Kris's Ramblings

[glooblin-archived]

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[moved-to-naltorians-blog]

[gayassjana]

I’m losing my SHIT

[accras]

“This video of this adorable little girl encouraging her Dad while he tries to do her hair, is just what we needed to brighten up our day.” [X]

[startrekrenegades]

[Dad: How’m I doing on your hair? Child: Good! Dad: Let’s see, do I need more grease? Child: Yes. You need more grease on there. Dad: More grease? And then what? Child: And then you gonna need to brush it, and then you put a band on there. Dad: A band on it? Child: Yeah! Dad: Aww.. Child: You’re getting it through! You’re almost done! You’re doing a good job! Dad: Aww, thank you, sweetheart, so much! Daddy’s trying, doing the best I can. Thank you so much. Child: You’re welcome! Dad: I’m almost done! Child: You been doing great! Dad: Aw baby, thank you so much, you’re so encouraging to Dad. Thank you. Child: You’re welcome. Dad: I really appreciate you so much. You’re so awesome. Daddy getting your ponytails ready for school.]

[gardnerhill]

Interrupting all the political ugliness to make you melt with cute.

[sangrexderramada]

Me as a father

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

this is so pure

[valerie1972]

Kids that age are parrots of tone and phrasing. So the whole bit with “You’re getting it through! You’re almost done! You’re doing a good job!” means that there is at least one adult, if not more, in her life that regularly talks to her that way.

Everything about this video makes me happy.

[enbycarp]

LGBT Books to Prisoners

A trans-affirming, racial justice-focused, prison abolitionist project sending books to incarcerated LGBTQ-identified people across the United States

Hey, while I’m sharing wish lists, please check out and share this organization who sends books to LGBT prisoners across the US.  There are wish lists on their site if you can help out!

“We are a donation-funded, volunteer-run organization based in Madison, WI that sends books and other educational materials, free of charge, to incarcerated LGBTQ people across the United States. We have been doing this for over 10 years and have sent books to nearly 8,000 people in that time.

We do this because:

We want to acknowledge, and work against, the oppressive functions of the prison system. Our project shifts some control back into incarcerated people’s hands.

Incarcerated persons have little access to reading material, and LGBTQ people behind bars have a particularly hard time finding resources that meet their needs and wants. We are in a position to gather and distribute these resources.

We believe that our work affirms the dignity of all individuals by providing access to knowledge of their choosing, so that they can learn and grow as they desire. We respond to individuals’ requests as directly as possible.

LGBTQ people behind bars face many hardships, including — but not limited to — isolation and physical violence. We want them to know that they have a supportive community on the outside that cares about their wellbeing.”

[blackfeminismlives]

The best!!!!!! Jazz is actual jazz. The improvisatory resilience of our people. The joyful labor of making love possible. Eco-hybridity in practice. Film and sound as oracle. Toni Cade Bambara’s Dreams come true. Jazz Franklin is a Black Feminist Bookmobile!!!!! https://teespring.com/black-feminist-bookmobile (at New Orleans, Louisiana)

[classicladiesofcolor]

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Finally Recognizes Woman Who Practically Invented Rock and Roll

This year’s inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame have been announced, and they have finally gotten around to adding Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who’s got a pretty good claim to having invented that shit. She got her credit the same year as Dire Straits and Bon Jovi.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe AND Nina Simone will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The 33rd induction ceremony will be on April 14, 2018 at the Public Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio. The show will be broadcast later by HBO and Sirius XM.

[bellygangstaboo]

Next time a Hollywood executive tells a Black filmmaker that Black stories or films don’t sell overseas…

[jackthebard]

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.

[sourcedumal]

[shuttersmiley]

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

[foxsan-deactivated20140515]

Isaac Asimov.

[sim0nbaz-deactivated20170205]

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

[fancyeliza-deactivated20200804]

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

[cryptovalid]

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

[gunthatshootsennui]

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

[deathcomes4u]

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

[velocigrey-deactivated20160825]

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

[geekinlibrariansclothing]

Got that?

