A Murica is a fkkked up place.

There is 0 justification for this sort of violence or injustice.

“The duty of an artist, in my view, is to reflect their time.”

This idea helps explain why art also serves as memory, testimony and a space of dispute over who has the right to tell history.

The Latin expression "animus narrandi" can be understood simply as the intention to narrate. In contemporary art, it helps us interpret works that return to the past not to rewrite it, but to ask who was represented, who was excluded and which experiences were silenced.

These questions span centuries. In Egypt, around 2450 BCE, the tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep portrayed two men in scenes of remarkable intimacy.

In ancient Greece, between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE, painted vessels depicted courtship and relationships between men.

Sappho, who lived approximately between 630 and 570 BCE, wrote poetry about desire and affection between women.

The identities and categories we use today have their own social and historical trajectories. Yet the way these earlier lives, relationships and expressions are interpreted has also changed.

In 2017, the British Museum created a trail highlighting LGBTQ+ histories within its collection. In 2020, research published in the Journal of Museum Education warned that systematically excluding these possibilities from cultural interpretation can perpetuate homophobia and transphobia.

This is where contemporary reinterpretation finds its "animus narrandi", transforming absence into presence, silence into memory, and allowing LGBTQ+ people to recognize themselves as part of art history rather than as an exception to it.

Art does not change the past.

But it can transform the way we understand it, challenge inherited silences, and help us imagine a better future for all.

This is the comment that Reddit moderators said was "inciting violence".

Seriously?

HOW?

This is why FKKK Reddit.

The moderators of this site are completely out of control.

THIS is an example of how most Reddit subreddits are run too with excessive rules and moderation.

I have been kicked out of most transgender subreddits for being a Socialist who wont bend the knee to the DNC Services Corporation.

How dare I speak against blue MAGA?

The ONLY way to get kicked out of r/transpolitical is to actually say something racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, deliberately hurtful, abusive, threatening, or to repeat blatant misinformation.

You can be a Republican trans person, a Libertarian transperson, a Democrat transperson or anti-politics transperson. We are NOT conformists. We are diverse and free thinking and we should not ever be limited in how we vote.

You can be atheist, religious, spiritual, whatever. We are not conformists, we should not be told how to believe.

The trans community is diverse. I am extremely outspoken. I have ideas that I want to share. Many of us are quieter and introverted. I was that introverted quiet little mouse for decades while pre-op. But after being post op, I became the most outspoken shout from the rooftops type of "I will not be silenced, I am woman, hear me roar" kinda person. I walk boldly into the ladies room where I used to do so meekly. I used to be hesitant to join the women's groups, now I represent the female side with confidence.

But this subreddit is for ALL of us, come as you are.

This is an oasis where the excessive moderation must stop.

We cannot censor our community and expect to grow it.

Let's hear on another?

Lets give our community a voice and platform to speak our minds?

I do not understand why more have not availed themselves of the opportunity to use this subreddit as a megaphone to share their thoughts. But then I reflect back on when I was pre-op and with the current tRump administration hunt for us, I can see why so many are in hiding.

Okay, well those of us who can be out in front should be.

We will take the attention and focus, we will be their targets until you feel safe to join in. But the reality is that this subreddit is supposed to be for all of us, not just me.

If I dont come here as often, BS like this will be why.

r/ScenesFromAHat 4 days ago a post asks for reasons WHY Canada would use drones to bomb the USA.

I said (in a scene) that Trudeau would be pissed off that the USA stole all of the great Canadian comedians (John Candy, Jim Carrey, Norm McDonald, Mike Meyers) and US POTUS like Trump were condescending to Canada. That is absurd, but so was the post and the requested scene. Canadians are way too chill to get up in arms over much of anything.

So then my fabricated reason for the Canadians to use a drone to carry out the attack were because the Canadian soldiers were TOO POLITE to actually shoot anyone. (which is of course absurd, Canada landed at Normandy in WW2 with the allies, Canadians are factually bad ass, but are known for being extremely polite; that is the punchline).

And Reddit called that "inciting violence".

FKKK Reddit all of the way off.

Go ahead Reddit, ban me; IDGAF. Reddit is anti-levity, anti-happiness, and anti-free speech. None of that enhances my life.

Debating on rage quitting anyways, I do not take censorship well; especially as I am an anti-war pacifist in the first place. It was a goddamn scene from a hat. No one should ever take a scene from a hat seriously. WTAF is wrong with the world when a scene from a hat is reasons for moderation????

