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asraspillowpile

its really cool that everyone’s got such diverse apprentices outside of their own races and ethnicities, but please try to avoid making them racial stereotypes please. like, esp if you don’t have any indication your race/ethnicity/etc posted anywhere on your page.

for example: ive seen white artists with white ocs with fairly standard body types and backgrounds, but the second they draw a black oc, suddenly the character is blatantly oversexualized/made hyperaggressive/comes to more harm than the rest of their nonblack ocs/is on drugs/etc.

i dont think people do it on purpose, i hope they dont, but it shouldn’t really HAVE to be on the shoulders of people of color to call someone out. if you’re going to create characters of a background not your own, at least be respectful enough to be considerate of the people you’re representing. put in some research, use some common sense, you get the idea.

pinklesbianade

femme lesbians have more in common with butch lesbians than they ever will with straight women

butch lesbians have more in common with femme lesbians than they ever will with straight men

thanks for coming to my ted talk

(edit: “straight men” doesn’t mean “trans lesbians” and any who think so are invited to stay the hell away from my post)

isolate

when I was 5 or 6 we had a father-daughter day at my school where you eat lunch together and play games and shit, but my dad didn’t wanna come so I went on my own. but my mum called my uncle real last minute and he immediately got off work and drove straight over to eat lunch w me so I wasn’t alone, and he even picked flowers from his garden to give to me and that’s when I realised that anyone can be a father but not everybody can be a dad

dragon-in-a-fez

school districts and administrators are working hard to scare students out of protesting in the wake of the Parkland shooting.

don’t fall for their bullshit. you have the right to speak up and make yourself heard. a local superintendent doesn’t overrule the first amendment, much as they might like to.

and here’s an open invitation: I’m a teacher, recent PhD, one-time educational administrator (although not in a public school), and hopefully soon to be a college professor. if you need advice on navigating the crap your school is giving you or minimizing the impact they can have on your chances of getting into the college of your dreams, message me. I’ll help you find legal resources, write admissions essays, find ways to argue for your right to protest to your school board - whatever I can do.

please signal boost this, and if you’re someone who can help (civil rights lawyer? college admissions counsellor? experienced activist leader?), join in and let young activists know what you can do to help.

lotus-of-light

Question! Do you need to inform administration before a walkout?

dragon-in-a-fez

I’m not an expert on the legal aspect, but as far as I know, no. the only legal power schools have over student speech comes if they can claim that you are disrupting educational activities, so if you were planning an event of some kind at the school during school hours, you would have to get permission from the school administration, but calmly and quietly leaving school grounds is not the same. you are up against truancy laws there, and they can impose punishments after the fact for absence from class, but most states have laws or at least past court decisions that establish suspensions are not an appropriate response to a first-time unexcused absence.

moonibinbon

Can you tell us anything more about the walkouts? Or anything else at all we can do without jeopardizing our “safety” in the school?

dragon-in-a-fez

my biggest piece of advice is safety in numbers. it’s easy to suspend one student, even if it’s illegal. or even ten. but if half the students coordinate a time to walk out, the administration is going to have a hard time taking that kind of action. you’ll also have an easier time getting past any teachers who might try to physically keep you in school (it’s happened), and local law enforcement will have a harder time quietly rounding you up as “truants” and taking you back to school.

also, as much as possible, get your parents on side. there’s literally nothing a principal is more terrified of than angry parents. I can tell you that right now, what hundreds of principals around the country are having nightmares about is dealing with a parade of soccer moms who suddenly have the ACLU on speed dial.

also, make sure your actions inside the school are as peaceful and non-disruptive as possible. hold a walkout, and protest on public property away from the school. the law says your free speech rights in your school can be limited so that you don’t interfere with the school’s educational activities, so if you are quiet and calm as you leave and hold your protest off school grounds, they have far less legal ammunition to try to interfere.

hope that helps! as always, follow other safety tips for protesting, like bringing water and avoiding confrontation with law enforcement.