Exhibit 1730
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Kaledo Art
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Exhibit 1730
Homesteading survival knowledge
Growing Food:
The basics of Growing Food
Crops to grow for Maximum Production
Seed Starting Plan
Grow transplants for free
How to get Seeds for Free
How to find good soil for Free
Amending the Soil
How to Collect Seeds
Re-potting and care for tomato transplants
Growing dry beans
Growing Garlic
How to grow a lot of Leek
Plants going to Seed Explained
Food you can grow and eat in the Winter
Climate change and Food Security
Plant Lemon Trees from Seed
Why is rain much more effective than watering?
Stashing Food
Storing the Food from your Garden
Living in nature and food conservation
Making a Meal from foraged and Garden Food in Winter
Sun-drying Strawberries
Sun-drying Cherry Tomatoes
Citrus Tips
Canning
Blackberry Jam
Strawberry Jam
Salsa (tomatoes, peppers, onion, garlic)
Đuveđ (mixed vegetables preserve)
Ajvar (preserved peppers)
Preserved sugar Cherries
Foraging:
Edible Mushrooms that grow on trees
Edible Wild Plants to Forage for in Spring
Make Honey out of Dandelions
How to cook with Nettle
Incredible value of Pine Needles
Herbalism
Rose Water
On herbal infusions and poison tea
Herbs to Collect for Tea
How to safely make Elderberry Syrup
Yarrow and Lemon Balm
Basic Medicinal Herbal Tea Uses
Tree Care:
How to grow trees
Where are the Tree Roots?
What is Root Flare
Tree Pruning Mistakes
Types of Pruning cuts
How to Prune Correctly
Other:
Building a Cob House
How to make Earthen Floors
Cooking with minimal use of heat
Processing Forest Clay
How to hand-work clay
How to make laundry detergent out of conkers
Creating baskets out of Newspapers
How to keep your space cool during heat waves
How trees create a living atmosphere
How to get rid of ants
Survival Recipes
What garden plants can be used as poison
“One of the objectives of civil disobedience is to inconvenience and slow down and disrupt the system. We wanted to remain chained to one another in order to force the police to figure out how to lift all 20 of us as one into some vehicle and get us to the station or to a locksmith. Some of us tried to slip our keys surreptitiously into our shoes or our bras; some threw theirs into the crowd. I watched a little girl -about eight or nine years old pick up a tossed key and, right in front of the policeman who was searching for it, slip it quietly into her pocket. For weeks afterward that made me grin every time I thought of it. It makes me grin right now. Somewhere there’s a girl who’s not going to forget that women were arrested one hot August day for trying to get her into the Constitution.”
Going out of our minds, Sonia Johnson
A common theme I see amongst young feminists, who are starting to understand the depths of male violence against girls and women, is a feeling of such hopelessness that it concentrates into a feeling of bodily inferiority; a feeling of being weaker, being rapeable, being impregnatable. And sometimes even, in turn, hating oneself and ones female body.
I want every woman out there to know that the physical ability to commit violence upon another person is not a superior trait, despite what generations of men would like you to believe.
Men give violence and brute strength value. So let's talk about where we should be giving value to the female body.
First, the reason men are on average stronger than women is also their downfall. Testosterone is a hormone that gives the ability to build muscle and maintain little fat. To simplify how it works, it burns hard and fast to build. This means that it burns hard and fast through the body as well. Mens bodies breakdown quicker- hearts fail, muscles degenerate, etc. They die younger than women.
Essentially, female bodies are more flexible and have a better endurance. This is because our bodies and systems are built for longevity - not power. Mens bodies are built for power and quick burn.
Our uteruses (and other hormonal regulatory systems in our bodies!) love us dearly. Our bodies regulate hormones, limit testosterone, and ensure we don't burn out quick. We experience menopause and men don't. We've been taught this is a bad thing.. But our bodies slow down and stop the hormones that would burn us out, and mens bodies don't. Menopause elevates our lifespan and quality of life.
In fact, this reproductive/regulatory system is so important, we have fat deposits that protect these organs. This allows us to be healthier for longer, too!!
It also helps a ton that we have a boosted immune system, much better than our male peers. On top of that, we have higher pain tolerances! We are better equipped to fight off things that ail us, and persevere through things that would bring us harm.
So we know women live longer, and in better health - but why is that? Is it just testosterone? Is it just to get pregnant? No! Our bodies don't exist to sustain a baby (though they can, and the fact that all life on earth exists because of women is an astoundingly powerful truth) they exist to sustain us - because we were and are community leaders, healers, caretakers, providers - we are immensely valuable.
Why, evolutionarily, are we this way? Because older women bring more value to communities than older men. Look up the Grandmother Hypothesis in evolution studies; it says menopause evolved because it allows women to live longer, because women (specifically grandmothers!) are key to community survival and kin relationships. Older women are key to our species survival; not just for the lifes they may or may not create, but for the relationships, the community, the reasons we live.
