Aries: Florida
Taurus: Oregon
Gemini: New York
Cancer: Georgia
Leo: California
Virgo: Nevada
Libra: Maine
Scorpio: Colorado
Sagittarius: New Mexico
Capricorn: Washington
Aquarius: Alaska
Pisces: Hawaii
Thursday, March 26, 2015
did no one ever really look at saren. Like actually look at him. They acted like he looked normal. A normal turian. “The weird tubes in his face and glowing robot eyes are nothing to suggest that he might have allied himself with a race of giant robot overlords, thats ridiculous shepard why did we even make you a spectre.”
this is one of the funniest things in the game. apparently they had a “normal” skin for saren they were going to use for all these scenes, but they either screwed it up or ran out of time and applied the endgame skin right from the start. so we get robo-saren from day one and a weird moment late in the game where we’re meant to be like WHAT HAVE YOU DONE SAREN only he looks just as ridiculous as he did through the entire game. amazing.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
When I start to get emotional I immediately think “I’m so gay” and this is because straight people actually don’t have emotions
this is false and heterophobic. straight people have a panorama of emotions including:
- outrage
- jealousy
- Situational Benevolence (aka “don’t fight hate w/ hate”)
- sports
- umami, the “Fifth Emotion”
- TGIF
that “psych drugs make you a zombie” bullshit needs to stop. people are being discouraged from seeking treatment and taking drugs that might actually help them a lot by fuck-the-system teenagers who think they’re being edgy. shut the fuck up
Antipsychotics have routinely been criticized for this side effect, especially given how many people (myself included) refuse to take their medications because they can’t withstand this side effect. The horrible side effects we go through won’t be silenced because our realities discourage others, what a horrible thing to suggest.
New medications are underway anyway specifically because of our complaints and subsequent refusal to take medications, and they aren’t expected to have this same side effect.
And no, I’m not some “edgy teenager”, I’m an adult schizophrenic woman who’s been dealing with schizophrenia for over 10 years and watched my schizophrenic father go through the exact same thing with the exact same complaints.
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
I just saw a thing where people blamed the Comics Code on SJWs
yeah the Comics Code was a real victory for people calling for more LGBT representation in comics! no, you assholes, that was YOU. Reactionary conservatives were responsible for the Comics Code, not “bleeding-heart liberal SJWs”, at least learn the most basic history of this shit if you’re gonna run your mouth about “comicsgate”.
wait like. the 1950s comics code?
what are people gonna blame “the SJWs” for next? the Hayes Code? the Magna Carta?? the Leges Langobadorum??? the Twelve Tables???? the Codex of Hammurabi?????
the SJWs have sent me down from Mount Sinai with two stone tablets bearing the names of my 10 most problematic faves
the first step towards confidence is not being afraid to be ugly
once you get over the fear of being unattractive and stop equating beauty with other good things in life (friends, love, happiness) it’s a lot easier to love yourself unconditionally
your job is not to sit around and be pretty and easy on everyone else’s eyes
your job is to do whatever the fuck you want and look however the fuck you want while doing it
Monday, March 23, 2015
ppl who think that saying “I love you” to someone a lot makes it lose it’s meaning are so boring literally what could make you think that? if someone tells you they love you like 3 times in an hour it means that 3 separate times they were sitting there and thinking about you and how wonderful you are like. smh. say I love you to everyone that you love as often as possible bc sometimes it’s easy to forget that there are people who love you
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19 powerful photos shatter stereotypes of Middle Eastern teenage girls
how does this shatter stereotypes? Because they’re all white?
you can’t not see them as stereotypes if they’re brown? they need to be whitewashed to deserve your empathy and respect??Pretty sure at least two of those girls were very clearly not white (second to last and the girl wearing the hijab), which is kinda irrelevant anyway cause a lot of middle easterners are paler and potentially “white passing”
Also if you click the link the photographer, Rania Matar a Lebanese woman, said the point of the photos was to show that, if you didn’t see the captions, you’d think these girls could be from anywhere in the world, that they looked like typical American teenagers. She says the point she was striving for is that these girls are just like any other girls in the world, to break the stereotypes Western society pushes on them as burka clad helpless victims.
