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shark vs the universe
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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izzy's playlists!
styofa doing anything
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YOU ARE THE REASON
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Kaledo Art
cherry valley forever
Love Begins
todays bird
oozey mess
hello vonnie
Misplaced Lens Cap
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alternate title: young children gawk at flaming homosexuals
Another alternate title: the bailey school kids need to mind their own damn business
the covers with women are equally gay
so basically having these obnoxious kids pry into your personal life is mlm/wlw solidarity
also I learned about this project called “queering the map.” the idea is that in the past gay neighborhoods and gay spaces were very clearly defined bc it just wasn’t safe to be yourself anywhere else. as lgbt+ people become more visible and accepted many feel that we are losing our connection to those spaces
so every dot on this map is basically someone’s queer experience: coming out, meeting their future wife, seeing another gay man in public for the first time, anything you can think of that truly left a mark on them
it started in Montreal and is primarily English-language with most pins dropped in the US, Canada, and Europe, but there are people all over the world who’ve shared their experiences. it’s great to look at places near you but it’s also great to see that even people in places you thought were the middle of nowhere are happy with themselves and finding community and living their lives
It’s here and it’s SO SWEET?? Just clicking around it’s very personal stories, in first person and a lot of them addressed to a specific “you”, and sooo many in extremely poetic language. It feels like an art installation and it’s so beautiful. ;W; Thanks for sharing!!!
… there’s also a lot of really silly ones (like gay sharks in the middle of the ocean)
I looked at Jerusalem and immediately found two favorites for entirely different reasons.
Things I found from the queer community of japan:
It’s no secret to the Japanese that Shinjuku nichome is the gay district of Tokyo but about half the pins left there are for the same club in that area named gold finger. Definitely a place to check out if you’re looking to get involved in the Japanese queer community for whatever reason, it seems.
I have a sneaking suspicion this submission is a haiku when written in Japanese…
This guy got the scenic view I guess
Is this how people feel while reading deep romantic poetry because wow I’m moved.
Honestly the best feeling is learning we’re not as alone as we’ve been led to believe
These are all super poetic oml I appreciate every single one of them
There are none in my town. Guess I’ll be the first
I went to my old, STAUNCHLY conservative town and saw “There are a lot more of us here than most would think, past and present” and I nearly cried
small town australia vibes
oceania gays are funny bitches
With what’s happening in Poland, it’s super important for us queer folks to be able to find each other and take strength from the community. I’ve always loved queering the map and I thank whoever created it every day.
We are everywhere! 💖
I personally added a few of my favorite personal stories.
VILLA OF LIVIA, PRIMAPORTA
Second-style frescoes from the villa suburbana at Primaporta, belonging to Livia Drusilla (57 BC - AD 29), the wife of Augustus Caesar and mother of Tiberius.
The frescoes decorated an underground, windowless room, the function of which is unknown. They are currently on permanent display in the Museo Nazionale Romano in Rome.
poodle werewolf
this speaks to me on a level I didn’t know I contained
Me: *screenshots thingns my girlfriend said to me so i can read it again later* Me: yeah im not gay
Dude no offense, I don’t want go sound like an sjw or anything, but if you have you have a girlfriend you’re straight. That’s just how it works.
Im a girl
What the fuck
certified iconic post
ah, sweet, sweet tumblr notifs
Opening ceremony of the 22nd Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, USSR. July 19, 1980.
Homeschool to prison pipeline
Hey guess what?
We have a homeschool-to-prison pipeline now.
https://www.propublica.org/article/a-teenager-didnt-do-her-online-schoolwork-so-a-judge-sent-her-to-juvenile-detention
Grace is a 15-year-old with ADHD and a long history of behavioral difficulties who ended up on probation after a fight with her mom led to the confiscation of her phone and her briefly stealing a classmate’s phone.
Grace is now in a juvenile facility where her life is at risk from covid because one of her probation conditions was to do her homework, and when her school in Oakland County Michigan went online only, she struggled to complete her distance education homework.
