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Can I just say that if I ever like a post that is about something terrible, that’s me trying to like, show my support? I don’t actually like that something awful happened. It’s just that I am so, so tired. Like physically exhausted all the time. I try to reblog things that need attention now and then, a couple times a day, and if something sets me on fire I’ll share it, but I’m just trying to make my blog a bit more positive, dig me? Mostly for my own sake to keep my energy up. I know there’s a lot happening and a lot going on in the world, but I figure right now sometimes the best I can do is try to spread as much positivity as possible, and I think that’s important too. 

I just don’t want anyone to think I don’t care. I do. A lot. Too much for my own good, which is the problem. I’m just all tuckered out you guys. 

crpl-pnk:

crpl-pnk:

a culture fixated on sniffing out “fakers” to protect “real disabled people” inevitably harms every single disabled person within that culture & only maybe a relative handful of “fakers”, who are usually mentally ill or economically disadvantaged to the point of having no alternative. stop saying your skepticism is for my benefit. stop saying my oppression is for my benefit. yes the idea of people with no grasp of my struggle claiming it is infuriating & insulting beyond belief. yes that is also oppressive. but in practice, i’d rather a dozen able bodied people successfully pass themselves off as disabled than one disabled person die in poverty because they couldn’t “prove it” to an abled person’s content

setting aside the fact that People Die From This, just the impact of faker witchunting on the emotional wellbeing of disabled people is enough to make it inexcusable
i’ve heard someone crying, literally sobbing & vomiting from pain frantically promise me that they’re not exaggerating when i never indicated for a moment that i disbelieved them, because they’re so used to the accusation. i’ve heard someone in the aftermath of a seizure quietly mumble as they regained lucidity, “are you sure i’m not faking?”
i don’t know a single chronically ill person who hasn’t at one point or another seriously questioned if they were ever really that sick at all because we’ve been so brainwashed to challenge the validity of disability that we begin to doubt the reality of our own definitive lived experiences

Stop HB2796

johndarnielle:

postcardsfromspace:

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HB2796 is an absolutely blatant attempt to strip away the civil rights of transgender people; and it’s absolutely fucking terrifying.

Quoting the official summary of HB2796:

This bill prohibits the word “sex” or “gender” from being interpreted to mean “gender identity,” and requires “man” or “woman” to be interpreted to refer exclusively to a person’s genetic sex, for purposes determining the meaning of federal civil rights laws or related federal administrative agency regulations or guidance. No federal civil rights law shall be interpreted to treat gender identity or transgender status as a protected class, unless it expressly designates “gender identity” or “transgender status” as a protected class.

HB2796 is currently with the Republican-majority House Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice. Please, PLEASE–especially if you’re cisgender, and doubly if you’re one of their constituents–call the Representatives on the committee and explain just how much damage this will do, how many lives it will destroy, and how many legislative careers (hopefully) hinge on its passage or failure.

Committee members are:

  • Chairman Steve King (R-IA-04; King is also one of HB2796′s sponsors) – (202) 225-4426
  • Vice Chairman Ron DeSantis (R-FL-06) – (202) 225-2706
  • Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ-08; Franks is also one of HB2796’s sponsors) – (202) 225-4576
  • Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX-01) – (202) 225-3035
  • Rep. Karen Handel (R-GA-06) – (202) 225-4501
  • Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) – (202) 225-3265
  • Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD-08) – (202) 225-5341
  • Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY-10) – (202) 225-5635

(Note – Listed phone numbers are for DC offices only, but links go to pages with both district and federal office information, as well as additional avenues of contact.)

This bill is unfathomably mean-spirited and cruel. I don’t do a lot of “call your representatives” posts but the posts I’m reblogging states the case succinctly. are you a person who considers yourself a compassionate person who cares about doing the right thing? Then please call your reps about this bill, whose only purpose is to shame, harass, bother, and disenfranchise people who are just trying to live their lives as they see fit. 

Thanks. 

robotsandfrippary:

99laundry:

gogomrbrown:

I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.

When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day.
Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.

Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.

They’ve also recently discovered a lost Native American city in Kansas called Etzanoa It rivals the size of Cahokia, which was very large as well.

thehaunteddead:

petercushingappreciationsociety:

TEXT: Terribly sad news hearing that actor, director MARTIN LANDAU has passed today…. The achievements of Ladau are many and most impressive, screen, theater and television. Our connection to this the mildest and kindest of men, are the television series SPACE 1999 in which Peter Cushing guest starred in an episode called ‘The Missing Link’ in 1976…but also, both Peter and Landau worked together in theatre production of ‘The Silver Whistle 1957’. Please share your memories and comments…. RIP Martin Landau 1928 -2017

What a sad day.

Source: petercushingappreciationsociety