Middle eastern girls having to be visibly brown is a stereotype is it not
Just fyi the girls in the pictures that are in the united states are for the most part NOT “middle eastern” (which, excuse me, what the fuck? since when is middle eastern an identity?) she took pictures of American teenagers (mostly blonde white girls) and then took pictures of girls in lebanon and some pictures are from bethlehem and some are from palestinian refugee camps.
This article is disingenuous as fuck “you can’t tell if a picture is taken in america or not” if you go to her portfolio you can immediately tell when a picture was taken in a refugee camp. I want to point out a couple of things: 1) the majority of the girls in hijab from her two portfolios are Palestinian, 2) the majority of the darker-skinned arab girls are also Palestinian. Just because “a lot of middle easterners are paler and potentially white-passing” doesn’t mean it’s okay whitewash and pretend that we’re majority pale and majority white passing. Even in the Levant, I am pretty sure most people are dark-skinned, some Arabs are even black, pale people just get the most exposure in the media.
And what the fuck is wrong with you people that we can’t be seen as “normal” teenage girls unless we live in environments that look like they could be white suburban home in America. What the fuck is wrong with you people that you can’t see someone as normal unless they “look” just like you??? Are girls unworthy of being seen as human if they actually do wear a burqa? or a niqab? or hijab? or even if they don’t wear any of those things, but still can’t wear shorts or put up posters because their parents don’t let them? Do we have to give up our culture and identities and religion in favor of this globalized “unstereotyped” (read: American passing, I’m coining this term today) person we need to be so we can be seen as human?
Sunday, March 22, 2015
You loved me. And your lies had their own probity.
There was a truth in every falsehood.
Your love went far beyond any possible
boundary as no one else’s could.
Your love seemed to last even longer
than time itself. Now you wave your hand—
and suddenly your love for me is over!
That is the truth in five words.— Marina Tsvetaeva,“You loved me,” Selected Poems (Penguin Classics, 1994)
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Friday, March 20, 2015
If Hillary Clinton wins two terms as president, 16-year-olds in 2024 will have never had a white male president.
But they’ll still have had a war-mongering, imperialist, long-time member of the ruling class as president, so it’s okay. Middle Eastern and African children will still be blown up. Humans will still be secretly tortured. Fear not!
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Dear young, wonderful lesbians,
Do not feel ashamed of your sexuality. I point out monosexism, but people are always learning. There is nothing wrong with you. There are plenty of wonderful lesbians concerned about monosexism. I’ve met some in real life myself. If you are concerned about whether you are monosexist, it’s a good sign. If you’re concerned and aware of it, you’ll be less likely to be monosexist. Please remember though, you are young and vulnerable. Protect yourselves, do not be fooled by lesbophobic people, even other minorities. Your mental health is important. If you think someone is being lesbophobic, call it out if you want, but protect yourself and remove yourself from the situation. You have my love and support. It broke my heart to see that ask earlier, hearing one of you is ashamed. Do not be. Be proud, love yourself, and keep yourself safe. You are important. I don’t have many lesbian followers, so I ask the rest of them to reblog or make similar posts. Girls like my last anon need reassurance. THIS is why we can’t treat the word monosexual as an insult. Do not use it that way. Do not say they are weird. Just don’t. Discussions about intracommunity issues are important, but we still must support one another.Dear young, wonderful lesbians,
The name itself implies a form of oppression where “monosexuality” is upheld through biphobia. This is false. Gay and straight people do not make up a meaningful category when it comes to the marginalization of bpq people. The exclusivity of lesbian attraction is not upheld at the expense of bpq people the way heterosexuality is upheld at the expense of all of our sexualities. In fact, it is precisely the exclusivity of lesbian attraction that is often attacked through homophobia/lesbophobia.
There has been antagonism toward bi people from the gay community. This occurs for a number of reasons: prejudices and misconceptions about bi sexuality, suspicion and fear exasperated by living in a heterosexist society, negative experiences of homophobia with individual bi people, etc. The driving factors behind these conflicts are generally not the same as what leads straight society to marginalize bi and gay people, even though they can be just as hurtful to bi people.
