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and the Iraqi people welcomed the Americans with flowers. I wanted to set a historical event to teach Bush a lesson from the Iraqis, telling him you lied, we did not welcome you with flowers, and instead we are saying goodbye with our shoes.“
Muntaza Al Zaidi, the Iraqi reporter who became known as the guy who threw a shoe at Bush and later ended up in jail for three years because of it.
happy 12 years to bush shoeing incident
#friday night mood
A bonus illustration from Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle appliquée aux arts v. 21 (1803) (Fig.1 enhanced for detail). Full text here.
I’m sure most people have now seen this New York Times piece “How British feminism became anti-trans.” Personally, I think it should be posted far and wide, but this key bit here is something that resonated with me.
[caption: “middle- and upper-class white feminists have not received the pummelling from black and indigenous feminists that their American counterparts have]
This is so accurate it’s unreal. British feminism is generally 20 years behind, not just on trans rights but on many things. It’s not a coincidence that the “feminists” writing transphobic nonsense in the Guardian and New Statesman have also made sneering comments about intersectional feminism.
Here’s Helen Lewis in the New Statesman complaining that intersectional ideals demand too much of feminists. And here’s Hadley Freeman in the Guardian complaining that intersectionality leads to too much “feminist infighting.” Julie Bindel deliberately conflates intersectional feminism with liberal feminism, so she can sneer at both. We know Caitlin Moran rightly got pilloried for saying she “doesn’t do race.” Same shit from Zoe Williams.
There’s a lot of good work done by feminist women of colour in the UK - you can read much of it on Media Diversified or gal-dem. You could also follow Guilaine Kinouani or Judith Wanga or Sara Ahmed on Twitter. But these voices are not the predominant voices in British feminism. They’re not getting regular columns in the Guardian or giving takes on BBC news.
Who gets the columns? Helen Lewis. Caitlin Moran. Julie Bindel. Hadley Freeman. Zoe Williams. This post is already too long, so I won’t get into the history of these women when it comes to writing about race, sexuality, disability and religion. I could list pages and pages of shitty things they’ve said. The point is, these are the women who speak for British feminism. These are the women who get top billing.
It’s not good enough. We deserve better. We deserve more working class voices, more diverse LGBTQ voices, disabled voices and women of colour’s voices. We need to amplify them wherever we can, because these white middle class assholes in our newspapers are trying to claim that they’re doing this bullshit for us.
And not only is that allowing transmisogyny to hurt one of the most marginalised groups in Britain, but it’s opening the door to a raft of toxic bullshit that they’re getting away with in the name of feminism. Fuck knows who they’re gonna target next.
a harry potter au where potions is taught by gordon ramsay
neville: *messes up his potion*
gordon ramsay: *holds neville between two slices of bread* what are you
neville: an idiot sandwich
no no no!
Imagine that this is Gordon Ramsay a la Masterchef Junior
Neville: *messes up the potion, realizes it, starts crying quietly*
GR: What’s going on?
Neville: *explains how he messed up*
GR: Oh gosh okay…we can fix this, don’t cry, see, it’s fine now? Just be more careful when you’re adding the Newt’s eyes, all right? Drop them in gently. There we go. No more tears.
Neville: *giggles wetly, wiping eyes*
Yes, he only screams when he’s dealing with people that claim to know what they’re doing and clearly dont, when he’s teaching he’s very kind and patient because they’re still learning.
He’d probably do the bread thing to Malfoy.
nononononono. I get that Malfoy is a bit of a twat, but he’s still a kid. It’d be the teachers fucking up that he’d have trouble with.
Ramsay: All you had to do was treat it with a fucking Beozar!
Slughorn: It was a stressfu-
Ramsay: How long have you been teaching potions?!
or
Ramsay: So you’re going to raise this boy SPECIFICALLY so he can die as part of your twisted little scheme?
Dumbledore: It’s for the greater good, professor.
Ramsay: The greater fucking good?! *holds two slices of bread either side of dumbledoor’s face* What are you?
Dumbledore: Am I, per chance, an idiot sandwich?
Ramsay: Yes, you fucking are.
Okay, now I can reblog it!
@marauders4evr
Fantastic!
@alrightanakin
I’m in love
I MUST HAVE REBLOGGED A THOUSAND TIMESSSS
My favorite Gordon Ramsey moment is from the latest season of Master Chef Jr.
Gordon had run in to help a group of struggling kids with a team challenge and one of the older kids, a 12 year old boy, wasn’t passing attention while taking a pan out of the oven and not only spilled all the food but scalded Gordon.
