No one should be this cute.

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[sandushengshou]

[tygermama]

Morticia is so touched

[anthmeisterr]

The weirdly ironic thing about this movie is that they all would’ve totally loved this bitch if she’s been honest from the start. Like, I can perfectly see her casually mentioning that she’s a black widow and Morticia being like, “Oh really?” before making a dramatic exit, only to return a few hours later with a massive dossier off potential targets and an engraved dagger.

[socialistexan]

[bussybuffett]

[jessebalmer]

o to meet with waking eyes the thing you doubted most

[coffinpuppy]

we are venom.

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(images used for this moodboard are not mine- if you have proper sources please let me know so i can provide credit.)

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Powerful New Video Tackles Racial Bias To Remind Kids Their ‘Black Is Beautiful’

A new video released Monday titled “The Talk” compellingly tackles the impact of racial bias through the lens of black parents in America.

This video accurately displays what it is like to be black in America. It shows the conversations all black parents have with their kids to keep them safe and to encourage them to fight the racist society. And it’s heartbreaking that parents need to remind their kids that their “Black is beautiful”.Society needs to change and time has come to talk about this.

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[buttonpoetry]

“You, always looking for a wound, you are the wound, the violence that went viral.”

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FROM THE VAULT! Anna Binkovitz, “For Elliot Rodger”

Performing at the Saint Paul Poetry Slam. Want captions on all videos? Multilingual subtitles? A nationwide Button tour? Check us out on Patreon!

[chronicallyqueer]

Kids always remind me to be hopeful

I'm usually tired and cranky after I go grocery shopping. Non-disabled people are exhausting. But on my way home I passed three little kids sitting outside of their apartment complex. The youngest looked about five, and the two older ones looked about seven. The youngest got excited when he saw my powerchair. This was our interaction:

Kid: "Hey, can I get a honk honk?!"

I beeped my chair horn twice, and they giggled.

Kid: "Why do you use a wheelchair?"

Me: "It's hard for me to walk."

Kid: Oh, okay. Where do you live?"

Me: "Just up the road. Y'all are out here by yourselves? You should get back inside. It's about to rain. Do you hear the thunder?"

Kid: "Yeah. We live right here. We'll go inside soon."

Me: "Good. Be careful, and I have a great night." (Thanks! You, too).

As I roll away, I heard him yell, "Can I get another honk honk?

Two more beeps and some more giggles.

What I really love about kids (who haven't started being educated) is they don't load their questions with assumptions. They simply ask why I'm in a wheelchair and they accept the simple truth of my answer. I can't walk. That's it. To them, it has no bearing on my intelligence or willpower. It simply is. Unfortunately, if it hasn't been already, difference = bad will be drilled into their head from the time they start kindergarten.

I often gently reprimand parents who reprimand their children for asking them or me why I use a wheelchair. One, a child should never be shamed simply for asking a question. This subliminally teaches them that questioning is a bad thing and that they're bad for asking it. To them, it's no different from asking, "why is the sky blue?" or "why do we poop?" By silencing questions, we silence critical thinking and make social etiquette more important than pursuing truth. I'd rather them ask me "why are you in a wheelchair?" when they're five than I would, "So, what's wrong with you?" when they're twenty-five. The latter isn't a legitimate question because it's based upon the lie that there *is* something wrong with me.

We need to stop teaching kids that everyone has two legs with which to walk; two ears with which to hear; to eyes with which to see; etc. Because it isn't true, and it has never been. All people are different, and different doesn't mean bad. This isn't something that has to be taught. Kids know this. We have to be willing to relearn it by being willing to unlearn every lie we're told is true.

[the-indecorous-flower]

My trauma is not “brave” it is not “strong”. I, and other trauma survivors are not here for you to look to for strength.

What we have been through has hurt us, for some the pain has been a cause of death. I want to repeat to you, we are not strong, we are not brave. We are hurting and this is not a romantic notion.

We do the only thing we can, we persist, we keep living our lives, we seek justice, we seek healing. This is not strength, its resilience in the face of hardship. Because if we do not keep going, then what other option is there?

People who are brave continue in face of danger, they see the danger and step in anyway. A brave person would be someone who saw me being abused and then stepped in. I am not brave, because I didnt ask for what happened to me.

