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We didn’t have a word for our, as you guys call, gay/lesbian people. So we coined that word as an umbrella for all our tribes. We never said, “Well, you’re transgender. You’re bisexual. You’re lesbian.” We never knew those terms. Those are all from Western culture, you know, LGBTQ and all that. So on some level, it’s about getting rid of labels. Those terms were forced upon us.
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Honestly, in my work as a therapist, I’m seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still don’t have a satisfactory approach to it. A heavy dose of Existentialist “create your own Purpose” tempered with “when the plane’s going down, put your own oxygen mask on first”, but… yeah, there is no ethical way to work on individual emotional distress without acknowledging the systemic socioeconomic, geopolitical fuckery going on at the moment, and the sheer grief that comes with it.
I’m a guidance counselor/psychologist for teenagers and it’s getting really hard to motivate young people to work for a future they don’t believe in.
They look at ther future and see global warming, wwIII, unemployement, political unstability, poison in everything they eat, the earth and animals dying all around them.
I saw this video where someone was asking french teens in the 50s how they imagine the future would be. The war hadn’t been over for long and yet it was all positive with like peace and flying cars and such. Then they went and ask the same questions to nowadays teens and hell that was depressing. Some still had hope, but it was just that “well I hope I’ll have a nice house and maybe some kid” but there was such a hesitancy to it, like they didn’t dare to hope too much.
People mock Greta Thunberg but what they don’t get is that when she said “you stole my dreams”, it was the truth.
Young people don’t get to dream like they used to. They don’t dream anymore, they grief all that won’t be anymore and that’s just so fucking sad.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine s03e16
Context: they ate the candy from the gift basket, not realizing it was for the Captain from his husband and then filled it up with shit they hoped he’d like.
I love this so much
Hot take: Holt’s husband knew that Holt would not care in the slightest if he sent candy; however, Kevin chose candy specifically because he knew the squad would eat it and then frantically fill it with supplies from around the office, which he knew Holt would love even more.
He did this so that Holt, who he loves dearly, would get a basket of things he loves while also unnecessarily stressing out the squad
The one he loved would get things he loved from people that loved him on two levels. Kevin, and his team.
Fun History Fact: The overwhelming majority of cowboys in the U.S. were Indigenous, Black, and/or Mexican persons. The omnipresent white cowboy is a Hollywood studio concoction meant to uphold the mythology of white masculinity.
Thank you.
I will always re-blog this
I think it was high school when i overheard some white girl put on her best semi-disgusted and confused voice and go “why do so many Mexicans dress up like cowboys?” and I had to be the person to tell her.
Why do you think the whites say buckero? Cause they couldn’t say vaquero.
I dunno if I reblogged this before but fuck it, y'all gon learn today.
Teach the children.
also, cowboy culture was hella gay. like, write-poems-about-your-cowboy-partner gay.
IF people acknowledge it, they play the necessity card– there weren’t any women out on the range, so they had to “resort to men.” this claim completely erases 1) the romantic (not just sexual) writings of actual cowboys, 2) the acknowledgement of cowboys’ potential homosexual activity by writers at the time, and 3) the possibility that some men would deliberately become cowboys with the intent to seek out homosexual encounters.
no one wants to admit it, but cowboy culture was just. so inherently gay.
Im here for the gay POC cowboys
every morning i wake up & get my coffee & i recite in my head this excerpt from ‘invitation,’ by mary oliver: “it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world.” & i just say it over & over again until it sticks to my mind for the rest of the day. it is a serious thing. i am alive. i am so lucky. this fresh morning i get the chance to live again & again & again
things my boyfriend has done
- urgently marched into A&E and said ‘we’re having knee pain!!’ to the confused receptionist. i had to explain that it was only my knee and that he was just worried
- when asked to tag me in a meme of ‘what water are you?’, said ‘you are the ocean: home to all friends’
- loved ‘filthy gorgeous’ and, rather than learning the words, learned ‘all three parts in the song where they ring a triangle’
- after we had an argument about him not ‘getting’ my ADHD, i caught him halfway through a three hour playlist of lectures on ADHD, with a pen in hand, taking notes
- he suffered a TBI last summer and he did not like the orienting questions they ask (’what year is it? what day is it?’ etc). when asked ‘do you know where you are?’, he cracked one eye open and angrily said ‘in bed!’
