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JBB: An Artblog!
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was playing 20 questions on the 8 hour drive to visit my grandparents & after like 10 minutes of utterly fruitless questioning my brother suddenly asks me with such exasperation & contempt "is it some sort of petrified remains"
it was ötzi .
"Heck Yes! We're Transgendered" from Transgender Tapestry magazine (1997)
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Female sumo wrestlers. Japan, 1951
Another point for why it’s important to own your own copies of music and media, and not use streaming services, is because the copy you own can’t be taken back.
(This is also a good time to remind people that yout*be to mp3 converters still exist).
please don't tell me you guys are ripping songs one at a time for the quality and getting mp3 -_- here's what you should actually do:
1. sign up for a free deezer account 2. download python if you don't already have it 3. download deemix-pyweb for your os (r/deemix will have the link if this one breaks) 4. extract the zip, click on deemix-pyweb.exe, login in w/ your deezer arl in settings (it'll tell you how, it's very easy)
ta-da! now you can download multiple songs, albums, playlists, and entire artist catalogs at the same time! in mp3 or flac quality! all organized w/ album covers & info & everything else!
also, you can convert any spotify playlists you have to deezer ones using soundiiz, or thru deemix itself. enjoy! 🎵
third time reblogging this because its my favorite way to download most music (more niche things arent on here but most of what spotify has, you can download through this) and adding a new link, since the orig one redirects weird. o7
Trans lesbians of the 1960′s.
Armani Privé Fall 2018 Couture
bless you
Veterans stand for Standing Rock
On December 4, hundreds of veterans plan to “deploy” to Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota to join in protest against the planned Dakota Access Pipeline.
The event, Veterans Stand for Standing Rock, is a call for veterans to “assemble as a peaceful, unarmed militia” to “defend the water protectors from assault and intimidation at the hands of the militarized police force and DAPL security.“
A beautiful example of solidarity and courage! These veterans who have known the horrors of war and the sufferings of minorities understand the stakes of these historical events that are happening in Standing Rock, events that are a worldwide symbol for the legitimate defense of peoples against the oppressor. #Love it!
Amazing
currently at 2,100 veterans headed there this weekend, additional “shifts” of veterans are already filling up for upcoming missions
they’re still ~$200,000 short of their fundraising goal, please check it out and help if you’re able: https://www.gofundme.com/veterans-for-standing-rock-nodapl
Disco was killed in the US by disgruntled unstylish impotent white men rotten ass filth the lot of them. Disco deserved better.
You know what. I wonder a lot why disco died and I have never read anything about it. I kinda just assumed times change I think but of course it’s more than that. Now I’m super curious.
Okay so this is something I actually looked into and a lot of rock djs were really disgruntled that disco had taken over the air waves and there was resentment which basically bubbled over. So there was this DJ by the name of Steve Dahl a shock jock who was vicicously anti disco and he sent out a call that he was doing a show at a Chicago Sox game. He asked everyone to bring disco records, young white men who were as unjustly disgusted with the magic of disco (something mainly Black/urban and a vehicle for lgbt expression). So he invited these men to come demolish disco records and they did in droves 50000 of them came and it was horrible they ran over records, stomped on them, burned them, ran over them just acted a violent ass. R&B acts fell into funk and post disco/synth but other acts went to Europe where disco now is still big but it really ruined disco’s time at the top. Basically racism and homophobia killed disco.
Somebody mentioned this in the Off The Wall documentary that Spike Lee did. White men were unhappy that everything wasn’t about them, and the colored and gays were getting shine.
That’s why the 80s generally looks so different from the 70s. White men had to rebound hard and came with (lame ass) rock music and bands, that were very straight and very white.
It makes perfect sense when you see these 80s rockers being exposed as racists (Gene Simmons, Guns N Roses dude), because that was when they came back in droves to take over music.
Yep and disco was always reported as something primarily Black/Latinx/lgbt news cycles were reporting is as taking over. Now we all know what happens when something fly is happening white folks get mad mainly white men especially if it effects their bottom line. That’s exactly what it was doing too disco was a hit and money making MACHINE outselling all other genres for a long period of time. This included rock mainly classic rock, hard rock, glam rock, the beginnings of hair metal, everything white dudes enjoyed, disco was coming for they necks. I’m never suprised when old rockers are exposed as racists cause they directly benefited from the destruction of disco something primarily Black/Latinx/lgbt. The really intense backlash started to come after Saturday night fever did exceptionally well once people saw how huge that was…there was a wave of resentment and then you had motherfuckers blowing up disco records in a baseball field. It’s really a shame though disco is one of the most sonically adventurous genres and it was only going up.
