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Jasper who uses he/him pronouns and loves Pokemon, Hetalia and other stuff Yeah I'm nb (tme). Yeah I'm a lesbian. We exist. I'm mixed as fuck (black and white) and hate racists and bigots

[dathen]

On twitter I’m seeing dozens of threads from Black activists warning people against burnout, giving all sorts of useful tips about preventing and managing it for the sake of a long-term, sustainable effort.

On tumblr I’m seeing a hell of a lot of young white kids yelling at anyone who actually follows those steps, and acting like burnout is a moral falling rather than a well-proven psychological phenomenon.

Be careful who you get your information from. Don’t let guilt lead you to make choices that will harm both you and the movement.

[nilzhoglander-deactivated202303]

I’m going to reblog this again since I see more individuals are inquiring about burnout prevention tips in the notes and it’s why I sought out this resource. I hope it helps you!

source

[wonderingwhereiam]

Things that don't make you any less trans

Being gender nonconforming

Using multiple sets of pronouns

Being nonbinary

Your sexuality/romantic orientation

Not having deliberating dysphoria

Being nondysphoric

Not being able to transition

Not wanting to transition

Using multiple labels to describe your gender identity

[ashenwaste]

im sorry i have to point this out but TWERFs are smart. keep reading. they intentionally employ tactics that they know will get people to switch to their side.

they know how to argue people in. they were argued in. they know about nontransfemnine people’s latent transmisogyny and they know that we are not as vigilant as we should be. they make popular posts.

they are undercover. they pretend to be allies. there are nonbinary TWERFs and TWERFs that are WOC. keep reading. these people have been coerced in and know how to coerce others in. there are many different ways, and there are many different things to look out for.

when i say don’t argue with TWERFs, when i say ignore them and don’t give them a platform in the first place, it’s not a giving up tactic. it’s because TWERFs know that if they can point out one tiny flaw in your logic, or spout some bullshit that some nontransfeminine person has thought about before, they’ve hooked someone.

TWERFs count on preying on the young and impressionable, the people that don’t know or talk to transfeminine people. this has to be pointed out. the only reason i know this is because i am not transfeminine and i have seen many of my peers, not transfeminine, fall to them.

stop arguing that they’re stupid. don’t let your guard down.

EDIT: and they are only one specific type of transmisogyny so watch yourself

[sg-1-deactivated20200602]

I feel like it’s pertinent to explicitly say, although OP touched on it:

When TERFs “debate” you, the purpose is not to convert YOU to their ideology. The purpose is to change the mind of onlookers. Even if you are 100% confident in the necessity of maintaining an alliance with trans women, there is at least one of your followers who is NOT.

Don’t debate TERFs. Don’t boost their ideology. Don’t let them misconstrue your words and thereby paint you (and, by extension, the entirety of the transfeminine populace) as ridiculous.

It’s so much more important to make space (on you blog, but more importantly, offline) for the voices of trans women. Share the writings of trans female thinkers. Listen to trans women. Talk to trans women. You might just make some friends in the process.

[boychic-deactivated20230922]

there are no universal afab/amab experiences and there is no experience of gender that is not racialized

[tenduw]

This week's Country of the week is....

India 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

Credit for the wonderful art goes to @paintedmist (Seriously thank you so much!)

Monday 7th September to Wednesday 9th September - Research days

What do you know about the country of India?

For these days, I will post all of the research I have been doing on the country in preparation for this event. However, help will be greatly appreciated.

(Please tag your posts under #aphcountryoftheweek)

Thursday 10th September to Saturday 12th September - Fan Appreciation days

How do you see the Country of India?

These days are definitely a way to let your creative juices flow. Think about the country of the week, and using any of the research provided, create something to show us your interpretation of them!

Sunday 13th September - Discussion day

What do you think of the fandom's portrayal of India?

Sunday is the day for us to be honest, and share how exactly we view the character/country. I always post my interpretation of them on Sunday, and I really would appreciate a discussion into what stands out about the character to you!

Thank you!

[huffpost]

Nearly 2.5 Million American Children Are Homeless

[alwaysbewoke]

FUCCCCCK!!

[thepunkpotato]

Not enough people think about/realize that a good chunk of the homeless population consists of people under 18. And some are really gonna look at them and say it’s their fault they’re homeless or they did something to deserve it.

[prof-grace-aspen]

When I invested homelessness in the town I was getting my undergrad in, I was stunned by how many were kids. Furthermore, it was simple enough to Google how many vacant buildings there were in the county:

More than enough for these children, their parents, and the rest to all have their own home.

Capitalism is fucking SHAMEFUL. I already cared, but that project fucking radicalized me on the subject of just giving away homes to homeless people.

[bill-nye-official-blog]

the average age of a homeless person in the united states is 9 years old.

[plumslices]

Honestly if u have pale skin blonde hair and blue eyes I hope you know how scary you are.....you’re not normal...pack it up midsommar

[qillermeme]

My fellow Oregon residents if you haven’t already text 888777 with your zip code to be put on the alert system for all the fires and evacuation messages

[kevinokevinokevino-deactivated2]

Yall i just got an email from tumblr saying I interacted with accounts made by the IRA …… is this even real????

