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Luther ○ they/them (or any neopronouns) ○ 24 ○ fandom hoarder ○ blog contains untagged nsfw ○ I can't reliably tag for triggers so I won't promise to do so

[depsidase]

[frontierpsychoanalyst]

Solarpunk is real punk because a) it makes people angry and b) it's lame

[thekalpar]

My spouse and I were talking last night and the jeans problem came up so I want to talk about it with tumblr here.

The jeans problem was the favorite lecture one of my philosophy professors in college gave about the history of jeans and how it ties into capitalism/mainstream culture absorbing and monetizing any counterculture it encounters. So prior to the 1950s jeans were mostly an item of work-wear that you wore on the job as a farmer or factory worker or miner because they were cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. If you were off the job you'd wear what we'd call now dress pants or slacks. This changes in the 1950s when youth culture start wearing jeans as regular clothing, again because they're cheap, durable, and hard-wearing. But then jeans get absorbed by the culture and we start getting designer jeans, acid-washed jeans, pre-ripped jeans, and now we got people shelling out hundreds of dollars for "povertycore" aesthetic. And now jeans aren't even cheap, durable, and hard-wearing.

This came up because my spouse was talking about thrifting and spooky things (two of her favorite things) and how there was this trend of buying a landscape painting from a thrift store which was probably going to end up in a garbage dump and painting a sheet ghost on it to make it art millennials would like. But now you can go to Michael's or Home Goods or wherever and just buy a landscape painting with a sheet ghost on it, mass-manufactured by a corporation. The counter-culture once again being monetized and absorbed by the culture. It's the jeans problem again.

[cutecipher]

abled people put a high price on any disability aids or accommodation and then wag their fingers about how disabled people are bourgeoisie. those are the only disabled people you see because the rest of us are confined to our houses or dead.

[trangoldin]

[itstoys]

guh

[dogpuppy]

[animentality]

[bambamramfan]

unironically so important

[parkayquarts]

im glad we're mostly out of the "girls are so soft uwu" era. it was really hard for me to go through as a girl with a segmented carapace covered in hundreds of tiny barbs

[fatartappreciation]

Great art from Selena Mecho!

[enba-and-luka]

[androdragynous]

I don't think "gentrification" applies to "tumblr sexyman" actually. I think gentrification might actually be an important word with a clear definition that does not apply to which white guy is deemed the most fuckable on a social media website. could just be me though

[northst4rrrr]

Kill all Meta glasses wearers

[lagonegirl]

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/what_state_prisoners_get_to_wo.html

OMG 

[pinehutch]

Things that I knew about: that the mass incarceration of people in the USA , particularly black men, has direct ties to/is an extension of slavery. Things I did not know: this specific shit about Louisiana HOLY FUCK this is evil.

[i-hate-you3000]

OH MY GOSH????

'Modern-Day Slavery': Many Southern States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governor's Mansions and Capitol Buildings - Human Trafficking Sear

When activist Sam Sinyangwe was awaiting a meeting with the governor’s office at the Louisiana state capitol building in Baton Rouge, he not

At Least Seven States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governors' Mansions and Capitol Buildings

The 13th Amendment provides a loophole that allows for the legality of unpaid prison labor, which is sometimes called "modern-day slavery."

[joy-haver]

Grew up next to Angola. It’s much worse than you think

[sisterreisaid]

I wonder how many people are imprisoned for weed

[kaccvcate]

I’m from Mississippi and it’s like this in my home town. Enslaved prisoners clean roadways, pick cotton, everything they’ve done since before slavery was supposedly ended. What they teach in schools is nothing but propaganda.

[momphineasandferbmadeablog]

[flowerbleedme]

you can have sex with music or abstract concepts but we still haven't found a way to have sex with people

[justasmidgx]

If trans men mention ourselves on like any post mentioning trans women, we get yelled at and told to "make your own posts"

But then when we DO make our own posts, then people come and yell at us for not mentioning trans women, or say how actually trans women experience the same thing but worse so we aren't allowed to talk about our problems

like I think the first thing is generally valid! you shouldn't derail posts, that's just basic internet courtesy, but then why is it okay to derail the posts we make about ourselves???

and like the majority of the time i see this, it's not trans women doing this. the majority of trans women are supportive of their brothers, just like the majority of trans men i see support their sisters. it's like...so much of the time it's cis people doing this derailing on posts about transandrophobia???

it's just frustrating that if we mention ourselves on a post, we're told to make our own posts. but if we actually MAKE those posts, we're told to shut the fuck up and stop complaining