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@arrowhearts / arrowhearts.tumblr.com

My name is Rat. a college drop-out back in schools. 28, queer ace. he/they
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man listen lesbians of color have given me everything i have in life. i was 18 and suicidal over how bad i hated myself and it took my desi friend sitting me down from halfway around the world and explaining to me what gender dysphoria was and that trans people exist to even realize that was something that could HAPPEN. a year later a black lesbian i worked with found out i was trans but was too scared to try to ask my coworkers to use my new name so she walked me right up to the manager and said get this boy a new nametag that is NOT his name. and that was all it took for the people at that job to start calling me by my chosen name only. like man no one does it like them

in terms of word economy for slogans that both get to the heart of a movement and are actionable reminders for me to say to myself when I'm working through a conflict between patients and staff, I've always been impressed by the disability rights community's "Nothing about us without us." What a good phrase. Promoting autonomy and collaboration in five words. Such a perfect north star to ask myself if I'm following. And it even rhymes. Gold star slogan

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he’s got that previously neglected shelter dog rizz. he looks like he wants to quietly sit next to you on the couch while you watch TV

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a lot of people both anti imperialist and doing imperialism apologia seem (?) to view european imperialism as having been a "modernizing" force, whether that is good or bad, but this seems strange to me. in my understanding european imperialists actively deindustrialized conquered regions and tended to force the population into, basically, doing labor intensive low tech mass harvesting operations to provide raw materials and cash crops for the metropole, and having policies that enforced an agrarian stasis economy. obviously i imagine the reality like many things is a complicated mix but this particular association seems v strange to me! bengal in particular in my understanding had significant protoindustrialization that was quashed by europe

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I think one of the goals of society should be that someone who requires expensive medicine and a lot of care can live an amazing life, the longest life they possibly can, with dignity, even if they have no friends or family or anyone who cares enough about them to help. the goals of a society should be to make life better than if we are alone, society should want life to be as good as possible for as many people as possible, and those goals should account for people not having social support networks.

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social life aside, the most hated or ignored person in town should be able to live as good and fair and just of a life as the most loved person in town. survival needs to stop being a popularity contest.