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General-purpose informational social justice blog with aro flavor || Nick || he/they || 22 || white || aromantic, grey-ace, butch, bisexual || I follow back from sol1loqu1st || bigots of any kind are not welcome here

[matarsack]

i think the world doesn’t know what it really means to live in a theocratic dictatorship. Let me tell you about our experiences living in the islamic regime of iran.

1. Your parents were born to muslim parents so they’re automatically muslim. You’re automatically a muslim too. You didn’t choose your religion and you can’t opt out of it or you will be executed.

2. The compulsory hijab law makes you a criminal if you choose not to wear hijab even tho you didn’t choose to be a muslim and you don’t consider yourself a muslim but the regime has forced you into that role whether you like it or not. And when you ‘break that law’, they can do with you as they please.

3. little girls as young as 7 yrs old are forced to wear hijab at school even tho the islam itself says the age is 9. and all the schools are gender segregated so imagine how they force you to get used to hijab even when you’re just surrounded by other girls. And all day long at school they tell you horrible stories about what will happen to you in hell if someone sees even a strand of your hair.

4. the regime modifies all the textbooks, story books, cartoons and movies to represent the ideal woman with full on hijab. The iranian media is ordered to photoshop every photo of a woman that may be showing a little skin. And if they’re iranian, no hair is supposed to be seen or that will be photoshopped away. Women are mostly excluded from billboards and tv commercials.

5. imagine going to work or meeting up with a friend when suddenly the morality police kidnap you in broad daylight and force you into a van to take you to a station where they will treat you like a criminal and if you don’t agree to get humiliated and do as they say, they will put you in prison. And in case of Mahsa Amini and so many more before her, they will beat you to death. My sister was barely 18 when she got kidnapped and they didn’t let her call home and she’d been so fucking scared and we had no idea where she was. Imagine all the psychological trauma.

6. If you’re in a car and not wearing hijab they will fine you and seize your car. So when u get into a taxi the driver will ask you to keep your hijab on otherwise they’ll get fined. And if you refuse they’ll ask you to get off the car.

7. And its not just about hijab. In Ramadan, they get even more vicious. If they catch you eating or even drinking water on the street they will give you lashes as punishment and even imprison you for breaking the law. If you work in a state-owned company it’s even worse. They will close the cafeteria and take away the water dispensers. All restaurants are banned from delivering food before iftar. It’s a fucking mess. Everyone has to pretend they’re fasting or they’ll be severely punished.

8. And how could I forget about this! iranian women are banned from singing! the islamic regime prohibits women’s singing voices to be heard by men so imagine the horror of having 50% of the population banned from ever becoming a singer. If they identify a female singer in iran, they will take her to jail and force her to repent her sins in the most humiliating way so that she will never dare sing again.

9. And every time the regime gets wind of a private gathering of men and women trying to have fun and live their fucking private lives, the police crash the party and take everyone to jail bc the Islamic regime bans iranian men and women from having fun.

So if you see Islam has become for many iranians a symbol of oppression and torture and discrimination, that’s why. The regime uses islam as a weapon to silence and punish anyone who opposes them. You can love islam all you want from the safety of your home in a free country and talk about how kind and benevolent the religion is, but in iran, it’s a whole different story.

Our economy is fucked. All govt officials are corrupt as fuck. Most websites are banned in iran. Even tumblr is banned. The world has cut the iranian ppl from many services. We don’t have intl credit cards like visa card. Amazon doesn’t do delivery to iran. We cant get netflix, spotify or even a gamepass subscription. we don’t get any Apple services here. iran isn’t listed as a country you could choose when signing up for a lot of services. and when we decide to leave iran and escape this hellhole, every country out there will make it sooo much harder for us to get a visa just bc we had the misfortune to be born in iran at the wrong time.

This is the story of iran for the past 44 years. Held hostage by a corrupt regime that uses religion to suppress and torture the people and being abandoned by the rest of the world bc our lives don’t matter.

Please be our voice. Once they shut down the internet completely and silence our voice, they will start slaughtering us to stifle the protests just like they did in 2019. Please help us. We want this fucking regime gone.

[dduane]

And their internet is in the process of being shut down right now.

(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/iran-blocks-capitals-internet-access-as-amini-protests-grow)

Reblog this and other voices from Iran. Help be their voices. They need us now.

[cjrae]

Reblogging.

