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To commemorate the violence against LGBTQ members, Pride Shield created a bulletproof rainbow flag. The thematic installation is made up 193 pride flags, one for every country in the world. When positioned together, they defy bullets, which aims to encourage the importance of togetherness. (Source)
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This. A thousand times this.
I literally started crying watching this
This. Is. Beautiful.. I’m actually like crying
I’m speechless and covered in goosebumps
the greatest skill a woman can learn for herself is self reliance
to clarify … so many strong women in my life rely on men. that dependence is dangerous. ladies here are some good ref resources I’ve found helpful on my journey towards self reliance
automobile
changing coolant
changing oil
changing tire
jumping a car
plumbing
toilet running
basement flooding
replace a faucet
clogged drain
electrical
replacing light switches
blew a fuse
installing overhead light
earth vs. neutral vs. live wires
home
patching drywall
finding studs
this list is in no way comprehensive feel free to add on
a lot of ‘man things’ are a lot easier than you think they are. especially considering the fact that most of these things when buying the parts come with directions on the packaging that men usually don’t even look at (and often end up doing it wrong because they were taught by fathers who also did not look at the packaging).
like i recently had to change my car battery and freaked out cause i thought id electrocute myself but turns out new batteries come with directions and its the easiest shit in the world so long as you can lift the damn thing.
so yeah, ladies dont ever feel like a man is a necessity for life, you can do this shit on your own its easier than you think!
😻amazing, pt.1
Always need good news stories
Just some positivity, because we could all use some more of this in our lives.
My soul said somebody else needed to see this
windows 10 is garbage so every time i boot up the computer i have to run command prompt and enter
net.exe stop “Windows Search”
so that the shitty goddamned search/cortana feature that i never fucking use stops running in the background taking up all my fucking disk space
before
after
what the fuck is that seriously what the fuck is making my computer be a fucking piece of shit
@baristaboy try this out dude
@lambylin
y’all didn’t even add a tutorial of how to do this so imma put one right here 1. type in cmd.exe into your windows search and right click on Command Promt search result and select “Run as Administator”. 2. Type/Copypase in net.exe stop “Windows Search” and make sure Windows Search is in quotations. It should then respond saying “The Windows Search service is stopping” and then tell you it’s stopped. This is only a temp fix though, if you want it switched off permanently then do THIS: 1. Press the Windows key + R at the same time and type in services.msc. 2. Scroll until you find Windows Search and double click it to enter its Properties window. 3. Change the Startup type to Disabled. Apply this change and you can exit out. VOILA, NO MORE TAKEN UP DISK SPACE
Reblog to save a fucking life, FUCK CORTANA.
can she just get an award or something
I reblog this whenever it pops up on my dash.
So many directions she could have gone with this joke…out of infinite possibilities…she picked the best possible direction.
This will forever be my favorite
Hi! I have decided to make this masterpost, putting in one place everything that I have found ADHD - related!
For some links, I have listed some of the things you can find there, choosing those that I thought were the most useful, but check the whole site because everything is great!
BASICS:
what is ADHD.
types of ADHD.
adult ADHD.
adults vs kids ADHD.
women and ADHD.
ADHD test - please, tho, don’t take this for granted and please don’t self diagnose, talk with your doctor about the results! TO GET SPECIAL ACCOMODATIONS AT SCHOOL IN A LOT OF COUNTRIES A CERTIFICATION IS NEEDED!!!
the best ADHD related youtube channel. - adhd in girls // sleeping // relationships // how fidgeting is useful.
signs of ADHD.
debunked myths.
things nobody tells you about having ADHD.
7 Everyday Struggles Of People With ADHD.
STUDYING:
studying with ADHD. (problems+solutions)
15 study tips for students with ADHD.
more study tips.
even more tips.
another list of tips.
exam tips. // grade tips.
math accomodations.
writing help / websites.
APPS.
ADHDtricks - format study material // blue tack // trouble understanding // readable web .
FOCUSING:
keep your focus.
food to help focusing.
chronic procrastination.
hyperfocus.
fight distractions.
focus right now.
more focusing hacks.
MISC:
boredom.
sleeping. // tips for better sleep.
medications + avoid side effects.
meds’ side effects (and how to reduce them.)
more about meds.
ADHD strenghts!
read some life experiences!
planning. + great planning site.
relationships.
2 hour glitter jar calming video + how to make one!
some satisfying videos.
aquarium calming video.
WEBSITES:
CHADD.
ADDA - adhd starter kit!
ADHDtogether.
kidsinthehouse’s ADHD section.
ADHD reddit.
Totallyadd.
verywell’s ADHD section.
ADDtitudemag.
ADHD study tumblr.
Social networks! Use facebook to find support groups and pages, use Tumblr to connect with others like you and use Twitter to find out about new articles and resources with the tag #adhd!
