I am practiced in the art of not mattering

Emily, 23 she/her. BLM, fuck isreal. they gave me psychotherapy to destroy my interest in men. pfp by rookiebe

[peachmarch3]

celeste deadlock was made just for me

[mundaneskeleton]

if you vote silver then this will happen ok?

[dewwshi]

this post touched me

[scramratz]

I was so caught up in trying to get my point across in a concise and nuanced way so as to not be negatively misinterpreted, that I forgot people will just lie. If they don’t like you, they’ll just lie about you. My fault

[sdqubeley]

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Come Over and Learn Those Drinks (0/36)

[sdqubeley]

[aflirtingaccident]

[sdqubeley]

[virgomoon]

you can never go back. this is your one life. you had a bad childhood and that's it. you lost your teen years to mental illness and that's it. you're miserable in your 20s and that's it. you just go forward

[doomdaysdecays-deactivated20251]

[c-dra]

a little treat

[liberalsarecool]

There is no profit or labor value to steal for capitalists, so housing the vulnerable will never change.

We can solve any problem we want once you remove the construct of capitalism.

We can save billions by treating people in need with solutions. Incarceration is a waste of so many assets. Criminalizing the needy is just an excuse to create more prisoners. Beyond stupid.

Here's an idea: turn every empty dying church into housing.

[amuseoffyre]

They want the free labour they get from prisons and they'll do anything to keep it.

[sadhoc]

as someone who has been involved in union organizing through my dad's union since i was literally in second grade, the way that people on tumblr think unions work drives me literally insane

[sadhoc]

unions do so much more than just strike. unions bargain. unions sit in at meetings with upper management. unions help people navigate benefits. unions coordinate aid drives for disabled members. my union ran a donations campaign for me for the interim between the end of my allotted paid leave and my disability claim

[sadhoc]

"unionize your workplace" means so much more than "talk to your coworkers about striking." you gotta actively know what a union is and what a union isn't before you can form one. calls to unionize should lead to more people learning their rights and learning how unions work, and coordinating with orgs like seiu and the teamsters and the aft (and if you don't know what those are, look them up).

[electricpentacle]

My union found me a legal expert to help me check over my last redundancy settlement for free, provided private medical cover whilst I was unemployed, and negotiated a good deal on cheap insurance for their members. It is so much more than strikes.

[finalgirlabigailhobbs]

Mosab Abu Toha, "Interlude", from his poetry collection Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, available for download here

[l101216l]

Don't forget it's still free Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Yemen, West Papua, Tigray, Haiti, Burma/Myanmar, Uyghurs, Syria, Kashmir, Cameroon, Armenia and Kurdistan.

Regardless of who you are or where you come from, if you do not feel outrage, anguish, and grief for these innocent lives lost, something is amiss, and you must consider why you lack the drive to take action.

Their fight should be considered our fight, as it is one for human rights.

[ibtisams-deactivated20240709]

More than 60% of the global population that are classified as the Phase 5 famine/catastrophe level of food insecurity and starvation are in the Gaza Strip right now, and that percentage is projected to increase to 95% by Februrary

[ibtisams-deactivated20240709]

Some organisations that get food and water into Gaza to consider donating to:

Anera

PCRF

Taawon/Bank of Palestine

World Food Programme

[lowpolyanimals]

KITR from ULTRAKILL

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[kittchuco]

New Coraline design drop

[jackalopescruff]

chaser? yeah i know what it is. its what them wolf girls be doing to them rabbit girls in the woods

[laughingcatwrites]

As a reminder that good exists out there, a coworker recently confessed to me that he found out his child is questioning their identity (kid's gender redacted for this post). The kid is keeping it from him, so he can't say anything to them or show that he knows, but he's doing his best to get mentally prepared and educated so that he'll be ready whenever his kid does feel comfortable enough come to him.

For context, this guy is a big, bulky middle aged dude who loves sports and typical outdoor "manly" activities. As his coworker and friend, I know he's a kind and sweet teddy bear of a person, but his kid probably views him as a stern, authoritarian figure, the way most teenagers view their parents. His family lives in a conservative area, so I'm sure between that, their dad's looks and interests, and the fact that their dad is a Figure of Authority, the kid is worried that they won't be accepted.

But you know what? When he found out about his kid, the first thing he did was reach out to his closest queer friend and ask for resources for parents of questioning children. His biggest fears are that his kid will be bullied or discriminated against and won't feel comfortable enough to be themself. His second action was to find himself a mentor in another parent who went the same situation (kid coming out in a conservative town). The other person is preparing him for some of the struggles his kid may face and the fights he may need to take on as a parent to make sure his kid is safe and treated well.

Something I want to emphasize for people focused on language as the primary method of allyship is that when we spoke, he used some outdated terms and thoughts about gender and sexuality. That does not make him bad. These were the terms and thinking used about questioning teenagers when he was growing up and he never needed to learn more current ones. But now that he does have that need, he's throwing himself in head first because that's his kid and he's darn well going to make sure that his kid feels welcomed and has a safe place to be themselves even if they never come out to him.