GET OUR BOI OUTTA JAIL TONIGHT! BAIL SUPPORT NEEDED! 😩
Black Trans Man Arrested, Immediate Bail Support Needed.
A request for support from Dean’s friends and fam:
Earlier today, Dean, a Black Trans masculine person was arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, after a routine traffic stop. After being stopped, he was questioned repeatedly about the validity of his driver’s license. The officer believed that Dean was deceiving him, lying about his identity. Dean was taken to the detention center.
This happens often to Trans people who are unable to change the gender marker/name on their license. Because of the officer’s transphobia, he assumed Dean was lying.
Some of you maybe familiar with Dean, an Atlanta -based community organizer and activist. He is currently being detained at the Atlanta City Detention Center. He has been placed with the “female” population, where he will be kept until his community, family, and friends raise bail.
Bail is currently set at $315. We know that it’s a lot to ask. But on behalf of our friend, we’re asking that each person, who read this, donate just .99 or $1. A little can go a long way.
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Donate now. A $5 donation, is $5 closer to freedom. Thank you to everyone who has already donated. 🙏🏾✨ Stay Up!
All, we’ve heard from a bunch of you who are concerned about Tumblr censoring NSFW/adult content. While there seems to be a lot of misinformation flying around, most of the confusion seems to stem from our complicated flagging/filtering features. Let me clear up (and fix) a few things:
1. Last year, we added “Safe Mode” which lets you filter out NSFW content from tag and search pages. This is enabled by default for new users and can be toggled in your Dashboard Settings. As some of you have pointed out, disabling Safe Mode still wasn’t allowing search results from all blogs to appear. This has been fixed.
2. Some search terms are blocked (returning no results) in some of our mobile apps. Unfortunately, different app environments have different requirements that we do our best to adhere to. The reason you see innocent tags like #gay being blocked on certain platforms is that they are still frequently returning adult content which our entire app was close to being banned for. The solution is more intelligent filtering which our team is working diligently on. We’ll get there soon. In the meantime, you can browse #lgbtq — which is moderated by our community editors — in all of Tumblr’s mobile apps. You can also see unfiltered search results on tumblr.com using your mobile web browser.
3. Earlier this year, in an effort to discourage some not-so-nice people from using Tumblr as free hosting for spammy commercial porn sites, we started delisting this tiny subset of blogs from search engines like Google. This was never intended to be an opt-in flag, but for some reason could be enabled after checking off NSFW → Adult in your blog settings. This was confusing and unnecessary, so we’ve dropped the extra option. If your blog contains anything too sexy for the average workplace, simply check “Flag this blog as NSFW” so people in Safe Mode can avoid it. Your blog will still be promoted in third-party search engines.
Aside from these fixes, there haven’t been any recent changes to Tumblr’s treatment of NSFW content, and our view on the topic hasn’t changed. Empowering your creative expression is the most important thing in the world to us. Making sure people aren’t surprised by content they find offensive is also incredibly important and we are always working to put more control in your hands.
Sorry for all of the confusion. If you have any more concerns or suggestions on how we can make these features clearer or more useful, please email us!
THE YEAR IS 2013
This was Tumblr Staff’s response to a Change.org 20,000 signature petition in 2013 to stop exactly what’s going on right now. Tumblr Staff, with David Karp at the head, clarified these things and put these guidelines into place to ensure that the site would remain safe and they would continue to allow NSFW content.
Tumblr, we made this clear before and now 10 times as many people are making it clear again: You’re handling this in the wrong way.
You should be focusing on improving features like Safe Mode, the tagging system, blacklisting, whitelisting, filtering, blocking, reporting, etc.
Rather than deciding that destroying the foundation you’ve built and garnered for 11 years as a place where NSFW artists can easily get their work out there.
And would you look at that, this post itself has like a million notes.
For any of you who are writing ‘across the pond’-here is a little guide I put together of some common differences between British and American English!
Also for all of us non-native speakers who don’t know which fucking English we’re even using
When You Eliminate The
Impossible by
mydogwatson, 11 k, teen. Lonely John goes to a cottage in Sussex for a solitary
Xmas. Then a stranger appears. Maybe.
