History, Nancy Drew, fashion, intersectional feminism, and endless hate for colonialism. Presented by Anna, your bitter biracial queen.
Living in the UK now, but still the reigning Queen of Davis, California.
Incredibly fucking crucial information for Americans where period tracking digitally is concerned: DELETE YOUR DATA, DELETE YOUR ACCOUNT AND DELETE YOUR APPS
Why have we all unanimously forgiven Big Island Mike. Like he tried to kill us????? I don’t ??!??? What???????
He tried to take out a capitalist corporation of questionable ethics run by a man who is clearly abusive to his staff. Big Island Michael is a hero.
Fair enough all is forgiven then
Down with big business
Up with Big Island Mike
Frankly i don’t understand the complaints about his business structure when it really is a microcosm of cultural appropriation. I don’t think the staff were aiming for that, but, the whole make something from your culture and have someone take it from you and sell it for higher costs, giving you little to nothing in return, is a pretty good example of just one of the atrocities white settlers did (and continue to do) to Indigenous peoples. I mean come on, there’s a very small, specific demographic that can afford long vacations to Hawaii. That’s why it annoys me always that the Mapus ended up being the bad guys. We all know the real bad guys were the Hili Hili and the guy who hired the hardy boys
and here I thought y’all were just mindlessly thirsting for Big Daddy Mike bc of his guzzling-shave-ice face
my bad, still won’t sit on that face but I dig anticolonial critiques of the media I consume
I would ask everyone in the notes making “Just get married” jokes to pay attention to the fact that the person who tweeted this has a wheelchair emoji in their name and remember the fact that people on social security disability payments lose all their benefits the instant they get married.
A rule like this will fully back disabled people on SSI into an ultimatum of stay single and get evicted or marry and become unable to pay the rent anyway.
This is such a great point. We all need to be mindful of how a lot of these laws are used for ableism. There are so many things we do that we don’t know we’re doing that was put in place to actively harm the disabled community. Like the way a lot of jobs require you to be able to lift 50 pounds even though it has nothing to do with the job.
Katherine Applegate tweeted this letter yesterday in response to the absolute bullshit going down in the Texas and her intent on missing the TLA conference (click the link for transcript in tweet form).
HOLY SHIT, I DIDN’T THINK WE’D EVER SEE A RESOLUTION TO THAT
THIS IS MONUMENTAL!!
I don’t think people realize what incredible news this is. One of the largest and most powerful unionized industries in America just gained a frankly enormous amount of money and financial freedom.
I don’t really know how to bridge this cognitive disconnect but please try to understand that what happens inside prisons is not separate from what happens outside prisons. The prison is part of the organism that is the country and the larger organism that is the world. What happens inside the prison defines us. Even if you never look at it, if you never go to prison and never visit a prison and never read a single article about something that happened in a prison, you are still defined by what, through passivity, you have allowed to happen to other people inside of prisons.
COVID-19 could not be a more perfect illustration of this basic reality: the inside of the prison and the outside of the prison are the same. When this wave of death sweeps through the prisons it will sweep through the rest of the country too, because the two were never separate. The mainstream news will continue to ignore the growing surge of sickness and death as long as it stays inside the prisons, and then the headlines will blare all caps and astonished when the “second wave” hits the rest of the country, even though every anti-prison activist was screaming in February that this was going to happen. When it happens, remember that COVID-19 is not an exception; it is a searing illustration of the rule. The prison is not a faraway thing. The prison is right here, and it is you, and it is me, and it needs to be torn down yesterday if any of us want to have a future that is not built out of chains.
This post is made in the context of the United States but it is true of any country that has prisons.
This post is maybe a year and a half old and this happened. The omission of the US’s vast incarcerated population from almost every analysis I have seen of the US’s high numbers continues to boggle my mind. The fierce determination of the US media and government to ignore any critical inquiry into the effect of the prison system on our lives will never cease to astonish me. But contagious illnesses spread in crowded unhygienic congregate conditions, and then they spread from those places. You can’t control an epidemic while you have 2.3 million people in prison. This will remain true in the face of a media blackout; it will remain true even if history forgets it. When the government turned its back on the people in prisons it turned its back on all of us.
This isnt a joke my favorite piece of writing advice that I’ve ever seen is someone that said if you were stuck with a fic and couldn’t figure out why or what was wrong, your problem is actually usually about ten sentences back. Maybe there was something wonky about the tone or the dialogue or you added something that didn’t fit but it’s usually ten sentences back. And every single time I get stuck in a fic I count back ten sentences and it’s always fucking there
If you write yourself into a corner, back out of the corner.
I’m going to keep on saying this until it sinks in:
1) For most antivaxxers, being anti-vaccine is just another part of their conservative political identity. It’s another proud way of saying, “fuck you!” to everyone else. It’s no different from Republicans and/or Libertarians being pro-gun, pro-Trump, pro-BlueLivesMatter, pro-AllLivesMatter, anti-abortion, and being casually racist. It’s just another checkbox for them to show loyalty to white supremacy. A Venn diagram of these groups would almost be a perfect circle. It’s no coincidence that there is such a large overlap in these particular groups.
2) Comparing vaccine and mask mandates to the Holocaust is antisemitic.Elon Musk IS antisemitic.
3) Calling vaccine and mask mandates “eugenics” is racist. Elon muskIS racist.
If you use these kind of comparisons, please understand that you are unwittingly using the same gaslighting, go-to “arguments” of racists and antisemites.
And lastly, antivaxxers are not some negligently small or irrelevant group. Every time you see a “Freedom trucker” with a confederate flag, or a swastika, or a red MAGA hat, let that be a reminder that these racists are exercising political power, and they are wielding that power in furtherance of white nationalism.
You can and should be critical of how poorly the government has handled the pandemic, but antivaxxers aren’t helping make things any better. They aren’t innocent victims. They don’t get a pass.