The internet is wild

[kevinokevinokevino-deactivated2]

Im literally imagining some government worker in russia logging onto tumblr.edu and thinking to themselves “better change my url to ‘black-galaxy-magic’ to stay young n hip and relevant with the youth of america”

[kisskissfuckshitup]

sooooo let’s break it down then because the fact that tumblr sent this email is mega important

if yall haven’t been living under a rock for the last year and a half, you may have heard that trump won the election. and you may have also heard that trump was helped out by russia in a ton of ways. one of those ways was by the russian troll farm, the internet research agency (IRA). there were 84 accounts on tumblr spreading anti-hillary propaganda and general discontent, mainly targeting POC and “socially aware” youth. some of those accounts were HUGELY influential, “4mysquad” being one of the top ones with tons of followers and popular posts.

a lot of them started with relatively innocent, pro-POC posts to gain a following, before moving on to anti-police, anti-hillary, and general anti-establishment to create distrust in the only major-party candidate against trump. like I said, many of the accounts were hugely influential so their posts spread FAR. all that visibility led to increased voter apathy, meaning less voter turnout and fewer people voting against trump. and tumblr was silent on this after the official indictment of the IRA, until literally just yesterday. 

so to sum up, the email you and a ton of other people got is saying that you were following and sharing posts from russian pro-trump propaganda blogs. i’d ask that you PLEASE reblog this, because it’s super important that everyone who got this email knows why they got it, knows what it means, and hopefully knows what they might be able to do better in the future

[laylainalaska]

This isn’t the kind of thing I normally reblog, but I think it’s vitally important for Tumblr to know how propaganda works, and that it’s a whole lot more than Fox News posts being shared by old people on Facebook. Malicious people will play on the fears and prejudices of a community, any community, to subtly manipulate public opinion their way – whether the fears they’re playing on are fear of change, fear of the establishment, fear of immigrants, fear of the police, fear of old people, fear of young people … you get the idea.

[bethofaus]

I went through the list carefully and the only one I could find that rang a bell was one that posted about “Black Lives Matter”. I am very suspicious about just what checks were done. Did tumblr just send this to everyone? There’s no way known I’ve ever posted pro-Trump posts.

[laylainalaska]

But no, Beth, that’s the point! That’s what makes this so insidious. You didn’t post pro-Trump posts. Nobody did. (Well, some people might’ve, but not the vast majority.) That’s not the kind of propaganda that’s going to appeal to and undermine people on the left.

These blogs masquerade as perfectly innocuous left-leaning blogs. They post things of interest to Tumblr’s mostly-young, mostly-lefty crowd - memes and cute cat videos, relatively ordinary political stuff that a lot of people reblog like Black Lives Matter posts and Dakota Pipeline posts and so forth. And into this mix of relatively normal Tumblr posts, they seed the poison: posts spreading slander about the political candidate the left would normally vote for (Hilary Clinton in this case), posts undermining your faith in the voting process, posts making a case for throwing your vote to a third-party candidate, posts suggesting that there’s no need to turn out to vote because Trump obviously can’t win so you don’t have to bother, posts suggesting that the system is so broken that anarchy is the only option. Or just a steady diet of posts about how The System Is Awful (e.g. 24/7 BLM) so you end up feeling like there’s no point, it’s never going to change so why bother trying?

The point is to make the left dispirited and apathetic, or convinced that the outcome of the election is a foregone conclusion, so they won’t bother voting.

There’s no way to know if it made a difference. But they certainly think it did. So they WILL try this again, probably are already trying this again - not just with the U.S., but with any country where they want to influence the political process.

You can’t ever completely stop yourself from being influenced, but at least knowing how it works is one way of guarding against it.

[findingfeather]

Want an example of the kind of posts the psyops tumblrs made? The OP here was one.

Note the characteristics: issue is one progressives really care about. But something that is actually good news, if you know how scientific study works and influences policy, is framed with intense disdain and cynicism, and treated as if it’s proof of the world being stupid and hopeless. THIS IS THE TECHNIQUE.

[feotakahari]

I’ve seen several of my mutuals reblogging one of the psyop blog posts in the last few days. It was the one about the organization that helps black people find black therapists. I wasn’t sure whether to say anything or not.

[generalchelseamayhem]

… I am profoundly confused by this post.

Chiefly because it seems to be saying that being anti-police, anti-Hillary, and anti-authoritarian is a bad thing just because these Russians psyops did it.

I mean, yes they did it for dishonest reasons, and profoundly hypocritical ones as well (propping up the Republicans to *checks notes*… own the authoritarians?)

But the way this argument frames “fairly innocent pro-POC posts” against “sinister anti-authoritarian posts” makes it sound… really pro-establishment?? As long as the establishment is the one you ‘like’ I guess…

But like, surely if the goal was to elect Trump, the real crime of Russian psyop blogs was to place the blame for said authoritarianism solely at the feet of the left? Acting like the crime was “being outwardly anti-authoritarian” just makes the entire left wing in America (or especially on platforms influenced by these psyops) seem utterly toothless.

