I made a comic, to express some of the emotions Iāve felt due to the latest election results! We have work to do.Ā

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I made a comic, to express some of the emotions Iāve felt due to the latest election results! We have work to do.Ā
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in my preschool class weāre holding āclass president of the dayā elections this week.Ā we already elected our first female president on monday, even though one of the boyās campaign promises was to ābring jewelsā to the classroom.
tuesday: we talked about the real election happening today. one child says she hopes hillary clinton wins and all of her classmates chime in with sober agreements. one boy says voting for the drumpf āwould not be a very good idea.ā
they elected the other female candidate today in our mock election, so she won over the jewels boy and the other boy, who said he would make bracelets for the entire class. my students are surprisingly practical, seeing as they voted for the candidate who would clean the school and help them with their work.
once president, she did do those things, but also punched one of her constituents into the sandbox, so, i mean ⦠sheās sort of a typical politician i guess
wednesday: the children announced tensely to me that trump won the real election. one boy said, āi still donāt like him, but we canāt say we hate him, because then we would be saying we hate the president.ā
i said that was true, and that saying we hate him sounds a lot like something trump would say. they nodded and continued to help the toddler class students get their snack plates to the table without dropping their apple slices.
they elected one of the girls again, so she served her second term by helping her friends button their art smocks before we made our galaxy paintings. (because if you think iām gonna create an art lesson plan to focus any more attention on this shitshow of an election, you are wrong.)
neither of the boy candidates have stood much of a chance in this race so far. one of them came to me and said he was rethinking his campaign promises, and could he make a new poster
he got a paper and wrote a huge list of ways that he would help keep all the children safe, including reminding them to use walking feet and not to touch broken glass. then he volunteered to work in the toddler room and cleaned up all of their messes, and moved all the shelves in my room so he could clean behind them.
iām feeling so hopeless right now, but these children remind me that there is a future and they. are. it.
thursday: today i was very pleased. our president today is the little boy who made changes to his campaign promises. he also wore tyrannosaurus rex foot slippers. when the voters were shaking his hand to congratulate him on his victory, one said, āgood job, and thank you for having monster feetā
he watched everyone like a hawk to make sure they were being safe, and then spent the morning writing in his journal about how much he loves all of us and his bicycle.
Donald Trump is a fascist. We shouldnāt be afraid of the word: itās simple and accurate, and his fascism is hardly unique; itās just a suppurating outgrowth of the fascism that was already there. Still, this time itās different. The fascisms of Europe in the 1920s and 30s, or east Asia in the 50s and 60s, or Latin America in the 70s and 80s were all the response of a capitalist order to the terrifying potency of an organised working class. Fascism is what capitalism does when itās under threat, something always latent but extending in claws when itās time to fight; it imitates mass movements while never really having the support of the masses. (In Germany, for instance, support for the Nazis was highest among the industrial haute bourgeoisie, and declined through every social stratum; look at Trumpās share of the voter per income band and see the same pattern. The workers didnāt vote for Trump, they just didnāt vote for Clinton either.) But today the organised working class is nowhere to be found. Thereās no coherent left-wing movement actively endangering capitalism; the crisis facing the liberal-capitalist order is entirely internal. Itās grinding against its own contradictions, circling the globe to turn back against itself, smashing through its biological and ecological limits and finding nothing on the other side. This is the death spasm, a truly nihilist fascism, the fascism of a global system prickling for enemies to destroy but charging only against itself. Thereās no silence in the final and total victory, just an endless war with only one side. Itās not entirely the case, as the slogan puts it, that the only thing capable of defeating the radical right is a radical left. The radical right will defeat itself, sooner or later, even if itās at the cost of a few tens of millions of lives. We need a radical left so there can be any kind of fight at all.
Sam Kriss, āHow You Lost The Worldā (via chicanochamberofcommerce)
people are able to seem very nice on social media sometimes
i sometimes get urges to say hello/attempt to befriend ex bf who cheated on me among other activities.... Ā but they pass. stopping myself by listening to the heartbreak playlist i made before we broke upĀ
I feel like women with depression are still expected to be polite and pretend to be happy in order to keep others happy, while men with depression get to be openly miserable and even rude and their depression can be an excuse for whatever bad behaviour they engage in.
Buffy Summers Appreciation Week ā Day 6: Favorite SeasonĀ
āI think that people who donāt like season 6 of Buffy have never been really depressed. I suffer from depression, and I watched the show while being at a particularly low point, so this season was some of the most raw and real television Iāve ever seen. Buffy may come off as whiny and mopey to some, but to me itās one of the best depictions of clinical depression on television.ā (source)
her friends were trash to her during this season. anyway, depressed buffy is me.
there are hardly any questions that the internet canāt answer and one of them is why a tiny post-surgical area of my vulva hurtsĀ
iām like 28% emotionally ready to work on my surgical scar tissue
CW: mental health
only worked at my job for 4 months but my dream job is hiring? i know the program director... may email him and ask if heās hiring any per diem. want to get clinical hours.Ā
i stopped taking one of my antidepressants and cried a lot but stopped having nightmares
i wrote a song or two or three after seeing p.s. eliot and stopping the antidepressant that made me not be able to think
can i only write songs when iām sad? is it true that joy and pain are connected? it seems like sides of a coin.Ā i would never advocate against medication- I think there is a time and place for everything. Iām in a place right now that can hold me being sad.Ā season changes are bad for ptsd because i remember triggers associated with the new season that iād forgotten about for a year... but i want to feel them now.Ā
How to tell if you are emotionally abusive
I feel we talk about signs of abuse from the victims standpoint but not from the abusers standpoint. In order to stop emotional abuse and recognize when we engage in unhealthy behaviors I made this list.
