This post is for trans people only.
Reblog for bigger sample size
Ok I fucking hate syscourse and I’m not gonna engage if you try to debate me on this post but I’m just gonna make my stance clear here and now so ppl know they’re safe on my blog.
Fakeclaiming is gross. Fakeclaiming endos is still Fakeclaiming and Fakeclaiming is gross. The existence of nontraumagenic systems doesn’t invalidate our experience as traumagenic systems. The existence of nondisordered systems doesn’t invalidate the existence of disordered systems. The existence of endos isn’t misinformation because they exist and they’re talking about their own experiences and science is an ever growing field that doesn’t have all the answers yet and the human brain is an incredibly complex topic with not enough research.
They could not remember the trauma that split them, they could not acknowledge the event that split them as traumatic or- and bear with me here- they could be born plural. As a trauma informed ECE, I have been to multiple workshops and seminars on trauma and how it forms. A woman (I can’t remember who it was so I don’t remember her credentials but she was a professional) was talking about “small” things we don’t recognize are traumas that can cause DID/OSDD/other PDs, and she mentioned PREMATURE BIRTH, DIVORCE, an early fall/getting dropped, early experiences with bullying, etc. Everyone’s brain is different and has a different capacity for handling trauma. But learning that just being born premature can cause plurality is what made me look into it for myself because I didn’t realize that’s what I was experiencing at all because I didn’t recognize my traumas as traumas or the childhood abuse I went through as abuse.
All I’m saying is stop fakeclaiming endos and bullying people out of the community. Not everyone knows why they’re plural they just know that they are and you’re not the system police. Block people you don’t wanna see and move on.
Anyway this is a safe space for nontraumagenic systems and traumagenic systems alike. We’re just figuring out this plural life together and that’s fine.
“Disabilities are not things to be embarrassed of and being disabled is a part of who I am”
And
“Certain disabilities are so unbearable that it’s normal to wish you weren’t disabled”
Are two separate concepts that can and should coexist
Indeed.
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ykno the thing about poetry is that 99% of it is bullshit and the other 1% will cut you like a material knife, and for every person that 1% is a different section of the whole. this is probably true about all art.
they were literal hippies that chilled and occasionally stopped greedy ass white ppl from stealing land, artifacts, or money. icons, tbh.
#imagining trying to cancel the scooby gang for… *checks notes*… being cops 🙃#like WHAT#they were holding white collar criminals accountable that pigs would have never bothered arresting otherwise#and like yes police and prison aboliiltion 100%#but also hold rich white land owners accountable!#the scooby gang were protectors of the community against gentrification and greedy landlords
assume it's as long as whatever your average book length is. in total, not just in hours read, so including times where you aren't actively reading. it takes me months to read even simple books but i keep seeing people implying theyre done in a couple days so i was curious. feel free to rb for sample size (i cant believe i fucked up this post twice in a row)
One thing struck me recently is that, neurotypicals literally don't have meltdowns. Like, they don't reach the point where you're shouting and lashing out on others uncontrollably. They do that on purpose 99.9% of the times unless they are in very, very severe distress, and not because of the music being loud.
Trees, like animals, can also experience albinism, though it is extremely rare.
the reason it’s rare is because without chlorophyll, the plant can’t get energy, and dies shortly after sprouting unless it has some other source of food. so if you see a plant as big as the one in the picture that doesn’t have any green in its leaves, it’s getting its nutrition from the roots of a neighboring plant of the same species, feeding on the sugars created by the other plant’s photosynthesis.
albino plants are basically vampires.
For a long time, scientists thought they were parasites, and couldn’t figure out why the bigger plants didn’t release chemicals to kill them.
Turns out, the lil’ ghost redwoods benefit their hosts by filtering toxins and acting as a sort of backup immune system.
They’re vampires, and they’re commensal, symbiotic mutualists!
this is super cool! I had no idea
This is among the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
we’ve already discovered forests where trees share nutrients with young or disadvantaged trees and forests where trees can ask their neighbors for some extra food (they literally send a signal requesting aid, via the web of fungus that connects their roots) and forests where surrounding tees will keep a tree alive even when it has been reduced to a stump through some tragedy…
so, while i love the playfulness of “vampire” and i commend the specificity of “commensal, symbiotic mutualists” i think it’s worth considering, at this point, if “member of the community” might not be at least as apt
Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!
