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For as long as I can remember, my mother has suffered with depression, however for her, itâs a part of her life.
So I wrote this thing about my experience with my sister, itâs very emotional and I hope it is well enough written to give the subject clarity
The self-expression promoted in Pride parades has been increasingly facilitated by corporate sponsors. Anyone who has attended a major Pride event in recent years has felt the heavy presence of big businesses: Wells Fargo, TD Bank, Walmart, and Diet Coke, to name a few. According to Project Queer, more than half of the 253 participants in the 2015 Chicago Pride Parade were corporations, businesses, and banks. In comparison, LGBTQ groups represented less than 10% of the participants. Not only is it irresponsible to corporatize Pride, many of the sponsorships promote products or lifestyles that are inaccessible or insensitive to the LGBTQ community across the United States. In New York, the Pride Parade runs down 5th Avenue in Manhattan, passing mainly high-profile shops and neighborhoods fitting of high-figure salaries. The Guardian notes that many of San Francisco Prideâs biggest sponsors, like Facebook and Google, contribute to the growing income inequality in Silicon Valley, while members of the LGBTQ community struggle with homelessness in skyrocketing numbers. And The Chicagoist points out that alcohol companies frequently sponsor Pride eventsâyet over 30% of the LGBTQ community is projected to struggle with drug and alcohol addiction, a rate three times higher than the general population. Others feel unsafe by support from big businesses. Members of the LGBTQ community have rallied against Wells Fargoâs sponsorship in particular, criticizing the bankâs history of investing in private prisons that incarcerate LGBTQ persons, especially queer and trans people of color, at disproportionate rates.
The Capitalist Appropriation Of Gay Pride | Annie Utterback for The Establishment (via gaywrites)
Note: I read an article a while ago that spoke about the new Castro district which has an insanely high level of youth LGBTQ unemployment and homelessness, while ironically being a very âopenâ neighbourhood.Â
Thereâs a lot to be said for how the interests havenât changed despite the openness of society. Someone could say it more eloquently than me, but unfortunately corporate interests dictate behaviour, and most companies do not have an interest in solving youth unemployment or addiction, rather being seen as a responsible/up-to-date brand.
Kestrel taking a dust bath
Guys my former school (which i finished at in 2011 however my sister is in her final year there) did a thing where they introduced uniform gender fluidity. I asked my sister about the impact and she said good for some, eh for others btw.
But like theres this one dude who was in the year below and this news site (quite a big one) posted his roasting of his homophobic comments as part of the article on the uniforms - which is hilarious.
(Don't ask me his name, private roasting is one thing, anonymous on the internet another)
Black families fight entrenched prejudices to get fair discipline for their children in schools.
I received a call from my sonsâ school in March telling me that my oldest needed to be picked up early. He had been given a one-day suspension because he had thrown a chair. He did not hit anyone, but he could have, the school officials told me.
JJ was 4 at the time.
I agreed his behavior was inappropriate, but I was shocked that it resulted in a suspension.
For weeks, it seemed as if JJ was on the chopping block. He was suspended two more times, once for throwing another chair and then for spitting on a student who was bothering him at breakfast. Again, these are behaviors I found inappropriate, but I did not agree with suspension.
Still, I kept quiet. I knew my history. I was the bad preschooler.
I was expelled from preschool and went on to serve more suspensions than I can remember. But I do remember my teachersâ disparaging words. I remember being told I was bad and believing it. I remember just how long it took me to believe anything else about myself.
And even still, when my children were born, I promised myself that I would not let my negative school experiences affect them. I believed my experience was isolated. I searched for excuses. Maybe I was just a bad kid. Maybe it had something to do with my fatherâs incarceration, which forced my mother to raise me and my brothers alone.
So I punished JJ at home and ignored my concerns. Then, two months later, I was called to pick up my 3-year-old son, Joah. Joah had hit a staff member on the arm. After that incident, they deemed him a âdanger to the staff.â Joah was suspended a total of five times. In 2014, my children have received eight suspensions.
Just like before, I tried to find excuses. I looked at myself. What was I doing wrong? My children are living a comfortable life. My husband is an amazing father to JJ and Joah. At home, they have given us very few problems; the same goes for time with babysitters.
I blamed myself, my past. And I would have continued to blame myself had I not taken the boys to a birthday party for one of JJâs classmates. At the party, the mothers congregated to talk about everyday parenting things, including preschool. As we talked, I admitted that JJ had been suspended three times. All of the mothers were shocked at the news.
âJJ?â one mother asked.