Do you react to important people in your life by ignoring them completely and not acknowledging their presence? Especially if they do something you donāt like?
Do you feel that your partner/friends/family members are the cause of your bad moods or frustration?
Does your partner/etcĀ ādo things the wrong wayā?
Do criticize your partner/etc for being unreliable or a bad person?
Do you feel you have to constantly overlook your partners flaws in order to be around them?
Are you frequently accused of beingĀ āmoodyā orĀ āhard to pleaseā?
Do your partners complain thatĀ ānothing they do is good enough?
Do your partners appear to avoid you when you are angry or upset rather then comfort you?
Do you negatively comment on their intelligence or appearence? Either in private or in front of others.
Do you blame them when someone goes wrong?
Do you ever use phrases likeĀ āI could just hit you right nowā orĀ āIām so mad I could punch somethingā?
Do you ever punch walls/throw things in front of your partner/etc?
Do you leave during fights and not inform of where you are going and when you will be back?
Do you behave the same alone with your partner that you do if you were in front of your friends or in public?
Have you frequently accused your partner of being too sensitive?
How often is your partner praised and complimented by yourself?
Do you think your partner spends too much time with friends and family?
Do you feel your partners friends and family are trying to drive you apart?
Do you actively comfort your partner when they are upset or angry even if you donāt really understand why they feel the way they do?
If your partner brings up a behavior that bothers them do you respond by discussing how to change it or do you respond defensively?
Do you have difficulty apologizing?
All of these things are abuse tactics. Obviously even the healthiest of us will do these sometimes but if any one becomes a regular habit thatās when the problem starts.
this is super important, i feel like this website makes it easy to put yourself in the role of the victim but never the abuser. Itās also important to note that being a victim does not preclude you from being an abuser.
I find this esp. important. Iāve exhibited some of these behaviors. IĀ know abuse perpetuates abuse and that victims of abuse learn abusive behavior. I also know that having mental illness can make reacting and dealing with feelings even more difficult. That being said: beingĀ mentally ill does not mean you cannot be held accountable for your actions. Nor does being a survivor of abuse. I gotta take care of myself & heal and recognize how trauma and mental illness plays a role in how I treat others. Being a victim doesnāt mean you cannot be an abuser too.Ā
this is the most important post on this website.
Thank you for this.
CW: abuse
i am so tired of radical vulnerability discourse that locates empowerment in divulging personal pain and i really worry about the implications of a young creative culture where your influence and your popularity and your follower count is implicitly tied to your willingness to talk about your personal trauma, your willingness to let thousands and thousands of strangers know what happened to you, your willingness to make your most private pain public.Ā
like i really worry that our culture is commodifying trauma? a band i really like, led by a young woman about my age, they released a song in early 2015 that was quite clearly about sexual assault. and it was a great song, and it earned a very deserved warm reception, but interviewers would persistently ask the lead singer if it wasĀ āa personal account,ā and she would always say that it was an observation on rape culture and leave it at that. and then about a year later she released a personal essay saying that, yes, it was about her own experience of sexual assault, and then there was another wave of secondary clickbait-y thinkpieces congratulating her for being so brave and so open.
so we have a great song addressing sexual assault, which can more than stand on its own as a piece of art. and we have a young woman who, after a year of getting the same question from reporters, says,Ā āi was raped; the song is about me.ā and then we have another wave of reporters coming in to write identical stories repeating her words, calling her brave, and collecting ad revenue.
and thatās what i mean: for every act of personal disclosure of trauma, there is this weird media apparatus that feeds on publicizing that trauma and collecting fat stacks of ad money. publications are taking what might be an empowering process for some people and theyāre incentivizing and monetizing public trauma disclosure. itās deeply fucked up.
so like. you donāt owe the world the story of your trauma. you donāt need to make your grieving and healing a public process. you are not less courageous or less creative or less empowered because you choose to go through something privately. and you should be very wary of publications that traffic in underpaying marginalized young people to describe their trauma in detail. imo.
I absolutely refuse to do this anymore. No you canāt have my trauma.
