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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 21h

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Your reminders that:
- There’s no Queer Liberation without decolonization
- There’s no Indigenous Liberation without Palestinian Liberation
- There’s no Environmental Justice without land back
- And fuck Christopher Columbus

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 1d

Some OCD Awareness Week reminders:
- OCD isn’t just wanting perfection & cleanliness
- OCDers can’t just “get over it”
- OCD is not an adjective for non-OCDers to use
- OCD can impact many areas of one’s life

#OCDAwarenessWeek

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 1d

On this day 3 years ago a shooter committed an attack on a queer bar in Bratislava, Slovakia which left 2 folks dead, 1 injured & many more traumatized

This sort of violence is what happens when fascist rhetoric goes unchecked. Hate speech is violence & shld be treated as such

🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Coming Out Day 🏳️‍🌈 Always remember that there’s no “right” time or way to come out

You can come out when you’re 60

You can come out when you’re 6

You can come out again if you realize you identify as a different label

All our journeys are different & that’s okay 💗

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 2d

This National Coming Out Day we need to shine light on the forced outing school policies that lead youth to be outed to their parents before theyre ready, or before theyre certain that theyre in a safe environment to come out

These policies get folks kicked out, abused, & killed

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 2d

This Coming Out Day I’m sending love to those who:
- Are out and proud
- Were outed before being ready
- Are questioning
- Aren’t safe to come out
- Aren’t ready to come out

Whatever your experience may be, I hope you have an amazing day 💗💗

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 3d

Polyamory ≠ polygamy.

Polygamy is an abusive (usually religion-based) practice.

Polyamory is not.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 4d

Learn about the Belgian Congo genocide
Learn about the Armenian genocide (ongoing)
Learn about the Jeju genocide
Learn about the East Timor genocide
Learn about the Rwandan genocide
Learn about the Maya genocide (ongoing)

Learning about past genocides is important too.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 5d

What Lesbianism isn’t about:
- Excluding Bi/Mspec folks
- Excluding Trans folks
- Excluding Non-binary folks
- Excluding masculinity
- Excluding BIPOC
- Excluding Plural folks

What Lesbianism is about:
- Inclusion
- Diversity
- Self expression

Happy International Lesbian Day 💗

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 5d

Happy International Lesbian Day to:
- Trans Lesbians
- Aromantic Lesbians
- Asexual Lesbians
- Bi/Mspec Lesbians
- Butch Lesbians
- Femme Lesbians
- Futch Lesbians
- Lesboys/Lesbois
- Non-monogamous Lesbians
- BIPOC Lesbians
- Straight Lesbians
- Disabled Lesbians
- All Lesbians 💞

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 6d

I’m grayplatonic :D

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 6d

“But how is AI killing folks?”

- Skyrocketing energy costs due to AI data centers leading folks to not be able to afford cooling or heating
- Exacerbating the climate crisis
- AI being used in warfare & policing
- Using water that could instead be used for folks who need it

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 8d

Demisexuality exists and is queer.
Demiromanticism exists and is queer.
Demiplatonicism exists and is queer.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 8d

Asexuality is queer.
Aromanticism is queer.
Aplatonicism is queer.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 10d

This LGBTQIA+ History Month, let’s not forget that the fight for Queer Liberation has historically been led by Trans women of color Sex Workers like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.

A photo of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera standing together in the street.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 11d

Sapphic history belongs to Bi Sapphics.
Sapphic history belongs to Pan Sapphics.
Sapphic history belongs to Trans Sapphics.
Sapphic history belongs to Ace Sapphics.
Sapphic history belongs to Aro Sapphics.
Sapphic history belongs to all Sapphics.

Happy Queer History Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 12d

Happy Non-binary Kid’s Day.

Children, no matter the age, can be non-binary just as much as any adult, and deserve the same access to gender affirming care.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 13d

Abortion can be empowering.

The idea that you have full control over what you do and don’t do with your body of course can be incredibly empowering.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 16d

Misgendering neopronoun users is just as bad as misgendering trans folks who use she/her and he/him pronouns.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 18d

“Sex work is exploitative”

So is every other job under capitalism, that doesn’t mean going around banning and stigmatizing them is doing anyone any good.

Fight capitalism, not marginalized folks trying to survive in a horrible system.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 20d

Happy Bi Visibility Day to:
- Bi Butches
- Bi Femmes
- Bi Aros
- Bi Aces
- Bi Lesbians
- Bi Gays
- BiPan folks
- BIPOC Bi folks
- Non-monogamous Bi folks
- Disabled Bi folks
- Trans Bi folks
- Plural Bi folks
- Bi folks in “straight-passing” relationships
- All Bi folks 💞

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 21d

Autism isn’t “becoming common”.

It’s always been common.

More folks (particularly BIPOC and women) are just finally being diagnosed after years of being overlooked and ignored.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · 22d

Y’all have to got to stop calling everything fascists do “mass psychosis”.

Equating psychosis to fascism only harms psychotic folks, and contributes to fascist ableism.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · Sep 13

Empathy ≠ morality.

Hypoempathetic Neurodivergent folks don’t need feelings of empathy to logically guide their moral compass.

Y’all need to stop conflating the two, all it does is harm Hypoempathetic Neurodivergent folks.

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🇵🇪🇳🇬 Isabella Scarlett 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️ @isabellascarlett.bsky.social · Sep 10

Charlie Kirk supported:
- Palestinian genocide (hundreds of thousands dead)
- Anti-vaccine ideology (millions dead)
- Anti-trans policies (thousands dead)
- Anti-abortion policies (thousands dead)
- Anti-immigrant policies (millions dead)
- Police violence (thousands dead)

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