pancake mix

its a mixed bag • she/her

[arteei]

you use ai baby pictures i use stupid gifs that don’t fit the situation we are not the same

[butchfriend]

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

[cognitiveinequality]

[sturionic]

For anyone unfamiliar with Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the entire thesis is that traditional educational models promote oppression by removing students' agency in their own learning. Freire argues that currently education functions as a "banking model" - teachers are the holders of knowledge, and students are empty vessels, waiting to have that knowledge put into their heads like a piggy bank. This reinforces a passive attitude towards information, not seeking and understanding it on your own terms, but waiting for a "banker" to deposit it into your head.

Instead, Freire proposes that teachers and students act as co-creators of knowledge, where students become active participants in their own learning through questions and dialogue. Teachers are also open to changing their understanding of topics in the process of critical dialogue - the goal is not "student learns Fact A and memorizes it as presented," but instead the goal is the knowledge itself, discovered collaboratively by teacher and student, who are acting with empathy and respect towards each other. This also starts the process of the oppressed being able and empowered to question structures of power, take agency, and actively participate in the transformation of society.

So, the irony of writing an AI essay on critical pedagogy is actually insane; because it's essentially the extrapolated endpoint of Freire's arguments that our current educational system creates passive receptacles who not only can't think critically in an educational context, but also become the perfect citizens for a world that doesn't want us questioning structures of power, to view those in power as we viewed our teachers - deliverers of indisputable facts that must be memorized and regurgitated because they command it, and not co-creators of true understanding.

[transjudas]

never take for granted the moments when you’re not nauseous

[wifegideonnav]

gonna be honest i don’t know how many more ‘enter the 6 digit code we sent to your phone’s i got left in me

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[downtowndoll94]

like whoopie goldberg said I don’t want somebody in my house

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

You just teleported to the last movie you watched! how is it going?

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[vexheart]

There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

[hollanderthoughts]

“What are you waiting for” there has to be a perfect moment where the door is open and my real life is on the other side waiting for me and if I wait long enough for just the right moment then maybe just maybe no one will hate me for going through that door. Maybe they’d even understand why had to do what I did to get there.

[stood-onthecliffside]

[amour-nourriture-deactivated201]

i was toxic to some and a blessing to others. im willing to admit i wasn’t always in the right.

[papayajuan2019]

going to the choices made in anger market. what do you guys want

[storm-of-feathers]

tumblr is great bc its like a diary where I can take other peoples diary entries and glue them into my own diary

[wildhood]

cut through the park on my way home from the cinema

[gothhabiba]

do you know what we don't talk about often enough? there is no physically comfortable posture in which to read a book

[transfemininomenon]

[anistarrose]

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

[transfaguette]

I disagree that periods *aren’t* gross, but they’re also no more gross than other bodily fluids and waste like urine, feces and vomit. Sometimes life is gross and that’s nothing to be ashamed of. If you treat periods any differently from the above then that’s a problem and a double standard.

[transfaguette]

some people have responded to this saying “period blood is as sanitary as venous blood” which, yes is true, but you still wouldn’t want to sit in it on the bus or something, ESPECIALLY since blood-borne illnesses could still be transferred this way. Also, same with urine, while it is “sterile” inside of your body, the openings of your body are not! Once it leaves your body it has already been contaminated by the germs and bacteria around your genitals. The whole point is that, bodies are kinda gross, and that’s ok. Having an accident or a bleed-through happens and it’s nothing to be ashamed of, but it also isn’t a pleasant experience for anyone involved and thats! okay!

[magnetothemagnificent]

The moment period blood becomes this “sacred, holy substance”, that’s when you get into misogynist, new-age trad bullshit that’s usually also ableist and transphobic.

Period blood is just blood. If someone next to you on the subway started bleeding, sure, you might get squeamish, but you’d want to help them right? Same with a bleed-through.

It’s okay to be concerned about the hygiene of period blood, because after all, it’s bodily fluids. It’s just not okay to treat people who menstruate like they’re dirty or shameful. You wouldn’t treat someone with a nosebleed like that, right?

Just….stop treating period blood like it’s different, whether it’s treating it like it’s shameful or sacred. Both stigmatize menstruation and lead to harm.