Hi I'm Elly from Aotearoa (New Zealand). I'm Māori, nonbinary and queer.
I tend to blog and reblog posts about anti-capitalism, systemic inequality, transfem-transmasc solidarity and veganism
"This is my weird son. He can't climb for shit, but he is handsome and strong."
When I'm sad I think about the kitten gang. The gang wouldn't want me to be sad and I don't want to disappoint the gang. :)
NEW EPISODE OF PHILOSOPHY TUBE TONIGHT!
Grab your tuxedos and ball gowns cause the premiere is at 20:00 British time on YouTube! I'll be in the live chat from 1930 answering questions and chatting to people, so come along and watch it with me!
Can't wait - see you at the premiere!
Abi XXx
Definitely worth watching for the scantily clad anarchist propaganda
(I have already watched it on Nebula)
i mean this in the gentlest way possible: you need to eat vegetables. you need to become comfortable with doing so. i do not care if you are a picky eater because of autism (hi, i used to be this person!), you need to find at least some vegetables you can eat. find a different way to prepare them. chances are you would like a vegetable you hate if you prepared it in a stew or roasted it with seasoning or included it as an ingredient in a recipe. just. please start eating better. potatoes and corn are not sufficient vegetables for a healthy diet.
Can't see it:
Can see but disguised flavor (can usually be found store bought or done at home and use different veggies):
Need it soft:
Needs to be crunchy:
Veggies google says stay crunchy after lightly cooking:
Broad texture tips:
It also really helps to think about why you dislike a vegetable. I found that I am scared of green foods so I like to use those veggies for ingredients in things they are well hidden for. I've also learned that watching something while eating helps because then I'm not looking at the gross green things. When possible, I also like to get help hiding it (ie using cream of celery soup in my chicken and dumplings).
A lot of veggies can also go into smoothies! If you like smoothies, add:
Remember to start with smaller amounts and experiment. If you put in small amounts, it will give less of a taste shock!
Diabetes isnt the 'ate too many sweets disease'. It just fucking is not. It's your body slowly losing an integral function needed to nuture and energize it. Its your pancreas shutting down, its your blood cells rejecting your attempts to feed itself, its not enough insulin to go around. Its you slowly getting colder and weaker, gorging yourself with healthy food and getting next to no benefit, its being so exhausted you cant sleep. Diabetes used to kill, straight-up KILL. So no, I don't think I will be laughing at your diabetes joke.
Do you know why diabetics eat so many sweets? Because we need sugar, and we need sugar FAST. Everyones' bodies rely on sugars for nutrients and energy, and in a non-diabetic body sugars get absorbed at a normal rate using your normal amount of insulin into your normal red blood cells. This happens to healthy carbs, superfood vegetables, and some proteins!
Diabetics dont have that luxury! Without medication, our body is in a constant crisis where we need more sugar and the sugars that break down the fastest are sweets! But then they dont all get absorbed, then the unabsorbed sugar hangs out in our bloodstream then gets flushed out, and then we still need more. All those healthy things break down too slowly for when we're in a crisis, and then we STILL dont absorb all of it! And I'm only talking about type 2, type 1 cant absorb anything at all because they dont have any insulin!
You cannot healthy eat or diet your way out of diabetes. You cannot lose weight out of diabetes. Once you get diabetes, even if you manage your symptoms perfectly you HAVE diabetes. You have a chronic illness. And that means its time to see doctors, get on medications, and practice self care.
And sometimes self care means you eat dessert first while dinner is cooking so you have the energy to finish cooking. Sometimes that means eating many small meals to match your body's absorption rate. Sometimes that means eating at midnight so you have the blood sugar to sleep.
Im just tired of diabetes being seen as a joke or only something you get if you're 'bad'. And diabetics? I love you, talk to a nutritionist about diabetic eating, and don't forget your meds.
A disabled person being forced to not use their mobility aid is not something to be proud of. A disabled person pushing themselves past their limits is not something to be proud of. Stop pushing disabled people with your “pride” of them, and shaming others when they stay within their body’s boundaries.
Pain is not something to be proud of.
I could be the person writing one time verification codes. 873726. 290971. 041452. 667656. It comes naturally to me.
They look so good
The naked human body isn't inherently sexual and sexual things aren't inherently bad. I think some "leftists" need to remember that.
About to eat a normal amount of grapes.
I have eaten half the bag of grapes.