- he played knack 2 and hated it. when i asked why he was still playing it, he said ‘so i never have to play it again’. he got every achievement and as soon as he got the last one he stood up, ejected the disc and returned it to the store
- lately he’s given up on making lunch so he just drinks huel which is a meal replacement shake, except huel is kind of boring so he sometimes puts nesquick strawberry powder in there
- my favourite drink is pepsi max. when asked about his dreams for the future, they often involve ‘being rich enough to find a way to pump pepsi max directly into our house’
- one time in our first year of dating i hadn’t seen him in weeks, whereas we normally saw each other all day every day, so i was gonna go stay with him for a couple days. he had a temporary job (i’m talking 2 weeks total) at the time and i was bummed that i was gonna be alone at his for a bit, but w/e. he was texting me like ‘work is going okay, in the line for the canteen right now’ while i got on the bus. i found the key where he said it was, i found a note on the table like ‘hi love! the wifi code is [password], I’ll be back at 5!’, and then I went into the lounge and he was there. he was lying on a fold-out bed with Marvin Gaye playing. the TV was on a powerpoint slide that said ‘Welcome, Jess. I quit my job.’ he was entirely naked except for a cushion with the letter ‘D’ over his crotch. im 95% sure there were candles
- we play the game Rimworld, where you micromanage a colony of people on an alien planet. he uses it entirely to simulate a peaceful colony, mostly of women, who have a large number of animals they care for and train. one time he got this random event where all the women in the colony got a psychic mood boost and he was like ‘honestly that’s my life goal’
- when he was in hospital and his cognitive functions were slowly coming back, he looked up from twitter with horror and said ‘jess… is the american president a racist?’
- we were playing Articulate, which is a game where you have to describe a word without saying the word itself. His partner said ‘when you’re beginning sex, you are…’. he, without a second of hesitation, yelled ‘FOREPLAY’. the answer was actually ‘initiating’, but my ego grew like fourteen times
- one time he asked me what guacamole was, and i told him, and he said ‘if it’s made up of things that already have names why does it have a different name?’ i have not let him live this down yet
- i used to have an eating disorder, and whilst i’m good 99.9% of the time now i occasionally do have wobbles. one time i’d eaten some mini-donuts and i told him ‘i kind of want to check the calories on those…’, so he immediately pulled the label off and ate it
- i lost him for like twenty minutes at a uni event, and when i found him he presented me with a pepsi max badge and said ‘i rode this mechanical bull to try and win you a year’s supply but i fell off pretty quickly. sorry.’
- we won the ‘best couple’ award in our year at uni, but neither of us were there to collect it because i was ill and he left halfway through to come home and take care of me
- one time he wasn’t paying attention while making lunch and he cracked an egg directly into the bin. the look of confusion on his face was priceless.
- on the rare occasions when i wake up before him, when i kiss him/ touch him he makes these little like… activation sounds? you know like when you touch a cat? it’s like those
This is the cutest thing I have read with my own eyes
reblog this if you’re a university level studyblr
most of the ones i follow are high school level and i need more people my own age/education level!
My professor talked about how women aren’t used to asking for things in the work place, such as raises, because we’re conditioned to downplay our achievements and hold off on asserting our value. She discussed how, even now at this stage in her career (a published doctrate), she shakes when she askes to be considered for a raise and about the first time she was really successful at getting one. After class I asked her what she asked her boss and she winked at me, took me to her office, and asked me to take notes.
She said she practiced this technique like 5 times in her office before she requested a meeting with her boss. I’m gonna share it with you guys because I really loved it.
You start off by thanking your employer for their support (whatever that means in the context of your work environment). You then say that you would like to take some time to discuss next year’s salary. You say, allow me to refresh your memory regarding some of my accomplishments or contributions from the past year, and you present a written summary of all that you’ve done. You close by saying, I hope that next year’s salary reflects this list of contributions and you thank them for their time and see yourself out.