As a result, Judge Mary Ellen Brennan ignored the Michigan governor’s orders to minimize the incarceration of children and ordered Grace imprisoned…for not doing her homework.
The Propublica story on Grace and her single mother Charisse - written by Jodi S Cohen - is a heartbreaker and a half. It paints a picture of a kid whose need for extra educational attention was met by a stern and uncaring system, from caseworker to judge.
Judge Brennan does not come off well in this story. She ordered Grace to appear in person in court - the only case of the day with that requirement - and then refused a continuance when Grace’s lawyer said he would NOT come to court and risk his life to argue her case.
Brennan’s sentence was handed down after Grace’s caseworker Michelle Giroux admitted that she did not know the details of Grace’s learning disabilities and had not familiarized herself with the legally mandated supports for them that Grace had not recieved.
Brennan called Grace a “threat to the community” for missing her homework, denied Grace’s pleas for more time to adjust to homeschooling, and had her taken out of the courtroom in handcuffs.
It goes without saying that, like the majority of Michigan teens sentenced to youth detention in defiance of the governor’s orders, Grace is Black. Black children in Michigan are four times likelier to be imprisoned than their white peers.
Grace has not been permitted to see her mother, except by videoconference. Her mother’s attempts to bring her clothes and toys have been rebuffed by the facility, because of petty rules like those stipulating that underwear must be briefs, or that jeans can’t be “too tight.”
When Grace is brought out for videoconference status meetings with the court, the child is handcuffed and put in ankle shackles. She makes heartbreaking pleas to be returned to her mother. The judge has ordered her held until at least Sept 8.
For missing her homework.
Action: call Judge Mary Ellen Brennan at 248-701-3183 or 248-858-0355 and ask her to reverse her sentence and send Grace back home
this would never never never happen to a white person
I encourage everyone to read the whole article but just want to draw attention to two particularly outrageous parts:
‘She had told her special education teacher that she needed one-on-one help and began receiving daily tutoring the day after the probation violation was filed.
Giroux filed the violation of probation before confirming whether Grace was meeting her academic requirements. She emailed Grace’s teacher three days later, asking, “Is there a certain percentage of a class she is supposed to be completing a day/week?”
Grace’s teacher, Katherine Tarpeh, responded in an email to Giroux that the teenager was “not out of alignment with most of my other students.”
“Let me be clear that this is no one’s fault because we did not see this unprecedented global pandemic coming,” she wrote. Grace, she wrote, “has a strong desire to do well.” She “is trying to get to the other side of a steep learning curve mountain and we have a plan for her to get there.”’
and when she was placed in detention:
‘The local school district provided packets of material but no classes. She said that she has not yet worked with a teacher in person or online, and that she meets less regularly with a therapist at Children’s Village than she did at home.’
There’s a change.org petition here: https://www.change.org/p/oakland-county-family-court-division-and-judge-mary-ellen-brennan-stop-the-school-to-prison-pipeline-grace-should-not-be-incarcerated
The petition also lists these emails to contact the judge and the school district if you’re unable to phone or get through:
Email Judge Mary Ellen Brennan’s clerks:
Email the Communication Director for Birmingham Public Schools, Anne Cron:
If you want to bring this to the attention of the BPS Board of Education:
please sign the petition and send an email to those above, this is so fucked up
Zone plate. Physical optics. 1911.
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Strawberry and Rosemary Jam for Joy, Luck, and Protection.
500g strawberries
500g white sugar
Juice and zest of 1 lemon
Rosemary leaves (a bunch, it’s not precise, add it to your taste)
Rince and remove the leaves of the strawberries.
In a big large pan add the strawberries, sugar and the lemon juice and zest
High heat first until it boils, then medium heat for about half an hour.
Towards the end, pour a few drops of jam in an cold plate to let it cool fast and see the texture. Do it regularly until you are happy with the texture.
