-is into this to support locally sourced food, better farming practices, etc.
-is NOT into this for some “manifest destiny” bullshit
-is NOT an ecofascist
-supports indigenous land rights and supports paying reparations to bipoc
-supports labor unions
-supports better conditions, pay, and protections for all agricultural workers including undocumented workers
-is LGBTQ friendly
Because cottagecore is a sweet and lovely aesthetic but we cannot be silent about the racism and facism that this community promotes with its “traditional values” crap. I like fresh picked flowers on my table, I like honey lemon tea, I like pictures of baby goats. But if you disagree with the above list then your “cottagecore” blog is trash.
A video of a man reacting to a TikTok. The video begins with a someone grabbing a mouse out of the garbage in their house with thier hands and beginning to move into the room. The man reacting says over this clip “what we got goin’ on….. oh you got mice in the house. gotta clean it- oh he ain’t had to raw hand him like that… maybe a lil glove or something, coulda put that on…”.
The person arrives in their bedroom, dropping the mouse onto their bed and saying “why is there a whole ass pepper in my bed??”. The man reacting responds “oh you know him. she knows the mouse.”
TikTok end.
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An black and white image of Robert Downey Jr. With his plan against his chest with the text “She Knows the Mouse”
i had shared what is happening in sudan on a long facebook post last night, but it virtually received almost little to no engagement or shares from the nearly 600 “friends” i have on the site.
this morning, my great-aunt was shot by the soldiers fighting for power, and God forbid, i lose more of my family members before eid this friday.
please read below to understand what is happening and how you can help my country. i hope the tumblr community can show more kindness than the lack of support and advocacy i’ve seen elsewhere.
يا رب اجعل هذا البلد آمناً 🇸🇩
the lack of awareness and advocacy from the African, Arab, and Muslim diaspora and the human rights community has been painful.
while Western media has done little to no coverage of the ongoing conflict in the capital city of my motherland, Sudan, it appears that the rest of the world also partakes in normalizing crimes and violence against SWANA people.
violence and war hurting the SWANA region are NOT ordinary occurrences — no one, regardless of race, creed, ethnicity, religion, and gender, should experience the unprecedented amount of violence that harms my two living grandmothers, aunts and uncles, and baby cousins who live in Khartoum.
your decision to ignore reading or educating and discussing with others about what is likely to be a civil war is complicity in viewing SWANA people as individuals who regularly experience conflict and are undeserving of help.
the silence is damaging, and it is up to us as privileged members of the diaspora (or individuals living in the Western world committed to human rights) to support the people of my country and their dream for a stable, democratically elected government.
what is happening in Sudan is a fight that started on April 15 between two competing forces for power — the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) — neither groups are representative of the needs of our people. The Sudan Army is loyal to the dictator, Omar Al-Bashir, and the RSF is responsible for the genocide in Darfur.
with both power struggles backed by different Arab and Gulf nations, the two parties have been fighting for power for the last few years. While they worked together to try and end the people’s revolution, they lost. however, they are now in a constant power play of who will get to rule the nation.
this all means that war is NOT a reflection of my country — violence does not represent the SWANA people. Sudan is a nation of beautiful culture, strong women, intellectual and influential Islamic scholars, poets, and youth at the front lines of the revolution. we are a people committed to a region of peace for ourselves and the rest of the Ummah.
my family and the rest of Sudan’s innocent civilians are at the most risk, with many currently without drinking water, food to eat, electricity, and complete blockage to any mosques during the final nights of Ramadan, our holiest month of the year.
i ask that you please keep Sudan and our people in your prayers — donate to the Sudan Red Crescent or a mutual aid GoFund Me, email your representatives if you live in a country that can put pressure on either competing force of power, discuss this with your family and friends, and please do not forget to think about SWANA people — our brothers and sisters in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, and many others need our love and support.
[ ID: A sketch of Ylfa Snorgelsson on blue paper, drawn as if through a fish lense. She's looking forward with her hands out to her sides. She's wearing a cloak, a shirt, shorts, and big boots. End ID ]
Please remember that "land back" does not mean "indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don't belong in big cities," nor does it mean "non-indigenous people can't be farmers."
What it DOES mean is that "non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from."
It means, "there's a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn't caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem."
It means, "non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem."
💗 wishlist for items for our home and our rescue cats!
This Pride Month be a direct ally to marginalized folks!
I'm a black lesbian and my girlfriend is a Trans lesbian, we both work full time but have been dealing with broken vehicles, discrimination, loss, illness after illness and other random emergencies and are trying to catch up after months and months of struggling!
Buying a trendy pride shirt from a corporation won't directly benefit marginalized folks as much as sharing their paylinks and donating will! Please consider the lgbtq folks in your physical and online communities first this year!
Community aid is the healing this world needs and we appreciate y'all's help more than you can know!!
As Russia prepares to invade Ukraine (or maybe is already doing so), I wanted to share this message and request from Rabbi Avraham Wolf, Chief Rabbi of Odessa & Southern Ukraine. It’s from a few days ago and I’m not sure if there have been any updates but it just feels really important to signal boost this:
“The Jewish community in the Ukraine is in need of your assistance during these dire times. As the threat of war intensifies, Mishpacha Chabad Odessa is preparing to support the hundreds of Jews who are unable to evacuate the country including orphans, students, and Holocaust survivors. Preparations are also underway to absorb Jewish refugees from the surrounding regions of Kharkiv, Kiev, and Dnieper.
$300,000 in donations are urgently needed to purchase medical gear, protective equipment, and basic necessities such as clothes and sleeping bags. Money is also needed to help stock emergency shelters with several tons of cereal, buckwheat, sugar, rice, flour and other non-perishable staples. These donations will also help defray the costs of additional security personnel arriving from Israel to help protect the Jewish community.
Your generous donation will help ensure that the Jewish community of Odessa is prepared for all eventualities and is able to provide security, shelter, and food for everyone in need during this dangerous time. $130,000 has already been spent in food alone - but much more is still needed.”
Friends and followers please please take a moment of your time today to submit a comment on the United States Fish & Wildlife's survey https://www.relistwolves.org/comment-action on re-listing Gray Wolves as an endangered species. You don't even have to be a U.S. citizen. This has been a really hard 3+ years of legislation for wolves, especially considering Idaho's "Kill Bill" of 2021 which authorized the cull of 90% of wolves in the state. Wolves are a critical species in our ecosystems & there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that they are not the threat that many communities perceive them to be.