I always wondered about why disco died because disco deserved better and my mom and I loooove disco so much. Of course cishet white men were behind it.
My dad, who is a confirmed Old, has told me stories about DJs smashing records on the air, DJs pulling out lyric sheets and reading the lyrics of upcoming albums and ridiculing them and DJs who flat out refused to play certain albums. It’s interesting because today, you don’t see that sort of thing on the radio, it’s all top hits of whatever era and morning drive time, but radio DJs used to have a LOT of influence. I didn’t know that about disco, that’s really interesting.
I do want to add Disco also helped give birth and showcase Rap,which after disco was rudely killed took out Hair Metal, Heavy Metal etc. from the 1980s with a vengeance. A lot of early Rap develops because of R&B and disco, look at the song “Rapture” by Blondie it features a small rap sequence while not groundbreaking was one of the first times the genre was featured in a major hit. Disco did not die completely, musically it helped give birth to Funk and Rap, spawning Hip Hop, and a vast amount of other sub genres. What do you think the old DJ’s spun to get their beats back in the 1970s? Rap kicked the shit our of 80s metal with fun(Humpty Dance), and revolutionary lyrics (Fuck the Police). Raps still around, its not dead, so in a sense disco still lives on but is sadly not as friendly to the LGBT and Latino communities as it fucking could be.
It was Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park. Because it was aired live on television, it was captured. You can see the virulent, building hatred as Dahl chanted his catchphrase of “Disco Sucks!” until the crowd overflows from the stands and onto the field. The event occurred in the interim between the two games of a double header. The second game was forfeited by the Sox to the Tigers.
Remnants of the melted vinyl were preserved in a museum, the name of which escapes me. I believe it might be a baseball museum, or a newspaper museum. I’ll have to do some more research to confirm rather than relying on my fauly memory.
Strangely enough, 10 cent beer night or Altamont are considered a more memorable/shocking events than the one where things were literally blown up. Ultimately, disco went underground and re-emerged after a metamorphosis into modern house.
The destruction of disco is but one of the many scandals that color the music world. More than merely salacious tales of excess or successful investment - thank you VH1′s “Behind the Music” for educating an entire generation of musicians in what not to do - modern music has in recent memory been completely and utterly devastated by a payola scandal. It was driven from memory quickly as we were then buried under the cascading failure of international banking and investment known as the subprime mortgage scandal.
That’s not even getting into baseball scandals - Canseco’s “Juiced” did an amazing job of bringing it to light in a public way and forcing people to admit the juicing issue in modern baseball - some of which have been so intense they have changed the landscape of the nation.
Lex, my dude bruh that was so educational and informative. If I remember correctly didn’t this kill those publicity stunts for DJs (at least at this stadium) because it got so uncontrollable and fights broke out?
It didn’t kill publicity stunts. Pranks and stunts have long been a mainstay of radio’s attempts to remain relevant. Back to that in a minute.
This stunt at Cominskey Park effectively killed the careers of Bill Veeck and his son Mike, the one who actually came up with and spearheaded the idea. Mike reportedly now works in minor leagues, having left his position with the Sox in 1980. For those keeping count, that’s within a year of the stunt, which took place in July of 1979. The second game is the last American League game to be forfeited, which given the 1994 strike, is notable.
This wasn’t the first stunt Veeck had arranged - at the time, he was notable for the stunts as the Sox were not the greatest team to be a fan of. It’s entirely possible that Bill was blacklisted after this, given the rest of his career. Mike was just never trusted again.
Dahl is still working in radio, not having suffered any real repercussions other than a mildly scuffed ego. It wasn’t really until he started getting called out on his part in the stunt that he’s had much to say about it in larger press. After all, he’s had an echo chamber in Chicago for decades.
When Harry Carey is telling you you’ve gone too far, you should probably rethink what you’re doing.
