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Oregon tribal members are asking regulators to prohibit motorized boats in part of the Siletz River to protect fish and recreation.

I hope they get what they're asking for. Motorized boats are loud, polluting, and can injure or kill aquatic wildlife. They're mostly used for recreation, and exemptions should only be made for things like conservation law enforcement or scientific studies.

More importantly, the Siletz deserve to have their tribal sovereignty respected. This goes through the only portion of their historic land that they still legally control. And non-indigenous people not only use the boats but also radar that shows exactly where the fish are to pull more fish out of the water, which harms the Siletz' access to this important source of food.

There are countless areas throughout the Pacific Northwest where motorized boats are allowed without restrictions. They can give up one stretch of one river.

formlines

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Kelly Robinson

#beautiful!!!

weltenwellen

I Remember The Carrots Ada Limón

gabriellelestat

there’s a cultural obsession with labelling all female authors as unintelligent or otherwise only capable of accidentally stumbling into brief moments of genius in their works that we need to start pushing back against

space-feminist

“I was always bothered when people say, ‘I cry to your music, it sounds like a diary, it sounds so personal,’” Mitski says. “Yes, it is personal. But that’s so gendered. There’s no feeling of, ‘Oh, maybe she’s a songwriter and she wrote this as a piece of art.’”

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feel like it's related to the phenomenon mitski's discussing here - if women's art is only seen as unfiltered diaristic emotion then of course it can only ever be accidental genius, never created with intention and thought

mementomauri

I do have a fondness for how gothic and erotic lit had a certain barrier to entry. Like I do love more ppl getting into the vampire chronicles and I'll always be happy to have more Loustat fans but those books are weird and melancholic and erotic and philosophical and constantly testing boundaries and asking questions. And it feels like ppl are expecting or wanting "the vampire diaries but gay". The books have uncomfortable moments and the characters will do and say and believe things that make you double take but so much of the books are just "how moral can I be when nothing matters and I'm immortal?"

This isn't just a tale of gay vampires. It's a haunting philosophical treatise about life, mortality, morality, death, depression, incest, rape, love, regret, and the Pain Of Time. It can be fun and it can be gross and it can be wonderful but it's not for the timid.