Be and Breathe.

Thoughts from Sarah Bedrick "A Brief History of the Future" is a quote from my favorite spot in Isaiah Zagar's Magic Gardens in Philadelphia. We are making our own history. I'm a student originally from New York, and a junior transfer at NYU. I'm a directing major, within Playwrights Horizons Theater School, and I have a dream of someday opening my own theatre company. These are the chronicles of my adventures and inspirations, my mishaps and mayhem, my passion, my dreams, and my art.

[ifinddelightinthegruesomeandgrim]

waking up on october 1st like

[lunionsuite]

L A B O R • D A Y • N Y C ✨🎊🎉🍹 Posted: @caribdiva_ingenieux: Carnival as it is represented in NYC began in Harlem in the 1940’s in the ballrooms of the day, during the pre-Lenten season, mimicking Carnival in Trinidad. However, the sheer nature of the costumes and the celebration itself didn’t lend to cold celebrations during the NYC winter, so it evolved to a September celebration, signaling the close of summer. Over time, WIADCA (West Indian American Day Carnival Association) was formed to organize the parade, and after their Harlem permit was revoked, they worked out a contract with the city, permitting them to host the parade every Labor Day in Crown Heights. The Trini carnival itself stemmed from plantation owners in the 1800’s hosting grand masquerade balls right before the period of fasting for Lent. Slaves, who weren’t allowed to participate, held their own celebration, a “Canboulay”. The griots in the village created songs, a blend of ‘kaiso’, stemming from West African tradition, and the music that the slaves came up with, and this evolved into what we know as calypso today. This celebration overall evolved into what we know today as Carnival. Today, Labor Day Carnival in NYC is an annual celebration of Caribbean culture, food, and music. As with many things over the years, some of the original foundations of this celebration have been lost. (Then again, if we were celebrating Halloween as it was designed…well…you get the message.) Nevertheless, those who know the history welcome the release and the cultural explosion. Remember these steps to getting on the highway: 1. A wine is a wine is a wine. Take yuh little dance together pon de road, but know it’s JUST a dance. 2. Unless both parties express interest, don’t get all clingy and ting. Take yuh dance and go ‘long. 3 Stay hydrated. Drink yuh Stag…then yuh water. Rum…then yuh water. 4. If yuh see a man chippin’ wid he own woman…leave dey be. Please. No commess. 5. Enjoy!!! #bacchanal #fete #cultural #celebration #history #Trinidad #Barbados #Caribbean #Haiti #Jamaica #allawe #Grenada #Guyana #imnotlistingthemall #sorry #justknowislove #livelaughlove #caribbeanchef | #Lunionsuite

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No for real in 2k15

Can fandom bring back the concept of a squick

A “squick” was a trope or topic that made the reader deeply uncomfortable, even might cause anxiety or intense emotional reactions

Everyone’s squicks were personal and diverse, and it was considered polite to say, “sorry I can’t read this because it squicks me, but you have fun in your corner doing what you doing”

Can we bring that back and reserve “trigger” for MI people who mean “if I see this I will have flashbacks and dissociate for hours”

[animatedamerican]

I wasn’t aware this concept had fallen out of fandom.  Seriously, bring it back, it’s useful as hell.

Key to the concept of “squick,” as it was first explained to me lo these many years ago, is that it is not a value judgment.  If I say “mpreg is gross,” that’s a negative statement about mpreg (and, by extension, about those who enjoy writing or reading about it).  If I say “mpreg squicks me,” that’s a value-neutral statement about me and my emotional reactions and how they affect my enjoyment of fiction.

And, as OP says, it does not carry the implications of intensity or trauma that “trigger” does.  (Although I will point out that a trigger doesn’t have to cause flashbacks or dissociation.  There are people a lot better qualified than I am to talk about that.)

[jmathieson-fic]

Yes, yes, yes please to all of this!

squick: Something that makes you go “ewwww” and wish you had never seen/read it. Something that makes you deeply uncomfortable. Something you’re not interested in reading/seeing/thinking about, ever.

trigger: Something that you associate with/reminds you of a past trauma (mental, emotional, or physical) and therefore triggers your personal reaction to trauma (be it flashbacks, panic/anxiety attacks, unhealthy behaviours, a crying jag, whatever).

Please, please, please don’t use them interchangeably.

[houseofpopsiclesticks]

asap binders for sale

i have 2 medium black tri-tops (lightly worn) and 1 medium black compression front (worn once), all from underworks.

am moving on tuesday and don’t want to pack these with me - am asking $6 for shipping. (each one individually is $6, more than one is also $6 since it is in one package)

would prefer them to go to folks who can’t afford a full price binder / who can’t order from traditional sites for family reasons.

​PM me.

