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[doe-eyed-disaster]

not many people know that sanity and insanity are legal , not psychological, constructs which are assessed in relative proximity to a consensus reality. and even fewer people truly understand the implications of this fact. sanity is, over everything else, the determination that you are entitled to a privileged legal status, one in which your agency is not compromised and in which your consent matters. the mad must be understood as a politically marginalized class because, among other more abstract reasons, our class is constructed explicitly as such by the letter of the law.

[doe-eyed-disaster]

it is no coincidence that the rise of Black radicalism in the US in the 1950s was closely followed by an abrupt demographic shift in schizophrenia diagnoses (typically treated with psychiatric incarceration, powerful sedatives, and a variety of experimental surgeries). which had once been a disciplinary label for inadequate white housewives was now assigned to black men whose politics often so happened to draw the wrong attention. but even now, the idea of a psychotic inmate whose conspiracies are proven true is a stock character - a twee bit of comic relief when aliens are afoot or a too-sincere premise of a syfy original - rather than a literal reality suffered by so many (typically multiply oppressed) mad people.

[maculategiraffe]

you know the big problem with detective fiction nowadays is that all the detectives are fucking cops

like acab obviously but apart from that they're simply boring as hell. fuck off with your crime solving you're literally just doing your stupid job. the only people who should be solving fictional crimes are civilian vigilantes. little old ladies, short dithery priests, upper class twits with ptsd from world war one, well-heeled young ladies accidentally named after famous courtesans, etc.

neurodivergent private investigators can stay but you're on thin fucking ice

[hapalopus]

Please read The Cemeteries of Amalo. He's a disgraced priest. The clergy hates him. Everyone else loves his dark aura and air of sorrow. He talks to the dead. He's traumatized, depressed, and repressed. He hasn't seen the sun in forever. He only wears black and he has a voice like batman. He hunts zombies. He feeds the stray cats. He lives in a diet-steampunk world. He's also an elf. And you get to watch him slowly fall in love with a flamboyant theater gay over the course of 3 books. While solving murders and hunting zombies.

[heyitsrink]

Amalo's Witnesses for the Dead

[regicide1997]

So when I was getting dressed today, I very quickly put on a lab coat and some cat ears, not even trying to have something coherent, just wanting to have some kind of costume, and then I used some eyeliner to draw some whiskers on my face, so, yeah, that's my costume, cat in a lab coat, does it make sense? no. who cares. Still wearing the same skirt and striped knee-high socks from yesterday, but that's just my work clothes.

But then when I got to my office in the physics department, one of my colleagues was immediately like, "Oh! Schrödinger's catgirl!"

[bisexualbaker]

It both was and was not a coherent costume until someone observed you and collapsed the wave form.

[busket]

people act like intersectionality theory means that different aspects of your identity can be stacked like status effects in an RPG and that you can directly compare and contrast people's lived experiences based on the oppression points they have listed in their bio. instead of what it actually means: that someone's intersecting identities cannot be separated and pulled apart in layers, in the same way you cant separate the pavement of a city intersection into one road or another. people's intersecting identities result in a unique experience for every single person and can't easily be compared and ranked

[biracy]

Basically I think a lot of White ppl think the antithesis to racism is "Black people are inherently Cool, White people are inherently Lame" and it's just very hard to convince them that this is also extremely racist lmfao

[biracy]

It's the combination of "seeing a racialized group as Fundamentally Inherently Good is still dehumanizing and you aren't seeing them as people" and "your self-flagellating White guilt is extremely annoying for the people of color around you to deal with"

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

a whole bunch of gazan mutual aid projects and nonprofits. if the decision of which individual fundraiser to give to feels too daunting, or if you just want to help as many people as possible in one go, these are great initiatives to support.

care for gaza - focuses on providing food and essential supplies. donate here or here.

connecting humanity - securing internet access via donations of virtual sim cards (esims). if you can't afford a whole plan yourself, crips for esims is a communal pool that will use your donation to purchase and maintain esims

gaza soup kitchen - provides food, medical care, and classes for children. also has a gofundme

glia gaza medical support initiative - provides medical care through field clinics and tents at hospitals. donations can also be sent through their website.

ele elna elak - provides clean water, food, clothing, and shelter. they also have a gofundme

life for gaza - raising money for the gaza municipality to repair water and waste management infrastructure

taawon - partners with local civil organizations to provide food, water, medical care, shelter, and basic supplies

the sameer project - running various initiatives providing tents, medical care, and necessities. they have their own encampment project focused on sheltering families with children, sick and disabled members, or members in need of perinatal care

islamic relief worldwide's gaza emergency appeal - provides food, water, hygiene kits, medical supplies, and psychological support

baitulmaal - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, shelter, and medical supplies

gaza mutual aid fund - distributes food, hygiene products, water, and other essential supplies, including financial support. run by @/el-shab-hussein's amazing friend Mona. updates can be found on her instagram.

hygiene kits for gaza - provides hygiene supplies including menstrual products, wipes, and toothbrushes/toothpaste

anera - provides a variety of necessities, including food, water, hygiene supplies, medicine, blankets and mattresses, and psychological care

palestine children's relief fund - provides supplies and support with a focus on children. also has an initiative for lebanon

dahnoun mutual aid - provides water, food, tents, baby supplies, financial support, and other necessities. updates can be found through their instagram

certainly this is not an exhaustive list, so please feel free to add on other projects or organizations that i didn't include. and as always, please take the time to donate if you can and share. it truly makes all the difference.

[aroloverboy]

Who devours who here?

[aroloverboy]

Tiny………..

[landsccape]

[yvonnesart]

BELATED happy National Poetry Month!

“I Know Crips Live Here” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

“Prayer for Werewolves” by Stephanie Burt

“Tin Busket” by Jenny George

“Give Ear to My Words (Psalm 5)” by Ernesto Cardenal

“Penelope / Odysseus” by Alex Peery Clark @two-bees-poetry

“Achilles / Patroclus” by LJ Moore

“First They Came for the Jews” by Pastor Niemöller

“Two-Headed Calf” by Laura Gilpin

“she asked me if i believed in god and i told her that when i was four i almost drowned in a public pool and in my panic mistook a stranger for my father.” by @inkskinned

“all this living is catching up to me” by @hauntedomens

“The Hymn of Patroclus” by Penelope L. P.

“The first lines of emails I’ve received while quarantining” by Jessica Salfia

“Song for Baby-O, Unborn” by Diane di Prima

“Question” by May Swenson

“Young People” by Richie Hofmann

“The Bronze Arms” by Richie Hofmann

“The Trans Agenda is to Keep My F*cking Friends Alive” by Sol Rios

“For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper” by Joseph Fasano

“The Boy Scout Pledge” by Michael Glatze

“How to Watch Your Brother Die” by Michael Lassell

“We Have Enough Dead Friends” by Lena Oleanderson @lena-oleanderson

[storyweavingspider]

If there’s one thing left-leaning whites HATE it’s being reminded they’re part of an oppressing class even when they aren’t actively saying slurs or committing outright hate crimes

[weepingwidar]

Toyin Ojih Odutola (Nigerian/American, 1985) - Nwanyeruwa (Aba Women's Rebellion) (2023-2024)

[mortuarydolls]

[mariposabutch]

Help a disabled lesbian couple of color survive this month!!!

05/13/2025

Hey yall, I've decided to make an all encompassing post for our monthly necessities to supplement my lackluster income.

My partner and I are disabled and chronically ill, we are currently single income, I'm working a job that is expecting me to maintain a full time schedule with part time hours, on average I am scheduled under 50 hours a pay period, I am overworked and underpaid. My checks do not cover our cost of living and we are forced to cfund or go without in many cases.

After calculating finances, we need an extra $800 a month to cover the costs of transportation (the most expensive) medication for my partner, toiletries and bills.

I know this is a big ask, and I don't have the best luck with meeting large goals but this and being able to keep my job is the only option I have to maintain our survival

Please share this around and give if you can I need this met asap currently to cover an overdue phone bill and get medication for my partner!

$800 goal

Any support is greatly appreciated, thank you so much

DO NOT TAG, IT STOPS TRACTION

CA: $lezsalt or $sleepyhen

Vm: wildwotko

Dm for P@yPal/link to my CA

[amal0alkfarna5]

🆘 This is me. This is my voice. Please help us. 🚫

In Gaza, we are screaming for help — but the world feels silent. 🌍😔

This image shows exactly what it feels like: we are begging, crying, shouting…

and no one seems to hear us. But you can. 🙏

I am a mother 👩‍👦. My husband and my child were injured in Israeli airstrikes 💔. Now my son is lying in a hospital bed, in pain 😢.

He urgently needs medical care 🏥 and healthy food 🍲 — things we no longer have in Gaza.

I am trying to raise enough money 💵 to get him out of Gaza for life-saving treatment ✈️. Please — don’t scroll past. Help me. Help my son. ❤️‍🩹

Please Donate now:👇👇 👇

Donate to Join Us in Our Struggle: Save Our Family from War in Gaza, organized by Ghazal Naseer

‎‏Dear friends, ‎‏My name is Ghazal Naseer, from pales… Ghazal Naseer needs your support for Join Us in Our Struggle: Save Our Famil

💸 Donate if you can. 📢 Share if you can’t. 🤝 But please, don’t stay silent.

Donat if you can

Yes, I will donate 😭💔

Yes, I will Reblog 😭💔

Voting ended onMay 17, 2025

✅️My campaign is vetted by el-shab-hussein& Nabulsi's, my number verified on the list is ( #355)✅️ 👇

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1yYkNp5U3ANwILl2MknJi9G7ArY4uVTEEQ1CVfzR8Ioo/htmlview

[pilgrimattinkercreek1974]

Oh ok so it turns out ive been borrowing grief from the future ! it turns out ive been preparing to lose the things i love rather than basking in the light of them while they last. Maybe i should nt do that