2016 was a crazy year I don’t think any of us will forget anytime soon. While this is a silly idea to poke fun at all the craziness, it also has a serious meaning to me and a lot of others who struggle with mental illness. There were times when I wasn’t sure I’d see 2017 and this shirt is to celebrate those who’re still here. So whether you’re happy the 2016 curse is over or you’re surprised you came through it all like me, this shirt is to remember that fight! You’re still here. And to me that’s something worth celebrating. 50% of the profits will go to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

I also tried to keep the prices low, but there was a minimum :/ 

please boost.

https://www.gofundme.com/cary-st-cafe-homeless-run

How about this? Can we spread this around and help raise the last $5k of this campaign?

Even if you can’t donate, share this so others can! I wanted to try and do something special for christmas, and I think helping to complete this campaign is perfect!

-Kat

Christmas is tomorrow and I think if we signal boost this, we could get a lot more raised by then

So apparently the OP has me blocked (I’ve never even heard of them) but a bunch of people in the reblogs are saying to boy cot the network. 

Problem is… well here’s the plot summary for the show:

“Cameras follow four prominent Klan families who each have a family member trying to escape the Ku Klux Klan. This series pulls back the curtain on the organization that the Anti-Defamation League calls “a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy,” to show its effects on American families as member’s grapple with the consequences of leaving. The series follows four families: an “Imperial Wizard” who hopes to groom his teenage daughter to take his place; an Iraq war veteran and proud member of the KKK determined to raise his four-year-old son to embrace his views; a young man who sees his close friend and Klan leader as the father he never had, asked to pledge his loyalty to the KKK; and a fifth-generation Klan family struggling to keep up the legacy. The series will also follow a network of anti-hate and peace activists working to break the cycle by helping to convince members to leave the hate group. The team consists of Daryle Lamont Jenkins, the co-founder of One People’s Project, an organization that monitors and investigates hate groups; speaker, author and peace educator Arno Michaelis, a former skinhead who joined the white power movement at the age of 16; and Bryon Widner, a reformed Neo-Nazi and subject of the documentary Erasing Hate, who spent sixteen years as a skinhead until he realized the environment wasn’t best for his son. These activists develop deep relationships with Klan families attempting to convince them to hang up their robes and finally leave the group for good.”

So yeah, this show isn’t glorifying them or ‘giving them a platform,’ this show is literally about trying to get them to change and become better people. Don’t boycott A&E, they’re trying to actually help these people change for the better and not be racists.  

Sweet.