[bettieleetwo]

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

[la-knight]

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

[athenadark]

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

[thepsychicclam]

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

[ladynorbert]

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

[darkbookworm13-deactivated20240]

*slams reblog button*

[carnivaloftherandom]

And shall we note, much of the origins of literature, came from non-white women. We shall. But, HO, what is this I see? SCIENCE. Not counting oral traditions, if you want to go WAY BACK, to narrative graphic arts, it was recently concluded that many of the pre-historic cave paintings were done by women.

So, if you can wrap your heads around it: women have always been storytellers. In every type of story. Many of them originating the forms used in narrative.

So.

[gael-garcia]

Miss Major in The Trans List (2016)

[eeyes]

a reminder that miss major has a retirement fund, still not even half funded after being open for 4 years. if you’re able, you should consider a monthly pledge, or whatever you are able

https://www.gofundme.com/MsMajorRetirement

[mooniicorn]

“If autism isn’t caused by environmental factors and is natural why didn’t we ever see it in the past?”

We did, except it wasn’t called autism it was called “Little Jonathan is a r*tarded halfwit who bangs his head on things and can’t speak so we’re taking him into the middle of the cold dark forest and leaving him there to die.”

[iamthethunder]

Or “little Jonathan doesn’t talk but does a good job herding the sheep, contributes to the community in his own way, and is, all around, a decent guy.” That happened a lot, too, especially before the 19th century.

[rosslynpaladin]

Or, backing up FURTHER

and lots of people think this very likely,

“Oh little Sionnat has obviously been taken by the fairies and they’ve left us a Changeling Child who knows too much, and asks strange questions, and uses words she shouldn’t know, and watches everything with her big dark eyes, clearly a Fairy Child and not a Human Like Us.”

The Myth of the Changeling child, a human baby apparently replaced at a young age by a toddler who “suddenly” acts “strange and fey” is an almost textbook depiction of autistic children.

To this day, “autism warrior mommies” talk about autism “stealing” their “sweet normal child” and have this idea of “getting their real baby back” which (in the face of modern science)  indicates how the human psyche actually does deal with finding out their kid acts unlike what they expected.

Given this evidence, and how common we now know autism actually is, the Changeling myth is almost definitely the result of people’s confusion at the development of autistic children.

[vicecommanderhijikata]

Weirdly enough, that legend is now comforting to me.

[neddythestylish]

I think it’s worth noting that many like me, who are diagnosed with ASD now, would probably have been seen as just a bit odd in centuries past. I’m only a little bit autistic; I can pass for neurotypical for short periods if I work really hard at it. I have a lack of talent in social situations, and I’m prone to sensory overload or you might notice me stimming.

But here’s the thing: life is louder, brighter and more intense and confusing than it has ever been. I live on the edge of London and I rarely go into the centre of town because it’s too overwhelming. If I went back in time and lived on a farm somewhere, would anyone even notice there was anything odd about me? No police sirens, no crowded streets that go on for miles and miles, no flickery electric lights. Working on a farm has a clear routine. I’d be a badass at spinning cloth or churning butter because I find endless repetition soothing rather than boring.

I’m not trying to romanticise the past because I know it was hard, dirty work with a constant risk of premature death. I don’t actually want to be a 16th century farmer! What I’m saying is that disability exists in the context of the environment. Our environment isn’t making people autistic in the sense of some chemical causing brain damage. But we have created a modern environment which is hostile to autistic people in many ways, which effectively makes us more disabled. When you make people more disabled, you start to see more people struggling, failing at school because they’re overwhelmed, freaking out at the sound of electric hand dryers and so on. And suddenly it looks like there’s millions more autistic people than existed before.

[grace-and-ace]

“…disability exists in the context of the environment.”

[coldalbion]

Reblog for disability commentary.

[elodieunderglass]

That really is it. And this goes back to the faux-evolution social darwinists who insist, wrongly, that disabilities and neurodiversity make people “unfit.”

It didn’t matter that some early hominids had ADHD. They were perfectly capable of surviving and reproducing.

