Eldritch Mlems

The toy and deranged look in her eyes capture her personality perfectly.

For generations, queer people have fled their rural hometowns in search of community, belonging and glamour in the big city. So the idea of any gay, non-binary or trans person choosing to work on a farm may seem counterintuitive. But according to almost a dozen queer and trans farmers, the face of farming is changing. And as a result, farming itself is being transformed, with queer growers favouring small-scale, community-supported, environmentally-sustainable practices.

Women-run to queer-run

Rake and Radish sprouted beside a pocket of small farms on Vancouver Island that’s home to a long line of queer growers. The now-inactive LGBTQ2S+ farmer group Rainbow Chard Collective made its debut in 2009 at Victoria Pride. “All the clean gays with tight bodies and corporate floats were about to get a taste of filthy, dirty working queers of all shapes and genders,” wrote Larkin Schmiedl, a founder of the collective, in This Magazine in 2014. He wore a shirt printed with “gender modified, not genetically modified” as the group trundled a wheelbarrow through the parade.

Mel Sylvestre, who now runs the farm Grounded Acres with their partner on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast, was another one of Rainbow Chard Collective’s founding members. “I came out, got my first girlfriend and started a job on the farm all at the same time,” Sylvestre says, sounding almost surprised at their luck. “I think it’s the first time I’ve said it out loud.”

Their first fateful job in B.C. was on a Vancouver Island co-op farm run by three straight women. “But there was definitely a trend of seeing women and, almost by default, queer people being attracted to small-scale, by hand, organic, ecological farming,” Sylvestre explains.

Where there are women-led farms—still a minority, but a growing phenomenon—queer-run farms seem to follow soon after. Although there are no federal statistics on LGBTQ2S+ farmers in Canada, according to the latest numbers available in the 2021 Census of Agriculture, Canada’s female farm operators make up a little more than a third of the country’s total, with B.C. commanding the highest share of this demographic. And women are more likely than men to work on small farms that report less than $50,000 in revenue. In a 2022 Globe and Mail article on celebrating pride in agriculture, a queer farmer in Vermont, U.S., explains “there’s definitely this unspoken understanding that [it’s] going to be a much more compassionate and inclusive environment when it’s women-owned.” The farmers Xtra interviewed agreed with that sentiment, crediting female farm operators for paving the way for queer, trans and non-binary workers in the industry.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/2meirl4meirl/p/564344/2meirl4irl

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42990408

CW: Contains some mentions of pornography, BDSM and child sexual abuse.

"Genevieve Gluck" is a name you're probably (or probably not) familiar with.

She is a gender critical feminist, journalist and the main founder of the independent radical feminist news outlet Reduxx. However, almost everything about her is bullshit.

"Genevieve Gluck" is not her real name. Her real name is Myra J. Pearson, a poet.

Myra is originally from Blacksburg, Virginia, but moved to South Korea several years ago to teach English at an all-women's university called Duksung Women's University. After that, she moved to and currently lives in Kyoto, Japan with her partner Mark Lentz (also known as "Henry Demos").

Mark Lentz is an analog photographer and musician who is part of the small two-person indie band "Nice Legs". He is also the head PR of the indie game studio Chuhai Labs, founded in 2020 by industry and Nintendo veteran Giles Goddard. A photo that is still up on their website shows her posing with the peace sign along with all the other members if you scroll a little.

Myra's poetry work was featured in the Boston Poetry Magazine and Chiron Review, and was a 2015 Pushcart nominee. She took the surname "Gluck" from Louise Glück, famed feminist poet and one of her inspirations. Myra claims to have delved herself into trans issues in 2015, but from archived copies of her old Twitter account, there was not a single tweet from 2017 and '18 where she talked about it. She has also made zero tweets about trans issues in her other old account, "MyraJPearson" (it was also known as "MyraJPoetry").

Before Reduxx, Myra Pearson was the founder of the now-defunct feminist art webzine Period(dot)ink, where its official Twitter account has a profile picture of a painting of a woman punching a man in a boxing match.

But, wait! I thought you were against men in women's sports? So you're telling me that it's OK to put men in women's sports as long as the women are the ones that win?

In her current identity as "Genevieve Gluck" she has multiple times defended Germaine Greer's book about youthful young men and boys as an "art history book", while ignoring that the book at one point had a cover photo of a shirtless, teenaged Björn Andrésen, who rightfully took offense to the cover and had it removed. I don't know if I can buy into that "art history book" stuff, because if a man wrote a book about like this about youthful young women and called it "The Beautiful Girl", there would be rioting in the streets.

Myra also recently tried to defend a mother who according to her son sexually abused him in the past before he killed her. While I do not condone what he did and was mortified by the way he brutalised her (strangling her to death and then raping her corpse), what if he wasn't lying? What if he was telling the truth? Would she say the same thing?

Myra is not a journalist, either. She never studied journalism in university or college, and does not have a degree in journalism.

Despite hating pornography and wanting it banned, she seems to not stop talking about it. She once said that neopronouns were utilised in BDSM porn stories on Usenet (where they supposedly come from) as a way for readers to identify with characters in them with no evidence to back these claims up.

She hates all trans people regardless of their viewpoints and views all of them as dangerous fetishists (especially MtF), including transsexualism. She has a black-and-white view that consists of "all the men dangerous, all the women vulnerable".

Disturbingly, Myra is insistent on downplaying recorded or photographed child sexual abuse by referring to it by its outdated term "child pornography", arguing that pornography is sexually abusive by default, seen from a past tweet of hers, despite having used the former wording before.

Myra is actively erasing the past and pretending it never existed. That's why a lot of her old profiles as Myra Pearson are deleted or shut down. She even took her current Twitter username "WomenReadWomen" from an account ran by Joanna Walsh called "Read_Women". She took down her other old Twitter account, "MyraJPearson", when her "WomenReadWomen" account was soaring in popularity in 2020.

Porn, along with trans issues, has rotted her brain to the point where she has become a shadow of a person.

TL;DR: Popular GC radfem and fraudulent "journalist" is a former poet who hasn't lived in the US for years and currently lives in East Asia with her partner who is a musician for a small band, photographer, and the member of an indie game studio founded by a Nintendo alumnus. Also has some questionable views on men and female creeps.

EDIT: Updated this post with sources, and removed some more inflammatory remarks. I was a bit livid at the time of first writing this.

EDIT 2: More info.

The game is Dark Heresy from Warhammer 40k.

Also I do the baby-voice at the start of the video. I literally can't turn it off. If there is an animal in touching distance it's like a switch that flips. I'm not going to apologize but I figured I'd warn you.

Also. Here are some pics of the capsule and kitty girl.

https://imgur.com/a/Fq53tHb

I attached it to the collar with a bread tie. Hopefully it stays on long enough for the owner to see it.

I'll keep y'all updated if you are curious if I hear back from the owner.

Here are my two boys. They are each other’s bffs, and i love seeing them all cuddly.

The Trump administration has stopped flying a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument. That's angering activists who see the change as a symbolic swipe at the country’s first national monument to LGBTQ+ history.