You Don’t Need Wings to
Flyby
Laiquilasse, 11 k, teen. It’s A Wonderful Life AU. John, an angel, is sent from
Heaven to help a desperate Sherlock Holmes by showing him what life would have
been like if he had never existed.
The Compliments of the
Season by
apliddell, 7 k, teen. “Sherlock Holmes, you haven’t eloped!” “Well, yes, we
sort of have, actually,” Sherlock grinned a bit at that. It was quite lovely.
“Been married six days now. Congratulate me?”
I’ll Be Home For
Christmas by
alwaysanoriginal, 2 k, teen. Don’t think about how sad their Christmases have
been year after year… and imagine what their wonderful Christmas will be like
after they’ve found their happiness.
It’s Cold Outsideby Salambo06, 7 k, explicit. John and
Sherlock, Christmas night, the heat broke, add some shared body heat and (not
so) accidental erections mixed with some miscommunication and awkwardness and,
you guessed it, they’re sharing a bed.
from
dusk till dawn by
Salambo06, 5 k, explicit. Sherlock is late for their Christmas dinner. John
makes sure they find a way to make it all right again.
Lab Book by copperbadge, 5 k,
explicit. “The likelihood of finding a
cab on Christmas Eve is fast approaching nil.” “So was the likelihood of you
kissing me in the middle of the pavement, and yet.” Sherlock springs John from
a boring dinner with Harry’s friends.
Throw
Cares Away by
alexaprilgarden, 7 k, explicit. Sherlock had taught John how to dance for his
wedding, and that night, John had kissed Sherlock. And had gone and got married
nonetheless. Now, it’s the first Christmas after. After Appledore, after the
disaster of John’s marriage. After John returned to Baker Street. And it should
have been so easy, so simple, once that John was back. It isn’t anywhere near
simple.
once upon a time by darcylindbergh,6 k, mature. It starts with a wish.
In the beginning, John comes home.
Say It Out Loud by Itsallfine, 5 k, explicit.
John needs proof of Sherlock’s feelings before he can make a move. Mummy Holmes
is only too happy to provide, and works her devious magic on New Year’s Eve. It
doesn’t take much.
Let Love reign Us allby Schattengestalt,
8 k teen. Sherlock has resigned himself to spending Christmas Eve alone at
Baker Street, but John has different plans.
Winter Ficletsby 221b_careful_what_you_wish_for,
6 k, mature. A collection of holiday shorts.
The 2017 Johnlock
Adventby
sussexbound (SamanthaLenore), 43 k, teen. Ficlets and drabbles about Sherlock and
John in the holiday season.
Christmas With You by MissDavis, 23 k, teen. Watch
Sherlock, John and Rosie over the years as they celebrate the season as only
they can.
Another Auld Lang Syne by DiscordantWords,
30 k, mature. It’s a
very bittersweet Christmas at 221b. John is back with his daughter, but he
worries about being underfoot, and considers a job in Bristol. Sherlock tries
not to panic.
a vein of frost by Zingiber, 58 k,
explicit. As winter falls over London, Sherlock finds himself struggling to
cope with a five-year-old goddaughter, a bizarre series of holiday-themed
murders, and a new woman in John’s life.
A Solution for a Change by elwinglyre,
9 k, explicit. It’s Christmas Eve, and all is not right with the world,
especially not with Sherlock’s. In this after S4ish AU, Sherlock Holmes and
John Watson haven’t met, Lestrade and Mycroft are in a stable relationship and
sometimes genius needs to take a holiday.
Dyke the Halls by beltainefaerie, 4
k, teen. John comes to terms with his feelings for Sherlock and comes out to
Harry at a contentious family Christmas.
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson, Sherlock Holmes/Victor Trevor/Original Female Character Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Victor Trevor Additional Tags: Past polyamorous relationship, Erotic Photography, First Kiss, Nude Modeling, Nude Photos Summary:
Photographs scattered across the floor… along with John’s preconceived notions.
