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Someone put red paint on the "Serve and Protect" sculpture at the Salt Lake City police building and it is such a powerful statement.

"Good art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed." -C.A.C.

If anyone knows who took the photo, it would be much appreciated. I want to give credit where credits due. Found here on insta.

https://www.instagram.com/utagainstpolicebrutality/

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carrds about BLM in different languages:

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Candy Girls by Yoshitaka Amano

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Hi i am Deficient in so many minerals and im about to do something ill regret

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Serval cat see, serval cat do.

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Hi guys! I’m getting a lot of asks about the new Tw*light book coming that’s apparently coming out. I know that for years I’ve made a lot of posts about the series for good fun, but I actually haven’t read any of the books since the last one came out in August 2008, when I was only 14. I never reread them.

It’s been literally 12 years, and in reality I don’t remember much about the books except major plot points.

As an adult, I’ve learned a lot about the problems in the series, and I can’t ignore them.

I won’t be giving Smeyer any money, even for a laugh.

However, with all the new hype, I would like to mention that the Quileute Tribe, who are taken from heavily for the series, is currently raising funds to move its school to higher grounds. The school and community are located in a tsunami zone on the Pacific coast, risking lives and access to their culture (via language learning, etc.).

You can click here and donate through paypal.

Whenever I need help, you all come through with such generosity for me, it’s humbling. I’d love if anyone with a few dollars to spare could now direct that compassion and care to the Quileute Nation.

Thank you!

More reading here, and here.

mossrayne

I wasnt aware of any glaring problems years ago when I read them, though I’m glad I bought the books second hand at a garage sale. I’ve been trying to look up what the problems are but all I can find are articles on the plot being bad. Would anyone be able to explain what’s gone on?

flurian

Idk either but from memory it’s probably something to do with Edward’s unhealthy control over Bella / the conservative views pushed onto her (I.e no sex before marriage) / the use of Jacob’s tribe as a plot device and of course his slightly creepy-although-defended-as-not-creepy love for Bella’s baby

Thing is, it’s still possible to enjoy these books and be a critical reader

Of course, Stephanie Meyer has made a lot of money off these books and if she did so in an immoral way then that’s a different can of worms…

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Hi! A lot of people are asking about what issues I’m referencing, and I’d like to point to the links I provided for further reading in the original post, one of which is an entire website that discussed the ways in which Smeyer took from the Quileute people, using their culture and stories in whatever way she wanted with no regard to how she handled them, and then she proceeded to give them 0 proceeds from her books that so heavily rely on their culture and existence as a nation.

We have to wonder why they are being forced to raise funds to relocate their school when one of the highest grossing book and movie franchises of the century couldn’t exist without their culture and stories, much of which is protected and kept alive by the very school they’re working to save.

Why is the Quileute Nation not receiving reliable, consistent royalties from Smeyer and publishers when she used their stories in her books?

But then, I’m not the person whose words you should follow on this. Please follow the links I did provide and read more about this issue from the people it affects.

If you want to keep reading her books and giving her money as a critical reader,

perhaps a good step to being critical would be matching the cost of the book with a donation to the Quileute Nation. That’s what I have to say.