The HRC published a free pdf Safer Sex for Trans Bodies
last year and it’s by and for members of the transgender community. It covers topics from masturbation
to talking about sex to HRT along with comprehensive information on
safe sex.
They also provide more resources at the end for further information
We had a chance to play the demo version of @heraldgame and we really love it! There’s diversity in the cast AND voice actors! Also it doesn’t shy away from talking about Imperialism that a young Indian man would have faced on board a vessel in the 19th century.
My fall thesis centered around vis dev exploration of the Red Moons, a trio of nomadic hunters for hire. Near the end of the project I did a set of illustrations depicting what their daily lives might look like.
Radical librarian Jason Griffey (previously) wants librarians to continue their 21st century leadership in the resistance to surveillance and persecution – a proud record that includes the most effective stands against GW Bush’s Patriot Act – by pledging to make libraries safe havens from trumpism and its evils: electronic surveillance; racial and gender-based discrimination; and the assertion that ideology trumps empirical reality.
Neutrality favors the powerful, and further marginalizes the marginalized. In the face of the current political climate, with the use of opinions as bludgeons and disinformation as the weapon of choice for manipulation and intellectual coercion, it is up to those who value fact and believe in the care of those in need to stand up and positively affirm that to do otherwise is evil.
For libraries and librarians, that means:
1. Making the physical space of the library safe for those that need it by publicly stating your stance on the targeting of marginalized communities and then following up with actions and policies that back up those statements
2. Protecting your patrons from targeting and oppression, even in the face of possible governmental pressures, by resisting calls for information about your patrons at every level
3. Making your digital spaces safe for you patrons by limiting the data you collect, eliminating the data that you store, encrypting your communications at all levels and importantly insisting that your vendors do the same
4. Running programs that actively provide support for your at-risk patrons, whatever that looks like in your community
5. By being the voice of reason and compassion when dealing with your city or county government, and by modeling the same by advocating for those at risk
These things are vital and necessary. Especially now.
Numerous spikes and protruding minor blades covering Daedric weapons are oftentimes not a result of a conscious design choice of their creators, but rather a side effect of their origin. Made from fossilized blood of a Padomaic and purified by Daedric substances, they “…retain echoes of preternaturally prolonged suffering endured during manufacture…” which results in spontaneously sprouting such appendages during both the cooling off period and after drawing blood from the enemy.
Daedric weapons grow more and more spiky over time, with the oldest of them becoming nigh unusable. Some say that eventually such weapons transform into some kind of Dremora-like minor daedra, but such metamorphosis has never been recorded and issurely just another hearsay.
anyway something I hate about video games is when they make some assertion about the fictional society not being homophobic and yet the society is still heteronormative like. that’s not how things work
example: skyrim sexual orientation isn’t really talked about at all afaik and every person who can be married can be married with either character gender but like: everything is straight. I haven’t played skyrim in a while but like it’s all straight I feel like also there’s things people say in it that are heteronormative and are in there bc the people creating it didn’t see it as a problem or at odds with their apparent homophobia free society and like how can you create a fictional homophobia free society when you ain’t free of your real life assumptions. Anyway
I’ve noticed this with misogyny too, like when you go to pick your character’s gender in dragon age it says something about how men and women are considered equal and there are equal numbers of men and women in the army and in leadership positions etc.
and then you go to actually play the game and the overwhelming majority of the soldiers are male, soldiers are constantly referred to as “men,” there are characters who will say blatantly misogynistic or sexually aggressive things to you (like, blatant enough that it must be misogynistic on purpose)
and it makes me die
Some of this has to be because the people who made these games are almost exclusively straight white dudes - and while they may have had the intention of being inclusive, they literally cannot imagine what a world without heteronormativity and misogyny would look like. They give us the game mechanics to be a woman warrior or to marry a character of the same gender, but they didn’t extend this train of thought to imagine how a society where this was normal would be different from ours.
In Dragon Age, for example, the major world religion is centered on a woman, lead by women, with all-female priestesses. AND YET in everyday life characters still interact as though men are naturally in charge and express surprise at a woman issuing commands. This is directly contradictory and frankly lazy world building to suggest that people raised in a system lead exclusively by women would still somehow end up expecting male leadership, as though sexism was a sort of natural law that would happen in any society. It’s not. Also, the founding myth of their religion has the original sin as sexual jealousy rather than punishing female sexuality, which would suggest totally different social norms around monogamy, sexual orientation, and the whole idea of promiscuity. Instead they’re… More or less exactly the same as our society, slut-shaming included. This makes no sense!
It’s a complete failure of imagination, not to mention frustrating and sad.
LOL we were literally just discussing this yesterday.
It’s pretty disturbing too that in these supposed misogyny/homophobia free worlds, the one thing that DOES exist and the creators make it a point to include in their fantasy worlds, is racism.
My finished hand-painted animation cel (and digital mockup) for the Ron & John Disney show over at @gallerynucleus – Captain Amelia from Treasure Planet! There you go, pure poetry. 😼
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I enjoy making these animations :] Static image can be found HERE.
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