It’s wonderful that you are concerned about biphobia among lesbians! As a bi woman, I appreciate that you are looking for ways to be more understanding and supportive to bi girls & women. However, you do not have to accept a theory that doesn’t sit well with you, and makes you question your experiences with lesbophobia or the pride you take in your lesbian identity.
You do not have to submit to having your sexuality relabeled in a way that puts you in a category with straight people. This is not necessary for supporting bpq people.
You may encounter people like the OP, who tell you that they support you and aren’t trying to make you feel bad about yourself, so therefore their use of “monosexual” is acceptable. It’s not. It’s not intention that makes something microaggressive; it’s how certain actions fit into a macro-aggressive context (that is, a context of heterosexism and homophobia). The fact that people are promoting monosexism theory as neutral, academic, or objective (“monosexual just means you like one gender!”) does not make it less homophobic.
You do not have to be ashamed of being a lesbian. You do not carry some communal guilt for the negative experiences bi people have had in gay and LGBT communities. I hope you find a wonderful community of lesbians and bpq women, where you all can support and validate each other, and listen to the ways we may be hurting each other.
This includes listening to your feelings about “monosexual” and a theory that says the exclusivity of your same-gender attraction grants you greater social acceptability along with straight people.
If your feelings about this are consistently dismissed, you might not be in a community where you are truly respected.
Signed,
A bi woman who is 100% against monosexism as a theory
I love the word “fuckboy”. After so many years of constantly hearing “slut”, “skank”, and “whore” mainly used as insults against women, it’s great to have one specialized for men. It’s great that we’re coming together to call out annoying, perverted, irrelevant men by calling them “fuckboys”. I love it. More, please.
fuckboy is aave not some stupid ass feminist comeback god ur all cornballs for this
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
life during the alpha male uprising
me, a lone beta wandering the desolate wasteland: *spots a beta safe haven and rushes towards it*
adult man in fakku t shirt at the entrance: halt! are you alpha, beta………or a woman? *beta guards behind him downturn their eyes and grit their teeth in anger*
me: *extracts bottle of my own piss from my bag* a beta
adult man in fakku t shirt: *hoverhands his arms around me* my brother……welcome, we may not be plenty in number, but abundance in broship and feels
the signs as encouraging words from my father
Aries:
Taurus:
Gemini:
Cancer:
Leo:
Virgo:
Libra:
Scorpio:
Sagittarius:
Capricorn:
Aquarius:
Pisces:
Taurus:
Gemini:
Cancer:
Leo:
Virgo:
Libra:
Scorpio:
Sagittarius:
Capricorn:
Aquarius:
Pisces:
Hailing from Pakistan, Shafqat Hussain was 14 when he was tortured into confession by the Pakistani State working in coalition with USA’s brutal War on Terror. He will be hanged tomorrow - March 19. He was tortured and raped while being prisoned. Please take a moment to sign this letter addressing the Pakistani Federal Minister for Interior, Chaudhry Nisar, to halt his execution. Your support could save his life.
UPDATE: Last-minute stay of execution issued for Pakistani sentenced to death aged 14.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
khajos replied to your post: give me a topic to write about
grocery shopping
it’s wild how american grocery stores, department stores, and so on create an illusion of infinity
always shifting items to the very front; always keeping a ton of stock on hand, pyramid displays; purposefully rearranging items in a not-quite-common-sense way so you have to wander around
i heard a story from a teacher about visiting a soviet region and being shocked that they didn’t have unlimited supply of everything
but the very concept of “unlimited supply” — as well as the concepts of “the customer is always right,” “always keep things stocked,” “if you have time to lean you have time to clean,” and so on — is pretty bizarre
If there are wealthy people who want to help the dispossessed or join in the revolution they can start by giving up all of their wealth that is extra. Create a community land trust and take some land off the market and give it to working class folks.
I’m tired of seeing billionaires “concerned” over inequality but not doing anything about it other than using it as a way to promote themselves as humanitarian. Why not buy up some apartment buildings and get the homeless a place to live?