That suitcase story really bugs me. Aside from the fact that Girljanitor is likely not even the least bit Romani, the whole claim just stinks of racist undertones.  As I mentioned before, it would have been very difficult for Jewish & Romani persons to escape from Poland via Germany. And, I don’t just mean it would have been “hard”, I mean that it would have been a death sentence to travel from occupied Poland and through Nazi Germany as a whole Jewish family with a Romani stow-away. Many Jews escaped via boats to countries like Denmark or Sweden, but even that was very risky.  Also, the Nazis severely restricted Jewish emigration after 1941. They invaded Poland in 1939 & set up ghettos within Poland in the same year. The Polish ghettos housed both Roma & Jews, and these were those families and individuals who had not been shot or killed by the einsatzgruppen. Hundreds of Jews & Roma, if not thousands, died from mass killings shortly after the Nazi Germany had invaded.  What irks me is what would a Jewish family be doing with a single Romani woman? Why would that assertion be made? The only probability is that this woman/girl was maybe a housekeeper or nanny for a Jewish family, which were jobs that would have been more typical to White gentile population at the time than to a Romani woman or girl. Was the suggestion somehow intended to have Antisemitic undertones: “oh, those privileged Jews smuggling out the poor Gypsy woman”.  Also, it would not at all have been common for a young Romani woman or a Romani girl to be by herself. And, this is why many stories of some lone-wolf Romani ancestor coming to America immediately draws skepticism, especially if that ancestor was a woman.  Romani women have a very difficult time traveling by themselves today, so imagine how unlikely that scenario would have been in the 1930s, 40s, or 50s.  And, let’s not forget that Girljanitor said this: “I’m just like, okayy, if she could have passed for white, why the fuck did she have to hide???” Let’s get one thing straight., most Roma do not pass as White. Many Polska Roma do not pass as White. My own mother is Polska/Lithuanian Roma. My maternal grandmother was very light because she was half Lithuanian. My maternal grandfather was light skinned, but his parents were not. They had darker hair and more “ethnic” features & were quite obviously Roma.  I am going to give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she was talking about being White passing in America because even light-skinned, blonde Roma in Europe are not White passing.  Why was she so adamant about pushing this idea that American Roma are White passing? Hey, let’s even look at the actual Romanichal who have appeared on shows like “My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding”. And, this is a group of Romani who are generally considered to be more “mixed” and to have more White admixture. Albeit, there is a historical context for this & it by no means makes them “less” Romani.  These are as American as American Roma get. They were among the first Romani to set foot on American soil, many as slaves and indentured servants. While there are light skinned Romanichal, there are many more who look pretty ethnically ambiguous.  So, what about these super “White” American Roma from Eastern & Central Europe? Gosh, I mean, someone really ought to inform them about their White passing privileges, right? “It can be difficult because many Romani people from bygone eras don’t meet the set of “racialized POC features” criteria in the U.S. By which I mean, most Romani and Roma people who came to the United States immediately began passing for being passed as white.“ "immediately began passing” “immediately began passing” “immediately began passing” I guess if you can call being brought over here as slaves, not being allowed in the country, being “regulated” like livestock, being banned from owning property, and being forced to live in shanty-towns outside of large cities “immediately passing”, sure, we can go with that.  The reality is that most American Romani “hide” their ethnicity because we don’t pass as White. In fact, it is much easier to say we’re Jewish, Turkish, Middle Eastern or even Indian than it is to say we’re “Gypsy”. This is also not the same as situations where ancestry was either deliberately or accidentally hidden from children or grandchildren. American Roma knowthey are Roma, but rather than face the stigma of outwardly presenting ourselves as “Gypsies”, we chose to not openly disclose our ethnicity.  That is the exact reason why “passing” for American Roma is not some clear-cut, all-or-nothing thing. It is highly conditional. We don’t have any luxuries of passing among European immigrants, so it is absolutely absurd that anyone would claim that Roma coming to this country during massive waves of European immigration would somehow “immediately begin passing”. Europeans didn’t suddenly forget we existed after coming to America. Anti-Romani sentiment is still quite strong among strong European ethnic communities, whether it is the Pennsylvania Dutch, Chicago Polish or Italian Philadelphians.  Girljanitor’s insistence that American Roma are somehow living in this bastion of freedom where we can run free and paint “Gypsy” on our foreheads without so much as a care about racism, the KKK, White supremacy, anti-Romani laws, or neo-Nazis.. is just ridiculous.  This story doesn’t bother me because the plot is just so outrageous. This story bothers me because it erases my identity and the identity of the more than one million other Romani living in the United States. This story bothers me because it trivializes the very real discrimination American Romani have faced and continue to face. This story bothers me because a White passing [and likely actually White] woman is telling usthat we should somehow be “grateful” that we don’t live in Europe. In layman’s terms, she is telling us to “shut up and quit complaining”, yet she does not care to consider what it might be like to walk in our shoes.  This story bothers me because it is a symbolic narrative of how Antisemitism and anti-Romani racism are routinely swept under the rug: "shut up and quit complaining because I don’t think your struggles are important”.

Beethoven, Goethe, Martin Luther (not King) were likely poc because their features were not nordic enough. AKA no blonde hair and blue eyes

It may surprise medievalpoc to know that some White people have darker features than others. Some even have brown hair and/or brown eyes. I know it’s very shocking, I don’t think she’ll be able to handle it. 

 I mean, yeah, people who live in a region will likely share certain attributes, but that doesn’t mean you can come along and create some definitive guide to what all Germans (or any other race/ethnic group for that matter) must look like and then say that certain people lacked those characteristics based on a limited number of paintings. Bonus points when you are not even in tune with those cultures or visited said places where they live. We can assume Girljanitor has never even set foot in Europe.

Isn’t trying to define someone else’s race for a group of people who probably know better about themselves. and their background than what you’ve read from half-assed revisionist sources and your personal fee fees insulting as hell?  This also goes to the whites, roma, jews, etc she has been offending to hell and back with her rambles.