All I want, all we want, is for people to recognize that we are hurting inside, for someone to ask if theres anything they can do to help us cope, or to help us get help, or to just recognize that what ive been through makes me react differently to most other people.

I dont want to open up just so I can be praised for being “brave” when Im not. I want support, I want help, and most of all I want you to understand.

Nothing more.

Nothing less.

[radsawdust]

Very important. Very good post. 

[chronicallyqueer]

You know, just once, I'd like to see a well done drama/romance featuring two men in which one of them [read: the fem or less honomormatively masculine one] doesn't die of complications from AIDS, isn't murdered, or doesn't end his life. Those stories are important, and they need to be told; but they're not the only stories or experience of queerness that exist. I want our fucking happily-ever-after. I want our cheesy "running through the airport and professing love right before he gets on the plane" i want to see self-identied queer/trans/disabled actors playing queer/trans/disabled characters, instead of straight/cis/non-disabled actors getting paid millions for (inaccurately) telling stories they don't live, get showered with platitudes about how brave and open minded they are, and still do nothing to work to change and challenge the material realities that make life so difficult for the "people [the've] had the honor to represent. I want to see a disabled actor play a disabled character (preferably queer) who is utterly repulsed by the idea that being dead is better than being disabled. I want them to be a protagonist and not a prop, a tool,with which to evoke pity envy disgust, inspiration, and indifference in the viewer. I want them to fall in love and make love to another disabled character. I want to see a movie of a technologically advanced, space traveling earth population in which disabled and characters of color have central roles, instead being depicted literally as aliens. Film, like all forms of art, has tremendous power. It plays a tremendous role in shaping sociocultural narratives. And for those of us who don't see ourselves reflected accurately anywhere, we end up settling for crumbs. So we'll watch movies with bad acting with a queer/disabled character who dies or who wants to, just to see someone who looks remotely like us. I get it. Representation at any cost; negative is better than nothing. Right? But how much of a cost are we willing to pay? Yeah, there might be a reflection, but it's often a distorted, two-dimensional one. How much negativity can we take before start to internalize all of those distortions and not be able to recognize the reflections of ourselves in our own mirrors? And why are we settling for any crumb and scrap we can find when others are gorging themselves on feasts every fucking day, and then get pissed when we don't invite them to our picnic? I don't have any answers to these questions. But I feel a very strong need to ask them.

[wokeapedia]

This is creepy as hell holy shit. Mirrors are a fucking tool you dumbasses happy signs don’t tell you if your hair’s straight or if there’s something on your face.

And why only in the girls room? That aspect very much gives off the message that girls are too weak to face life and look at themselves the way boys can.

[supersoftly]

“Do I have something in my teeth?”

“Fuck you! Body posi!”

[titaniumlegman]

Fucking end me please

[thirdplanet13]

Oof

[bizarrodf]

[lierdumoa]

School: We want girls to feel less self conscious about their appearances!

Girls: Great. Does this mean you’re doing something about the men down the block who catcall us as we walk to school, making us hyperaware that we are being surveilled and judged for our appearances every time we leave our houses? What about the boys sexually harassing us in the halls during breaks? You’re gonna do something about them?

School: No, we’re gonna remove items you use from your bathroom. 

Girls: Uh, how is that supposed to –

School: PROBLEM SOLVED

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Half of them are telling them to smile, too, jfc

[robocuck]

[chronicallyqueer]

"He talked about “the good ol’ days” when a black protester would be punched or carried out on a stretcher" source? Also, if you think you're oppressed in America, you're welcome to emigrate to any middle eastern nation to learn about real oppression.

You’re also welcome to not send stupid shit anonymously.You’re also welcome not to scapegoat Arab/Middle Eastern Cultures white supremacy and other forms of oppression on a global scale, especially when white folk have colonized, invaded, bombed, and meddled and suppressed democratic processes in those cultures for centuries.

[chronicallyqueer]

Happy Father's day: 

To the rad dads who know how to be rad dads. To the dads who don't treat their daughters like possessions. To the dads who've passed on. To the straight, cis dads who love and support their lgbt+ kids, to queer and trans dads. To dads who teach their sons that it's okay to feel every emotion and that there's no shame in crying. To the dads who cry. To the dads who are soft and tender. To the dads who understand that feeding a child's soul is just as important as feeding their bodies. To the dads who understand that being a father requires more than making sure that a child has a roof over their head. To the dads who seek forgiveness, admit mistakes, and forgive. To the dads who understand that love, shelter, feed, and ensure safety isn't simply a favor, but a duty and responsibility. To Disabled and chronically ill dads.To (undocumented) immigrant dads. To dads of color who love, build up, and fear for their children's lives and wellbeing. To the dads in recovery. To the dads who speak out against domestic violence and rape culture. To feminist dads who acknowledge and interrogate their male privilege.

