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Illustrations by Yoshida Yoshitsugi
me, looking at the current state of the world, crying:I wish none of this had happened...
Gandalf, materialising in my conscience, smiling kindly: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, besides the will of evil.
Not all witches
- Are religious.
- Worship the wiccan or any one particular Goddess.
- Have any religious beliefs in their practices.
I keep seeing all these posts about witches and the Goddess, and as a witch with secular witchcraft practices, (and a hellenic polytheist), I’m just want to remind the baby witches and all that not all witchcraft is religious, nor does it have to be.
me af. I’m an agnostic witch.
Representin’ for the non-religious witches. Secular spellcraft, baby.
(My spirituality is separate from my craft.)
Is it true that Aboriginal people were not regarded as citizens in Canada until 1960?
First Nations could not vote until 1960. Inuit in 1962. That’s probably where that 1960 figure is coming from.
It wasn’t until 1951 that indigenous people were recognized as people in Canada:
Until 1951 the Act defined a ‘person’ as ”an individual other than an Indian”, and Aboriginal peoples were considered wards of the state.
elodieunderglass:
I know, I know. I get it. But I also believe that you gotta relate to people via the stuff they care about. You have to get people to care using the language/metaphors they already understand.
This is why scientists and science communicators are coached to use “natural” numbers - you don’t say something’s 200 meters long; you say it’s the length of 2 football fields. You say that something is as small as the period at the end of this sentence and that if you put all of the thing from end to end, it would stretch to the moon and back. People don’t think in microns and lightyears; they just don’t. You have to give them stuff that means something.
You don’t say that someone has a 20% chance of dying from the disease; you say that four out of five people survive it. You use the things people understand, even if the words sound painfully silly and you are dying of embarrassment just using them, because it just works better. The people can understand it, it’s meaningful to them, they’ll remember it, they will use it in their lives now.
It would be nice if everyone cared about research and data - if everyone was informed and engaged, and came out of the womb with a good grasp of the scientific method and a working knowledge of the civic institutions of their country. But they don’t and they’re not, so what are you going to do about it? Hopefully, you’ll give them the knowledge you have in a way that makes it easy to receive.
So when I ran off the rails in a tumblr post, getting overexcited about the impact of a restructured Supreme Court on the welfare of the USA in the next 50 years, I used Harry Potter metaphors. I cringed a little, because I feel like the SCOTUS is so interesting and important that we shouldn’t have to relate to it through the lens of decade-old YA literature, but I did it.
I said we “haven’t destroyed Scalia’s horcruxes” (Meaning: we can’t undo the legacy of a Justice even after their death, because the things they create to survive them are functionally immortal - except in very specific situations where people work together to deliberately destroy them in a special way.)
and “why are you focusing on your Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher when the Wizengamot is corrupted” (Meaning: the temporary influence of a relatively powerless private individual is not as important as the stability of the functionally immortal, unchanging, supreme decision-making body that dictates the very fabric of society.)
In both cases, the metaphor is actually shorter than the meaning, and more people will get the impact - and even an interestingly nuanced context to remember it in. I know, it sounds so immature. I know, it shouldn’t take a spoonful of sugar. But if you believe the important thing is the message… then you’ll spoon out the sugar, act it out with sock puppets, take the kids on a field trip on a magic fucking school bus to make that message accessible.
And you know that I hate pop culture. But I’ll use it. I’ll use anything - sports references, Harry Potter, memes, ALL CAPS DISCOURSE, Miss Fucking Frizzle - even if it’s irritating to lots of people, if it means it makes a difficult thing accessible to people who otherwise can’t get it.
So I guess what I’m saying is that it’s worth it, if the message is.
But I totally get it if you roll your eyes.
@bemusedlybespectacled since you keep posting things with this
yeah this is pretty much my take on it
that and the other post about how relating it to history doesn’t really work
like, okay, why is there so much Discourse™ about the media? is it because we have nothing better to do? no, it’s because people use media to exchange ideas–that is literally the POINT of media–and we know that people are influenced by those ideas. the Discourse™ is because we’re afraid that people, thinking uncritically, will absorb those ideas and perpetuate them. if that didn’t happen, there would be no reason to worry about the content of media because it would have no effect.
we criticize, to give an example, depictions of women as sex objects, because we’re afraid that someone, the next time he sees a woman, will (subconsciously) think of and treat her as an object. we criticize racist depictions of people of color because we think that people will absorb these stereotypes and ascribe them to the real-world people of color that they know.
but the flip side of that is that we write things with the intention that people apply it in daily life. why do we want non-stereotypical depictions of minorities? why do we want plots where bigotry is condemned? because we know that people will relate those things to their real-life experiences and then, hopefully, change for the better. that’s the fucking point.
so yeah, I’m not going to get upset that people are relating their lives to fiction, especially since, in this particular case, people are doing precisely what we want them to do.