Also her “legit source” for her claims is afrocentrist J.A Rogers, progenitor of the infamous ”Kenneth III of Scotland was black!” “Cleopatra/Hannibal were black!”, “Did you know that John Hanson/Abraham Lincoln and 3 other American Presidents were black?”, ”Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was black!” and ”Arabs, and other Middle Eastern peoples, are mullatoes”. 

I really don’t understand why she and tumblr are so obsessed with saying that all European figures were actually African? There are so many achievements of African/Middle Eastern civilizations that are just complete ignored by this group.

Also, thereWAS an African descended European composer of a similar time to Beethoven. And was even called “Le Mozart Noir”

But why focus on the achievements of actual African-descended Europeans when it’s just sexier to take some secondhand account of Beethoven after he died that mentioned “swarthy” and run with it? Sigh .

EDIT:

I was thinking of Chevalier de Saint-Georges, son of a French plantation owner and an African slave woman. 

Became a renowned duelist and composer in France.

I will admit that mpoc has an entry on him but it’s only one that was submitted by a follower. In general mpoc seems completely disinterested in him compared to the “Beethoven” issue.

http://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/post/52639984902/chevalier-de-saint-george-1745-1799

a few notes on why I dislike girljanitor/medievalpoc: Jewish edition

So I do have screencaps that I can add in case girljanitor/medievalpoc removes any of the existing links here.

Claims Jewishness is just religion; not Jewish, has done no research

Do I even need to say how messed up it is that GJ/Mpoc thinks it’s okay for them to make grossly oversimplified statements about complex Jewish identities (both historical and modern)? They are not Jewish, they do not deal with the complexities of Jewish identity or racialization or othering; they simply decided that they get to call Jews white.

Also, this quote:

shows that GJ/Mpoc thinks that Jewishness=Judaism=religion.

This quote:

shows that GJ/Mpoc does not actually know that Jews’ supposed whiteness has pretty much no practical application in European art, because Jews are still not seen as white in Europe. This is a fact and you can hear it from many bloggers in Europe; they are simply not treated on strict lines of colorism (of course, in America while much of Jewish whiteness operates on lines of colorism, it also operates on lines of how willing Jews are to align themselves with white supremacy and other such complex things as that). Making this distinction is absolutely useless.

Read the rest of the post if you want. It’s all pretty superficial. 

White Jews

Let’s get this straight. GJ/Mpoc has set the stage here for us, so I’ll just sum it up:

Continue on down for a rather short explanation of why this is bullshit.

Rroma don’t pass for white in Nazi Germany, Jews do!

Okay, so another quick summary.

Aside from the fact that this story is almost definitely fabricated, the details of it as well as how GJ/Mpoc talks about it makes it clear that they do not care about perpetrating harmful shit about Jews.

What they say here is basically that in Nazi Germany, Jews could pass as white. (Made more evident in the earlier quote, when GJ/Mpoc says “white Jewish family”!)

Even though at this point in time was when the Nazi party was attempting to return Jews to their original state as (officially) racially persecuted instead of just religiously persecuted, meaning that conversion didn’t make them exempt from persecution—that is, Jews were attacked as a race, not a religion. It doesn’t matter how much GJ/Mpoc wants to pretend that Jews can be white because it’s “just a religion,” NAZI GERMANY IMPLEMENTED LAWS THAT MADE JEWS TO BE CONSIDERED A RACE. AND THEN LAWS THAT OPPRESSED THEM BECAUSE OF THIS.

Jews were not considered white when there were arguments about what made someone count as racially Jewish—namely how many Jewish grandparents were needed to be counted as of the Jewish race. Whiteness was simply not a privilege extended to Jews in Nazi Germany, and it’s fucking ludicrous to think that anyone would ever think that it was. Yet here we have GJ/Mpoc, the person you’ve all entrusted to bring you accurate European history (and accurate representations of race in Europe!), claiming that Jews in Nazi Germany were actually white.

Also, just as an extra note? How does GJ/Mpoc know that the family that carried their grandmother was “white Jewish?” If their Rroma ancestry is supposedly so shut up, how do they know the skin color of their grandmother’s rescuers? (Who probably didn’t exist or were warped for the story.)

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That’s all I have right now for call-outs. I might find out more later that they’ve said about Jewishness. They’ve obviously done more messed up things, but this is specifically the Jewish-related things.

This anon ask is kind of….fascinating, like a really gross looking insect.

