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Ren Hang, 2015

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[evilrashida]

THE SUN AND THE MOON

[doubleradish]

It turns out I will finally get paid the money owed to me for work I did in 2015. Money my sexist, misogynist, racist, predatory, incompetent, abuser of a boss tried desperately to cheat from me. He has since resigned but I continue to struggle with what he left behind.

I’m going to use most of the $ to pay off my credit cards but I want to get a tattoo to celebrate the victory against injustice. Looking for input on symbolic images that might represent victory over evil....what should I get?

[thecolorblockcurator]

Woman Reading, 1970, Will Barnet

[carolathhabsburg]

A 1880s diamond and cultured pearl snake brooch. For victorians, snakes were symbol of eternal love.

[weloveshortvideos]

Salmon Swimming Across the Road

[thislousytshirt]

this is the most badass thing ive seen in a long time

[fauxfable]

haha speedy boy

[sail0rswift]

does this make anyone else feel extremely uneasy lolol jesus

[doubleradish]

Wut.

[biscodeja-vu]

Belinda and Rosita, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1998. Alessandra Sanguinetti.

[doubleradish]

Such comfort.

[doubleradish]

Yesterday a large portion of my family was having a lively discussion about another family member’s partner “Jesse”, as they were not sure what gender “it” was. The discussion ranged from comments about the person’s weight (”I couldn’t even tell if it had boobs or not, it was so fat”), hair length, voice, posturing etcetera etcetera. “But what do I care? It seemed like a nice person.”

Finally, I asked them why they didn’t just ask this person what pronouns they prefer. The room went silent. I explained that the polite thing to do is respectfully ask what their preferred pronouns are and use them, and that its none of their business what gender that person was at birth. Its as simple as that. My family looked at me like deer in the headlights (for suggesting that they should interact with this person?) and criticized me for being so pc. “So does that mean its a tranny? Should he/she be allowed to decide what we call it?”

!!!!!!!  :(((((

Its so frustrating. 

To everybody who had difficult Thanksgiving conversations with your loved ones: this shit is hard. We HAVE to speak up though. The difficult conversations are so important (especially when standing up against white entitlement and racial/sex/religious discrimination). Keep fighting, babes. You got this. 

[arabellesicardi]

We Need Each Other More Than Ever!

At the Trans Lifeline we were devastated to hear that eight people — many of whom were teens — died by suicide last night after election…

Please donate if you have the means 

[arabellesicardi]

The Past 48 Hours.

Here are some things I did in the last 48 hours. Minus most the sobbing and benders of which there are many though after awhile they blend into breaks between one and the other. Maybe it will help you figure out what to do yourself. 

Read this document, and ones similar to them. Sent it to the people I love. 

Scheduled appointments with every one of my doctors for follow ups and medication renewals and consultations. Psychiatrist, specialist, gynecologist, dentist, every -ist in my fucking book. Called my pharmacy to refill the scripts I can get refilled without doctor visits.  

Donated to the ACLU and Planned Parenthood.

Baked a cake while chain smoking aggressively (I recommend the former).

Got an IUD at Planned Parenthood - as a walk in for free, when it took me 4 phone calls and approximately 2 hours of time to get my insurance to give me a referral and answers and schedule me for a pap smear later on this month (come on). Here is a free clinic directory if a PP is not available in your area.

Walked through The Crisis Toolkit.

Listened to Rachmaninov and drank a bottle of wine on my kitchen floor.

Emailed my friends about what we’re all doing. 

Bought emergency contraception at the pharmacy for my friends in the future. Here is a coupon.

Made sure my roommates know how to use the pepper spray I bought for us. 

Downloaded Signal. Read through Security Culture for Activists. 

Signed up for many self defense workshops. Here’s one.

Research more about Living Wills and how to prepare your own will. If you’re <25 like I am this maybe has not occurred to you before. It would be helpful now. 

Refreshed on Know Your Rights, on organizing guides, and what hope is in the dark. 

Took a bath. 

Obviously, cried. 

[sushidynasty]

For those of you with anxiety

here’s a website that translates the time into hexidecimal colours,

here is a website where you can create your own galaxies

here is a website where you can play flow

here you can interact with organisms in different environments to see how to music changes

here you can play silk which is an interactive generative art designing website.

