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identitty-dickruption:

identitty-dickruption:

body neutrality is NOT, “so long as you’re happy and healthy, your body is a good body”. it’s about getting rid of the idea of a “good body” at all. it’s saying that your body is A BODY, and having a body is a neutral feature of all humans. it’s saying that specific bodies shouldn’t be focussed on more than others, because all bodies are bodies

when you say “so long as you’re happy and healthy”, you’re not actually helping. because. unless you’ve put in the hard work of deconstructing what you think “happiness” and “healthiness” look like, I can guarantee “happy and healthy” is just going to loop back to ableism and fatphobia

per @chemical-x-glitch : “I am unhappy and unhealthy and I still do not deserve to be shamed for anything about my body”

YES! that is what I’m trying to say here! I am disabled and mentally ill. sometimes I’m unhappy, and I’m probably never the picture of “health”. while the phrase “so long as you’re happy and healthy” may seem like a neutral thing to say, it’s still (at its root) shaming certain kinds of bodies… the bodies that aren’t their version of happy and/or healthy

it’s also a perception thing, right? I could probably go along pretending that I’m happy and (mostly) healthy. but there are people who very much ARE happy and healthy who might be judged otherwise, because we still have a very strict view of what happiness and health look like

anyway. there should be absolutely zero barriers someone has to overcome before they earn the right to not be shamed about their body. you do not have to be happy and healthy. your body is a body, and therefore not deserving of shame!

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heedra:

heedra:

fuck “girl lunch” fuck “girl math” a woman is a hairy animal who sweats and grunts and excretes and hungers and gets wrinkly and dies eventually. you have to love that.

ppl are tagging this post with things like ‘ooh i want to meet a woman like this’ or with specific characters which kind of misses the point i was trying to make. ALL WOMEN ARE LIKE THIS. IT STANDS IN CONTRAST TO NOTHING. WRAP YOUR ARMS AROUND IT.

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weaselle:

listen. There’s a whole mentality shift that needs to happen culture wide here, from the schools to the public infrastructure to pet ownership to the justice system

The proper response to your dog doing a natural behavior you dislike (digging/barking/protecting etc) it to give them an appropriate time and place to engage in that behavior

The proper response to skateboarders damaging infrastructure is to build more and better skate parks, or build skate elements into the public infrastructure on purpose.

The proper response to homeless people sleeping on park benches is to build them houses.

you see how there’s like, a commonality at play here?

The proper response to a disruption is to address the root of the disruption directly, not somehow attack the disruption itself -

you don’t invent a muffler by swinging a bat at the engine noise, you don’t relieve your hunger by punching yourself in the stomach, you don’t resolve public unrest by sending armed men to control them and you don’t prevent homeless people using bus shelters as a roof by removing the bus shelters.

a whole ass shift in a basic mindset, i’m tellin’ you. We need it.

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veritasrose:

only-tiktoks:

Houston just started enforcing a decade-old ban on feeding the homeless. Volunteers are fighting back.

The current administration’s decision to crack down on the ordinance sent ripples...

Houston Chronicle

Texas Charity Workers Have Been Ticketed For Feeding The Homeless More Than 40 Times — For Up To $2K Each Time

Since when is helping people living on the streets a crime?

YourTango

If you want to keep up to date and help pay their fines, Food Not Bombs Houston keeps their instagram current with what is happening and how you can help!

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cannibalchicken:

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homunculus-argument:

Some people are baffled by the concept that there really are people who actually like children but don’t want any of their own. “Childfree” doesn’t automatically mean someone who simply hates children. The thing is, I do like kids, and I will absolutely not compromise on my stance that each and every child deserves to grow up in a safe, stable and supportive environment. I also know that I get aggressive if I’m constantly sleep-deprived or overstimulated. People generally don’t regard me as someone capable of violence, but if I can’t get 15 minutes of silence each day and at least 5 hours of sleep every night, I will start throwing things. And I know kids won’t let you have that. Ever.

Kids deserve to grow up feeling safe and cherished, unafraid to express themselves and without worry that they’re unwelcome or unwanted. And that’s why they should be doing that somewhere else than in my fucking house.

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aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

clockworkdragonffxiv:

aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

“LOL. You think your vote matters? ROFL and LOL.” Yes, I am aware my vote carries less and less relative power the more people I’m voting with, but unlike your glorious violent revolution, it actually exists.

The Glorious Violent Revolution fantasy is the Rapture for leftists.

#you heard me#I’m not kidding either#the whole thing and attitude towards is is remarkably similar#you think we haven’t noticed the almost lurid fascination and desire to watch the guillotine massacre away#in much the way that the “elect” would be sitting there watching the rest of us “sinners” burn in hellfire for a thousand years?#and how little thought is put into how you’re going to pull off this revolution without causing a famine?#or “what next”#look I have no love for the status quo as it is#but I’m going to look askance at any plan that considers a global famine “acceptable collateral damage”#and whose default response to everyone who doesn’t get in line with the program is Mister Guillotine#or really take into account that humans are quarrelsome as fuck#this isn’t me defending the status quo#this is me saying grow the fuck up#you’re not going to build a better world by murdering your way there and you can’t purge humanity of it’s bad habits with the headman’s axe

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melonsap:

Cheat Code #3 for accommodating disabled characters in sci-fi/fantasy:

If you want your setting to be accommodating, change the environment more than the person.

i.e.: On a worldbuilding level, if you want to portray a society that keeps disabled people in mind, then that needs to be reflected more broadly, even without your disabled character on screen. Because this means that your society was considering disabled people as part of itself when it was figuring out what’s necessary.