[if-i-am-not-for-me]

One case of “disability exists in the context of the environment” is early European settlement of Martha’s Vineyard. Due to some genetic happenstance starting in 1718, by 1854 Martha’s Vineyard ended up with a deaf population of 1 in 25 residents (the national average was 1 in 5728).

Everyone there was at least closely acquainted with a deaf person, if not related to a deaf person, or deaf themself. Sending deaf children away wasn’t an option because there weren’t facilities for them on the mainland, nor could families afford to lose the labor of their able bodied, deaf kids. So the community needed to have a way to communicate with and incorporate deaf citizens. By 1854 everyone in the settlements were fluent in sign language, church sermons were delivered in sign and English. The deaf people of Martha’s Vineyard did not perceive themselves as disabled, nor did their hearing peers. It was barely more notable that a person was deaf than it was that a person had green eyes.

When Gallaudet University was founded, it began as a boarding school for children and many of the first students came from Martha’s Vineyard. Those students who were from elsewhere came to the school with almost no language skills, having lived their lives in isolation. Those from MV showed up with a fully formed language and literacy, their ability and aptitude completely changed the way deaf people’s intelligence was perceived. Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language formed the basis and provided much of the grammar of what is now American Sign Language.

Eventually the deaf children of Martha’s Vineyard moved to the mainland to attend school specifically tailored to them, much of the rest of the population followed, to move to cities like Boston and New York. And with this migration came the end of the island’s attitude toward deafness. American society views deafness as a disability and puts the onus of communication and accessibility largely on the deaf person, rather on the population as a whole. ASL is an American language, essential and non-optional in the lives of half a million Americans. But how many hearing people use ASL if they, themselves, do not know someone who is deaf? How many public grammar or high schools offer it as a course?

If more people knew their regional/national sign language and if captioning was more widely available would deafness still be a disability, or just a difference?

[black-0rpheus]

“I have written a poem for a woman who rides a bus in New York City. She’s a maid, she has two shopping bags. When the bus stops abruptly, she laughs. If the bus stops slowly, she laughs. I thought, ‘Mmm, a-ha.’ Now, if you don’t know black features, you may think she’s laughing. But she wasn’t laughing. She was simply extending her lips and making a sound. I said, ‘Oh, I see.’ That’s that survival apparatus. Now, let me write about that to honor this woman who helps us to survive.” Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016) dir. Rita Coburn & Bob Hercules

[universalequalityisinevitable]

[bzangy]

always reblog COMMUNIST TREK. <3

[rhube]

Star Trek is radical in so many ways people often forget.

[clevermanka]

The future that liberals want

[teesadutta]

[archatlas]

The Colbert Report 11.19.14

[kyssthis16]

You see how she explained how race is a social construct (it is) while ALSO SAYING THAT RACISM EXISTS AND IS FUCKED UP? You see how she did that? Don’t mistake this for colorblindness because it clearly isn’t.

[2brwngrls]

Toni Morrison breaks it down. 

[scottiedoesntknowher]

T with Toni ☕️

[theyismypronoun]

Please re-post to show that you’re okay with using someone’s gender-neutral pronoun! The No Big Deal Campaign is a project by Lee, founder of They Is My Pronoun dot com, and launches December 1st with amazing infographics - check it out! 

[hashtagloveloses]

[carnivaloftherandom]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguni_languages if you want more info on Xhosa. It’s a really beautiful language.

[black-culture]

This woman fed every single Civil Rights activist to pass by NOLA in the 60s.

[howdy-strangers]

Her name is Leah Chase

Queen of Creole Cuisine, advocate for African American art, inspired an actual Disney Princess . 

“Dooky Chase’s Restaurant was the first art gallery for black artists in New Orleans”

The restaurant that she and her husband’s family owns was a gathering place for people to discuss civil rights. (source linked to quote above) 

Literally a hero. I didn’t know her name until literally 5 minutes ago but now I do and I’m glad. 

[ladiesagainsthumanity]

I mean c’mon, it’s not like 1 in 3 women have abortions, or like SCOTUS heard arguments on a case to severely limit abortion rights just last week, right? Oh. Oh, I see. Huh. Seems like the candidates should maybe discuss this.