What do you need that mansion, that fifth car, that private jet, that personal fitness trainer for?
There’s kids without shoes and books and you have heated garages for your 10 cars.
Stop congratulating celebrities and capitalists for giving speeches or handing out peanuts and expecting to be praised. If they truly cared they’d take their assets and hand them over to the dispossessed and join the struggle.
This is the New Middle East
The fact that these Arabs just decided to do a photo-op at a laborer’s accommodation compound, while using those same laborers as props to add to the picture’s “edgy undertone”, disgusts me. The fact that there are those who see nothing wrong with turning people who are already stripped of their humanity in the eyes of their employers into props speaks volumes on Arabs’ lack of awareness of our privilege in Arab countries as well as the ignorance this “New Middle East” is characteristic of.
Stay away from horoscopes.
I’m seeing some Muslims reblog their horoscopes on here and they claim they do not believe in them, so it’s ok.
Even if you don’t believe in it, your prayer won’t be accepted for fourty days for having associated with it to begin with.
● [صحيح مسلم ٢٢٣٠]
If you actually believe in the horoscope, you have left the fold of Islām and have become a disbeliever.
● [صحيح الجامع ٥٩٤٢]
The Prophet ﷺ said: “Whoever learns about astrology has learned a branch of witchcraft.”
● [سنن أبي داود]
May Allāh protect us from this filth.
whats your sign? find your birth chart here http://astro.cafeastrology.com/cgi-bin/astro/natal
Someone stop Liban!
The signs and their sleeping hours
9-12+ hours: Taurus, Pisces, Leo
5-8 hours: Scorpio, Capricorn, Libra
1-4 hours: Virgo, Aquarius, Gemini
All nighters: Sagittarius, Aries, Cancer
This means the police have literally created a group of captive people. They can pick them off at will to incarcerate and thereby create make them into criminals-the only people allowed to be legally enslaved in this country. Ferguson is a captive and enslaved population and it’s all supposedly legal.
Yeah, it’s official: Ferguson = a police state.
Sunday, March 15, 2015
me: *sees bae on tumblr*
me: *looks @ phone and sees my text has gone unanswered*
me: “If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” - Maya Angelou
me: *sees that bae finally texts back*
me: “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” - Maya Angelou
Saturday, March 14, 2015
Friday, March 13, 2015
hey so people who know me or have seen me post about it know that i have an autoimmune condition. i don’t like talking about it because i don’t want to concern people with my problems that they ultimately have no control over and it’s also a way for me to pretend everything’s fine. but lately i’ve really been trying to get to the root of the problem. the disorder i have is called mastocytosis. the symptoms include chronic fatigue, hives in response to foods in addition to breaking out into hives every time i physically exert myself (almost as if i am allergic to my own sweat), constant joint and muscle pain, and general inflammation. i won’t go into too much detail, but it is apparent that this disorder interferes with every aspect of my life. another issue, however, comes to the cost of my treatment. my current health insurance does not cover all of the cost for the care that i need in order to come closer to relief of my symptoms (since there really is no “cure”). i have little other choice than to crowd-source for my funding.
i really hate asking for money, so please only consider doing this if you’re in a position where you can. i’m asking because i can’t afford this crucial treatment for my autoimmune disorder while also paying my bills and feeding myself. i appreciate every cent, truly. and if you feel comfortable, it would be nice if i got a message from people who donate so i can thank you all individually (obviously you don’t have to do this!).
i have a donate button on my blog and my paypal email is rowen.martinez@yahoo.com. thank you everyone for any reblogs and donations, etc. and i hope to return the favor.
Seeking - Nonsexual Meeting With A Woman Who Will Mother Me But Is Empowered Enough To Lock Me In A Closet While Insulting Me When I Misbehave
must be ages 18-24 and dress like Mikuru-chan from the Haruhi series(but without shoes. non barefeet will not be allowed entry into my domain.). also must answer to Tsundere-chan and address me as ‘endearing beard-kun’. during the time we spend together you are free to have anything you want in the fridge except for my craft beer.
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Had the absolute privilege of presenting a brand spanking new 3D-printed bionic Iron Man arm to Alex, the most dapper 7-year-old I’ve ever met.