I’m also really sorry that these kind of asks are making their way into the inboxes of my followers…now that’s just rude.

I’m baffled by accusation that I “erase” Mediterranean people…this Anon seems to be very upset that I would group brown-skinned Europeans with Europeans of African descent (as if these groups are necessarily separate?) under the umbrella term “People of Color”.

I mean, I’m pretty sure anyone who’s paying attention has noticed that I am quite aware Southern Italians exist; I recently did an entire series on Southern Italian artist and fabulous eccentric Il Sodoma:

Anon up there seems to have a big, juicy problem with me claiming this artist as a person of color.

But maybe what Anon does not understand is that their fatuous opinion changes absolutely nothing about the lack of inclusion of brown-skinned artists and art subjects in Eurocentric American Art History Education.

My followers today are the Educators of tomorrow. The newest generation of Americans are going to irrevocable change American demographics, and I will not stand by and witness them being indoctrinated with a white supremacist education.

White supremacy in education is a form of social violence. You only have to look through the many, many messages I’ve received from students who were outright told by their teachers and professors that they have no history, they have no place in art, that they could only be slaves, oppressed people, victims of genocide and defined in relation to European Colonialism. How many textbooks begin with “First Contact”? How many textbooks try to put a “positive spin” on chattel slavery??? How many colleges are preemptively banning “Ethnic Studies” Departments?

How is divorcing a people from their history not violence?

The bottom line is, there are many people in power in the United States doing their utmost to make sure these students never see a face that looks like theirs in the past, in power, in context, or at all. Because they know the psychological effects this has on youth and their sense of self-esteem and empowerment.

My “shitty blog” is doing its best to mitigate or do some damage control on the perpetuation of these crimes done in the name of Education.

ok first of all Il Sodoma was not a southern italian, he was born and raised in Vercelli (fun fact:sodoma is actually a idiom in piemontese dialect so’doma=wake up) that is a city up in the north, he studied in Milan, that is a city in the north and lived and worked in both Siena and Rome, cities in the centre of Italy, just saying.

Second, no i’m sorry but this is wrong, if you think that southern italians are not white just because their skin is darker than idk a norwegian i’m gonna laugh, why the fuck you americans think you have the right to judge the race of an entire popolation? You are basically saying to people that have considered themselves white for centuries that they are not because of your fucking americacentric view, seriously? i didn’t know that i wasn’t white untill i read it on tumblr, can you imagine it??lol 

i usually read here on tumblr that southitalians are not white because of the arabs occupation, i just can’t, so what? south italy was occupied by the normanns too, there are actually many blondes with blue eyes in south italy, are they white?do all of us have to look like fucking nazis to be considered pure white people to you???

I also find extremely funny (not related directly to you) how we changed from being poc to being white when you need it, let’s make an exemple, let’s take the spanish people, they are south europeans therefore pocs to your fuckedup logic but fuck if tumblr hate the white supremacist imperialist spanish empire, so now tell me when was the exact moment the spanish stopped being white and started being pocs? when did it happened to us italians?i’m really curious about it.

I like your blog, i really do, but i think that at least you should care for what WE have to say on the matter of what OUR race is, and you have to understand that having an olive skin color doesn’t make us poc.

one more time?

But maybe what Anon irefiordiligi  does not understand is that their fatuous opinion European racial categories change absolutely nothing about the lack of inclusion of brown-skinned artists and art subjects in Eurocentric American Art History Education.

Go ahead and be as white as you wanna be, bro. Which is apparently, very, very white. No one can stop you. No one can tarnish your pure whiteness, as white as the very driven snow. Enjoy Il Sodoma’s whiteness, straightness, and super Northern in-no-way-a-person-of-color whateverness.

I’ll be over here having an art history and historiography blog.

