Hii! You can call me khioniya or just kia for short (not related to the historical khioniya) and welcome to my blog :) I’m eighteen, and go by she/they pronouns^^
Dni: terfs, zionists, racists, antisemites, exclusionists, transphobes, homophobes etc.
Goals for the next two years: get good grades in my A-levels, become fluent in French, learn to read the writing systems for Arabic, Korean and Urdu.
Masterlist (there isn’t really anything on it yet haha)
Before you go, remember to take care of yourself. Stick your head out of a window into the fresh air or brush your teeth idk just do something.
My biggest tip for being less insecure about your appearence is to just learn about eugenics, misogyny and racism like. ‘Ohh I don’t like my nose’ you know who also doesn’t like your nose??? Fucking nazis.
‘My waist used to be so much smaller’ They WANT you hungry and so focused on starving yourself that you don’t notice political corruption or are too tired to mobilise against it.
Of course it doesn’t completely remove your insecurities, and yeah, maybe at the end of the day you’ll still feel like something is Wrong with your nose… but whenever these kinds of thoughts pop into my head it is SO much easier to shoot them down by thinking about why I hate those features in particular, and the political extremes that said hatred leads to.
I don’t have the knowledge or credentials to explain why, but for me at least, connecting ‘hating my nose’ with ‘evil entity that is also full of delusional hatred-filled fools’ makes me treat my nose insecurity the same way I treat right-wing content when it pops up on my phone: immediate dismissal followed by slight concern about why this was recommend to me/why I even thought of that
My biggest tip for being less insecure about your appearence is to just learn about eugenics, misogyny and racism like. ‘Ohh I don’t like my nose’ you know who also doesn’t like your nose??? Fucking nazis.
‘My waist used to be so much smaller’ They WANT you hungry and so focused on starving yourself that you don’t notice political corruption or are too tired to mobilise against it.
It does actually blow me away that amatonormativity (the societal belief that everyone thrives best in and should desire a monogamous romantic relationship) is not a more frequently discussed topic in activist spaces because it is so fucking useful to describe so many aspects of society relating to misogyny, abuse, financial pressure, medical restrictions, family structures, etc but it's either completely unheard of or treated as a joke.
And frankly, as an aro and acespec person, I am fully fucking aware that the refusal of a lot of people on tumblr to use the term amatonormativity is centered around aphobia because apparently no one else is affected by lressure to be in a monogamous romantic relationship enough to talk about it, right? I am tired.
One of my relatives has finally stopped being a Zionist!!
This is random and a little stupid, but given how terrifying the world is right now, it made me really happy to see someone rethink their fascist opinions and change for the better, so if this instills hope in anyone else on this app then that’s good enough for me.
Also being quite vague for privacy reasons <3
I have a relative around the same age as me(18). His parents have always been zionists (to say it was an issue in our family would be an understatement) but since a little before lockdown had been getting more and more radicalised. Bro would listen to Ben Shapiro and start hating on non-nuclear families. My brother WE are both from non-nuclear families. If these ‘woke things’ were criminalised then WE would not exist. These shitheads like trump and we’re not even American 😭
Essentially, in 2021 he announced he wanted to join the IDF once he turned 18 and since then our relationship has been REALLY rough. I tried to reason with him and offered to lend him my Said books along with talking about how Israel is genuinely an awful state for everyone, Jews included (might not have been the best but I was fourteen, broke and very stressed). It was tragic since he originally wanted to be an intersectional reform Rabbi but instead of actually improving the community, started using his ashkenazi-ness to do horrible things.
A bit before he turned 18, he found out we had distant relatives in Azerbaijan- they’re all Jewish, actually indigenous to the area and (again without giving too much away) live in a historical Stetl. Before joining the IDF he went to visit them (I had no idea about this since I hadn’t been speaking to him at all) and omg. I feel like I’ve finally got him back holy shit.
Apparently they were taking about how shit the Azerbaijani government is and how they’re doing atrocious things to Armenians, queue this IDIOT talking about Israel and how we need to protect our fellow Jews, and these guys LAUGHED AT HIMM 😭 they genuinely thought he was taking the piss and after realising he was serious, told him he was shameful and that if he wasn’t a guest, they’d make him sleep with the donkeys 💀 HAHAHAHA
Now, he’s changed his plans and self describes as ‘more moderate’, he’s reading Edward Said and donating to UNWRA. It’s small stuff but he’s CHANGING finally.
