#us life

[auseyre]

The Galveston Daily News, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Happy Juneteenth

In honor of those who cast off one burden and picked up another. The General did not lie in his last line. We have not been supported in idleness nor in labor, not in struggle or in joy.

Enjoy the cookout and don't mourn those we've had to uninvite. That just leaves more space for those who belong.

We have loved this country even when it didn't love us. It has shown us over and over again who it is, and now many of us finally believe it.

To quote Dr. Angela Anderson, “No longer am I willing to prioritize those to whom I am replaceable at the expense of those to whom I am not.”

Heal. Rest, and be ready for the coming struggles. Remember, survival is in our DNA.

Our Watch Is Ended

[dancingwerewolf]

Living through "these interesting times" is not what I signed up for. 9/11 should have been our only significant moment in history.

Significant moments in history should have a limit of one per lifetime.

We surely must have reached our limit by now? Right?! RiGhT!?!?

[living400lbs]

"The reality is that I’ve never had bodily autonomy in the US—not as a Black queer woman. And there are many people who have had even less. Trans people. Disabled people. Poor Black, brown, and Indigenous people. Incarcerated people.

The shocking assault on our rights that came with the numerous anti-abortion bills and then the devastating Supreme Court ruling echoed previous attacks on marginalized and vulnerable people throughout our country’s history. And only now—when cisgender, middle-class white women can feel the threat—is this considered an emergency.

But the same people right now deciding whether or not people will be forced to carry a pregnancy to term against their will are the same people deciding that Black, brown, and Indigenous people should be funneled into our prison systems, that the quality of life for disabled people doesn’t matter, that trans people shouldn’t have gender-affirming care or the ability to financially meet their basic needs or even use a bathroom safely.

The assault on our bodily autonomy didn’t start with the Supreme Court ruling, and it won’t end there either. And it is our racism, classism, ableism, and transphobia that have stopped us from coming together to fight this threat as hard as we should have."

-from Be A Revolution by Ijeoma Oluo

[killermanatee]

Oh, Muhrica.

Only in America can you see "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" on cable at 8 am on a Sunday while people are deadly afraid to hear the word "fuck" or, even worse, see a female nipple on said TV.

I'm too foreign for this.

[sunofmists]

Mình kiệt sức đến nỗi cảm thấy năm giây tiếp theo có thể đột quỵ mà hấp hối.

[sunofmists]

The first disadvantage ever of being over 18 is not be able to receive free food.

[oceanusedtobruise]

my gf's parents are watching a murder show and her dad went: "oh yeah, he might not be watching this (my gf's 13 yo kid)"

her mom: oh shoot i forgot that they use bad language in the show

her dad: not the language, literally everything else in the show. im sure he's okay with bad language at his age.