I Am The Macaroni OverLord

This blog is also pro-recovery and deals with survivor problems. If I receive hateful anons I will turn anon off. Feel free to submit me links to relevant information or things you think I would like to reblog. Personal note- I'm trying my best to un-learn ableist micro-aggression. Please call me out. I'm also white and will probably fuck up there at some point. I'm a student learning sociology, social work and child development. I'm queer. They/them pronouns, please. I have a lot of health issues that take a toll on my life. No, this isn't all I do with my life, I -also- have a personal blog.

[awn-network]

Part of autism acceptance is allowing autistic people to choose what strategies work best for them, no matter how “odd” the strategy may be. When I am stressed out or angry or overwhelmed, I go into my “safe place” which is under a table that’s now turned into a fort and watch shows I love and hug soft things. I also stim to help my brain focus. It is so important to allow autistic people to do whatever it is that helps them be happy, whether it is drawing, flapping, fiddling with string, or scripting. Don’t try and force autistic people to be “normal”. Autism acceptance is where normal is SELF-DEFINED. Ultimately, everyone should be able to decide what they think their normal should be. It’s a basic human right.

Candi B., “Autism Acceptance” (via autisticwomen)

[fullpraxisnow]

One-hundred-seventy-six civilians were killed by police in January and February.

The Slaughter Continues: 176 Civilians Killed by Police so Far in 2015 | Huffington Post

That’s three people a day. If you want to talk about gun control, the central and crucial discussion to have is how to disarm and demilitarize the cops.

(via america-wakiewakie)

[revolutionarykoolaid]

Save Our Kids (3/14/15): UPDATE on the Jesse Hernandez’s tragic story. The autopsy report shows that the police were lying through their teeth about the circumstances surrounding why they killed Jesse. Her death has been ruled a homicide. Like Mike Brown before her, many tried to blame Jesse for her own death, that she instigated it by going on a joy ride with her friends. Worse, many were eager to believe some trumped up GTA story of Jesse trying to mow down the cops with a car. The first is belittling and sad. The second has proven to be an outright fabrication by the police. What side are you on my people, I said what side are you on? #thefreedomside #staywoke #farfromover

[falloutsettler-deactivated20250]

Didn’t she try to run a cop over? I mean that right there is assault with a deadly weapon and the officer was within his rights to retaliate.

[revolutionarykoolaid]

I say this with the utmost sincerity, and not the slightest bit of shade… can you read? Because this post is LITERALLY about how the official autopsy disputed that bullshit narrative from the cops. That racism will have somebody straight blinded.

[strawberreli]

this happened the week we were in Denver

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[themidwifeisin]

Check it out, parents-to-be!  This amazing androgynous pregnancy line is about to open, so you don’t have to compromise your look, your gender presentation, or your comfort.  

butchbabyco is founded by two awesome people, Vanessa Newman and Michelle Janayea:

“The story of Butchbaby & Co. began with two best friends and a dream. I met my best friend freshman year of college. It was bromance at first sight, and after we hit it off on the first week, we knew we’d be friends forever. We dreamt of growing old together, getting married not too far apart from each other, and having children at the same time so that they too could repeat the cycle of friendship. The thing was, the both of us are butch. Whenever we envisioned our future together, the dream always stopped short at carrying children. We both knew we wanted to, but we could never imagine what we’d wear. And when we did imagine ourselves in pregnant butch attire, that’s exactly what it was— only a figment of our imaginations because these clothes didn’t exist. Then one day, it hit me: I could change that. I could create more androgynous maternity wear not just for me but for every masculine identified individual who dreams of carrying a child and looking handsome doing it. And that’s how Butchbaby & Co. was born. Out of a dream and out of a necessity for all child bearing parents-to-be to have a more comfortable alternative to the current maternity wear we are provided.

—CEO/Founder, Vanessa Newman”

Visit them HERE.

[femmedilemma]

HOW FUCKING COOL IS THIS OMG

[comedycentral]

Daily Show Senior Ferguson Correspondent Jessica Williams reports on the Justice Department findings. Click here to watch.

[kateoplis]

Lisa Bloom

[krxs10]

!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK AT THIS SHIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

An Unarmed Black teen was just shot dead by police on #BlackOut Day.