[gendercensus]

The 2022 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The ninth annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2022.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, retweet this tweet, boost this Mastodon post, check out this post on Reddit, share this Facebook post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 44,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Blue-green nebula, yellow-orange nebula

[gendercensus]

Wednesday 10th August 2022

Brought to you from the terrible wifi of the wheelchair space of an old and busted Welsh train with no air conditioning during a heatwave - there are THREE DAYS LEFT on the big annual survey, there have been an incredible 38,000 responses from over 130 different countries, almost 15,000 notes on Tumblr, and I am as usual feeling super emotional to be part of a huge, diverse and fascinating international community!

The terrible train wifi doesn’t let me use Google Drive things so I can’t show you an up-to-date graph right now, but last I checked the percentages of people who are either above the age of 30 or from places other than Tumblr, Discord and Twitter are gradually increasing. This is great news! It’s a self-selecting survey so it’s always going to be unrepresentative, but getting as many people involved as possible helps a lot, and roping people in from lots of different places and age groups is even better.

So, for the last leg of this year’s gender census, every URL share with anyone (but especially anyone outside of Tumblr and/or over the age of say 25 or so) is truly fantastic: survey.gendercensus.com

Thank you everyone, so so much!

[ Link to survey ]

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

don’t like tiktok autism community because misuse high support needs and suddenly everyone say they high support needs

everyone say they high support needs themselves but have lower support needs than me i can’t live independently i can’t do any iADLs and some bADLs alone i can’t fully communicate i need at least part time supervision and i only mid/mid high support needs

:/

[notabled-noodle]

I see this here on tumblr too sometimes. people don’t seem to get that “low support needs” does not mean “able to function like a neurotypical”. you’re allowed to be low support needs and still need support

I’m on the low to mid support needs spectrum, and will never be able to live independently. but I’m still low-mid support most days. low support doesn’t mean no support

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

also think that majority of these people on tiktok & tumblr late diagnosed & isolated from I/DD services & general disability services. these services often attended by early diagnosed and labeled as moderate/severe who often not allowed to go out in mainstream public, can’t, don’t have the support to, etc.

so the world of these tiktok/tumblr people not include those labeled “moderate/severe” & hidden. because literally don’t see them often. even if see one, because of how “uncommon” it is for them to see, view them as exception, so don’t integrate their existence into world view. (societal problem, not fault of individual tiktok/tumblr people)

so take so many things for granted. literally cannot imagine, for example, someone who can’t understand “basic” safety. or someone who incontinent or need help change clothes or other “basic” things not because pain or anything, but because don’t have cognitive ability. or who elopes because can’t control impulse and not aware of surrounding. (many bad examples can’t think of good one right now)

or like. some tiktok/tumblr people may struggle with cooking and when to eat, so call it “struggle with eating.” when i know I/DD people who struggle with feeding (and cooking but because need feeding to live, their inability to cook don’t even come to mind because so irrelevant in comparison).

meanwhile, world of these tiktok/tumblr people dominated by nondisabled people. compared to nondisabled people, these tiktok/tumblr people have higher support needs.

but doesn’t mean higher support needs overall. compare to all people.

because again. “moderate/severe” disabled people/people w I/DD not in their world view.

and again. know the erasure of high high support needs disabled people is societal problem. and while all disabled people not accepted by society, some *are* more palatable to nondisabled people.

palatable disabled people still face struggle of course. just. need to be more aware of advantage :/

TL;DR think these tumblr/tiktok people call themselves “high support needs” because they are comparing themselves to nondisabled people (instead of entire population which includes “moderate/severe” disabled people for lack of better description)

[birdofmay]

Sometimes I see people say they struggle with eating and I'm like "Oh, you have dysphagia too? 🤩 Or do you mean feeding?" and then they're like "Uh no I mean cooking and regular food intake because of executive dysfunction" and I'm like "Oh, you're allowed to use a microwave?"

[aro-bot]

hope it's ok to add my thoughts here -- if not, just let me know and i'll take the reply down! (i largely agree with op, just expanding on the subject from another perspective!)

as a low support needs autistic person, i struggled with not getting the accommodations i needed for a long time (still do, actually, but i have systems in place now that i didn't before) and felt like/assumed that i was unable to be independent.

i also don't mask very well -- most people i talk to might not immediately jump to autism, but they do automatically notice that i'm very different from "normal" people, and i mistook this for being high support needs

those things combined with the fact that i didn't know anyone who was actually high support needs at the time, meant that i felt very uncomfortable and invalidated when someone would tell me i had low support needs ("high functioning" was term commonly applied to me -- i still dislike functioning labels, but defining it in terms of support needs makes a lot more sense)

i suspect this is what's happening for a lot of the autism community on tumblr & tiktok? basically, folks are realizing they do need accommodations so they assume that means they're high support needs, but don't realize that when someone says they're low support needs -- i.e. capable of functioning independently with accommodations -- it isn't inherently invalidating of their struggles and they still deserve to have the support they do need

final thoughts -- the autism community has a long way to go when it comes to listening to mid-high support needs folks and what y'all need/want. autism is a spectrum & that inherently means we're all going to need and want different things and feel different ways about it, and that's ok!

