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America Is a Sham

If your job is suddenly paying for sick leave or your city is halting evictions and utility shutdowns because of coronavirus, just remember: they could always have done this, they just don’t give a shit unless people are quite literally dying by the thousands. It’s good these things are happening but we should also ask why it took a literal pandemic to create the changes progressives have been asking for (and been being told are impossible) for decades.

#coronavirus #demandchange #itwasalwayspossible

kertik

If you are outside India, I am practically begging you to reblog this

Last week India passed a blatantly anti-Muslim law that seeks to naturalise millions of immigrants, except if they are Muslims.

In August of this year, India revoked the autonomous status of the Kashmir region, putting a communication blackout on the state. Kashmir has entered the fifth month of no internet and heaviest militarisation of any region in the world.

India is a secular, socialist republic. This bill is anti-constitutional and against the principles on which the country was founded

Naturally, there have been protests across the country. At the forefront of the protests are students from India's public universities.

Police opened fire on peaceful protestors in Jamia Milia Islamia University in Delhi, and Aligarh Muslim University in Uttar Pradesh.

Ever since then, the ruling fascist Hindu nationalist political party, the BJP, has been doctoring videos and sending fake news all over the internet, discrediting protestors and labelling them as terrorists

India has already seen too much religious violence, please please signal boost this, call your representatives, make them aware, get them to make statements. The only thing India and its dictator Modi care about is its image abroad

louisjamesmoriarty-deactivated2

Ugh, I've seen too much nonsense around this bill. This bill is most certainly not anti-Muslim, and it was created to specifically grant Citizenship status to persecuted minorities in Pakistan (Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Jains, pretty much anyone who's not Muslim), who literally have nowhere else to go and are being treated like crap. Muslims aren't a minority there, hence they weren't included. However, Muslims can still apply for citizenship and asylum, and this act does not affect Indian Muslims in any way.

Also, BJP is NOT FASCIST. Jesus Christ.

kertik

No you stupid, lying fuck. I knew Modi's footsoldiers will storm this post with lies and evasion. Here is some additional information which help set the context. I welcome EVERYONE who can add information from credible sources. Requesting everyone to read and VERIFY. This includes verifying whatever I say here as well.

1. First of all it has ceased to be a bill, it is an enforceable act now.

2. The Act allows "persecuted minorities" i.e every religion except Muslims. It leaves out persecuted MUSLIM minorities like Shias, Ahmadiyyas who are also religious minorities and also persecuted. The legal backers of the act walk around it with the reasoning that they are .....drumrolll.....sects! Also, if you're an atheist, you aren't covered under the law. Does the Indian government know how ex-Muslims are treated in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan? They do know, but they won't include them. And Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Parsis, Buddhists have nowhere else to go? Surely this dumb bitch is joking. Additionally, if the act was so humane, it would let persecuted Tamil Hindus fromSri Lanka to be citizens as well. Tamil Sri Lankans are still recovering from a three decade long war that ravaged their culture and population. Why are they not included then?. We know why, because the Hindu nationalist government just wants to suppress Muslims and threaten their citizenship. They don't give a fuck about Hindus, let alone any other minorities.

3. This Act has everything to do with every INDIAN CITIZEN and not just Muslims because it will be applied in tandem with the National Registry of Citizens (NRC). Now to appear in NRC, it is not enough that you were born and lived your whole life in India even if you are as old as 60. It is also not enough if your parents and you were born and lived your whole life in India. You are also supposed to prove to a bench that your parents are your parents. Your spouse is your spouse, your child is your child. Poor, dispossessed people often do not have access to these documents (because they have just been demanded?) The government is demanding a barrage of documents from poor people, indigenous people, nomads and people who live in deep forested areas. All this WHILE THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE COUNTRY DOESN'T HAVE CREDIBLE DOCUMENTS TO PROVE THAT HE GRADUATED COLLEGE.

Disproportionately women and children are not able to 'prove' these linkages. And if you do all this, just an anonymous complaint can strike you off this list. This is how 4 million people in only one state in India: Assam, have been deemed as foreigners and non-citizens. This includes soldiers, this includes even Members of Legislative Assembly, this includes the granddaughter of a freedom fighter, this includes the family of a former President! Imagine. This is just one state in India. Less than 2% of the population! The people who do not feature in NRC are kept in detention centres that are worse than ones set up by ICE. People have died there, people who have been mistakenly taken to the centres, children of people who were incorrectly taken. Detention centres are inhumane, full stop. But imagine how inhumane detention centres would be in a country already lacking resources. And hey, again, this just happened in one state of Assam, IT IS PLANNED TO BE IMPLEMENTED ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

4. Muslims and anyone else can still apply for citizenship through naturalisation. It has its own guidelines and stipulations. Except non-Muslims from these three countries can apply for citizenship WITHOUT fulfilling any of the stipulations. This is a contravention of Article 14 of the Constitution that guarantees equality before law of every PERSON (and NOT CITIZEN). It is against the spirit of the Constitution because it ensures equality, justice and secularism to ALL.