Thats it! Hope you have found this mp useful, feel free to add things!
+ other links:
useful programs masterposts.
how to write an analytical/scientific essay.
cute ‘n unusual stationery.
dyscalculia resources + advice.
how i take my math notes.
highlighting tips.
my pics.
Readings on Gay Rights, Imperialism and Capitalism
muzahmat:
Free pdfs (early Eid gift):
Books:
Desiring Arabs by Joseph Massad
Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism by Rosemary Hennessy
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times by Jasbir K. Puar
Business, not Politics: The Making of the Gay Market by Katherine Sender (Google Books)
Selling Out: The Gay and Lesbian Movement Goes to Market By Alexandra Chasin (Google Books)
Articles:
Capitalism and Gay Identity by John D’Emilio
Queer Nationality by Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman
Homonationalism and the Death of the Radical Queer by Haley D. O'Shaughnessy
Selling Sexuality: A Critical Genealogy of Homosexuality and Capital by Nicholas Martin Arrivo
The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism by Lisa Duggan
Gay Universalism, Homoracialism and “Marriage for All” by Houria Bouteldja
Queers of War: Normalizing Lesbians and Gays in the US War Machine by Hilary King
Gay Imperialism: Gender and Sexuality Discourse in the ‘War on Terror’ by Jin Haritaworn, with Tamsila Tauqir and Esra Erdem
HRC and the Vulture Fund: Making Third World Poverty Pay for LGBT rights
Gay Rights as Human Rights: Pinkwashing Homonationalism by Maya Mikdashi
The Empire of Sexuality: An Interview with Joseph Massad
Make good use of this knowledge!
writing a paper: too perfectionist to do a shitty job too exhausted to do a good job
So for my adhders with this issue (and for anyone else struggling to work up the motivation to tackle a task that seems huge) the best piece of advice I ever got was to speed write.
When you absolutely can’t make yourself sit down and work, give yourself 5 minutes to write as much as possible. Don’t reference anything, don’t write in full sentences if you don’t want to, just write as much of the paper as you can. Make it bad and illogical af.
After that go for a walk or have some tea outside and then go back, skim what you have written, and do it again.
Once you have done this a couple of times just go and edit, put your references in and make it more logical.
The hardest part is often just getting something on paper and starting the process of writing. Aiming to write a shit first draft can be really freeing for perfectionists - it’s obviously going to be bad - it’s going to be illogical and mistyped and hilariously so. That’s what you aim for.
Editing is so much easier than starting to write when you want it to be perfect.
I love doing this. I just type what I know and what I’m trying to say curse words and everything and have my friend who finds my first drafts hilarious look over the paper and help me come up with words.
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I did this all through college and grad school - basically write every thought that was in my head, sleep on it, then edit and rearrange. It’s not the method teachers will endorse, but for me it worked, especially when my anxiety was so bad I couldn’t start a paper, let alone do it “properly.” It worked the best when I was able to hyperfocus while my meds were at their peak and just write 5-6 pages of word-vomit in one sitting. Then, when you edit, you can sit back and look at the bigger picture of the paper - find your argument so you can structure it and write a good thesis, note what other topics/arguments you need to bring in to support your points, etc. Better to have words on a page and have to edit than being so paralyzed or distracted you can’t get *anything* written.
I also used the placeholder method - do whatever you need to do to *not break* your writing concentration. I used to put empty footnotes in places where I knew I needed a reference or write things like (insert example here) or (talk about so and so’s theory here). If I knew the sentence I wrote was crap, I would put (rewrite later) or highlight it. Looking things up breaks the focus you have, and you don’t wanna do that. Fill in your holes later.
Go forth and speed write Add/ADHDers - you got this.
Welcome to TransAsians
this has been a long time coming, but it’s finally here - this is a place for trans/nonbinary asians to ask questions, send in stories, discuss their identities, and meet other people like them!
please reblog to spread the word!
The first Pride was a riot.
Wall sticker in Marlborough lesbian pub, Brighton.
i’m actually realizing this now
but the original poster said “queer power” and someone erased that and replaced it with “gay power”
real classy
#is this real Well. I’m not exactly an expert at image analysis, but the bottom text in the first one looks much cleaner than the top text while the second one matches better. Also, the creases in the second one on the Q and U seem like the sort of detail that wouldn’t be faked. Finally, this actually matches up significantly better to “queer” politics than “gay” politics; it was always queers who advocated and took the front lines in direct action.
If you put the image in an editor or just view the full size of the first image, it becomes very obvious that the text on the bottom was added later: all of the vertical lines in every letter are pixel perfect straight lines. That is basically impossible with a photo of a poster that is both visibly at an angle, and has paper weathering and other distortion. Look at the verticals of the white text to compare. The only distortion of the text is the jpg artifacts we would expect in that level of contrast. There is no lighting on the pink text either, another highly suspicious trait.