[downwithneocolonialism]

If you have the ability and desire to support the unemployed in South Africa, Organizing for Work is an excellent group: both in practice and ideologically.

It is a program which helps orginze the unemployed find work, through printing out CVs, facilititating computer and internet access, and teaching people how to present themselves in interviews. They also act as a solidarity network for workers, employed or not. It is led by unemployed volunteers. Ie, it's not an NGO who conducts themselves like white saviors.

They are looking for monetary, skill donations, and social capital. Money would be primarily for the transport of unemployed to get to job interviews. They also need constant support with making their website and software easier and for efficient to find work. I'm sure they would also greatly appreciate any other form of help you are able to give.

In the past year they had 15 000 rand in donations, THAT'S ONLY 1000$. 1000$ to run 8 different branches.

I have never asked for something to be rebloged before, but I think that even that could help.

Thank you.

[downwithneocolonialism]

This is an incredibly important issue. South Africa has one of the lowest employment rates in the world.

[downwithneocolonialism]

They take influence from civil rights groups such as the black panthers

[downwithneocolonialism]

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror

-Karl Marx

[downwithneocolonialism]

[ireniggg]

I fuck wit title-only text posts. this shit is like talkin in an apartment hallway loud as fuck out the window

[wasglossbombed]

not accepting anymore white friends

[antiisocialbunny]

Help your friendly neighborhood milf not go homeless!

Hey so never thought I’d ever have to make one of these but uh yeah my landlady is not happy that my baby exists in an area that I pay a fucking premium for :^))

So yeah Dante Markus hasn’t even been alive for two months yet and we’re facing eviction in the middle of a pandemic!! And because we’re in the middle of a pandemic trying to find a rental is not exactly cost effective

I’m already paying 1300 a month and am pulling that outa my ass so I’m not sure where I’m supposed to find money for anything else I’m freaking the duck out and I’m really not sure what to do especially right now.

I had a pretty sever hemorrhage post birth and am just now finally healing so I can’t even go back to work yet like I’m so cucked I fucking thought shit would work out for once but fuck me i guess.

I know money’s tight for everyone but if you have anything to spare I’d be eternally greatful but if you don’t I get it

paypal.me/GMeidlinger

[wizardsexmachine]

Not only it is incredibly disrespectful and lesbophobic to steal the lesbian flag, recolor it blue and say it’s for gays, but it’s also incredibly disrespectful to treat gay folk like “opposite lesbians” and lesbians like “opposite gays” when they’re two different, whole identities with their own unique experiences and cultures.

[trans-axolotl]

Just learned that Caster Semenya lost her legal battle and I’m so fucking sad. this is such a huge loss for intersex people in sports and sets a real fucking dangerous precedent that essentially excludes all intersex people from participating in sports unless they go through (unconsensual) HRT. the blatent racism and intersexism that the court is showing is fucking despicable and I’m so fucking upset. 

i’m also really fucking suspicious that the ONLY people talking about intersexism in the context of this legal descision are intersex people. even when this is BLATENTLY and obviously intersexist like, perisex people refuse to recognize it. and that’s fucking disappointing. i know there isn’t much awareness or solidairty with us, but still. it’s not a big ask to ask y’all to do the bare minimum of explicitly calling intersexism out for what it is.  perisex people fucking do better. 

[kiyokospeaks]

It’s also important to mention that what Caster Semenya is facing isn’t intersexism alone, but anti-blackness, and more specifically misogynoir. Black women are consistently punished for not lining up with white standards of womanhood.

[image ID: two tweets from user Wagatwe Wanjuki. The first is in response to a tweet that reads: “Pretty much every elite athlete on earth was born with a body that does shit differently than “normal people.” Caster Semenya is being penalized for how her body works just because of trans panic. Nobody ever asked Michael Phelps to get a lung removed to make it fairer!”

Wagatwe replies: “Not just because of trans panic. This is also about Black womanhood and Africanness and how we are never “woman” enough.”

Her second tweet reads: “Transphobia, racism, & colonialism are all at play. It’s not lost on me that it’s a court in a white country deciding what a Black woman must do to her body. state-sanctioned medical “interventions” against BW based on perceived deviance from “true” white womanhood aren’t new.”

End image ID.]

[rosetower]

Stop calling it transphobia and trans panic. It’s intersexism. Caster Semenya is Intersex. These issues overlap greatly but are not the exact same. You WILL look at the rhetoric people use to discuss intersex lives and you WILL critically examine how transgender discussion does not include intersex people. Start putting in the work. Stop calling it JUST transphobia.

And as disclaimer: everything in the tweets is correct EXCEPT for calling it transphobia and trans panic.

[twice-as-many-stars]

[Image is a tweet by @/aeolofintuade in response to a tweet by @/EjuraSalihu. The first tweet reads “Can’t they just create seperate sport categories for trans people? It’s the only fair option.” The response reads “Semenya is not Trans. She’s intersex and identifies as female. This battle is about misogynoir and race.”]