non-spongebob stephen hillenburg stuff is kinda sparse to come by but i really do like seeing it, it’s all very interesting and i’d like to see more of it
for example these two paintings he made that adam paloian posted on twitter are cool
in stone butch blues leslie feinberg talked abt the 3 items of women’s clothing rule where the police who raided lesbian bars wld check to see how much these women were still upholding femininity. i have never been thru that but i remember reading it + how much it resonated w me. this rule has not been expelled from our cultures mentality… i remember telling a straight woman i was considering getting a buzzcut + the 1st thing she said was ‘oh, they look great w big hoop earrings.’ there’s like a sort of balancing act where for every item of men’s clothing u’ve got to do penance thru makeup + accessories……. + its got everything to do w reassuring the person viewing you, who might feel challenged by ur shirt or jacket or jeans + so needs to be able to look down n take comfort from the pair of heels on ur feet. saddest manifestation is definitely when we internalize it– when the fear of being marked not-woman makes us wear sth we hate, just for some tie 2 femininity. the more masculine the clothing, the thicker the makeup
cool ideas for gritty realistic television series that don’t involve racist and/or misogynist torture porn or involve dystopian futures or “alternate history where nazis/slave owners won” or involve thematic justification of eugenics through protagonists leaving disabled & injured community members to die:
“robin hood” heist thriller set in present day about anticapitalist militants taking down capitalists and redistributing material resources, and how individual families benefit
following one chosen family of urban disabled & neurodiverse LGBTQ folks as they navigate communal care in a post-revolution world marred by the effects of climate change and disaster, gradually building a solarpunk utopia that will accommodate everyone’s needs
following the folks in a local anarchist agricultural community post-communist revolution and how they navigate taking care of each other and unlearning capitalist socialization while simultaneously trying to teach better values to their children
following the romantic and broader interpersonal life of an indigenous person outside Western settler gender and sexuality systems after complete trans liberation and decolonization
following a historian studying the pre-revolution, pre-climate disaster world, with each episode focusing on a single pivotal moment. the series as a whole provides a dramatized template to viewers of how a sustainable communist global community can be built from the ashes of a dying world.
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