[utopians]

okay, I’ll bite. What’s media

[akumeoy]

media is when one guy is chasing another with a knife but a tv camera zooms in so it looks like the guy with the knife is being attacked by the guy who’s actually running away. that’s media.

[utopians]

Christ that’s fucked up. Is anyone doing anything about this?

[hiphopocliedes]

“1 July. Too tired.”

— Franz Kafka, Diaries   (via sheis)

[mango-habanero-autism-deactivat]

I don’t understand should people only live in cities then?

Nope. The question of unsettling pastoral fantasies isn’t about where you live. It’s not about particular lifestyle choices or anything like that. 

It’s about being mindful of the ways in which fantasizing about the rural being more idyllic and more peaceful and more wholesome was 1.) built upon Indigenous genocide and manifest destiny, 2.) contributes directly to ongoing patterns of erasing Indigenous people from the landscape and 3.) is a continuation of settler colonial mindsets around seeing the landscape and the animals and plants within it as servants to your desires and cravings and fantasies rather than looking at them as relatives and understanding the history and the meaning of the land beneath your feet. 

You can live anywhere in North America (or really, in the world) and cultivate a more meaningful reality for yourself by learning the Indigenous history of the area, understanding why the Indigenous population got displaced, and thinking of ways to unsettle the narratives of the rural, the outdoors, the farm, as the saviours of (white) humanity, and supporting Indigenous people who are fighting against pipelines, deforestation, or other ecocidal projects. 

A couple of ways you can get a start: 

1.) go to native-land.ca and see who the Indigenous people are of the land you’re on if you live in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand (the map is always expanding to include other areas) 

2.) Interrogate where the image of the farm as an idyllic and pastoral space came from. It’s in TV, movies, books, etc. Ask yourself who you see populating these fantasies and why. 

3.) Consider where Indigenous people fit into your worldview when it comes to how you think of what your dream world should look like, and why are they in the form they are? Are they absent? 

[lithicc]

In Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer she talks about how white people/settlers can’t become Indigenous to Turtle Island, but that they can become naturalized. She uses the example of plantain or white-mans-foot, which was once an invasive species, hence the name, but has now become naturalized and is even part of some tribe’s medicine. 

“Our immigrant plant teachers offer a lot of different models for how not to make themselves welcome on a new continent. Garlic mustard poisons the soil so that native species will die. Tamarisk uses up all the water. Foreign invaders like loosestrife, kudzu, and cheat grass have the colonizing habit of taking over others’ homes and growing without regard to limits. But Plantain is not like that. Its strategy was to be useful, to fit into small places, to coexist with others around the dooryard, to heal wounds. Plantain is so prevalent, so well integrated, that we think of it as native. It has earned the name bestowed by botanists for plants that have become our own. Plantain is not indigenous but ‘naturalized.’ This is the same term we use for the foreign-born when they become citizens in our country.”

[snapsicle]

people on tumblr: rage against the machine! eat the rich! anarchy now! you are not immune to propaganda!

same people: shoplifting and weed are both inherently bad. i am very smart

[powerfulwizard]

Some of you guys are like, Be Gay Do Crime, but are also like, Shoplifting makes you evil and you’re personally stabbing into people’s paychecks if you steal

[powerfulwizard]

[snufkisse]

shoplifting non-necessities when you aren’t poor (which is usually white upper-middle class teenage girls) directly harms the employees, especially in small/low-volume stores

[powerfulwizard]

Read the banner

[snufkisse]

would you like to explain how shoplifting doesn’t effect minimum-wage workers

[powerfulwizard]

I think I put a banner on this post with a specific message on it

[birlinterrupted]

presenter: today i’m going to be talking about femme eras-

me: *prepares to zone out*

presenter: -erhead baby

me: *monocle falls from my eye in surprise, ecstasy*

[antennafarm]

Arson > Gender

gender is bad and arson is good, it’s that simple

[mary]

[wrenrouge]

[birlinterrupted]

i don’t inherently have a problem w people’s identities and behaviors shifting over time but I do kinda resent being constantly lectured at every single stop they are on because they’ve decided that wherever they are at that moment is the truly oppressed subjectivity and most ethical form of existence. you know the type of person i’m talking abt

[ommanyte]

how dull for you to live your life without any hills to die on, you, on your vast flat barren plains of compromise, acceptance, and accommodation, while I reign supreme over the lush, rolling highlands of stupid shit I have irrationally chosen to stake my entire identity on

[mayorbuds]

talking heads was right

[wokeuplaughing]

how

[mayorbuds]

i do ask myself. how did i get here

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

still like one of the best things griffin has ever said

[pigeonirl]

The latest Tweets from ash🌝🏴 (@pigeonirl). a real boy 🐦. seattle, wa

i’m also on twitter btw

[pigeonirl]

Ash Pigeon is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect with Ash Pigeon and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected.

i haven’t used this website regularly in a long time but now that it’s apparently dying… feel free 2 add me

[pigeonirl]

The latest Tweets from ash🌝🏴 (@pigeonirl). a real boy 🐦. seattle, wa

i’m also on twitter btw

[pigeonirl]

Ash Pigeon is on Facebook. Join Facebook to connect with Ash Pigeon and others you may know. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected.

i haven’t used this website regularly in a long time but now that it’s apparently dying... feel free 2 add me