kara

the concept of taylor swift fans going to croydon whitgift as an attraction like sure why not the world is burning anyway

been a long hard battle to make sure the undercroft survives, and as someone who spent numerous years there as a teenager and still stops in when I’m back in london, I’m absolutely thrilled by this

rest of the building is pretty cool as well

I’m not sure anything shows how out of touch streeting is than the fact I think he thinks those whatsapp messages are meant to make him look good, when all it does is show that this government, including him, knows that it’s supporting genocide and does not care.

work is chaos right now but my hockey team won last night, today I met a dog, and got given some of my favourite tea for free, I booked in with a new queer friendly salon to make growing out the bleach on my head look good, and I bought a book so like. could be worse.

and olympic hockey is on!!!

it really fucking sucks sometimes!! even when you know it’s for the best it can feel like a dagger to the heart because like. it’s your family. but then your family shouldn’t be the place you learn about abuse of any kind so. yeah. it’s such a hard thing to go through 🫶🏼

the potential of starmer resigning is all well and good, but we’ll end up with fucking wannabe iago wes streeting in charge of the country and that may actually be worse

given I spent a few days getting violent abuse and a death threat over speaking about queer fans in hockey, I am very tired of everything today

anyway shoutout to Travis Dermott for being a real one back when the ban on jerseys and tape came in and taping up his stick anyway. for a non superstar player to risk retribution to do the right thing was pretty significant, and a lot of superstars could’ve taken a cue from him, but didn’t.

the NHL do not give a shit about us. we know that, and no one needs to act like it’s a shock that the NHL won’t do anything substantial when it comes to queer fans or the wider community. we love hockey despite the way it treats us, that’s the real sadness of it all.

the hawks once had Denali perform at intermission in drag and the atrium would be full of small queer owned businesses, socials would be rainbowed out and there would be pride graphics at the game. this year? watered down a lot, but at least they still call it a Pride night.

four teams, including LA who hosted Jacob Tierney, have got rid of Pride nights altogether. other teams have rebranded as “hockey is for everyone” nights, diluting the message while using Pride branding at games (Bruins, looking at you), and the ones who used to go full throttle have cut back

given that their “face of the league” joyfully visits the White House with the current administration and talks about how proud he is to be an American while the gestapo murders, it’s not that baffling.

the NHL is happy to take our queer money but won’t do anything substantial to actually back us.

Feels like a different crowd for Pride Night, in the best way. They're into this one, both the game itself (wildly cheering another successful PK) and outside the game (loudly supporting the Chicago Gay Men's Choir and roaring when two same-sex couples kissed during the intermission DJ session).

being Old I have so many things to say about coming out culture and the hr fandom and the undeserved hatred directed at a fellow bi elder millennial by a bunch of people who don’t understand that queer people don’t have to conform to someone else’s idea of being queer

but also I have books to read

like I had no interest in my teachers private lives one way or the other but the fact some could talk freely about their home lives and others were forced not to was so fucked up and didn’t just cause damage to students who were educated under section 28, but everyone working in education as well

whenever people wanna gloss over the harm section 28 did I always think about one of my teachers who couldn’t actually tell us about her long term female partner because it could’ve been “promoting”, but the straight teachers could talk about their weddings and getting knocked up all day long

lotta straight people not understanding the difference between private and closeted and it’s horrifically fascinating

françois arnaud and suki waterhouse at a YSL after party, he’s smoking and it’s all very 2004 in the best way

having very specific violent flashbacks to my life in 2004, thanks françois and suki

can’t get back to london for this, but it sure is proof my 20 years of lifetime membership to the best cinema in the world was worth the investment by my dad as a christmas gift, love that they’re getting to host such an event!!

cesare borgia

anyway taking great joy in rewatching borgias for the first time in far too long

there is something so special about still being friends with someone who was with you in a certain scene and being able to bitch about how everyone back then was pretending to be broke

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

forever because of various reasons. mostly because of the fact that people are scared, but they’re trying their best to be there for their communities and to not lose hope.

those are the people you’re insulting when you say americans don’t care about what’s happening. they do. they absolutely do.

of the people who chose to make their lives there. to act as if americans are rolling over under this administration is incredibly ignorant and rude. a lot of people are just trying to survive, while every day brings new horrors broadcast 24/7. some conversations I’ve had this trip will stay with me

also. being in various parts of america these last two weeks has been strange. I’ve been going back and forth for over fifteen years now, and most every person I’ve met has always been welcoming, kind, and eager to share their culture with me. I’ve had some of the best experiences in america because

the funniest thing about landing back from boston where it is bitterly cold is that I’m here in a tank top just like whatever while everyone else is bundled up

I specifically say there are no out NHL players, which there aren’t

and people really need to confront the reason why they were so quick to happily jump on the reactions from a bunch of white bros and publicise them, but that’s a whole other can of worms and it’s 1am and I wanna sleep soon

there’s a reason we carve out our own little enclaves, there’s a reason my blocklist on the other site is thousands of people, there’s a reason there are no out NHL players. if people don’t want to listen and learn from us then like expect more empty netters bullshit to happen.

like there really does come a point where I’m like, if you’re not listening to female and queer hockey fans and players who have been in the trenches, then you’re missing the point of the series as a whole. we are well aware of what this sport and culture is like and everyone else should be as well.