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I constantly want to interact with RP blogs where the character is running the blog the same way as I would with just. Someone's normal blog, but I keep wondering if the writers find it weird or if they're okay with me interacting with their guys as if the characters are actually running the blog as just... myself, on the blog I actually use.
under the dictatorship of alberto fujimori, USAID funded peru's "family planning" program, which was used to sterilize 300,000 indigenous women, often through deception or in exchange for basic necessities such as food or medical care
A system of incentives and sanctions reinforced the policy: healthcare providers received cash or in-kind payments for each sterilized woman, while promotions, demotions, and the allocation of medical equipment were tied to the fulfillment of sterilization targets and quotas. The program was also implemented through mass campaigns. DEMUS reported large-scale operations aimed at recruiting women for tubal ligation, including so-called āligation festivals,ā which promoted sterilization as a path to happiness and often offered food or money as incentives.
Deceptive practices were widespread. Many women were misinformed about the nature of the procedure or told it was minor. In other cases, they were offered debt forgiveness related to childbirth or abortion in exchange for agreeing to be sterilized. Within a broader context of poverty and exclusion, sterilization often became a transactional means of accessing healthcare or food, services the state was already obligated to provide.
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not coincidentally, US president george h.w. bush's administration was very pleased with the mass privatization fujimori's regime was implementing
Cis ppl will be like "transitioning is far less effective than my solution of dismantling gender norms" and then not dismantle gender norms
Book: The curtains were blue
Teacher: the blue curtains symbolize the heroine's depression. See look at how it's emphasized that the curtains are blue and how colour theory says blue is a sad color
Students: the curtains were fucking blue
Author: The curtains were blue because it was the only thing in the character's room the character had a say in. It is one of five hundred little things that all point to the same goddamn fact I'm not allowed to say out loud for at least another goddamn decade if I want people to read my book, if I want to be able to survive off writing. Sure yeah the fact the curtains are blue are related to the character's depression i guess. Not being able to choose any part of your life except your goddamn fucking curtains is pretty depressing! You should already know the character has depression without it! I thought I spelled it out pretty fucking clearly when writing the dialogue! Do you remember literally on the same page I wrote a whole paragraph that was basically just literally symptoms of depression? Why do you think blue curtains means depression? Do you hate blue? Do you think I hate blue? Do you think that I believe people who read this story all associate blue with depression? Well, I don't! There are other things that I think people associate much more strongly with blue, especially when it's right next to the color pink, which is the colour the rest of my character's room is in! The blue curtains don't exist in isolation! They're part of a bigger picture! Are you ignoring it on purpose or are you intentionally misinterpreting everything I have been working on making as clear as I can safely get because you hate the truth behind the character's story so much? No, the blue curtains don't symbolize the character's depression and no, they're not just blue for no reason!
Luis CamnitzerĀ - The Photograph (1981)
The Screenshot (2014)
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Bahahahaha love this
The Unnecessary Comment (2014)
The Revival (2026)
The āThe original?!ā (2026)
@world-heritage-posts @worldheritagepostorganization
@hellsite-hall-of-fame
The āNomination for World Heritage Postā (2026)
Come to think of it, it really is insane that my entire country is burning alive and literally no one in the rest of the world cares. Thousands of Indians are dying every day from the heat, it's 45+ degrees in multiple areas, the government couldn't give two fucks, we're getting severe warnings and red alerts, and not a soul outside of South Asia is speaking about it because why would you ever care about brown people
please keep talking about how Becky from Maryland doesn't like the rising gas prices. It's clearly the more pressing issue.
USA folks, that is a consistent temperature range hitting 113Ā°. Death Valley temperatures. In Banda, it hovered between 116Ā°-118Ā° (47Ā°-48Ā° C) for a week straight.
This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:
ActionAid India
SEEDS India
GlobalGiving
Raise India (Project Tapan)
I'm not currently building a Canadian discord to organize this within my country at all >.>
Totally not something we could all work towards... no...
If you want to help build the 2028 general strike, you need to prioritize organizing your workplace and your local community.
None of this happens without networks at ground level making sure people have their basic needs met. Regardless of how successful a nationwide or worldwide action is in the end, you can improve each other's lives and build community power in order to continue the fight. If you need help getting started, check out iww.org to find local labor organizing help for any industry.
the "transfeminist" discourse on this website is so like... white trans women need to be more aware of the fact that asians assigned male at birth are often perceived as more feminine than their white counterparts. if you're black, it's the opposite. they speak like everyone starts out the same, but that's just not true. you, as a white person, are far more free to explore femininity/masculinity than people of color are.
they also don't seem to understand the ways in which cis women of color are forced to interact with western ideas of gender. the darker your skin is, the more masculine you're often thought of being. i said this the other day, but not all cis women get to enjoy the cliche soft femininity filled with flowers and rainbows. darker-skinned women are not handed femininity on a silver platter. maybe take that into consideration the next time you try to pull some theory out of your ass
this. another reason why the TMA/TME binary doesn't work. cis black women are far more likely to be transvestigated, but I'm supposed to believe they're exempt from experiencing transmisogyny? no, that's fucking bullshit. everyone can be affected by transmisogyny, or transandrophobia, or just transphobia period. even perisex cis people.