Special thanks to Albert Manero, OneNote, and #CollectiveProject for their work making artificial limbs like this more affordable for families with kids who want to show the playground how badass they are. Check out http://www.facebook.com/LimbitlessSolutions to learn more about this incredible project. #goodcause
I hate when people get asked “star trek or star wars?” and they cop out and say “you can’t compare the two”. you absolutely can. we’re comparing them right now and star trek has won
This is the worst post I’ve ever seen on my dash. Reblogging this is an automatic unfollow.
didn’t you just reblog this like right now
As a PSA.
I’m often asked the same question, ‘what in your work comes from your own culture?’ As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable.
Mona Hatoum in a 1998 interview with artist Janine Antoni (via noorthwest)
visibility of an oppressed group is not inherently a “privilege.” visibility can mean hypersexualization, objectification, commodification, stereotyping, abuse, violence. a group being more “visible” does not mean that it has an advantage or any kind of oppressive power whatsoever over a less visible or “invisible” group. using statistics of representation in media as evidence of relative privilege and disprivilege within marginalized groups is pointless and reductive.
and thank you to the Black women theorists whose work on hypervisibility has helped me to reach this understanding
Thursday, March 12, 2015
i’ve read 87 feudal lord posts in the last 20 minutes
there is no partial memery under late capitalism. thanks to the profit motive in social media, each successive meme requires greater meme-market saturation due to falling reblog rates and fiercer shitpost competition. this will ultimately lead to complete systememeic collapse and the redistribution of the memes of production
i’m already half in the grave and i can hear distant moaning from bethlehem
“In prioritizing the company of other brown girls, I am no longer valuing inquiring minds. They come second, if that. I am no longer caught mid argument with a ball of tears in my throat, reasoning against a movie’s negligence or elucidating why what that famous person said is racist. It’s an everyday nuisance. So terribly wearing. Thing is, those tears originate from the fluctuating rhythms of hopelessness and frustration — the cavity created from years of feeling outnumbered (my whole life, most of my friends have been white) and wondering if it would ever become possible to incorporate myself while preserving — scratch that, celebrating — my identity. Advocating for myself in a room of brown women who grasp that what exasperates me has metastasized into what ails me, that over time has encouraged self-omittence, is less about advocating and more about taking pleasure in the company of silent nods. Of clapping in agreement because it comes so naturally and expels the limitations of the unsaid. Our dumb-happy smiles overcome us because relating feels closest to co-conspiring. To shining bright….My choices aren’t up for debate. You did not discover me. You cannot collect me. I will not be governed by some fabricated sense of anticipation, some counterfeit hope that someone will soon stumble upon my work. Because here’s what I know: I was never voiceless. As Arundhati Roy once said, “There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”
Teachers spoke to brown girls differently. Carpool parents confided in us, volunteering commentary about my mother and father’s parenting decisions. For brown girls, to act our age felt like a breach of contract. We were born dutiful in the eyes of authority whereas white women are afforded a prolonged adolescence. Lest we forget: Williams is only 25 years old. For brown girls, obligation to everyone else has regularly outdone autonomy.”
Childhood boredom is a special kind of boredom. It is a boredom full of dreams, a sort of projection into another place, into another reality. In adulthood boredom is made of repetition, it is the continuation of something from which we are no longer expecting any surprise.
Wisdom from Italo Calvino's Paris Review Interview, completed shortly before his death. Complement with Kierkegaard on boredom, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on why the capacity for boredom is essential for a full life, and Susan Sontag on its creative purpose.
Couple with Calvino on digression as a hedge against death and his love-hate relationship with distraction and procrastination.
(via explore-blog)
This reminded me a lot of vulturechow.