I just loved how she made it seem so much less daunting of a task. She said not to underestimate your achievements as women have a tendency underreporting what they’ve done.
The fact that she shared this with me really meant a lot as well as women really need to be there to empower each other and help guide each other towards success. So if you end up using this, let me know! I want to see how it works for you ^_^.
The library at my school is relaxing.
We only limit ourselves
Something that has always motivated me when I was younger was a little phrase that I printed out back in the ninth grade. "No limits" as a young teenager with the whole world ahead of me it was a reminder for me that I can do whatever I want in this world. No matter how big and trust me I dreamt BIG in the ninth grade.
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Stay motivated
Be a doer, last school year I didn't do so well. I'm determined this school year to stay motivated and not only excel in my classes this year but learn. As my high school slogan once said "We learn for life."
tips i have on running a studyblr
****heyyyyyyy, babycakessss! lol, it’s been a while since I’ve actually posted and like made stuff for y’all and this isn’t exactly related to Korean but does help some of y’all out there. today I compiled a bunch of tips I have on running studyblrs in general… it’s mostly just stuff i would have told myself a while ago before when I started and some motivational stuff to help you out. so if you’re interested, then continue reading my g!****
don’t just do it for followers, do it for you and your growth
This was probably the hardest concept for me to understand about studyblrs… in the beginning, when I came back and found that I had a ton of followers on tumblr I felt such a strange pressure to find a concept, stick to that one concept, to make content catered to what was getting traction on my blog… and it gave me so much stress and literally inflated my ego so much omg you don’t even know. I wasn’t used to it, I would just watch and obsess over how much followers I would lose. lmao yes, i was that person, I think we were all that person at some point and like there isn’t anything like… wrong with lol not being humble for a couple days but anyways until it runs your life, you know?…. i think caring only about what your followers want and what would get popular (unless that your thing, by all means, get popular, do ya thing, bb) lowkey puts you into a box and makes you think that you can only post certain things about certain topics and certain… not that that is bad, I just think it’s kinda sad. didn’t you start this to document your learning, to help yourself and people grow with what you learn…? does it matter if you lose a follower or two saying your truth, whatever that is? a person can follow you for a million reasons and unfollow you for just as many, why kill yourself over what that is? it’s not that deep, b. and plus, i think any follower of yours would love to see you make or repost any content that makes you happy and some that you resonate with… just my 2 cents.
don’t write immediately into tumblr, it’ll probably go away
this was the thing that literally affected my productivity and drive and desire to make content so freaking much omG. the amount of times i have made posts and legit finished them and tumblr hit me with that “sorry, something went wrong, your entire post has disappeared/something went wrong/suck it up and type it again”. believe me it sucks and it’s terrible and like unless you have another copy, you gotta start again babygirl/babyboy and it sucks. so like… just watch out for that. i recommend using apps like evernote and even simplenote to post stuff with.
make a schedule
One of the hardest things for me was pacing myself. Like knowing when to stop, when to make more, when to put it out….. It was a strange and messy experience and put me in such a weird limbo lol. so like pick days that you know when you’re going to post, when you need to be done, if that’s honestly something you want to do, you know.
you get better at writing, don’t worry
something that gave me a ton of anxiety in the beginning was how the heck i was going to write all of these posts. my writing skills had always been subpar and honestly prevented me from actually writing and like stopped me from writing… it still is there, the fear and like shame (?? idk it’s not that deep but lowkey is at the same time idk) but it’s not as bad. it eventually lessened as it just kind of went away and transformed into this acceptance that it was just the way i wrote and probably showed my personality better and like who i am. honestly, it wasn’t just how my writing was grammatically and how well i could logically communicate my ideas it was more of me just not knowing what the heck to freaking say. like i had absolutely no idea what to put out there, if people would like it, if i would like it, even what i should call my followers. lmao, my advice for that is trusting yourself and being okay with whatever it is you decide. if you wanna call your followers babygirls/babyboys/babycakes/lovelies or whatever it is, do so. if you wanna interact with them more, do so. if you don’t then don’t. do what you want and don’t do what you don’t wanna. people like you for you anyways.
