Let the beauty we create be what we celebrate

►► I blog mostly about human rights, fashion, art, politics, things that inspire me, and feminism. INFJ. 23 yr old Able Bodied Queer White Canadian. She/her, them/they. Can be found at QuietestOwl. If you need anything tagged let me know.

[missmaplesleaves-blog]

11 months out of the year: life is a trainwreck

in december: life is a polar expresswreck

[missmaplesleaves-blog]

I’m remaking at quietestowl feel free to follow for the same low quality content.

[silversarcasm]

the idea of people having to be ‘useful’ is just so gross, like people do not exist to be used

having to produce something and have a use is a capitalist ideal and not an intrinsic part of humanity

just by being alive you are human and you are worth something and you can never be useless

[fluttersheep]

this applies to animals as well

[bloodblonde89]

“Having to like DO THINGS is SO OPPRESSIVE. No one had to like DO THINGS before evil capitalism. In ancient times food, water, and shelter just existed and everything was taken care of for me”

Guess what happened to people who didn’t do things before capitalism? They died. Cause if you weren’t hunting, gathering, or useful in some aspect of nature. You were killed, died or starvation, dehydration, or exposure. 

Being useful is literally part of our biology. Fucking moron. You pull some idea out of your ass because you literally don’t want to get off your ass. 

[silversarcasm]

I’m not saying nobody should ever do things ever, I’m saying people don;t have to produce to an arbitrary standard in order to prove their right to live

And if you really think disabled people deserve to die if we can’t ‘contribute’ or be useful in a way you approve of then congrats youre a fucking monster

[alliluyevas]

actually there’s significant evidence in terms of Neolithic burials that disabled people who would not have been able to hunt for themselves (the archaeological evidence mostly shows mobility disabilities because it’s visible in the bone record) were well fed and cared for by their communities

so the “people like you would have been left to die” argument isn’t just cruel and violently ableist, it’s extremely historically inaccurate and based off of projecting modern prejudice on prehistoric cultures

[alliluyevas]

sources because I’m on my laptop now!

note: in the neolithic era, a person in their 40s or 50s would be considered elderly

12,000-year-old burial of a woman about 45 with mobility disabilities both congenital and acquired

burial of a 40-50 year old Neanderthal man who had survived to old age with a deformed right arm and a long-healed head injury that would have made him blind in one eye

neolithic burial of a man in his 50s who lost the use of his left arm in adolescence

neolithic burial of a man in his 40s with evidence of a significant mobility disability caused by an injured hip and leg, some time in adulthood but long before his death

neolithic Asian burial of a man in his 20s with a congenital disorder which would have made him a quadriplegic around age 14. He survived for 10-15 years after that.

5th century burial of child with Down Syndrome

[jadelyn]

Assholes like that always seem to forget that humans are and always have been a communal species. We are, to oversimplify, herd animals, who depend on sharing of resources and labor and skills for continued survival. We are not solitary wild creatures. A strongly functioning human group protects and cares for its vulnerable members by mutual agreement, since we’d like to be able to assume that should we become one of those vulnerable people, we’d still be okay because others would give that same care for us. How is this hard to understand?

[kyriarchy]

“traditionalists” like bloodblonde89 love to idealize the past but mostly because they think they could kill people and get away with it.

[badfaithbears-deactivated201905]

Also shout out to the paleo-arch people for being cool af

[actjustly-deactivated20181001]

The justice system ain’t failed. It was designed this way. 

[missmaplesleaves-blog]

Kirk: i love you More

Spock, pulling out a flip chart: that’s cute but actually i love you more. as you can see, the statistics clearly show-

[shaggytwodope-deactivated202104]

Tag your party alignment

[transhistorical-blog]

Marsha P. Johnson

Pronouns: She/her

This pioneer was a notable transgender rights activist and popular figure in New York City’s gay and art scene, as well as one of the city’s best known trans women of the times. She was a leader in clashes with the police amid the Stonewall Riots.

She was a co-founder, along with Sylvia Rivera, of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.) in the 1970s, and also the “mother” of S.T.A.R. House along with Sylvia, getting together food and clothing to help support the young trans women living in the house on the lower East Side of New York.

Once, appearing in a court the judge asked Marsha, “What does the ‘P’ stand for?”, Johnson gave her customary response “Pay it No Mind.” This phrase became her trademark.

In July 1992, her body was found floating in the Hudson River, shortly after the 1992 Pride March. Police ruled the death a suicide, but her friends and supporters denied this, and a people’s postering campaign later declared that Johnson had earlier been harassed near the spot where her body was found. Attempts to get the police to investigate the cause of death were unsuccessful.

[thisiseverydayracism]

Racist as fuck ad from China. The anti-blackness there is fucking horrendous.

[bettedavisgf]

duality of man

[culturenlifestyle]

Adorable Leaf Bags by Gabrielle Moldovanyi

Budapest-based boutique Leafling Bangs provides adorable and quirky bags and backpacks inspired by the shape of a leaf. Creative duo Garbiella Moldovanyi and her partner Adam designed the functional and beautiful bags, which comes in a range of colors and sizes.

Each piece is water-resistant and strong, which makes them an ideal accessory for the outdoors. Find their entire collection in their Etsy shop.

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[ofthecrown]

“i was born in the wrong generation” i say as i steal my grandkids hoverboards because fuck you i was promised these years ago

[cattink]

every time i say something witty: please don’t think i’m flirting. i just want to establish myself as the funniest one here.

[pie-eyed-deactivated20251229]

national geographic, 1980. forest ladies.

[glumshoe]

Here we go… the leading ladies of my butch werewolf environmental crime mystery thriller movie. 

[noelladejouvence-deactivated201]

I’ve been laughing for 16 mins now. This is how you take control of your relationship.

[nourrice]

ME

[gemini]

LMAOOO

[wingbeifong-deactivated20160204]

OH MY GOD they’re either from tanzania or zambia i’m telling you

[alwaysbewoke]

YOOOOOOOOOOOO!! LMAO!

[universalequalityisinevitable]

[universalequalityisinevitable]

Peter Joseph on structural violence, from this video.

[ebonykalokoh]

Brilliant

[unapologeticexistence]

Spot on. Like Coretta Scott King said, I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

[peachpulpeuse]

I tried to argue that Ophelia resonated because Shakespeare had made an extraordinary discovery in writing her, though I had trouble articulating the nature of that discovery. I didn’t want to admit that it could be something as simple as recognizing that emotionally unstable teenage girls are human beings. … When Ophelia appears onstage in Act IV, scene V, singing little songs and handing out imaginary flowers, she temporarily upsets the entire power dynamic of the Elsinore court. When I picture that scene, I always imagine Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, and Horatio sharing a stunned look, all of them thinking the same thing: “We fucked up. We fucked up bad.” It might be the only moment of group self-awareness in the whole play. Not even the grossest old Victorian dinosaur of a critic tries to pretend that Ophelia is making a big deal out of nothing. Her madness and death is plainly the direct result of the alternating tyranny and neglect of the men in her life. She’s proof that adolescent girls don’t just go out of their minds for the fun of it. They’re driven there by people in their lives who should have known better.

B.N. Harrison, from “The Unified Theory of Ophelia” (via shakespeareismyjam)

[omg-hawkeye]

How is it going with Tony and Steve? Any progress yet?