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Today on 7/19/21, a fire started in a vacant h… Mirrored Fatality needs your support for BROWN TRANS & QUEER ORCHID HOUS
These folks had their house burnt up in ways that seem suspiciously landlord-related and are needing monetary support in getting their shit back together. Please share if you're able, and reblog.
i know it's been a minute since i posted, but does anyone know of any legitimately radical gender neutral parenting resources, whether practical or theory or (preferably) both, that i could read up on and/or send to a cis parent that is at least on the surface open to learning?
i'll update this myself if i find anything in my own digging
Edit: i believe this goes without saying but preferably something that doesn't throw trans people under the bus
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Int: What are you now? Baldwin: I’m trying to become a human being. Int: And when does one know when one’s reached that stage? Baldwin: I don’t think you ever do. You work at it, you know. You take it as it comes. You try not to tell too many lies. You try to love other people and hope that you’ll be loved.
— James Baldwin, from an interview featured in Conversations with James Baldwin
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Some of you may not know, but the Pantanal is burning. Pantanal is the world’s biggest tropical wetlands and most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet. It is the home of the biggest sanctuary for the Onça Pintada/Jaguar (Panthera onca). This area is the most damaged by fire in 2020, losing 15% of the biome to the flames.
So, we need your help, please donate:
DONATE TO THE FOREST FIRES COMBAT (SOS PANTANAL WEBSITE)
Pantanal Relief Fund (WEBSITE)
Instituto Arara Azul (LINKTR.EE and WEBSITE)
And here we have some articles:
Wildfires sweep into Brazil park harboring jaguars
Fires destroy home of one of the world’s rarest birds in Brazil
Fires in Pantanal, world’s largest tropical wetlands, ‘triple’ in 2020
Burned jaguars and reptiles consumed by flames: Fires rage in Brazil’s wetlands
In Pictures: Brazil’s Pantanal wetland is on fire
Fighting Fires in the Brazilian Pantanal
The Pantanal: Saving the world’s largest tropical wetland
Does Noodle have any words of encouragement to share for bad days? I could really use it. I love noodle.
noodle says to remember to take deep breaths!
maybe hang out with friends! even small ones with big hats that kinda smell like food
She says it’s always ok to curl up in pipes bed for a while and relax! bad times always pass!
always keep swimming! no matter who’s biting your tail
lastly, noodle will scream @ what ever is causing you stress! It will hear her mighty roar and back down!! probably!!!
“Usually, trauma is seen as something that needs to be healed. Something to be “processed” - to be dealt with privately, in therapy or among a circle of close friends, to be addressed as a problem and solved. To be neatly and tidily compartmentalized, separated from oneself, shrunk smaller and smaller until it no longer affects one directly, until it is altogether stored away. “Your trauma should not define you,” clinicians will say.
If an event or circumstance is harmful to or painful for a trauma victim or survivor, it is framed as “triggering.” It couldn’t possibly be that the event or circumstance is in of itself harmful, and that an individual’s trauma has provided them with insight into the event’s harmfulness. No, the issue is that the victim has not dealt with their trauma effectively enough, that their trauma is still affecting them.
In this sense, trauma is framed as a singular and isolated incident, as an exception to the rule. The world is a generally safe, just place, but victims and survivors have been falsely convinced by their traumatic incident that the world is unjust and unsafe. It is not possible that trauma could be an ever-present constant, perpetually occurring in every sphere of life.
Not only are experiences of victimization not seen as expertise, but they are seen as pathology. As something that causes victims to see the world less clearly, to think less rationally.
Yet for me personally, my victimhood has only allowed me to see the world more clearly. I grew up in a fairly conservative, capitalist family and shared and embodied those values for a large part of my life. I had been taught, and so it seemed to me, that the world was a fair place, and people who were economically marginalized (for example) were just not working hard enough. My victimhood fundamentally rattled my trust in the safety or justice of the world, and as a result I increasingly developed empathy for other victimized populations. My victimhood did not cloud my judgment or get in the way of my thinking clearly; rather, it radicalized me.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not advocating for victimization or attempting to justify victimizing people because it gives them expertise.
But I wonder how our communities and contexts might change if, instead of always asking people how they plan to treat or heal from their trauma, we gave them more opportunities to share what they have learned about the world, about the human condition, about power structures, about the impact of ongoing and pervasive systemic issues. What if, instead of asking, “What happened to you [as an individual]?” we gave victims more chances to situate their traumatic experiences within a broader framework of systemic injustice and contextual power imbalances that they now have insight into?”
Victimhood as Expertise by Emily S. Cutler
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