Some other miscellaneous thoughts...Sexually, we are the sex that has an organ made entirely for pleasure. We are the sex capable of multiple orgasms, and stronger. That's worth some thought.
So how do men play into all of this? Men are a genetic mutation of us that exist to provide sperm, if we'd like. Men who had more testosterone became stronger than men with less (therefore better at hunting, building shelter), making them more desirable mates, meaning that the next generation of men was stronger as well. And there they placed the value in strength. Which translated to the value of violence.
So the next time you find yourself valuing the capacity for violence, instead look to value the capacity for creation.
Womanhood is made vulnerable by males who choose violence. And that's why our work as feminists is so important. But I promise you - your body was not designed to receive conflict, but to outlast it. You were designed to build something better.
there’s a connection between the numbing sprays for your feet so you can wear high heels and the anal desensitizing lube so you can have anal sex for your boyfriend and the suppressants for your gag reflex so you can deepthroat that same boyfriend. can’t quite make it though
to add to this: appetite suppressants so you can ignore your hunger signals, and that recent study that was going around that showed that women who self-objectify are less likely to perceive pain or the cold
The dissociation that women frequently use to protect themselves during moments like rape was fetishized by predators, weaponized against us, and made into a basic commodity that anyone can demand at any time now.
Because it's harder for someone else to use you as an object when you can, you know... actually feel your body.
The connection is self-objectification taken to the extreme. Making yourself into an object that can't feel pain, can't sense what's being done to it, just exists to be seen and felt and enjoyed by others. It's harder to make yourself into the abuse object that men expect you to be if your body is still able to warn you against it, so you have to turn off the warnings. Being a feeling and thinking and experiencing animal is incompatible with being an object that exists for the enjoyment of sadistic men, so the numbing agents help you convert yourself from animal to object.
“Both the veil and makeup are often seen as voluntary behaviours by women, taken up by choice and to express agency. But in both cases there is considerable evidence of the pressures arising from male dominance that cause the behaviours. For instance, the historian of commerce Kathy Peiss suggests that the beauty products industry took off in the USA in the 1920s/1930s because this was a time when women were entering the public world of offices and other workplaces (Peiss, 1998). She sees women as having made themselves up as a sign of their new freedom. But there is another explanation. Feminist commentators on the readoption of the veil by women in Muslim countries in the late twentieth century have suggested that women feel safer and freer to engage in occupations and movement in the public world through covering up (Abu-Odeh, 1995). It could be that the wearing of makeup signifies that women have no automatic right to venture out in public in the west on equal grounds with men. Makeup, like the veil, ensures that they are masked and not having the effrontery to show themselves as the real and equal citizens that they should be in theory. Makeup and the veil may both reveal women’s lack of entitlement.”
Sheila Jeffreys, Beauty and Misogyny: Harmful Cultural Practices in the West
hey i hope all my followers know that you don’t have to wear any makeup at all. ever. like, you can just not do it. make-up is something that’s been normalized to the point where people think it’s necessary but i’m telling you that it’s completely okay to not ever wear makeup
not “oh yeah you only need mascara and foundation” like no. you don’t have to wear *any* makeup. at all. not even one thing
this shit is literally evil i don’t wanna see it on ig ever and it’s not even about the makeup itself it’s the way makeup has become diet plastic surgery that masks your skin and natural features when it used to be like pretty obvious what you looked like with more dated makeup in the last 10 years it’s become so so much more satanic
You can’t fully relax when you’re wearing makeup. You can’t just rest your face in your hand or rub your eyes or scratch your chin or wipe your mouth. You can’t eat without worrying about messing up your makeup. You can’t get sweaty without worrying about messing up your makeup. You can’t blow your nose / wipe your nose without worrying about messing up your makeup. You can’t swim without worrying about messing up your makeup. You can’t cry without worrying about messing up your makeup. You can’t indulge in the simple joys of going out in the rain or nuzzling your face in your cat’s fur without worrying about messing up your makeup. You can’t just casually get into bed and roll over to rest your face on the pillow without worrying about messing up your makeup.
By wearing makeup, you force yourself to be hyperaware of your face at all times. You have to learn to suppress the urge to rub your eyes or rest your chin in your hand. It’s tiring.
I’m so glad I never got into makeup.
Wearing makeup entails constant body monitoring, which is a concept I wish we talked more about:
(link to the article)
According to the data in the UK, as of 2017:
19% of men in prison are there for sexual crimes*
4% of women in prison are there for sexual crimes*
48% of “trans women” in prison are there for sexual crimes* - where 21.6% of “trans women” in prison are specifically in prison for rape
*Where “sexual crimes” contains indecent exposure, voyeurism, paedophilia, sexual assault and rape, but does not include kerb-crawling or allowing a premises to be used as a brothel. (Added note: “being a prostitute” is not illegal in the UK, do not allow TRAs to claim part of those “sexual crimes” are “selling sex,” we criminalise johns and pimps.)
