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I’m proud of these Ontario teachers who are refusing to teach the 1998 sex ed curriculum that Doug Ford is trying to impose in the fall. I hope more teachers follow suit.

Text of tweets:

Shannon Salisbury‏:

I absolutely will not teach a health curriculum that is 20 years old.

It is unethical for me to do so, and I’m pretty sure it would contravene the standards of practice of my profession.

Just a reminder: the word consent appears ZERO times in the 1998 iteration.

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Derik Chica‏:

I am a teacher. I am not a curriculum robot.

I will teach consent, Truth and Reconciliation, and gender/sexual diversities. Equity policy will let me do this.

I will not bring my classroom back decades because @LisaThompsonMPP decided to turn “curriculum” back decades #ONpoli

thechanelmuse

9 Famous Faces On The Struggles and Beauty of Being Afro-Latino

Afro-Latinos face many challenges when it comes identity, particularly when people refuse to believe that being Black AND Latino aren’t mutually exclusive experiences.

The Latino identity denotes an ethnicity, which means that Latinos exist in every color and race imaginable – and explaining the difference between race and ethnicity can be quite a cumbersome task to take on on a daily basis. And yet, many Afro-Latinos are often forced to do so after being told they’re not “Latino enough” or being asked to choose between being Black and Latino.

Afro-Latinxs exist!

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Afro-latin@s struggle with being ignored by the media because for some reason people don’t believe you can be both Latino and Black. This is why there’s so much controversy when it comes to race and ethnicity. People try to paint Latin@s as this light brown or even white skinned when there are many dark skinned Latin@s. They are in all parts of South America, Central America, the Caribbean, & in North America (Mexico). Unfortunately, these folks aren’t represented in the media much and we have portrayed Latin@s in a certain way that has shaped the thoughts of others when they hear that word.

thechanelmuse

^ Say that. There’s the blatant erasure by the media, as well as the fellow Latinxs who shun blackness. Then there’s the serious lack of knowledge by people who still don’t understand the clear difference between race and ethnicity, and assume Black means “African American” (which it does not), so as a result they question your identity. Race does not denote one’s ethnicity/ethnicities. Latinxs do not have a specific look or skin color. There are sooooooo many brown skin Latinxs out here.

Black and Cuban at the same damn time.

Black and Puerto Rican at the same damn time.

Black and Colombian at the same damn time.

Black and Dominican at the same damn time.

Black and Mexican at the same damn time.

Black and Honduran at the same damn time.

Black and Ecuadorian at the same damn time.

Black and Nicaraguan at the same damn time.

Black and Panamanian at the same damn time.

Black and Peruvian at the same damn time.

Black and Uruguayan at the same damn time.

Black and Venezuelan at the same damn time.

There’s way more to be listed, but I think y’all get it now…hopefully.

democrips

fake conversations in your head of you venting to someone

seriousjones

today I learned that bearded john mulaney is the third property brother

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this is a darksided image

allthecanadianpolitics

I knew this photoset would be meme’d sooner or later.

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Justin Trudeau’s decision was a terrible one, but it wouldn’t have stopped Ford. Provincial electoral law is determined by provincial legislatures. Ontario had its chance for electoral reform under Dalton McGuinty (Kathleen Wynne’s predecessor as head of the Liberal party), in 2007. And much as Trudeau betrayed Canada on electoral reform, McGuinty betrayed Ontario. He held formed a ‘citizen’s assembly’ to ‘study the issue’ and even followed it up with a referendum. Which he then sabotaged to hell and back to make damned sure that it would fail.

Each of them knew, when they made their choice, that doing so would almost assuredly result in false majorities for Conservative governments (an unfortunate byproduct of continuing their own false majorities), and that at least some of those conservative governments would enact extreme right-wing policies which would devastate the lives of many of the common people of Canada. They didn’t care. They don’t care. That is Liberalism at its core. Behind the platitudes and the ‘sunny ways’. Their lives are comfortable. Canada serves them well. Fuck the rest of us.

allthecanadianpolitics

The point is that someone with the same general politics as Doug Ford (i.e. Rebel Media backed Andrew Scheer with his Social Conservative views) could become Prime Minister because of First Past the Post. And if that happens and the Conservatives win a majority government with ~39% of the vote, the blame falls directly on Justin Trudeau.

The point is that Justin Trudeau fear mongered about Proportional Representation saying it would give extremists power, and now he is seeing face to face that First Past the Post is giving a man like Doug Ford absolute power over Canada’s largest populated province.