I actually wrote part of my thesis about this. About the discourse of trauma in mental health-- how providers have been using trauma history as an example of why more compassionate mental health treatment is needed... as though people need to have bad things happen to them to be treated well. It is reminiscent of the deserving/undeserving poor dichotomy from like two hundred years ago. If something happened to you (back then, if youāre a widowed mother), then you deserve help, if youĀ āmake choices,ā you donāt?Ā
song that my sister sydney and i wrote together years ago about our cat and dogās loving relationship. i got a new laptop today and found many gems tranferring files from my old one. syd sings, i play the instruments. enjoy <3Ā
idk if iāve ever had a stronger desire to subtweet than when my stepsister told me yesterday that she is resentful of my happiness??!! lol. im like ok im sorry this is the first time in like 15 years that i havenāt been fight-or-flight stressed?? like damn. i got over a 9 year long chronic illness and like settled down with a supportive person after a long string of abusive relationships and finished school after working over fulltime for three years and i am just happy that no one in my family is at this moment life-threateningly sick... like, not comparing my life to anyone elseās, just my present life compared to recent past is MUCH better right now. is this what people are talking about when they talk about haters? lol. like people who are just happier when you are down than when you are up?Ā
Since Friday, there have been stories of three Black women killed by acts of state-sanctioned and intimate partner violence. Those are just the three we lost this weekend, that we know about, but Iā¦
Joyce Queweay was fatally disciplined because according to her partner and his friend, she would not submit. Unless this is a BDSM scenario, itās is not appropriate for a grown ass woman to submit to a grown ass man. I donāt care what your Bible says. The romanticization of dominance and submission kills.
Once every 19 hours a Black woman is killed by a man, usually by an intimate partner, usually with a gun. Once every 21 hours, the man killing her is a Black man. Many of us are quick to quote that statistic from the2012 report of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, which says that every 28 hours a Black person is killed by police, security guards, or vigilantes. Yet, we are losing at least one Black woman per day to intimate partner violence in this country, and beyond sick outrage and fascination, we canāt quite figure out what to do about it.
Trans women of color have a reported life expectancy of 35 years. Skye Mockabee was only 26 years old.
Korryn Gaines has become yet another victim of a militarized police state that uses SWAT Teams to serve warrants. Why, you ask, do SWAT Teams serve warrants? They have not always done so, but my good friend, Dr. Melanye Price has explained to me, that after a decade of post-9/11 wars and the ramping up of police militarization, we have an over-abundance of highly weaponized police officers in a world where violent crime rates are falling. Add to that a context where you have declared Black urban neighborhoods war zones, and treat Black citizens who live in them like enemy combatants, you can then combat police officer boredrom by allowing them to play war games with ordinary citizens. This is why the recent, extensive new policy platform from the Movement for Black Lives calls for among other things an āEnd to the War on Black People.ā Demilitarizing police forces and stopping fucking SWAT Teams from serving traffic warrants would be a pretty obvious beginning.
The murders of all these women on their own are appalling and incensing enough. But the problem is that we reserve most of the outrage for what happened to Korryn Gaines. Because it fits a narrative that we understand. That narrative centers around white supremacy and the enactment of state violence against Black people.
But somehow, we have a paltry analysis of patriarchy in this moment, and the ways in which both cis and trans Black women continue to be murdered on the daily by both cishetero men in intimate relationships and by police officers who are utterly unmoved by any claims to Black womenās femininity. Our womanhood does not protect us from state-based racism and misogynoir.
Misogynoir, Moya Baileyās term for hatred of Black women, girls and femmes, is not just cultural. Itās structural.
Skye Mockabee
Because Skye was a transwoman, her story does not galvanize marches, petitions, or broad demands from Black communities that her murderer be found and prosecuted.
Joyce Quaweay
Because two brothers brutally beat Joyce Quaweay, we refuse to have a robust Movement conversation about the rampant nature of intimate partner violence, because we donāt want to further pathologize brothers who are already viewed as inherently criminal by the system. That these two police officers used the playbook of state violence to exacerbate their enactment of quotidian forms of male violence towards women is not a part of the conversation either.
Korryn Gaines
Because Korryn Gaines (allegedly) had a gun and was also holding her baby, Black male mansplainers have been turnt all the way up victim blaming her for ending up dead. They did it to Sandra Bland, too. Apparently, the only armed Black folks we can be outraged for are men like Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.
But isnāt the logic the same though?
Submit or die.
Submit to the police or die. Submit to your intimate (cishet Black male) partner or die. The state kills Black women and all Black people who donāt submit. Think Sandra Bland. Think Eric Garner. Think Mike Brown. Alton Sterling and Philando Castile submitted and died anyway.
But then, at least once a day, brothers kill sisters who donāt submit .
Black menās lack of solidarity in this moment, tells us something about how deeply invested many Black men are in narratives of dominance and submission. Even though Black men often accuse Black women of colluding with the state against them, which is often why we donāt call the cops when they are beating us to death, what is more true, is that Black men are the colluders. The one thing that state based agencies and many, many brothers agree on is the blame of Black mothers, for the terrible things that happen to Black children. Korryn Gaines was holding and protecting her son from state-based terrorists with guns. That they thought he was an acceptable casualty in order to apprehend her is a failure of their logic not hers. Too many brothers are deeply invested in a narrative of patriarchal submission, even as they balk at and die under the stateās violent mandate that they (and all Black people) do the same.
But when we pursue a social analysis that fails to robustly consider patriarchy alongside challenges to white supremacy and capitalism, weāll miss the convergence of violent logics.
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