Brain without a jar

I think things sometimes Astrology blog: sun-in-retrograde.tumblr.com

[saltaired]

just all a bit mad isn’t it like you’re not allowed to stand up for victims of genocide and war but you can incite violence if you’re lionel messi and co

[saliba2]

let’s all remember haiti was forced to change their kit design and remove references of its independence due to ‘political imagery’

[sidewaysing]

Someone I know suggested semi seriously that any Argentinian player who plays for a British team and stand with the banner should have their visas removed

Yeah I know this is a double standard but also pissing off the brits is the lord's work

[lesbian-sweeney-todd]

never forget: “TERFs” are a misogynistic hate group. Their primary target, trans women. Their modus operandi, sexual harassment. Their primary ally, the patriarchal state. Their ultimate goal, total elimination.

[headspace-hotel]

Here's an idea about why kids are so anxious and depressed all the time...the environments kids are in most of the time are very stressful and don't fulfill their needs for play, rest, proper variety of foods, positive social opportunities, and freedom from fear pain punishment etc

[headspace-hotel]

Like everyone with any basic understanding of animal welfare knows that if you put an animal in an enclosure that is too crowded, without hiding spots, with no freedom to move around, no ability to avoid harsh and stressful stimuli, and scare it by shouting at it and punishing it, the animal will become stressed and start chewing its own fur off or hurting itself or become sick or unable to eat...

But we expect human children to grow up in these conditions and literally blame them when they develop the exact type of problems that any creature under those conditions would

[pujoshinonsense]

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Happy birthday to Lyudmila Pavlichenko (born July 12, 1916), Soviet sniper in World War II, with 309 confirmed kills.

A true role model for today.

[brainstreams]

[grandfather-paradoxx]

Was doing the math for how big I wanted Amestris to be - based on how long I wanted Ed to be sitting on a train to get from the farthest edge of the East Provence, through Central, to the farthest edge of West Provence.

Had to look up how fast trains go in 1900 (45-60 mph). Looked at canon maps and realized that Amestris was far, far smaller than I had realized. Decided fuck that and superimposed Amestris and surrounding countries on a map of Pangaea so that I could get the size I wanted. Started planning out mountain ranges and other geography that isn't mentioned in canon but probably exists.

...I'm going to have to actually draw this thing so I have something to reference in my fic, aren't I?

[sidewaysing]

I wrote a story about the Air Loom, a delusion by a man trapped in Bedlam asylum in the early 19th century

I wanted to do a what if this was real thing. So okay the Air Loom was a vast machine that fired evil miasmas at people to drive them mad. One of the people controlling it was a doctor, so I needed a medical centre near Bedlam asylum. I found a pharmacy, which was quite a large medical centre serving the local community. And found the main doctor there's name because it's patronage and membership records were online

I looked up the doctor, and wildly, I found he'd written a book about miasma theory and illness. He wrote it based on poverty in the local area. So I found the book, read it. Worked out where he'd have gone, found the names of the local pubs. Great.

Now I needed the other big name in the imaginary mind control gang. King Billy. So I needed someone cake William with wealth who was a patron of the pharmacy. And I immediately found William Wilberforce MP was involved. A famous anti slavery MP.

It was literally one of my favourite experiences. The research rabbitholes lead to things i never would have thought of and let me flesh out the story. And yeah no reader fact checked but also i would have never imagined the dingy alleyway you could hardly fit down, the celebrity backer, the doctor and how he saw his patients. Research is great because you never know if you're going to find something that changes the entire story

[silvernevermind]

small town diner waitress voice: Omelas? Oh, oh no, easy mistake, you're in oh - MAY - las right now, with an A. Plenty' people get the name mixed up. Nope, no utopia here, just our small little town. *face gets really grim* We do still.. Okay well we do still have a kid that we... I mean it isn't working but- well- You know. It- It's fine. I'm sure it'll start working soon.

[zarvasystem]

kneeling trying to worship this tgirl who achieved apotheosis but she keeps asking me if shes annoying even though her radiant golden eyes can pierce through to the very depths of my soul. id hug her but im afraid her halo would burn me if i touched it

[sidewaysing]

British trans people remember whether you're respectable or moderate or whatever, we are all trannies in the eyes of the state

[taliabhattwrites]

The Butler Did it? Butler's "Gender Trouble"

Podcast Episode · Cracked Ivory · June 25 · 1h 9m

Join us as we discuss one of the worst-written books we've had to cover: Judith Butler's Gender Trouble. It is considered a landmark text of the so-called third wave of feminism, but is it all it's cracked up to be? Given that it kicked off queer theory, it certainly got a few things wrong. Join us as we walk through the good, the bad, and the paradigm-shifting aspects of Judith Butler's seminal work.

Our companion episode on Patreon is on Monique Wittig!

Battle Royale: Wittig vs TERFs vs Queer Theory | Cracked Ivory

Battle Royale: Wittig vs TERFs vs Queer Theory by Cracked Ivory on Patreon. Join Cracked Ivory's community for exclusive content and updates

TERF or Transfeminist Avant la Lettre? That is the title of a paper on Monique Wittig that is almost certainly clickbait. We discuss a paper by Blase A. Provitola examining Monique Wittig's work and the appropriations of it by scholars, feminists, and activists with very different politics, asking important questions such as "why is everyone so bad at reading" and "how badly can Talia mispronounce French words".

We actually have a fairly extensive library of Patreon episodes by now. You can get early access to our next episode (on The Beauty Myth, out soon) as well as Patreon-exclusive episodes on:

The Genderbread Person,

Jack Halberstam discussing how toilets are bourgeois,

Kadji Amin's fairly controversial paper We Are All Non-Binary,

and more!

[kaban-bang]

NO WAY LMAO

[obliviasart]

I'm burying this stupid ass theory of literary criticism in the ground, it's time for Death of Death of the Author

[sternfleck]

Thoughts and prayers to my European mutuals suffering under their omega heat

[pavizi]

pavizi dcau harlivy art. these ones got a little weird

[jan-meloti]

[reallifeleinth]

Fun fact for all the other Leinths! Keep saying you're sorry! 9/10 Leinths stop saying im sorry right before being forgiven for everything ever!!

[elierlick]

One year ago, trans women held an iconic topless protest outside the Scottish Parliament. I love it when trans women hold topless demonstrations. If they're arrested, the state must admit they're women. If they aren't, it exposes the obvious contradictions of defining trans women as legally male.

Now, a year later, Parliament has its first two transgender members, one of whom represents JK Rowling in Edinburgh. We can't attribute this momentum solely to the protest, but the direct action seems to have galvanized a new political movement of trans people across Scotland.

[sidewaysing]

My favourite thing about these protests is that terfs can't describe why they're bad. They have to say "men intimidating people by taking their shirt off" and pretend that they think men not wearing a tshirt is a horrendous violent sex crime and not something you can see in any UK town in summer.

They still talk about them, this protest has joined the litany of transgender crimes against humanity. But they can't explain why they were offended by it without recognising that trans women are women

[elierlick]

One year ago, trans women held an iconic topless protest outside the Scottish Parliament. I love it when trans women hold topless demonstrations. If they're arrested, the state must admit they're women. If they aren't, it exposes the obvious contradictions of defining trans women as legally male.

Now, a year later, Parliament has its first two transgender members, one of whom represents JK Rowling in Edinburgh. We can't attribute this momentum solely to the protest, but the direct action seems to have galvanized a new political movement of trans people across Scotland.

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

Damn. That's a lot easier than whatever I was planning