Intersectsational!

30s, New Zealand, Pakeha, female, cis, het-passing, mentally ill. I strive to be intersectional in my feminism, and reblog content that I think is important, thought-provoking or interesting. 

[pragmaculture]

Original settler’s cottages, c1800s. 

Rue Jolie, Akaroa, New Zealand.

[thebestoftumbling]

scottish people twitter…

[revolutionarykoolaid]

so amerikkka really did rob white people of they own culture too, cause scots seem like they got a lil flavor on em

[thesummoningdark]

A significant proportion, possibly a majority, of Scots immigrants to North America in the 18th and 19th centuries were Highlanders who had been displaced (often forcibly, particularly towards the later stages of the Highland Clearances) from their homes by wealthy landowners looking to turn the land to more profitable use. Scottish and Irish Celts were considered by the English to be a separate, inferior race.

“The Highland Clearances (Scottish Gaelic: Fuadach nan Gàidheal, the “eviction of the Gael”) was the forced displacement during the 18th and 19th centuries of a significant number of people from traditional land tenancies in the Scottish Highlands, where they had practised small-scale agriculture. It resulted from enclosures of common lands and a change from farming to sheep raising, anagricultural revolution largely carried out by hereditary aristocratic landowners. The Clearances were a complex series of events occurring over more than a hundred years.[1] A Highland Clearance has been defined as “an enforced simultaneous eviction of all families living in a given area such as an entire glen”.[2]

The Clearances are particularly notorious as a result of the brutality of many evictions at short notice (year-by-year tenants had almost no protection under Scots law), and the abruptness of the change from the traditional clan system, in which reciprocal obligations between the population and their leaders were well recognised. The cumulative effect of the Clearances, and the large-scale “voluntary” emigrations over the same period, devastated the cultural landscape of Scotland in a way that did not happen in other areas of Britain; the effect of the Clearances was to destroy much of the Gaelic culture.[3]

[…]

With the development of pseudoscientific racist ideas from about 1850, the Clearances were at times supported by belief that the Celtic “race” was inferior to the Anglo Saxon “race”.[32]George Combe’s popular and influential The Constitution of Man, published in 1828, provided a framework which would be used by some to support theories of racial superiority. In 1850 Robert Knox published The Races of Men which asserted the inferiority of the Celt compared to the Anglo Saxon and Nordic races.

The view that the economic failures of the Highlands were due to the shortcomings of the Celtic race was shared and expressed by the two most important Scottish newspapers,The Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald – and even the more northerly Inverness Courier.[32]In 1851 The Scotsman wrote that

“Collective emigration is, therefore, the removal of a diseased and damaged part of our population. It is a relief to the rest of the population to be rid of this part.”[33]

Similar views were held by senior public officials. Sir Charles Trevelyan was co-founder with Sir John McNeill of the Highland and Island Emigration Society. In a letter to McNeill in 1852 he wrote that

“A national effort” would now be necessary in order to rid the land of “the surviving Irish and Scotch Celts”. The exodus would then allow for the settlement of a racially superior people of Teutonic stock. He welcomed “the prospects of flights of Germans settling here in increasing numbers – an orderly, moral, industrious and frugal people, less foreign to us than the Irish or Scotch Celt, a congenial element which will readily assimilate with our body politic.“”

[teesadutta]

[jay-rob-blog1]

Crazy.. to think about.

[wellblessyoursoul-blog]

I always think about this for Barack Obama too. Like his parents had an illegal relationship. Loving v Virginia was in 1967. Obama was born in 1961.

[dottewa-deactivated20200728]

People really don’t seem to grasp how recent this was.

[5hahem]

Bayard Rustin was an openly gay Black man who was Martin Luther King’s right hand man. He planned the Million Man March and was subject to scrutiny for his sexuality and deemed a “deviant” and “pervert”.

Bayard Rustin can be found in nearly every picture of MLK yet he has undoubtedly been erased from history. We have to fix that.

[skeletonmug]

Well then, let’s bring that name back.

Bayard Rustin, openly gay, human rights activist, proud black man.

[metrospotting-deactivated202104]

(the guy on the left in case you wondered)

[the-history-side]

Damn shame.