But yeah the above is good commentary too.

mathbalnase

And before Ford, before Trudeau’s betrayal, before even Trudeau’s ascendancy, there was Harper. And before Harper, there was Ontario’s own Harris.

But for the reality of Liberal ideology and priorities, you need look no further than Wynne, who proclaimed Ford ‘equally as bad’ for Ontario as the NDP’s Horwath, whose policies Wynne had spent the past two years plundering, and the Liberal party insiders who argued that a Ford government would even be preferable to Horwath.

By their own words and actions, Liberals would rather extremist conservatism than even moderate social democracy.

Explicitly. Undeniably. They know what it is they do. They fully intend it. Seeing the effects of their willful complicity yet again isn’t going to change their minds.

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This seems like something everyone should know if they’re in the sciences and/or interested in reading scientific papers.

identificat

This is the most bizarre yet pure thing I’ve ever encountered on grindr

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Are you going?

gonefashion

these guys went and said it was wholesome and fun!

and look what he said

https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/grindr-bbq-not-orgy?utm_term=.ur27oKlpv#.yfXpzGdkZ

itsjstiles

You know you’re Canadian when you get physically sick every time the temperature goes above 30°

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I spent like 15 hours on this.

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*impressed slow clap*

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This was ridiculously pleasing to read out loud.

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This is a legitimately fine poem. I say so with my BA in English and Philosophy and my PhD. It’s DAMN HARD to write something like this. Be impressed, yo.

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Transcript of poem in screenshot:

First the cracker batter baker bakes a cracker batter batch then the cracker batter mixer door will open and unlatch so the batter mixer nozzle can descend onto the patch where the cracker batter spreads out for the nozzle to attach.

When the cracker mixer nozzle sprays the cracker batter spray and the cracker batch emulsion lies a-soaking in its haze then the cracker batter mixer starts to stir up all the glaze that the final cracker stacker needs to lubricate the way.

Once the cracker stacker handle stacks the cracker batter squares then the cracker batter’s hardened into double stacks of pairs. Now the cracker separator breaks the crackers in the stackers so the wrappers on the stackers fit the finished stacking crackers. Then they’re distributed to Wal-Mart.

naamahdarling

I forgot about this magnificent poem, and you probably did too. Here it is again.

I highly recommend trying to read it aloud, it feels delightful and is almost impossible.

mindblowingfactz

Lightning hasn’t brought down a plane since 1963, due to careful engineering that lets the electric charge of a lightning bolt run through the plane and out of it.

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black and asian vikings 100% definitely existed (also, saami vikings)

you know how far you can get into eurasia and africa by sailing up rivers from the baltic and mediterranean seas? pretty fucking far, and that’s what vikings liked to do to trade

then, you know, people are people, so love happens, business happens, and so ppl get married and take spouses back home to the frozen hellscape that is scandinavia (upon which i’m guessing the horrorstruck new spouses went “WHAT THE FUCK??? FUCKING GIVE ME YOUR JACKET???????”)

and sometimes vikings bought thralls and brought them home as well, and i mean, when your indentured service is up after however many years and you’re a free person again, maaaaaaaaaaaaybe it’s a bit hard to get all the way home across the continent, so you make the best out of the situation and you probably get married and raise a gaggle kids

so yeah

viking kingdoms/communities were not uniformly pure white aryan fantasy paradises, so pls stop using my cultural history and ethnic background to excuse your racist discomfort with black ppl playing heimdall and valkyrie

shrewreadings

Also we KNOW they got to Asia and Africa.

Why?

Because Asians, Africans, and Vikings TOLD US SO.

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Also, we know there was significant mercantile trade between Scandinavia and parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Northern India, Kashmir, North and Eastern Africa because there is evidence in burial sites.

Check that out: the goods Vikings and Scandinavians were getting from their trade with the rest of the world was so important they buried themselves with it, as part of their treasure hordes.

We KNOW this.

There’s a reason you can still see many of the trade routes from the ancient world etched into the very earth.

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Plus, we know that some Scandinavian cultures that participated in Viking raids had established minority communities of ethnically Mongolian folks living among them during the periods when such raids were common, and it’s difficult to credit that none of them would have signed on.

