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[mejcinta]

Survived the hotd stans Female Character Erasure claims.

[vinylstickers]

Differently Abled

The other day I came across a non-disabled person talking about how you should use the term "differently abled" instead of disabled, and when asked if she was disabled, she said her cousin was.

Her reasoning was that the term disabled sounds like they can't do something. I don't think she thought that it was wrong, and she may have not known better but this was literally on a post about how someone was disabled, and that it was fine.

The thing is though, I can't do stuff. I can't not stop fidgeting, I can't hear people even with my hearing aids, and I can't magically overcome my severe sensory issues.

Differently abled is an outdated term that just promotes ableism in the form of non-disabled people believing we can do that thing- just a little differently (from my personal experience), and then not accommodating us.

But I am disabled, not differently abled. And thats okay.

[autisticgeorgielinguist]

unusually specific but does anyone know a romance book about a 1950s housewife who cheats on her husband?

[autisticgeorgielinguist]

არიან აქ ქართველი აუტისტები? სიამოვნებით ავიღებდი!

are there any Georgian autistics here? I would love to talk?

[hellsbellschime]

olivia cooke just said in a podcast that someone walked up to her in a bar and called alicent cunt in her face, like wtf is wrong with people?? No wonder she refused to take pics with some people in spain since y'all probably made her uncomfortable or some shit.

People are truly so stupid and unhinged, like y'all know TV is make believe right? Have you been informed that Santa isn't real? JFC.

[danielwaldorf]

Seeing as it's Black History Month, I'm gonna take a break from your regularly scheduled girlblogging to be a film nerd and beg every single person reading this post to go and watch Within Our Gates (1920).

Within Our Gates is a feature-length silent film written and directed by black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux and it is a miracle that we have it today. The film was believed to be lost for years until a SINGLE surviving print was found in Spain, translated back into English, and recut to match the original as closely as possible. (This is actually not uncommon in the realm of old film a lot of lost films get found in random closets but ANYWAY.) The film tells the story of Sylvia, a southern schoolteacher who travels up north to raise money to keep her school open. It explores how her life and family have been affected by racism, abuse, and sexual violence, as she falls in love, works to save her school, and grapples with her place as a black woman in the antebellum south. If that's not enough to get you interested, the film is also kinda batshit. There are shootouts! Affairs! Someone gets hit by a car! It's wild and dramatic and incredibly engaging.

You've heard of Birth of a Nation, right? Maybe you've even seen it. That insanely racist piece of film history premiered in 1915. Oftentimes people will defend D.W. Griffith and the film itself as being "a product of its time." Well, Within Our Gates premiered in 1920, and it is a product of its time. It depicts white mob violence against black Americans, and how that violence destroys innocent lives and rips families apart. It is written and directed by a black man. All of its lead actors are black. It is an absolutely heart-wrenching, moving, and intelligent film, produced on a shoestring budget, that explores what it meant not only to be a black American in 1920, but what it meant to be a black woman. Different characters have different approaches to coping with racism and strategies for protecting themselves. It's complicated, and upsetting, and one of the most impactful films I've ever seen.

If you can spare an hour and twenty minutes, if you happen to have access to the film through a streaming service (in addition to being FREE ON YOUTUBE, I believe it's on Amazon Prime, Paramount+, MGM+, and some Hulu plans) or an institution (you may have access to Kanopy or a similar platform via your local library or university), it's worth a watch. Play whatever music you want in the background if your version doesn't have any added! Even if you can't watch it for whatever reason, I'd encourage all of you to look into Oscar Micheaux and the history of "race films," films created outside of the Hollywood studio system by and for black Americans.

Don't buy into the false narrative that the only black representation in historical film was minstrelsy and Griffith-style garbage.

[autisticgeorgielinguist]

Can someone please tell me if Sara Hess actually crossed the picket line? I am confused, some ppl say she should not be there as an exectuive producer and others say it is fine?

[mejcinta]

Gayle's phone case color, call it the Green Agenda.

[tournevole]

Anne Sylvestre - Une sorcière comme les autres - Chanson française

[meirimerens]

hello! do you have any recommendations for french/francophone books that non-native speaker can read easily?? i want to brush up on my french again and i feel like your taste is very interesting and similar to mine^^ it can be french classics or something newer (preferably newer books because i almost read all of the classics for uni rip🥲) thanks in advance!<3

oh god uh full disclaimer i have read very little books these past like 7 years because the second Symptoms hit i stopped being able to focus on reading and i'm still fighting for my life trying to regain my ability to + nowadays i read a lot in english. i don't really have a sense of Classics because stuff that we would have studied in highschool literature classes i do not remember because i was on Hefty medication regiments which made it so i forgor like. Most things. & since they were Shit Years the whole time i didn't focus on them. also most classics are Not easily readable for a non-native speakers. if my own classmates at my age struggled i don't think they're particularly pleasant to read for non-native speakers.

depending on how good your french is i can recommend:

Les Fables de La Fontaine. <- easy to me, i read them when i was like 6 but they're enjoyable regardless of age. while the syntax is quite dated (they were written under Louis XIV like. in the 1660s to 1690s), the words are relatively simple + most fables are short-ish + the rhymes structures make it so there's a Rhythm that make them easy to follow.

