Educate Moi

Live and Learn

[themythicalcodfish]

Actually yes I can because I’ve used them.

1. Pick a Personal Style and stick to it like glue. The clothes, the hairstyles, the beauty regimen, all of it functions like armour and you can put it on every day.

2. Some form of sustained physical labour every day - not working out, doing something constructive. If there’s no snow to shovel, go outside and dig a new garden and spend at least an hour in it every day. If you live in an apartment, write down a specific cleaning regimen, with steps, and do it every day whether the space looks like it needs it or not.

3. Hyperplan your meals for the week. Cook at least one new recipe. Make sure there’s dessert, even if it’s just a scoop of ice cream.

4. Put on the loudest music you have and completely reorganize your living space. Pro tip: buy as many hooks as you can and get everything up off the floor. Colourful tote bags being used as storage totally count as installation art, especially if they go to the ceiling.

5. Make sure you’re not the only living thing in your home, even if it’s just a betta fish or a spider plant. It forces you to take care of yourself so that you can take care of the living thing that depends on you.

Will this work for everyone? Probably not. Is this a substitute for medical intervention? Nope. Did this help me get through 2013-2015 without a major breakdown? You bet. Just do your best.

[tomasorban]

[etrogim-deactivated20200109]

wait….are any americans aware that the cia overthrew the democratically-elected premier of iran in 1953 because he wouldn’t concede to western oil demands….and how that coup was the reason for the shah’s return to power, the iranian revolution, and the resulting fundamentalist dictatorship…..like, america literally dissolved iranian democracy and no one knows about it???

[jheselbraum]

No. No we don’t know about it. 

Americans aren’t told this shit. 

The only thing we’re taught about any Middle Eastern country in school is that 1) the region exists 2) it’s where The War is happening and 3) Muslim people live there. That’s it. Maybe if you’re lucky you’ll get into the Hammurabi Code and some early Babylonian stuff but American schools seem to think that if it happened outside Europe and before the colonial period, or makes America look bad and isn’t about A Very Watered Down Version of What Slavery Was, it’s not important.

Info on this is almost notoriously hard to find. It’s not in any texts on American and Russian involvement in the Middle East during the Cold War that I can find. You have to specifically look for a book about the Shah’s return to power, and even then you’d be hard pressed to find a book like that at your local bookstore. Once you get into some higher level college courses you might know about it, but the people who can afford those are more likely to already be indoctrinated into a certain Way of Thinking (read: they’re racist as shit) by the time they get there. And it’s almost like you have to know about it beforehand if you want to find information on it.

The only reason I knew about it is because there’s a thirty second summary of the event in Persepolis. Those thirty seconds flipped my entire worldview.

[fempunkandkittens]

“All the Shah’s Men” by Stephen Kinzer is a good, accessible text for people who want to know more about this.

[rebelcaptain4life]

!!!

[systlin]

I had to explain literally this to one of my co-workers, who is so fuckin racist against Middle Eastern people it’s insane.

She’s 60. She never heard of this.

As I was explaining this and how, during the Regan years, we funded Osama Bin Laden to fight against Russia, leading to the destruction of much of the infrastructure in the region, one of the plant workers came in to get his badge fixed.

He works in the quality control lab. He served 15 years active duty in the Army. Super smart guy, has a masters in chemistry and another masters in biology, raises saltwater fish in his spare time for sale, has the saltwater aquarium setup of the gods.  Raises rare corals too, some of which he donates to be used in re-seeding reefs around the world, but that’s a side tangent.

And he listened for a minute, then nodded and said “Yeah. I was there during that. I helped train people to fight. They wanted us to help them build schools and hospitals, after, but we were only interested in them as cannon fodder. Left the whole area in ruins. I wasn’t surprised when they hated us for it later. Told people then it would happen. We let them know then that they were only valuable to America as expendable bodies. Why wouldn’t they resent us for that?”

And she just looked floored.

“So…” She started, after a few minutes. “What do you think of Trump?”

“I hate him. He’s a coward and he’s going to get good people killed.” He didn’t even blink. “

She looked back and forth between us for a second, and then asked how I knew all this.

“I research things.” I said. “Google is great.” He nodded enthusiastically.

And she just sat there for a second and then said, really quietly, “I didn’t know.”

She lived through it.

American schools don’t teach you any of this sort of thing.

[runwithskizzers]

[stephanieruble-deactivated20240]

I thought of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi too. Never underestimate the power of a good book.

[riluu]

Every year in my entire schooling in small town Indiana, we’d start the year studying the revolutionary war. By the end of the year we would reach world war 2. The next year, the cycle would repeat. Every year. Revolutionary war to world war 2. Rinse and repeat.