âMy son threw something at a kid on purpose and the kid had to be rushed to the hospital,â another parent said. âAll I got was a phone call.â
One after another, white mothers confessed the trouble their children had gotten into. Some of the behavior was similar to JJâs; some was much worse.
Most startling: None of their children had been suspended.
Tunette Powellâs 3-year-old son, Joah, has been suspended from school five times. (credit: Tunette Powell) Tunette Powellâs 3-year-old son, Joah, has been suspended from school five times. (Tunette Powell) After that party, I read a study reflecting everything I was living.
Black children represent 18 percent of preschool enrollment but make up 48 percent of preschool children receiving more than one out-of-school suspension, according to the study released by the  Education Departmentâs Office for Civil Rights in March.
I immediately thought back to my own childhood. I thought back to the humiliating labels that greeted me before I could read. I thought back to the number of black friends and family members who also were suspended and expelled. I thought about my family and friends who had not overcome the detrimental effects of being suspended in preschool. I did not want that for JJ and Joah. I did not want it for any child.
But the next step was the hardest. At news of all of this, friends and relatives suggested that I pull my children out of the preschool program and move them into another. At first, I considered that. That move may have changed my kidsâ circumstances, but it would not have solved the problem. All across this country, black children are being suspended in preschool.
We can no longer put a Band-Aid on our nationâs preschool-to-prison pipeline, which pushes children out of the education system and criminalizes relatively minor offenses. Moving my boys to another school would have provided a stopgap solution. It may have solved my problem, but it would not have solved the problem.
The problem is not that we have a bunch of racist teachers and administrators. I believe most educators want to help all children. But many arenât aware of the biases and prejudices that they, like all of us, harbor, and our current system offers very little diversity training to preschool staff.
A recent study published by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that the subjects â mostly white, female undergraduates â viewed black boys as older and less innocent than their white peers. When photos of children were paired with descriptions of crimes, the subjects judged the black children to be more culpable for their actions than their white or Latino counterparts and estimated that they were an average of 4.5 years older than they actually were.
Authority figures strip black boys of their innocence at younger ages than white children. Diversity training for teachers and administrators would raise their awareness of how subconscious prejudices can drive racial discrepancies in disciplinary action.
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waitâŚ.are any americans aware that the cia overthrew the democratically-elected premier of iran in 1953 because he wouldnât concede to western oil demandsâŚ.and how that coup was the reason for the shahâs return to power, the iranian revolution, and the resulting fundamentalist dictatorshipâŚ..like, america literally dissolved iranian democracy and no one knows about it???
No. No we donât know about it.Â
Americans arenât told this shit.Â
The only thing weâre taught about any Middle Eastern country in school is that 1) the region exists 2) itâs where The War is happening and 3) Muslim people live there. Thatâs it. Maybe if youâre lucky youâll get into the Hammurabi Code and some early Babylonian stuff but American schools seem to think that if it happened outside Europe and before the colonial period, or makes America look bad and isnât about A Very Watered Down Version of What Slavery Was, itâs not important.
Info on this is almost notoriously hard to find. Itâs not in any texts on American and Russian involvement in the Middle East during the Cold War that I can find. You have to specifically look for a book about the Shahâs return to power, and even then youâd be hard pressed to find a book like that at your local bookstore. Once you get into some higher level college courses you might know about it, but the people who can afford those are more likely to already be indoctrinated into a certain Way of Thinking (read: theyâre racist as shit) by the time they get there. And itâs almost like you have to know about it beforehand if you want to find information on it.
The only reason I knew about it is because thereâs a thirty second summary of the event in Persepolis. Those thirty seconds flipped my entire worldview.
âAll the Shahâs Menâ by Stephen Kinzer is a good, accessible text for people who want to know more about this.
I had to explain literally this to one of my co-workers, who is so fuckin racist against Middle Eastern people itâs insane.
Sheâs 60. She never heard of this.
As I was explaining this and how, during the Regan years, we funded Osama Bin Laden to fight against Russia, leading to the destruction of much of the infrastructure in the region, one of the plant workers came in to get his badge fixed.
He works in the quality control lab. He served 15 years active duty in the Army. Super smart guy, has a masters in chemistry and another masters in biology, raises saltwater fish in his spare time for sale, has the saltwater aquarium setup of the gods.  Raises rare corals too, some of which he donates to be used in re-seeding reefs around the world, but thatâs a side tangent.
And he listened for a minute, then nodded and said âYeah. I was there during that. I helped train people to fight. They wanted us to help them build schools and hospitals, after, but we were only interested in them as cannon fodder. Left the whole area in ruins. I wasnât surprised when they hated us for it later. Told people then it would happen. We let them know then that they were only valuable to America as expendable bodies. Why wouldnât they resent us for that?â
And she just looked floored.