[makhnoviteplus]

You know I'm getting really tired of the overwhelmingly popular notion that sex offenders "have it too easy".

The Sex Offender Registry is public, anyone on it has every aspect of their personal information online, allowing vigilantes to track you down and kill you and when they do, the cops aren't going to investigate your murder. Furthermore, being put on the SOR commonly disqualifies you from any form of rent, home ownership, or employment and thus most sex offenders become homeless.

If a Sex Offender does go to prison, chances are they will be killed purely for being a sex offender as every inmate will assume they are a child molester. I remember reading a story of a 20 year old man who was mutilated beyond recognition in prison after being put on the SOR for having sex with his 17 yo girlfriend.

Contrary to popular belief, you can be put onto the Sex Offender Registry for a vast variety of reasons, not just raping a child so assuming that all Sex Offenders are child rapists is illogical. Any form of indecent exposure can land you on the SOR. Back in the 2010s, there was a Texas teen who streaked at a football game and was put on the SOR as a result. He committed suicide because the courts would not take his name off the registry and yes, btw, getting taken off the Registry is virtually impossible to do even if you have mountains of evidence proving your innocence.

Furthermore, the SOR never actually reveals what crime each person on it committed but the major news networks have firmly convinced the U.S Population that every sex offender is a child rapist.

In Colorado, registered sex offenders are not allowed to own photographs of family members who are minors, nor are they allowed to even speak to minors. In Wisconsin, a registered sex offender was barred from entering a hospital where his 9-year-old son was undergoing surgery on the basis that he might rape his son.

People seem to think that the legal system is too leniant on sex offenders simply because sex offenders aren't suffering the punishments people want them to suffer. Just because a sex offender isn't being executed by firing squadron, burned at the stake, pulled apart by horses, sent to the gallows or thrown in a pit with 1000 hungry rats doesn't mean they aren't being punished.

It really bothers me that so many leftists, especially Anarchists buy into this bullshit and vigilante justice.

[cerayanay]

“You’re Wrong About” did an episode on this in 2019, which reiterates this post, goes more in depth on some issues and gives more specific examples. Another good example is a man who was semi coherced into just admitting guilt to his case for owning child pornography. What had actually happened is this man downloaded a lot of porn from online, one of which featured a woman who was 17/16, which he didn’t know. Police convinced him the whole thing would be easier if he pleaded guilty and was registered, and it ruined his life. Landlords won’t rent to him, he can’t keep a job, and he can’t use a computer unless for things related to work, making living impossible.

As conservative fascism gets more intense we really do need to criticize and scrutinize our attitudes towards the SOR. What if skimpier clothing gets you hit with indecent exposure? Non-Hetero presenting PDA? And if stricter conservative laws put in place concerning public dress codes? As of 2022, 14 states still have not repealed their anti sodomy laws, even though the Supreme Court case Lawrence v Texas invalidates them. What if that ruling was repealed? Now, legally, any sex outside of procreation could mark you as a sex offender. And it’s no secret these laws are left ambiguous intentionally because they are used almost exclusively against queer sex. Meanwhile, you couldn’t criticize the SOR without being labeled as a child abuser advocate.

We have to pick about every peice of our social justice system, including sex offender laws.

[mementomorioh]

Pleasantly surprised this didn’t have some kind of “gotcha!” at the end and brought up not only all the legitimate good points but also examples of exactly why this system does not work. Not only is it wrongfully punishing people who really don’t deserve it (seriously? Put on the sex offender list for streaking?), but we all know how easy it is for actual rapists to get away with even just a little bit of influence or money to wave around.

But people who panic and assume we just need harsher laws are the same people who pull out the Shirley Exception—“well surely if it was one of the above crimes, the person wouldn’t be put on the sex offender list!”

They were, tho.