“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.” ― Terry Pratchett
People are donating to Planned Parenthood in Mike Pence’s name
Defenders of reproductive rights are settling in for what looks to be a difficult fight to ensure access to safe and legal abortions. Part of that fight means offering financial support to places like Planned Parenthood — but supporters aren’t just donating their money, they’re also ensuring that Mike Pence gets a handy reminder in the mail. Planned Parenthood acknowledged the move on Twitter.
Not to derail or draw attention away from this effort, but could we also do the same for an LGBT+ organization? I was thinking the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Here’s their mission statement:
Mission: NCLR is a national legal organization committed to advancing the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their families through litigation, legislation, policy, and public education.
This might be especially appropriate since their campaigns include #BornPerfect, which works to end conversion therapy - Mike Pence openly supports conversion therapy. The NCLR also has a campaign called #RuralPride, which seeks to raise awareness and acceptance of LGBT+ people throughout rural America - an important effort considering the way rural America voted in this election.
However, someone more active in the LGBT+ community than I am may have other ideas for worthy charities that would also be effective in sending a message to Mike Pence.
To the (mostly white and liberal) people who find themselves going to protests for the first time:
1. Marches and rallies aren’t Coachella. They can be fun and fulfilling, but they’re more than that. You’re there to show solidarity and to build a culture of resistance, not to boost your social status or get more likes on Instagram.
2. Don’t take pictures/videos of others without their consent. I don’t care how cool their sign is. Unless you ask first, NEVER take a picture/video and def NEVER post that to social media without consent.
3. In the same vein: don’t be a snitch. If you see someone spray painting or flipping off cops or smashing racist imagery, etc, don’t take video/pictures. Don’t rat out your comrades, especially if they’re doing something illegal and can get arrested or fired.
4. At the march in LA on Saturday, a bunch of white Hillary supporters started shaking hands with the riot police. Don’t do that. The cops are not our friends.
5. Center the voices of members of oppressed groups. If there’s an open mic, let others speak. If you’re privileged, you’re there to listen and learn. Be humble.
6. If something that a member of an oppressed group says makes you uncomfortable, DEAL WITH IT. Don’t try to silence them. If poc start chanting “Fuck the police”, don’t try to shush them or drown them out.
7. These anti Trump marches are not pro Hillary, or pro Bernie, or pro Jill Stein marches. You’re taking part in direct action, not electoral politics.
If anyone has anything else to add to this list, feel free to do so.
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I am the sum of the sorrows I have survived.
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The United States is not a monarchy, you are not expected to show reverent respect to the POTUS, they are not some inhuman-godlike being. There is not to be an assumption that they have been put there by any sort of divine hand, so stop telling people that they need to respect Donald Trump’s election. Especially when (a) he did not respect Obama’s, (b) he won without the popular vote because of an antiquated system that has no place in today’s United States, © He. Ran. His. Campaign. With. The. Promise. Of. Removing. The. Rights. Marginalised. Individuals. And. Disrespecting. Their. Humanity.
SPEAK 👏🏽THAT 👏🏽TRUTH 👏🏽WHITE👏🏽 BOY 👏🏽STAY 👏🏽WOKE 👏🏽
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basically this. we have absolutely no respect for that talking racist cheeto ~H.
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Designing the Stained Glass Dalek
Updated to add:
I showed this to my husband and the following immediately occured:
Him: PEACE BE WITH YOU
Me: AND ALSO WITH YOU
Him: GOD BLESS YOU.
Me: PONTIFICATE. PONTIFICATE.
Him: GO WITH GOD, MY SON.
I’m torn between fascination at Stained Glass Dalek’s beauty, and ABSOLUTE TERROR BECAUSE IT’S A DALEK.
YOU SHALL BE EX-COMMUNICATED. EX-COMMUNICATE. EX-COMMUNICATE.
Woman wearing Quju/曲裾, a type of Hanfu (han chinese clothing).
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the sad thing is that I'd take Mitt fucking Romney over the orange faced shitgibbon about to enter the white house and I hated Romney (and really still do)
The pair's push requires 37 GOP electors to abandon Trump.
Honestly. Keep calling, keep protesting, keep defying this. The country doesn’t actually want him. He doesn’t even want him. America has this chance to decide which America it really is: the one concerned with equality and freedom or the one defined by bigotry and greed.
I say that not to infer that Hillary is the ‘True All American Candidate’ but to express that if this Nation was one-tenth as great and proud and true as it has always claimed to be, it would be appalled and disgusted that this man could even have made it to be a candidate, much less president-elect. This country should feel defensive for the sake of its more vulnerable citizens, and that it should never so closely mirror countries with whom we have fought (supposedly) based on their inhumanity and lack of political freedoms.
A very brief (as brief as can be) life update, as we haven't posted in so long and I know some of you don't have us on other social media: we're obviously still alive, we're doing a master's degree, we're officially Really Too Old For This Site at 30 (meant tongue-in-cheek, of course!), & we're still fed up with Tumblr's user interface and use a third-party client on the iPad! :D Also, we've got a cat.
*pokes* Wow I don't think we've updated this thing in at least a year. ~Kerry
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FLTI = FrauenLesbenTransInter
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