âSoâŚâ She started, after a few minutes. âWhat do you think of Trump?â
âI hate him. Heâs a coward and heâs going to get good people killed.â He didnât even blink. â
She looked back and forth between us for a second, and then asked how I knew all this.
âI research things.â I said. âGoogle is great.â He nodded enthusiastically.
And she just sat there for a second and then said, really quietly, âI didnât know.â
She lived through it.
American schools donât teach you any of this sort of thing.
Not just Americans, I would say that many of the âwesternâ countries donât know that. Like itâs all well and good to say the school system is flawed in one country, which it is.Â
But this is also a global problem of media which doesnât explain the whole stories and a culture which exists on a news run of about a 2 weeks - after that the stories get old and pass on.Â
And the stories we do see, often have a local/white focus - how weâre helping, doing good things, etc. Like I mean thereâs so many reasons for why we donât know about the above.
Basically my point a) Not just America and b) Not just about the school system
This thread is amazing.
Amazing indeed.
Ah so like Iâve spent the entire day watching movies.
But like I have to pack and do uni work. And Iâm moving out of this place 3 and a half weeks and overseas in 6 weeks.
What am I doing?Â
if i were anakin i wouldve made c3po rose gold or maybe silver tbh⌠his current color makes him look like a walking trumpet
catch the new rose gold c3po 6s
Sry rose gold c3po looks like a weird future sex robot. Too skin coloured.
The Perfect Explanation of Privilege â In One Powerful Punchline
âThe Pencilswordâ is a comic strip by Toby Morris, an illustrator from New Zealand. His most recent comic, âOn a Plateâ hits hard at the heart of the issues of concerning wealth and privilege.
How many times have you heard the âIâve never been handed anything on a platterâ argument in regard to social security and other social benefits?
Toby wrecks this argument by showing how two children can grow up, be loved and supported, and yet still have two very different outcomes.
Make sure to follow all the way to the end for the powerful punchline. This comic is an increasingly sad reality for far too many of this nationâs children and families.
Reblogged from the source since someone deleted the text at the bottom.
this is so amazing
Not gonna lie this got me a bit emotional.
Can I add to this -
I sit on the privileged side. Very strongly on the privileged side. Thatâs just how I grew up. I had no choice in it, much like no kid who wasnât privileged didnât. But as an adult, itâs very clear that things are playing out very well for me because of how I was raised, and how privileged I am. I may not have had a choice about how I was raised, but I sure as hell have a choice to recognise my own privilege and be aware of how beneficial it can be and to take steps to limit the stereotypes and thoughts which come with having a position of privilege, and furthermore, in a position of power which is far more likely to come to me, work to limit of that privilege.
Kids. I want you to listen to me very carefully, okay? The next Executive Order will likely be a sweeping anti-LGBT one. Steve Bannon is orchestrating these shocking, awful EOâs through the President to destabilize and divide us. He is trying to exhaust and overwhelm us. He is trying to weaken us so that we are more susceptible (and welcoming) to an authoritarian regime.
Get ready, okay? The next EO will be anti-LGBT. They will couch it in terms of âreligious freedomsâ but make no mistake about what it will be. Do not let him divide us or scare us. Be aware of what is happening. Prepare yourselves for this to happen. Stoke your anger now. Put your rage to work. Brace yourselves.Â
So can Steve Bannon just straight up go and die now. Like fuck off man.
PSA
First off I put this in another post but I think it needs to be said again. I think we all need to think with whatâs happening in the US that while we should be aware of what is happening, we should be wary of putting the same principles and ideas to work in other countries. Yes, the US does affect the global economy and it does have an effect on the national media of individual countries. Each country also has itâs own set of political histories, elected governments and parties which are likely very different to the USA.
Second, Trump is very much dominating the world headlines right now but as weâve seen with everything from the water in Flint to the Dakota Access Pipeline to actually pretty much every big social issue. The news cycle rolls over and the stuff keeps on happening but is no longer reported on. I think itâs at that point everyone needs to be really careful about what happens in both the US and their own countries. Trump isnât going to stop being shit. But when it stops being reported on and it will be, thatâs when you need to take out your megaphone and yell about it.Â
Loving reminder to my Australian friends and followers here: donât think that whatâs happening in the US doesnât have the capacity to happen here. The Aust govt through the rotation of parties has very much demonstrated their capacity to perform act of violence. Look no further than Nauru. Look no further than the murder of Miss Dhu. Look no further than the Nazi who was plotting to shoot up a shopping centre here this morning. Look no further that the growth in popularity of both the one nation party and co. Everything bad that can happen will happen as long as you think the apathy will get you by good.
