Toni Morrison? Alice Walker? Zora Neale Hurston? Ralph Ellison? James Baldwin? Lorraine Hansbury? Maya Angelou? Octavia Butler? Langston Hughes? Bell Hooks? Many many many many others? Go fuck yourself you lazy, anti-intellectual asshole
[ID: Screenshot of tumblr tags that read: the ‘classics are all white people so fuck the classics. /End ID.]
i just remembered the fire nation post-conquest was canonically homophobic
which means—assuming he got rid of it along with other oppressive laws when he became fire lord—
Zuko literally said gay rights
Reporter: Firelord, you’ve repealed the laws against same sex marriages. Do you support gay rights?
Zuko: I am gay.
Reporter: HE’S DODGING THE QUESTION
i hate nerves and anxiety. oh nooo i am scared of acting like a weird bitch to remedy this i will act like a weird bitch
Reminder that micropenis jokes are inherently intersexist, and as an intersex person (this used to say woman but I feel I was simplifying my identity for the benefit of others) with a pseudo-phallus/micropenis it really fucking hurts to hear people use my body as the short hand for "crude", "uncouth", "violent", "lacking", "of poor character", and nearly any unpleasant trait imaginable.
It hurts me, it has never not hurt. Stop.
Also every single cis man with a micropenis is intersex, trans women with micropenises are intersex too, as is anyone born with a micropenis or clitoromegaly or who naturally developed one, and trans people on testosterone with micropenises hear your vitriol. You have always been punching down.
Small dick jokes aren't ok, big dick jokes are just small dick jokes in mirrored text, it's all just body shaming.
(edited 23 May 2023 to be more inclusive of a variety of experiences/bodies, original post was a personal rant that despite being untagged got popular by surprise.)
Friendly reminder that this is the preferred version of this post. There is a shorter version circulating again that doesn't accurately reflect my identity as when I wrote it I felt safer not verbalising my entire self.
happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.
Non-Natives reblogging this are great and wonderful
Please remember that "land back" does not mean "indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don't belong in big cities," nor does it mean "non-indigenous people can't be farmers."
What it DOES mean is that "non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from."
It means, "there's a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn't caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem."
It means, "non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem."
It also means that indigenous peoples should regain the right to sustain themselves on the land according to the practices they want, and they should have free reign to perform their cultural practices and protect their holy sites, as opposed to the current model where if they try to honor their dead on public lands they get violently removed.
personal observations made by a new cane user:
- you do not need to be in constant pain to own a cane.
- folding canes have a clasp or band to keep them folded. losing the band is a pain in the ass.
- you will get dirty looks
- it does not matter what age you are. you will get dirty looks.
- you have to hold it in the opposite hand as the disabled leg. this is fortunate, as I am right handed, so i hold it in my left hand to support my right leg.
- people will try to steal your cane from you.
- when standing still, I hold it in my right hand unless i need to do something right handedly. this does not work as well as i thought it would.
- being visibly physically disabled is difficult. having a mobility aid will help with pain and movement, but some people don't get them because visible disability is treated with disgust.
- if someone meets you for the first time, and you don't have your cane, then they will like you more, but they will not believe you are actually disabled.
- if someone meets you for the first time, and you have your cane, they will not treat you the same.
- the majority of other cane and mobility aid users I have met are homeless. I live close to a big city.
- People do not want to see you being disabled.
- you will not hear of the benefits of using a cane from anyone who does not use a cane.
- no one will prepare you for the world of being visibly physically disabled. however bad you think we have it is usually not from the disability at all. I can deal with pain and I can deal with an indisposed left hand.
- the hardest part of being disabled is the fact that no one will care until you make them care.
- the disabled seats on trains are a suggestion
- the disabled seats on buses are a suggestion.
- you will have a different experience with using a cane than I have had.
- your hand will become tired. you are using it as a leg.
- your cane is legally a part of your body. this will not stop some people.
- you are not your disability. but it will affect you.
- i love you
- theres always an invisible someone who has it worse. that person will not be affected or offended by your use of a cane. take the damn ibuprofen. put the folded cane in your bag. ask your friends for help. gd knows they need help sometimes too.
- you will have to learn that things will be impossible to you. you may not run as fast anymore. you may not become a skater, like you always wanted to be. you may be left behind when everyone else runs ahead.
- you deserve better.
- your cane handle gets dirty. wash it.
- some days pain is worse. some days you will feel it the moment you wake up.
- no one deserves pain. the human condition is not to suffer. we deserve better. we deserve to be loved and not tolerated. we deserve to be seen better than from the corners of eyes. we deserve to be heard better than an afterthought at a meeting.
- be quick to care for yourself. I love you.
