[mybigfatgaylife]

So earlier this week Amazon offered $100k to Seattle Pride to help fund the Pride parade but they wanted:

Featuring Amazon’s logo prominently along the parade route

Ensuring that logo would be first and larger than other corporate partners on promotional materials

Allowing an Amazon leader to make remarks at the parade

And naming the event “Seattle Pride Presented By Amazon”

They wanted to name it after them, y'all. I just...I canNOT with that.

Seattle Pride told them no, and cut ties with them. Also:

Ahead of this year’s parade scheduled for June, Seattle Pride is requiring all corporate partners to participate in a diversity, equity and inclusion survey and evaluation process. That process is part of a larger movement around the country to prevent corporations from making what Seattle Pride described as “token gestures,” rather than actively supporting members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Kudos to Seattle Pride. They know what they're doing.

[ayeforscotland]

Yasss Jamaica🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

[ayeforscotland]

“We see no reason to celebrate 70 years of the ascension of your grandmother to the British throne because her leadership, and that of her predecessors, have perpetuated the greatest human rights tragedy in the history of humankind.”

- Letter signed by 100 Jamaican leaders

[determinate-negation]

[riarevenge]

i thought i would make a post about the sickening actions of the met police recently that have once again come to light to prove that they’re some of the scummiest people alive, and im not sure this has made it to tumblr yet.

a 15 year old black schoolgirl was strip searched at school due to teachers believing they smelled weed on her. the met police did this strip search without an appropriate adult present, and the search which involved exposing the victims intimate body parts happened while she was on her period and with knowledge of that.

they made her remove her sanitary pad, bend over and spread her legs while coughing. they didn’t let her use the bathroom, even though she asked to.

a 15 year old girl.

no drugs were found on her.

family members have spoken out explaining that she went from a “happy go lucky girl to a timid recluse who hardly speaks.” she’s also in therapy, due to instances of sh after this brutal and degrading strip search.

this is no doubt a racist occurrence, with the met police at the forefront of it. however, the school is also facing backlash due to teachers not protecting their students, especially students who are more likely to be exposed to racism by the police and others. this whole thing reeks of racism, and the pure injustice and cruelty is insane. she’s a child. a child who didn’t have any drugs on her and was humiliated in front of two officers.

here’s what the 15 year old girl said when interviewed.

this is so disgusting and just a reminder that we cannot leave the BLM movement in 2020 or 2021. this is not a trend, it’s not a cute hashtag you can use when you want to drop one insta story and never speak on something again. these are real lives being altered forever, and that’s when these don’t end with murder, we’ve seen it so many times and it’s enough. the met police need a serious change, defund them, burn everything to the ground tbh. this can’t be reformed. it has to be torn apart and built up again because the met police have shown time and time again that racism and mistreatment of human beings is so inherently within their officers and workforce.

[gravityfallsrockz-deactivated20]

I think this just further proves that Disney cancelled The Owl House for Lumity

[obvslybatgrl]

DISNEY IS FUNDING THE DON’T SAY GAY BILL

[obvslybatgrl]

Disney Backs Florida's "Don't Say Gay" Bill Despite Preaching Inclusivity - Inside the Magic

Despite inclusivity and representation efforts, Disney has apparently backed several supporters of Florida's "Don't say gay" bill.

Abigail Disney criticizes Disney’s donations to politicians who backed Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay Bill’

“I could not be more unhappy with their political activities, both in terms of whom they fund and how they lobby,”

Florida’s anti-gay crusade is funded by the Disneys of the world | Commentary

Florida politicians are obsessed with gay and transgender people in the worst possible way. Every year or so, Republicans in the Legislature

THEY ARE PUTTING MONEY INTO THE POCKETS OF EVERY OFFICIAL BACKING THE DON’T SAY GAY BILL

[natache]

[guerrillatech]

[adv3nturelust]

There’s another equally-popular post circulating on tumblr encouraging people to spam Russian-owned businesses with bad reviews on Google Maps. Jewish-owned restaurants in the U.S have also suffered from spam reviews because of antisemitic campaigns on social media to run Jewish-owned places out of business. This is despicable and your hatred is directed towards the wrong people and places.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Please direct your rage at Putin and those enabling him, not your sister’s ballet teacher Svetlana, ffs why is this hard.