Radio stunts have always had a storied history. Let’s go back to the first that drew serious attention that people immediately think of - the War of the Worlds broadcast on Mercury Theater on the Air. Broadcast on October 30, 1938, this broadcast is now infamous for supposedly having caused mass panic amongst the populace. Having listened to it, it is notable in that it 1. starts off sounding like a regular news broadcast and 2. ran over on time before they could take a commercial break. Now, we can immediately recognize Welles’ iconic voice and uniquely encompassing delivery, but at the time he was definitely a bit player. The broadcast was in the latter half of their inaugural season, which presented adaptations of popular stories. Unlike Lux Radio Theater, which adapted popular movies, Mercury Theater adapted literary works, some of which had been adapted to film. It is debatable whether it was known that this particular broadcast would effect any real buzz. Welles was highly notable for originating the wildly popular character of “The Shadow” in its inaugural season the year before as a stand alone character rather than the bookend narrator he had been previously. It is through Welles performance of the gripping scripts that the erudite playboy Lamont Cranston really captured the public. Personally, I greatly admired Agnes Moorhead’s Margo Lane as she stood toe to toe with Welles’ Cranston. To any who listened to radio, Welles voice was definitely one of the more distinctive and therefore recognizable. I recommend listening to the original broadcast and remembering that this young upstart had been in wildly popular radio series for two years by the time this aired.
The stunt at Cominskey Park is notable because it crossed over onto television. There have been numerous other stunts in both radio and sports.
No stunt since Disco Demolition Night has captured radio and television in the same manner.
Riots, however, have definitely been continuing to grow. Let’s not forget that 2013 saw riots in Lansing, Michigan after MSU qualified for the Rose Bowl. Then there’s the 2015 stadium stampede in Cairo. A lot of the more recent radio stunts have been more along the lines of Perez Hilton giving a staffer from Howard Stern’s show a prostate exam, or the Australian DJs who called a nurse and convinced her to share personal medical data of Princess Kate after the birth of Prince George. The nurse was found three days later, dead from an apparent suicide. The DJs were sacked.
So yeah, Dahl sucks.
I am finding it highly unsettling how many things are the fault of Straight White Men. Literally what the fuck? “How come this one thing got ruined?” “Well actually Straight White Males got mad that it wasn’t about them so they punched it” is the answer to toooooo many things.
Lani Ka'ahumanu, founding organizer of BiPol, the first and oldest bisexual political network, marches in the 1984 Lesbian and Gay Freedom Day Parade. Photo credit Arlene Krantz
“Slicing Silence: Asian Progressives Come Out” by Daniel C. Tsang
Several decades later, it’s hard to imagine a period where queer Asians were largely invisible. These days, queer Asian Americans regularly march in gay parades, and in large urban enclaves such as Los Angeles, routinely gather en masse at dance clubs celebrating gay Asian pride. How did that situation change? In this essay, I’ll look back at the pre- and post-Stonewall periods and at some of the conditions that led gay Asians in North America to begin organizing publicly.
To be sure, the politics three decades ago were different. It was the period of the Vietnam War, student protests, racial uprisings, and the stirrings of the women’s and gay liberation movements. American society was in turmoil, with street protests and marches. Anti-establishment ideas were in the air; the old, established order had to be overthrown. In short, the sixties had spilled over into the seventies.
Stonewall in 1969 had been where gay and transvestite barflies had fought back against the police raiding the Stonewall Inn in Manhattan. But queer Asians did not just erupt from Stonewall, nor did they appear from nowhere. We may have been invisible, but many of us were active in the Civil Rights Movement and in the anti-war movement as well as the emerging women’s and gay liberation movements.
[…] Another early pioneer was Merle Woo, openly lesbian and socialist. As she has written: “The Civil Rights Movement and the anti-war movement gave inspiration to the student movements of the sixties, and then there were the modern women’s movement and the post-Stonewall lesbian/gay movement. I am one of the beneficiaries of these movements: I have gotten an education to affirm not only who I am, an Asian American lesbian woman, but I also got support in terms of physical survival - I got work because of these movements.”
Around the same time, Kitty Tsui was coming out. Kitty, who like me, was born in Hong Kong, but spent part of her youth in England, arrived in the U.S. in 1968. As she would later recall, when she came out at age 21 in San Francisco in the early 1970s, “the faces that surrounded me were white.” She sought visibility: “As an Asian American lesbian I am unrepresented, omitted, silenced and invisible. I write to fight erasure, to demand a voice, to become visible, to reclaim my history. I write to turn on the light.” She would become a strong proponent of talking and writing about sex.
