warriorofdune:

diaryofandnwoman:

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May his memory be a blessing.

happy-place-for-sad-people:

friendly reminder: just because you had a bad day doesn’t mean you’re not healing. you can have a bad day, or a bad week. you can be sad and upset, or simply not feeling your best self. you’re still on your way to something better. one day at a time. give yourself some time to heal, and be compassionate about your process. i’m so proud of you.

ranidspace:

ranidspace:

reminder that even if the world health organization says covid is over, it isnt.

Turns out it was just a bunch of news organizations completely misrepresenting what the WHO said. COVID isn’t over. They’re shifting from “world health emergency” to long term strategies because major countries failed to even contain it because they were so adamant to send everybody back to work as fast as possible. WHO’s announcement that COVID is no longer a global health emergency isnt something to celebrate. It shows that everyone (governments and anti-maskers/vaxxers, mostly) collectively failed to care enough.

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https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1654477334139863041

of course. news organizations took this and rolled with it, misleading everyone into believing COVID is no longer anything to worry about. exactly what they said Not To Fucking Do

noneedtofearorhope:

shadow-banned-the-hedgehog:

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hitchcock found it long before. more effective as well.

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treegona:

phuk-ewe:

fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton:

chavisory:

queenshulamit:

ozymandias271:

reading a paper on quality of life among 45-to-70-year-olds with Down syndrome:

“Individuals expressed a desire to be allowed to go to bed when they wanted to.”

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Imagine.

I lived in a room and board that failed the burrito test. (”If you’re not allowed to get up in the middle of the night to microwave a burrito, you live in an institution.”) No one stopped me from going to bed, but they did tell me I had to have my lights out by 10, and that I had to be out of the house by 10 the next morning. When I complained to my outpatient program that I needed more help than I was getting, they threatened me with board and care, where my cell phone would be taken away and I would lose contact with the outside world. My case manager sounded so damn smug, like he had caught me out, when he said, “if you’re really as helpless as you say, then you need to be in a board and care.” Like my only options were struggling to do things I couldn’t do, or surrendering my life to an institution.

When I tried to talk about these things with other people, they always rationalized it away. (I told my dad once that my caseworker was reading my e-mails as I wrote them, demonstrating extreme disrespect for my privacy, and he said, “Well, she’s probably making sure you don’t use the internet to goof off.” I was 22 years old.)

 People tend to mock the idea that telling an adult when to go to bed, when to eat, etc., is a human rights violation, even though they would find it outrageous and absurd if anyone came into their lives to do the same thing to them.

And this is what people seem to think when they tell disabled activists we’re just not disabled enough to understand that some people really do need to be locked up and deprived of all autonomy.

Here’s the paper:

https://library.down-syndrome.org/en-us/research-practice/06/3/quality-life-ageing-down-syndrome/

They don’t want *any* activists for mentally/developmentally disabled people. If you’re able to advocate for your rights, you’re not “disabled enough” - and if you were disabled enough you wouldn’t be able to advocate for your rights.

mariacallous:

trans-girl-nausicaa:

chekov’s cat: if you see a cat, it will probably be relevant later.

schroedinger’s gun: there’s no way to know if a gun is loaded or not until you physically inspect and check it yourself, so it’s safest to assume all guns are loaded.

#these are both excellent rules to live by#like#just in general

redvelvetrevolver:

sibyl-of-space:

trans-mom:

sunbummonkey:

trans-mom:

dancing-jestress:

trans-mom:

Captions shouldn’t be censored. If the video says fuck or cum or cunt the captions should say the fucking word.

Unless it’s a slur! No one needs to see that.

If they say a slur in the video, the captions should reflect it. The disabled are not little babies who have to have life sanitized for them.

okay but I feel like ur forgetting that slurs don’t just apply to the disabled… children don’t need to be seeing the n-word or other racial slurs??

but children DO need to be hearing it? are you actually reading the post here?

The voice to text on my phone - which I use frequently to mitigate exacerbating a lifelong wrist injury by finger typing - censors any cursing I do by default. It is INFURIATING. I am literally cursing into the phone and you have accurately detected that I am cursing but you are trying to protect me from the word that I, myself, spoke??? I did not say “f***” I said “fuck” and you heard me.

Of course people are “what about the children-ing” about actual accessibility. Fuck

(Source: i.redd.it)

bonyassfish:

bonyassfish:

I think one of the reasons drag kings aren’t as popular as drag queens, aside from the fact that straight women don’t like us, is that people are uncomfortable acknowledging masculinity as a performance. Like we as a society know that femininity is a performance, with its own costumes and rules. Masculinity is also a performance, and nothing makes that more clear than someone making an exaggeration of it

To everyone saying that “uh actually it’s cause drag kings aren’t as visually interesting”

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Kreme Inakuchi

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Wang Newton

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Murray Hill

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Hugo Grrl

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Lotus Boy

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Landon Cider

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Manny Dingo