[bubonickitten]

there’s a documentary on him called Brother Outsider. it was on Netflix streaming for awhile - idk if it still is (it was a few years ago that I watched it on there) but if so its worth a watch for anyone with Netflix access. they might have it on DVD too. (might be available elsewhere online too?)

[oldcoyote]

i had a moment today while watching a whiny shitlord complain about the injustice of new sci-fi media having more female leads, i suddenly felt the strangest sense of déjà vu. i couldn’t pintpoint it at first but then out of nowhere, it fucking dawned on me

[socialjusticesummoner]

This is the single greatest meme in the history of the Internet everyone can stop making memes now we don’t need any more ever again

[thesanityclause]

I think I’ve already reblogged this but I don’t care it’s just pure gospel

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

I remember the drop in my stomach as my browser opened on the homepage of MyRedBook in 2014 and I saw the emblems of the FBI, DOJ, and the IRS occupying a page which used to host an escort ad, review, and forum website used by thousands of providers across the West Coast. It was at that moment when I realized what the stakes in the war on sex trafficking truly were. Two years after Prop 35 passed in California, broadening the definition of trafficker to anyone “who is supported in part or in whole from the earnings of a prostitute”, and four years after the multi-year battle against Craigslist resulted in its Adult section being taken down, it was clear: sex workers’ ability to advertise online was going to be taken out from under us.

At the time, I worked at St. James Infirmary providing healthcare services to current and former sex workers. Over the next several months, I witnessed people being flung into economic turmoil. A lot of the community talked to me about going back into the street or going there for the first time. Others tried to pack into strip clubs, where their money was split by management, or focus on porn—also under attack by the state through Prop 60. Some people successfully moved their business onto other more costly or exclusive advertising platforms. And some people left the business altogether, either to new forms of income or to try to exist on the scraps of government support available to the unemployed.

I saw the closure of MyRedBook increase stratification within the industry, widening the gap between those sex workers able to appeal to the more elite clientele of other websites and those who had to move onto the street and deal with the violence of being outside.

http://titsandsass.com/we-deserve-better-reflections-on-the-war-on-backpage/

[alltheghostbutts]

#i’m sorry maybe this is naive but i do not put the financial stability of sex workers#above the many MANY children and young people#especially trans people and POC#who are routinely trafficked through these kinds of websites#and before yall are like ‘you dont know what you’re talking about’#i work at a sexual assault centre who focuses p closely on trafficking issues

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

Do you… think we don’t have children? Think we don’t have people depending on us? Do you think we aren’t assaulted? And that backpage has nothing to do with it? Do you think sex workers live in a bubble and aren’t also doing anti-SA work, anti-DV work? I mean, what, did you think AT ALL before spewing your uninformed and yes, naive but really more ignorant than naive, bile on this?

If you worked at a sexual assault center then you know that the majority of child sexual abuse and exploitation has nothing to do with backpage and has everything to do with abusive foster parents and birth parents.

You can care about and you can end sexual assault. It has nothing to do with backpage and everything to do with living in a misogynist culture that doesn’t believe assault victims or support them or have a framework in place to prevent assault.

People were raped and assaulted before backpage and believe it or not they still will be. At least backpage REPORTED underage ads. That’s no good for underage survival sex workers but backpage OBEYED THE LAW whenever it found an illegal ad.

So basically you just took a big meaningless shit on my post to make yourself feel better and didn’t say anything meaningful or helpful.

That will get the fight to end sexual assault very far. Thank you.

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

I messaged her this too:

It’s also MORE than financial stability: the Internet acts as a way to screen clients so we don’t get raped and/or murdered.

It’s just… you’re so wrong. You don’t think f us as human, part of your world, that’s your problem. You think you’re talking about rich people but you’re talking about people trying to fight the violence of poverty, leave homophobic relations, stay housed, leave abusers, trying to feed kids, trying to stay ahead of health issues, trying to make it in a system that doesn’t value us at all.

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

Typical! Both of them ignored my messages and just kept on posting their twaddle.

This is what it’s like! We talk about rights and safety, they say it doesn’t matter as much as the spurious claim based on propaganda that the things that keep us safe are actually just tools f assault and if we weren’t so greedy and blinded by being tools of the pimp lobby we would see this, we come back with facts and…

they suddenly can’t see or hear us! ‘Tis a silent night in the land of the middle class white feminists!

Can’t hear us over the heavy breathing of their own circle jerk more like.

This is why we need you. This is why you need to have our backs. We’re continuously and constantly silenced and spoken over. We NEED you to speak when people are speaking over us. We need you to help create the room for us. We need you to insist that we deserve to be heard. No one wants to be the uncool person taking the unpopular stance, I get it, it’s scary, but the point is it’s not dangerous for you. You have nothing at stake in this but your own decency and honour.

We need you to amplify our voices and stop being silent while they pass laws that kill us.

[t0natiu]

Dear non-natives

The Plains warbonnet is not a Cherokee thing. It is not a Navajo thing. It is not an Indian thing. It is a Plains thing.

Stop calling every silly thing you draw that even vaguely resembles a native “Cherokee” or “Navajo” or “Aztec.”

Stop drawing the warbonnet everywhere as the apparently definitive native thing. It isn’t part of all of our 600+ cultures.

Same goes for the tipi, not part of every one of the 600+ indigenous cultures.

Stop thinking that if a native person doesn’t have dark, “mahogany” skin, that their heritage is invalid. Even without admixture, we actually do have varying skin tones.

Stop wearing crappy fake warbonnets.

Stop wearing redface.

Stop using us as your silly mascots. We are people.

Stop saying “spirit animal.” It’s derived from a New Age bastardization of a something that actually exists in some of our cultures.

Don’t smudge. Cleanse all you like, that’s fine, but don’t smudge.

Don’t call us “Indians.” “Native American” isn’t great either, it is not our name, but it’s slightly better than “Indian.” “Indigenous” is also fine.

Don’t use NDN/ndn. That is ours.

Step off about our hair. If you meet a long-haired native, admire it if you like, maybe even ask them about it (RESPECTFULLY), but do not touch. The same applies for someone with short hair, but additionally for those with short hair, don’t say things like “oh you’d look more native/Indian/etc if your hair was long.” We didn’t all traditionally have long, flowing hair. Believe it or not, there are actually different haircuts existing in our various cultures, and aside from that ultimately it’s a personal choice, one does not need to have long hair if they don’t want to. Doesn’t make them any less native to have short hair.

Don’t pray to our spirits/gods/energies. Native spiritualities are closed, they are not for outsiders.

Don’t say “The Native Americans believed…” Firstly, the past tense is silly, we still exist and do things. Secondly, we are NOT A MONOLITH. As I mentioned before, there are upwards of 600 different Native American cultures.

Don’t ask about someone’s “Indian name.” That’s not only insensitive, the name you are referring to in that instance is something sacred, and might not be something that person wants to share with you.

Don’t call yourself silly crap like “howling wolf” or “flying eagle.” That’s also racist and insensitive.

Regardless of whatever you might think you’re doing, or what your intentions may be, if a native person tells you that what you’re doing is disrespectful, STOP DOING IT.

You aren’t honoring us. You’re just mocking us further, demonstrating your continued ability to treat us like shit and get away with it even now, centuries after our colonization began. Your feelings are not more important than our history and survival.

To those doing your best as allies, thank you, keep doing what you do. HOWEVER, don’t let opportunities to educate others escape you. By letting them continue to be ignorant, you are failing. Spread the message.

There will be no “please.” It’s been more than 500 years, and we still are made to be invisible in our homelands. Still we are treated like less. Some even think we all died long ago.

We are still here

We will still be here

Treat us with respect.

[imoverallofit]

EVERY.FUCKING.BIT. of this. My grandparents are both native (grandma half black/native, grandpa native ) and my grandpa had so much knowledge about his culture. He passed before i was born so i was never able to learn about it, which really sucks. I always take into account whatever knowledge i come across. Thank you

[transjupiter-archive-deactivate]

anyway something I hate about video games is when they make some assertion about the fictional society not being homophobic and yet the society is still heteronormative like. that’s not how things work

[transjupiter-archive-deactivate]

example: skyrim sexual orientation isn’t really talked about at all afaik and every person who can be married can be married with either character gender but like: everything is straight. I haven’t played skyrim in a while but like it’s all straight I feel like also there’s things people say in it that are heteronormative and are in there bc the people creating it didn’t see it as a problem or at odds with their apparent homophobia free society and like how can you create a fictional homophobia free society when you ain’t free of your real life assumptions. Anyway

