Beyond al-Mashrabiyat

[al-mashrabiyat]

@windighost got this for me! Team Mystic rules NOLA! (at New Orleans, Louisiana)

[al-mashrabiyat]

I thought that @windighost bought this Green Man necklace, but actually they handmade it for me. Parents, support your artistic children. (at New Orleans, Louisiana)

[al-mashrabiyat]

@windighost hand painted this jewelry box for me. It's great to see how investing in the creativity of young Black and Indigenous children can pay off. (at New Orleans, Louisiana)

[realsocialskills]

Everyone gets blamed for their condition

People with depression and other mental illnesses get told that they can get over it with diet, exercize, and positive thinking. They also get blamed for having it, and told that it’s their own fault. This is wrong.

It’s also a common experience of everyone with every condition there is. This is not unique to mental illness. 

Everyone with a disability, illness, or other condition gets blamed for it. People with every condition get told that it’s their fault, that they caused it by eating wrong, sleeping wrong, thinking wrong, or not being sufficiently careful.

People with every condition get told that medical treatment is toxic and wrong, and that if they just stop believing big pharma, they’ll recover. Even people with cancer. 

People with every condition get told that they’re causing their own problems by being too negative, and that they’d get better if they’d just think positively. Even people with spinal cord injuries.

People with every condition get told that they will be healed if they just have faith and pray hard enough. Even people whose condition is obviously genetic.

People with every condition get told that they’re imagining things. Even people with unmistakable visible physical conditions. 

People with every condition face this kind of prejudice. It’s not unique to any group. We should stand together and acknowledge that we all face it, and that it’s wrong to do to anyone.

tl;dr People with every condition get blamed for it and told that things like positive thinking and rejecting big pharma will make everything better. It isn’t unique to mental illness. It’s wrong to do to anyone.

[al-mashrabiyat]

I'm really sick of people who make the argument that "mentally ill" individuals are somehow subjected to treatment that other disabled folks don't get. It's b.s. I am neuroatypical AND I have lupus and cancer. I've had a lifetime of hearing people tell me that something I did caused my lupus and then, later, that treatment for my lupus is what gave me cancer. I've had people give me all sorts of unsolicited, medically (and spiritually) unsound, curebie advice about how I should try whatever quackery they heard about on the internet. This was just as harmful as the crap I've heard about being schizophrenic.

[rifa]

Important fact I learned somewhere that has been a serious life safer:

Your own saliva will remove a stain of your own blood.

I learned this in costuming as a tip for in case a male actor gets a bit of blood on his shirt from shaving and MY first thought was ‘what about menstruation blood tho’?

it totally works

if you are a uterus-owner please PLEASE remember this tip! You get a sudden stain on your pants? You got a spot on your fave white undies? You out in public with your friends and you spot and you can’t elegantly bail to change clothes cause you happen to be in fucking disneyland? (seriously it happened to me)

while the blood is still wet literally spit as much saliva as you can on the spot and work it into the fabric with your fingers then dab with toliet paper. This obviously works best with small spots but can lessen the darkness/colour on a larger spot if you do it right. Obvs your clothes will still need to be washed but its a LIFESAFER in tight situations!!! Pass this info along!!!

[sharks-inspace]

Reblogging to help a sister out.

[nonbinaryfighterjet]

For every gender nondescript person out there who’s bleeding/expecting to bleed, this one’s for you.

[al-mashrabiyat]

“That was clever.”

[flyandfamousblackgirls]

Black Women of Trans Experience

[coolgirlsmyspace-blog]

it bothers me that these photos are floating around without any information about these women (and i’m personally not immediately familiar with all of them) so i did a lil research

Angelica Ross- CEO of Transtech Social Enterprises

Amiyah Scott- model

Juliana Huxtable- artist, model, activist

KUKOMO- activist and founder of KUKOMOMEDIA

Janet Mock- writer and activist

Ines-Loan Rau- model

Connie Flemming- actress and model

Leyna Ramous- model

Ashley Love- media critic and activist

isis king- model and fashion designer

[hellyeahrihannafenty]

[wild-eyedsoutherngirl]

[minacoladas]

I love this post so much

[shrmptst]

my hand slipped

[happydysphoria]

So these posts were the last post of a trans woman friend that me and a lot of people in the east bay knew and the confirmation that she in fact died. She had attempted suicide once before and we were able to stop her but this time it was too late. She jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge last night around 6pm.

A lot of us were just starting to get to know her and I personally started talking to her after Oakland Pride last summer and we had talked about going to punk shows together and we had attended the queer open mic in Oakland where she told the audience of her past with abuse transphobia and hate from her family. She often spoke of her family not supporting her being trans and was in and out of shelters and living with family.

Since she is a TWOC, it is unlikely that her suicide will gain any visibility even in our community as the common narrative is that only white trans women commit suicide and TWOC are murdered.

Please spread awareness of the latest victim of a society that makes our lives incredibly difficult. I myself have been nearly driven to do the exact same thing that she did last night but the will to live has kept me going. Sadly it was too late for her.

RIP Aubrey we will miss you.

[zanabism-deactivated20200529]

The UAE luxury lifestyle needs to stop being glamorized like it’s something worthy of being attained—the entire structure of this lifestyle is the result of slave labor of south Asian men that are tricked into signing contracts that imprison them in the UAE to face perilous conditions for pennies a day, there is no luxury in the UAE that is not blood spattered with the sacrifices of victims of this slave labor.

[independentcreativeservices]

The following is a summary & analysis of Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review article, “Law of the Noose: A History of Latino Lynching” by Richard Delgado.

SUMMARY

Delgado attempts to shed light on a largely unknown history of Latinos, particularly Mexican-Americans in the...

[until-i-can-be-quiet-deactivate]

The 8 White Identities, by Barnor Hesse. Breaking down the white gaze.

[al-mashrabiyat]

Joyeux Noel to all of my favorite freedom fighters and rebellious radicals!

[sange-saboor]

In many Muslim cultures, when you want to ask them how they’re doing, you ask: in Arabic, Kayf haal-ik? or, in Persian, Haal-e shomaa chetoreh? How is your haal? What is this haal that you inquire about? It is the transient state of one’s heart. In reality, we ask, “How is your heart doing at this very moment, at this breath?” When I ask, “How are you?” that is really what I want to know. I am not asking how many items are on your to-do list, nor asking how many items are in your inbox. I want to know how your heart is doing, at this very moment. Tell me. Tell me your heart is joyous, tell me your heart is aching, tell me your heart is sad, tell me your heart craves a human touch. Examine your own heart, explore your soul, and then tell me something about your heart and your soul. Tell me you remember you are still a human being, not just a human doing. Tell me you’re more than just a machine, checking off items from your to-do list. Have that conversation, that glance, that touch. Be a healing conversation, one filled with grace and presence. Put your hand on my arm, look me in the eye, and connect with me for one second. Tell me something about your heart, and awaken my heart. Help me remember that I too am a full and complete human being, a human being who also craves a human touch.

Omid Safi, The Disease of Being Busy (via sange-saboor)

[onlyblackgirl]

Black Daddy-Daughter Excellence. She went AWF 

[al-mashrabiyat]

My day is so much better because this video exists.

[tazzyphinzel]

New video was put up last night. I just didn’t feel like promoting it because there’s much more important stuff to be keeping up with…