(via against-machismo)
thank you. I definitely see this in the kids and remember it in my own childhood
(via vulturechow)
average lesbian relationship
Oppressive butch: Handmaiden, fetch me my scrolls
Helpless femme: At once, my Lord
Helpless femme: At once, my Lord
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
lmfao bpd has left me so jaded, so paranoid that i can literally misread someone’s tone and like, think that they’re being a piece of shit to me even when their kindness is genuine, I literally think that ppl who are speaking calmly to me are secretly angry at me for something or that they hate me, or that they’re bored with me and I take offense to it so much
For me, the most important news today was seeing South Asian migrant workers - modern day slaves under Gulf exploitation - taking to the streets to protest unpaid wages and related abuse in Dubai. Naturally, there is discussion on South Asian migration to the Gulf States, capitalism and bonded labor. For this purpose, I suggest you all read Junaid Rana on the rich history of South Asian protest and radicalism along with trade unionism that isn’t just taking place in Dubai only but also in New York City. Here it is:
That Fire in Their Eyes: Towards a Diasporic History of South Asian Protest.
I mean this, genuinely, don’t you guys ever get worried about being in a space (Tumblr) that is so directed towards supporting nearly anything that someone else chooses to do (as long as it conforms to liberal notions of freedom and choice) and not worry about encouraging someone into doing something wrong? Does that not cross your minds when you create this space of affirmation that unfortunately does not feature critique?
Monday, March 9, 2015
rich ppl be so lit about scholarships if u got an iPhone. they be thinking that trading in ur iPhone will automatically substitute ur tuition, bills, wage gap, give u a familial safety net that will help u with emergencies so u don’t have to go into debt and pay for u to have food and also insurance. why y’all talk like that? “you don’t need a scholarship,u have an iPhone. you’re not poor”
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THE STORY BEHIND THE “GOOD NIGHT WHITE PRIDE” IMAGE:
May 9, 1998: The KKK, decide to hold a rally in Ann Arbor, MIchigan despite having their asses handed to them their two years earlier. The Ann Arbor city council obliges them, spending $137,000 of taxpayer money to accommodate their hatefest in the middle of town.
Anti-Racist Action, the Revolutionary Workers’ League, and the National Women’s Rights Organizing Committee all mobilize to confront the KKKlowns.
This photo of an Ann Arbor anti-racist showing a racist scumbag some Michigan hospitality is legendary and is where the Good Night White Pride logo comes from.
In all, five people were injured during the ruckus before the Klan were shut down and run out of town. In the weeks that followed, Ann Arbor city officials and police launched an unprecedented manhunt to arrest 39 anti-racists for the crime of opposing a racist terrorist organizing operating publicly in their community. In the end, twenty anti-racists faced charges; sixteen of them had their charges dropped and just one was convicted, for allegedly throwing a rock that hit a cop.
The lessons of Ann Arbor on May 9, 1998 have repeated themselves in the years since: people standing together can take their streets back from racist scum; city officials and police are happy to spend tax dollars protecting racists and persecuting anti-racists; and most importantly, fighting hate is not a crime!
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Brilliant infographic on water consumption for Palestinians vs. setters. theimeu:
In the West Bank, Israel severely restricts Palestinian access to water by diverting water sources from Palestinian communities to Israeli settlements and plantations. Palestinians are also forbidden from digging wells without permits, which are rarely granted. Furthermore, pumping from permitted wells is limited to shallow water, resulting in higher rates of contamination.
In Gaza, up to 95% of water is estimated to be unfit for human consumption. Israel destroyed many plants and water utilities during Operation Cast Lead and water from Gaza’s aquifer is saline due to over-abstraction and polluted due to sewage infiltration.
Jewish women in particular were instrumental in forming some of the first women’s unions and getting women workers mobilized
My personal favorite example of this is The International Ladies Garment Workers Union, which was one of the largest unions of its time and the first to have primarily female membership.
The ILGWU was founded and run predominantly by politically radical Jewish women who immigrated from Eastern Europe, they organized two hugely successful strikes including, “the uprising of 20,000”in 1909, and, “the great revolt” in 1910, both of which were massive successes for the rights of working women. In 1911 the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (which resulted in the deaths of 148 workers, most of whom were young Jewish women) caused the ILGWU to really radicalize their politics and women like Rose Schneider and Pauline Newman to join the New York Women’s Trade Union League, the International Congress Of Working Women, the first ever International Labor Organization Convention, and eventually co-found the American Civil Liberties Union. Schneiderman in particular was cool as shit and appointed to President Roosevelt’s Brain Trust and an active campaigner for women’s suffrage.
