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Oh, this gave me chills. Art can be such a powerful way to make a point in ways to people that otherwise might not be reached.

emjineer

Yeah, so this was posted by “Change the Ref” which means this was created by the parents of Joaquin Oliver, who died during the Parkland shooting. Since then, they have done many powerful, heart wrenching pieces like this. They tricked NRA members into giving a graduation speech in front of empty chairs, each chair representing a child lost to gun violence. They used AI to make a video of their own dead son talking about how he died of gun violence. Joaquin once wrote an essay for school regarding gun violence and they hand delivered that essay to an NRA endorsed politician. They made 3D printed statues of Joaquin as well.

I have a lot of respect for what they do, but their raw grief and anger is clear in every single piece. I can’t imagine what they’re going through, but I hope they are able to find peace someday…

monaedroid

JANELLE MONÁE X VARIETY

POWER OF WOMEN

Photos by Sophy Holland

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/janelle-monae-homecoming-antebellum-charity-local-initiative-support-corp-1234627882/

https://www.instagram.com/monaedroid/

blackandkillingit

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gothhabiba

I have an idea. it’s a little revolutionary and the world might not be ready for it but hear me out. a man & a woman meet. the man acts rude and arrogant and the woman dislikes him for it. and then the woman continues to dislike him throughout the entirety of the work of fiction in question and never falls in love with him and they never get married, not even a little bit. thank you for your time

mikkeneko

later on after many events and tribulations they meet again. and the man has changed! he has learned lessons in humility & how not to be a terrible person! he presents his growth to the woman and she says “wow, good for you, I’m glad you improved as a person. good job! hope I can do as well!” & then they continue to not get married even slightly

justsomeantifas

call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.

robobun

@ everyone in the notes talking about physical performance: if that were the case, then sports would be divided by physical performance. that’s a thing you can measure. that’s a thing that varies by individual. a weak man and a strong man would be an unfair fight in boxing/wrestling/MMA, which is why they divide those sports up into weight groups based on physical performance. but they also further segregate them based on gender. chess is segregated by gender for no reason but sexism. if it’s actually about skill and physical ability, then measure those and separate people by those metrics. don’t do some bullshit gender segregation and pretend like men and women are inherently on different levels no matter their individual abilities.

justsomeantifas

💅

aggrokawaii

Remember that time a teenage girl struck out Babe Ruth? That’s fucking why. Men are afraid of being beaten by women.

amuseoffyre

Remember that time male swimmers were pulled out of training because Kate Ledecky was leaving them ‘broken’ by swimming better than them? Remember how she didn’t even notice, because she was busy actually training?

notanadult

Shooting is a sport that has no reliance on strength and so any allowance for gender variation is irrelevant. The last time there was a mixed competition (1992) a chinese woman named Zhang Shan won it.

murderxbaby-deactivated20190102

It’s often presented as for the benefit of women. After all, they’ll be heartbroken when they‘re hurt or bested by men.

Projection is a hell of a drug.

dick-graysons-left-butt-cheek

yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666

this is why they drug test Serena like crazy. the believe no woman should be that good. let alone a black woman. and black women have always been considered “manly” and less feminine.

iampikachuhearmeroar

also can we talk about how surfing is segregated as well? like how the dude who won this years international surfing cup or whatever was given $30,000 worth of prize money, while the woman who won the women’s comp was only awarded like $16,000 of prize money???? or whatever it was. but I know it was either half or less than half of what the man won. like why can’t they get the same prize money and when they’re competing internationally in the same competition? they surely have the same level of skill and talent.

yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666

the pay gap in sports between men and women is fucking insane.

torukun1

The pay gaps, not to mention lack of sponsorships for women athletes who don’t look like models is insane. If you weigh over 250 pounds, no one will sponsor you. It’s why most female Olympic-class weightlifters live in poverty/out of their cars.

shipitbabyonemoretime

intersex-mhacha-deactivated2020

Reminder that in international (and usually national too) womens athletics anybody with 5m/mol of natural testosterone or higher is disqualified. (See legal case of Dutee Chand vs IAAF.)

