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If strippers started showing up to other people’s workplaces and pulled the stunts y'all can’t stop trying to pull when you walk into our house.

originally published on jacqthestripper.com

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The last one lmao

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I’m the girl with the extremely knowing smile in the foreground

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how to write about MMIW, a brief guide for journalists:

list: her full name, what city the event happened in and when (an actual date not just a year!), what the current standing of her case is

do not say she was a sex worker, abusing substances, “troubled,” and/or “living a high-risk lifestyle” unless there is documentation that supports that claim and it is relevant to her case

do not include a mug shot of the victim unless there are no other photos available (priority should go to humanizing photos the victim clearly posed for)

do not share any graphic photos, including photos of bodies, crime scenes, body parts, etc

the victim was a part of a nation, community, and family–be respectful and acknowledge that. say what her tribal affiliation was, whether she was a mother/sister/auntie/grandmother, what her career or aspirations were, etc

do not refer to her as “aboriginal woman” in the headline, she is not “aboriginal woman,” she is First Name Last Name from ______ First Nation

give the victim’s family a say in what information is shared, and how it is shared. prioritize their voices and quotes from indigenous activists/leaders above anyone else on this issue

don’t blame domestic violence-related homicides on substance abuse

if child services, law enforcement and/or the justice system mishandled her case, or other cases the perpetrator was involved in, the public needs to know

i have been doing background research to fill in the gaps in the database i’m maintaining, and it’s disturbing to see how many articles say things like “the victim was likely a prostitute,” make excuses for chronic abusers, use mug shots for victims when other photos are available, etc. this is BASIC SHIT. i have even come across multiple articles that share photos of dead bodies, one of which was an underage girl, which was extremely upsetting.

the lack of adequate reporting of information is also very frustrating. of the 642 cases that i’m done researching, 11% have no data publicly available at all (they are on publicly circulated lists as MMIW but when you search their individual name no specific info comes up), and 10% are missing basic information (i log their name, tribal affiliation, location event occurred in, date event occurred, age at time of event, whether they were murdered or are missing, any relevant keywords, and a source link). it’s lazy and irresponsible to report on this without doing that basic research, and if you have access to interview a family member, you have access to find out things like what nation the victim was from. and yet, the vast majority of cases in which i have been able to find specific tribal affiliation is when i can find their obituary online, which usually lists their hometown or lists funeral services in their home community.

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Climate Change is acting much faster than many have expected. Global sea ice is in a free fall compared to all other years on record.

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While we’re on the topic of Climate Change, this post and article is worth reading (from my science blog above).

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That’s 36 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than it should be at this time of year. I’m especially troubled because my Actual News-Reading Friends are reacting to this with “wait but is that normal, or is it actually global warming?”

Which means that sources like the Washington Post are doing a terrible job of explaining what this actually means. Which is probably a huge part of why people are generally not very concerned about climate change, especially not compared to how bad the situation actually is.

The graph above shows that every single year on record, the amount of ice in the sea has grown and melted at about the same times and in the same amounts. Except this year, when suddenly, instead of a bunch of ice forming in fucking winter, it’s… Not. It’s remaining at summer levels, basically.

This is not just part of global warming, it IS global warming. This is the core of the whole thing. The amazing amounts of carbon dioxide that we’ve been dumping into the atmosphere at an increasing rate for the past 100 years have been trapping more and more heat inside the atmosphere.

This has finally reached the point of Horrible Vicious Cycle. Because when it gets too warm, the polar ice caps melt.

When they melt, the oceans become much warmer and more acidic and can’t sustain life well.

When the oceans get warmer, they stop helping cool the atmosphere. Having large bodies of cold water lying around is GOOD if you want an area to be cooler. Having large bodies of warm water lying around does fuck all for cooling anybody down.

The less the oceans help cool things, the more our carbon emissions affect the atmosphere. Because they’re no longer partly being counteracted by the oceans.

Which means global warming accelerates.

Which means ice melting accelerates.

Which means the oceans get even more fucked up.

Which means global warming accelerates even more.

The reaction to this should not be “wait but is this just a thing that happens, the newspaper didn’t really say,” it should be a massive, front page, global headline of “OH FUCKING SHIT.”