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Islamic Ring in Viking Grave

Vikings in Persia

Black Vikings

Vikings in North Africa

Buddha statue in Viking hoard

Vikings brought Native American woman to Europe

Unflattering texts in Arabic about Vikings

Original text by Ahmad ibn-Fadlan

More about the Islamic World and Vikings (some Vikings converted to Islam! sort of sketchy site tho)

Viking technology came from Afghanistan

More on trade route determination via metallurgy

… is that enough? :)

queer-wizard-dad

Yet another on the pile of reasons why it monumentally honks me off when pusillanimous, pseudointellectual white supremacist scum try to use Scandinavian culture as a crutch for their arguments and act like Norse mythology agrees with their biases. No it fucking doesn’t, bitch. Odin would personally kick you in the dick for being a witless coward and then send your ass to the Realm of the Dishonored Dead.

armory-rasa

I don’t usually reblog stuff, but this thread makes me so happy. See, I love the Viking aesthetic – I love the fusion of organic and geometric in its designs, I love the natural colors, the complexity of textures you get from juxtaposing metal/leather/cloth/fur–

–and I hate how the entire subculture has been so thoroughly co-opted by white supremacists. To the point where I, a person who likes viking stuff, am deeply and immediately suspect of anyone else who likes viking stuff, guilty until proven innocent, cuz that’s what the odds are these days.

Anyway.

As far as I’m concerned, anyone can be a viking, and thus I am so, so pleased to find that the historical record backs me up.

(And amused that Arab intellectual Ahmad ibn Fadlan was so thirsty for vikings.)

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@whisky-gerblin

puddeneen

The Hobbit Trilogy: Home (Trailer) (by Medley Weaver @ YouTube)

i feel like this captures what they were aiming for with this trilogy better than the trilogy itself?? just … wow

baggvinshield

i just watched this again and it’s still the worst thing that ever happened to me

depressionarmy

New research suggests that people who previously suffered from depression can thrive and live happier lives than before. Why aren't more people aware of that?

Good question!

trashcannie

if you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to live in the midwest, this is it.

jasperzilla

You missed some of the best ones

dragonastra

the best part about it is that the art installation isn’t actually called the Bean. It’s called Cloud Gate, and artist Anish Kapoor (yes, THAT Anish Kapoor) hates that we call it the Bean.

But i mean, look at it. It’s a bean.

vashthestampedee

How could you forget this one though

akamine-chan

I HAD NO FUCKING IDEA THAT THE BEAN WAS CREATED BY ANISH KAPOOR.

solongstarbird

someone help me why is anish kapoor important what did he do?

gay-jesus-probably

Alright sit down for some Art World Drama bcause this is what I live for.

So, sometime last year (?) science invented Vantablack, which is the darkest possible shade of black. Art world got incredibly excited. But as it needs to be very carefully made in a lab, it’s hard to get a hold of, and is extremely expensive. Enter Anish Kapoor, aka FuckFace McGee. Anish Kapoor buys the rights to Vantablack. He is the only human being on the planet that can legally use it, and he’s kind of a prick about it.

Art world is not thrilled with that.

Enter Stuart Semple.

Stuart Semple is an artist, and also makes pigments to sell in his free time. Stuart Semple is astoundingly pissed about this Vantablack nonsense, and Anish Kapoor’s dickery. Stuart Semple makes a new pigment, the brightest shade of pink ever, called Pinkest Pink, and puts it for sale on the internet. To be bought by everybody except Anish Kapoor. Literally, to purchase, you need to confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, do not associate with him, and will not sell or give the pigment to Anish Kapoor or his associates. Art world has a good laugh, everyone buys Pinkest Pink because it’s awesome, and damn it we deserve something.

Anish Kapoor however is a penis, and will not take this lying down, because HOW DARE he not have literally everything.

Anish Kapoor gets his London associates to buy him a thing of Pinkest Pink, and being such a classy human being, posts a picture to instagram of him with his middle finger covered in Pinkest Pink, captioned with “Up yours. #pink”

Everyone flips shit, because. Y’know. Fuck that guy. Especially Stuart Semple. For context here, Anish Kapoor is one of the richest artists on the planet, and has repeatedly been referred to as everything wrong with the art world, and the epitome of the art worlds elitism problem. He’s a giant douchebag. Meanwhile Stuart Semple makes pigments just to get them out there. He turns 0 profit from his now enourmously popular pigments.

Stuart Semple launches an investigation as to who the fuck leaked Pinkest Pink, and plans to strike back. He does so by releasing two new products. First is Diamond Dust, which is a glitter made from glass, so that a painting is still visible after it’s applied, but glitters like a mofo. It’s the most reflective glitter out there, and is available to everyone who isn’t Anish Kapoor. And it being made of glass, if you stick your finger in there, it’s going to hurt quite a bit, so that was Stuart Semple’s way of saying “shove your middle finger in this, asshole, see what happens”. Except without saying that, because he can get an insult across while still being fucking classy.