Add the finely chopped rosemary leaves.
Once ready, pour the jam in sterilized pots.
Enjoy!
I made Strawberry and Rosemary Jam to bring Joy, Luck and Protection and it has been a long time that I’ve never felt so magical. :-) I don’t have a garden, they come from the farmer market and they were grown in a farm near Edinburgh. I’m really trying to live by the motto “Think global, Act Local.”
Wildlife photographer being followed by a baby Tapir
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MAILING ADDRESS
Town of Tusayan
P.O. Box 709 | 845 Mustang Drive
Tusayan, AZ 86023 PHONE +1 (928) 638-9909
Mayor Craig Sanderson
Vice-Mayor Becky Wirth
Councilor | Brady Harris
Councilor | Al Montoya
Councilor | Robb Baldosky
if you don’t have time to write an email, here’s a pre-written letter: https://pastebin.com/Cc3YBWYA
just copy, add your name, and send the email to a town member!
Please do! Corporations are the biggest criminals of climate change, environmental damage and pollution. Capitalism is rooted in destruction.
This project was rejected in 2016, but the developer resubmitted it last year without actually addressing any of the issues.
The Grand Canyon Trust is collecting comments here: https://www.grandcanyontrust.org/protect-grand-canyons-precious-water-mega-resort. These comments will be sent to Heather Provencio, supervisor of the Kaibab National Forest, Cal Joyner, the Regional Forester and to USDA Forest Service Chief Vicki Christiansen. They are not public,
OP: May 2019
Comment: Jan 2020
here’s an article about the original thread, including a transcription of the tweets & some context (May 28, 2019)
another article that goes more into the issue of water (May 28, 2019) (“The Havasupai Tribe has, in fact, voiced concerns about groundwater pumping near the Grand Canyon. In 2016, the tribe sued the city of Williams and other well owners, saying the drilling of more wells for resorts, developments, theme parks and uranium mines, among other businesses, increasingly threatens the tribe’s water. […] Duthie said those sorts of concerns shouldn’t hinder Stilo’s proposal for the hotel on Kotzin Ranch because the company wouldn’t use a well.”)
as of January 24, 2020, Stilo had submitted a “a revised proposal for roads and utility easements connecting to parcels of land they own that are surrounded by the Kaibab National Forest” (unanimously approved). opening these roads would require “some blasting.” as regards the groundwater:
Gitlin also worried that the new proposal did not adequately protect the area’s groundwater.
The proposal promises that commercial water needs — which during peak season, would be 275,000 gallons a day — would have to be hauled in by truck. It still allows “residential uses” to be met by pumping groundwater.
In the proposal, Stilo offered to agree to a “complete prohibition” on commercial groundwater use, except in the event of “technological breakthroughs resulting in proven zero-impact upon groundwater resources.”
It suggested a restrictive covenant or a conservation easement to enforce that restriction, but it’s not clear who would be responsible for that enforcement.
effectively, plans for development are going forward, & previous reassurances that no immediate proposals were being made seem like lies.
it’s worth mentioning in light of some other comments going around that the issue here isn’t preserving the untouched pristine beauty of nature or something–this kind of terra nullius-inflected rhetoric in fact relies upon colonialist & genocidal logic–but rather the responsibilities & livelihoods of the people who belong to the land & stand to be harmed by these proposals.
incidentally, the Havasupai Tribe have a COVID-19 relief fund that you can donate to here, in addition to emailing & calling the people listed above.