Basically Jewish women did more for your 8 hour work day, fair labor laws, and right to organize than any man ever has.
You know what feels disingenuous? The fact that we (non-Black PoC) suddenly decided to organize selfie days, like, right now. Right after BlackOut. In the midst of BlackOut, even.
Whenever Black people organize, we feel the need to co-opt that movement, or create a spinoff that’s entirely dependent upon it (like slapping our identifiers over theirs ala YellowOut).
We’ve had trouble organizing ourselves over the last few decades. Some of that might have to do with safety, or lack of access to resources or networking opportunities (speaking from my own experiences, I know a lot of my undocumented latinxs comrades *have* to remain underground, especially when it comes to wide scale public protests). But that still doesn’t give us the right to blatantly reappropriate movements created by and for Black people.
And we don’t know where to draw the line between appropriation and inspiration. The creators of Blackout have even said that if their event inspired non-Black people of color to host similar events for themselves, then good. Go do it. But instead of being inspired and supporting and further empowering Black people, what did we do? We complained that they were doing it in the first place. We organized our selfie days // YellowOut, BrownOut, etc, out of spite. Out of an attitude of “We can do this too!! It’s not all about Black people!!” And wanting to redivert attention. And these events were intentionally organized to be in conflict with BlackOut.
So all these spinoff movements that just so happen to be scheduled for today? Tomorrow? This week? The motivation is transparent. We’re not doing the organizing that Black people did for BlackOut day (which was in the works for quite some time). We’re not making viable, standalone events. We are profiting off of and relying on all the organizing done by Black people already. We expect these events to come together because they depend upon another movement that Black people put so much time and effort into.
Enough. We can’t do this. If we can ever be genuine about organizing a similar movement for ourselves, the time CANNOT be now. Recognize how meaningful BlackOut is to Black people. Support them.
This 10000 times over. The reaction to the #BlackOut is the blatant anti-blackness in the other POC communities.
Y’all demand Black folks be your attack dogs and then when we want something for ourselves, you gaslight us, tell us how selfish we are and try to take attention away from us.
Our shit was a comprehensive, inclusive ass moment. We had the whole damn spectrum out here. We did what y’all love to tell us to do: “make your own”
Y’all ain’t making ya own shit unless we do the work and you profit from it.
For structures that have no entry steps, ConvertaStep also makes ramps of three sizes that come in a manual as well as automatic version.
(via ConvertaStep | Wheelchair Accessibility | Ramps | Convertastep - Freedom In Mobility)
This welcome mat converts into a fully accessible wheelchair ramp. Beautiful and functional design. I want it.
Some more info, for people who are interested.
First of all, I can’t believe this has almost 3,000 notes. I’m so glad that people are sharing this - both as a cool design, and also as an important accessibility feature.
Thanks to pseudosoph for linking to additional info (above) regarding weight limits, lift height, and product background — the creator is a wheelchair user himself! Very cool stuff. Keep sharing!
It’s International Women’s Day and many disabled women are unable to access the health care we desperately need. We have difficulty getting our needs met across the board, but especially in reproductive care. Here are some things I thought about during my most recent gynecological appointment (pictured!):
- 80% of women with disabilities have been sexually assaulted.
- Over 30 states in America have involuntarily sterilized people with disabilities. More info
- That women with disabilities are still being involuntarily sterilized
- The way we get pushed around in Pro-Choice discussion.
- I am sexual; I have sex, I need sex, I need sexual health care.
- There are invisible illnesses that affect the reproductive system and it’s difficult to get care for them
We’re overdue for this care. Drop a note to your local representatives /senators and send something to Planned Parenthood too, if you can.
In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.
Robert Brault
(via belatedsoul)
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You said white people can't suffer racism, but what about when someone picks on someone for being white? And don't tell me they can't because I've been jumped before at the age of 14 just because I cut in line at lunch one day. Im 22 now, but racism literally affects everyone of all colors. And if you say that one group of people are inevitable to racism that pure ignorance. Racism flows back and forth.
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