In 1971, an Asian American progressive women’s publication was already proclaiming that “gay women must also have the right to self-definition”: “Lesbianism can be seen as revolutionary in that it is a challenge to the basic assumptions of the present system, representing an alternative life style. As revolutionary women seeking the liberation of all women, we support a united front with our sisters against all arbitrary and rhetorical social standards.”
[…] In Philadelphia, I also got to see Don Kao more often and he and I ended up organizing the first gathering of gay and lesbian Asians—at the first National Third World Lesbian and Gay Conference at Howard University in Washington, D.C. in October, 1979, the same weekend as the first gay March on Washington. The conference was organized by the National Coalition of Black Gays.
Those events are documented in the Summer 1980 issue of Gay Insurgent, a gay left magazine I edited at the time. I wanted to make sure that this historic gathering would not be forgotten. Re-reading it recently, I’m struck by how the cover stands out: It features a photograph of the nine of us, female and male some with arms raised, most of us smiling, behind a huge banner: “WE’RE ASIANS, GAY & PROUD.” Inside was Audre Lorde’s keynote address at the conference (“When Will the Ignorance End?”), resolutions from the conference, and news accounts after the conference.
[…] Also reprinted in the magazine was a Chinese-American lesbian sister’s talk at the conference, Tana Loy’s “Who’s the Barbarian?” Expressing unity with other people of color, she spoke about what had happened at the Asian caucus meeting: “Somehow, we felt—immediately and immensely in tune with each other, because when an Asian sees another Asian—they run away from each other.” She attributed this avoidance of ourselves in part to a “survival response, because for decades of imperialist wars we have been atomic bombed, we have been napalmed, we have been raped; we have been driven to suicide—and we have built this country from the east to the west. And we have been called the barbarian! … Who’s the barbarian?”
She added: “But today we are going toward each other, and we are sharing our strength with each other, and with all our brothers and sisters here today. You know something? We’re not that quiet and reserved Asian… We’re not that ‘model minority.’ Oh no, oh, we’re silent, buy why are we silent? We’re silent, even from each other, by the racism and the sexism that exists in this country, that manifests itself in the fears and frustrations that keep our own people in the closet as Asians and as lesbians and gay men. Many of us cannot even come out for fear of deportation; and yet I know there are many Asians who are going to be out on that street tomorrow, knowing that’s a reality in their lives.”
She explained: “In our short time together, a support system has evolved from which we have drawn our strength, from each other and from all of you here. And out of this strength we have collectively decided to march together as Asians…and you can be sure, you can be damned sure, that those who oppose us will hear us, and they will hear us loud and clear.”
And indeed they would, as about a dozen of us marched from Howard University in the black neighborhood through to Chinatown and to the mall, behind the banner expressing our pride, an historic first march by openly gay and lesbian Asians.
At the march, we marched joined in solidarity with other people of color, with the indigenous gays and lesbians leading the entire Third World contingent, behind a “First Gay Americans” banner. We listened as one selected to represent our group, Michiyo Cornell, a Vermont-based Eurasian poet, addressed the huge rally at the Washington Monument, on the theme, “Living in Asian America.” Her talk was also published in the magazine.
Saying it was the first time such a network had been formed, Michiyo noted: “I am careful to use the phrase Asian American because we are not hyphenated Americans nor are we always foreign-born women and men from Asia. We have been in this country for over 150 years! We live in Asian America…”
She continued: “We are called the model minority, the quiet, the passive, exotic erotics with the slanted cunt to match our ‘slanted’ eyes or the small dick to match our small size. But we are not. For years Asian Americans have organized against our oppression. We protested and were lynched, deported and put into concentration camps during World War II. We must not forget that the United States of America has bombed, napalmed and colonized Asian countries for decades… . It could rape and murder Vietnamese women, children and men, then claim that ‘Asians don’t value human life.’”
Describing herself as an “Asian American woman, a mother and a lesbian,” characteristics that are “difficult to put into a neat package,” Michiyo exclaimed that “I know that I live in the face of this country’s determination to destroy me, to negate me, to render me invisible.” She demanded “white lesbians and gay men” to think about how they repress “your Asian American lesbian and gay sisters and brothers,” urging them to address their “white skin privilege.” She urged the crowd to realize that “the capitalist system uses not just sexual preference but race and class as well to divide us…I would say that we share the same oppression as Third World people, and for that reason we must stand together or be hanged separately by what Audrey Lorde calls the ‘noose of conformity.’” She urged fellow closeted Asian Americans to come out, asking them to “consider how we become accomplices to our own sexual and racial oppression when we fail to claim our true identities.”
