Or just go to browse and hang out! I promise it will be inspiring :)
It’s also a lot easier to do research in a library; sure, it’s one thing to have internet access, but it’s another to have wifi access to databases and books on the topic an approximate two minute walk away.
if you think you’re tired of seeing me ebegging imagine how tired i am of having to do it please
I’ve been without foodstamps for 2 months and have yet to hear back on my application and today I got the cost report for my emergency tooth extraction (before prescriptions, which will also be out of pocket for antibiotics and pain meds and sedatives)
we’re barely scraping by as is as a single-income disabled queer household, anything really helps including reblogs
When thinking about war, many of us rarely think about trees. Trees are placed into a category coupled with the birds and the sky; they are passive and neutral to war, not considered a weapon to enhance it. However, as Irus Braverman explores, when we paint a picture of trees using the brushes of settler colonialism and identity, we see how politics and nature are intertwined. When we tell the stories of the tree, we turn its physical form into something much more. Understanding collective memory as both a response to a shared event, and part of creating the event itself, Palestinians and Israelis have found very different meanings within the tree: the collective memory of the Israeli pine enrooted, at the expense of the Palestinian olive uprooted.
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Fittingly, the olive tree has become known as al-mubarakah, shajarat al-nour, and shajarat al-faqir: the blessed tree, the tree of light, and the tree of the poor.
this might be a hot take but i think we should still be required to wear masks on airplanes
we need to start hounding people into wearing masks again. why aren’t you wearing a mask on public transit? why aren’t you wearing a mask in the crowded grocery store? why aren’t you wearing a mask in the literal hospital? if you’re half as progressive as you claim to be you’d require masks at your busy events. you’re not a progressive if you’re leaving out the immunocompromised. plus covid can still fuck you up even if you’re perfectly healthy and had your vaccines. wouldn’t you rather be unnecessarily cautious than risk getting yourself or someone else sick? put your mask back on in the crowded mall. coward
[ID: white image with black text reading: “leftism leaving people’s bodies as soon as you ask them to wear a mask”. Underneath is a black image depicting a body laying down, with a translucent copy of said body floating upward. End ID.]
Hey remember when they found over 200 bodies of native children buried behind a residential school and the world cared for… what, a week?
They’ve counted about 6,000-7,000 now, for those of you who do still care
It should NOT fall on Indigenous people’s shoulders to keep this known still. We’ve been doing that for generations at this point and NO ONE wants to listen to us.
We’re tired, mourning and constantly reopening our trauma and pain to keep people caring about us. It’s terrible.
I should start by noting that I am white, and not Canadian, and that if op wants me to remove this comment for any reason, please let me know.
This is a map of all the residential schools in Canada:
Each dot on this map represents a residential school. Blue dots mean the school is considered completely searched. Yellow dots mean they are either in the process of being searched or there are plans to be searched. Red dots indicate that no search has happened and that no search is currently planned
There were more than 130 residential schools in Canada. This map suggests that only six have been fully searched, and a little more than a dozen partially searched (I counted 15 yellow dots). That leaves at least 109 schools completely untouched.
Let that sink in; if 6,000-7,000 unmarked, indigenous children’s graves were found by searching less than a fifth of all the schools, how many are still undiscovered.
Wikipedia estimates that the body count could be over 50,000, and honestly, that could be a low estimate
[ID: A map of Canada with dozens of dots on it, 6 of which are blue and 7 of which are yellow; the rest are red. Later there is a screenshot from wikipedia reading, “Estimates range from 3,200 to over 50,000 children that were killed. Most of the recorded student deaths at residential schools took place before the 1950s. /end ID]
The residential school system was a calculated, open, and forthrightly declared attempt at the total genocide of all indigenous peoples in this country. It was literally meant to wipe them out entirely, through a combination of attrition and assimilation.
Never forget that this is what Canada is really built upon.
reminder that genocide doesn’t just include ending people’s lives, it includes eradicating their culture. forced assimilation of an entire people is an attempt at genocide.
Also a little add in: states like Texas didn’t have any residential schools because they kicked all the natives out. Not because they’re better.
just imagine the person who, asked the question “Are you supportive of trans people?” on a survey with the answer choices “very supportive,” “supportive,” “slightly supportive,” and “not supportive,” sees the “very supportive” option and thinks “hmmm, no, I’m not that supportive” and instead chuses “supportive.” that is the person who Just Like Us is insisting can be meaningfully counted as a trans ally
also re: the slippage that was allowed to occur between “lesbian” and “cis lesbian"—where the claims "lesbians are supportive of trans people” and “96% of lesbians said they were ‘supportive’ or 'very supportive’ of trans people” would kind of make you think they meant cis lesbians, and yet trans lesbians are presumably included in that stat & thus bolstering the numbers a bit—
the fact that “lesbian” appears to mean “cis lesbian” throughout the article and the obvious but implicit transmisogyny there (& the transmisogyny that allows that equivocation to go unnoticed) cause this slippage to kind of fly under the radar. again, the report doesn’t address the issue of overlap at all.
sorry for still being on about this but I’m perusing the other parts of the report a little bit at a time as I feel like it. I think it’s very odd that so much of the study focuses on the outcomes of feeling supported in LGBT+ people’s lives—what percentage of people of which identity label responded that they “feel supported” in school, by their families, and in the workplace—and how those numbers correspond to people feeling self-confidence, feeling confidence that they will be able to find a life partner*, find a career they enjoy, purchase a house**, &c. &c. (and they just kind of assume that this correspondence = causation)
the “do you support transgender people?” is an outlier in that it’s the only question in the report that asks whether the respondents are themselves “supportive” of someone else, rather than asking if they “feel supported.” it also just sort of doesn’t connect to the broader narrative of the survey, which again is all about positing that feeling supported by others increases optimism about the future and mental wellbeing.
so whether LGBT+ respondents as a whole “feel supported” by those around them is a central concern of the study, but transgender people specifically appear only as the object of others’ support—they were asked the same questions as all other respondents were about feeling supported at home and at school, but were not asked whether they felt supported within the community.
why not? that question would have allowed the question about support for transgender people to tie into the broader narrative about the outcomes of felt support! the “do you support transgender people” question is just kind of dangling there and it really does make me feel (combined with the triumphal “we already knew this” reporting by Ashenden) that the question was on there due to some kind of personal bugbear that someone had about the 'stereotype’ that lesbians are anti-trans.
*it’s interesting that they assume finding a monogamous partner for your whole life is a goal for everyone…?
**yes, they measure confidence about whether you will purchase a house and presume that this is a result of feeling supported in your LGBT+ identity, and don’t analyse it at all in terms of socioeconomic status (despite the fact that they did collect this data; p. 71). this is because it’s an industry-funded survey and “LGBT+ people feeling supported leads to good career outcomes” is the result they wanted, not “income inequality is bad.”
LGBT+ identity could be causing both a decreased amount of felt support and decreased confidence in owning a house, rather than the decreased amount of felt support causing a lack of confidence that you will own a house. but this isn’t the result they wanted to find (because “support LGBT+ people in school and in the workplace” is something they could sell a training and make recommendations for, while “decrease income inequality” is not).
as a huge lover of birds, 90% of the concern against wind turbines being used for energy is literally just pro fossil fuel propaganda. birds ARE at a risk however there is a lot of strategies even as simple as painting one of the blades that reduces a lot of accidental deaths. additionally renewable energy sources will do more in favor of the environment that would positively impact birds (and all of us). one study found over one million bird deaths from wind turbines. while that is a shockingly high number and we should work to drastically shrink it, at least 1.3 billion birds die to outdoor cats on a yearly basis. it was never about caring about birds