[buddhawithoutorgans]

Sex workers are also routinely registered or have the threat of registration used against them, especially gay men

[zhooniyaa-waagosh]

I mentioned this recently already, but homeless people are also often registered as sex offenders for things like urinating in public (because they aren't allowed to use businesses' restrooms), having sex in tents, and even getting undressed in their cars.

[genderkoolaid]

“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.” — H. L. Mencken

[turnpikeghosts]

oh actually i will say one thing “this is the fault of people who didn’t vote in 2016!” “this is rbg’s fault!” this is the result of a half century long takeover of the federal judiciary by an extremist right wing minority you asinine freaks yeah i’m angry about a lot of things too but this is the same energy as people ignoring corporations pollution while yelling at people who don’t recycle

[frocio]

i still remember clearly one of my first interactions at pride with a 40-something member of the lgbt community. I asked him if I could take a picture of him with the bear flag (because I was really happy to see it irl for the first time!) and he asked, "are you feeling like a she-bear a little bit?"

and being gay almost exclusively online back then aside from maybe two friends, I was shocked by that question. me? a 19 years old kid who thought themselves to be cis and bi? I was basically the polar opposite of what a bear is.

but now, six years later, I see it. I'm fat, I'm hairy, I'm shamelessly a dyke, I'm masc. yes I'm butch, but fuck it, I'm also a she-bear. that guy was right. I hope he's doing alright and he knows he's changed my view on labels forever.

[frocio]

since this keeps getting notes (which I didn't expect since I'm a small blog), I'd like to also point out 1) my original tags:

and 2) the fact that this post was made to show you that, if someone that's over twice my age will call me a bear without batting an eye when I wasn't, I'm not, and I never looked like a gay man, then maybe 11 different microlabels to describe your own unique gender and sexuality experience aren't as necessary as you think.

love how broad lgbt identities are. don't limit yourself to microlabels to build your sense of self. cherish all interactions with older members.

[aro-bot]

nvm lmao that asker had a bunch of lame ace discourse takes in 2022. imagine being an actual adult who invests time and energy into gatekeeping jesus christ y’all are cringe

[moodr1ng]

have to say once more.. bigender people who are both men and women get no respect or consideration cause yall make us just women or just men depending on which one will invalidate our arguments or make us sound like oppressors, and none of yall can figure out how to fit us into your gender politics bc acknowledging us as real men AND real women would require understanding that men and women are not fully different, separate and opposite groups. bigender m+w means you cant group everyone into “men and non-men” and act like these are coherent categories. bigender m+w means you will need to let bigender wlw talk about wlw experiences without painting them as aggressive male intruders, and bigender mlm talk about mlm experiences without painting them as fetishizing straight women. bigender m+w means you cant treat us as if were exclusively men the moment we talk about anything you dont like regarding gender so you can paint us as purely actors of oppression who have never suffered misogyny despite also being women. bigender m+w means you have to rethink how you think gender works and what you believe about nonbinary people aligning themselves with a binary gender meaning theyre just “man lite or woman lite” when some of us are aligned with both binary genders. etc..

[romanticvampire-deactivated2024]

just make it aroallo

[sumptiousfeast]

there’s only 6 days til her execution (April 27th 2022) and i’ve tried sharing the story around but it seems like the schedule is marching on so i’m gonna post about it here too because i really don’t want this woman to die

Melissa Lucio: 10 Facts You Should Know About This Innocent Woman Facing Execution

In 2008, Melissa Lucio was sentenced to death in Texas for the murder of her 2-year old daughter Mariah, who died two days after a tragic fa

please spare a moment to read or share her story or anything

[dgsurfers]

From innocenceproject:

Make sure everyone on Twitter knows her name: Tweet now

If you live in Texas, call D.A. Saenz and urge him to withdraw the execution date: 956-300-3881 If you live in Texas, contact Gov. Abbott now: 956-446-2866 Or click here (If you’ve never called an official before and don’t know what to say, don’t worry! We’ve provided an example of what you can say, but elected officials always take notice of personalized messages, so we encourage you to make it your own.)

Add your name to stop the execution. If you live in Texas, we encourage you to attend the 26th Annual Cesar E. Chavez March for Justice in San Antonio on Saturday, March 26, 2022, beginning at 8:30 a.m. CST. Details here. Bring your Save Melissa signs and join supporters.

[yharnamsnewslug]

"Word have meanings!!!!!!"

You sound like the fucking Royal Academy of Spanish, my dude. Have some cool water and meet a bulldyke who uses bisexual to describe their gender. It'll change your life.