If your computer takes voice commands, it should also have an optional keyboard in case someone can’t speak.

If your magic school has multiple floors, it should have a teleporting rune circle for those that can’t take the ever-changing stairs.

Whenever you have a feature you’re adding, ask yourself—"If my character couldn’t use this, what would they do instead?“ And if the answer is "they’d have to wait until they could” or “they need someone else to use it for them,” then your setting isn’t accommodating. An accommodating setting always has an actionable answer to that question.

And as a bonus, if you follow through with it, oftentimes you’ll end up with a more interesting world and story overall. Spells most people can speak can be written in ancient elven instead? That means you can have a character sneak a spell into a magic-banned city by writing it on their hair ribbon, and that it’s possible that a book might be a self-generating spell on its own. Your spaceship has textured lines on the walls to let blind people navigate without guidance? Not only can you make it look artistic (different colored paints, glowing patterns), but now your engineer can make it to the warp core when the power’s out and oxygen’s finite.

Don’t limit yourself just to what’s needed in the moment. Figure out interesting alternatives to your setting’s features, and your world will automatically feel more alive.

Cheat Code 1: How to avoid eliminating disability in your setting

Cheat Code 2: What kinds of aid to use to accommodate disability

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enbygesserit:

enbygesserit:

you can’t oppression olympics your way out of how your trauma affected you.

“other people had it worse” bitch! I don’t care! just from looking at you it’s plain and obvious that you’ve had a time of it! a person can drown in six inches of water, it doesn’t matter if someone else is drowning in ten feet! you’re both still fucking drowning! show yourself a little bit of compassion before I come over there and do it for you. this is a threat

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girffi:

emi1y:

hate how any mention of being on knees is immediately assumed to be sucking dick. because maybe theyre eating pussy. did you even think about that? no you only think about yourself

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naamahdarling:

drkshdwbnch:

zsnes:

monday afternoon baby we gettin it!!!!!

if you warch all this you get to belive

This is it. This is the funniest thing I have ever seen.

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terrible-eel:

I may be too stressed to articulate this clearly but I am going to try.

While Hawai'i and Maui are trending I’m going to share this link. Its a FAQ about Hawai'i’s statehood and the situation Hawai'i is in at the moment. There are people who want to be part of the U.S in Hawai'i and there are people who don’t, but the people of Hawai'i were never, at any point, given an option to choose.

If you want to help Hawai'i and it’s people but can’t donate, spread this word. Help educate people. Make Hawai'i as the tropical paradise be replaced with the sovereign nation stolen by the u.s.

It is subtropical, meaning it is much more vulnerable to arid climates caused by climate change.

It has been systematically stripped of its native food harvesting practices and any ability to farm and self sustain. It has been systematically stripped of its previous industries. Maui used to export milk and cattle. That’s all been taken away.

The islands since the 1800s were exploited as plantations, burning sugar cane and growing pineapples which are not native, diverting the water and depleting the water table.

Lahaina burned because of these practices. Because the native people were no longer allowed to govern their lands.

We as local people know that tourism is bad because this systematic destruction has happened in living memory. Within my grandparent’s lifetimes, within my lifetime. I have watched this island crumble at the hands of mainland startups, hoping to take people on whale watching tours that cut the whales with their boats while people aren’t allowed to have a ferry between islands. People create ziplines and tours through lands that used to belong to local people for farming and cattle. Now they’re bought out for photos and hikes the local people can never afford. Hundreds of jobs have been lost in the past thirty years. Mass migrations to the mainland have been made by local people, myself included because we can no longer afford to stay on the island where we were born. Working three jobs is not enough to cover the rent because the houses are bought up by mainland people who then turn these houses into vacation rentals and charge hundreds a night. Right now these very homes are being paid for by the government so that Lahaina people have somewhere to stay and it’s costing the state millions that people in the mainland are reeping.

People ask why tourism is bad. Because there are people alive today on Maui that have watched the foreign industries destroy everything. Because people alive today know what used to be and knew how to take care of the ecosystem so that this kind of calamity didn’t happen. Lahaina was not just fertile. They had canals and waterways. Rivers that they would drive boats through to go from one part of town to another. It was more like Venice than this desert you see in pictures.

And do your own research. The information is out there. There are two Hawai'i’s. The one you see as a tourist, and the REAL one. The one we need to protect.

Let Hawaiians have their land back. Let them restore the water to the land so we can prevent further catastrophe. Tell people about REAL Hawaii.

Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions about Hawaii and the movement to re-establish independence.

The Hawaiian Kingdom

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