These images are not explicit. These pictures show two adults, engaging in consensual kissing. That’s it. It isn’t violent, it isn’t pornographic. It’s literally just two adult humans sharing a kiss.
It’s ludicrous and insulting that – especially in 2018 – this is flagged, either by some sort of badly-designed algorithm, or by shitty homophobic people.
And to just restate something that I reblogged a little bit ago:
the reality is that for a lot of the LGTBQ+ community, particularly younger members still discovering themselves and members in extremely homophobic environments where most media sites were banned (but Tumblr wasn’t even considered important enough to be), this was a bastion of information and self-expression.
I am so lucky. I am so massively lucky and privileged. I’m rich, I’m white, I’m a CIS male in a heterosexual relationship. I can look just about anywhere in the world and see myself represented in art and media. My experience has been normalized to the exclusion and oppression of people who don’t share that experience.
That. Must. Change.
I can only imagine what it must feel like to fight every second of ever day just to exist in a world that is filled with people who share my demographic (but not my values) using their wealth and power and privilege to attack you, simply for being who you are, for existing. I can only imagine how terrible and suffocating and exhausting that must be.
According to marginalized and vulnerable people, this change in policy will directly hurt them, and that’s indefensible.
The ridiculousness of this policy change can be simply illustrated by the image here being flagged. Why was it flagged? Because homophobia is rampant and too many people who should stand up against it are cowards who don’t want to risk their own wealth and privilege in the service of people who can’t defend themselves.
I applaud and admire and respect the hell out of everyone in the LGBTQ community here who have formed networks and friendships and relationships and support structures for each other. You have worked so hard to create and maintain a safe space for each other, and I’m embarrassed, appalled, and furious that people who look like me are making your lives – hell, your very existence – so hard.
I’m just one person, and maybe it won’t matter or make a difference, but I stand with you, not just on this website, but in our entire universe. I see you. I love you. I value you.
Two photos in a series: A Fat Body, A Fat Home, copyright Megan Beene
Yes, this is literally art. Here’s my artist statement.
Here’s my boobs and my belly roll. As a genderqueer person idk if my nipples count as “female presenting.” Is it about how big they are? Are we talking about areola or the actual erectile tissue? If I feel at home with they/ them pronouns and have watched my gender flap like a handkerchief in the wind sometimes, do I get to own my body? Do I get to decide who sees it? Have I earned my place?
Fat bodies are policed every day with silent judgement and sharpened barbs about dieting and guilt; the renouncement of pleasure is a knife used to cleave the fat from the meat and the bones. Don’t enjoy yourself. Don’t.
Women’s bodies, too, are cut apart, framed pieces that get hung separately and put together to maximize desire. The elements are judged based on unreachable standards, and if you actually happened to have reached them through genetics, luck, or surgery, you’ll still be judged just as harshly as if you missed them by a mile. May the odds be never in your favor.
Note how I’ve done it here as an act of reclaiming: The artist’s head is kept out of frame, but in the first image their nipples serve as a stand in for a direct gaze, piercing the viewer and daring them to look back. In the second, the artist’s gaze is turned away as in a more traditional odalisque pose, and yet we see the markings of a personal space. They’re allowing us to see more, and yet it’s somehow less.
The artist works within the tradition of many feminist artists who came before. I could give names, but it won’t stop this post from getting flagged and hidden.
I’m sick and disgusted right now, but too tired to do anything. I know this is the beginning, not the end. I know that when they come for sex workers they’re also coming for the poor, the disabled, and the marginalized. They will come for the political bloggers. They will come and keeping coming until this site is just diluted enough to be almost satisfying. The people who join later will wonder why anyone left, because there’s still more here than elsewhere.
Anyway. Mostly that was an artist’s statement. But parts of it weren’t. Good luck parsing it i guess.
As for me I’m here til I’m not. I’m on instagram as homosocial, and you can message me for my email or fb info. I’m looking into pillowfort and a few other places. And on December 17th I’m literally going to queue “welcome to hell” for the whole day.
This post is currently in content appeal (already) & i wanna add (though i shouldn’t need to) that i have a BA in studio art, have taught art classes, and am 100% not bullshitting when i say this is art.
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