Do you or somebody you know have PCOS? You are banned from international womens athletics because you are supposedly in posession of an unreasonable advantage in sports.

Folks disqualified for hyper-androgenism in womens athletics.

Francine Niyonsaba

Caster Semenya

Dutee Chand

Margaret Wambui

And more

Why are those disqualified overwhelmingly black and brown? Because testing is case by case when an athletes performance “raises suspicions”. They overwhelmingly test athletes of colour, for being too fast and not meeting white expectations of femininity.

Racism and intersexism(discrimination against intersex people) in sports is abject evil. Desegregate sports.

jeanjauthor

All of this.

claredevlingf-deactivated202207

THIS!

mittai

The argument that ‘biological differences’ make coed sports unfair is bs, because then we’d be directly segregating by things like metabolism levels, testosterone levels, height and weight. Not sex. Take one example: Michael Phelps. He has an innately higher lung capacity (twice that of the average person) that gives him an advantage. A biological difference that gives him an unfair advantage. Technically, if physical differences are unfair, he should be disqualified.

but-im-a-tomboy

Can’t forget this: Liao Mengxue & Tong Zenghuan winning 1st and 2nd in the 2019 Asian Games only to go viral for this and be ridiculed on terf twitter

thesociologicalcinema

Why Microaggressions Hurt Artist: Alli Kirkham (x)

naturalcottage

Marco Grassi is an Italian painter who is dedicated to creating hyperrealist art masterpieces! 😮🙉🖼️🖌️🎨 Here you can see a small sample of his work!

boykeats

Photos of gay trans male activist Lou Sullivan throughout his life, as presented in Lou Sullivan: Daring to be a Man Among Men by Brice D. Smith

stealthboy

I never see historic trans male posts and I’m crying thank you

the-memedaddy

Me irl

the-percival

Fun story, I had two different service dogs react to me and both owners were like “r u okay?”

I cried.

explorerrowan

I’ve had that happen while working retail, and the dog’s partner was like “sweetie? you should ask your manager to let you take a break.”

dustycymbre

Maybe retail managers need a service dog who determines who needs a break

kingadia

I would crumble on the spot.

lxndscape

mood

kingadia

WOW.

gaycism

Are there gay bugs?

superscanaries

user87262893

The type of the mother I’m trying to be. Not just encourage bodily autonomy, but reward displays of it, even when it might make someone else in the room uncomfortable.

swedepea

I’ve made so many people uncomfortable in supporting my daughter’s personal space. People will try to hug her, she’ll sometimes say “No, thank you” and the adult will look at me to make her do it, but I just say “It’s ok honey, you don’t have to hug anyone you don’t want to.” It makes people irrationally huffy, making me feel even more justified in supporting my daughter’s choices. Creeps.

misharoux

I legit had to mom-voice some random woman with a “she said no!” when she tried to force a hug on Madison. (who was not very good at verbalizing to people she didn’t know/trust at the time)

She replied, “I just want a hug, it won’t hurt her.”

Me: She. Said. No.

There aren’t many things more important than letting my daughter know that I have her back when it comes to something like this.

ineeduhnap

I work with five year olds and I had a very long talk with them about permission and that your body belongs to yourself and no one else. “Even if you want to hug your friend, you need to stop and ask if it’s okay and if they don’t want you to touch them, you should respect that choice and not do it.” they were like “cool” and then every time after that they had no problem asking their friends “can I give you a hug?” Or “can I hold your hand?” Very politely. If their friend said no, they shrugged and went on with their life. They even started asking me if they could hug me or if it was okay to hold my hand when they were sad. And I always ask when they need comfort “do you need or want a hug?” If they say no, I ask “okay, let me know what we can do as a class to help you feel better. Quiet time? Do you want a stuffed animal? Sit on the couch? Do you need some time alone?” They verbalize what they need and they become aware of their own autonomy and their ability and power to say “no.” Just because someone is an adult does NOT give them the right to hug a child who has said “no” or “no thanks.” Teach then that they own their own body, and no one else is in charge of it. Teach them the power of NO.

willowofthehearth

She replied, “I just want a hug, it won’t hurt her.”

