[chunkecheeks]

type “i am” in the tags and whatever comes up first is your new mandatory kin

[cyndigenous-deactivated20210204]

non-Natives getting dreamcatcher tattoos is always racist

Even if you’re getting it to “honour” a Native person you know. We are more than dreamcatchers (which are specific to Anishinaabe people anyway so if ur out there getting one for your Navajo friend or whatever you’re double racist)

[ghastly-poppies]

Question

Why is no one talking about the rainbow flag that got shown at the love fest in brasil?

I mean,, all the original colours are there (plus a inclusive white stripe with a very lovely meaning!)

Isn’t it beautiful? look at it hanging there, representing all these lovely people! It’s so colourful, it only can spread positive vibes!

And since I couldn’t find the flag in a good size, I made one quick!

What do y'all think?

[chubby-aphrodite]

combination?

[strictlyquadrilateral]

earlier today i was nonverbal for a bit but no one was around except the cats, so i signed at molly that she’s a good cat and she. immediately started purring. this cat knows too much. i live in fear that someday s

[fabulousairpirate]

the cat killed op

[strictlyquadrilateral]

#false she merely sat down on the keyboard and hit the post button prematurely

[snowymooncake-archive]

not to sound rude but if you need your religion to make moral choices that's frightening

[snowymooncake-archive]

one of my least favorite things about the us is how much nationalistic propaganda you're taught from a young age and how if you call it that you get harassed and ostracized

[veryfunnymemes]

[beyblaiddyd]

No offense but when are these takes trying to provide some “defense” for bullying because the objects of the bullying were “too weird” going to stop. Like people don’t usually develop these kinds of “strange” or anti-social behaviors in a vacuum anyways. I knew a girl in middle school who did the growling thing and she had been bullied since the 3rd grade, long before she got into anime. She did the growling thing because kids would physically harass her and teachers wouldn’t do anything about it, but they stopped when she started doing that. She told me it was easier to stomach getting made fun of for doing “weird” things/having “weird” interests than it was to have inherit facts about herself mocked.  

Like I know some Anime Kids in school were invariably dicks but you still can’t ultimately use odd or “cringy” behavior to justify the cruel choices of other people to mock and torment others. So many of these kids have tons of trauma from being mocked just for having a particular interest or sense of style. Was a kid wearing a raccoon tail to school because they thought it was fun and cute really worth mocking them to the point of self-hatred? If kids were getting bullied to the point of tears in this year because they liked to do Fornite Dances in the lunchroom would you think it’s funny and that the kids deserve bullying for being weird? 

And this shit was also just like an excuse to even more safely pick on people who were already on the ‘to-bully’ list. Think about how many people from this group were fat or not white or gay or neurodivergent and how that played into how they were ostracized in the first place. A lot of these kids would’ve gotten bullied even if they weren’t into anime/doing These Particular Weird Things because that’s what bullies do. That’s what bullies were doing before they “got into weird stuff” and it’s what they would’ve continued doing. Stop trying to make it a funny joke that people decided to traumatize their classmates because their classmates tried to commit the crime of having “abnormal” fun or having “abnormal” ways of dealing with harassment. 

[venusmacabre-deactivated2019053]

Also mocking people for weird but ultimately HARMLESS behaviors? lmao That’s pretty much every autistic’s person story of how they were first traumatized.

And it doesn’t help that we have a hard time understanding what is or isn’t socially acceptable, the social isolation that comes from bullying at an early age only makes it way harder to understand social cues through time because we have no one to learn from that wouldn’t want us to drink bleach, especially when if we’re LUCKY our only other company is kids in the exact same situation as us with the same difficulties.

I would get bullied for talking to my inanimate belongings because of autistic hyperempathy. May I add, I wasn’t loud, I was a very quiet kid and I mostly sat alone.

Let’s also not act like people don’t actually bully you for simply liking something odd. They absolutely do. I was bullied heavily for still liking dolls past an age my peers deemed appropriate, even though I never once brought one to school and I made sure to never remind them of it.

I HATE THE ALLISTICS.

[mechanicalsatanical]

the growling thing specifically is… pretty common for autistic kids? or making other “inappropriate” noises, either as a vocal stim or (in the case of growling) because they don’t have a better way of expressing that they’re hurt, or upset, or want to be left alone.

like y’all are absolutely kidding yourselves if you think “weird” behaviors have nothing whatsoever to do with autistic/otherwise developmentally disabled kids and that you magically knew/know who “”deserves”” to be bullied. you can’t in any way justify the ostracism and abuse of a child for being “weird” you absolute fucking freaks, even if it’s in a way you personally find to be Too Much.

[hymnsofheresy]

I can’t believe that the sacredness of shared meals is not well known??? 

Mealtime is an extremely important cultural and social ritual. There are psychological benefits for cooking for other people, and serving a meal stabilizes the emotions between the provider and the receiver. Cooking with your partner, like accomplishing any task together, strengthens relationships. Eating together strengthens communal bonds and helps with mental health. Sharing the same food with someone else builds trust, cooperation, and a sense of connectivity. It’s a shame how in our fast paced society we don’t value the importance of regularly breaking bread with one another

[ms-demeanor]

Just FYI if you have celiac disease or another food allergy that makes it difficult to participate in food-based rituals (eating wedding or birthday cake, eating traditional religious foods, hotdogs at the ballpark, popcorn at the theater, barbecue with family, etc.) this can lead to a real sense of alienation based on all the reasons above; food is bonding.