He also releases Black 2.0, created with the help of over a thousand artists worldwide.

Black 2.0 is the answer to Vantablack. Black 2.0 is a slightly less black black, but looks functionally the same to the human eye. It’s completely safe, smells like cherries, and costs four pounds. Vantablack is highly toxic, potentially explosive, needs to be applied in a special laboratory and sealed properly, can’t be moved across borders, can reach 300 degrees celsius if you’re not extremely careful, and costs thousands of dollars. Anish Kapoor is the only human being who can use Vantablack. He is the only human being who cannot use Black 2.0.

So I think we can guess who got the better deal.

And thus the feud ends, Kapoor defeated.

…But not quite.

Kapoor, in this entire afair, has made exactly two comments to the public. The first being his charming message about aquiring Pinkest Pink, the second being claiming to Buzzfeed that he and his small army of lawyers will be suing Semple, an extremely poor artist who cannot afford a lawyer.

No lawsuit has been made yet, fyi.

The point is, Kapoor is a prick, and doesn’t like talking to the lower classes. So one day in July 2017, he decides he needs another floor on his London studio apartment, and starts making arrangements to have it built. His neighbors are fucking pissed, because this will ruin the light of their apartments. They call to Semple to save them, or at the very least piss Kapoor off some more.

Semple answers to the call, and releases two new paints, Phaze and Shift, as always, banned to Kapoor. They change colours, Phaze with temperature, and Shift is just iridescent. Shift needs to be painted over Black 2.0 to work, and Phaze just works on its own.

So that’s been the art world for the last two years.

Basically, get fucked Anish Kapoor your bean sucks and so does your vantablack.

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Stuart Semple is organising a bean-kissing event for Anish Kapoor’s birthday.

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Reblogging for “By attending this event you confirm that you are not Anish Kapoor, you are in no way affiliated with Anish Kapoor, you are not attending on behalf of Anish Kapoor or an associate of Anish Kapoor. To the best of your knowledge, information, and belief this event will not be attended by Anish Kapoor.”

queen-of-heck

ALSO HE JUST POSTED THIS!!!!!! LIGHTEST LIGHT!

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I know this isn’t my art blog but this entire post gives me life

galahadiant

im sorry is that man holding a real actual miniature star in his hands

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Y’all missed the best part about the lightest light, called aptly ‘Lit’. This is from their product page:

claydart

Two things:

1. “Anish Kapoor is however a penis” is the best line in this post.

2. I wish to be half as petty and half as awesome as Stuart Semple

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I hope Stuart Semple is making a lot of money. What a good person.

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Go support him the paint’s are pretty cheap and you get the added bonus of being one of many to help piss off Anish Kapoor

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Taika Waititi actively made sure not only Māori but other indigenous identities, specifically aboriginal Australians, were represented in his film since they were filming on their ancestral lands.

he invited the Yugambeh mob to welcome them and even had a Māori Kaumātua (elder) to perform a Karakia, “a kind of open-up ceremony from [his] side of things as well.”

he hired an Aboriginal water company to supply that water on set

he wanted to make space for indigenous filmmakers and thus had 8 indigenous interns on set to learn and gain film experience

yes, Taika is a lot of fun and super goofy. But that doesn’t mean Ragnarok doesn’t stand for something bigger. Taika is not only the first Polynesian man to direct a superhero movie, but he is also the first indigenous person to do so too. While he is barrel of laughs and a half, please don’t forget what Taika brought to the MCU. (x) (x) (x)

allthecanadianpolitics

Peace by Chocolate, a company founded by Syrian refugees, has launched a new line of Pride bars with wrappers that look like the flags of different LGBTQ movements.

Nova Scotia’s most famous chocolate company is making waves once again with its newest line of Pride-themed chocolate bars.

One dollar from each bar sold goes to the Phoenix Youth Program, a Halifax-based youth support organization.

Tareq Hadhad, who was a Syrian refugee and is the founder of Peace by Chocolate, said the sentiment behind the bars reaches to the core of the company’s message.

“Our company, since it was founded, we have core values: peace (and) building towards inclusion and support of all the just issues in the country and the world,” Hadhad said in an interview.

“You cannot really build peace (while) excluding members of the country,” he said. “We wanted to celebrate the Pride month with LGBTQ because we felt like this was the right thing to do.”

The LGBTQ chocolate bars:

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@allthecanadianpolitics

PSA!!!

Just a head’s up to anyone who wants to order from them: most of the chocolate contains nuts, so be careful if you have food allergies. They have a list of ingredients on the website!

#there’s an ace bar!!!