don’t be afraid to change it up whenever you need to
i don’t really need to use this tip a TON but like… idk. acknowledging and knowing that change is normal, that it happens and that you change and your interests change is a normal part of life and moving through your journal. i used to think that i needed to keep up with a cutesy aesthetic and never stray outside of that and i honestly got so weirded out at myself whenever i wanted change or to change what i posted… but understanding that it’s not that deep, that it’s your blog and your learning and your aesthetic- keyword- yOU. This is a blog about you and what you wanna post. Just do whatever you feel is right and if you change and don’t like it, just change it back. it’s not that deep, it’s not that unfixable and it’s tough but believe that you’re tougher, okay, my g? it all goes back to trusting yourself.
you’re probably helping people
it’s a weird thing to have to admit but idk… sometimes sudden feelings of “what am i doing this for? why do i care so much, what am i doing?” overcome me. maybe it ties into other issues i have (lmaoooo, not gonna get into that right now haha) and my sister always talks about how i probably don’t have as much influence over other people (also another issue i’d rather not get into lol) and i let myself like.. believe that. it’s really easy to fall into thoughts that you don’t matter, that you aren’t loved, that you aren’t valued etc etc… but i’m here to remind you (as many times as you need) that you’re probably helping somewhere out there. with all the effort, research and like idk creative blocks you’ve been doing through… whatever you put out there, whatever you teach our put out there probably is helping someone. you are probably someone’s favorite blog, someone probably finds comfort in your posts, maybe it was exactly what they were looking for. you never know, babe. you never know and you should take comfort in that and help it keep you going, okay, bb? you matter, you are loved and you are valued. at least by me~
you’ll get to that idea, don’t you worry my bb
okay, the amount of ideas and things i have to get done… like the amount of post ideas i have circling around in my head gets really overwhelming??? like i would make a list and like get so! freaking! anxious! i would be like, omg am i ever really going to get to that idea? it’s so hard. but i still have- alright, my g, you gotta calm yourself a bit. just a bit. listen here, my amazing, productive, always gets their shit done dude, you can do this. time passes and you will get the work done. you got a ton of discipline and you will get the work done. even if you don’t get to it now, even if it sits somewhere in the bottom of a list somewhere, i know you will get it done. it’s just a matter of priorities. if it hounds on your mind a ton, just do it now. if it can wait, it can wait. you’ll get to it, okay?
develop a style that you know,,, like
i feel like finding my own color has always been like i a thing i have… simultaneously not struggled with but also find the hardest thing??? like finding a format, finding a certain niche of information you wanna give out, a certain way to design your aesthetics…. idkkkkk…… it’s so harddddd,,,, sometimes i’m so good at knowing what i want to do and how i want to present myself and my content to the world but sometimes i have absolutely no clue. i think just going with your heart and deciding on whatever it is that you want to do and then sticking whatever that is for however long you vibe with it. i found that me actually liking what i was doing and how i dressed it up and did my shit… actually really motivated me to continue writing, espcially whenever i really, really, hated it. i feel like loving and believing in what you do helps alot.
sometimes you need to like force yourself to write
this is my last tip and is currently something that i am putting into practice right now in this moment lmao. sometimes sitting at your computer or just writing or making or producing a blog post is the last thing you’d rather do. like trust there will be days where you will have to drag yourself to write and to create even when you don’t feel that spark or that type of joy that you do whenever you want to. and like taking care of whatever it is that you need to do or write or make or whatever it is, i believe you can overcome this mountain of doubt and procrastination and arrive to your destination. i believe in you and you are gonna do some many great things. my gosh, i’m so excited for you.
With Liberty and Justice For All.
Annual reblog!
This looks so powerful. Happy pride month y’all!!!!!!
Maybe some of you are in a place where you need to hear these things. Trust me, it does turn out okay. 💛
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