19-year-old unarmed teen, Tony Robinson, was shot and killed by police in Madison, Wisconsin last Friday night. According to several news sources, Madison Police Chief Koval said they received calls looking for a man who had committed battery and was jumping in and out of traffic One of the police officers, Matthew Kenny, spotted Tony and then proceeded to follow him into his apartment and forced his way in after claiming to “hear a disturbance inside”. the unarmed teen then “got into an altercation” with the Officer who then shot him 5 times in the chest, and dragged him out to the street while he bled out. He was later rushed to the hospital where he later died.

Large Protests have already begun in Madison and are quickly spreading all over. 

#StayWoke #BlackLivesMatter

Sorry to ruin #BlackOutDay but this is why it exists in the first place.

Source 

[heartsilk]

this is fucking unacceptable

[homojabi]

Melonie Elizabeth Rose committed suicide on February 26th and there is only one article about her suicide and it’s aftermath anywhere online (http://www.dominickevans.com/2015/02/her-name-was-melonie-another-trans-woc-has-committed-suicide/). It’s no one person’s fault for not knowing about her suicide, but it speaks volumes to the transmisogyny and transmisogynoir in our culture and communities that the death of Melonie and countless other trans women of colour go mostly unnoticed. It’s not a question of “How many twoc have to die before people start caring?” because so many have died and there is no movement. People memorize lists of names with no context behind the lives that were lived and cut short. These are not senseless tragedies—they are deliberate and it’s terrifying. 

Janet Mock, talking about the murders of six out trans women of colour this year, made a good point: 

The names of our sisters shouldn’t only make headlines when we walk a red carpet or lay in a casket. Our visibility shouldn’t be subject to such extreme circumstances. […] It’s part of the reason why I am weary of amplifying these women’s deaths because it often feels like these women’s names are only spoken by the majority of us when they can no longer respond. But I must speak their names and when I do, I am aware that my sisters do not need to be reminded of their vulnerability and the threat of violence that looms over their lives.

[ultrafacts]

Yacouba Sawadogo is an exceptional man – he single-handedly managed to solve a crisis that many scientists and development organizations could not. The simple old farmer’s re-forestation and soil conservation techniques are so effective they’ve helped turn the tide in the fight against the desertification of the harsh lands in northern Burkina Faso.

Over-farming, over-grazing and over population have, over the years, resulted in heavy soil erosion and drying in this landlocked West African nation. Although national and international researchers tried to fix the grave situation, it really didn’t really make much of a difference. Until Yacouba decided to take matters into his own hands in 1980.

Yacouba’s methods were so odd that his fellow farmers ridiculed him. But when his techniques successfully regenerated the forest, they were forced to sit up and take notice. Yacouba revived an ancient African farming practice called ‘zai’, which led to forest growth and increased soil quality.

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[sashaloren]

Thank God

[chancecalloway]

Victims of police brutality… Art by Ashley A. Woods.

This is my submission for the APB - Artists Against Police Brutality book - with John Jennings and Bill Campbell. Please take the time to read about the victims in the subsequent posts.

[katelouisepowell]

Before Jaws hit theaters in 1975, great white sharks weren’t the villains we now believe them to be. But when the movie–which was purely fiction–became a blockbuster, it directly caused humans to seek out and kill sharks, causing widespread population drops in shark species across the board. The influence of that piece of fiction (coincidentally also based on a novel) even coined its own name: The Jaws Effect. When Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita was published, it was perceived by the public to be an erotic novel, despite the fact that it told the story of child sexual abuse through the viewpoint of an unreliable narrator. The result? To this day, we refer to sexually precocious teen girls as “Lolitas,” despite the author’s intent. Yes, 50 Shades of Grey is fiction, but fiction isn’t created or consumed in a vacuum. It is influenced by our culture, and influences our culture, and 50 Shades of Grey isn’t an exception. Even though something is “just fiction,” it can still have detrimental effects on society or expose problems that already exist in our perceptions. So when someone says “50 Shades of Grey promotes abuse as romance,” they’re not saying, “50 Shades of Grey is a totally real thing that happened and is a cautionary tale.” They’re saying that this work of fiction is having, or has the potential to create, real world effects.