AHAHAHAHAHAHH OMG YOU AREN’T ONLY EXTREMELY ARROGANT YOU’R ALSO STUPID AS WELL

“"But maybe what Anon irefiordiligi  does not understand is that their fatuous opinion European racial categories change absolutely nothing about the lack of inclusion of brown-skinned artists and art subjects in Eurocentric American Art History Education.”“

now please tell me where i say that pocs have never existed in european art? I just say that southern italians, who mostly have OLIVE skin tone, do not belong to the “umbrella term “People of Color”. THAT’S ALL

how is that black people came in many shades but white do not? a nigerian has a very dark skin, an eritrean otherwhise has a much lighter skin, by your logic an eritrean should be considered something else?cambodian people are darker than japanese but that doesn’t make them a different race!!so why is it so difficult for you to understand that white people may have different tone of skin colors too??

you know, i have a very pale skin, both my parents have very pale skins but my brother came out with a strong olive skin tone, if you would see him in a paint you would probably called him poc because he’s darker than me, but guess what????HE’S NOT, BECAUSE, AND I WILL NEVER BE TIRED OF SAYING IT, HAVING OLIVE SKIN DOESN’T MAKE US POC

[edit:sorry guys but i took down the pic with my friends because this post is going viral]

”“Go ahead and be as white as you wanna be, bro. Which is apparently, very, very white. No one can stop you. No one can tarnish your pure whiteness, as white as the very driven snow.

HOLY SHIT how can you be so arrogant?who the fuck you think you are??you accuse me of eurocentrism and don’t even understand how much american-centric you are, jesus christ i’m seriously laughing at your stupid american ass. Listen i don’t know what kind of fucked up STEREOTYPED idea do you people in the states have about Italy, about Spain, about Greece, about Portugal or about any other countries in Europe that doesn’t fit under your “umbrella”, the only thing that i have understand about americans is that apparently to be considered white one does have to be tall, blonde and with blues eyes, ok whatever. But you just can’t tell me that i’m not what i am after i have been looking at my face in the mirror every days for 23 years and see a white girl because you so disperately what us to be pocs. And you do, you are so focused on finding pocs in european art (thing that i like, that’s why i said that i like your blog) that you are mystifying the reality.

”“Enjoy Il Sodoma’s whiteness, straightness, and super Northern in-no-way-a-person-of-color whateverness.”“

AHAHAHAHAHA HERE THE FUNNIEST THING!!!

The picture you posted of Il Sodoma has been changed, did you make it darker on purpose?? this is what the original paint looks like

the second picture is said to be Sodoma, do you know what i see?i see a white guy with probably an olive skin tone, HOLY SHIT HE MUST BE A POC BECAUSE I’M AMERICAN AND I HAVE BEEN TAUGHT THAT WE AMERICANS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT AND  WHAT I THINK IS LAW AND DOESN’T MATTER WHAT NATIVE ITALIANS SAY, I WONT LISTEN TO THEM TALKING ABOUT THEMSELVES BECAUSE I WANT THEM TO BE POCS SO THEY ARE.

”“super Northern”“ are you idiot? he was born in fucking Vercelli!!!!!!!!!!!! How could you even think for a second that he was from the south???couldn’t you like idk read his biography and look at a map before posting??

WELL THAT’S REALLY LOOKS LIKE SOUTH ITALY.

It really unnerves me when i read stupid, bullshit, false things, expecially when said things concerns me, my people, my country, so you better understand the reality, take your head out of your ass and listen to us.

funny how you didn’t comment anything of what i wrote in the previous post, isn’t it?

Again, i’m not criticizing your blog, i like what you are doing, you are giving visibility to all the nonwhites that lived in europe, good, that’s great but do not get confused on who is really a poc and who is not.

please do not give medievalPOC money. what they are proposing to do with their money is actually highly illegal unless they pay hefty fees in copyright for distribution of prints of POC in art to the depositories (museums or galleries) which own these images.

Not only that, I promise you they are completely misinforming you or altering facts in a great deal of their posts. MedievalPOC is the dashcon of representation and diversity and not enough people have realized they are a complete scam.  

Ok. The person running MedievalPoC is an irl good friend of mine, has been since long before the blog started, so I know more than the average bear. The project itself? Not “a scam”, because “hey will you donate money to support me doing this project as I have too little income to continue doing this pro bono” isn’t *deceiving* *anyone*!!

“What they’re proposing to do with the money”????? I assume you mean the proposed coffee table book project, which has been shelved (heh) for the past *three years* because publishing it at the quality level the project deserves requires too much money for them to actually pull it off. Furthermore, they *have* looked into the copywrite laws, and back when they were actually planning the book (which again, as of now, December 2016, has been stalled for *three years*), they were curating the pieces to be featured and taking into account the fees required and including as many royalty free works as possible to make the book more financially feasible.