[chandra-nalaar]

what people don’t realize about basic universal income is that once people aren’t struggling just to pay rent and buy food, they’re free to better themselves and society, they’re free to do what they want to do and be happy, and if that means nothing to you, they’re free to get an education and work in science and medicine or things they wouldn’t have been able to do before. they’re free to do things that will help YOU, if you’re wondering “well how is this going to help ME?”

like, the woman who is struggling to buy food for her kids now could be the woman who builds a space ship to mars, or finds the cure for deadly diseases, or becomes the president who turns the us economy around, there are so many brilliant, talented people in america who could be doing so much but they can’t because they’re struggling just to make ends meet.

basic universal income isn’t about people being lazy, its about society capping it’s own progress and potential, also, if we have the means to meet people’s basic needs, which we do, literally why would we not do that? but as usual no one cares about anything but “how could this help me, personally?”. great news. it helps everyone.

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[starlingheart]

feet

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dabajabazab

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Aww

[abriefhistoryofthefuture]

Best video on the Internet.

[abriefhistoryofthefuture]

Me: can I get a glass of wine please?

Employee: sir this is McDonalds

Me: oh fuck I am so sorry... Can I get a McWine?

[steviemcfly]

I honestly don’t understand why there aren’t more people who, when given the platform to discuss minimum wage, don’t simply distill it to the simplest of facts:

A forty hour work week is considered full time.

It’s considered as such because it takes up the amount of time we as a society have agreed should be considered the maximum work schedule required of an employee. (this, of course, does not always bear out practically, but just follow me here)

A person working the maximum amount of time required should earn enough for that labor to be able to survive. Phrased this way, I doubt even most conservatives could effectively argue against it, and out of the mouth of someone verbally deft enough to dance around the pathos-based jabs conservative pundits like to use to avoid actually debating, it could actually get opps thinking.

Therefore, if an employee is being paid less than [number of dollars needed for the post-tax total to pay for the basic necessities in a given area divided by forty] per hour, they are being ripped off and essentially having their labor, productivity, and profit generation value stolen by their employer.

Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.

Our goal as a society should be to protect each other, especially those that most need protection, not to subsidize failing businesses whose owners could quite well subsidize them on their own.

[reagan-was-a-horrible-president]

Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.

[embybourne]

Don’t just boycott the stonewall movie. Donate the price of your ticket to trans charities and organizations.

[submissivefeminist]

There’s an alternative I’ll get behind.

[meangirlnurse]

can i recommend NYC’s Ali Forney Center? it’s a center for homeless and at-risk LGBTQ youth in Harlem. in January it became the first 24/7 drop-in program for homeless LGBT youth and it provides a huge number of services, including food, shelter, clothing, showers, STD/STI testing, mental health care, and medical care. 

they’re currently launching a housing program specifically for trans teenagers (who can stay for up to 18 months!) and will be offering safe hormone replacement therapy at their medical clinic. [x]

it’s an amazing program and deserves your support.

[transparent-galaxy]

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[femmedilemma]

printing this

[socialistexan]

Cis people this is a post for trans people, notice the trans flag in the kid’s wings. Please please please keep this in mind when reblogging.

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[accidentalambience]

Fast food workers in NY just won a $15/hr wage. I’m a paramedic. My job requires a broad set of skills: interpersonal, medical, and technical skills, as well as the crucial skill of performing under pressure. I often make decisions on my own, in seconds, under chaotic circumstances, that impact people’s health and lives. I make $15/hr. And these burger flippers think they deserve as much as me? Good for them. Look, if any job is going to take up someone’s life, it deserves a living wage. If a job exists and you have to hire someone to do it, they deserve a living wage. End of story. There’s a lot of talk going around my workplace along the lines of, “These guys with no education and no skills think they deserve as much as us? Fuck those guys.” And elsewhere on FB: “I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.” And that’s exactly what the bosses want! They want us fighting over who has the bigger pile of crumbs so we don’t realize they made off with almost the whole damn cake. Why are you angry about fast food workers making two bucks more an hour when your CEO makes four hundred TIMES what you do? It’s in the bosses’ interests to keep your anger directed downward, at the poor people who are just trying to get by, like you, rather than at the rich assholes who consume almost everything we produce and give next to nothing for it. My company, as they’re so fond of telling us in boosterist emails, cleared 1.3 billion dollars last year. They expect guys supporting families on 26-27k/year to applaud that. And that’s to say nothing of the techs and janitors and cashiers and bed pushers who make even less than us, but are as absolutely crucial to making a hospital work as the fucking CEO or the neurosurgeons. Can they pay us more? Absolutely. But why would they? No one’s making them. The workers in NY *made* them. They fought for and won a living wage. So how incredibly petty and counterproductive is it to fuss that their pile of crumbs is bigger than ours? Put that energy elsewhere. Organize. Fight. Win.

Jens Rushing (via accidentalambience)

[dommecroptop]

Today is International Sex Worker’s Rights Day!

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yes

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By ©The Oatmeal

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