Drowning in Blissful Confusion

Samifer ~ She/Her ~ Feminist ~ Cat Enthusiast

[samiferr]

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[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen paperback classics featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Agatha Christie, J.D. Salinger, Daphne du Maurier, Friedrich Nietzsche, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on July 12, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck! Follow macrolit.books to qualify for our ig giveway. 📚

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen paperback classics featuring Richard Adams, Edgar Allan Poe, Simone de Beauvoir, J.R.R. Tolkien, Richard Wright, Harper Lee, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on April 25, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

[macrolit]

Giveaway Contest: To celebrate 2020, we’re giving away twenty paperback classics featuring Truman Capote, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, John Steinbeck, Agatha Christie, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on February 29, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

[undergroundghosts]

⭐Holiday Giveaway⭐

Hey guys, I decided to do a Giveaway ending on Christmas Eve because it’s a very painful day for me, my father passed away 12/24/13 and since then it has been anything but cheery and bright. Hopefully by doing this, it will make someones day a lot brighter on Christmas Eve and thereby send me all the positivity I need to get through that day. (oof depressing ik, sorry!!)

What you can win:

⭐ $100 to spend anywhere online!

Rules:

⭐Must be following me 

⭐Follow me on Instagram @abstractava (I have another giveaway on here too!)

⭐Reblog & Like this post

⭐Winner Chosen Randomly December 24th!!⭐

Best of luck to everyone!! 

[paypigbi]

Giving money away

Hey everyone, I’m giving a thousand away again, I’ll pick a random reblog, i really don’t want this money, it doesn’t make me happy and I’m hoping it’ll make someone else happy

Share the love and I’ll share my money

[okayoverthink]

MAKE MY BROKE ASS HAPPY

[samiferr]

Feel free to send some my way! I'm pretty deep in debt.

[samiferr]

I was so reluctant to do this because I know there are people who need money a lot more than I do, but I am getting desperate. The last time I saw my dentist they told me I needed to get 2 crowns (approx $2000 cost), I couldn’t afford it at the time so I didn’t go back. I have basic insurance (which I got to cover dental work) but it does not cover the procedures I need. That was two years ago, I am now nearly $7000 in debt and my tooth pain is almost constant. I work part time and have been doing what I can to make money on the side to pay my debt down but it hasn’t helped much. Between making mortgage payments, paying my utility bills, groceries, phone bill and bus pass every month it hasn’t left me with much to put on my credit card. I finally caved and made a gofundme page because I just can’t handle the pain my teeth are causing me anymore. I’m scared that because I have stayed away from the dentist so long I will need even more dental procedures to fix this mess. If you can help in any way or at least boost this I would greatly appreciate it.

https://www.gofundme.com/dental-work-and-debt

[allthecanadianpolitics]

‘We were savages to them’: Legacy of segregated hospitals haunts Indigenous survivors

Annie Michael is one of many Indigenous Canadians who experienced intimidation and abuse in the health-care system.

On a brisk spring day in 1965, Annie Michael stepped onto an airplane for the first time.

The 10-year-old had tested positive for tuberculosis, the airborne disease that had ravaged her hometown of Niaqunngut, a remote Baffin Island community southeast of Iqaluit. Her southbound flight was the first leg of a days-long journey to the Queen Mary Hospital for Tuberculous Children in Toronto.

While Michael’s stay at the hospital was meant to cure her potentially deadly condition, the experience left damage of another kind.

When she arrived, hospital staff cut Michael’s long, dark hair into a shaggy bob. She met stern nurses who enforced a strict dress code — tunics and crisp, white blouses — and slapped young patients with rulers for punishment. Michael struggled to process the strange sights and sounds of the bustling sanatorium, and was only allowed to speak to her parents by phone once a month, for 10 minutes.

Even her name was different: The English-speaking staff called her Annie E7-1261, her government-supplied “Eskimo” identification number.

Continue Reading.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

This is horrific:

At the Charles Camsell Indian Hospital in Edmonton, which began admitting patients in 1945, there were instances of forced sterilization, said researcher and documentarian Miranda Jimmy, who interviewed numerous survivors and hospital staff for a documentary released by the Edmonton Heritage Council in 2016.

The largest facility of its kind, the Camsell was the setting for 125 sterilizations of First Nations and Inuit patients from 1971 to 1974 alone, according to government data cited in a 2012 journal article by Karen Stote, a professor at Wilfred Laurier University.

Some survivors and researchers also believe overly aggressive treatments or medical experimentation took place at some hospital sites. Lux said many survivors she spoke to shared stories of major chest surgeries that weren’t being performed on non-Indigenous patients. At the Camsell, she said, one surgeon doing these procedures preferred to use a local anesthetic to a general one.

“Patients were actually conscious while their chests were opened up, their ribs sawn and removed,” Lux said. “This was not a one-off or an unusual occurrence.”

[stuffmomnevertoldyou]

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

Dolly is a national treasure, TBH.

[samiferr]

Me: This month I'm going to be all about eating healthy.

Also me: *eats half a cheesecake that very night*

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

#JusticeForNkosinathiKhomo I just thought I should leave this here.

[quiteliterallyhotsauce]

This is a homicide

[okayysophia]

I don’t think I’ve ever been so angry in my life the way I’m angry right now…

[drankinwatahmelin]

literally the epitome of white culture.

[loneozner]

ik some people don’t understand exactly how much anxiety can irrationally prevent you from doing things, even easy things, or how much it can completely stunt your life… it’s garbage tbh and it’s not the same as being nervous, it’s not something you can necessarily just push through, you can be confident in some ways and terrified of other things for reasons that might not even make sense to you, and telling someone to “get over it” is practically a guarantee you’re making them feel even worse, so… yeah

[this-tragic-affair]

Charities/organisations to avoid:

PETA: They’d rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)

FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. They’re also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)

Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and don’t have a single autistic person on their board (x)

Please support other, better charities, and feel free to add any others you can think of to this.

[tequila-tekaylah]

Susan G. Komen for the Cure: CEO makes insane amounts of money, they deny a lot of requests for wigs/help with treatment/etc., and have attempted to sue other charities that use the color pink as part of their anti-breast cancer campaign. ( x x x )

[reproductivejusticeandliberty]

The Salvation Army: They promote the hatred of LGBT+ people, work with fundamentalist Christian groups to support conservative politics and rip off and exploit workers. ( x x x )

[shitpost-senpai]

Wounded Warrior: They take money that should be spent on veterans and blow it on huge opulent parties for the company bigwigs. 26 million in 2014 alone wasted! ( x x x )

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

^ Important reminder to NOT waste any money donating to these groups

[ayellowbirds]

Reblogging because of the added info about Wounded Warrior.

[arch4ngel]

A good way to know if a nonprofit you’re donating to is allocating their money in the right way is to check out their Charity Navigator rating: http://www.charitynavigator.org

[democratsinthesouth]

LGBT seniors are being bullied in housing facilities: 'This is happening all the time'

Marsha Wetzel and many other LGBT seniors like her find themselves in residential facilities where they must deal with homophobic and transphobic harassment.

[universitybookstore]

Continuing the celebration of the photographer’s birthday today, a selection of Carl Van Vechten’s  brilliant color portraits of African American performers: Billie Holiday, Geoffrey Holder, Pearl Bailey, Carmen De Lavallade, Ella Fitzgerald, Joyce Bryant, Harry Belafonte, Ethel Waters, James Earl Jones, and Blanche Dunn.

[tohkyo]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeLjnBwAUxz/

[earthstory]

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Adventure cat, Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada