theadora

What is grief if not love persevering?

[parrotiny]

i want to know what bears think sometimes

[mediocrechick]

[parrotiny]

[morgluxia]

[doublesslightpeppa-deactivated2]

[ofools]

[secondclassvines]

“quick psa here folks”

[snootyweevil]

[frawgs]

If you ever hear me breathe deeply it’s not because I’m annoyed it’s because I forget to breathe sometimes

[afronerdism]

The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

[afronerdism]

To explain what I mean, the conversation around cultural appropriation was started by black and native people to discuss the frustrations we feel at being punished socially and financially for partaking in our cultural heritage while white people could take, I.e. appropriate, aspects of our culture that we are actively shamed for and be heralded as innovators. It was about the frustrations we feel when the same white people who shamed us would take our culture and wear it as if they were the ones who created it while still actively shaming us for doing the same.

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.

White People are always asking me what they can do to help. You want to know? Stop talking. Aplify our voices and shut the fuck up because you all have pretty much derailed this conversation and many more like it to the point that we no longer are trying to make steps to understand and dismantle the racism around cultural appropriation and instead are just using it as social shaming tactics.

[afronerdism]

TL;DR: read my post. Most things worth learning about can’t be summarized in the bullet points of a buzfeed article. Don’t come into academic circles and complain because everything hasn’t been conviently summarized for you. Stop pretending that things aren’t accessible to you because you refuse to do the intellectual labor that is learning.

[politijohn]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[butchyena]

ive been doing a lot of youtube recipe binging lately so i was recommended this video and i was like fuck it diet soup why not

and it sounded pretty tasty so after the vid i scrolled down to see what people thought of it, and i just really need to share with you all what the comment section is like

and for the one that broke me:

[joedizzlefoshizzel]

[tayloralison]

trump got the full covid experience, unemployment included

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Winnipeg family desperate for ethnically diverse stem cell donor to save 3-month-old boy

A three-month-old boy in Winnipeg is going through his first round of chemotherapy, while his family searches for a stem cell donor that could help save his life.

A three-month-old boy in Winnipeg is going through his first round of chemotherapy, while his family searches for a stem cell donor that could help save his life.

[blenderman-deactivated20230314]

They need a half-caucasian and half-Filippino donor. I know not everyone will click through the link but they need people who are half-Caucasian and half-Fillippino.

[demoralizedlycanthrope]

[bigforeheadgaaal]

[baddaydiary]

[image description: a screenshot of a twitter post by user @steve_kingmagic

post, which includes a picture of a bag of used inhalers, says: Another batch of used inhalers sent for recycling.  There is absolutely no need for these to go to landfill.  Inhalers are made of high quality plastics and aluminium.  Please keep returning these to the pharmacy, we really appreciate it.  Please share this important message (blushing emoji) (bracelet emoji?)

end image description]

[babyanimalgifs]

Starting the day with an Otter

[oxfordcommaforever]

Oh. My. God.

[whateverwaythewindblows]

It’s like a cat snake and I want an army of them

[catsforlifeblr]

[exgynocraticgrrl-archive-deacti]

Malcolm X: Our History Was Destroyed By Slavery

on March 17, 1963 in Chicago.

[literatenonsense]

see how little we get taught about history - I never had any idea why Malcolm X used the ‘X’. 

[vitamincream]

[diary-of-a-chinese-kid]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[codewitch]

All the big tech companies sent their workers home weeks before the Bay Area ordered shelter in place, and the bay area was the first place in the US to order it. As a software engineer, I haven’t been to my office since March 12th when I dropped by to pick up some equipment. My company has been less forthright with giving hard dates of when we’ll go back, but they’ve made it clear it isn’t anytime soon and even that they keep pushing back.

If google, Facebook, Apple aren’t asking their software engineers, who can all do their jobs at home but maybe less effectively, to come into the offices…then it isn’t safe. These companies aren’t uniquely benevolent, they have all sorts of wild ways to extract more value from their employees that include making their employees feel special for working there. (Hell, google and Facebook have campuses set up like college campuses with free food, gyms, clubs, etc that exist primarily to convince young programmers to spend more hours at work. Apple is a little less college campus-y and more…well…how you would expect it to be, but it’s still got the gyms and the food) needless to say, their employees are probably less effective working at home. But the powers that be have surely calculated that any lost productivity from being at home is less significant than the productivity lost from, say, losing a teammate to coronavirus, or being afraid to be in work due to the coronavirus, or even just the damage forcing their employees back against their will would do to their brand.

What I’m saying is that all companies only care about profits and if they don’t see it as profitable to have their employees be in the office when previously throughout all time they have required those very same employees to work in an office…then it isn’t safe to be working in an office