This Native American Heritage Month I want to spread awareness for MMIWG2S crisis, the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirits.

This post has facts, resources to learn more, and includes links with ways to help, although I hope as you read more you realize how much spreading awareness could leave a huge impact as it would create even more help, protections, and resources.

Did you know that indigenous women, girls, and two spirits are murdered and go missing at such high rates that both the USA and Canada have declared it a crisis and epidemic?

In some places they are murdered, assaulted, and go missing at 10x the national average?

The statistics that prove it in the USA:

And Canada:

Read more on the Assembly of First Nations website here.

May 5th is the National Day of Awareness for MMIWG2S in the USA. In Canada it falls on the same day and it's referred to as Red Dress Day.

Red is a sacred color to indigenous peoples. As such is the color we use to raise awareness for our women, girls, and two spirits that have come under harm.

We use both red dresses and a red handprint over the mouth to raise awareness. So if you see these symbols please pay them their proper respect. They are not to be used in cosplay or costumes nor are they to be mocked or appropriated.

You'll also find the phrase "No more stolen sisters" in discussions about MMIW. This is a phrase specifically intended to raise awareness and bring attention to the MMIWG2S crisis and it shouldn't be applied to anyone except indigenous women, girls, and two spirits.

Along with all these facts I wanna ask you to look up infamous cases of MMIW. Look up Savanna Greywind and look up "Search the Landfill." And please check out this link that covers the legal "loophole" that allows tribal women to be assaulted without any hope for their non-native abusers being held accountable.

Let the horror that some native and first nations women go through fuel your desire to become an advocate for the MMIWG2S epidemic. Sit with us in solidarity and acknowledge the scope of the systemic injustices being done against us.

More reources on MMIWG2S, how the crisis is being handled by government, and how you can help:

List of resources from the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Natives Women that includes resources for women, LGBT and two spirit people, trafficking survivors, DV survivors, and of course resources specific to MMIWG2S.

If you have any questions please ask them, just be respectful and don't ask anything in bad faith.

in 2022 may you find many seeds, nuts, berries, etc

I didn’t even look at the name I was just like damn I hope so too thanks

it’s 2025 now i hope youve accumulated many seeds, nuts, and berries

i may have eated them all

in 2026, may you begin to once again find seeds, nuts and berries

I laughed so fucking hard at this

Queer joy detected!

There was a kid in my history class in highschool that raised his hand and said “wait… so completely non consensual?” In a discussion about slave masters assaulting slaves. My teacher was adamant “it was never consensual”.

“Like, not ever?” Shock was dawning on his face.

“Never.”

And I know tumblr is now the white gay website but I need yall to know, accept, and internalize the brutality of usamerican chattel slavery.

Both legally and socially, slaves were not people. They were property, animals, objects.

When people talk about the objectification and sexualization of black women, it very directly ties back to when black women were literally treated as sex objects. Not figuratively. Quite literally were on par with animals in the eyes of white usamericans.

“The American education system sucks”

Okay! Go read a book about slavery then.

You should know that chattel slavery is known world wide as one of the worst forms of slavery and that white Americans invented it. And you should know that white Americans continued to enslave black people long after slavery was abolished.

And you should know that the current prison system was created around the fact that prison slavery was and is still legal. So the fastest and easiest way to get free labor was to funnel as many black people into prisons as possible. And we’re still here. We’re still at a point in history where the dominant policing system is actively designed to funnel people into private prisons for free labor aka slavery.

Minor correction: Slavery was not invented by Americans - this form of slavery in the New World predates the American identity. About 40% of the human cargo in the transatlantic slave trade went to British, French, Dutch, and Portuguese colonies in the Caribbean. While Americans are the most well known for it, many European countries perpetuated and benefited from chattel slavery (and some still do - France still leeches of Haiti). Not trying to bean soup here! Just saying these horrors were not started by or exclusive to American colonies.

*chuckles randomly because I remembered "Man stop wasting them peoples time"*

The one case where he's not wasting them people's time.

Okay I don't know where you got that idea from but I found the original episode on YouTube and he has no twin brother nor claimed the kids were his brother's.

He really was wasting them people's time.

(and he's also an asshat who verbally abused the kids and their mom)

I just want us all to step back and appreciate that on a post that said "stop wasting people's time" some goober showed up and immediately decided to waste people's time.

what do you mean you havent used mindfulness techniques to accept the state of the torture labyrinth as is yet. its like youre not even trying

some of u should have an OnlyClowns account

what the fuck do you think a tumblr is

the global reach that this show has had is absolutely mind blowing. so many people with so many different life experiences and countries they grew up in and careers they find themselves in, see themselves in these characters and it’s just so fucking beautiful to witness.

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Be one of them, please don’t ignore us… our children’s warmth is a trust in your hearts.

Save us from the tent — we need a caravan to shelter us until reconstruction begins.

We are a family exhausted by displacement and life in a tent. We are tired of constant displacement, and the tent is no longer a solution—it does not protect us from the cold or the harshness of life, especially with children suffering every night.

We urgently need a caravan as a temporary shelter until reconstruction begins and we are able to rebuild our home, God willing.

