Okay, putting a flower crown on serial killers harms absolutely nobody. When was the last time someone was actually injured by a serial killer, the 50s? Sorry if you think this is a trend, but putting a circlet of flowers on top of a real human being that drove a 5 inch steel knife into an innocent persons beating heart can be qualified as self expression. Learn it. PS. I play reaper in overwatch and talk like solid snake when Im on the phone. I could hack the stock market if I needed to. Bye
^this. The idea of “sex based discrimination” is at the heart of most of this. Terfs love to promote the idea that while they might not have a gender (cough cough opting out of the system that they see as enabling trans women to identify as women), they do have a sex, and that is “female”. They draw in people by talking about how gender is fake and then bolster the underlying transmisogyny that they find after gaining a foothold, avoiding accusations of transphobia with their own trans identity. This is an idea that’s already invisibly present in nonbinary spaces semi-idependent of radical feminism. A lot of them, especially generalized online communities on tumblr or twitter, heavily center around afab nonbinary people, and heavily reinforce socialization narratives where “woke” nb people discuss the intricacies of the “afab identity” as a closed phenomenon that inherently excludes trans women on the basis of their agab. We as a group (especially tme nonbinary lesbians) really need to be more vigilant about this kind of rhetoric when we’re building spaces that are supposedly safe for trans women. Otherwise all we’re doing is making empty gestures that make us feel better while alienating the women who we claim to care about.
"It took 50 days for [trump's] FDA to reverse its course on antibody tests. In May, it began requiring test developers to apply for emergency authorization and submit data to show their tests worked. It was too late, says Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi. He is investigating the FDA for not regulating the antibody tests. 'Fraudulent tests flooded the market. Hundreds and hundreds of tests taken by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people,' says the Illinois Democrat. All companies had to do to get their tests to the U.S. market was state they were self-validated. 'When you open the floodgates to virtually any product being sold by anybody, well, guess what? Shysters, scam artists, and people who are preying on unsuspecting consumers enter the fray,' says Krishnamoorthi.
"It took almost three months before the FDA started pulling tests off the market, but by then, many American municipalities had already used the tests to determine whether they could send essential workers like EMTs, policemen and firemen back to work."
remember that time that all the unova gym leaders gathered to take down team plasma with their pokemon and brycen opted for hand to hand combat instead
Y’all need to stop supporting Bad Gyal, Rosalía and these white Spaniard girls doing colonizer caricatures of Western Hemisphere Latinx culture when Black and Brown Latinx women music artists exist and don’t get the credit they deserve. You might know Kali Uchis and Becky G and other very lightskinned Latina musicians, but there are many more mujeres afrodescendientes making music today.
Bonde das Maravilhas (multiracial Brazilian) Genre: Baile funk
Princess Nokia (Puerto Rican) Genre: Hip hop, trap, punk, electro
None of these women are super obscure artists. I’m literally not even Afro-Latinx myself and these are artists that I listen to regularly who are putting out contemporary music.
Reblog this and add more Latinx women musicians that you know of!
a few days ago in eugene, oregon, a BLM group organized a children’s march to allow kids a space to protest in a family-friendly manner. one of the men leading the protest, isiah wagoner, was intentionally ran over by a subaru driven by a white man. he’s been hospitalized. the man that ran him over has not been charged. would you mind signing a petition to get justice for isiah? he’s been spearheading a lot of the protests and marches in eugene and he’s very important to the community. he only needs a few more signatures! thanks!
If you’re genuinely interested in learning more about settler colonialism and answering questions like “wait what does land back look like?” “What can I do?” and “What are the contexts informing this and why do Indigenous people reject being part of the US/Canada?” there are free syllabi online which can answer these questions (they will not answer it directly, the point is to get you to think for yourself and ask more questions that can lead you to thinking more deeply about this and how you can personally take action towards better practices of solidarity)
These are limited resources that mainly deal with North America and English-speaking countries, because that’s the context I am coming from. If you have resources from other regions and other languages, I welcome them here, or anything from your local context.
On this 4th of july i would like to boost my tribe’s bee farm!! https://iowaybeefarm.com/ is their website! They sell honey, beeswax products, giant jars of bee pollen, lip balms and lotions!
pretty much everything is really cheap (much cheaper than it should be) and you can get a whole gift basket for 35 bucks!
