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Reblog if Black Lives Matter to you
Where are those woke white people at!?
The amount of notes this doesn’t have bothers me…
Tumblr has 30-50 million active users. Why does this not even have 1 million notes?
I have over three thousand followers and so far only two reblogged this I’m disappointed
✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿#BLM
I spend most of my time on fb these days, but I wanted to warn y'all about this. Stay safe ❤
Victims of genocide die twice: first in the killing fields and then in the texts of denialists who insist that ‘nothing happened’ or that what happened was something ‘different’.
Panayiotis Diamadis, Australian genocide scholar. 100 years ago, the Armenian Genocide began. (via verticalbarmatt)
You’re apart of every conversation, every time someone becomes a hashtag
In a powerful spoken essay, law professor Enow Yankah highlights the immense double standard in how the U.S. responded to heroin versus crack addiction.
And while one could say “we learned from the first epidemic” that would be easy to disprove just by looking at where naloxone is being rolled out as a necessary tool to fight the consequences of addiction, as compared to the places where it’s an uphill fight
“Must have reliable transportation” = “this is how we legally discriminate against poor people who take the bus”
As someone who has held several management positions with hiring responsibility, this is true. The boss at my last job informed me before I conducted my very first I interview,
“You can’t outright ask someone if they have a car or have kids. That’s technically illegal. But you need to know because sometimes they can be deal breakers. You can just say ‘Do you have reliable transportation?’ and ‘Do you have any current circumstances that could impede you from being successful at work?’
To which the last one most people fumble and would say, “Well I have kids, so sometimes they could get sick. But that’s not often.” But then your potential employer could mark it down on your interview notes nonetheless.
I thought that maybe it was just my own employer. But now I noticed that I am asked both of these almost every time I interview for a job.
Language is very sneaky. Be careful how you answer. Corporations can be snakes.
In my businesses class my professor told us that the bus counts as reliable transportation. You do not legally have to say “I take the bus” just say “yes I do have reliable transportation” and leave it at that. Do not over share. DO NOT OVER SHARE. The second question just say no. If your kids are sick call out as if you are sick. I don’t have kids but I myself can get sick and that doesn’t hinder my ability to succeed so kids getting sick shouldn’t hinder you. When I call out I give as little info as possible. No one needs to know why you call out. They can’t ask about your “illness” because it violates your privacy if they do and there are laws that protect you from sharing any personal health information from people that don’t need to know. So as long as you don’t offer more info than you need to you should be okay.
When you have depression but you’re trying to keep it cute
Watch: Ibtihaj Muhammad is such an inspiration
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I am unreasonably excited to read this.
Ahh I learned so much with this book, you guys, so much. All these tiny communities holding on through violence and poverty and there are Jews everywhere, really everywhere. There are Jews in Ghana saying the Kaddish over orange Fanta because wine is too expensive; there are are Jews in an isolated and unsettled region of India slowly relearning their heritage, one family at a time (and respect the grown man who not only came in for his circumcision but sat through a photo session during it and then gave an interview in which his first words weren’t just ceaseless screaming); there are Jews in the Amazon rainforest, somehow; there’s one last shtetl hanging on in Azerbaijan; there are synagogues named Beit Shalom on every damn continent, if we ever go to Mars the astronauts will find a handful of Martian Jews and a synagogue named Beit Shalom and also probably a Chabad house.
It’s not all joy (the section on Ukraine’s remnants is incredibly depressing). All of these communities are shrinking as people leave for the U.S. or Israel, they may not exist in another fifty years, but for now here they are. The book has some typos and weird repetition, it doesn’t go into the details I’d like - the photos, tho - and I’m surprised by the groups it didn’t cover (where my Chinese mishpacha at?) but even so. The wonders of the diaspora.
(Also, semi-unrelated, but every time some new drama pops up in the world of Jumblr I’m glad I ignore, like, 99% of the Discourse on this site because holy heck who has the stress levels for it.)
In a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them. -Source
One person who found the courage to push the wheel is Ruth Coker Burks. Now a grandmother living a quiet life in Rogers, in the mid-1980s Burks took it as a calling to care for people with AIDS at the dawn of the epidemic, when survival from diagnosis to death was sometimes measured in weeks. For about a decade, between 1984 and the mid-1990s and before better HIV drugs and more enlightened medical care for AIDS patients effectively rendered her obsolete, Burks cared for hundreds of dying people, many of them gay men who had been abandoned by their families. She had no medical training, but she took them to their appointments, picked up their medications, helped them fill out forms for assistance, and talked them through their despair. Sometimes she paid for their cremations. She buried over three dozen of them with her own two hands, after their families refused to claim their bodies. For many of those people, she is now the only person who knows the location of their graves.
How have I never heard of this?