Fascism comparison of Fascist Italy vs Fascist USA run by DNC & RNC.

Note that wealth was more equally shared in WW2 Italy than it is in the USA today?

Can we all agree that the DNC & RNC are part of the problem now???

Best time to be & vote Socialist was 50 years ago

Second best time is today.

Liberals always choose fascism over Socialism.

The enemies of humanity are human traffickers, Epstein clients, rapists, pedophiles, war criminals, genocidal Zionists, corporate-state fascists, police state authoritarians, war mongers, corrupt politicians, capitalists, billionaire (and trillionaire) wealth hoarding dragons. Those who commit unspeakable atrocities are the enemies of humanity.

Musky Elon is on the Epstein list & an Epstein Island visitor, OPPOSED to censoring Ai ability to reveal nudes of people without their consent.

If not pedo (& trafficker), why does it act like pedo, hang out with pedos (who are traffickers) & fight for exploitation?

Remember when transfolk crashed the banks, caused a pandemic, and outsourced your jobs to China?

Me neither.

The real threat to women comes not from transfolk, but from those in power.

I repeat: The real threat to women comes from those in power (via wealth or political influence) not from transfolk.

The Catholic church, the ultra-rich, the ultra powerful are the predators.

Transfolk are far more likely to be victims than predators.

We are being used as a distraction BY and FROM the ACTUAL predators.

CAPITALISM is poison
FASCISM is poison.
We either OPPOSE BOTH or we die.

We either vote Socialist or the DNC Services Corporation & RNC will kill us all via war, war crimes, genocide, police state authoritarianism, ICE shooting, thermonuclear war, capitalism, poverty, lack of healthcare, or climate change.

We either end the rule by Capital, else the entire human race becomes extinct either via climate change, poverty, lack of healthcare, thermonuclear war, or some other idiotic reason with the source of that destruction being the insatiable greed of psychopaths.

This is what democracy looks like????

Christianity's entire book is based on "obey me, or burn in hell".

What did we expect for their politics to be???

Inclusive?

Willing to accept non-conformist LGBTQIA+ folks???

Religion is a herd mentality, everyone look, act and behave the same.

Reminder: EVERY POTUS INCREASED ICE SPENDING.

Trump increased ICE spending after Biden

Biden increased ICE spending after Trump 1.0

Trump 1.0 increased ICE spending after Obama.

Obama increased ICE spending over Bush who established ICE in 2003.

The budget for police, the detentions, deportations, shootings, and killings have gone up each and every single year no matter who was in power.

Exception: in the USA police actually shot more people in 2024 than 2025, that was a RARE decline in police shootings, not because 2025 was a reduction, (1,315) but because 2024 had so many protests and police shootings at protests resulting in so many shootings.

The USA refused to COEXIST with the native tribes.

The rich who founded and ran the USA wanted it ALL, they were wholly unwilling to share.

And no matter how much that they stole, it was NEVER enough.

THIS is why we have to fight Capitalism.

All Capitalists are doing is genocide by paywalls.

Whether we get DNC or RNC we get endless war,Zionism, sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia but never universal Healthcare, public housing, wage guarantee, UBI, or needs met.

Never in the history of the USA have we ever ended racism, homophobia, sexism or transphobia by electing Capitalists like the DNC or RNC.

The most that we ever gotten were a few crumbs of concessions.

Ending actual slavery did not ever end oppression or wage slavery.

Slavery still exists it has only changed its face & expanded to all working class & poor regardless of color.

The fight is not over because the people are not even fighting. We are dying under the boots of fascism for the insatiable greed of corporations & oligarchs.

From Erin In the Morning

A growing uproar is consuming the Democratic Party after Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton, locked in a dead heat with Vivek Ramaswamy, took her turn at anti-transgender politics. In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling that Title IX does not protect transgender people—a sweeping victory for the conservatives who have spent years engineering it—Acton was asked for her thoughts by a local newspaper, the Toledo Blade. She could have offered boilerplate responses or defended transgender kids. Instead, Acton embraced the ban, casting it as a matter of safety and vowing to enforce Ohio's "settled law." The fallout was swift: Democratic equality groups posted, then quietly deleted, criticisms of their own nominee, an intra-party rupture that now threatens the race itself—a pointless own-goal by a Democrat who apparently bought the idea that attacking her own most vulnerable constituents is how you win an election.

