The Emptiness & The Calm

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[priveting]

Photographer:  Cherry Taipei, Taiwan ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ʀᴇᴍᴏᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʀᴇᴅɪᴛs. ᴛʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ. ♥

[eco-socialism]

Ecosocialist praxis

[damnianweynee]

I support you poison Ivy

[class-struggle-anarchism]

before you encourage people to get arrested as a form of protest, think

[queeranarchism]

And even if you think you’re just in for a dull afternoon because you’re ‘privileged’, you could be very wrong. What you could be in for is trumped up charges, months of court proceedings, your identity leaked to the media, intelligence agencies monitoring your phone, your name in an anti-terrorism file, and much more.

Protesting and taking action involves necessary risks, including at times the risk of arrest. When we decide to take action against the state, we accept that that might have unpleasant consequences, or life-changing consequences. But we limit those consequences when we can.

Which is why activists prepare, meet without phones, encrypt their online communication, wear masks and gloves, organize a legal team, organize jail support, make sure every activist knows not to talk to police, etc etc. 

Because our lives matter, and because the more of us are safe and free, the better we can fight on.

Think before you choose a form of ‘civil disobedience’ that involves the certainty of arrest. That is not your only option and organizations that tell you that this is how activism must be are lying to you. There are more effective ways to resist and people that can help you do it. You can disrupt the system with a good chance of getting away with it.

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

[knifenick]

If you think like that, please don’t ever have children.

[dragonsspire]

Listen, my parents installed a lock on my door so I could lock everyone out of my room if I wanted to at sometime around 8 years old. They had a key of course for safety but they’ve never had to use it and they’ve never used it when they didn’t have to.

I was allowed full access to any books, movies, and internet I wanted fully informed about our family beliefs and practices but I was given no supervision once I reached about 13 because my parents trusted me to stick to the rules or not as I felt and come to them if there was anything that I had questions about.

As long as I said where I was going, who I was with, and when I was going to be back and then phone if anything changed I was allowed to do pretty much as I pleased from 13 onward.

I moved back in with my parents after university and the first conversation we had was my dad telling me that if I felt like they were treating me like a child to please tell them because they had no intention of doing so.

I still live with them and I’m comfortable here as an adult. When I eventually move out again, which I feel no rush to do because I feel respected and given more than enough elbow room, I will probably talk to them often if not everyday. Because they’ve always respected my privacy and my autonomy both physically and emotionally. If you want an independent and fictional child trusting them and giving them their space will do you many more favours than not.

[greyforthewicked]

meanwhile, my parents…

password protected my computer so i had to get permission every time i wanted to use it

put a passcode lock on our pantry so we couldn’t eat without permission

regularly checked our internet browsing history

shut off the internet at regular intervals, including when i needed it for university homework

did monthly checks of our bank statements and would confiscate money if they didn’t approve of our activities

in response, i went behind their backs and opened a new bank account, got a secret job, bought my own groceries, and used the wifi from the school across the street. they didn’t succeed in disciplining me. all they did was force me to distance myself from them.

your children are not your property. they are human beings, and they deserve basic human rights.

[hymnsofheresy]

i opened the window to hear the sound of rufus wainwright’s cover of “hallelujah” and it put me in such a existential Mood that i was contemplating about my relationship with God. and then bam came smashmouth’s all star. i realized this dude was just playing the shrek soundtrack for fun which caused me to have a spiritual moment for three whole minutes.

[hymnsofheresy]

ACCORDING TO MY ROOMATE…. SOMEONE WAS THROWING A SHREK THEMED PARTY. EVERYONE WAS DRESSED AS SHREK.

[memescomedy]

[neotravis]

i laughed so hard just now that i spit on myself oh mmy god

[otakusfriends-blog]

[lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223]

WAIT. Not to be controversial but. What if I just enjoy life for what it is right now instead of stressing about what I’ve yet to get out of it. What if I choose to enjoy this time……I know that once it goes, I won’t get it back from anywhere

[southernsideofme-deactivated201]

[ecarretsamcp-deactivated2017112]

Gays are only acceptable in the form of Soviet propaganda

[captainlordauditor]

every time i see that last picture it completely baffles me as to what ELSE it could possibly be meant as does anyone know what the children are supposed to represent?

[langsandlit]

what a beautiful family

[chloeniccole]

Instagram ads are like here is a sexy feminist razor and a sexy feminist push up bra and sexy feminist leggings to enhance your sexy feminist ass 🙌🏽 if you support women please remove your body hair and get your tits out immediately!

[chloeniccole]

No need to add onto this post saying “but if you love to do these things, do you! If it makes you happy to be oppressed, that is good!!” bc guess what, and you’re gonna hate this: nobody exists in a vacuum where they just naturally enjoy forcefully ripping out hairs from the follicle or putting questionable and expensive products on their skin in order to be seen as presentable. I know you THINK you love it, but if nobody ever told you to or gave you that first idea to start changing yourself to be sexy and consumable…… would you be? If patriarchal standards didn’t exist, would you actually find pleasure in spending extra time and money on altering your appearance to achieve Eurocentric and heterosexist beauty standards? Are you GENUINELY happy with putting on makeup and a push-up bra and shaving and waxing or are you happy with the way other people treat you when you do it?

[burningmine-deactivated20230217]

Mount Teneriffe Trail, February 2018

[catsbeaversandducks]

10 Dads Who Didn’t Want A Cat 

Via BuzzFeed

[lsleofskye]

Happy first day of fall in memories of Pokee 🦔🍂🍁 | mr.pokee

[ambermaitrejean]

Oak Creek Canyon. Arizona. Photo by Amber Maitrejean

[rabbitinthemeadow]

And here’s to all the sweeter days that I have known before // Part 26

[dumbgay]

the older and taller u r the more attracted i am to u

[jaoxn-deactivated20141121]

*Abraham Lincoln rises from his grave* U got kik?

[rapeculturerealities]

A Teacher Fired For Refusing To Use A Transgender Student's Pronouns Is Suing The School

In the lawsuit, the teacher claims using the student's personal pronouns would "violate his conscience."

A high school French teacher who was fired last year for refusing to use a transgender student’s personal pronouns is now suing school officials, claiming he was discriminated against for his religious beliefs.

In a lawsuit filed Monday, Peter Vlaming said he was fired from his job at West Point High School in Virginia because he would not use the pronouns “he” and “him” when referring to the transgender boy in his class.

Vlaming said using these pronouns, which the unnamed student asked to be used when he began transitioning, would “violate his conscience.”

“Vlaming’s conscience and religious practice prevents him from intentionally lying, and he sincerely believes that referring to a female as a male by using an objectively male pronoun is telling a lie,“ the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit repeatedly misgenders the student, referring to him with "she”/“her” pronouns.

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