This can be especially true if you are around a lot of people who are bothered when you won’t “just have a little bit” or who say “you can cheat just this once” when they’re offering you the food that they made that is dangerous to you.

Building your own food-based rituals and communities is a form of self-care for people with food allergies. If you can find a group of people who will cook with you and accommodate you never let them go.

I have a particular kind of cupcakes that I always bake for myself to take along in my purse to weddings so I can share in the fun of having the dessert. I bake gluten-free holiday treats to share with friends and family. Once a week I go to my parents’ house and we cook a meal together that I can eat and we all can share.

It’s important, it’s worthwhile to make the time for. And people who refuse to let you form your own rituals to be closer to them aren’t acting with your best interests at heart.

Be kind. Eat well.

[cyndigenous-deactivated20210204]

Anti-Indigenous things to quit saying/doing:

- Stop saying “off the reservation”. It’s a reference to the pass system that was in place restricting Native people from leaving without permission.

- Stop making “1/16th”, “great-great grandmother”, etc. jokes. All of these reference blood quantum, a system designed to “breed out the Natives”. Indigeneity isn’t defined by a percentage, fraction, etc. Quit policing Indigenous identities and quit joking about genocidal tactics.

- Stop calling things your “spirit animal”. You don’t have one. Only Indigenous people from specific nations have spirit animals.

- Stop making dreamcatchers. They are sacred Anishinaabe culture and are not cute trinkets, crafts, etc. Buy them from Anishinaabe artists.

- Stop buying those little cloth “teepees” for your kids/pets/whatever. Also stuff with tipi prints

- Quit referring to your “tribe”. Enough with the “bride tribe” nonsense and all the rest. Stop trivializing tribal affiliations.

- Don’t wear “war paint”. Don’t put a feather in your hair. Don’t dress up as Native people or characters.

- Stop referring to your meetings/side discussions/parties as a “pow wow”.

- Stop supporting sports teams that use racist terms and logos and caricatures of Indigenous people.

- Stop using white sage. It is sacred and overharvested. There are lots of types of sage you can use instead.

- Stop “smudging”. Smoke cleansing exists in many forms in many cultures, use that. Non-Natives can’t smudge.

- Stop tokenizing your Native friends, classmates, in-laws, half siblings, etc.

Please add more!

[wiisagi-maiingan]

- Stop treating Native spirits as generic monsters or cryptids, especially w*ndigoag and sk*nwalkers.

- Stop using imagery of skulls in Plains headdresses, especially as tattoos. This shouldn’t need to be explained.

[fruityfig]

- stop calling people indian givers

[pastel-petticoats]

It’s vital that young trans people understand that they can have a future

[leichii]

not can, do and will. it shouldn’t be a “maybe”, because it’s not. It’s a definite thing - young trans people **have** a future, and we need to guide and lead them into it with open hearts and open minds

[transgenderadvicegroup-deactiva]

For anybody doubting this - please look at this photobook of older trans adults, who have not only survived, but thrived. You do have a future. You just have to believe in yourself.

[glossierhateblog-deactivated201]

i am begging you all to get a new word besides crackhead 

[glossierhateblog-deactivated201]

saying no/making jokes in the tags of this post is not actually funny and just shows that you refuse to think of people w/ addictions as PEOPLE…. like please examine why you want to keep using a word that demonizes and demeans people with addictions

[cheapfilling]

college is catered towards the able bodied and able minded. school applauds people who can stay up all night, skip meals, and work endlessly. that kind of extreme contribution is expected. why are disabled people being squeezed out of academic institutions? why should I feel inferior because of some arbitrary and ridiculous standard?

[sickly-tired]

The undying truth.

[sylveon-trender-deactivated2019]

Not to mention, every college campus Ive ever been on is MADE of stairs and hills.

[sarahconnorjr]

It's 2018

The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) was just reformed so that disabled people can’t sue public businesses for discrimination because it would be discrimination against that business.

50% of all US murder victims by police officers are disabled

Bathrooms, entryways, seating, parking, and other public spaces are segregated for disabled people

Disabled children are required to go to segregated schools

Disabled people can't…

Get married without losing their health insurance which is a death sentence

Have savings accounts

Have more than $2000 at any given time

Own or inherent property

Own jewelry worth more than $100 or other items worth more than $500 without reporting them to the government

It is legal for a parent to murder a disabled child if they consider that child an undue burden

This is an extremely short list of things you are leaving out of your social justice

NTABs okay to reblog

[fruityfig]

It’s important to note black disabled people make up the majority of the percentage of police murder victims.

[khangi]

Native people: get murdered and jailed for touching their own religion for a long ass time, which only changed within recent memory.

White people: excuse me, by telling me that I’m not allowed to touch your religion, you are GATEKEEPING.

[snowymooncake-archive]

I hate when people try to make the LGBT+ community into this "tolerent" & "inclusive" fun group where everyone belongs. Our community was created out of necessity because of the the oppression we faced. We shouldn't be tolerant of discrimination of any kind. Our community is not for the oppressor. Transmisogynists do not belong. Racists do not belong. Fascists do not belong. Capitalists and corporations do not belong. You're not LGBT+ if you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

[fruityfig]

when you go out to eat with people, but you can’t eat anything so just kinda sit there

[sobeitjay2]

When random people comment on my posts