sunshine

hi i'm edeline. ig: edecurve

[sweela]

taipei, taiwan / 2016

[neckkiss]

Annie Hall (1977)

[thepuppyclub]

[800-dick-pics]

can someone caption this? I cant read all of them

[800-dick-pics]

1) “Levi’s uses abrasive blasting, killing workers" 

2) “New Look uses sweatshops”

 3) “River Island pays its workers half the minimum wage" 

4) “H&M uses slave labour" 

5) “H&M uses sweatshops”

6) “Asos uses sweatshops”

7) “Bershka - owned by Inditex - uses child labour”

8) “Stradivarius- owned by Inditex - uses child labour" 

9) “Mango - 1135 dead in the Savar building collapse”

[pieceofmanju]

A lot of people in the notes are getting real defensive while missing the point of the post. For one thing, no where on this post does it tell you not to shop at these places or that youre a bad person if you do. The post is about showing the hypocrisy of these brands emptily co-opting social justice movements for profit, something extremely rampant right now. Its an information post. Its an attack on the corporations, not the individual.

[handweavers]

white sociopathy and fragility is so deeply troubling bc even ‘progressive’ white ppl express it, it’s just so deeply ingrained in them and the concept of ‘whiteness’ that you can’t have one without the other. being called racist is scarier to them than actually being racist, and they’ll have full blown meltdowns when accused of racism bc they can see the social consequences of that accusation - people not wanting to associate with them, people speaking negatively about them, etc - and it terrifies them. dealing w the social ramifications of being racist scares them, but actual racism doesn’t bc it doesnt affect them. if they’re racist and no one notices, it doesn’t hurt them; if they’re racist and people notice, they ‘suffer’ (even though that ‘suffering’ would be justified, and what constitutes as ‘suffering’ to them re: accusations of racism doesn’t compare to racialized people actually, you know, experiencing racism.)

[handweavers]

if one more person comments on this saying something like “ummm im a psychology student and this isn’t what sociopathy means :/” or “aktually that’s not why people don’t like being called a racist” im literally gonna snap i have no patience for this shit anymore please use google it’s free these are studied proven phenomenons written about by antiracist academics for decades that you can read about 100% for free on the same internet you are using right this second. stop derailing this post im fucking sick of it

[emiliascorner]

yeah no, sociopathy literally isn’t a diagnosis, anti-social personality disorder is and using it in a context like that is ableist.

Being PoC does not mean you can’t be ableist. Don’t doge accusations of ableism and stop calling gross people sociopaths, they don’t do racist (or any bad) shit because they have a mental disorder, PoC with ASPD exist and having a personality disorder does not make you an inherently bad person.

maybe try using google yourself.

[handweavers]

perhaps you could actually take the time to google the usage of “white sociopathy” by black academics and other antiracist writers of colour before running your mouth as a white person continually insisting on misunderstanding and villifying people of colour for discussing our lived experiences because you are so set on discussing ableism where there isn’t any to derail my point. black womanist writers have been discussing this at length for decades with nuance and in-depth understanding of the processes at play here regarding white supremacy and ableism and you, a white austrian, think that you somehow understand these things better? are you fucking kidding me? don’t tell me to use google when you clearly did not and stop speaking over mentally ill and neurodivergent poc who are telling you to shut up and LISTEN to what we have to say.

an excerpt from gradient lair, a blog written by trudy, a black womanist writer and academic who has written extensively on this subject:

“While Anti-Social Personality Disorder and psychopathy are regularly conflated with sociopathy, the latter includes when a belief system results in learned behaviors that can have mass anti-empathetic consequences. While Anti-Social Personality Disorder speaks to an individual mental health issue that impacts daily interaction, speaking of collective social and learned antipathy, resentment and even hatred (though oppression doesn’t require hatred) as sociopathy because of White supremacy is not a mental health diagnosis whereby mentioning it in a derogatory way is ableism. It is a social condition that fosters oppression and is in response to being oppressors. Oppression does not only change the oppressed; the oppressor is also changed. Sociopathy is not even a mental health diagnosis and does not refer to an individualized mental health issue, though its manifestations can be individualized. The sheer pleasure that someone like George Zimmerman gets from the attention he receives by harming others and murdering Trayvon Martin directly connects to anti-Blackness and White supremacy and an entire system supporting his behavior. (And do not dare mention his mother’s heritage right now because anti-Blackness allows him to access White male privilege despite his ethnicity.)  This same mass disregard for Black life can be seen in Renisha McBride’s death or Jordan Davis’ death or the multiple other ways that Whites disregard Black life and how it seems common place and learned. The common nature of this in addition to the power ascribed upon White supremacy is why Black and other people of colour also internalize the lack of empathy and worthlessness ascribed upon non-White bodies.”