Can I just add a few things?
First off, straight up, we elected Tony Abbott - like we literally elected a dude who started a climate science lab funded by the government run by a person who thought it didnât exist. He on-record stated that CO2 was hard to measure cause it didnât weigh anything and was see through. Like we elected Tony Abbott (3 years ago btw), weâve done this already and it was the dumbest thing weâve ever done politically. But we did this and to Australians he was insanely right wing. Liberal voters were straight up shocked at what he did. But on the scale, of American legislators, heâs pretty centre right. Like he wouldnât be a radical by any means.
Second, the Nauru and Manus Island issues have been something weâve been doing as a country since the early 2000s. I know it seems to be a new thing to the news media. But Australia has locked people on Nauru since literally 2001. Like 16 years long and the detention centres actually in Australia (which arenât any better btw) have been open since the mid-80s with records of severe child abuse. Like this is not a new thing. Sorry. Weâve been much shitter for much longer than you ever thought
Finally, I have some contention with the numbers of the One Nation votes rising cause if you actually look at the senate stats (here) you can see that yes there is a swing of 3.76% to the One Nation Party but the swing from the major parties is tiny (Labor +0.16, Liberals (about -1% cause thereâs 4)) the major likelihood is that the swing is from the Palmer United Party on -5.42% swing which a) ran out of money and b) was a momentary fad of the 2011 election. Like we canât pretend that the mostly QLD regions that held the PUP vote in 2011 havenât now gone to One Nation. Like thereâs not enough swing in the major parties who still hold more than a solid percentage of the vote and the PUP and One Nation have some very similar ideas. To me this indicates a key factor, these are right wing swing voters. Theyâre not happy with the idea of the Liberal Party right now and the Nationals probably pissed them off. Honestly this small 4% or so is the worrying bit, that is the radical right. But even so, half these people will be just discontent voters cause they didnât like Tony Abbott or Malcolm Turnbull (100% fair enough).
Iâm not saying thereâs nothing to be concerned for in Australia. We have a lot of issues but I think we need to be very wary about making Americaâs problems our problems and taking Americaâs social issues and thinking we have the same ones. We have a very different system of government, a very different set of social welfare policies, a very different history and a very different standard of living. These are all key factors that influence how people react to radical right wing views and that needs to be remembered.Â
IÂ canât speak for other countries but I think this also applies to Europe and Asia and basically everywhere not the US. Itâs really easy to take whatâs happening in the US and apply it to yourselves but I think now is a really good time, to be wary but to be aware that we all donât live in the US.
there are plenty of nazis outside the US that could put people in danger too
Yes thatâs completely true. 100% thumbs up, you win a prize.Â
So Iâm gonna assume youâre talking about the #undocumentedunafraid post, that specific post was talking about U.S based lis sourced from social media which federal agencies were theoretically using in the US to find âundocumented immigrantsâ. Thinking about it, Iâm not even sure this is a thing, cause itâd probably be illegal to take data from twitter and use it to track people down but itâs the US so ehh, Iâm gonna go with it, but anywhere else itâd probably be illegal. They could filter it down with geo-tagging and stuff but theoretically, if a bunch of people not in the US posted using that hashtag, itâd pretty much fuck it up for them.
Basically what Iâm saying is, yes, it may probably be unsafe for people in the US to post on it. However if it was just used as a tag on to a bunch of random international tweets, that would be a different story. e.g. âLook at my citizenship #undocumentedunafraidâ âGot 5c off my coffee #undocumentedunafraidâ âForgot to pay my bus fare #undocumentedunafraidâ etc.Â
Maybe I should have explained myself better.
hey people #undocumentedunafraid (a hashtag being used on twitter) is obviously a honeypot by the feds/being used to build a database by ppl on /pol/ of undocumented aliens. stop posting in it. or everyone post in it and make the tag useless. just dont post in it if youre undocumented, obviously.Â
The âeveryone post in itâ route is a bad idea. Even if it creates an inaccurate watch list, its still a watch list which is dangerous. Dont draw unnecessary & unhelpful attention to urselves. Best avoid
Surely everyone not in the US should just post on it? that would make it useless?
reblog if ur blog is anti-nazi
if ur a nazi or neo-nazi or support nazi ideologies let this be a fucking harsh message that ur not welcome on this blog and I hope you get socked in the face
Itâs international Holocaust remembrance day today (27/01) so you better reblog this today if you see it.
