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Mid-20s. Agender. Asexual. Aromantic. Agnostic atheist. White English-speaking Canadian. They/He.
‘A Californian congressmen has just introduced a law to make it illegal to keep orcas in captivity. This could change everything — but SeaWorld is already mounting a vicious campaign to defeat this congressman’s brave move. We need to tell the State of California that the public won’t accept SeaWorld’s imprisonment of orcas any longer.’
Enact the Orca Welfare and Safety Act to make it illegal to hold orcas in captivity for performance or entertainment purposes
yes, gender is complicated. yes, there are a lot of gender identities youve probably never heard of. but thats only because cis people have normalized their own gender identities so much that it makes trans and nonbinary people seem nonexistant. so stop blaming trans and nonbinary people for the confusion they never even caused because i promise, this situation is much harder for them than it is for you.
so a few days ago i sat down for dinner and my mom handed me the camera with a strange look on her face. all she said was “you need to see this” and i was like ?? okay
but then
that is my dad with a pigeon on his head.
SO OF COURSE MY REACTION WAS JUST “WHAT?! HOW??? HOW” and…
Got this as my fb cover photo now :) I’m really enamoured with it, I just love how human (and much more gender balanced) the crowd looks compared to usual crowds of baying revolutionaries you get in Socialist Realist depictions
I find it interesting how Lenin is always leaning forward in depictions of him, the dynamic angle, always making eye contact and mid-speech …. compare to later paintings featuring Stalin, where he is generally straight as a post, silent and staring out, statesmanlike, into the distance. They’re like iconographic symbols of the stage of socialism they’re supposed to represent.
terrible picture but yay I got a tattoo I’ve been wanting for a while yesterday. thank you Nayyirah Waheed for some of the lost important words in my life.
Peace :) I just saw the picture of your tattoo of my poem ‘tourist.’ I was wondering why you chose this piece/ that phrase ?
hello, basically it just describes my situation perfectly. I have been travelling through Europe alone for the last two months with another month before I go back home, before the next two years when I’ll be moving to live in toe new countries. I just feel the phrase encapsulates everything I think; have fun, see new places and when the beauty/enjoyment of the place begins to wear thin, find somewhere new. I’m just so thankful that I found your words, and the way they allow me to understand my current life philosophy in such a direct, uninhibited way.
this is my original piece, clearly addressing the ills of tourism, so, this person changing the original sentiment/essence to glorify tourism, to use my work to express their life philosophy of getting to”see new places and when the beauty/enjoyment of the place begins to wear thin, find somewhere new,” is incredibly disrespectful, smacking of white privilege, and the essence of the very colonizing thoughts/behaviors i am speaking out against in the poem.
and
it is incredibly distressing that you would change my words to fit your philosophy, and then thank me for writing ‘some of the most important words in your life.’
as a woc, i am not here to educate you. i am not here to edify and feed you. changing your life is not my purpose on this earth, not when there are black and brown people losing life/ have been losing lives everyday. if you knew about me, you would know that i write first and foremost for poc. in fact, this very poem was speaking of what happens to our lands as poc.
this whole thing is white privilege and an presumption of accessibility to me and my work that you think you have, but in fact, do not have. from choosing my poem/ this poem without any thought to who i am as a woc artist who is vocal about the integrity of her work, to changing the meaning/and picking pieces of my poem to fit your ‘life philosophy,’ to posting it under my tag with my name, it is all wrong. every part of it. so what you got tattooed on your arm is in fact not my work, but something you appropriated, a mangled version of something very painful, beautiful, and honest.
as a woc, i am not here to educate you. i am not here to edify and feed you. changing your life is not my purpose on this earth, not when there are black and brown people losing life/ have been losing lives everyday.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott eats an onion, skin and all, while touring an onion farm in Tasmania.
this is fucked
This is like something you’d see an alien trying to fit in do, like take a massive bite out of an unpeeled onion or pineapple or something and chew with pleasure.
Is the message starting to sink in to the general population?
If not, here’s a recap: Women in Canada and parts of the United
States — Kentucky, Florida, Minnesota, Texas — better get used to having
some trans men in their public washrooms and dressing rooms, thanks to
hysterical, and what many are calling transphobic, legislation proposals
put forth by a few Conservative Canadian senators and conservative
American politicians. And men in those places better get used to having
trans women in their public facilities. Read the full article here.
I remember when I first found out the truth about “Somali pirates” I got chills because of how horrific the truth was and how incredibly, creepily well the media had twisted the situation. Every single fucking article making it seem like these “pirates” were just after money or something holding innocent people hostage and I never gave it a second thought, why would I? There was no indication that people were trying to legitimately fight off disgusting imperialism that left nuclear waste in their waters, that over 300 people have died from radiation sickness, that Europeans have been stealing Somalia’s seafood because they overfished their own waters and the indigenous fisherman are starving and so these “pirates” emerged to deal with those stealing their country’s natural resources. The truth is enough to make anyone sick to their stomachs.
This is a great article about the truth about Somali pirates, in case anyone wants a source.