It’s clear Gordon’s leg is in pain. He’s been badly burned without warning. But he doesn’t scream. He doesn’t yell, not even in pain, and he doesn’t go off on the child who is now frozen in fear. He calmly tells the child to set the pan down and to close the oven, safety first. Then tells him to go restart the food he was making, calm instructions.
My husband and I grew up in abusive homes where any mistake meant parents getting angry (my husband is terrified of spills or broken glasses because that meant beatings growing up, for me, anything going wrong, that could upset my mother, even if it wasn’t my fault meant screaming and emotional abuse).
I didn’t know someone could be so calm. That someone could not get angry, and put aside what they’re feeling (in this case a lot of physical pain) and not take it out on those around them, even when someone around them had messed up, because that person is a child.
Gordon Ramsey is a survivor of child abuse himself and as an adult, the most non-abusive person ever when it comes to kids.
im going to cry can gordon ramsey be my parent this sound so beautiful
Please take a moment to picture Gordon Ramsay taking over Potions when Snape becomes the DADA professor (instead of Slughorn) and not only being horrified when he realizes how terrified the students are that he’ll verbally abuse them when they mess up in Potions class but when he overhears how Snape treats students. Like can you IMAGINE the level of RAGE and CONTEMPT that Ramsay would harbor towards Snape? The asshat wouldn’t have made it to the end of HBP. Ramsay would’ve hexed his ass to kingdom come.
Rebloging ALL of this because Chef Ramsay is THE MAN!
-HC
Chef Ramsay would have become the kids’ favourite teacher and you can’t take that away from me.
Imagine him dealing with Umbridge
GR: WANDS AWAY??! How are they meant to pass exams without actually performing the charm they’re meant to do??
Umbitch: a theoretical knowledge will be sufficient to get them through their examinations…
GR: you fUCKING DONKEY!
Gordon Ramsay, kind and protective Potions Master is a crossover that I didn’t know I needed now I want all the stories about this.
Holy fucking shit, somebody please please write this!
this is the money dog, repost in the next 24 hours and money will come your way!!
ehh what the hell
OH MY GOD SO NO FUCKIN BULLSHIT I SWEAR To GOD. I reblogged this an hour ago and IM NOT Lying My Tax Refund which I did in late march popped into my Bank Account, and it was a Decent sized amount……
WHAT THE FUCK Is THIS MAGIC!??!?!?! Im trying this again IM NOT BSing hahahaha thats actually pretty cool xD
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no BULLSHIT I KID YOU NOT! Look what I found while walking Home…..
OH MY GOD
OH MY F*CKIN GOD
THIS POST FUCKIN WORKS?!?!?! THIS IS PAST A COINCIDENCE NO WAY!??! NO FRIGGIN WAY!!!
Im Going to reblog this every day to test this, its MAGIC ITS FRIGGIN MAGIC
I need to believe in the heart of the post…
Oh? Well… *reblag*
i reblogged this and now my uncle is giving me 250 to dye my hair nani the fucko
I have nothing to lose
my palm was itchin today not riskin it
I always reblog the money posts cause I can’t afford not too lol
It works. I just got $300 for no reason.
Money dog is my friend
Money dog is the shit
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I believe in the money 🐶
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Doing this again because last time I reblogged this I got $50
y’all I have $88 in my account I need all the help I can get
I mean? Can’t hurt?
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The big difference between liberal LGBT identity politics and revolutionary queer politics is:
That the goal of liberal LGBT identity politics is to present four (or 5, 6, 7, depending on the acronym) clearly defined LGBT identities with an easily digestable narrative to them to so that LGBT people may be understood, incorporated into societies notions of normalcy and turned into respectable citizens under capitalism.
While the goal of revolutionary queer politics is to complicate identity, to defy definition, to disrupt clear narratives, to continue to be confusing and paradoxical, so that queer people can not be incorporated or turned into respectable citizens and can continue on their struggle to destroy normalcy and respectability, which is a struggle that connects us to all struggles against oppression.
If we seem blatantly sexual or grotesquely unfuckable, if we make polite company uncomfortable, if we seem self-contradicting, if we wear slurs like badges of honor, if we’re bad rolemodels, if we seem weird or dangerous, that’s the point.
This also intersects with neurodiversity. The goal of neurodiversity is not to make autistics fit in neatly into the system where everyone “tolerates” us, it is to dismantle the ableist system entirely.
Cool this post was for and about queer people tho. Please make a new post.