Additionally, if you crop out the pink text in op and run an image search you get the second photo, as well as four or five other photos of the poster, all reading “queer power.”
With the pink text left in, however, the only version of the poster is this exact image, sourcing to op.
I want every single person who ever argued with me on That Queer Post to take a long, hard look at this. I have been told at least dozens of times that “nobody is saying you can’t identify as queer,” that I’m “ignoring history,” that they’re not trying to shift back to gay, etc.
Now, here’s this post, in which queer people are having their art defaced in order to rewrite their identity. Where they’re being forcibly rewritten as gay. Where history is being literally goddamn erased. It’s got three times the notes of That Queer Post, and as far as I can tell, @bifoxstiles is the first one to challenge this narrative. And I’m not gonna hold my breath on y'all to call out OP.
They’re literally stealing our history, rewriting it into a new version that excludes more than half of the community. And nobody’s challenging this. You’re too busy trying to shut down inclusive, egalitarian language.
Shame on every last one of you.
Uhhhh. That’s like a really famous poster, at least if you are over a certain age. I recognized it immediately.
Yeah. It… it never said ‘Gay Power’ originally. It said ‘Queer Power.’
What the actual fuck.
OKAY KIDS. HISTORY LESSON TIME.
Ironically, just before this crossed my dash, Oxford University Press shared a link to a new archive of queer oral history. If not for Tumblr’s recent push to wipe “queer” from our collective memory, I wouldn’t have thought twice about OUP using the term. After all, it was chanted in pride and defiance when over a million of us participated in the 1993 March on Washington to demand an end to discrimination…
Video clip from that day: “We’ve come to Washington to show everyone that we’re here, we’re queer, and we’re not going anywhere!”
Queer theory, queer studies, new queer cinema, queer liberation: it was and remains the umbrella term in academia, since “gay” leaves out the bulk of people discriminated against for their gender and/or sexuality.
In the past year, I’ve seen some Tumblr members trying to suppress the word “queer,” just as people back then tried to suppress us. The excuse is that it’s sometimes used as a slur. But so is “gay.” In my 45 years, I have heard/seen “gay” used as an slur far more often.
At first, I tried to respect the fact that “queer” bothered some Tumblr users, even though it was painful for me to see queer-positive posts tagged “q slur.” But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that caving in to those asking us to drop the term “queer” would permit homophobic and/or transphobic sensibilities to define our identities. Do we have to drop “gay” now as well, or tag it “g slur”? Since when did we stop reclaiming these words as a matter of pride?
Isn’t this just the latest ploy of internalized homophobia/transphobia sneaking up on us?
Unfortunately, erasing “queer” from our vocabulary has hurtful real-world consequences.
Silencing “queer” silences many of those who fought, marched, rioted and died for your rights. It erases those of us who are queer but not gay: trans, intersex, nonbinary, lesbian, bisexual, aromantic, asexual people, and more (see why the term is so necessary?) Erasure/minimization of queer people is how we end up with disrespectful historical revisionism like that Stonewall movie. Or the Photoshopped poster above, rewriting our history with a lie.
And that’s the real kicker.
Erase “queer” from our vocabulary, and we erase future generations’ ability to learn about their past. How will they be able to find LBGTA+ history, if you teach them not to use one of the main keywords they need to search for to find it?
How much of our past and present community will be rendered invisible and their needs ignored (this article is really, REALLY worth a read), if those now lobbying against the term “queer” are successful?
Decades ago, when being out was taking a huge risk, we chanted, “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!” It would be a bitter irony if, even as mainstream society becomes “used to it,” as demonstrated from the Supreme Court to the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise, our own community becomes less “used to it.”
Think about the forces of prejudice who were trying to silence us when that “queer power” sign was made. Please don’t let them win.
Paul Ryan’s latest Instagram post reveals a major problem with political representation
On Saturday, House Speaker Paul Ryan snapped a selfie with a large — and largely homogenous — pool of Capitol Hill interns and posted it to Instagram. In light of the picture’s racial makeup, his caption struck many users as somewhat tone deaf. Unfortunately, the photo reflects the very white reality of Capitol Hill.
Update: House Speaker Paul Ryan released a remarkably white selfie Sunday with Capitol Hill interns. Now, writer and journalist Colleen Mondor just offered the perfect response.
It goes beyond race, gender and ability. The DNC interns are just as diverse in their pursuits, interest and backgrounds.
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Watch: Brian Yu’s heartbreaking poem will strike anyone with students loans to the core.
when the fog clears and you realize what your disorder has made you do, it can hit hard. it’s okay to be sad and mourn for the time you lost. but eventually it’s time to accept what’s happened, forgive yourself, and move on. you’re not that person anymore.