[aireina]

HELLO, THIS

[aireina]

on a similar note

[aireina]

the saga continues!

[bogleech]

These statements are worse than I ever could have expected and I thought my expectations were already at zero

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

nothing angers me more than the amount of young gays who are erasing the rainbow flag to replace it with the new mlm flag. like, if you personally want to use an mlm flag go ahead idc but so many people are really out here ignoring the history and significane of the rainbow flag, which was literally made by a gay man. also angering is just how much people try to divide up the lgbt community into ever smaller subgroups instead of focusing on the point that its supposed to be a community.

[depsidase]

[funnytwittertweets]

[guerrillatech]

[shituationist]

My favorite “Great Moment in Moderate History” was when Abraham Lincoln called John Brown a lunatic for trying to end the expansion of slavery through violence and then five years later ended slavery through violence.

[fed-detector-deactivated2018030]

The moral of the story is violence becomes morally acceptable the moment the powers that be approve of its use and not a moment before.

[anarchotolkienist]

I had an angry row with my dad over John Brown (because this is what my family is) after listening to John Browns Body. His arguement was that ‘John Brown was a crazed fanatic, and he murdered people’, and my response was ‘Yeah, it would be a shame if slavery had to be abolished through violence or something. Good thing they stopped that crazy fanatic John Brown and then didn’t fight the bloodiest war in human history about it just afterwards and instead just abolished it peacefully’, to which the response was ‘No, that’s different’ - because one sort of violence upholds the state and is legitimised by it, and the other undermines it. State ideology is strong.

[freyjaofthenorth]

“if a private person should be guilty of the same things the government is doing all the time, you’d brand him a murderer, thief and scoundrel. but as long as the violence comitted is “lawful” you approve of it and submit to it.” ~Alexander Berkman

[anarchblr]

“The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.”

-Max Stirner

[rozzes]

"This is not Iraq or Afghanistan......this is a relatively civilized, relatively European city"- Charles

"It's really emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed" -David Sakvarelidez

What the hell do they think they are doing??!!?!?!?

Going on the TV and saying that

Do civilized people say things like that?

War is not normal, shouldn't be normalized in other countries just because they're not European white, blond with blue eyes.

Wars in Asia and the Middle East and Africa And South America are not normal. Wars on black, brown, Asians are not normal.

Kids being killed because of politics is not normal.

Yes, we feel sorry for Ukraine because innocent people are dying, but the hypocrisy that is shown on the news is maddening and disgusting.

Kashmir, Uighur, Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and anywhere else where the media doesn't cover.

We support all of you, and it doesn't hurt less because you don't look like me.

[isquirtkerosine]

The demonization of actual charities/orgs in favor of individual GFMs has done nothing but stripped marginalized people of their privacy + dignity by forcing them to become internet celebrities in order to get their needs met as opposed to an org that could privately help them if said org had the funding!!!! Also it’s why people feel the need to go as far as to fake their own kidnappings just to get traction! Not to mention it’s just made the lives of grifters so much easier

[isquirtkerosine]

To circle back, who benefits more from this? The 65 year old drug addicted woman on skid row who can’t read or the young hot gen z college kid with 10k tiktok followers? This bastardization of “mutual aid” combined the constant like mining dopamine cycle social media has done almost irreparable damage to young wokey people especially young people of color.

Making every poor person dance for the internet in order to get their snazzy twitter begging flyer traction will only set people up for long term failure.

