JACOB ANDERSON
Photographed by Wanda Martin | FOXES Magazine [part 1]

Hey, gay working class and gay rural interests, aesthetics, and culture belong within the wider LGBT community. Country music belongs in gay spaces. Camo and trucker caps and work boots belong in gay spaces. Trucks and doorless jeeps and shitty old beaters belong in gay spaces. GEDs and high school educations and blue collar jobs belong in gay spaces. Being broke and looking like shit belongs in gay spaces. The community isn’t owned by the wealthiest San Fransisco and New York gay-geoisie. Their interests, appearances, and beliefs do not define queerness. 

Me: It’s important to remember to be inclusive of gay people from rural backgrounds.

Parts of Tumblr.com: I have literally never heard of classism and thus have no frame of reference for the idea that I should be nice to people with stereotypically low class interests and so I will make fun of those interests now. 

Me: Ah so I see I have overshot where y’all are at

Everyone in the notes: Yas! I love farms! Love them chickens, farm core is my life!

Bitch we all know you like farm asthetique. What we want is support for the Actual rural southern queer community. The trailer park/pre-used prefab queers. The ones who are never going to get more than a 10th grade education and work dirty blue collar jobs with hard labor. And remember that this whole ass time we often have to lie about who we are so we can keep the shitty hard labor jobs that fuck up our bodies. And remember that these communities are also black and Hispanic communities?? I see y'all in the notes “this is so white, this is so white” like the entire South isn’t full of poc and queer poc who struggle even harder because of all this??

Broke: everyone in the rural south is white homophobic racists

Woke: the rural south has large populations of queer poc who get no support and no acknowledgement within broader queer culture past the “gay cowboy” asthetic

dont make me tap the sign again

[ID. A meme with purple bubble text with a black outline reading “Ignoring and writing off southern states as unsalvageable due to regressive policies does nothing to help those fighting against such policies, and only aides further regression” followed by black text reading “your neighborhood isn’t better because it has brick oven pizzas and craft breweries” off to the side. There is also a picture of a cast iron skillet in the top right corner, a possum in a cowboy hat on the left edge, a pair of morel mushrooms just above the possum, and a plate of cornbread below the purple text. The background is a pale orange to pale blue gradient. End ID]

JENNIFER COOLIDGE
Wins Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for The White Lotus | 75th Primetime Emmy Awards

"You can't have [experience] because you don't identify as [label]!!!" how do I explain to people that experiences exist outside of and prior to the formation of specific language to talk about them

"You can't have [experience] because you don't think of it through [framework/explanation/etc]!!!" how do I explain to people that experiences exist outside of and prior to any formal cosmology, hypotheses, or explanation assigned to them

(grabs you by the shoulders) you have to make room for new experiences in your life. you have to go through the unpleasant work of leaving your comfort zone, even if just for a few minutes at a time. because if you don't, your brain will trick you into stagnation. you will start to believe that the world can barely fit you in it. but that's not true. it's the opposite way around. you can fit the whole word inside of you. your task is only this: to welcome it with open arms

self portrait as the artist!!!!!! using a purple, magenta, green, and yellow acrylic ink on light pink paper <3

silly poses with mr. dafoe zine <3

made it so i can reference the poses for fit checks

ALT

Onions and Garlic 2

OiI on canvas

They need a pride flag for this

Solidarity