I will never be able to fully express how being a lesbian is not considered cool and sexy to average people, who aren't terminally online. It considered especially disgusting to people when you're a woman who doesn't look like a super model or actress. People are shocked and appalled at the thought you want to eat the pussy of an ordinary girl whose like a waitress or something. People are grossed out that two women who might be fat, masc with stretch marks/scars or without makeup etc find each other completely attractive and have completely fulfilling sex for themselves. Lesbianism that is devoid of the male gaze repulses people. It's why lesbians are rarely fully represented in media. It's not sexy anymore if it's not two straight thin decorated actresses directed by a man. They so mad when we want each other and don't care to meet their beauty standards or need their approval.
male ally:
1. he will clean the house, the public spaces, the common areas, the work spaces, and anywhere a woman may tread fully, with complete competence, so that it is hygienic and sanitary and nice to look at and pleasant to be around, without any expectation that a woman or any woman will assist
2. he will not consume any material classified as media that depicts women, fictional or real, in positions, sexual or not, of humiliation, torture, bodily harm, pain, torment, dehumanization, commodification, or death, made for the express purpose to tantalize, titillate, or arouse an audience of males, and he will not masturbate to the thought of it.
3. he will expect no children, no marriage, no servitude or attention from any woman, and will not expect any woman to forego her own health and safety to uplift his quest for legacy and import, nor will he expect her to prioritize him and his goals, his desires, or needs over her or another woman’s, rather he will when possible prioritize her own self-fullfilment and self-actualization without her asking.
4. he will not rape.
5. he will murder rapists. he will not punish a woman who murders a rapist, but indeed he will try his best to spare her the pain by murdering the rapist for her. when a woman murders a rapist, he will aid in uplifting the woman in the community in announcing and celebrating her good deed. he will expect no same approval and distinction, and will do his work quietly and unassuming. He will find no pleasure in the act and expect no reward, not least which from the rapist’s victims.
6. he will speak when spoken to by a woman. he will otherwise cast his eyes down, and make no act or sound to gain her attention. he will be thankful for any attention a woman deigns to give him, and he will not expect any attention further than she gives.
7. he will disown any god, all gods, and take no interest in the pursuit of godliness. the matters of theology will only be discussed, known, and understood by women, and he will have no desire taking part. he will not listen, he will not concern himself. he will not argue with a woman about the affairs of gods and spirituality.
8. he will labor graciously to provide a world that fosters the health and imagination of women, with no expectations for his own rewards.
9. he will not wage war, he will not fight in a war.
10. he will accept death before he waivers on any of these tenants.
Men, if any woman comes at you with expectations like this: RUN.
She’s at best a misandrist and at worst an abuser.
“if a woman expects you to treat women with respect and to care about women: RUN!”
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It’s a mistake to think of the feminist movement as “Oh well in a particular moment in history a few women became enlightened about their condition and started fighting back” and it speaks to a wider ignorance of women’s history. When we speak about how women are complicit in their oppression and how women for most of history did not prepare organised attacks against patriarchy, let us not forget that the history of women is one of simmering dissatisfaction, always under the surface. It is filled with constant tiny battles, constant rebellions and negotiations to survive or to have a short term victory, some as small as a fake headache others as large as poisoning one’s husband, secret abortions, collecting and sharing knowledge with other women, anonymously written books, etc. We can see evidence of this deep lingering dissatisfaction and anger in records of women’s sadness and anger, of their “hysteria” and illnesses. We also see evidence of it in men. Nowhere in history have men taken a break from their continuous propaganda campaigns and ever evolving oppression against women. That in itself should be enough evidence to show women’s subjugation is not natural or happily accepted. Just as no woman’s patriarchal beliefs come from a vacuum, neither does her feminist consciousness. Your knowledge, your beliefs, cultivated against many odds, every word you’ve read that has resonated with you, every statistic proving your experience is not isolated, is the result of so many different women’s battles.
gender non-conforming women are always the second choice in media. this character is boyish and loud as a child, but she matures into a beautiful feminine woman after “discovering her femininity”! this character is a career-oriented, self-reliant and determined professional, but do you know she’s secretly depressed because she’s infertile and she’d prefer to be a mother? this character is unfeminine, but she hates it and it makes her insecure, she just doesn’t know how to change it! it’s never her first choice, never something she genuinely wants and prefers. she only gets to exist if she hates it and feels sorry about it
A woman who tells herself and others that she “had it coming, i deserved it” is trying to get her agency back in the only way she knows how, because if it is her fault, then this happened to her because of a mistake she made. Now she can avoid making that mistake in the future, as opposed to having her choices taken away from her. She’s still the master of her life.
By that same token, when she blames other women for the abuse/harm they’ve suffered it’s bc she wants to believe that it is their fault, that they brought it on themselves, because if they didn’t then that means it could happen to anybody for no reason. There’s no formula to follow, no path to walk no perfect set of steps to follow that will ensure this will never happen to you and that’s scary.