Here is a website where you can travel along a 3D line into the infinite unkown

here is a website where you can listen to rain with or without music

[flowerinaflame]

[vulture-jack]

I’m gonna outlive donald trump i dont care how long i have to wait i wanna live in a world where he doesnt exist and I dont have to hear or see him 

Spite, fuel me

im not goin anywhere

[carpaydiem]

god this was so uplifting to read

[ravefromthegrave]

"women invented beer" really??

yeah, at least it’s what we think, since women were the ones who started brewing shit. the goddess of brewery and beer is, well, a goddess and not a god, which is probably because women were the ones starting it historically.

[pro-butch]

@sharkfinshuffle say stuff

[sharkfinshuffle]

FINE I’ll just do your homework for you. Trust me, it’s not just “what we think”, we have ample evidence and it’s pretty much unanimously agreed upon among brewers that women were traditionally the ones brewing and often drinking the beer. So long long story short: yes, brewing was very much a women’s craft in the majority of cultures worldwide pre-industrialisation. A couple of popular brewing textbooks state:

“Initially, brewing was carried out as home brewing by women for domestic use only. It was part of the daily housework next to cooking and baking bread.” (Handbook of Brewing, Priest and Stewart, 2006)

“Traditionally, [African] beers are made by women brewsters, as was the case medieval Europe, and they may be consumed with some ceremony.” (Brewing, Briggs, Brookes, and Stevens, 2003)

And here are some articles:

A (Very) Brief History of Women in Beer

http://growlermag.com/women-in-beer/

Honestly though, just google “women brewing history”.

[ravefromthegrave]

lol wow thank you!!! i will spread this information in the world

also will use it to shut down Manly Beer Drinker of all sorts

[dancinbutterfly]

THIS IS USEFUL! I SHALL BE TAKING THIS INTO MY LOCAL MICROBREWERY AND BEING OBNOXIOUSLY FEMINIST. I LOVE YOU FOR THIS SO MUCH!

[saint-olga]

Fun fact: men (specifically, monks) started adding hops to beer. Hops makes beer taste bitter - the tast men today insist is the “true” tast of beer which makes it a masculine drink. The fun part of it is that hops is a phytoestrogen which is (according to some sources - there are disproving articles so I won’t say it’s absolutely true) responsible for low sex drive, lower energy, man boobs, and abdominal fat. Actually, monks started using hops in beer in order to lower libido of men in the monastery. 

[dduane]

This came up just now in the Irish Times in regards to a brewery in Mechelen in Belgium. (Yet another reason to get back there.)

“Women’s role in the history of beer is often forgotten,” says Sofie Vanrafelghem, author and master beer sommelier. “One of the very first written documents to refer to beer,” she says, “was an ode written 3,800 years ago to the Sumerian goddess Ninkasi, whose priestesses brewed beer in her honour.”

This data’s been on my radar for a while now. I remember being in one of our favorite places in Dublin, Porterhouse Central, and spotting a sign hanging up above one of the aisles that said BEERS BREWED BY MEN, NOT MACHINES. A nice enough sentiment, but unfortunately / unnecessarily gendered.

I was in a bit of a mischievous mood and said to the barman, “No women?” “Nope,” he said.

I said, “You should really get at least one woman brewer in here. For historical reasons if nothing else. Didn’t you know that until a couple of centuries ago it was illegal for men to brew in Dublin?”

He was kind of stunned. True, though. It was traditional in the city from Viking times that only women should brew. In fact there was a sense that it was unlucky for men to brew, that the beer would fail, that it didn’t like them.

My bartender was a little bemused by this. “But why would that be?”

I just kind of laughed. “Women,” I said. “Yeast. We have a relationship.”

I wish I could describe the series of expressions that went across his face. :)

[angryhausfrau]

Also really cool info: In medieval Europe, women would sell their excess home-brewed beer. They would identify themselves by wearing pointed hats at market and by placing broomsticks outside of their doors. Surprising absolutely no one, the Church was not really into female entrepreneurs and/or women having power and respect in the community. Church officials spread word that these women were evil servants of the devil and should be avoided because they would bewitch you with their potions. This is where we get much of the iconic Western European witch imagery ie. broomsticks, pointed hats, cauldrons. Basically the Church got pissy because women had power in their communities and basically started the a ridiculously long-lasting smear campaign against female beer-brewers. link to a full article: http://www.stylist.co.uk/life/recipes/women-and-beer-a-snap-shot-history

@tootiepants getta load of this :D

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