Sure, it’ll just teach her that her consent is to be ignored. No harm in that… Surely.

blackqueerblog

I’m not crying.

unicornempire

Often times effort matters so much more than the thing itself. Whatever you can do, simply trying to do it at all is often more than enough.

mysticalcoffeequeen

You don’t need money to have the richest experience like this one

kingadia

My whole entire heart ♥️

talk-nerdy-to-me-thyla

Pride jean jackets

ultrafacts

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cosplayparental

This is true btw. I did a report about Ann Boney in school and Read actually liked her back so they ran away together and were considered the two most terrifying pirates across the seven seas

somewhat-honest-abe

Lesbian Pirates

Give us this film

halvedmimi

Just fyi - many of the illustrations and statues of them show them with their breasts exposed. This is not because they are sexualising lesbians but because these women often used to open their shirts and expose a breast when they killed a man just so the man’s dying thought would be the realisation that he was killed by a woman.

opisaterf

tits out for murder!!! a true aesthetic!!!

rocketmermaid

TITS OUT FOR MURDER

pangurbean

I NEED THIS MOVIE

slavery

How does anyone hate kids they are so funny I sold tickets to incredibles to this little girl and her mom and she’s like mom are we sitting next to each other and the moms like ya and the kid screamed YES so loud it broke my ears

pkslider

The other day I was bringing an older gentleman up the hill in a golf cart and we drove past this huge YMCA group of kids like 100 kids and driving past the first chunk like 10 of them yelled out “let me on” in unison and then since I’m driving so slowly to be safe, halfway in some kid leaned up and said “do you play fortnite” and I told him I played a little and he just pointed and shouted “THIS GUY PLAYS FORTNITE” and then like 20 kids started talking to me all at once about fortnite

low-budget-mulan

A kid asked me if I lived in the ambulance. I said yes.

patron-saint-of-smart-asses-dea

The hero we deserve

treerot

When I was on register at Kohl’s a little girl came through with her grandma and she was so very excited to tell me the meaning of her name (I think it was like warrior of god) and she begged her grandma for her phone so she could google to find out what my name means too

newterjuice

i wear two spinner rings on one finger and one time at my last job a young girl (probably 6-8) said “your ring is very pretty” and when i showed her it was two rings she GASPED and said “does that mean you’re marrying two people?!”

siren-singing

I have this necklace with a mermaid on it that I wear to work a lot and I got asked by a kid if it gave me magic powers. I leaned in real close and told her in a low voice it gave me magical girl powers but it was a secret. She got this real serious look on her face and said to her mom “that lady has superpowers, don’t tell anyone or the government will take her away”.

business-pug

The other day i had to give a speech at my school despite my horrific fear of public speaking and afterwards i had kid come up to me and say well done to me. It was so cute.

mcr-minivan-deactivated20200108

god I love tiny kids

uberfluss

there was a kid in one of our science camps and he spent the whole week in a lab coat and goggles screaming “CHEMICALS” at the top of his lungs. he wouldn’t even tell us his name for the first two days just screamed CHEMICALS instead.

moth-doe

I was watching these kids at church today and one of them screamed and threw a toy car into the wall and it broke and the other one looked over calmly and said “does your insurance cover that?”

armandyke

I was taking the drink order for a family at work and I asked their kid what he wanted to drink and he just looked at me with a completely deadpan expression and said “vodka” and me and the parents just fucking lost it

bemusedlybespectacled

kid I used to babysit asked why my lips were different (she was two), and when I told her that it was because I was wearing lipstick, she yelled, “MAYA, I WANT LIPITZ.”

itsmydrink

I work in a school and every time I draw anything on the board (I am a terrible artist and usually resort to stick men), the kids will all go ‘I love your picture, that’s a great drawing Miss’. So blindly supportive.

the-stray-liger

One time my younger brother ordered a “non-alcoholic fanta” at a hotel bar and the bartender lost his shit and I was never the same man

swankivy

When I was student teaching, I was taking my fourth graders back from lunch and noticed one little girl looking longingly at the playground, where the younger kids were having recess. She heaved a big sigh and said, “I used to be that free.”