[…] At the time many of us remained active in progressive causes because we sought a radical restructuring of America. We rejected straight depictions of us a psychologically impaired, or as incapable of progressive work. We knew those stereotypes weren’t true. We remained activists even when we suffered racism or homophobia, because of this larger goal of changing overall society. And we saw our struggle as part and parcel of people of color (“Third World” peoples’) struggles. But in 1979, because similarly inclined individuals were able to meet together, a critical mass was achieved, and we were able to begin organizing publicly as both Asian and gay. That effort continues, because the task of creating a society that meets basic human needs remains unfinished. The transnational flow of queer activists and activism back and forth between the U.S. and Asia also continues. One example. Less than a year after China reclaimed sovereignty over the former British territory, Russell Leong, I and other activists from North America gathered with our sisters and brothers in the Chinese diaspora for the first Tongzhi Conference in Hong Kong under the Communist control (during an unexpectedly chilly February of 1998). In impeccable Mandarin, Russell spoke and read poetry while I resorted to English as I reminisced about my early days of gay activism and writing in Hong Kong and the initial stirrings of gay Asian activism in North America. My talk was simultaneously translated into Mandarin for a large delegation (male and female) from across the border. The solidarity that emerged at that meeting resembled similar gatherings in the U.S.; we felt a certain comradeship that transcended national boundaries, coupled with a sense of mission to continue this work.
The Panthers used to ride around and follow the police.
So the cops would pull over some sorry black person, and get ready to rough him up, but then there were the Panthers right behind them. Watching, armed to the teeth, and citing legal statutes. It’s inspirational.
Bring it back.
Bring this back.
For real.
That’s why the FBI broke them up, isn’t it ?
That among other community initiatives. They had weapons training, self defense, their free breakfast program and ran a newspaper. They raised money to pay for bail and legal funding for people. And they used to notify the community of their rights and encourage people to know the laws and protest the one which were unjust. That type of shit irked the local police and damned sure struck a nerve with the FBI. They were taking back the streets and providing the protection the police were never interested in bringing to their neighborhoods from the very start. So it’s always fuck the FBI for me.
Also let’s be starkly clear about this: under COINTELPRO the FBI raided the homes of Black Panthers and outright murdered them. They conspired with local police forces to harass, assault, and concoct false evidence against anybody affiliated with the BPP. And they didn’t keep their operations confined to the black community directly. When a white woman working in civil rights was killed by the KKK (they were aiming at her black passenger) the FBI excused the KKK by claiming that she was a communist and slept with black men. They refused to accept the reports of white agents who said that the BPP were no threat and demanded that the agents falsify information to paint the BPP as violent domestic terrorists. The FBI was determined to quash revolutionary black movements that were chiefly devoted to community protection and development and they stopped at nothing in their attempts to reach this goal.
One thing we don’t talk about even in our own retellings and reclaimings of BPP history is that a large part of the reason the government worked to break them up wasn’t because of armed action, but because they provided so many necessary social services and programs: free breakfast for children, walking the elderly to and from banks safely to cash their social security checks, free medical centers, door-to-door sickle cell testing, blood drives, raising money for bail, clothing donations, legal aide, busing people to and from prisons to visit, commissary for prisoners. Not only did they fight back against state violence in their confrontations with police, but also by resisting the forced conditions of poverty, criminality and scarcity created by the state to further destroy their communities. J. Edgar Hoover genuinely wrote in an FBI memo that:
“The Breakfast for Children Program B represents the best and most influential activity going for the BPP and, as such, is potentially the greatest threat to efforts by authorities B to neutralize the BPP and destroy what it stands for.”
When I need a good example of the antiblackness that is fundamental to this country’s history and how it persists even now, I remember that the BPP were viewed as a threat to national security, not because they were armed, but because they wouldn’t allow black children to die from starvation and malnutrition.
"Thanks to the Obama Administration women will still be able to access the birth control they need to plan their families, and cancer screenings they need to stay healthy.”
Reblogging again cause this is a big fucking deal (BFD)
THIS IS NOW IRRELEVANT. THIS ARTICLE IS FROM SEPTEMBER AND THIS EXECUTIVE ACTION CAN BE OVERTURNED.