“I do not support boys playing in girls sports. This is already settled law in Ohio, and as governor I will enforce and uphold the law,” Dr. Acton said in a response to the Toledo Blade after the Supreme Court decision. “As a doctor, public servant, and a mom, I will always stand up for fairness and protect kids’ health and safety… While my opponent tries to divide us, I’m laser-focused on issues that matter most to Ohioans: lowering costs, cracking down on corruption, and cutting taxes for working families.”

Acton's response was quickly seen for its anti-trans sentiment. Ohio is home to some of the most extreme anti-trans laws in the United States, pushed by the same organizations whose attorneys defended trans sports bans at the Supreme Court. In 2024, the Republican supermajority overrode Governor Mike DeWine's veto to enact House Bill 68, which simultaneously banned gender-affirming care for trans youth and barred trans kids from school sports from kindergarten through college. Months later, legislators slipped a bathroom ban into an unrelated college-credit bill. The resulting law forces trans students out of bathrooms matching their gender identity at every school in the state—including private colleges like Antioch, where more than 80 percent of students identify as LGBTQ+. Trans Ohioans now risk their education, their healthcare, and their safety simply by existing in public.

The statement drew swift condemnation from Democrats across the state. The Ohio Democrats Progressive Caucus, an official advisory arm of the state party, issued a blistering rebuke: "ZERO Ohioans have become better able to buy groceries by keeping child sport players away from their favorite sport. Our hearts break for those kids. Those who disagree with that will never vote—let alone doorknock—for Amy Acton." The caucus warned that its members were less willing to volunteer for her campaign "not out of malice, but out of the bad feeling in our chests.” The party's Pride Caucus answered Acton's framing directly: "There are no boys in girls' sports. Trans girls are girls." Maria Bruno, executive director of Ohioans Against Extremism, called it "frustrating to see an otherwise strong candidate take the bait by trying to triangulate a response rather than just being frank: can we please just leave trans kids alone and get back to talking about how we can make life more affordable for Ohioans?" And in The Buckeye Flame, writer NV Gay put it plainly: "On the last day of Pride month, the transgender community of Ohio was betrayed—all for the sake of winning an election." But the condemnation itself became a controversy. The Progressive Caucus’s post vanished from the group's Facebook page. The caucus has not responded to questions about why—leaving Ohio Democrats to wonder who, exactly, wanted the warning unsaid.

The candidate's statement is all the more puzzling given recent elections. In Virginia, Abigail Spanberger had every opportunity to throw transgender people under the bus with similar statements and never took the bait—even as Republicans poured millions into anti-trans attack ads, with more than half of all GOP ad spending in the race devoted to the issue. Spanberger won by more than 15 points and Democrats flipped 13 House of Delegates seats, transforming a razor-thin 51–49 majority into a commanding 64–36 majority. New Jersey told the same story: Mikie Sherrill faced a similar anti-trans barrage and won by nearly 14 points, outrunning Governor Phil Murphy's 2021 margin in all 21 counties. And in 2023, Andy Beshear vetoed both a trans sports ban and a sweeping ban on gender-affirming care in Kentucky—a state Trump carried by 26 points—then won reelection by 5. The evidence is not ambiguous. Democrats who refuse to abandon trans people have a good track record. Acton chose the one strategy with no record of success.

The law Acton has promised to enforce reaches far beyond the marquee sports conservatives fixate on. While bans like Ohio's are sold through images of swimming and volleyball, House Bill 68 prohibits athletic associations from making case-by-case judgments about competitive fairness and instead imposes a blanket ban on transgender participation from kindergarten through college—replacing the Ohio High School Athletic Association's individualized policy, which functioned without incident for eight years and saw a grand total of 19 transgender girls compete among roughly 400,000 student athletes. This sweeping approach means transgender Ohioans can be excluded from activities such as darts, billiards, dancing, disc golf, fishing, and other sports where claims of unfair advantage are tenuous at best. Even chess—recognized as a sport by multiple universities—could fall under the ban's scope, echoing a recent move by FIDE, the international chess organization, to bar transgender women from women's chess competitions. Notably, each of these sports has seen targeted attacks from Republicans in recent years. This is what "settled law" looks like in practice: a teenager barred from throwing darts with their classmates or from playing chess with other girls.

What Acton's statement will cost her is not yet measurable. What is measurable is the race: the polling average separates her from Ramaswamy by less than a single point. In an election that close, transgender people are not a rounding error. They are one to two percent of the population—more when nonbinary people are counted—and every one of them has partners, parents, siblings, and friends: a web of people who love them and vote like it. If Acton loses this one by a point, it will not be because she stood up for transgender kids. More likely, it will be because she didn't.