“I promise you they are completely misinforming you” because all the corrections, retractions, and source links they publish on the blog are clear evidence of their flagrant disregard for actual information.

Look. The reason they started the blog was not only because they are a lifelong fan of art and history, which they are, but moreso because they have also been a fan of swords and sorcery fantasy their entire life, and when the blog started they were getting into daily arguments for saying “people of color existed during ____time period and ‘historical accuracy’ is not an accurate reason for fantasy to be all white”. Mainly, with MedievalPoC, they were collecting the evidence they had *already been collecting* against that racist argument into a blog, so they didn’t have to keep fucking digging it up.

But how DARE my friends get free internet toasters and donations from strangers in return for curating a bunch of pictures.

I mean if you wanna defend your lying, dismissive, false apology giving, anti semetic friend despote all the receipts about them, thats cool but try and convince others we should forget.

- Queenie

Numbers matter to black men right up until you pull up the statistics about how the leading cause of death amongst black women from ages 17-34 is domestic violence and how black women have the highest rates of being abused intraracially than any other group. Then all of a sudden niggas can’t read lmao.

I really need sources on this.

Ask and you shall receive.

So I read the sources. only one source says its the leading cause of death for black women aged 15 to 34 without any statistics, just one academic.

However if we go to the CDC Homicide accounts for 16 % (15 to 19), 17.3 % (20 to 24), and 9.3 % (25 to 34). The links you provided said that half of the homicides were due to domestic violence. Some quick and dirty math would place the numbers at 8%, 8.5%, and 4.5%. So some more quick and dirty math says that about 7 percent of black women ages 15 to 35 are victims of homicide due to domestic violence. Ish. That would make it, about the fifth or sixth leading cause of death out of the 10 or so the CDC looks at.

Black women are two and half times to be victims of domestic violence. however, in general, native American women are more likely to be victims of homicide via dv and sexual assualt. Its a problem for sure though.

-Queenie

The 30 Years’ War, which lasted from 1618 to 1648, was the most costly religious war in European history. The fighting in central Europe claimed something around 8 million lives. But the war also took lives by accident. You see, it almost directly led to a devastating plague which marched across the Italian peninsula…

So, people overseas might remember the MP, Jo Cox, who was shot and stabbed to death in the week running up to the Brexit vote. She was killed by Thomas Mair, in what was and still is rightfully labelled an act of blatant terrorism. Specifically, white nationalist terrorism.

He was tried and found guilty of murder today, and given a life sentence in prison.

Given the political climate in the West at the moment – in Europe, the UK, and the US – and the turn the media has taken in their discussion of these sorts of matters, I have mixed feelings about the way the BBC at least has reported on this.

On one level, I’m glad that they are placing front and center the fact that, yes, Thomas Mair was a Right-Wing extremist. Yes, he was in contact with pro-apartheid neo-nazi publications in South Africa. Yes, he showed an interest in the KKK. Yes, in his home he had hoarded up and meticulously organised a collection of nazi and white supremacist literature, pamphlets, and media. Yes, he literally owned a fucking Nazi eagle. Yes, it’s made clear that his attack was planned and executed as an act of terrorism, and an attempt to prove a twisted point to the country — it was motivated by the fact that he was deeply invested in the politics of hate, and saw the Brexit vote as a chance for those politics to gain ground.

They are calling him what he was, in that sense. A straight-up neo-nazi. And that’s more than a good deal of media is doing currently. (Can you say ‘alt-r*ght’? Can you say ‘dapper white nationalist’?) However, it’s still less than they ought to be doing.

The coverage given to Thomas Mair seems to go out of its way to present him as all this, but also as an obsessive loner with mental health issues. And real as these issues might be, to me, they seem to be put forward as a sort of scapegoat or smokescreen. An effort to make Mair’s politics seem like a symptom of his own, and not a symptom of the dangerous rising prominence of the Right throughout the world at the moment. It’s a decoy, making people afraid of the wrong thing. But isn’t that always the way with news coverage of white terrorists?

He was not, the BBC say, affiliated with any known far-Right groups in the country, and was not involved in rallies or marches. He was, they make a point of saying, independent — a rogue agent. Which, true as it may be, does nothing at all to raise awareness of the kind of groups who feel the way that he did, and are still at large. Or rather, fuck it, groups who are, in the US, UK, and Europe, on the fucking rise — going public, making inroads towards something like a kind of sick legitimacy.