Happy Father's day to the single moms, the grandmas, the aunties, and the mothers who do the heavy lifting.

Happy self-care day to the (adult) kids who have complicated or no relationships with their dads.

[chronicallyqueer]

Full of rage and heartbreak after Philando Castille's murderer, another cop, is acquitted of all charges after shooting and killing another Black man. Over 500 people--mostly poor people of color--died in an apartment building fire in England after being trapped in it because the bougie folks across the street thought it was an "eyesore." So they covered the exterior in metal panels, which caused an inescapable inferno. So, to all the folks going after the dude who shot up the Republican practice game and calling it an act of terrorism, keep in mind that entire systems terrorize poor communities and people of color every fucking day. To all the white queers getting up in arms about the adding brown and black to the rainbow flag: remember that it was trans Black and Latinx women who birthed our movement for liberation through their blood, sweat, freedom tears, and even their lives. Remember and say the names of the trans people--mostly black trans women--who've been killed in the last year and a half and before.

India Monroe 

Noony Norwood

Brandi Bledsoe

Crystal Edmonds

Jazz Alford

Lexi Seronen

Rae'Lynn Thomas 

T.T.

Skye Mockabee

Erykah Tijerina

Dee Whigham

Oscar Grant

Amadou Diallo

Terence Crutcher

Rekia Boyd 

Sean Bell 

Mike Brown 

Freddie Gray

Danroy Henry 

Aiyana Jones

Trayvon Martin 

Eric Garner 

Philando Castille

Tamir Rice

Sandra Bland

Yvette Smith 

Anthony "Troy" Davis

And so many more. One is too many.

So, fellow white folks, especially liberals: Stop saying that "we're all human" when a person of color addresses white supremacy, racism, and (trans)misogynoir. It's disrespectful to these people's lives and memories. We're not all human when entire groups of people are routinely stripped of their humanity by a global society and it's institutions.

No one is safe until everyone is. No one is liberated until everyone is. No one has reached the Promise Land until everyone has. And our silence, apathy, tone policing, and willful ignorance makes us just as responsible for the murder of these people as the person who pulled the trigger.

[chronicallyqueer]

Let me be clear about this: the guy who went after Trump with a gun is wrong. But I'm so over the dishonesty and hypocrisy of both Republicans and Democrats now saying that we need to end this political violence. Trump's entire campaign fueled hatred. He talked about "the good ol' days" when a black protester would be punched or carried out on a stretcher. He galvanized white supremacists, who've rebranded themselves as the "alt-right." So, it's a little too late for folks in power to decry this stuff.

There was a Republican congressman being interviewed on MSNBC. He talked about how he doesn't feel safe when he's not near the Capitol. I hope he and his colleagues (on both sides of the aisle) remember that when the next gun control bill comes to the floor. I hope they remember that when they vote for or don't speak out against transphobic bathroom bills, which prevent trans people from using a restroom safely. I hope they remember that when the BLM speaks up about how Black men, boys and (trans) women don't feel safe anywhere, especially from the very institutions sworn to protect and serve them.

I hope, as they label this an act of political terrorism, that they don't downplay the terrorism or scapegoat folks with mental illness a when a white Christian straight dude opens fire at a movie theater, a Black church, an elementary school, a club, university. Or when they firebomb masjids and synagogues. Or desecrate Jewish cemeteries and spray paint swastikas on buildings. Or tell an Arab and Latinx American to "go back where they came from." Or blame refugees and undocumented immigrants for economic depression and job loss.

The politics and narratives of fear are tightly controlled by people in power. And as we call out people who enact violence, we also need to call out systems of violence that harm the people most vulnerable to them.

[chronicallyqueer]

Catching up on posts.

Basically just copying and pasting fb statuses for now, and I want to share them here.

[micdotcom]

After a homophobic tweet, beauty vlogger Manny Gutierrez’s showed what real parents are made of