Trinkets and piglets.

Pretty, shiny treasures go here.

[writerswritecompany]

[reverseracism]

THIS is how white privilege/supremacy works. When you are insulted because you SUPPOSEDLY wear bronzer (when you are naturally this shade) and a white girl who is trying to be darker is praised

[reverseracism]

This is so odd… Because Naya Rivera is actually Afro-Puerto Rican. How you gone tell a Black Girl to calm down on the bronzer when that’s her God given tone that y'all use bronzer to try and imitate?

[cartoonhangover]

(Source: 107 Facts About Spirited Away)

[fliptop]

@transboyseborga

[inkskinned]

“women don’t know how much rejection hurts” i wasn’t allowed to play with legos or touch a football or look at sports. i wasn’t allowed to eat more. i wasn’t allowed to talk loudly, to laugh too much, to inject myself into male conversations. i wasn’t allowed to be good at science. i was told “oh sweetheart, have another college in mind, STEM fields are hard.” i got turned down from jobs in favor of boys where were less qualified. one boss told me he was hesitant to hire me because my last name is hispanic and i’m pretty and he didn’t want the “controversy.” i couldn’t take up space on the train. i would be talked over in public places. i couldn’t eat steak or drink beer, they were “boy” things. video games were off limits, i wasn’t allowed to ask if i could see more characters like myself in them. super heroes were all men, women were just love interests. i wanted shirts with wonderwoman, with black widow, with harley quinn, i found next to nothing. i wanted pockets and colors other than pink and clothes designed for warmth, not sexy, i got nothing. women change their name to be published nationally. i wasn’t allowed to be emotional, i wasn’t good at driving, i wasn’t in charge of my own body. i wasn’t allowed to show off my body, i wasn’t allowed to dress modestly. i had to be pretty, whatever it took, but my eating was constantly made fun of. “she’s, like, anorexic” was a punchline, not a disorder. “she’s fat” was a death sentence. 

boys said no because: i wasn’t pretty i wasn’t small i was too loud i spent too much energy on being funny on because i wouldn’t shut up what a feminazi i wasn’t smart i was too smart for my own good i was always reading i was always busy i was too needy i was too independent i was not who you took home i was too much of a house mom i was perfect and it was scary.

women don’t know. women don’t know. never sat in a room and wrote angsty poetry about this shit. somehow both overemotional and not capable of knowing how much rejection stings. which one is it. which one is it. i’ll give you a hint: we’ve been rejected since the first time our parents said, “no, not the blue blanket, it’s for little boys to play with.” we are used to having “no” slammed in our faces. we got used to it. maybe the reason it seems so unnatural to hear “no” is because for your entire life, you heard “yes.”

[thechildfreetalk]

Not strictly on topic for this blog, but so true and so well-put that I’m making the exception.

[syfcoloring]

[asianqueen-deactivated20210401]

[daftpiink]

I thought they only drank coca cola

[aseriesofcomebacks]

[seriouslyamerica]

Seriously, Rugrats was not fucking around.

[flaminganakin-deactivated201812]

People don’t give Rugrats enough credit for how progressive it was. I mean think about it.

Chuckie, for most of the series is raised by a single father

Angelica’s mother was a high ranking corporate executive

Phil and Lil’s mom was a feminist 

She also breastfed them (which the show actually depicted)

Tommy is half-Jewish and the show actually explored this part of his heritage

Seriously, this show was fucking amazing!! They just don’t make ‘em like this anymore….

[tassiekitty]

Also don’t forget that Chuckie had an interracial family after the second movie.

[jazzthefraz-deactivated20200320]

How are you guys forgetting Susie? I mean her mom was a doctor and her dad was a writer for a famous Children’s TV show. Not to mention Kimmie was anything BUT submissive.

[allanime01]

Remember when they had episodes that hit hard to issues kids might be dealing with? Chuckie only had his Dad on Mothers Day, Tommy had to deal with being outshadowed by a new baby brother, Phil and Lil were constantly being mixed up and then they had a couple episodes where they each found that even as a twin they were their own people. Man Rugrats was the shit.

[90snickalways]

And they didn’t only express Tommy’s Jewish holiday’s like Passover and Hanukkah, but they incorporated holidays like Kwanzaa and Christmas too.

[cultureshift]

I lost my little sister to the cruelty of abortion. She was killed when she was three years younger than me, killed in the same womb I once called home. This picture is a reality for me, and it hurts to have to imagine the childhood we could have shared together, a time that we should both hold memories of. Raised as an only child, my formative years were dramatically different than what they could - what they should have been.

Not only was my sister erased, but so were my nieces and nephews and their children and their children’s children. Abortion not only kills an innocent child, it kills generations, it kills relationships, it kills hope, and it kills love.

[lifemattersjournal-deactivated2]

This breaks my heart so much. I can’t imagine the pain.

[by-grace-of-god]

Breaks my heart too. 

A pictures says a thousand words.  Or in this case, a picture testifies to millions of deaths. 

