Tumble This, Momma

Serious & Funny. Calling Attention to #EveryDaySexism, the Gender Binary, Racism, and Social Inequities. Are you #NotBuyingIt yet?

[amountainmomma]

I am reminded today of a lecture I had from a great professor at SFU, many years ago. It was a general science class, we were discussing PROGRESS.

What it means, how it works, what it looks like. 

If you look at progress in science, it is not a straight line, not linear.

One achievement does not necessarily lead to the next. There are bumps along the way, sideways moves, unexpected outcomes, and setbacks.

It is also an iterative process, where we look back, reflect on the past, the decision and actions, to see what can be done better.

The same can be said for the human condition and our slow winding journey to become more evolved. To be better. To progress.

Trump winning the American election for president is one of these sideways, unexpected setbacks. 

This is what I am hanging on to today.

[amountainmomma]

The 1st MADSoC Newsletter is out!

The 1st MADSoC Newsletter is out!

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[amountainmomma]

Why watching #TheWalkingDead helps my anxiety

Photo Credit: http://www.edvard-munch.com/ I have anxiety. Always have. When I was 5 I watched the hurricane lamps when the lights went out. How the flame flickered with each bump and bang as my brother and sister zigzagged around the house. I watched to make sure it didn’t fall over. When I was 7 I sat at the window for hours, late into the night, watching the embers we had left outside. Our…

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[amountainmomma]

Run

They say I am the leader, so she should stay behind me; the only way she will be a "good" dog. But, I love to watch her run. #poemsaboutdogs

[boredpanda]

Cats’ Deepest Secrets Revealed On Felines Of New York

[amountainmomma]

Sylvia Plath for the Signs

Aries: "It is so much safer not to feel than to let the world touch me."

Taurus: "Kiss me, and you will see how important I am."

Gemini: "I want to talk to everyone as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night."

Cancer: "Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?"

Leo: "Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I have taken for granted."

Virgo: "Go out and do something. It isn't your room that's a prison, it's yourself."

Libra: "Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen."

Scorpio: "Please don't expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand."

Sagittarius: "I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married... Spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free... I want, I want to think, to be omniscient.

Capricorn: "For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that- I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much- so very much to learn."

Aquarius: "I took a deep breath and listened to the deep brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."

Pisces: "I dream to much, work too little."

[cloudyskiesandcatharsis]

On the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Dorothy Counts set out on a harrowing path toward Harding High, where-as the first African American to attend the all-white school – she was greeted by a jeering swarm of boys who spat, threw trash, and yelled epithets at her as she entered the building.

Charlotte Observer photographer Don Sturkey captured the ugly incident on film, and in the days that followed, the searing image appeared not just in the local paper but in newspapers around the world.

People everywhere were transfixed by the girl in the photograph who stood tall, her five-foot-ten-inch frame towering nobly above the mob that trailed her. There, in black and white, was evidence of the brutality of racism, a sinister force that had led children to torment another child while adults stood by. While the images display a lot of evils: prejudice, ignorance, racism, sexism, inequality, it also captures true strength, determination, courage and inspiration.

[bellecs]

Here she is, age 70, still absolutely elegant and poised.

[quads-for-the-gods]

she deserves to be re-blogged. 

[pandragolot-deactivated20160710]

she’s so goddamned inspirational

[rivernymph-deactivated20140519]

this makes me want to cry

[tatted-black-widow]

Doesn’t look a day over 55.

[blondegirl-graydog]

Men are fucking disgusting, part 2485726364784483762367472636474

[laughterkey]

What the ACTUAL fuck?

[butchfatty-deactivated20210203]

do…men understand that you cant just….buy birth control…in the store………….like condoms?????? you…cant really shop around…for birth control?????

[amountainmomma]

[amountainmomma]

From Andrew Toups on FB https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10104871444617965&set=a.10100661646347445.2946295.23432115&type=1&theater

Well said my friend…

#politicalcorrectnessisacopout

[amountainmomma]

Original Poetry/Art: Caterpillar

Charcoal

[normal-and-selfcontrolled]

[geeknewsnetwork]

She is not impressed with this sign. #toysarenotgenderbias #genderneutral #lettoysbetoys #notimpressed

[madame-schrodinger]

Absolutely everyone should read this @everydaysexism #books #readinglist #everydaysexism #shoutingback

[amountainmomma]

1 in 7.... #violenceagainstwomen

[nateosit-blog]

Their demands are an anti-poverty agenda: they want progressive taxation, wealth taxes and the elimination of tax evasion to pay for action on the social determinants of health. They have the big corporations in their sights, demanding that people everywhere be protected against the marketing strategies of companies selling tobacco, alcohol, baby milk substitutes, high fat and sugar foods, as well as those of the oil industry. They want equal access to affordable healthcare and oppose privatisation, and they want rich countries to compensate poor ones for recruiting their doctors and nurses.

Star of the day was Prof David Sanders, of the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and the People’s Health Movement, whose rousing speech slating the official declaration received a standing ovation from campaigners, while many member state representatives sat silent. It ought to tackle unfair trade, he said, in which agricultural subsidies lead to food insecurity and malnutrition, especially in Africa. He accused corporations of buying up land in famine-dogged Ethiopia to grow food for the west. And he accused the west of robbing poor countries of skilled healthcare staff.

Health has become a rallying cry for those who oppose poverty, privilege and greed. This is one genie that looks unlikely to go back in the bottle.

[infectioushealth]

Poverty consists, not in the decrease of one’s possessions, but in the increase of one’s greed.

Plato (via infectioushealth)

[antilla-dean]

Just so we are clear

Black women are killed for refusing to suffer poor treatment silently. For asserting their rights. For being angry at how they are being handled.

Standing up for yourself as a black woman can lead to dying.