And that is not fine. Call these people what they are, and make people aware of what they represent. Not by giving their ideas a fucking fair shake, or letting them rebrand themselves. But by showing people what they are – Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, white nationalists, fucking born-again fascists – and that, yes, they ought to be angry. That should be the only media coverage they get. To show people what to push against and tell them: Push.

Abu Omar Khorasani, Islamic State commander of Afghanistan  (via whythatsbullshit)

Read the article guys.

(via a-yarrigotyourtongue)

This is for naturalized U.S. citizens: get proof of citizenship NOW. (Liberals, advice for you, too).

I’ve already tweeted about this but here’s a longer post for all naturalized citizens especially those who have been visibly marked a “other” and aren’t part of the “again” when Trump says that he’s making America great “again.” 

(All of you sad white liberals can suck it up, buttercups, because some of us have some real work to do to prove that we belong here before President-elect Trump is sworn in. The stuff that applies to you is at the end.) 

Trump took the support of white suburban women, those are also the types of women who want to adopt foreign children like they’re some kind of charitable, exotic vase. This does not mean they will necessarily ensure citizenship for their adopted children. For foreign adoptees who were 18 by 2000, you are not covered under the current Child Citizenship Act (2000). If you do not have proof of naturalization and even though you were raised here your entire life, you can be deported: 

This brings me to the point of my post: naturalized citizens, get proof of citizenship while Obama is still president. Naturalized citizens can use two documents to prove their citizenship: a U.S. passport and a Certificate of Naturalization (N-550, N-750). 

U.S. Passport info: 

Now, onto the Certificate of Naturalization: 

Source: Certificate of Naturalization

If you are already a naturalized U.S. citizen and don’t have a copy of your Certificate of Naturalization, you can apply for a new one here: Application for Replacement Certificate of Naturalization.  What you should know: 

I saw a lot of white people who were SO SHOCKED and SO SURPRISED their fellow white people voted for Trump. I saw tweets about “hurting” for their friends who were women, immigrant, minority, trans, queer - and god help us if you fall into more than one of those categories. That’s not even to mention the undocumented and those on work or school visas - immigration has a lot of fucking narratives and its time you start realizing that. 

So, do you want to help? Here are two ways to start helping your immigrant friends. 

First, you can help your naturalized friends by getting their paperwork and money in order: planning, finding a translator, helping with gathering paperwork and looking over their paperwork before its submitted; lending emotional support, accompanying them to immigration services and/or other appointments. Take some of that #ImWithHer sentiments that led you to donate to Hillary’s campaign and buy “nasty women” t-shirts and give your friends cold hard cash so they have proof of citizenship either in the form of a U.S. passport or Certificate of Naturalization. 

Second, you can start writing your senator and pressuring them to support of bill S.2275 - Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2015 introduced by Sen. Am Klobuchar (D-MN) designed to prevent the kind of tragedy facing Adam Crapsner in the stories linked above: 

Source: S-2275 - Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2015

I’d also like to add that it’s a good idea to at least consider having certified copies of any citizenship documents made if you can, and at least photocopies too. Try to have someone you trust hold on to a copy, someone who lives in a different household.

We know someone who has had their paper copy of their documents destroyed and were deported. Thankfully because they had American born family members who were in a position to fight for them, they were eventually able to return…with no real follow up for what they had suffered.

If any of my followers need this information, here you go. Be safe my loves

How long is the recovery time after a medication abortion?

Someone asked us:

A medication abortion (AKA the abortion pill) is actually 2 medicines that you take at 2 different times. You generally take the first dose of medicine at the health center. It’s a good idea to take the second medicine when you can be at home for several hours, ready with maxi pads, pain medicine (like ibuprofen), and your favorite movies and comfort foods. It’s even better if you have a loved one around for support, if you want.

The passing of pregnancy tissue starts about 1-4 hours after taking the second medicine. The abortion process itself usually takes several hours. During that time you’ll have strong cramping and bleeding and will want to take it easy.

Most people can return to their normal activities within a day or so. But it’s important to follow any instructions your doctor or nurse gives you about recovery after your abortion. They’ll be able to give you the best and most personalized follow-up dos and don’ts. If you need an abortion, or help thinking through your options, contact your nearest Planned Parenthood health center for support and care.

- Julia at Planned Parenthood