1. I’m a “Gray Asexual.” My Partner Isn’t. (January 10, via) "'Mainstream media rarely covers gray asexuality,' says Tristan Miller, director of the Ace Community Survey team. 'When they do, they rarely go beyond providing a definition—and the definition is often bad.'"
2. UN warns Gaza is now ‘uninhabitable’ as war continues (January 5, via) [content note: war, genocide] "He said the humanitarian community is facing an 'impossible mission' – trying to help more than 2 million people while UN staff and aid workers from partner organisations are killed, communications blackouts continue, roads are damaged, truck convoys are shot at and vital commercial supplies 'are almost nonexistent'."
3. Republicans are torturing pregnant women with lethal diagnoses.... (January 2) [content note: pregnancy loss, all of this is really tragic] 24-minute video from Mama Doctor Jones, an obgyn who grew up in Texas. She talks about her own journey to becoming pro-choice, and about the lawsuit against the state of Texas for denying abortion care to women with medical emergencies or fetal anomalies where the baby would not survive.
4. OH MY GOODNESS I LOVE THIS SO MUCH:
I was not prepared for @FlamyGrant to lead a “Testify To Love” singalong. And it was perfect. pic.twitter.com/5DybJGD5wP
— Matt Nightingale (@mattnightingale) January 13, 2024
(Some background info: Flamy Grant is a Christian drag queen, queer Christians love her, and "Testify to Love" is a Christian song from the 90s.)
5. Help A Queer Couple Rebuild Their Lives in Safety. A GoFundMe for a lesbian couple in Ethiopia. This link was sent to me by a queer friend who used to live in China and is living in Ethiopia now- she knows the organizers of this fundraiser personally. Please donate if you can!
6. Yes, can confirm this is true:
Every time you ask a woman about pregnancy or childbirth she’ll go “Oh it wasn’t so bad, I was actually really lucky. All that happened was—“ and then tell the most terrifying story you’ve ever heard.
— Moira Donegan (@MoiraDonegan) January 14, 2024
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