Guillaume Apollinaire's poems. some are shorter than others, but since it's from the 1900s it's modern enough that it's understandable. if you can get your hands on his Calligrammes it's preddy nice.

i'm quite fond of Surrealism and Symbolism as movements so i'd recommend Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal obviously. some poems are longer than others, again, but the poetic Flow makes it so it's easier to get into to me. my fave fave fave ever is L'Albatros. i also remember his Spleen de Paris/Petits Poèmes en prose but i think that the prose might be tew mewch for a non-native speaker. you can check it out regardless.

the rest of the gang: André Breton, Paul Éluard, Robert Desnos... these people

contemporary i remember really loving Amélie Nothomb's works, especially her Métaphysique des tubes. I don't even remember what's in it because as i've said. The Symptoms + meds but i remember i came out of it Changed. it was given to read to us when we were ~14/15? so it's probably not like high-profile language.

i can't think of much more because i've said. forgor + The Symptoms. i have other advice to get better at french though which i used myself to teach myself english:

fanfic. you think i jest but i learned most of my english through this. since the internet is mostly english-speaking you might have more trouble finding french fics but like where there's a will.... etc. copy and paste paragraphs in deepl.com if you need.

MOVIES french movies. you can find list after list online. watch them in french with english subtitles so your brain can learn which words are similar and which ones are not, THEN french with french subtitles to train your brain to associate words and songs

in the same vein as ^ songs. french songs. and read the lyrics at the same time. copy and paste lyrics in deepl.com if you need. i personally listen to Anne Sylvestre, Pomme, Tagada Jones (punk ish), i got like one song each by Les Sales Majestés and Les Caméléons (all in the same like. punk ish vibe).

bonne chance 👍

[jcmheather]

“A witch like the others” - Original by Anne Sylvestre - Cover by Laetitia Isambert / Nathalie Doummar / Yves Morin

Those days, many crimes against women are committed in the country I live in, so here I am, listening to sad songs wishing the world could be a better place for everyone.

Translation below ( thanks @liv-hunter​ for your help )

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[stargazeonafullmoonnight]

I beg of you, be as down feather

Be as the goose feather of old pillows

I would like

To be more than a beast of burden

Please make yourself light

I cannot walk anymore

I carried you to life

I carried you as a child

By God how heavy you were

Made full from love

I carried you once more

At the time of your death

I carried flowers for you

I broke my heart for you

When you were playing war

I was guarding our home

I used all my prayers

The bars of your prison

When you died under bombs

I cried searching for you

Now I am as a tomb

All misery inside

She's only me, She's her or I

The one who speak or the quiet one

The one who cries or laughs

She's Jeanne d'Arc or Margot

Daughter of waves or daughter of streams

And it's my heart or else it's theirs

And she's a sister or a stranger

The one who never came

The one who came too late

Daughter of dreams or daughter of chance

And she's my mother

Or she's yours

A Witch like any other

You must be like the stream

Like the clear pond water

That reflect and wait

I beg of you, look at me, I am real

I beg of you, do not create me

You already did it so many times

You loved me servile

Wanted me ignorant

When I was strong, you fought me

When I was weak, you mocked me

You loved me as a whore

And dressed in satin

You sculpted statues of me

And I kept quiet

When I was too old or too ugly

You threw me away

You would not help me

Once I stopped serving you

When I was beauty and submitted

You loved me on your knees

Now I stand as a church

Standing on a pile of shame

She's only me, she's her or I

The one who loves or loves not

The one who rules or fight

She's Joséphine or la Dupont

Daughter of pearl or daughter of cotton

And it's my heart or it's hers

The one standing on the quays

The one who guards the dead

The one who dance and dies from it

Daughter of tar or daughter of flowers

And she's my mother or she's yours

A witch like any other

I beg of you, be as I have you

As I have dreamt of you for so long

Free and strong as the wind

Look I am free too

Teach me, be not afraid,

I already know all of you

I was the one who waits

But I can walk forward

I was the log and the fire

But I could be the blaze as well

I was mother goddess

But I was only dust

I was the ground under your steps

But I did not know it

Now the earth split

The volcanoes can take no more

The ground opened

To unknown riches

The sea turns

Into unexpected violence

Now I am a wave

You will not drown

She's only me, she's her or I

She's the matron or the child

She's the one who surrenders or keeps fighting

She's Gabrielle or Eva

Daughter of love or daughter of war

And it's my heart or it is hers

The one living the spring of her life

The one who no one waits for

And she's the ugly or the beauty

Daughter of fog or daughter of clear skies

And she's my mother, or she is yours

A witch like any other

Please make yourself light

I can not walk anymore

[formerlybutchpoet]

I'm like if a chivalrous knight kissed a fair maiden's hand and said "my lady, I fight for you" and then walked off and immediately tripped over his own armor and fell on the ground

[ohsalome]

[thatadhdmood]

an eloquent take down of the "people are self diagnosing autism to be trendy and for attention" take that morons have been echoing on tiktok

[video description is the reblogs, its very long]

[quackwoof]

Hello. I’d like to make a distinction/PSA. I see a lot of people talk about how “lucky” level 2-3 autistics are to “not have to mask”. This is so far from the truth. Not only is this not true, it is not some luxury or anything lucky. I feel like people forget that while masking is damaging, it can also be extremely important safety wise. People who are unable to mask are at risk for a lot of danger. I personally have been in situations where not being able to mask, put me in danger. I understand that masking is draining and really harmful overtime, but also...check your privilege.

[autisticgeorgielinguist]

I remember reading a nonspeaker say that just because their attempts at masking are not relatively successful, it does not mean they do not put an effort to mask their stims, etc.

[quackwoof]

Hello. I’d like to make a distinction/PSA. I see a lot of people talk about how “lucky” level 2-3 autistics are to “not have to mask”. This is so far from the truth. Not only is this not true, it is not some luxury or anything lucky. I feel like people forget that while masking is damaging, it can also be extremely important safety wise. People who are unable to mask are at risk for a lot of danger. I personally have been in situations where not being able to mask, put me in danger. I understand that masking is draining and really harmful overtime, but also...check your privilege.