RainbowBrigadiers @queerqollective - Tumblr Blog

Abortion is safe and normal, and should always be legal and accessible.

Today, Argentina may become the largest Latin American country to legalize abortion!

We know that people will seek abortion care whether it’s legal or not. Ultimately, people should have the ability to exercise their right to bodily autonomy without fear of prosecution or criminalization.

Art by Liberal Jane

juanikuz-deactivated20210427

The moment abortion became legal in Argentina. Buenos Aires, December 30th 2020. 4 AM

quinnfebrey

Lol what racism against Asian American? At this point you are all just knock off white people, same priviledge, but you want everything to be racism.

what racism?

uhh for one, this ask you sent me

cardi b saying “chink,” which i’ve only seen two posts about, one of them being mine

the literal president referring to covid as “china virus,” something the world health organization specifically suggest not doing, and even though we now know covid probably originated in italy

chloe bennet had to change her last name to get cast by hollywood

3 of 10 americans blame chinese people for covid, and even then that’s just the ones who are honest

a 16yo was punched so many times he was sent to the emergency room because he wouldn’t admit to a classmate he had covid

1 in 4 asian american youths reported racist bullying due to covid

asian american restaurants have been hit hardest, even those that aren’t even chinese because all asians are the same

hmm i’m sensing a pattern here

the emmy’s this year had asian american nominations makeup only 1% of all nominations, which is actually a decrease from 2% lmao

yeah, covid is hitting everyone hard financially, but asian americans have been facing a steeper and faster increase in unemployment than white people

and that’s from just a five minute google search for articles, not even getting into the fact that there were racial barriers in immigration until 1965, chinese people coudn’t be citizens or vote until 1943, literal internment camps,,, so like. yeah asian americans are the model minority until yall have an excuse to hate us or we ask for more, and then we’re put back in our place

snarkyfancat

Why do people think Asians means Chinese. Asia is a very diverse group of people. Even within sections of Asia, it is very diverse. South Asia is very diverse. Southeast Asia is very diverse. The Middle East is very diverse. Central Asia is very diverse. “Knock off white people”?? The dark skinned people of South India and Indonesia is apparently knock off white people?? The people of Iraq and Afghanistan who have had their towns, hospitals, and schools bombed by drones on a daily basis have the same privilege as suburban Karens?

queerqollective

Fr, a lot of the "privilege" we associate with Asian Americans only applies to east Asians and certain cultures there in. The ethnic minorites of China, Japan and Korea don't have the same experiences as the ethnic majorities.

Plus, the model minority myth is a racist stereotype meant to further break down racial solidarity amongst asian and non asian ppl and used to be like "You're priviliged what're you talking about" when Asian people face racism

thatchronicfeeling

[Caption: Screenshot of two twitter posts by ‘jazdia (bat emoji) deep sea cryptid @swampflora from 17 November 2020. The first post reads: “Don’t identify with your illness/disability” is deeply ableist nonsense. It keeps us from things that vastly improve our lives, like mobility aids & disabled community. It’s based on the idea that being disabled is a bad thing & that limits don’t exist unless we believe they do. The second post reads: So many people, including doctors, think encouraging us to ignore our limits, needs, and the ways disability/chronic illness shapes our lives, will magically make us nondisabled. It doesn’t. It makes us miserable, isolated and often worse off.]

muchadoaboutbucky

I’m not seeing anyone talk about the fact that Marvel just cast Alaqua Cox - a deaf Native American actress - to play Echo in the Hawkeye series, so...

(you can totally reblog this)

politicalsci

i-am-corbin-dallas

#umbrella academy #elliot page #trans rights #trans celbrities #lgbt celebrities

zvaigzdelasas

genuinely asking here, do you think the inability to prepare food for oneself and take showers is a product of capitalism?

I think that 'product of capitalism' is a misleading way of looking at it - "disability" as a coherent category is a modern capitalist framework, so in that way yes. But as to 'would this have happened to my brain if I didnt grow up in capitalism' thats an abstract question bc if you grew up in communism you'd be a fundamentally different person than you are today, so it's an unprovable counterfactual & leads to a lot of kneejerk reactions. There is no universal "You" somewhere out there in the stars. You are a product of the world you live in.

In pre-capitalist societies, there wasn't an idea that all these different ailments (blindness, deafness, leprosy, mental illnesses, etc) were all a part of this one big umbrella, there was specific ways ppl would treat specific people, but no universally applicable category bc different 'disabilities' have different effects on people.