Imagine: I’m a young person down on her luck so I beg on twitter with my real name and face along with every personal detail, I get my coin, I am actually able to put myself through schooling but now whenever an employer googles me they can find this incredibly personal information about me!

I have nothing but sympathy for people who are in a position where they urgently need money and need it fast but we should instead put that money towards orgs whose whole job is to PRIVATELY help people

[isquirtkerosine]

My guy you have entirely missed the point of my post and there are multiple ways to vet a charity

[uselessheretic]

if you want to go even deeper into this, the way GFM is replacing charities mirrors the non profitization of resources that should be government funded. over the last few decades, it's become normalized for housing, education, food security, etc to be supplemented by nonprofit organizations while government spending is slashed. the same is true for art programs and youth services. this is something that ends up pushed by both democrats and republicans.

relying on charity to fund basic human needs is really fucked up. most charities aren't supported by nickels and dimes donated by the people, but through larger corporations with capitalist goals. you never know how much your budget will be for the new year because funding is conditional. to maintain grants and big donors, you're unable to rock the boat too much in a way that will alienate your capitalist benefactors. you are permanently stuck in a cycle of needing to focus all your attention on making sure the next year is funded, unable to address systemic issues that are the root cause of the inequality.

GFM operates in a similar manner of these not being permanent fixes while having to perform in a way that maintains an audience who is willing to support you. somehow, people started thinking that you need to girlboss your mutual aid and that it's acceptable to present this as the only option. support from charities and other organizations are dwindling where it's harder to find organizations specific to helping with rent assistance and things such as that.

it's not just that GFM is replacing charities, it's that charities have already replaced government programs through intentional design. we're so used to the idea that charities will fix child hunger that people don't even think to demand that these are basic human needs that should be supplied through the government. that also includes things like arts programs and childcare! parks and recreational spaces and things within our community that enrich us and brings joy.

this is why activist nonprofits are unable to enact substantial change. anti racist organizations and queer organizations and youth activist programs have a hard limit to what they can do. if you ever wanna read more about youth activism specifically i'd defs recommend "Uncivil Youth" by Soo Ah Kwon. it's a really good look into the way non profitization has limited activism, along with a detailed history on how the government tries to control youth through youth programming as a way of getting rid of undesirable behavior (like underage drinking or girls flirting)

and in the same way that some nonprofits (not all but a large number regardless) has become highly profitable businesses (collegeboard is a nonprofit lmfao) companies are also learning to squeeze money out of GFM models. GFM which wasn't even supposed to be for mutual aid in the first place, but was more about getting weird boardgames kickstarted and shit like that 😭

[captorations]

pratchett will write an entire book about the grim reaper pretending to be santa claus while the grim reaper’s granddaughter goes about hunting down the dumbass who decided to kill santa, and then right when you think you’re done and the oddly pointed shenanigans are winding down he hits you with “humans need fantasy to be human. to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape,” and knocks you into next wednesday

[catflowerqueen]

#YOU NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT ARENT TRUE#HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME#god those words are engraved on my heart#gnu terry pratchett

[mxflint-original]

“Why does the third of the three brothers, who shares his food with the old woman in the wood, go on to become king of the country? Why does James Bond manage to disarm the nuclear bomb a few seconds before it goes off rather than, as it were, a few seconds afterwards? Because a universe where that did not happen would be a dark and hostile place. Let there be goblin hordes, let there be terrible environmental threats, let there be giant mutated slugs if you really must, but let there also be hope. It may be a grim, thin hope, an Arthurian sword at sunset, but let us know that we do not live in vain.”

[chiribomb-deactivated20220820]

This is the true fantasy successor to Tolkien, despite being very different in style. All the other grimdark fantasy authors don’t get it.

[kontextmaschine]

Our Japanese class found it funny that in common terminology "food" isn't very distinguished from specifically "rice" until it was pointed out to us that in English "meal" is "loose roughly ground grain"

[karcatgirl-vantas]

humans be like staple crop