this is something i see missed a lot in white transfeminist spaces and that i'm grateful for the chance to hear folks discuss. i think the tma/tme binary also fails to support our two-spirit and transgender native relatives whose genders and gender presentations are violently policed and managed by colonialist gender standards.
and it abandons ALL native people who experience this gender-coercive violence. a cisgender lakota man whose gender is wiÄhĆ”Å”a is cisgender and yet also white colonial violence will be done against him on the basis of his gender expression. he will be policed on his hair and sacred braids, he experiences increased risk of violence and sexual assault, he lives with the effects of trauma and their relatives alcoholism and addiction and suicidality, and ultimately has a far higher likelihood to attempt suicide. or be murdered.
Indigenous people continue to honor the Mniconju actor and call for justice
this is not a hypothetical lakota man. justice for Cole Brings Plenty now, and remember that your campaign to guarantee freedom from medicalized coercive assignment of sex and gender needs to also defend the gender expression of native peoples.
the crisis of MMIW and MMIP directly reflects how limiting and violent white colonial expectations of gender and sex are for First Nations, pueblos originarios, indigenous, native, and American Indian people.
i truly think that this recent trend of āif you relate to a post about a different identity than your own you are ~derailing~ and taking over the conversationā is incredibly harmful.
i recently experienced some pretty severe transphobic abuse in my workplace (childrenās home) that included having food thrown at me, being called slurs, being told i was a pervert because i am trans. one of the managers talked with me afterwards and shared that he had had a similar experience as an Asian man. this wasnāt him derailing my experience, or talking over me, or making things about himself. he was communicating āhey, i know how it feels and how much it sucks. youāre not alone.ā
THAT is what solidarity IS. i donāt know what itās like to be Asian, he doesnt know what itās like to be trans, but we both had a similar experience and we were able to turn a horrible experience into an opportunity for bonding and comfort.
stop looking at peopleās attempts as solidarity as an attack. and hey, you never know - you could find an opportunity to grow closer to other people.
when the majority of the fandom hcs a character as transmasc but you and like ten other people hc them as transfem
itās fine iām fine this is fine
I love you black trans men. I hope yall know Iām rooting for you.
This seems like a good time to boost @paristtmpped on YouTube. (If we want black trans men and their projects visible and celebrated we gotta do it ourselves; the algorithms are not kind to them.)
He's a musician and he vlogs about queer and trans stuff. Both his music and vlogs have a really chill, thoughtful, personal vibe.
Here's one of his songs. Right now it's got 378 views and 45 likes. I need you guys to go fucking explode those numbers.
Go watch his stuff and signal boost the fuck out of it, okay? I know y'all can do it.
okay so there's yet another genre of post that bothers me and it's the "old lady parties/gets goofy teehee it's so unexpected bc old ladies are supposed to be cute and quiet and knit and cook, not do shots" one. the whole joke is that old women aren't supposed to have fun and ohoho it's cute and quirky that grandma drank a marg on vacation! like yeah. that's what you do on vacation. even if you're a seventy year old woman
these types of posts also make me realize that a lot of younger people don't have many intergenerational friendships, even with their own family. bc if you hang out with older women, you realize that it's not terribly shocking that they have fun or go dancing or whatever. or that they can be strong and self-reliant.
my mother is in her mid-60s and has a lot of fun. she dances a lot (including to the rhythm of the copy machine at her work), she enjoys having a few drinks around a bonfire every so often. she's not elderly or old yet, but she talks sometimes about "aging with joy" and it's a pretty direct response to the idea older women have to be all prim and proper.
I got her a chainsaw for mother's day one year and her current favorite hobby is cutting up deadfalls and hauling wood back to have a bonfire. people giggle about the image of a small woman in her 60s running around the woods, hauling lumber, because it juxtaposes the cuddly old grandma stereotype when like. she's just having fun and doing things herself. I don't offer to help, not because I'm a bad daughter, but because it's her Thing she likes to do and it'd be condescending to be all "oh ma, you're too old" (and you shouldn't start shit w someone wielding a chainsaw anyway).
one of my best friends, a former work colleague, is close to my mother's age and loves going out to the gay bar. she's got 30+ years on me and I can't keep up with her lol but it shouldn't be kooky or weird or funny that she's still going out to the bar she's gone to since the 80s.
my grandma and her "girl gang," as she likes to call her group of friends, are all in their late eighties or early/mid nineties. when it's nice out, they go hiking then stop at a local restaurant for drinks and apps. I'm 27 and do the same with my friends and the idea I can still be active and social when I'm 90 makes me happy.
grandma has recently become comfortable swearing and flipping the bird. it's funny bc she's always been fairly proper and a little uptight, not because she's old. that also makes me happy, the fact she's finding new ways to express herself in a manner that goes against her "women should be quiet" upbringing in the 1940s. it's actually very cool that she's getting over some ideas about how women should act at eighty-nine.
idk y'all, I think older women are pretty cool and we shouldn't act like them doing normal, fun, human things is some kind of circus trick or comedy bit. it comes off as ageist and sexist. older women have put up with more shit than young people like me could fathom and deserve to have fun without being the butt of the joke.