People like her should be remembered. And even more importantly, we must remember that there was a time in our history when we needed someone like her.
here’s her storycorps interview/story
Ending a legal case that has cost taxpayers $2 million, a suspended police officer who was accused of forcing a woman in custody into a sex act will retire and the city will drop disciplinary charges against him as part of a settlement.
Details of the disciplinary charges that had been filed against Avila were blacked out.
The agreement details “accrued money owed” to Avila, amounting to more than $85,000:
$36,475 for 720 terminal leave hours, a retirement benefit provided under the police union contract
$32,422 for 640 accumulated leave hours
$8,105 for 160 hours of suspension time. (For the first month after the charges were filed against Avila he was on unpaid suspension until the paid leave provisions of the contract kicked in.)
$4,052 for 80 hours for a two-week payroll holdback
$2,051 for 40.5 hours of comp time
$2,026 for 40 hours of personal time
This is so shocking. They protected him and sent a message to women that they aren’t safe from any of them.
#Cops #Police #Abuse #StayWoke
The Trap (2016)
“For 11 years, the bestselling author Linda Conrads has mystified fans by never setting foot outside her home. Haunted by the unsolved murder of her younger sister–who she discovered in a pool of blood–and the face of the man she saw fleeing the scene, Linda’s hermit existence helps her cope with debilitating anxiety. But the sanctity of her oasis is shattered when she sees her sister’s murderer on television.
Hobbled by years of isolation, Linda resolves to use the plot of her next novel to lay an irresistible trap for the man. As the plan is set in motion and the past comes rushing back, Linda’s memories–and her very sanity–are called into question. Is this man a heartless killer or merely a helpless victim?“
By Melanie Raabe, translated by Imogen Taylor
Get it now here
Melanie Raabe was born in 1981 and grew up in a small village in former East Germany. After studying media and literature, she went on to become a magazine editor, freelance journalist, writer, and stage actor. While juggling several jobs by day, she wrote at night, crafting two plays and THE TRAP, which is her debut novel. Melanie Raabe currently lives in Cologne and loves the stage, traveling, cooking, bungee jumping, tattoos, indie rock, and cats.
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ay can we stop pretending like ADHD isn’t a Real Mental Health Issue and is Easy To Deal With? it’s a hugely detrimental disorder that effects performance in school and at work, and personal relationships on multiple levels. with ADHD it’s difficult to implement the routines necessary for day to day functioning. maybe educate yourself before criticizing a disorder that’s very fucking hard to live with.
for those unaware, I’ve been told by several friends they didn’t know this, adhd can effect basic survival rituals. Adhd makes sleep nearly impossible most of the time, makes cooking a too long task which c a n easily lead to a microwave diet, it makes basic reading and comprehension without interest physically exhausting (FYI that means us adults with adhd are fucked) and can even cause major, drastic mood swings as our energy plummets and skyrockets sometimes even resulting in straight up manic episodes. ADHD & ADD are very serious and real stop acting like they’re not a big deal.
say their names.
Rekia Boyd. Tarika Wilson. Kathryn Johnson. Sheresse Francis. Kendra James. Tanisha Anderson. Alberta Spruill. Yvette Smith. Miriam Carey. Shelly Frey. Darnisha Harris. Malissa Williams. Alesia Thomas. Shantel Davis. Sahlah Ridgeway. Kisha Arrone. Deresha Armstrong. India Beaty. Kisha Michael. Laronda Sweatt. Janet Wilson. Sandra Bland. Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Korryn Gaines.
note to converts + patrilineals
you don’t need a jewish mother to be a legitimate jew
if you aren’t matrilineal, and you convert, it won’t change the fact that you aren’t matrilineal. you have to accept this about yourself. there’s nothing wrong with not having a jewish mother, or a 100% jewish family
if you chose to convert, no matter what denomination you convert with, there are folks who will doubt your jewishness
you deserve a full place in your jewish community. if you want that and can’t get that without conversion, consider it. (else, find a new community)
you have to ignore people outside of your community who doubt your jewishness if you ever want to feel at peace with your jewish identity. the kehilla and torah and acceptance you find in community with other jews (whether that be a synagogue, or online, or with friends, or a chavurah, or wherever jews come together) is so much more authentic, lively, beautiful, than whatever insecurity that they are taking out on you.
halakha means different things to different jews. dominant (ashkenazi) orthodox halakha is NOT the only legitimate halakha. traditions of sephardic, karaite, and other parts of global jewry are different in structure and practice, not to mention the halakhic tradition of conservative judaism. karaite and kaifung jews use the patrilineal line. sephardic rabbis have a tradition of mysticism surrounding “zera yisrael,” non-matrilineal descendents of jews, emphasizing the need to welcome them back to the jewish people.
at the end of the day, your confidence in your jewish identity and the support of your community, wherever you may find it, is what will give your judaism legitimacy. not your mother or your father or any other relative or your bris or your beit din or your mikveh