you can also read flavia dzodan’s brilliant essay about whiteness as social disease and ableism here

[moonserpents]

[Image: “As Flavia Dzodan notes in her essay Whiteness As Social Disease and Ableism:

I am not trying to gloss over the implication for mental health and for the stigmas associated with mental illness. Yet, I also realized that for many of us, myself included, whiteness can only be described as a social disease. We lack words to explain this in ways that do not further stigmatize people. I am aware that saying racism is sociopathic could be interpreted as ableist and yet, how do we describe a culture wide phenomenon that kills us? how do we describe a political system founded on our shared inhumanity? how do we describe an oppression that is rooted in lack of empathy and love towards us?

Then it becomes a matter of what language is “acceptable” and when this language is controlled by Whites in a White supremacist society, conveniently they have the power to decide what language can be used to describe how they oppress people of colour. She also notes:

One of the consequences of epistemic injustice is that we do not have accepted frameworks to explain our lives. By “accepted”, I mean, frameworks that are society-wide accepted and recognized as valid throughout academia, mainstream media and public discourses including but not limited to policy and laws.

The same White supremacy that refuses to acknowledge “womanism”, wants to erase Blackness from “intersectionality”, and thinks that “misogynoir” is make-believe since the word was created by a Black woman, Moya Bailey, and not by Whites and is “new” though the concept and experience is centuries old is the same White supremacy that conveniently wants White supremacy left without critique and conflates social conditions with diagnosed mental health issues. In fact, this conflation is what is ableist.

Using mental health issues as a shield or conflation in order to escape critique for White supremacy is not new. In fact, last year when Hugo Schwyzer’s abuse of several women of colour including Flavia who I quoted here and others came to “mainstream” light, many tried to blame his mental health issues for the fact that White supremacy is why he was given a platform and impunity to abuse. No one wants to explain why a Black male feminist could not have the same opportunity to abuse for years on end with White women’s support. And then his mental health issues were used to silence critique of White supremacy, which I alluded to in How EVERYONE Works Together To Silence Women of Colour’s Critiques of Mainstream Feminism. While suggesting that anyone with mental health issues is an abuser is in fact ableist (as I do not abuse people despite having anxiety and PTSD), not holding someone accountable for their abuse because of their mental health issues is also ableist. It implies inferiority and lack of accountability are acceptable for them as if they are not fully worthwhile human beings like eveyone else. The same mental health scapegoat to protect White supremacy stance is regularly used in cases of White male terrorism. No such mental health analyses are provided when Black people commit crimes. The very racist in addition to ableist notion that criminality is inherent in Blackness and thereby uncontrollable is used to mask how racism and inequality contributes to Black criminality in the first place.”]

[niggazinmoscow]

THIS RIGHT HERE

[afronerdism]

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

[molothoo]

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

[scretladyspider]

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

[dantalaois]

[odinsblog]

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

[cherryking]

i understand why old people sit outside just to sit outside

[bear-disguised-as-a-human]

When you turn 24

[serotnin]

me after being diagnosed w sleepy bitch disease

[toofemmetofunction]

[sustancy]

[officialskylerwhitestan-deactiv]

[molebucks-deactivated20150826]

how can i communicate to wild bunnies that i am their ally

[wishmaker-2]

[rohie-deactivated20191102]

[x-mischief-night-x]

*slaps roof of pumpkin*

This bad boy can hold so much spook

[abutterflyobsession]

me: I will do things when I am less tired

me: *never becomes less tired*

me: oh no

[thatwritergirlsblog]

I have never seen anything more accurate in my life

[zanabism-deactivated20200529]

it’s the hardest thing in the world to watch people you love suffer at the hands of an abuser. as good as the intention might be, forcing a survivor to take action when they’re not ready to do so has the opposite reaction. 

[insomniac-arrest]

where are the scene kids of the next generation??? the goth girls in tutus and pants with chains on them?? the emos and kids wearing Naruto cosplay to school and finger-less gloves with combat boots?

aren’t y’all gen z like sick of instagram pretty…. don’t you want to go ape shit