We never studied the Vietnam War. Korea. No current events. No ancient cultures. No history of other countries. When 9-11 happened I was in high school, and me and my classmates legitimately had no idea who would attack the U.S. or why. We were baffled. Because we were taught our entire lives that America is always the good guy.

History class in America is an utter joke.

[tootickie]

hey so book rec! read this in my foreign policy class, and it’s about the 2 brothers who basically orchestrated all this government intervention. it’s called the brothers by stephen kinzer, and covers intervention in the congo, guatemala, iran, indonesia, and more. very very necessary reading tbh

[amortizing]

“I can’t decide whether I’m a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I’m a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that’s how I know I’m a woman!”

C. JoyBell C. (via amortizing)

[thefleetingobsessions]

https://soundcloud.com/alt-j/deadcrush-ben-de-vries-remix

[simplyheavenlyfood]

The growing danger of great-power conflict

How shifts in technology and geopolitics are renewing the threat

PROPHECY BEFORE OUR EYES…  WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS…

[againstsjws-blog]

BOYS NEED POSITIVITY.

BOYS NEED TO BE TOLD THAT THEY’RE AMAZING.

BOYS NEED TO BE TOLD THAT THEY’RE WORTHY OF LOVE.

BOYS NEED TO BE REMINDED THAT THEY ARE SMART, FUNNY AND PERFECT NO MATTER WHAT OTHERS THINK.

BOYS NEED POSITIVITY.

[nycdaywalker-deactivated2018070]

[memewhore]

[educatedmoi]

well we have the cure for cancer so thats good

[kushandwizdom]

[honestlyyoungpersona]

At such moments, I realize that all these stupid stereotypes about us do not have the right to exist

[funyuns-n-coffee]

This video is one of the most powerful things I’ve ever seen.

[takingbackourculture]

Do you guys by any chance know why some people claim the original Native Americans were black??

That cannot be real 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣. Unless, it’s the whole “everybody is from Africa” shit.-Dami

[educatedmoi]

@takingbackourculture There were many different tribes in america, not all were "indian" some had what we call "black features" dark skin, wide aqualine noses and thick hair" the idea that the only natvies in the whole of america were indian is false, in the caribbean islands there were also native indians and native black peoples. (Note: the native black peoples were not from the result of them being foricibly taken from Africa)

[just-shower-thoughts]

In every high school, there should be a class dedicated to teaching how taxes work, how to get insurance, how to rent or pay mortgage, and how to not get into financial trouble with banks.

[unanglaisamarseille-blog]

Les premières images d’un projet sur l’Etang de Berre et ses environs. 

An initial set of images from a new project exploring the Etang de Berre and the areas around it.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etang_de_Berre

[educatedmoi]

Saw your photographs in a expat cafe in Provence yesterday.

Love your work! x

[educatedmoi]

Nobody else's had the guts to do it.

[ithelpstodream]

[postingwhileblack]

101-yr old Black Wallstreet Survivor Oliva Hooker Still Fighting for Justice & Reparations

Dr. Olivia Hooker is a 101-year-old lady survived the horrific racist attack on the African-American community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of the most devastating massacres in the history of U.S. race relations. Tulsa race riot took place on May 31, 1921, in Greenwood, where located one of the most successful and wealthiest black communities in the United States during the early 20th Century, that was popularly known as America’s “Black Wall Street”. 

Its residents were among the best educated African Americans in the country who built  schools, hospitals, libraries, grocery stores, movie theaters, more than 600 businesses and other useful facilities.

However, all these were burned down by the group of white racists. They didn’t have mercy on anybody. They bombed the town and razed hospitals and schools. 

Dr. Hooker recalled that racists entered houses and broke or stole the family’s possessions and even destroyed the food on the stove.

This memory helped her in her fight for justice. During the Great Depression, Dr. Hooker earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education and became the first African-American woman to join the U.S. Coast Guard in 1945.

She received Master’s Degree and Ph.D. and co-founded the American Psychological Association’s Division of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. 

At 87, she retired in 2002. At 95, she volunteered with the Coast Guard Auxiliary in Yonkers, N.Y.

She received the APA Presidential Citation and the NYS Veteran’s Hall of Fame award.

In 2015 Congress honored her, and the Coast Guard named a Staten Island dining facility and a training facility in Washington, D.C., after her. President Barack Obama also recognized her Coast Guard service and legacy at the academy’s annual commencement that year.

Dr. Hooker devoted her life to educating younger generations to be tolerant of racial diversity and to prevent racial discrimination of Black people.

Black people inspire me every day.

#BlackLivesMatter

[eronthebender]

For all the Black people who say “if we respect ourselves” or “If we invest money in ourselves instead of wasting it on frivolous things we’d succeed.” As the answers to racism