Quick eat the other half before they grow mold
“this animal was born biologically nonbinary 🥰” just say intersex. we’re talking about sex and not gender. the animal is intersex. its not a dirty word
speaking of professional dx, i think it's important to recognize that professionally dx'd disabled people are at a severe legal disadvantage compared to disabled people who purely self-id; one of the reasons i'm so intensely pro-self-dx and actively advocate for people to self-dx over professional dxing is because professional diagnosis comes with a cavalcade of systemic oppression and violence from the state, no matter what country you're in.
some things that professional diagnosis of a disability might do, depending on what disability and which country you live in:
obviously, there's plenty of resources that are artificially gatekept behind professional diagnosis, like mobility aids that are only affordable through insurance, prescription medication, testing like blood tests and MRIs, AAC devices, and more. but i think it's important to remember that those of us who need these things aren't necessarily privileged by our professional diagnoses, insomuch as we're forced into a situation where we have to subject ourselves to endless state violence via professional diagnosis in order to have access to those necessary resources.
i think it's particularly important for those of us professionally diagnosed to remember that. there's a tendency in some circles to treat professional diagnosis like it makes us better or more "legitimately disabled" than self-id disabled folks; this isn't true and it's important to remember that we shouldn't feel the need to define ourselves by a thing that actively harms us. plus, just because someone doesn't have a professional diagnosis doesn't mean they don't need the resources that are kept behind it; often it means they can't afford to weather the state violence that comes with the dx, and so instead they have to suffer without medication or aids or testing and have a significantly worse and shorter life because of this. just because they have legal privilege over you doesn't mean they necessarily have social privilege over you or quality-of-life privilege.
y'all please check out my friend alex's book!! its a free online resource for learning māori, the endangered indigenous language of new zealand, and we hope that it can help spread this beautiful language to even more people!
(plus this book is a blast hehe)
CW: antisemitism, pale of settlement, pogroms, genocide, cultural erasure
I don't think goyim can really conceive of how much Jews actually hold back in our criticism of antisemitism in media, and when you hear us it is often because we see a dangerous message that you don't... Yet.
I have a complicated relationship with Tim Burton's rendition of The Corpse Bride. I love it as a beautiful piece of stop motion art, but it isn't what it should have been, he took a Jewish story from the Pale and with intention stripped it of its Jewish origins. This alone is incredibly antisemitic. The criticism you will hear has probably been "this is a Jewish story, it should have retained its Jewish elements" but have you heard why we feel strongly about this story?
The story of the corpse bride is incredibly important to me and was born from Jewish trauma and Christian violence. Mobs would routinely attack Jewish weddings, they would murder brides and they would bury them in unmarked graves by the roadside still in their wedding clothes, they reasoned that without Jewish wives there are no Jewish mother's. Jews are intrinsic to the story.
It is antisemitism to take our story, about our pain, at the hands of non-jews and strip it for "useful" parts, in fact it is heartbreaking every time.
We are often forced to pick our battles and fighting a battle over a movie that has already been released by a director with a cult following is not worth it, you only hear us speak up in numbers when the antisemitism may lead to another century of violence, because raising our voice means picking a fight, because so many of you already see our pain as inconvenient and it is exhausting to never be heard.
-anyone can reblog
Tags image transcript// antisemitism; Tim Burton; as someone who was raised Christian; finding out how deeply antisemitic western society actually is is terrifying; being black I almost try to compare it to the same oppression that my ancestors faced; that I currently have; but at the same time I know that I'm not really in a position to make assumptions like that cause that's not me// end of transcript//
You have a keen intuition. In general the European systems of colonial control, ethnic segregation and chattel slavery have their beginning in the subjugation of Jews or Romani.
Ghetto is the island Jews were confined to in Venice, giving its name to all other overcrowded places of ethnic segregation and poverty. The Jews of Rome were until the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy, the personal property of the Pope.
Romani had been held in chattel slavery for over 300 years before Columbus ever set sail. The institution of chattel slavery of the Romani wouldn't end until the mid 1800's. (Predictably no restitution is forthcoming)
Together Jews and Romani were prohibited from wearing certain clothes, required to wear other clothes so that we could be identified, prohibited from practising certain trades deemed "too noble", and individuals or communities murdered for imagined crimes.
Crushing subjugation, death, displacement and repeated exile are regular experiences of both our communities. People touched by the hobnail boot of European colonialism and empire will certainly find that all of this rhymes, repeatedly.