“Permanent” simply means that this order would not have an expiration date, but it CAN be overturned by Congress, and overturning this will be one of the very first things Trump does in office.
STOP reblogging this; it’s incredibly misleading and no longer relevant.
Planned Parenthood is NOT under protection, PLEASE continue to donate to them and fund them, cuz they need it so much! Seriously, it will soon face federal and state level defunding!
Seeing straight people say “we made it through Reagan!” Is making me go fucking insane and I want to cry
“In 1981 with the emergence of the AIDS epidemic also came the emergence of the Christian Right, who which Reagen ushered into power and disgustingly seized the moment as a sign of God’s abhorrence for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Reagan, who saw the first signs of the AIDS epidemic in 1981, his first year in office, . said “maybe the Lord brought down the plague because illicit sex is against the Ten Commandments.”
AIDS research was chronically under-funded. When doctors at the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health asked for more funding for their work on AIDS, they were routinely denied it. Between June 1981 and May 1982 the CDC spent less than $1 million on AIDS and $9 million on Legionnaire’s Disease. At that point more than 1,000 of the 2,000 reported AIDS cases resulted in death; there were fewer than 50 deaths from Legionnaire’s Disease. This drastic lack of funding would continue through the Reagan years
In 1986, Reagan ordered Surgeon General C. Everett Koop to prepare a major government report on AIDS. Critics attacked Reagan for ordering the report on the same day he submitted requests to reduce the AIDS budget, according to the Globe. Koop’s report called for mandatory sex education for children as early as elementary school, but Reagan’s education secretary, William Bennett, and his undersecretary of education, Gary Bauer, strenuously opposed those efforts, calling for abstinence-oriented education.
But Reagan still remained silent to the public
Finally near the end of 1986 Reagan requested $85 million for AIDS research, but Congress horrified at the low number bumped that figure up to $244 million only to have Reagan then unsuccessfully try to rescind $50 million of that figure, according to the Boston Globe, he ultimately agreed to Congress’ figure. In 1987, Reagan proposed cutting the research budget for AIDS down to $214 million. Congress again responded dramatically against Reagen by raising it to about $400 million.
It would not be until 1987 when pushed that Reagan would publicly speak about the AIDS epidemic in a major policy address. By the end of that year, 59,572 AIDS cases had been reported and 27,909 of those women and men had died. He and his administration did almost nothing during the first seven years of the epidemic. AIDS research was chronically underfunded. Community education and prevention programs were routinely denied federal funding and would have been even more so if Regan had had his way. Only when pushed did Reagan offer any assistance.”
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Thank you for this addition! It’s very helpful. I didn’t expect this post to get notes tbh
Not to mention, when Reagan finally said the word “AIDS” out loud for the first time, it was in response to questions about banning inclusive sex education, which promoted use of condoms, in public schools. Which he was in favor of.
Straight people might have survived Reagan, but gay people most certainly did not. Imagine how much louder and stronger our community would be, had hundreds and thousands of our elders not been eradicated in the largest willful mismanagement of a public health crisis, in the history of this country.
Reagan began a war on the gay community, one fueled by systematic oppression in rapid pace. And that war continues to be passed down as the office has continued. Luckily a lot has improved, but unfortunately our government won’t give us enough dignity to make our rights innate, instead of given.
#ACTUP #Silence=Death
Thanks to anon, I recently discovered that the brand “Kinetic Sand” aka the most popular and accessible kind of kinetic sand that you can find at most drug stores and target/walmarts supports and is partnered with Autism $peaks. Warning do not watch the video. It has extremely ableist/anti autism quotes.
With that being said here are some recipes to make your own.
Recipe 1
Recipe 2
Recipe 3 (video)
There are hundreds of other recipes and videos available online! Just google kinetic sand recipe.
I haven’t found that many other retailers yet who sell it besides Brookstone who also support Autism $peaks. Michaels.com and select stores also has the Michael’s brand Creatology Kinetic Sand. Make sure it says Creatology because they also sell the Kinetic Sand Brand.
Also the brand “Cra Z Sand” also has a version of kinetic sand! You can find that on Amazon and Walmart.com.
Also, I do sell and make my own kinetic sand on my etsy shop in small quantities. I am thinking of making bigger bags for sale if people are interested so let me know! Don’t feel bad if you have bought sand from the Kinetic Sand brand before, I admit I have, but in the future be more careful and educate others on why not to support this brand.