Jenny Trout, “Get Over It!” How not to respond to critics of 50 Shades of Grey (via 35mmuniverse)

[starlingsongs-deactivated201608]

When trans women are mocked and made into jokes in the media, I get very upset, and I am often told “Kay, you can’t go through life getting offended every time someone makes a joke.” And I sputter and object but they don’t hear me. So I want to be clear for once, about why the jokes make me angry.

I learned to hate myself for being transgender before I knew I was transgender. I laughed at the jokes in stand up comedy routines, and prime time sitcoms, and animated comedy shows, and in the movies, and in books, and in games, laughing at trans women for existing, about “men in dresses”, about people who “got their dicks chopped off”, and I learned to think that was worthy of ridicule.

And then a day came when I felt a pang of envy at what my female classmates were wearing and I repressed it, and felt guilty, and a day where I felt incomplete because I had no breasts and I repressed it and I felt disgusting And a day when I realized the only images of romance that made me feel anything showed two women together and I repressed it and I felt like a monster And a day when I realized I felt sick when I looked at myself in the mirror after every shower before work and couldn’t bear to look at my own face, and I hated myself. And then there came a day when I hated myself so much, and I thought I could never understand why, and so I just wanted it all to end. And it was just a miracle that I swerved my car back into my lane in time.

And all of it started with a joke that I heard on TV, and then kept hearing from all the voices from the ether, over and over and over, worming an idea into my mind before I was old enough to realize I was absorbing it, the idea that a man in a dress is funny, and that changing your body parts makes you a freak, and that women who have penises instead of vaginas are liars and hurt men. And they’re still making these jokes. And somewhere out there right now, just like all those years ago, there is a little girl in a t-shirt and cargo shorts with buzzed off hair watching the TV, hearing that joke and absorbing it without knowing it, who will someday have to pry herself apart to tear it out of her head, just like I did.

That is, if she doesn’t kill herself first.

[starlingsongs-deactivated201608]

I know this is a really heavy post but if you read it and you appreciated it, I’d appreciate it in return if you reblogged it. This is really important to me and I want people to read it and understand it. Thank you.

[lisarachnid]

Now, a similar finding comes out of Houston, where evidence from 6,663 previously untested rape kits has “produced 850 hits in the FBI’s national DNA database” and resulted in 29 people being charged so far.

Of those charged, six are alleged to have committed other rapes while their DNA went untested, the Houston Chronicle reports. “It did happen unfortunately,” District Attorney Devon Anderson said. “We are eagerly looking forward to prosecuting those rapists, those repeat rapists.”

"It did happen unfortunately."

Unfortunately.

That rapists who could have been identified if only the rape kits done on survivors—who did what we’re told we’re supposed to do; who reported and subjected themselves to invasive investigative procedures in a very dark moment—had been processed has fuck-all to do with “bad fortune” and everything to do with bad choices.

[nc2t]

why is no one talking about the fact that men in a muslim country (turkey) wore skirts and went to protest with women on the streets because a girl got raped and killed by a man ?

they went on the streets for the rights of the women.

muslim men did.

[nc2t]

update: they are currently trending #önceadamol which means “be a man first” to show that men who abuse their wife or women in general are not tolerated

[dancingbreakfastfood]

A lot of people have been talking about all the sexually problematic aspects of Fifty Shades of Grey, but only Cara seems to be highlighting how awful this book is in it’s portrayal of Hispanic people. (x)

[carazelaya]

I’ve received DOZENS of messages from people telling me that I’m literally THE ONLY PERSON they’ve publicly seen calling out the awful portrayal of Hispanic people in this book, and I gotta be honest I’m fucking furious that that’s the case. 

[wrathfulclam]

Friendly Reminder #16537899

G*psy is a racial slur, it has been used to oppress many separate cultures, and is still used even now to oppress.

G*psy is not a fashion style, a lifestyle, some New Age bullshit, or some type of skirt.

So maybe stop using it for that. It’s incredibly offensive and racist.

[breelandwalker]

Reblogging for those who are new and don’t know yet, and for those who have been here long enough to know better but somehow don’t.