Now this isn't to say we should go back to that, obviously it was incredibly inadequate - it's just to show that having an umbrella category of "people with things wrong with them" is a social choice, and that social choice leads to the development of certain social institutions, social norms, and practices. It's a consequence of capitalism seeing every person as only 'worth' whatever they can contribute financially.

The word "ability" (and consequently "disability") was first used in this context in england to figure out whether a given person should be sent to the Work House or the Poor House, and it was explicitly used to be a quick guess of 'can we wring any sellable Value out of this one?' before moving onto the next one.

Thus, "ability" should be understood as "ability to be exploited" & "disability" as "inability to be exploited" ("exploit" in the marxist sense of, roughly, 'someone else wouldn't be able to make their living without your work').

(This is a good talk abt disability, capitalism, and pre-capitalist societies.)

So what would mental health look like beyond capitalism? Well as a first universal, people would have full control over the products of their own labor, and things would be made for their usefulness as opposed to profitability, so people wouldnt need to prove to capitalists that they're productive enough to deserve to eat (or pitiable enough to eat on someone else's dime).

"from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" is the most disability-supporting maxim imaginable, and any society not living up to that is failing people.

Your brain is plastic, it is literally impossible for it to not change in response to a changing environment. That also points to your lived environment being an obvious major factor in developing your brain meat to the point it is today. "Nature vs nurture" is a false binary, you are Always & *Only* acting in response to your environment, in comparison to past environments. Plastic changes its shape, but not all at once.

As to "well what if the world got rid of capitalism tomorrow - would I still have trouble with X or Y" if you have trouble with it today, you'll have trouble with it tomorrow. The question is about repetition & the new environments your brain adapts to, as well as broader societal health (mental & physical) programs being a natural new focus, now that production is no longer oriented for profit.

The question is about how we live as vacuum-sealed individuals atomically living in our own individual worlds - that would change, you would be able to live and interact regularly with friends who know whether you experience specific problems & would be driven to check up on you about those out of love and comradery. Having everyone live in their own boxes, sealed away from each other is an ideal handed down to us by the Settler Colonial history of the US & the US's influence on global structures in the last 500 years. "You too can be the brave cowboy living on the frontier, not needing anyone else to take care of you".

Of course that image is completely inaccurate but it's what we have, bc it's also what's easiest to profit off of.

This is a great talk on neuroplasticity & the constraints set upon our neural development by capitalism, maybe a bit academic but it's got lots of good stuff

The question isn't so much "capitalism created x or y & communism will fix it overnight", the question is more about "how is capitalist society hindering each of our growths as individuals" by adding stresses, anxieties, and dangerous norms.

effectiveresistance

Coast To Coast Call To Action

Shut Down Canada!

A diversity of tactics is welcomed and encouraged

kropotkindersurprise

antifainternational

ALERTA! ALERTA! CANADA ANTIFASCISTA! Fucking right now!

autisticadvocacy

I felt sick. An unmasked older woman had just reached out to touch my face for no apparent reason.

“All this incident did was remind me of how often my body has not been my own.”

pettypendagrass

Not so common knowledge.

cartoonpolitics

(cartoon by David Horsey)

skinoutqueen

Don’t insult other women as a way to compliment me. I don’t like that.

lkeke35

More non black women of color need to hear this. There are men out there who will show their appreciation of you and spite and diminish other women while doing so!

Don’t accept that! Don’t let any man who claims to like you, say it’s because the other races of women phew compares you to ain’t shit! Also it’s a diminishing of you. He doesn’t actually appreciate you for you. Hes saying he appreciates you because you’re NOT someone else!

figuring-it-all-out

#gender #exorsexism #perisexism #intersex #sex and gender #nonbinary

hummingbirdhoney

“Cholas are more than Latina sidekicks for Lana Del Rey or concepts for Fergie’s music video. The chola aesthetic was first forged by the marginalized Mexican American youths of Southern California. It embodies the remarkable strength and creative independence it takes to survive in a society where your social mobility has been thwarted by racism. The chola identity was conceived by a culture that dealt with gang warfare, violence, and poverty on top of conservative gender roles. The clothes these women wore were more than a fashion statement—they were signifiers of their struggle and hard-won identity.”

— ‘The Folk Feminist Struggle Behind the Chola Fashion Trend’ - Barbara Calderón-Douglass (via oops-thisisamistake)