One of my girl friends is older than me (I'm 29, she's 41) and one night, a group of us we were getting back from a rave and in her inebriated state she suddenly got self conscious. She asked us if we were embarrassed by her; if it was weird that someone at her age was going out with a bunch of young ladies (other ladies were 22, 21 and 30), and if she should act more her age, or something along those lines. I was genuinely so heartbroken she would feel that way. The rest of us immediately reassured her that we loved her and we loved her company and wouldn't have it any other way. Who cares what age she is, we were out having fun and enjoying the night. And anyone who judged her for it was a fucking loser. And I personally told her that if she stopped going to raves with me I would be devastated. She seemed so relieved
one thing i loved about my grandma is that woman was OUTSIDE, always. she was either going to a party or throwing one herself just for the hell of it and to bring everyone together.
Another thing to factor into this is the Generational map. Gen X is drifting inexorably into retirement age at the moment, and so you're going to see a lot more of "old folks giving zero fucks" as they stop working and make up for having silently carried the world for 40 years. Gen X has made a life habit of 'whatever'ing their way through the disapproval since before Reagan fucked over the US, and as we get older, the amount of fucks we give for how we 'ought to behave' is going to get lower and lower. We've never been fit for dinnertime conversation, or church potlucks, and we aren't going to start now.
And for what it's worth, we still know all the best ways to get blood out of a school uniform in under 12 hours. It's just now, we'll share the secrets over margaritas at the back yard bonfire.
*sits backwards on a chair like a youth pastor* hey gang. what if this october we did italian american heritage month but in a woke socialist way where we define italian american identity around the dismantling of white supremacy and white identity, solidarity with Black people, solidarity with Indigenous people in demanding actual material landback, solidarity with all modern immigrant groups facing racialized xenophobia, reclaim the history of the Italian American left (especially the women), and educate ourselves on the current political state of Italy especially with regards to the treatment of immigrants & non-white Italians as well as antimeridionalismo and other social evils. what if we burned an effigy of that cunt columbus on the front lawn of the Italian Sons & Daughters of America
Really wish we'd, on the left, stop laughing and assuming this is ACTUALLY about strippers. I'd be willing to bet this ISN'T about some one with the actual job of stripper being somehow hired and sent to a school, that indeed DOESN'T happen - instead it will be used to target any female teacher who, like, wears a bikini on social media one time. She'll be called a "danger" to children and fired, as a cover for the fact that she's pro-queer or too far left or doesn't support ICE enough on that same social media. The bikini pic will just be the legal tool used to ruin her life
A friend helped me out by looking up the actual bill and YUP, it's to target queer people and sex education. NOT. STRIPPERS. STOP MAKING IT ABOUT THE FUCKING "STRIPPERS".
Anyone who thinks ladyshinga might be off track, here's the breakdown.
Actual bill name: Stop the Sexualization of Children Act.
Purported purpose: "to protect children from being exposed to explicit material in the classroom".
How it's sold in the press: "Ban strippers and porn from classrooms!"
Actual text of the bill: Expands the meaning of "sexually explicit content" to include the words "or involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism".
Not and. Or. Meaning "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" is in and of itself enough to be classified as sexually explicit.
Actual result: Illegal to mention the existence of trans people or admit to being trans in a classroom under threat of being prosecuted as a child sex offender.
Political pet peeve but nothing being done is a "distraction" from anything else. Everything that the current administration is doing is an extension of American imperialism and conservative American values. Iran is not being bombed to "distract from the Epstein files", trans legislation is not being passed to "distract from Palestine", none of this is happening just to "distract" you. And dismissing certain issues as "distractions" is a horrific excuse of them.
It is, however, happening all at once to overwhelm you. And there is a HUGE difference.
A lot of people don't realize just how much space car infrastructure takes up. So I've decided to provide everyone a visual aid!
I've presented two maps at the exact same zoom level, as indicated by the big red arrow. They also each have a red area circled, of approximately the same area.
In the first image, I've circled one of eightish parking lots at a US mall. A normal amount of distance for even Americans who drive everywhere to walk through.
In the second image, I've circled:
a subway station
a park
like twenty apartment buildings
like twenty restaurants
three convenience stores (which, being Japanese, can also handle banking, copying/printing, and a variety of governmental paperwork)
one grocery store (another two right outside the circle)
seven medical clinics, two pharmacies
a fire station
a post office
two preschools and three cram schools
a ShintÅ shrine
a Buddhist temple
multiple parking lots
This wasn't even a particularly cherry-picked part of Tokyo! I just picked the area around my house.
