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Updated version! I ain't ever gone play that guitar, might as well remove it.
If you are looking for my character design and racial sensitivity blog, please go to @creatingblackcharacters! This is my main, where I relax and post strong political opinions. Stay at your own will ๐คฃโค๏ธ๐.
one fight at a time
A South Dakota mining company has canceled a drilling project in the Black Hills after opposition from Native American tribes and local grou
The backlash was a major lawsuit from 9 tribes alongside other lawsuits from advocacy groups like NDN Collective. You can support NDN Collective by donating to them here.
Very relevant for the tumblr leftist crowd
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"Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions."
-Frantz Fanon
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like, I myself have also never lived on the rez so I can really only speak to the experiences Iโve had shared with me by friends and familyโand frankly, there are some things my loved ones just straight up wonโt even talk about because it was just that fucking bad. but with the way some folks on this site (in particular, as Iโve mentioned before, white Europeans who seem to have convinced themselves that just because theyโre not American means theyโre absolved of all the evils of white supremacy and imperialism) talk about Native people living in the imperial core it feels really clear to me that a lot of these people have never even, like, attempted to so much as imagine just how fucking bad the conditions on most reservations are. theyโre certainly not doing any research into it. just, like, speaking loudly and confidently about how privileged we are to live in the US without a shred of consideration for the fact that these places were intentionally constructed to have the worst living conditions possible. and like thatโs not to say that you canโt have any semblance of a good life there, Iโve also heard so many stories of joy and love and community on the rez and I donโt want to take away from that. but those things are hard fought for through the fucking incredible power and resilience of what it is to be a native person surviving genocide, they happen IN SPITE of all the odds stacked against us. I promise that you as a white person in fucking France or whatever are not worse off than generations of people forced into reservations, with extremely limited access to food and clean water and healthcare. for real.
and of course the justification is always โoh well thatโs such a small percentage of the US population thoughโ as if thatโs not literally the same logic used by the government to allow these people to continue to suffer, and as though population percentage is supposed to make me just stop caring about my relatives. like that just doesnโt make you look better. and if youโre from a colonizing European country it was your fucking ancestors that created the conditions that led to people suffering today. shut the fuck up!
Something I absolutely love is not caving into the pressure of "you HAVE to watch popular gay show the writing is actually competent and they won't ruin it this time" and being like "hmmm I don't know... I watched popular gay show before and it turned bad..." only to much later get your door knocked on and it's your mutuals crestfallen and you get to be like "let me guess. it turned bad."
The energy on the dash... Let me guess
Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms โ a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer โmay be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.
Taylor makes bagged greens, salad kits, chopped salads, the works. Keep avoiding supermarket greens, but keep an especially close eye out for this brand/supplier. The above list of grocers and fast food chains is NOT exhaustive, so please continue getting lettuce and other raw produce taken off your burgers, sandwiches, etc.
Their other brand is EARTHBOUND ORGANICS!!!
There was a lighthearted (at least, to me) discourse about surviving without AC in the UK heat. And Fredo had a good point that I concur with- the Deep South heat something evil so y'all can try to say we wouldn't hack it if you want ๐ญ
Very relevant for the tumblr leftist crowd
Cooling Papa off by the pool, Philia Style
You can never guess what babies are thinking, can you? One second you're giving her a piggyback, next you've been dumped with water. (Hard launch of Patroclus' new skin tone. If you saw him here before no you didn't.)
CBC Book Club ๐
Book: Medical Apartheid, Harriet A. Washington
Chapters:
CH8- The Black Stork: The Eugenic Control of African American Reproduction
CH9- Nuclear Winter: Radiation Experiments on African Americans
How are we feeling so far?
Did we learn anything?
Share with the class!
Ch8 notes
"But many Black women who desired and used birth control did so despite a strong distrust of the whites who distributed contraception in their communities. In 1972, Black social worker Urelia Brown voiced this ambiguity: "Negroes don't want children they can't take care of, but we are afraid to trust you when your offered help has so often turned out to be exploitation.""
This quote most of all, I believe, summarizes the relationship between medicine in America and Black people, the whole point of this book. Do we want the help? Yes. Do we need the help? Yes. Can I trust it coming from the hands of someone who has more often then not, not had my safety and best interests at heart? No! You cannot ask me to believe that you want me to be okay, but you have not SHOWN me that that is the case!
I had to go past my six quote limit for this chapter. There's just so much history in here, so much that goes ignored despite reproductive justice sitting at the intersection of so many identities. The conversation is often directed from the experience of white, cis women. But that is simply not the case for everyone involved and we NEED to discuss that!
This chapter also brings into conversation the criminalization of drug use, versus treatment, and how convenient it was to overlap the two via antiblackness. The (already racist) drug war benefitted from the sensationalized use of "crack babies" to put even more people of color in prison.
Ch9 notes
Had to pass my six quotes here too. Tbh I think these next chapters are so large that I'll have to ๐ญ
Can you imagine having your bones and teeth pulled out of you, while you were alive, and you went to the doctor to have your broken bones fixed? Literal hyenas, preying upon your injured body while you're STILL ALIVE. body snatching you, piece by piece.
the way Whiteness was promised to those who "looked" it, leading to Black and non Anglo Saxon women to burn themselves with radiation in order to look the part. Anything to be closer to whiteness!
Reading this chapter was just blow after blow of "y'all didn't even need to do this!!" Like, all of them are bad, but when it comes to nuclear radiation it's like these scientists were just playing in it using Black bodies. Like why are you feeding me irradiated mercury. What good is that gonna do. You know it will kill me.
Having the plaque LIE and then be placed behind a Dumpster... The ultimate disrespect. Shows exactly how they feel about the people that Saenger (whom UC HIRED) victimized.
"I am not a vessel for your good intent" goes hard as a line from a disabled perspective. Abled people care so much more about being their idea of a good ally than they do actually being a good ally. They shove their good intent right down your throat and then act surprised when you tell them they're suffocating you.
[ID: An image of a sign with a blue background and with a graphic of a stick figure in a wheelchair at the beginning, resembling disabled parking space signs. The text below the stick figure reads "I am not a vessel for your good intent." /ID]
This.
we might also ask: why iranian artefacts for the premiere of a film adaptation of a greek epic? & the obvious answer is because well we respect greek cultural heritage more than iranian + the greeks are better able to protect their material culture from looters than iran, currently being bombed by the us (cf. the looting of iraq's material culture during the american occupation)
PLEASE DON'T WAIT UNTIL MY BABY BECOMES ANOTHER TRAGIC STORY YOU READ TOMORROW.
I keep imagining the moment someone asks me, "Is Qais still alive?!" I am terrified that one day I will not know how to answer. No mother should ever live with that fear hanging over every breath.
Every day, I fight two battles at once: comforting my child through pain and searching for a way to afford the medicine, bandages, and treatment he still desperately needs. I feel myself breaking a little more each day.
Highest of keys I really do feel like a bummer when people ask me "how are you?" Because if I don't have my professional workplace "good" locked and loaded, I'm probably just gonna say "I'm here" or "I could be better, but we keep moving" ๐คฃ like I'm sure don't nobody wanna know that I'm fighting for my life at any given moment but... Don't ask me then ๐ญ
