overcome yourself

joce. 24. nb lesbian (they). white. a big nerd, mostly about memes, social issues and animanga. please watch yuru camp.

[sassyabrahamlincoln]

crazy how India can have the largest labor strike in world history and it doesn't even make the news in the US. it's almost like they don't want us to know we can demand better working conditions

[sassyabrahamlincoln]

Nearly 250 million workers start strike in India

New Delhi, Nov 26 (Prensa Latina) Nearly 250 million Indian workers, from the construction, banking, manufacture, and service sectors, are s

250,000,000 people participated in India

For reference that'd be ~75% of the US population

That many people working together for fair labor laws

And most of the western world hasn't even heard about it

[sassyabrahamlincoln]

1 out of every 30 people in the entire WORLD participated in this strike and you haven't heard about it

4x more people participated than the number of people in the world who have tested positive for covid and you haven't heard about it

This should be a massive story. Why haven't you heard about it? Theres a very specific reason.

[swanmotifs]

thinking abt when pacrim said there are people out there who will have the capacity to know you completely and love you in a way where you genuinely complete each other, VERY much a metaphor for platos concept of two souls splitting from one and then said this is important because you can pilot a huge robot and beat up giant aliens together

[justcatposts]

It’s spider time! 

(Source)

[creos0te]

Navajo, Hopi COVID-19 relief group says funds are nearly depleted, could halt care packages 'in a matter of weeks'

Volunteers providing aid to Navajo and Hopi families during the pandemic may have to halt care package distribution in "a matter of weeks," 

Nearly depleted funds may cause a group of volunteers providing aid to Navajo and Hopi families during the pandemic to halt care package distribution within "a matter of weeks," the organization announced on Monday.

Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund, organized by Ethel Branch

WITHOUT ADDITIONAL SECOND WAVE FUNDING THE NAVAJO & HOPI FAMILIES COVID-19 RE… Ethel Branch needs your support for Navajo & Hopi Families CO

[confusionofconfusions-deactivat]

lizard people is the most benign possible antisemitism but for some reason it hits me harder than overtly malicious antisemitism, i think bc it’s The Case Study of how easily an antisemitic trope can just become a normal part of everybodys vocab and after that ppl will fight you endlessly on whether or not its actually antisemitic 

[confusionofconfusions-deactivat]

i think also, to people who are not familiar with antisemitism (through experience or study or both), antisemitism often comes across as cartoonish or wildly antiquated, so that people are inclined to dismiss it as toothless. i mean, lizard people is super fucking silly. or, people don’t really believe jews drink the blood of christian children anymore, that’s medieval. then its on jews to put in the legwork pointing out the use of lizard people to describe zuckerberg’s physical appearance, how qanon is modern blood libel, how easter pogroms can’t really be divorced from ‘the war on christmas’. and then, especially because conspiracy theory is now such a jokey quirky thing to so many people (”what’s your favorite conspiracy theory”) and not understood as an integral aspect of modern antisemitism, jews are suddenly The Fun Police, even tho all of these things share the same logic and imagery that drove an entire genocide not even a century ago

[spongebob-autisticquestions]

Any time I hear someone say, "We can't hire a disabled actor to play a disabled character because they won't be able to do the things the character does", it just leads me to think.... they're doing a terrible job at representing that disability

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

“Relationships take work”

Some things “relationships take work” should mean:

It takes work to learn to identify, effectively communicate, and mesh your needs/wants with those of another person

It takes work to actively listen and learn the other person’s communication styles as well as their needs and wants.

It takes work to maintain a relationship by planning activities together and investing in time spent together

Some things “relationships take work” should never mean:

Relationships take an exhausting cycle of constantly fighting and making up

Relationships require you to compromise your core values or change core aspects of who you are

Relationships take conforming to the other person’s expectations even when you don’t want to

Relationships take constantly proving to the other person that you deserve respect and/or love

Relationships require you to try to make yourself feel and want things you don’t actually feel or want - or at least pretend you do

Simple truisms like “relationships take work” can be misused in harmful ways.

Relationships do take work, but that work is supposed to be a team effort to support and care for each other while still honouring your own needs and desires.

If your relationship isn’t a healthy partnership, don’t feel like you have to stick it out just because “relationships take work.”