[yharnamsnewslug]

There's a reason young queer ppl online are fucking frothing at the mouth with radfem kool-aid, and it's because TERFs have made damn sure that the online sphere is plagued by the most dead-brained takes about gender and masculinity and labels.

Stop being so, so, SO fucking myopic about language. "WORDS HAVE MEANINGS!!!!"

What does love mean to you? To your grandma? To the homeless man at the corner of your busiest street? To a fisherman during the winter? To a woman from the middle east? To a child from Russia? What about love from a middle aged widow in Hawai'i? A Romanian teenager about to go to college? A Madagascan shoemaker?

"Words have meanings", and those meanings are a spectrum, and those meanings are different to everyone, and y'all are so HELLBENT on telling EVERYONE how they're supposed to fucking FEEL and what THEIR label, which they have CHOSEN, MEANS.

You're a child. A fucking child. Grow the fuck up, for fuck's sake. Get your head out of your ass. You're making a fool of yourself.

[prof-grace-aspen]

I think we need to acknowledge that a lot of them are not children. Saying they are places an air of innocent ignorance on them that they do not deserve. Full grown adults have told me words have meanings and to kill myself for being queer in a way they didn't like.

[yharnamsnewslug]

Yeah, no, you are ABSOLUTELY right.

[psychoticallytrans]

I have been in lit classes of all levels by the grace of professors humoring a friendly undergrad. All of them, especially the poetry ones, spend a long, long time hammering in that language is primarily a tool of expression and communication- and that communication is heavily context based. Interpreting a poem published in a leading literary publication is very different from a poem recovered from a private diary, and very different again from a poem sent in a private letter. The whole meaning of a word changes based on who is using it and in what situation. The third paragraph of the second reblog could be something directly ripped from a graduate level class I was allowed to sit in on that analyzed Jewish poetry from around the world.

When someone’s identity is something you think is a contradiction, when someone’s identity is too “weird” or “new” or “not real”, what you need to question is not “Is this person’s identity real?”, but “What is this person using this identity for? What connections can I find in this identity to myself and my experiences? What can I learn from this person and how they use words?” These questions should be internal unless the person invites you to ask, but you can still learn a lot from thinking them over. Even if you don’t reach any understanding of the identity, you can still understand that this is how they are choosing to represent themselves, and respect that.

Words have no inherent value or meaning. Words are meaningful because of how we use them and for what.

[tsitsho]

Pspspsp someone commission me i need money and also something to challenge me for art

You can also check my art blog @cipheraldraws for more recent art examples

[tsitsho]

So this is a bit more dire now!

Those of you that know me know my mother is dating this guy named curtis and that i live with them both. Well, curtis has started acting like my mother's shit ex who gave me lasting trauma and is a large reason why i have as many mental health issues as i do! Including threatening to turn off my wifi because he doesnt like my sleep schedule (nevermind that i am a TWENTY ONE YEAR OLD ADULT), and claiming my mother and i can't call in noise complaints when our upstairs neighbour is partying or moving furniture around at 3 to 5 in the morning because it's "instigating" her.

So! What does that mean for all this?

It means we need to find a place to live for 2 people and 2 cats that's... 500 bucks or less a month. Which isn't likely to be possible! My mother is on disability and I myself am waiting for my own to go through and be approved. Until then all I have is this freelance job.

I want to be able to try and save up money so that we can move out and away from this bitchass boyfriend she has. My goal is gonna be $3000, so we can at least cover first and last of a cheap place, plus food for the first month (hopefully). Ideally, I'll get commissions for most of this, but because of the situation, I'm also accepting donations. My links are below. I cant do v*nmo or c*shapp because theyre not accepted in canada.

PLEASE do not tag this as "d0nation", though, as that risks the post being shadowbanned.

P*ypal

Interac (canada only): Dm for email.

[thechanelmuse]

From Tennessee Lookout:

MASON, Tenn. – The Tennessee Comptroller issued an unusual appeal last week to residents of this small, majority Black town, which occupies fewer than two square miles in rural west Tennessee.

“In my opinion, it’s time for Mason to relinquish its charter,” Comptroller Jason Mumpower wrote in a letter mailed to each one of Mason’s 1,337 property owners.

Mumpower urged local residents to “encourage your local officials to do what’s necessary to allow Mason to thrive. There is no time to waste.”

State comptrollers, responsible for financial oversight of local government, typically communicate directly with elected local leaders and not their constituents. “We have not issued a letter to citizens like this before,” Comptroller spokesman John Dunn said, noting it is “unprecedented for us to publicly call for a town charter to be relinquished.”