So sorry for your loss cultureshift. So so sorry. 

[xotilifeelmybones]

Oh dear lord shutup. You have absolutely no idea why your mother did that it is NONE of your business.

[allyourlovingandlonging]

Ok but seriously: “the womb I once called home” you mean YOUR MOTHER? Not a womb. A fucking person. Anti-choices have the most disgusting habit of dehumanizing pregnant people, it’s astounding.

No one cares about your poor “I could’ve had a sibling” sob story, the only thing that matters is your mother’s feelings, which are, as said above, NONE of your business. Her body does not belong to you or your almost-sibling.

[proud-to-be-pro-choice]

My mother had to terminate a pregnancy when she was 15, she had to tell her father - who was in parliament - and go down to the states in 1981 to even get the procedure because she couldn’t get it done in her small home town here in Canada; going down there was the closest and least conspicuous place for her to get it done. Seeing people say this sort of bullshit sickens me, especially knowing what my mom went through, and knowing that 34 years later she still has no regrets and knows it was the right thing to do. I don’t care that I could have another sibling, because I don’t. I probably wouldn’t be alive if she had actually decided to go through with pregnancy or decided to keep them, because she probably wouldn’t have moved away from home, and wouldn’t have met my father or little brother’s. It is my mother’s body, it does not break my heart thinking of all this “what if” bullshit, what breaks my heart is knowing how terrified my mom was because she was a young pregnant teenager. By the way it sounds, none of these people know why their parent went through with the abortion, and with how judgmental they’re being and that they’re making themselves a victim to something that has nothing to do with them, I’m not surprised they weren’t told why, because clearly these people don’t care for their own parents’ well-being. I am so fuming with rage right now, i can’t believe these people are making their selves out to be the victim in something their parents’ had to go through

[pro-choice-is-love]

I’m so sorry, cultureshift, that your mother has a child as selfish as you. She chose to carry you, raise you, care for you, and you publicly shame and spit on her. If you were my child, I’d consider you an incredible disappointment.

[bifeminism]

^^

[suzukatwilight]

Honestly it sounds like your mom should have aborted you and kept the sibling.

[wtffundiefamilies]

How disgusting to reduce your mother to nothing but your own incubator.  

[savthegem]

these really have me in tears tho 💀💀

[swannepoel]

‘OITNB’ Actress Speaks Out About Family’s Deportation

“I was coming home from school […] and I got home and their cars were there and dinner was started and the lights were on but I couldn’t find them.Then the neighbors came in. They were just like ‘I’m sorry but your parents were taken away.’ […] I just broke down. I was just like, what do you do? And then I’m so scared for them, what they’re going through. My parents are going to jail— and for what? […] People don’t realize it is so difficult to get documented, and my parents tried forever. The system didn’t offer relief for them."  —Diane Guerrero

[krxs10]

IN CASE YOU HAVENT HEARD YET

!!!!! MUST READ !!!!!!

Dominican Republic to be ‘Socially Cleaned’ of all Hatians/Dark Skinned Dominicans in two days

In two days about a quarter of a million people will be made stateless. They will have no homes, no passports, and no civil rights. There are several reasons for this, but the primary reason is racism.

 At issue is a ruling by the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic to strip away the citizenship of several generations of Dominicans:

According to the decision, Dominicans born after 1929 to parents who are not of Dominican ancestry are to have their citizenship revoked. The ruling affects an estimated 250,000 Dominican people of Haitian descent, including many who have had no personal connection with Haiti for several generations.

Dominican Republic has always had a longstanding hatred towards Haiti for years but what they’re doing is literally taking anyone who’s family lineage cannot be traced back to 1929, and putting them on a one-way bus back to Haiti, whether they were born in the DR or not. They don’t care. 

The US State Department has denounced the Dominican government for this plan, and pointed out that it is a gross violation of human rights according to the U.N. charter.

Below are 5 things you need to know about what is happening in the Dominican Republic:

The DR government has revoked the citizenship of more than 100,000 Dominicans born in the country of Haitian parents.

Many of the Dominican-born Haitians facing the looming threat of deportation have never visited Haiti or know anyone there.

The criteria the government will use in deciding who is to be bussed out of the country is “dark-skinned Dominicans with Haitian facial features.”

The DR government claims to have established a legalization process for Dominican-Haitians wishing to remain in the country, but the system is close-to-impossible, according to sources on the ground.

Even though currently the deportation of Dominic-Haitians persists as only a possibility, all evidence points to it happening.

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#StayWoke

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[shitandotherthings-blog-blog]

[emeralddreamer]

#god bless america

[a-heart-of-kyber]

[mo-nighean--donn]

this post is perfect from start to finish

[northgang]

[writingquotes-deactivated201509]

Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day in, day out, they labor to find their voice, to learn their trade, to understand nuance and pace. And then, facing a sea of rejections, they hear about something like Barbara Bush’s dog getting a book deal.

Timothy Egan (via writingquotes)

[theoriginalbuffyfans]