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To every kind and compassionate heart, to anyone who can help or share—after God, you are our hope 🤍

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concept: one of those fancy book box services but instead of sending you a full-size fancy hardcover they send you a 1:6 scale miniature version along with a code for the ebook so you still get the book as well as the ability to show off the fancy version of the book but without having to buy more bookshelves. every january they send you a new tiny bookshelf for your tiny books. maybe there's a year on it to display specifically the books you read that year. you can put your tiny books in a jar and pick them out randomly to decide what you're going to read next. also it's cheaper because the boxes aren't as heavy and they don't have to produce a full size hardcover with the edges printed by the like one company that does that.

do you see my vision

My husband and I were just bemoaning last night that there aren’t readily accessible tiny books any more.

Granted, it was in the specific context of “if you could have an animal to train up as a familiar as a sort of graduate-level project, leading it to gain increased intellectual abilities as you worked more on it, what would your choices be” and he was keenly and devotedly in favour of training up a frog to reading ability, largely because of the lovely picture of giving it a little bowl with damp moss and a small armchair for it to retreat to, and it could stretch out its legs and cross its ankles and read a book - you know - one of those novelty tiny books - with real text in them -

At which point, as if stricken by great loss, he sat up in bed and said AT WHAT POINT DID THOSE TINY BOOKS YOU COULD BUY IN THE 80s GO EXTINCT?

I’m a lot younger and American, but between the two of us, we think it was sometime in the mid-90s. There used to be these gimmick tiny books with the full text of the real book printed in them -

(Dr Glass said, anguished: “back when rubbish was REAL TAT! And tat was REAL RUBBISH!”)

- and they were a bit bigger than 1:6, because you could still read them. I remember them too. You used to see them in shopping malls.

Anyway; if you do pursue this idea, it would be very useful, if, on our end, we manage to create a working system of magic in which a sufficiently motivated person can impose sufficient sentience on a frog to teach it to read

coworker conversation I overheard

coworker #1: "I could never buy this ketchup, too much sugar, it's not healthy"

coworker #2: "girl don't you literally smoke cigarettes?"

it’s actually so brave of hudson williams to be an out and proud Freak w a capital F in these trying times of puritan and conservative culture being on the rise. it’s really fun and refreshing to see

The thing is that Ilya has no fucking clue what autism is. He probably read the word when some twitter user called Shane autistic and wanted to look it up but got distracted by a post about Shane's tits or smth.

What he does know though is that Shane folds his clothes before sex. And he smiles at him with adoration when he does it and doesn't rush him or make fun of him for it. He knows Shane doesn't always pick up on his jokes and sarcasm "That's French, Ilya" but he doesn't mind it and would never make Shane feel bad about it or dismiss his response "Yeah I know, Shane". He knows Shane has a PhD in The Arts of Overthinking "Now the bed's all dirty" so he playfully chases his worries away and closes all those open tabs in Shane's brain "What? Shut up". He knows Shane will not rest until he has everything in his life under control so he grumbles when Shane wakes him up in the middle of the night to tell him how they can make it all work but still listens intently to his plan. He knows Shane feels overwhelmed and anxious when stuff doesn't go down as planned "This is my actual fucking nightmare, Ilya" "I'm okay I'm just freaking out I'll be okay in a second" so he softly comforts him and supports him through it "Then maybe it's time to wake up, yes?" "We're good here, your family's here, you're boyfriend's here, we're good here, ok?" He knows Shane has to hear it to believe it "My boyfriend?" so he gently goes "I mean yes, I think so, probably".

He doesn't know Shane is autistic but he knows Shane and he loves Shane and Shane happens to be autistic

tequila is like drinking the tears of a very happy young woman and whiskey is like drinking the tears of a very sad old man and gin is like drinking the tears of a closeted gay man named james

EDIT: this is not actually about binge watching vs appointment viewing . It’s a joke about gay people fucking on my tv every week being awesome. You are all so annoying .

Heated rivalry is proof we need to kill the binge watch format and go back to weekly appointment viewing . Nothing better than when there’s a show airing new episodes once a week and your whole tumblr ecosystem is thriving on the nourishment of two men fucking raw on their screens .

the fundraiser for Renée Macklin Good’s family has well surpassed its goal and is now closed — if you want to help Minneapolis residents as the city is terrorized by ICE raids, please turn your attention toward this fundraiser for local families, as well as Adelina Olivarez Cardona and Arturo Sanchez Chinos, both of whom are currently being detained.

“i do not know that side of you” is so fucking special to me. shane grew up with support. shane has brand deal after brand deal, his mum and dad are in his corner, he’s the Golden Captain, he led his team to the cup two years in a row. to have a man like shane hollander turn around and say this? the guy who has the kind of career that, yes you technically have, but not in the same nutured way turns to you and says “that side of you? that part of you your father resents you for? that he makes you think is all you are? i’ve never seen it.” you stock my ginger ale in the fridge. you made me dinner. you are not lazy.

a lazy person doesn’t put this much effort in. doesn’t give his brother mountain after mountain of money. doesn’t go back to a country he hates because his family needs him. needs, not wants, and yet he does it anyway. doesn’t put his all into a game that doesn’t support him. doesn’t put his all into the very game driving a wedge between him and his father. doesn’t learn english for a game. doesn’t sit and research alzheimers for so long a word like “genetic” comes out so naturally. doesn’t start 10 steps behind and end up side by side with Shane Hollander.

shane doesn’t even know any of this. he doesn’t know and yet he turns and says “i do not know that side of you”.

oh, ilya rozanov, of course you slipped up. of course you said shane. how on earth could you not when he sees through you so easily?