But the parade was met with controversy when collective members carrying rainbow pride flags with a Star of David center were told to leave because the flags “made people feel unsafe,” reported Windy City Times.
“Anti-semitism is everywhere. I’m not surprised at all,” LGBT historian Sukie de la Croix commented on Facebook. “Nobody is more intolerant of differing opinions than the gay community.”
I want to be clear: American queer Jews were barred from a Pride March because they brought a Jewish Pride flag. Not an Israeli flag. A Jewish Pride flag.
In classic One Nation fashion, Hanson has continued her crusade to ensure anyone who is remotely different doesn’t mingle with people like her. This crusade has been aided by how few people could stand to mingle with her.
“Now I’m not going to say we should segregate them… but we should definitely segregate them,” she said, spewing words from her foul mouth. “Are people with disabilities a burden? Well I’m no expert… but that’s never stopped me from implying something before!”
She then got out her check list of people to discriminate against. She ticked off “the disabled” – which was situated a few checkboxes below “Muslims”, “Gays and whatever the other letters stand for”, “Asians”, “Indigenous Australians” and then also “Muslims” written again as a reminder in case she ever relaxed her rampant islamophobia for even a second.Â
“Note to self: Do Muslims catch autism? How can I use this for a fear campaign?” she wrote down under her other notes “where does the sun go at night?” and “is listening to the radio halal?”
She is now taking suggestions for further marginalised groups to attack and discriminate against as she is steadily running out.
Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski (The Matrix, Sense8) has painted portraits of the 27 trans people known to be murder victims in the U.S. in 2016, for an art exhibit at Chicago’s Center on Halstead. All of the brightly-colored portraits in “Say Our Names” incorporate the colors of the trans flag and are based on photos of the victims.
She began painting them last July, she says, as “an outlet of the overwhelming emotion I was feeling in the relentless waves of mortal acts of violence against trans people.”
In a fit of fancrastination, I’ve compiled for you a linked masterlist of ALL FREE DOCTOR WHO AUDIOS on Spotify with quick notes to help you choose. You’ll need to register a login but can then start listening immediately.
Summary: Main Range 1-50, Lost Stories Season 1, Fourth Doctor S1, Eighth Doctor S1, UNIT: Dominion (essentially Seventh Doctor Adventures S1), Short Trips Vol. 1-2, Companion Chronicles S2, Destiny of the Doctor 50th anniversary anthology, stageplay adaptations, Dalek Empire S1-2, Jago & Litefoot S1-5, Benny S2-5, Iris 2-4, I, Davros, Graceless S1-3, Cyberman
95 stories. Main Range are 4×25 minute episodes with cliiffhangers; the rest are usually an hour, apart from Short Trips which are 8×15-minute short stories.
WHOOPS! List updated with Big Finish spinoff series filed under separate artists’ names for each series: (Dalek Empire, Jago & Litefoot, Bernice Summerfield, Iris Wildthyme, I  Davros, Graceless, Cyberman).
“Oh… yeah. Fair point yeah. My bad.” Shorten said in response to criticism scratching his head. “How did we not see that one earlier?”
He looked back at the ad. “Man… this really is harder than I anticipated. You put only one Asian woman in an ad and suddenly people are like “whoa, that’s not enough. What are you trying to say?” If only politicians were so scrutinised over what we said or did or spent tons of money producing to broadcast on TV…”
Liberal MP Craig Laundy was about to accuse Shorten of xenophobia before a flock of birds flew right into his mouth and stopped him from speaking as if the universe itself was not about to let the Liberal party have the moral high ground. They simply just don’t deserve that.
It was suggested that the ad was designed to target One Nation voters according to another Liberal MP,Â
Arthur Sinodinos.
“That’s mistake number one,” he said. “For starters: that’s our tactic and we do it way better than Labor.”
“The allegations of kidnapping were found to be invalid by a court! They came with me voluntarily! Sure, there was mentions of cutting fingers and we took their shoes, but they agreed to come with us in the end so it technically not kidnapping!” he said in reference to that time he, as a police officer, left 3 indigenous children stranded 12km out of town in 1994, which was only 23 years ago and so when he says “a 30 year old incident” we can only assume he’s getting confused about which of his multiple alleged kidnapping incidents he is meant to be defending himself against.
“Could be worse though,” he continued. “People could be focusing on how I mowed a swastika into my backyard and saluted it, then posted it on Facebook. I’m glad that one’s getting far less media attention.”
“But to be fair there’s just so much to choose from. The kidnapping incident, the nazi stuff, or the death threat I sent to a former employee. How can the media choose one aspect of me to focus on when I am such a complex and diverse piece of shit?”
It has become a long standing tradition for One Nation candidates to have their horrible pasts brought up to be used against them to prove their worth as controversial and despicable human beings.
Pauline Hanson has defended this selection process stating: “our voter base only wants the toughest of scum to represent them. Each candidate must prove they’re both a terrible enough person to receive massive amounts of scorn online and to be tough enough to not let it get to them. Mr Ellis unfortunately complained about the “pathetic haters” and realised the job was too hard on him and has resigned. But don’t you worry, we will continue to find the very worst of society to represent our party in the future.”
“Cadbury is no good! I personally prefer Lindt, for they don’t cave in to this PC Lefty bullshit of making halal Easter eggs. They make sure there’s pig’s blood in every single one! Just like how my mother used to make.”
She bit into one. Blood and nougat burst from the core.
“Mmmm… delicious.” She reached for a chocolate bunny and, with one swift bite, severed its head clean in two. “Oh my, this one is particularly bloody. How very Australian.”
“Have a safe Easter,” she said as blood dripped down her horrifying snarl of a smile. The red mingled with her already red sweater, creating a horrific drip pattern. “Be safe,” she repeated, softer, bloodier, as she stared deep into the camera.
“The anti-LGBT Religious Right has been actively synchronizing their message with and adopting the terminology of anti-transgender feminist academics for a few years now. The goal is to divorce their position from the stodgy backwards-seeming prudish views that they believe lost them the culture war on gay marriage and adopt a language and message that will more easily infiltrate and divide progressive circles.”
The comments of author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie caused a major outcry in the trans community, and this piece gives a lot of the history of why this is such a sensitive topic. While more intersectional and inclusive narratives of feminism are gradually becoming the norm, there is a 50+ year history (that still continues to this day) of feminists who exclude, delegitimize, and other transwomen.Â
“Novelist and poet Kai Cheng Thom observes that “male socialization, for us, is actually a coded message: “You’re not who you think you are. If you try to be anything other than what we say, you’ll be punished.””
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