was around this time that costumes started to become cuter and less scary, and that parents started organizing neighborhood haunted houses and parties to keep the kids out of mischief. In the 1952 Donald Duck cartoon, “Trick or Treat,” Huey, Dewey, and Louie tried to convince mean old Uncle Donald to give them candy instead of the explosives he wanted to give them. But the biggest changes came when food, tobacco, and toy companies saw the huge profits to be made from this new trend and began massively marketing candy and costumes in the weeks leading up to Halloween. By 1965, corporations were making $300 million per year in profits from Halloween costumes and candy.

Of course, the mischief never completely disappeared. Teenagers and some adults continue to light fireworks, and commit pranks, like leaving burning bags of poop on doorsteps, or blowing up jack-o’-lanterns. In 1994, MIT students dismantled a cop car and reassembled it on top of the Great Dome on the Cambridge campus. There’s an annual naked pumpkin run in Boulder, Colorado. And the parties can get pretty raucous, particularly San Francisco’s Castro Street Halloween (at least it was until the city authorities took it over, moved it downtown, and sanitized it). I remember one Night-Before Halloween Castro Street Party back in the 1990s, where people had lined up shoes down the length of the street, with the lost shoe of current mayor, and former police chief, Frank Jordan, at the very end, all doused in lighter fluid and ignited in a fiery celebration of disdain for the homophobic, pro-business police and mayor.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #halloween #lgbtq #irish #drag #costume #police #acab

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Attached: 1 image Ever wonder what happened to the “Trick” in “Trick or Treat?” It all started when Halloween was brought to the U.S. by Irish immigrants who were fleeing the Great Famine of 1845-1852. Back then, the holiday was celebrated quite...

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rebelle solitaire

AprĂšs 5 ans d'analyse Le Conseil de l'Europe alerte sur la montĂ©e de la xĂ©nophobie et du 'discours de haine' « en Italie »

https://www.rtbf.be/article/le-conseil-de-l-europe-alerte-sur-la-montee-de-la-xenophobie-et-du-discours-de-haine-en-italie-11453366

#humour #racisme #europe #italie #haine #conseil-de-l-europe #discours-de-haine #giorgia-meloni #intolérance #ecri #xénophobie #politique #immigration #lgbtq #rom #abus #expulsions #discrimination #orientation-sexuelle #identité-de-genre #exploitation #égalité #droits-humains #europe #ue

Le Conseil de l'Europe alerte sur la montée de la xénophobie et du 'discours de haine' en Italie

Le Conseil de l'Europe s'est inquiété mardi d'une montée du 'discours de haine' et de la xénophobie dans la sphÚre...

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psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com
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https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/113295129479897008 benroyce@mastodon.social - ‘#TheWire’ Creator Calls Out #Russian Streaming Services for Removing References to #Gay Character

“Be advised, you backward fucks, that Omar Little of #Baltimore, #Maryland, is unapologetically gay and, though fictional, infinitely more badass and tactically effective than all of the conscripts and paroled thugs you’ve sent into the meat-grinder in #Ukraine.” David Simon writes

https://www.thewrap.com/the-wire-creator-russia-streaming-omar-little-gay/

#Russia #UkraineWar #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia

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birne@diaspora.psyco.fr
Birne Helene

Utah is so gay!

I see two people on the sidewalk in front of me. One points to a flag flying above the cafĂ©, and says: ‘Seeee? Pride flag!’ The other gives a nod of approval, and they turn to enter the shop, doubts assuaged. In a place of what might be called ideological extremes, pride flags don’t just symbolise rainbow capitalism but a broader sense of safety and ideological identification.

I don’t think everyone would agree but, for all parties, gayness seems to have become what the anthropologist Darryl Li calls a competing universalism – an alternative vision for humanity (and Utah) competing with certain iterations of Mormonism, conservatism, liberalism and US identity.

#Aeon #Utah #LGBTQ #LDS #Mormons #Queerness

How come the Mormon, Republican state of Utah is so queer? | Aeon Essays

The Mormon state is seen as deeply homophobic. Yet, from polygamy to pride, Mormons themselves are a distinctly queer lot

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Taylor Swift zur US-Wahl: Die "Katzenlady" hat gesprochen

Swift zur US-Wahl - Die "Katzenlady" hat gesprochen

PopsĂ€ngerin Taylor Swift will fĂŒr Kamala Harris stimmen und hat die Wahlentscheidung "beinahe streberhaft" erklĂ€rt, so Kulturwissenschaftlerin Svenja Reiner.#TaylorSwift #PopsĂ€ngerin #PersonoftheYear #Instagram #LGBTQ
Taylor Swift zur US-Wahl: Die "Katzenlady" hat gesprochen

Taylor Swift zur US-Wahl: Die "Katzenlady" hat gesprochen

PopsĂ€ngerin Taylor Swift will fĂŒr Kamala Harris stimmen und hat die Wahlentscheidung "beinahe streberhaft" erklĂ€rt, so Kulturwissenschaftlerin Svenja Reiner.