5. Supposed beneficiaries of this act have also rejected it. This just proves that the law passed for optics of humanity, while being inherently oppressive, unequal and discriminatory.

6. 2 days ago, the Prime Minister publicaly said that the "rioters can be identified by their clothes" a dog whistle, hinting at the traditional clothing of Muslims and labelling them as terrorists. Again, this is the Prime Minister of a Hindu Nationalist Party. BJP has had to many crimes on its hands to not be considered fascist. There are thousands and thousands of readings you can do to know about the rise of BJP and Hindu nationalism.

Additionally, I have been asked to mention the dates of these protests so the post doesn't circulate in the coming months. I highly DOUBT that the protests and the struggle will die down in the near future, but this is me posting on 18th December, 2019. For everyone asking my location, yes I am in India, in Delhi, in the midst of the protests. I have been going to the protests every single day for the past week.

kertik

Spread this version please.

kertik

Death toll has now entered double digifs

5 protestors murdered in Assam

3 murdered in Meerut and Muzzafarnagar

3 murdered in Mangalore and Lucknow

KEEP SPREADING. THE INDIAN STATE IS UNLEASHING A WORLD OF VIOLENCE OVER PROTESTORS.

saatre

As on 21st the death till looks like this.

whatreallyareyousure

This is a fantastic rundown. Thanks so much, @kertik and I hope you're safe.

To add to 2., if haven for the religiously persecuted was the whole agenda, why would Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims be excluded? Suu Kyi has had to defend their genocide at a UN court, ffs, while Amit Shah has specifically said they'll all be kicked out. But no, BJP fellaters, please continue about how compassionate your party is.

@saatre the UP toll is 18 as of 22nd December, so 5 more people than on that list

Never fucking trust a company.

My dumb ass just spent a year working ridiculously hard, picking up a ton of extra (unpaid!) tasks, and being the best goddamn employee you could possibly imagine, all because my boss promised that if I did I could have the next job that opened that was a level up from my current position.

Someone a level up from me is leaving. Three months ago when we found out they gave me EVEN MORE extra work, to “train me for that job *wink wink*” and today they told me “actually, never mind, we’re just going to redistribute that person’s job across the office and make other people do that work for free, instead of giving you the job we promised. You’re a great employee, we don’t want to lose you, but we’d like you to continue working super hard and maybe next time we’ll start paying you what you’re worth.”

Fuck every company ever. Burn them all down.

miseducatedmelanicmuse

elinimate

A male colleague was making fun of the #metoo movement a few days ago, and many more (I’m one of 5 women in a department of 200 men) joined in. So I raised my voice and said I was glad women were speaking up about sexual harassment and assault and that I hoped that everyone who perpetuated this toxic behavior got taken down.

“Yeah but it’s a trend now, lots of them are just saying it for their 15 minutes of fame.” He then continued to say that he didn’t know anyone who had been harassed or any man who had done it.

I asked him if he had a daughter. He did. I asked him how old she was. She was was 17. I told him I’d bet my rent money that his daughter had experienced sexual harassment.

“That’s impossible.”

“Did you ask her?”

“No.”

“Well then, do it.”

The next day, he came in the office with five bouquets of flowers for all the women in our department, including me. He publicly apologized for making fun of sexual harassment and for making our lives harder by doing so. He said that he simply hadn’t known how widespread it was. Apparently, his daughter deals with it very regularly. She hadn’t told him because of the way he spoke about assault cases that were on the news. She thought he’d think less of her if she’d mention it. It was her idea that he should make a public announcement. He said he felt like a bad father.

I said: “You were. Same goes for everyone who laughed with you. Be better, now you know better. And educate other men that still think the same way you did yesterday. And next time someone tells you about an experience they have, don’t automatically assume that because you haven’t seen it, it’s not true. That kind of willful ignorance is why we still deal with this shit.”

He also offered to pay my rent as that was part of the bet, but I told him I’d rather have him put effort in being a person his daughter and wife could be proud of.

thesporkidentity

In conversation the other day my mom stopped and asked my dad about what percentage of women he thought had experienced sexual harassment. He said about 20-30% maybe. My mom told him that both of us had been harassed multiple times at work (same goes for both of her sisters) and that she had actually been assaulted by a groper on a public bus. I have never seen anyone’s face go slack so quickly before as he realized that literally every woman in his family had experienced this. And while I’m glad he believed us and has changed his view on that subject I still can’t shake the frustration, the anger, that it required being sat down and spoonfed these incidents that we didn’t particularly wanted to relive. This is something that women have been saying for years, but men just never listen. Not even when they’re forced to sit in mandatory harassment in the workplace training seminars.

suspend

this post needs more attention

things i learned in my twenties

My boyfriend asks for help all the time, and I always do whatever I can to be there for him, because I care about him and if I can do anything to make his life easier or better I want to do it. I, on the other hand, default to doing everything myself, even when it’s hard. It never even occurs to me that I could just ask him to lend a hand.

