No war but class war. Solidarity with Venezuela and all people targeted by US imperialism.
Let's imagine a better world together
What does your neighborhood look like in your ideal world? Mine has a community garden and there are no fences between backyards.
What's your job in an ideal world? I'm still a teacher, but I have more time off and better pay.
What does your community look like in an ideal world? Mine has a well-funded community center with a food pantry and a gym and a clothing swap.
What are you like in an ideal world?
I identify the most with the woman who has a green velvet ribbon around her neck and keeps being like "DONT untie my neck ribbon or something really bad will happen" and then her husband unties the ribbon and her head falls off. this is extremely real to me. spent my whole life like "please don't do this thing to me or really bad stuff will happen" and everyone around me being like "that sounds fake" and doing it anyway. and then my head fell off!
This is one of my all-time favorite short stories! It's a retelling of the Girl With A Green Ribbon story, using the ribbon as a metaphor for assault.
It's so cool how many different metaphors can be read into these stories
I mean, really the boundaries between romantic/platonic/familial love are a social construct at the end of the day
Maybe I love everyone with a different love. The way I love my father is different from the way I love my mother. I love each of my friends in a way that's unique to them. Or maybe it's all the same love that feels different every single time.
The Greeks named eight types of love. Throughout time people have had lots of categories of love, none of them consistent. The borders are never well-defined. And maybe there's a reason for that. Maybe the different types of love aren't really all that different.
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said this on bluesky but:
i genuinely encourage non black people to engage with this, who might be worried they can't because of the word "nigga" because they feel like it's overstepping. the only way it would be overstepping is saying it to me when ur not black, but please don't be afraid to engage with black art.
i kinda get annoyed when non black people police other non blacks on how to engage with black culture because it creates a problem where non black people avoid us all together which can be extremely isolating and create even MORE tension and overall being uneducated.
Black trans men with big loving brown eyes who quit straightening their hair and love themselves and love being Black men. you agree
hey btw to every Black transmasc who has reblogged this and said something to the effect of "hey this is me" in the tags. i love you. i can't describe the joy it makes me feel to read that. you are so fucking precious to me. please live. i love you. please be kind to yourself. i love you. i love you, i love you, i love you.
Landback in Canada, the U.S, and Mexico. Landback for the Pacific Islands, Aotearoa, and Australia. Landback for Palestine. Land back for Ukraine. Independence for Hong Kong. Land back for every French and British colony. Land back for everywhere that people are eroding borders, killing, burning trees and crops, destabilizing resources, forcing people out. Land back for everyone whose independence is in question.
Thinking about 2 friends I had in college who had this thing they would do all the time where one of them would say, "are you mad at me???" and then the other one would say, "no of course not, are YOU mad at ME???"
Anyways they don't speak to one another anymore.
It always bothered me and I couldn't articulate why at the time, but:
- If I know my friend is constantly anxious that I might be upset with them, that knowledge makes it so much harder to bring up any actual issues. Avoiding conflict puts more of a strain on relationships than conflict does imo.
- If you think someone's upset with you, ask yourself why you think that. Is it a trauma response? I think this is common, and it's something that I've experienced too. But, I'm sorry, if it's a trauma response it's your job to deal with it. Find some regulatory practices that work for you. Talk it through with someone who isn't the person. But try not to bring it up to them.
- However, if you think they're mad because of something they've said or done, definitely bring that up to them! Don't start with "are you mad?" start with "you've seemed distant lately, is something up?" or "I feel like you were passive aggressive to me the other day." Then you can discuss the actual issues! Starting the conversation this way will be so much more productive.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if a man has a large penis he is a bad person