[gothhabiba]

I’ve noticed this with misogyny too, like when you go to pick your character’s gender in dragon age it says something about how men and women are considered equal and there are equal numbers of men and women in the army and in leadership positions etc.

and then you go to actually play the game and the overwhelming majority of the soldiers are male, soldiers are constantly referred to as “men,” there are characters who will say blatantly misogynistic or sexually aggressive things to you (like, blatant enough that it must be misogynistic on purpose)

and it makes me die

[rubyvroom]

Some of this has to be because the people who made these games are almost exclusively straight white dudes - and while they may have had the intention of being inclusive, they literally cannot imagine what a world without heteronormativity and misogyny would look like. They give us the game mechanics to be a woman warrior or to marry a character of the same gender, but they didn’t extend this train of thought to imagine how a society where this was normal would be different from ours.

In Dragon Age, for example, the major world religion is centered on a woman, lead by women, with all-female priestesses. AND YET in everyday life characters still interact as though men are naturally in charge and express surprise at a woman issuing commands. This is directly contradictory and frankly lazy world building to suggest that people raised in a system lead exclusively by women would still somehow end up expecting male leadership, as though sexism was a sort of natural law that would happen in any society. It’s not. Also, the founding myth of their religion has the original sin as sexual jealousy rather than punishing female sexuality, which would suggest totally different social norms around monogamy, sexual orientation, and the whole idea of promiscuity. Instead they’re… More or less exactly the same as our society, slut-shaming included. This makes no sense!

It’s a complete failure of imagination, not to mention frustrating and sad.

[orsino]

@milkdromeduh

[nyokoko]

LOL we were literally just discussing this yesterday.

[shaneholander]

Statements I Can't Believe Are Controversial:

• everyone deserves to eat

• everyone deserves a home

• everyone deserves medical treatment when they’re sick

[cerealkillerrr-blog1]

No one is ever really denying those points, what we argue about is who qualifies for it. Illegals shouldn’t, not when we have millions of homeless, hungry and sick Americans out on the street.

[fandomsandfeminism]

EVERYONE. 

Every. One.

All humans. All of them. Any one who is human. 

EVERY human. 

EVERYONE. 

[pendejx-deactivated20200323]

A white person learning another language in the United States is a person looking to build a résumé.

A person of color learning English in the United States is a person looking to be treated like a human being.

It is not the same thing.

[pendejx-deactivated20200323]

Keep reblogging this white people are getting mad because they don’t know the difference between learning a language because it’s fun or to put it on applications and learning a language so you won’t get treated like garbage by everyone

[naramdil]

“””developing countries””” 

“””third world countries””” 

…you mean countries that are still recovering from colonialism and other western intervention??? let’s not sugar coat the reason why their “development” was hindered and act like they are still in those stages because they are inherently inferior to western countries. the west saw their greatness and they left them in ruin on purpose. referring to these countries as developing or third world is fucking degrading terminology that takes away responsibility from countries like the UK and the US. 

[typhlonectes]

Record breaking year of Kākāpō breeding for the New Zealand Kakapo Recovery Program in New Zealand!

Find out more about efforts to save this critically endangered flightless parrot from New Zealand:

http://kakaporecovery.org.nz/

[zooophagous]

!!!

[wardenmcpherson]

No news on how many chicks were conceived through humping journalists’ heads.

[animalwelfarists]

Originally posted by welcometoyouredoom

Truly we are bearing witness to the recovery of nature’s most noble creature.

[politicalmachine]

these two candidates are not the same. they are not equal. this election will have far-running consequences, please vote

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

Just remember, public opinion is rarely on the right side of history (x) | follow @the-movemnt

[thatdiva]

Delta Airlines Refuses to Believe Black Woman is a Doctor in Midst of Medical Crisis. Believes White Man.

In her own words: I’m sure many of my fellow young, corporate America working women of color can all understand my frustration when I say I’m sick of being disrespected.