I grew up with this weird idea that when people really love you they understand you perfectly, can anticipate your needs, and will always be ready to provide whatever you need at any given moment. That, I thought, was true love.

But looking back, that was just a reaction to growing up in an environment where asking for anything was frowned upon and where adults didn’t pay enough attention to kids to notice even really obvious problems. People should pay attention to others and keep an eye out to offer help if they think someone’s struggling, but expecting someone to read your mind is obviously ridiculous. That’s a horribly unreal expectation to put on anyone, and as an adult it’s taking a lot of work to learn to be vulnerable and ask for what I need, and to remind myself that I don’t get to be angry at someone for not giving me what I want when I didn’t tell them that I wanted it.

incoherentmuttering

i’m fighting with a guy on tinder about whether pancakes or waffles are better and he thinks this is cute and flirty but i’m not kidding he’s pancake loving scum and i will eviscerate him

thebloodstainedquill-deactivate

Are you gonna batter him?

incoherentmuttering

i’ll beat the crepe out of him

incoherentmuttering

update: he’s been my boyfriend for 6 months. he’s still wrong about breakfast, but otherwise he’s pretty great.

I took the day off work because I’m sick and I’ve never done this before and it feels weird?? Like, I know this is what people do, but also, I’m uncomfortable? I’m so used to killing myself for the grind and thinking that any time off is self-indulgent or weak that taking time off to take care of my health feels wrong. I’ve worked through all kinds of health issues because I “couldn’t let down the team” or because I “had responsibilities to the job,” but, like, realistically, any business would straight up fire me if they thought they could make more profit without me. The minute they find a way to automate my job duties I’m fucked. They don’t care about me, so why am I killing myself to care about them? I shouldn’t have to work when I’m sick, and I shouldn’t feel guilty about taking care of myself. I’ve been in bed for like 20 hours, watching youtube and taking meds. My job isn’t getting done and I’m not being productive, and that’s fine. I’m not going to feel bad about this.

every few weeks i get really insecure and sad and worried that nobody likes me and all the good things in my life are going to disappear because i’m a miserable failure, and every single time i spend 3 days feeling like shit until my period starts and i realize i’m not a failure, just hormonal. this has been happening for literally half of my life, and it fools me every. fucking. time.

hydro-homies

Important truth

I just spent an hour watching Elizabeth Warren announce her presidential campaign and I’m literally sat here crying about economics because it feels like someone’s finally ready to put in the work to change the system and redistribute power in this country. It feels like hope.

You know what I’m really fucking tired of? Racist, xenophobic men using women as a cover for their bigotry. The whole narrative of “we need a wall because immigrants will rape our wives and daughters” is such fucking bullshit.

First of all, let’s just get one thing out of the way: men who say this aren’t worried about all women being safe. They’re specifically concerned that white women will be raped by brown men. They don’t give a shit about the safety of black and brown women. You can tell because of the way they talk about it. They say they don’t want “those people” coming to rape “our women.” Immigrants are “those people” because they’re not white, and “our” women are sure as hell not women of color.

So now we’re clear, the claim is that they want to protect nice delicate white girls from violent predators. But even that falls apart when you do even the tiniest bit of critical thinking. I’m the delicate white girl they’re trying to protect. I’ve expressed, repeatedly, what I need to be protected from violent men. I need accountability for men who hurt women, I need men to check their friends, I need a society where the laws and social norms are designed to promote equality, so I’m not seen as less than human and therefor a suitable victim for some fucking asshole. I say this a lot. And no man I’ve ever met has lifted a finger to make it happen.

But open up a discussion about immigration and suddenly they’re all in absolute fits to protect me, with a wall and tear gas and a bunch of fear-mongering. I tell people about the white men who’ve groped me and no one bats an eye. I rant about the American Christian prep-school white boys who’ve yelled at me on the street and made me feel unsafe in school. No one wants to wall those men out. I discuss the creepy old men who’ve followed me around grocery stores and out to my car and no one makes a move to stop them.

