Very hot take: While people aren't wrong to complain about queer aesthetics being appropriated, I think it's arguably more important that non-queer public figures engage with them, in that it provides a cover for non-out folks to express themselves without as much of a risk for exposure.

This especially applies to things like gender-bending fashion.

October 26th is Intersex Awareness Day. https://intersexday.org/en/

Here is a good talk by an intersex person on childhood intersex gender assignment surgeries, which are almost never medically needed, and often very harmful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A1rO3eDVM8

Here is another good video on the subject, by someone who had IGM performed on them as an infant, before they could consent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yHAYOvTdMI Being born intersex is about as common as being born a redhead.

"We need society, the medical field, and intersex communities themselves to acknowledge that nature provides humanity with a wide range of forms, so that all of our bodies can be recognized as valid. Unless there is an actual rare functional problem, our bodies should not be altered in infancy, and only those functional problems should be addressed. Our genitals should be altered only if we ourselves request it, to make ourselves comfortable in our own skin, not to make society comfortable by our medical erasure. Society must come again to embrace the diversity that is nature's gift to us." - https://intersexroadshow.blogspot.com/2011/04/intersex-genitalia-illustrated-and.html

All children deserve to be protected from genital cutting without consent, no matter what genitals they are born with. Autonomy over your own body is a human right.

New: The Holocaust Museum of LA offered Kanye West a private tour, hoping it would change his views. West turned their invitation down, and said “Planned Parenthood" was his “Holocaust museum.” Now, the LA Holocaust museum is being flooded with antisemitic messages and threats.
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/holocaust-museum-of-la-flooded-with-antisemitic-messages-after-offering-kanye-west-a-private-tour/

The fundamental flaw with online discourse is that the most prominent voices are nearly always the most detached from reality

BREAKING: Lula wins Brazil's presidential election, defeating Bolsonaro

BASED ALERT

So, I know a lot of you have poor opinions on voting, and for understandable reasons, but it's the time of the year where I have to emphasize that voting for county, city, and state level positions and policy changes DOES have an impact. It's also worth mentioning that there isn't intense voter suppression for no reason. Conservatives aren't stupid. They know EXACTLY what they're doing.

Such an example I just came across is from the Vice article "Tens of Thousands of Trans People Could Be Barred From Voting Against Anti-Trans Politicians"

The numbers show that trans votes have the potential to swing tight races. According to the UCLA study, President Joe Biden won by 11,779 votes in Georgia, a state where there are an estimated 17,200 eligible trans voters. The study also noted that the 2000 presidential election was decided in Florida by a few hundred votes—and there are as many as 30,300 eligible trans voters in Florida who don’t have accurate IDs.

“This isn’t a small group you can dismiss,” O’Neill said.

With less than two weeks until the midterms, there remains a series of barriers that make it hard for trans folks to cast their ballots, including issues with updating IDs, strict voter ID laws in some states, and incidents of anti-trans harassment and intimidation at the polls that could deter them from voting. This, at a time when they’re being directly targeted by conservative policymakers across the country.

States with the strictest policies, including Tennessee and Georgia, require voters to present photo identification, with few or no alternative ways to verify their identity. Both states are known for anti-trans hostility.

Voting is literally the least you can do, and part of the activism that needs doing is combatting voter suppression. Again, conservatives would not divert so many resources towards propaganda and voter suppression if there wasn't a point, and they have obviously used this as a method of control for a long fucking time. Puffing up and proudly announcing how useless you think voting is and that you consider it to be compromising your morals does not do anything. Vote and engage in direct action, even if that direct action means working towards fighting voter suppression.