But the Comptroller’s unprecedented public callout comes at an unprecedented time not only for Mason, but for the state. Mason, located in the southeastern corner of Tipton County, now finds itself with some of the most coveted real estate in Tennessee.

It’s one of the nearest towns to the massive new site to be built for Blue Oval City, a key component in Ford Motor Co’s multibillion-dollar pivot to electric vehicle manufacturing.

Mumpower’s letter has infuriated Mason’s part-time elected officials, who insist they have no intention of ceding their town’s 153-year-old charter – which would subsume the largely African-American, majority Democratic community under the governance of Tipton County, which is predominantly white and Republican.

“This is our home. We were born and raised here. The majority of the town is homegrown people that live here,” Vice Mayor Virginia Rivers said. “He is trying to conquer and divide us. It’s akin to a hostile take-over and it’s not hard to figure out why here, why now.”

Town leaders are accusing Mumpower and other state officials of big-footing a long-ignored, largely Black community now that major investment is heading its way.

Mason is 60% Black and includes descendants of men, women and children enslaved in the area before Emancipation. For more than a century the town was led by White elected officials.

That changed in 2016, when fraud and mismanagement allegations led to the resignations of nearly all City Hall officials, all of whom were White. Mason’s current mayor, vice mayor and five of its six alderman are Black.

“It’s because of the Black people that are in office,” said Rivers, who first became Vice Mayor in 2021.

“And it’s because of all the places in the world, Blue Oval could have selected, they selected here. There’s no way Mason won’t prosper and grow. And now they want to take it away from us.”

Read more

The Comptroller’s office:

Yet again like in the past. New day, new Jim Crow-esque tactics, perfectly timed takeovers. This Black American town needs to be promptly saved without handing a damn thing over. The town elected mostly Black officials back in 2015. They’ve been trying to pay off the debt from when the town was previously ran by mostly white officials. Literally playing catch-up. 

This ain’t nothing but a glimpse of what it looks like before eventually uprooting and displacing Black people off the land they have resided on since forever and where their ancestors labored said land as property in chattel slavery and the move into Jim Crow.  

There’s a change.org petition to sign and share to get the word out there.

This person suggested to put Ford in the hot seat by sending a letter like this. Others are suggested to call their office. 

This is the CEO of Ford’s twitter.

Something gotta give. 

This shit should be on the news. But as usual, they make it known after the deed is done or not at all and you end up finding out years later. 

[firstgrave]

“i would never confess to a crime I didn’t commit” you would. “I would never plead guilty if i was innocent” you would. “I would never give up fighting” you would.

[firstgrave]

there is no such thing as insurmountable human will and the criminal justice system is designed to find any weak point possible. it is designed to break people. you would break in these conditions, just as so many others have. looking at those who have been in these positions and declaring yourself above them, better than them, stronger than them is nothing more than pathetically naive arrogance

[innocet]

I Miss My Ex (Aromantic Remix)

Today you started talking to me again.

You were cold to me.

Today the biggest snowflakes I have ever seen fell outside my window.

I remembered that November night you held my hand

and watched the ground turn white.

I miss it, I think. I miss you.

I think there’s been a miscommunication.

When I told you I wanted to be friends again

I meant “I love you.”

I meant “I want to love you in the way I know how.”

I think you heard something else.

Something along the lines of “just friends.”

But I don’t really know the difference between “friends” and “I love you.”

I was hoping you wouldn’t either.

I liked the feel of your hand in mine.

Maybe when the ice thaws we can try again.

[tanadrin]

I can’t imagine the balls it takes to be a Russian anti-war protester right now. Good for them.

[tanadrin]

#i hope they’re being safe and careful 

Right now, holding up a sign in St. Petersburg condemning this war is the textbook definition of “neither safe nor careful.”

But they’re proving to anybody in Russia who thought they were the only ones who opposed this war, that they’re not, and reminding the rest of the world that a government is not the people it claims to represent, and I am deeply moved by their courage.

[psychoticallytrans]

This Valentines, this post goes out to every aromantic disabled person.

It’s a unique kind of alienation, when so many disabled people seek romantic love to reassure ourselves that we are lovable. To be rejected as a romantic partner before you even know you don’t want one, because disabled people are considered unfit romantic partners by default.

Romance, and being loved romantically, are not the end all and be all of value. You are a whole and valuable person without it.

Please, celebrate the first Discount Candy Day of the year with me tomorrow.