Give credit to the 30-year-old who worked on this for free and offers this service for free!
WHAT?!
I study graphic design and my tutor recommended and used this in his classes at art college last year, it’s so good it has SO many features for free, I really recommend it, even if you’re just trying to learn the basics of PS, such a wonderful thing <3
Photoshop is still considered an industry standard for commercial art so if you’d like to learn how to use it without breaking the bank, here’s a great tool for any artist hopefuls!
able bodied allies of disabled people when your disability genuinely has no secret upside and makes you useless to a late stage capitalist society
I know there's a literacy crisis or whatever but that doesn't give you the right to go after people with intellectual disabilities and people with brain fog and learning disabilities. Sometimes we need help understanding something, we might ask "dumb/obvious" questions. It doesn't mean we aren't trying to pay attention or use critical thinking. Responding to someone's question on the internet with snobby wisecracks about how the person should learn to read or go back to 1st grade is rude at best and ableist at worst. Just ignore the question if you don't want to answer. Don't flatter yourself saying how progressive you are if you turn around and make fun of your friend for asking a question after a movie.
My partner let's me pause and ask questions during shows and movies bc he loves me and wants me to enjoy what we're watching too instead of sitting there confused cause my brain couldn't catch up. Or I lost attention for a few seconds and missed something important.
disabled system desperately needs help surviving while disability application goes through
we're back with yet another post because we need help more than ever and there are some new updates. tdlr i was told it'd be 3-6 months before i hear back about disability/SSI and i REALLY need help
our situation: we're a trans disabled autistic system. we have extremely severe PTSD and anxiety that led to agoraphobia and have not been able to work for nearly three years now. we have applied for disability benefits five times and been rejected each time. we've still been applying for jobs, too, even though it's not been possible for us to keep one, and have fucked up the few job interviews i got with panic attacks. we also keep getting kicked off food stamps because their office isn't sending me the documents i'm required to fill out to stay on food stamps.
we have completely drained our savings and are frequently in the negative. we have zero income beyond borrowing money from our friends or our transphobic dad, which are not sustainable. we are now in contact with a lawyer who is helping us reapply for disability benefits but we were told that this process will take somewhere between 3-6 months. i don't even know if i'm going to be able to keep my electric on that entire time.
current goal: $260.95
currently at: $60/260.95
the goal is several bills that we have right now that are at risk of disconnection (our renter's insurance - which is MANDATORY for our lease, so if we can't pay it we will be at risk of eviction - internet, electric). if we could at least get the $60 to pay our renter's before it's too late it would literally save us!
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hey! disability advocates, i would appreciate it if yall read this. especially if it is uncomfortable for you to hear.
there is always someone who needs more support than you.
this does not mean that you do not deserve support. this does not mean you do not deserve treatment. this does not mean that your needs should not be met.
this does mean that your struggles should not be the end to your advocacy. this does mean that if something is difficult for you, it is inaccessible for someone else. this does mean that different forms of disability need to be kept in mind when it comes to advocating for accessibility.
i am extremely fortunate to be as well off as i am. my family is able to support my medical bills and can afford specialists. i can still walk with support. i can communicate verbally the vast majority of the time. i have access to mobility aids and other things that ease my struggles. im white and have reliable access to housing. i am lucky to have these and so many other things.
when you are advocating for disabled rights, always remember there are people who need various accommodations. options need to be available to people with all kinds of disabilities. being disabled is complicated, and it intersects with all sorts of marginalized groups. there is no one way to be disabled or accessible. just because something works for you, doesnt mean it works for everyone.
thank you and have a nice day.
At least once a month someone will write “anarchism isn’t about no hierarchies, anarchism is about no UNJUST hierarchies” and will then name the most extremely fucked up hierarchy as their example of a ‘just’ hierarchy.