Actually, I was very happy to see the comment by autpunq. It’s valuable to talk about the similarities in our struggles and the choice between assimilation and radical liberation is one many groups face. Queer neurodiverse people have done a lot to challenge the concept of normal and it’s vital that we keep talking about how our struggles connect and mirror each other.
As a queer neurodiverse person, I still think it would have been more appropriate as a separate post.
As another queer neurodiverse person, I found it a useful addition and I find that always making your own post runs the risk of overlooking the interconnectedness and similarity of our struggles under the same oppressive systems. So I’d love to see more conversations about how radical queer, neurodiverse and mad struggles intersect and interact and if any folks wanna talk about that, I think they can comment on this post.
To add on to this, the history of queer people and neurodivergent people have largely been connected in that the system labeled us as mentally ill or freaks or abnormal. Homosexuality used to be a mental illness and GED/GD (read: transsexuality) still is a mental illness. In order to transition, you still have to go through a ridiculous amount of psychotherapy to make sure that that’s really the thing for you. By separating the two communities, you’re separating centuries of combined struggle within the two communities
Yup. AND the radical Mad communities for that matter. We need to resist the temptation to focus only on those groups that can claim that they are not medically ill, both LGBT and neurodiverse communities have had a tendency to focus on the ‘not mentally ill’ narrative at the expense of community members that are mentally ill.
Our story absolutely includes people that are mentally ill and we need to acknowledge that as queer people we are also disproportionately struggling with mental health because of how violent the world treats us and as people labelled mad we are disproportionately queer because it makes no sense to many of us to follow societies messed up ideas about sex and gender.
Our focus should never be “we were labelled mentally ill and freaks when we’re actually sane and normal”. No no no no. We may look back with horror to times when we were forcibly locked up in institutions for being gay and bi and trans, but we should look with the same horror at the now where we are forcibly locked up in institutions for experiencing the world in a ‘mad’ way. It’s the same violence.
It should be “we were labelled mentally ill and freaks and abnormal and regardless of whether that was true, that made us the target of violence. Fuck that. We’ll be freaks and mad and queer all we want. We’ll be whatever the fuck we are and we want the violence to stop”.
We’re united in the struggle against the violence we face when we are branded ‘not-normal’ and in knowing the potential for liberation in being not-normal.
Also add in the fact that neurodiverse/disabled people are routinely de-sexualized by society.
Indeed, many queer neurodiverse people are told ‘oh, you can’t be gay/lesbian/bi/trans/etc, clearly this is just part of your autism/bpd/did, etc’.
So not only are neurodivergent people stripped of their sexuality, their identity is blamed upon their neurodivergence (this happens more often with those who are considered ‘high needs’, etc), and this ignored entirely.
And queer people, neurodiverse people, disabled people and mentally ill people are also routinely presented as sexual predators, which result in a dynamic where any sexuality they have is treated as inherently suspicious and dangerous and something of which the existence should be hidden from from children.
Where words like ‘freak’ are used, words like ‘pervert’ are always just around the corner, as is the intense violence and dehumanization that comes with them.
All these groups have had their sexual autonomy limited by society. All these groups have been the target of fetishisation. All these groups have disproportionately experienced sexual violence, especially within institutions. As the ‘transphobes trying to see trans peoples genitals’ illustrates, we’re often sexually assaulted by the exact people that claim that we are predators.
And all these groups have been the target of forced sterlisation both due to societies discomfort with our existence as sexual beings and to stop us from spreading our ‘condition’ to the rest of humanity.
A bioluminescent ghost mushroom found in Australia. The species is Omphalotus Nidiformis. It was found along the Box Vale Mine walking track in Mittagong, New South Wales.
Credit: PetarBphotography
Ghost mushroom.
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I’d really love to know what the hell Vader was thinking during that pregnant pause after he asks Luke to join him in Empire because Luke just kind of stares at him, says nothing, and then just… falls? Leaving Vader there looking like a total idiot but also wondering what the hell does Luke even think he’s doing?! Only Clone Wars Anakin could have been that extra, all “I’d rather fall into an unfathomable abyss than finish this conversation with you” is such a Skywalker move, so the only thing I imagine Vader really thinking is “Well, he definitely gets that from me.”
Vader: “JOIN ME”
Luke: *falls backward into the abyss*
Vader: … honestly I don’t know what else I expected
my life is complete
I can feel the surprised expression on the duck’s face. It’s like “This is unexpected,”
“Speak Volumes” / Vogue Australia March 2018