As a woman, I’m always aware of how unsafe it is to walk around in my body. I live with that knowledge every day. It dictates where I go and what I do. I am intimately aware of the risk of rape and violence. And, it should be noted, I’m a straight cis white woman. It’s so much worse for black girls and trans girls and girls who love girls. I’m crushed by the weight of my knowledge every day but I’m also acutely aware of the fact that many other women face even worse odds of getting through life unharmed by men.

So, knowing all this, and having articulated, repeatedly, in great detail, what it feels like to be a woman in society and what would make me feel safer, and having been ignored at all turns by the men in my life, it fucking burns me up when they suddenly become protective of me as a justification for their racism and xenophobia. If they don’t care about protecting all women, of all races, they don’t care about me. If they don’t care about protecting us from all predators, even the ones who don’t look like “others,” then they don’t care about me.

The wall is a racist policy made by a racist to get other racists to vote for him. It’s not about women’s safety and it’s not about protecting anyone but the old white men who want it built.

#rant

Tagging Game

Rules: answer 21 questions and then tag 21 people who you want to get to know better.

Tagged by: @whatreallyareyousure

Nickname: I don’t have one

Zodiac: Aquarius (but like who cares?)

Height: 5"3 ish, maybe a little taller, idk.

Last movie I saw: Mary Queen of Scots (not as good as I expected tbh)

Last thing I googled: Heston Blumenthal (I was watching Bake Off and he came up lol)

Favourite Musician: Oof, too many options. Lady Gaga, probably. Or the 1975.

Song stuck in my head: Shallow, from A Star is Born, has been stuck in my head for months. I’m not complaining.

Other blogs: Nope, just the one.

Do i get asks: No, but like, send me some

Following: 97

Amount of sleep: I basically slept all day because it’s the weekend and I forgot to drink coffee and my caffeine addicted ass can’t function without it, but normally like 6-8 hours

Lucky number: Umm, idk, 51?

What i’m wearing: bathrobe and slippers

Dream job: Writer, or maybe a professor

Dream trip: The moon.

Favourite food: Pasta of any kind

Play any instruments: Classical piano

Languages: English, and a smattering of high school Spanish, plus Latin, if we’re counting the dead ones

Favourite songs: Marry the Night, Somebody Else, Paris, Loudspeaker, Judas, I’ll Never Love Again, Liability

Random Fact: I’m obsessed with Bon Apetite’s youtube videos. I can’t stop watching.

Describe yourself as aesthetic things: The black and white of the 1975′s first album, winged eyeliner, earbuds always in, cursive handwriting in a cheap notebook

I tag: @jodiewhittaker @wirginia-voolf @raggedywhittaker @youngwarlock @halfprincesshalfgoddess

I’m tired of tagging people I’ve given up

feministism

incoherentmuttering

When I was in a job I hated I couldn’t eat or sleep and I dropped a ton of weight incredibly quickly. It was distressing for me, because I knew it wasn’t healthy, but all people could do was compliment it. They didn’t care that I had enormous dark circles under my eyes, or that I was mentally fucked up from all the stress and misery. They saw “thinner” and thought “better.” When I finally left that job I forced myself to eat normally, and I knew I would gain back the weight. When I did gain it back I was happy, because my brain and body were healthy again, but a tiny part of my brain, a tiny, unwelcome part, still thinks about how people treated me differently when I was thinner, and a tiny part of me misses it. And I hate that I miss it.

Don’t fucking comment on people’s weight gain or loss. You don’t know the backstory and no one asked for your opinion.

2018 was one of the hardest but also maybe the best years of my life. I started out miserable, mentally and physically a mess, wanting nothing more than to change my life. And then I did.

I left the job that made me unhappy, spent months off contemplating every aspect of my life and identity, and found a new job that’s not perfect, but that lets me live the kind of life I want and need to be living.

I met someone who’s funny and kind and who makes my life more interesting and entertaining than it’s ever been. I spent New Years Eve next to him and for the first time in my life I was happy going forward into a new year.

I spent 2018 becoming the kind of person I’ve always wanted to be. I’m trying to drop the irony and cynicism and be more vulnerable with other people. I’m volunteering my time for causes I care about because I want to take an active role in making the world a better place. I’ve stopped putting up barriers between myself and other people and suddenly I’m forming meaningful relationships that improve my life. I’m working to be a more kind person.

I don’t go in for resolutions but this is the energy I’m taking with me into 2019. I’m going to be kinder, more honest, and more myself than I’ve ever been.

Quick reminder/note to self: You don’t have to be nice to people who treat you poorly “because they’re family,” “to keep the peace,” or “because it’s the holidays.” You have every right to protect yourself and not spend time with people who hurt you. Your well-being is important, even at the holidays.

I just spent an hour laying in bed in the dark listening to A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships through headphones and all I’ve got to say is that I couldn’t be more in love.

#the 1975 #a brief inquiry into online relationships #new album

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