Was on Delta flight DL945 and someone 2 rows in front of me was screaming for help. Her husband was unresponsive. I naturally jumped into Doctor mode as no one else was getting up. Unbuckle my seatbelt and throw my tray table up and as I’m about to stand up, flight attendant says “everyone stay calm, it’s just a night terror, he is alright”. I continue to watch the scene closely.

A couple mins later he is unresponsive again and the flight attendant yells “call overhead for a physician on board”. I raised my hand to grab her attention. She said to me “oh no sweetie put ur hand down, we are looking for actual physicians or nurses or some type of medical personnel, we don’t have time to talk to you” I tried to inform her that I was a physician but I was continually cut off by condescending remarks.

Then overhead they paged “any physician on board please press your button”. I stare at her as I go to press my button. She said “oh wow you’re an actual physician?” I reply yes. She said “let me see your credentials. What type of Doctor are you? Where do you work? Why were you in Detroit?” (Please remember this man is still in need of help and she is blocking my row from even standing up while Bombarding me with questions).

I respond “OBGYN, work in Houston, in Detroit for a wedding, but believe it or not they DO HAVE doctors in Detroit. Now excuse me so I can help the man in need”. Another “seasoned” white male approaches the row and says he is a physician as well. She says to me “thanks for your help but he can help us, and he has his credentials”. (Mind you he hasn’t shown anything to her. Just showed up and fit the “description of a doctor”) I stay seated. Mind blown. Blood boiling. (Man is responding the his questions and is seemingly better now Thank God)

Then this heifer has the nerve to ask for my input on what to do next about 10 mins later. I tell her we need vitals and blood sugar. She comes back to report to me a BP of 80/50 (super low, to my non medical peeps) and they can’t find a glucometer. We continue down that pathway of medical work up, but the point is she needed my help and I continued to help despite the choice words I had saved up for her. The patient and his wife weren’t the problem, they needed help and we were mid flight.

She came and apologized to me several times and offering me skymiles. I kindly refused. This is going higher than her. I don’t want skymiles in exchange for blatant discrimination. Whether this was race, age, gender discrimination, it’s not right. She will not get away with this….and I will still get my skymiles….

Follow @TheDivaTracy on Twitter and Facebook

[my-opossum-is-awesome]

I wish she would’ve said the flight attendants name more so than the airlines name because this wasn’t a delta airline issue this was an ignorant flight attendant being a bigot issue.

[fuckyeahasexual]

Vote.USA.Gov

[aceadvice]

LGBTQIA rights and the rights of other minorities are at stake. Please register to vote if you’ll be 18 or older by the day of the election. Your vote has never been more crucial to the future of this country.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

just so you know

the US minimum wage that we all agree is too low to live on ($15,080/yr) is far more than many legally disabled people receive in benefits

the maximum SSI for a single person is $8,796/yr if a disabled person marries another, each drops to a max of $6,600/yr

while you’re fighting for 15 maybe look at that too

[fogblogger]

Not to mention we aren’t allowed to have more than $2,000 saved at a time. EVER. Like EVER or we lose all benefits completely. In the bank, in cash, it doesn’t matter. The government literally keeps us poor, while also making us pay immense amounts of money for health care that we require to even survive or function (let alone work enough to be able to get off of benefits, not to mention that there are a ton of people who will never be able to do that anyways). It’s a very, very broken system and not one that was ever meant to actually help anyone. 

Plus, “marriage equality” is still a huge problem for disabled people (as you can see), which is something almost everyone is ignorant to/doesn’t care about. 

DO NOT LEAVE DISABLED PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR ACTIVISM. 

[nocturnalvisionary]

Btw that’s $733 a MONTH they want us to use for rent, food, and everything else. I asked once why it’s so low- how that’s even fair. She responded that they only factor in how much it would cost for rent and for food (with food stamps). That’s it. That’s all the government thinks we need to live. Rent and food.

[illness-adnauseum]

And in case you weren’t aware, the disabled cost of living is much higher than the fully abled cost of living.

Mobility aids are expensive. Medications and supplements are expensive. Special diets to accommodate illnesses are expensive. Avoiding a long list of allergies is expensive. Wheelchair accessible home and car modifications are expensive. Hiring someone to do all your cleaning and laundry because you can’t is expensive.

And yet they still give us so little money that abled people couldn’t possibly live on it.