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Important ideas to consider when creating characters who are black and indigenous people of color. (x)
As much as this makes some good points, I gotta stop and question Suzie, who it appears they are using to explain the Mamie archetype???? Excuse me? Suzie, kind but not a pushover, everyone wants to be her friend, better than everyone else at everything, ambitious to a fault, take no shit future President Suzie? Are you trying to tell me she has no agency as a character just because she’s not part of the main cast??????? I can’t-
And Esmeralda?! Like, you’re questioning why this bih has funny color eyes when she is LITERALLY NAMED ESMERALDA BECAUSE SHE HAS GREEN EYES. She had such striking features as a baby, particularly her green eyes, that she was named Esmeralda, but you wanna question why she has green eyes I’m-
ALSO none of the white-haired ladies have European features AT ALL, except the eyes and hair! Kida in particular- it is shown that her entire culture has white hair and it probably has to do with the crystals they use, but having a striking color palate is apparently bad I guess. We need more POC of every kind but that includes letting us have funky hair colors!
DO YOU REALIZE THAT I HAVE BEEN TOLD I CANNOT HAVE COLORED HAIR? I have been told that having my hair bleached or dyed seems like I am trying to hard, or more often that I am “ghetto” or “ratchet”!!!!! This kind of bullshit like “oh black people don’t have hair that color” BITCH I WILL HAVE WHATEVER COLOR HAIR I WANT. It perpetuates this kind of racism that limits us as individuals, it just makes me so mad. No one fucking blinks when an anime protagonist has fucking spiked blue hair, or huge pink ringlets, and every other fucking classmate has black or brown hair. But put lilac hair on a black girl and suddenly we’re the ones perpetuating racism?! The fuck? Get out
AAAAAAHAHAHAA I’m looking through the comments and reblogs of this and my god, the white people seem to just nod and agree and every actual POC is commenting with “Using [this character] as an example is bullshit and here’s why”
Personally i do think theres an actual trend with media where you don’t rely on real actors, where POC characters are never allowed to have like. Black hair AND dark brown eyes AND dark skin. Or even like any of the two? Of course irl POC have dyed hair and light eyes but the perception that dark hair and eyes are “boring” can be because white people idealise light hair and eyes, and the insistence on giving POC funky eye and hair colours to make them seem more exotic and different.
(The point I’m making isn’t that wacky hair colours on POC is bad but if it’s ONLY used for characters that would—genetic mutations and animanga aside—have black or dark brown hair and never for any white characters then it just gives off the sense that POC are inherently different. Like no white person would dye their hair pink just for kicks but every East Asian girl have a purple streak in her hair)
Imo a good way to interpret some of the items on this list is like. You shouldn’t have ALL or even like. Half of your characters fall into these tropes. (Some of them are definite no-gos tho)
Like if ALL your non-white characters only exist to shill your white characters with no real depth or story of their own. If ALL your non-white characters have unnatural hair and eye colours but none of your white characters do. If ALL your non-white characters have minimal agency in their plotlines while the white characters get to drive their own stories. Then that’s a problem.
And obviously you can’t just toss in one throwaway character that subverts these criteria and say that’s good enough. In the same way that having one gay background character isn’t adequate representation for gay people, having one background not-iffy-POC-archetype isn’t a good idea either.
Imo if you think you might have a problematic characterisation, it’s a good idea to have another (somewhat important on their own, as in they’re not simply a plot device you could replace with a helpful lamp) character to subvert it. If you only have one black character and they’re a hip-hop loving street kid then 100% of your black representation is limited to that.
Also subverting doesn’t mean INVERTING. You’re still transparent af if your alternate characterisation is Black and Nerdy or an Asian Airhead. Inverting a racial stereotype isn’t original nor does it make it less of a stereotype. Also in general don’t rely on stereotypes to characterise. Archetypes are fine to use as bases to flesh out characters, but if they fall into racial stereotypes that just not a good idea. (Nothing says you have to make the quiet goth kid white, but you should think twice before making your delinquent bad boy black.)
Obviously experiences aren’t universal and even among the same racial demographics you’ll find disparities and disagreements. The thing about diversity is that one story doesn’t need to represent everyone. You just need enough acceptance that people will consume more than one kind of representation.
here’s a compilation of some of the most galaxy brain tweets i’ve ever read