It’s so funny to me, actual reason and statistics didn’t work to deradicalise him since he could easily pull up the ‘welll then you’re not really Jewish are you?? You’re brainwashed by the west you Goyim traitor’ card, but when some Certified Jews™ shamed him, he finally saw reason LMAO
Very thankful peer pressure exists holyshit 🙏😍 it’s around the time of national refugee week in the UK so if you can, please sign this petition to lobby for asylum seekers to be able to work, and see what is being done in your local community
Lift the Ban - Refugee Action
Here’s a link to some vetted fundraisers for Palestinian families
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And here’s the document on 40 ways to fight fascism
https://spencersunshine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/40ways.online.2020.pdf (tumblr won’t ink it but here)
By the way, you can improve your executive function. You can literally build it like a muscle.
Yes, even if you're neurodivergent. I don't have ADHD, but it is allegedly a thing with ADHD as well. And I am autistic, and after a bunch of nerve damage (severe enough that I was basically housebound for 6 months), I had to completely rebuild my ability to get my brain to Do Things from what felt like nearly scratch.
This is specifically from ADDitude magazine, so written specifically for ADHD (and while focused in large part on kids, also definitely includes adults and adult activities):
Executive functioning skills range from working memory to cognitive flexibility to inhibitory control, and beyond. They power our daily func
Here's a link on this for autism (though as an editor wow did that title need an editor lol):
Practical Strategies for Enhancing Executive Functioning Difficulties in Adults With Autism - Living with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as
Resources on this aren't great because they're mainly aimed at neurotypical therapists or parents of neurdivergent children. There's worksheets you can do that help a lot too or thought work you can do to sort of build the neuro-infrastructure for tasks.
But a lot of the stuff is just like. fun. Pulling from both the first article and my own experience:
Play games or video games where you have to make a lot of decisions. Literally go make a ton of picrews or do online dress-up dolls if you like. It helped me.
Art, especially forms of art that require patience, planning ahead, or in contrast improvisation
Listening to longform storytelling without visuals, e.g. just listening regularly to audiobooks or narrative podcasts, etc.
Meditation
Martial arts
Sports in general
Board games like chess or Catan (I actually found a big list of what board games are good for building what executive functioning skills here)
Woodworking
Cooking
If you're bad at time management play games or video games with a bunch of timers
Things can be easier. You might always have a disability around this (I certainly always will), but it can be easier. You do not have to be this stuck forever.
Guys please talk about Palestinian prisoners’ day. It feels like everyone has gone full mask off and just stopped bringing attention to this entirely - but a lot of detainees you advocated for one year ago are still detained today. Still facing the same conditions of squalor & torture & being indefinitely separated from their loved ones. The stats on Palestinian detainees are still as bad as they’ve ever been. Please talk about it
The mechanisms of self-hatred that capitalist white supremacy install in people are INSANE.
Like I absolutely hate myself right now. I feel like a useless slob who will never be beautiful or attractive, who will always be "fat" and unwanted and lonely and worth-less and obviously all my friends hate me and ALL OF THIS IS A LIE BUT I'VE BEEN INDOCTRINATED INTO IT SINCE BIRTH SO I CAN'T GET RID OF IT.
I'm a 300lb 6ft tall woman who can deadlift almost 400lbs and bench 220lbs and run a mile in 8min. I have a loving family and good friends and I make a difference in the lives of the people I work with. I'm weird and funny and I go to punk rock shows and I have cool tattoos and I make informative content about international education and I grow great gardens and my friends ask me for help and advice and to embroider flowers on their jeans and read their tarot cards and bring them wildflower jam and ALL OF THIS IS TRUE BUT FOR SOME REASON BECAUSE I CAN'T BE COMMODIFIED IT DOESN'T MATTER WHY DO I JUST WANT TO BE SEXY???
So this is me yelling at myself, and at you in case you need it:
DON'T LET THEM WIN.
Even if all you do today is yell "YOU FUCKING MATTER" at yourself in the mirror, fight the capitalist white supremacist colonists and remember that you matter.
Forced to say ‘Media is subjective and all interpretations are valid. Creative license is cool :)’ Born to say ‘Anyone who makes adaptations where Jonathan is a bad person so that Mina can fall in love with Dracula should be shot point blank’
wait a bunch of ppl ( in mexico i belive) got togheter and made a mini movie where everyone is poorly pretending to be french in retaliation for the dogshit emilia perez musical this is awesome tjhey all have little mustaches drawn on with sharpie and are spealing the worst french ever