Like, no, comrade, the doctor-patient relationship is NOT a just hierarchy. The power that doctors have to not just give advice but to decide for us which care we get and which care we don’t get is deeply fucked up. Speak to a woman and you will get on average like 4 stories about medical abuse by sexist doctors who didn’t want to google ‘endometriosis’. Then speak to trans people. Then speak to fat people. Then speak to people of color. Then speak to a disabled person. I promise you will be horrified by what marginalized people endure under the doctor-patient hierarchy. Our bodies should definitely be ours to control.
If you must add an adjective, try “coercive hierarchy”. I’d argue that that’s kinda redundant too, but at least it’s easier to understand and harder to misinterpret
Prioritizing the opinions of experts over those of randos when forming your own opinion isn’t a hierarchy, because no one has any coercive power over anyone else in that scenario. But when a single expert gets to decide whether you get access to medical care and there’s nothing you can do about it, that is a coercive hierarchy
I guess, yeah. It’s not a problem if Sandra the Doctor is considered more worth listening to on medical issues than me, because she went to medical school and I didn’t. It’s a problem when Sandra has the power to deny me access to health care because she thinks I don’t need it, whereas I, who have to live in my body, think I do need that health care. Power is the problem.
It’s just that almost every time we talk about hierarchy today, we mean coercive hierarchy, because the society we live in organizes power in hierarchies. Teachers, doctors, therapists, parents, social workers, team coordinators, these are all people that hold power in coercive hierarchies in the current system. They need to lose that power in order to be able to actually help us without coercing us. But we’re so accustomed to accepting that people in hierarchies are entitled to power, that most people don’t even want to acknowledge that teachers, doctors, therapists, parents, social workers, etc have coercive power that they should lose.
You run into the same problem with words like ‘leadership’ and ‘authority’. These words are difficult to use in a non-coercive context because they’re so often used to obscure the presence of a coercive power relationship.
It’s one of the reasons why anarchist groups often insist on calling someone who ‘leads’ the group a coordinator or a facilitator instead of a leader even though they do a fair amount of ‘leadership’ things. We use a word disconnected from power relationships to remind each other that this person does not and should not have any power over us, they’re just the one that we chose to temporarily do the task of organizing some stuff that helps the rest of the group function. This creates different expectations and behavior in the ‘coordinator’ and in the whole group.
I feel like there’s some room for improvement on what we call the people who keep us organized in anarchist spaces. We could be a lot sillier about it.
You know what, that’s a very good point!
someone should coin white queer liberation as a similar term to white feminism
like I need white queers to understand that their lack of interest in supporting queers of color isn’t a harmless thing that happens on an individual scale. It’s a pattern and phenomenon that leaves a huge number of queer people feeling isolated from their own community.
If your queer activism doesn’t include queer people of color, you’re the problem.
If you tell qpoc to stop complaining about the lack of queer characters of color because white queer rep should be enough for us, you’re the problem.
If you don’t know anything about qpoc outside of That One Activist and only value qpoc because “we gave you your rights,” you’re the problem.
If you don’t care about queer people in countries where queerness is still illegal, you’re the problem.
If your queer friend group only includes white people, you’re the problem.
If your idea of what queerness looks like only accommodates whiteness and white beauty standards, you’re the problem.
If you don’t understand how your race has contributed to centuries of harm for qpoc, or how queers like you openly and systematically exclude us from our own community in the past and present, you’re the problem.
If you throw a fit when qpoc tell you you’re not the most oppressed person in the room, you’re the problem.
If you hide behind your queerness to excuse your racism, you’re the problem.
If you can’t accept other cultures’ gender structures without trying to fit it into the Eurocentric binary, you’re the problem.
Learning about qpoc and our experiences isn’t a fun extracurricular you can do if you feel like it. It’s a core class if you truly care about queer unity and liberation.
(qpoc can add on. white people can rb without comment. do not tag as q slur.)
maybe i’m just a commie but i think people shouldn’t be at risk of homelessness if they’re in between jobs
actually y’know what
this post really brought out the most batshit angry takes i’ve ever had the displeasure of reading. truly depressing lives you people lead. when the white hot turmoil inside you consumes you will you even feel it