Henlo

name, age, (pronouns), ethnicity, diagnoses, home address, medical history etc.

[femmepathy]

The mile-long rainbow flag being carried down First Avenue in New York City.

[arcaneasexual]

“For New York City Pride in 1994 (Stonewall 25), Baker created a mile-long rainbow flag that was carried down First Avenue in Manhattan. During the parade, Baker used scissors to cut segments from the flag to be rushed to Fifth Avenue for an impromptu protest march in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the headquarters of New York City’s anti-gay Catholic archdiocese.

^“At the bottom of the image is the segment of the flag cut for the St. Patrick’s Cathedral protest. Photograph by Mick Hicks”

“Gilbert Baker wearing a white sequined dress (right) and other protestors triumphantly march the cut pieces of the mile-long flag past St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Photograph by Charles Beal”

[stickandthorn]

I’d die on the hill that “stranger danger” is a deeply unhelpful mentality to have. “Ooooh everyone is out to get me they’re all gonna perpetrate harm that’s actually more likely to come from someone I already know. I better never talk to anyone in my community who I don’t already know, just to be safe. I’m sure there are no other biases interwoven with this mentality” like oh my god human traffickers do not just randomly spawn in every parking lot. You don’t have to go solo hitchhiking across the country but you also don’t have to live in fear that every guy on the street is the knife man who’s gonna get you. Like have situational awareness, yeah. But most of the time the guy on the street is not knife man he’s actually just a guy on the street and he’s probably pretty chill, and you’re driving yourself crazy by living in a constant state of unnecessary fear.

[stickandthorn]

Like always safety comes first, especially if you’re in a marginalized group more likely to be targeted by random people around you. But that’s different from stranger danger. I might even say that stranger danger is something that contributes to marginalized groups getting targeted by random people. Which strangers do you find distrust worthy? Why? Does vague distrust justify harmful actions in the name of self defense? Stranger danger draws everyone away from more important issues of safety (underlying bigotries, systemic injustices, abuse in the home, etc) and towards an amorphous boogeyman that has no solution, because it’s not the real cause or culprit.

[champ-the-mudkip]

I think a lot of this mentality much be leftover from childhood for millennials. We were taught "stranger danger" as a safety precaution. It wasn't uncommon to be completely on your own to get yourself to and from school, because both parents having to work was a new ish thing. I started walking home with only my slightly older sister starting at I think 6 years old, and I walked 20 minutes home completely alone starting when I was 8.

So I think the influence of the stranger danger campaigns and similar child safety things might have overcorrected and led into now-adults still treating the world like it's filled with kidnappers in white cans ready to lure you in with candy.

[stickandthorn]

With no ill intent towards the person who reblogged, this is a great opportunity to talk about how stranger danger is an ineffective safety measure for children. The VAST majority of harm usually ascribed to stranger danger (kidnapping, assault, etc) is perpetrated by someone the child already knows. But the problem with stranger danger isn’t even that it’s targeted towards the wrong group, it’s that it doesn’t teach children actually safety skills. Children should be taught warning signs, inappropriate behaviors, and safety measures that can apply to ANY adult. And that goes deeper. You teach children that adults who touch without asking or when they tell them to stop is bad, AND you let them say no to hugs from relatives that they don’t want. It’s not just don’t take candy from strangers, it’s that you don’t owe anyone who gives you a gift anything, including trust. Stranger danger is bad for everyone, not just adults. 

[crittaslink]

I gotta hand it to sandler that this scene is exactly what listening to that song feels like.

[campsis]

Eden Kalif, Good Cats

[fictionalgod]

[captain-price-returns]

California farmers to destroy 420,000 peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy

Del Monte Foods shuttered its Modesto and Hughson cannery plants in April. 

[great-and-small]

Actually I do not feel snug as a bug in a rug I feel uptight as a mite in a fight

[groupthinker]

something to consider

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

*Traces my hand along the surface of a grassy park lawn that was clearly wetland many years ago due to how it floods with water every year* Who did this to you….

[onlytiktoks]

[aniseandspearmint]

Asdfghjkl her perfectly straight face and even tone throughout should win an AWARD

[kosmogrl]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[ilynpilled]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[pulim-v]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[cobaltspartan]

fascinated by jeff the killer tbh. everyone in that creepypasta has generic white usamerican names (jeff, keith, barbara, billy, etc.) except for jeff the killer's doe eyed little brother liu. why is he liu. is liu chinese? it's okay if he's chinese. is jeff also chinese? has jeff the killer been chinese this whole time? am I a bad person?

[winding-maze]

"Blackbird" - personal work, inspired by my hometown. Blackbirds are my favourite - they sing so beautifully.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

knowing that the past tense of "hang" is "hanged" when it's a method of execution can be very entertaining because you'll be watching a horror movie and someone goes "local legend says a woman was hung in these woods" and you're like "👀 good for her I guess"

[catchymemes]

[wumbreon]

May we all know decadence such as this

[tamamita]

We can do this

[tenfingers-elevenpies]

it will literally get ripped apart

[tamamita]

It literally will not, trust me

[tearlessrain]

having anxiety is like being given permanent unwanted custody of a halter arabian. like okay buddy is it panic time again. cool you probably need more exercise and an apple and then maybe you'll calm down.

[tearlessrain]

taking my stupid walks for my stupid mental health with my stupid hypervigilant brain horse

[tearlessrain]

thoroughly enjoying the notes on this post because it's equal parts people with anxiety going "yeah that's what it's like" and people with arabians going "yeah that's what they're like"