You are not obligated to stay in any relationship you do not want.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

the news that Canada may be delayed in getting a vaccine because we failed to build domestic manufacturing capacity generates a level of such deep vibrating rage within me that I’m not actually sure how to process it, so I’m just repressing it down to a cool thousand-yard-stare sort of serenity.

~~~~

[shadow-banned-the-hedgehog]

We don’t have the infrastructure to make vaccine??

[allthecanadianpolitics]

No because Conservatives privatized one of our Public Research facilities:

‘We took our eye off the ball’: How Canada lost its vaccine production capacity

The Public Lab That Could Have Helped Fight COVID-19 Pandemic

That Time Canada Had a Public Lab that Made Life-saving Drugs And Trudeau did nothing in the past 5 years in power to address this, and now he’s just pointing fingers.

Both Liberals and Conservatives are to blame here for not valuing Public Scientific Research.

[nationalisons-orleans-express]

And it’s the liberals who shut down the pandemic early warning system in 2019, so…

[lesboevils]

hey so i’m remaking my post, because i had to buy some things that i needed but basically. i’m bren i’m 25 and my job hates me so i won’t have enough money to pay my rent this month without help.

cash.app / paypal / gofundme / venmo: cosmobaut

8/750

[senatortedcruz]

imagine a giant monster following you around and picking you up and kissing you all the time. that’s what my cat lives with every day

[lungthief]

[lungthief]

[transmechanicus]

Video game loading screen tips but they’re just blatant misinformation

[electrictype]

[dilfgomezaddams]

I'm tired of the "always double check lesbian accounts before you follow them in case they're terfs" like. I'm not saying dont check but you should do a quick bigotry sweep before you follow accounts anyway, why highlight lesbians? I'm sick of the internet talking about terfs like a uniquely lesbian thing, or like lesbians are more likely to buy into terf beliefs

[wetpinkorthodoxy]

I’m sure most people have now seen this New York Times piece “How British feminism became anti-trans.” Personally, I think it should be posted far and wide, but this key bit here is something that resonated with me.

[caption: “middle- and upper-class white feminists have not received the pummelling from black and indigenous feminists that their American counterparts have]

This is so accurate it’s unreal. British feminism is generally 20 years behind, not just on trans rights but on many things. It’s not a coincidence that the “feminists” writing transphobic nonsense in the Guardian and New Statesman have also made sneering comments about intersectional feminism.

Here’s Helen Lewis in the New Statesman complaining that intersectional ideals demand too much of feminists. And here’s Hadley Freeman in the Guardian complaining that intersectionality leads to too much “feminist infighting.” Julie Bindel deliberately conflates intersectional feminism with liberal feminism, so she can sneer at both. We know Caitlin Moran rightly got pilloried for saying she “doesn’t do race.” Same shit from Zoe Williams.

There’s a lot of good work done by feminist women of colour in the UK - you can read much of it on Media Diversified or gal-dem. You could also follow Guilaine Kinouani or Judith Wanga or Sara Ahmed on Twitter. But these voices are not the predominant voices in British feminism. They’re not getting regular columns in the Guardian or giving takes on BBC news.

Who gets the columns? Helen Lewis. Caitlin Moran. Julie Bindel. Hadley Freeman. Zoe Williams. This post is already too long, so I won’t get into the history of these women when it comes to writing about race, sexuality, disability and religion. I could list pages and pages of shitty things they’ve said. The point is, these are the women who speak for British feminism. These are the women who get top billing.

It’s not good enough. We deserve better. We deserve more working class voices, more diverse LGBTQ voices, disabled voices and women of colour’s voices. We need to amplify them wherever we can, because these white middle class assholes in our newspapers are trying to claim that they’re doing this bullshit for us.

And not only is that allowing transmisogyny to hurt one of the most marginalised groups in Britain, but it’s opening the door to a raft of toxic bullshit that they’re getting away with in the name of feminism. Fuck knows who they’re gonna target next.

[clatterbane]

It’s also worth noting that the obsession with supposed “biological realities” of people like Ms. Parker is part of a long tradition of British feminism interacting with colonialism and empire. Imperial Britain imposed policies to enforce heterosexuality and the gender binary, while simultaneously constructing the racial “other” as not only fundamentally different, but freighted with sexual menace; from there, it’s not a big leap to see sexual menace in any sort of “other,” and “biological realities” as essential and immutable. (Significantly, many Irish feminists have rejected Britain’s TERFism, citing their experience of colonialism explicitly as part of the reason.)

[paxamericana]

now i’ve heard of crowdfunding somebody’s transition, but this is getting ridiculous

[anarchopuppy]

Please don’t fall for this bullshit y’all. Here are some much better organizations to donate to instead:

Mutual Aid Disaster Relief

Redneck Revolt/the John Brown Solidarity Fund

The International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund

The Kurdish Red Crescent (supporting Rojava)

Schools for Chiapas (supporting the Zapatistas)

RIP Medical Debt

Community Justice Exchange (bail funds)

Radical Indigenous Mutual Aid Emergency Fund

The Black Inmate Commissary Fund

Biden doesn’t need your fucking money. Your marginalized neighbors do. Your dollars will do so much more good invested in mutual aid

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

It's so fun and cool and sexy to think about how major corporations would completely dissolve like sugar cubes in hot water if we just didn't go to work

[ndiecity-deactivated20241101]

Hoo boy was this a post or what

[mannco-moved2]

Every single past president was a cunt.there was not a single good one

[mannco-moved2]

Only good thing any president ever did was die