words of affirmation i repeat on the daily
If someone thinks I'm annoying they are welcome to get the heck out.
another pride month reminder: if your events aren’t welcoming to jews and other religious minorities, they are not a safe space.
And if your interfaith pride event begins with a Christian prayer that mentions "Chr*st" or "Jesus" or whatever, you are not interfaith, you are just proselytizing with extra steps :)
If your pride is heavy on events on Friday evening and Saturdays, it's not inclusive of Jews or Muslims.
sunday is right there!! “oh but christians have church on sundays!!!” christians do not have work prohibitions on sundays and also i don’t care!! :)
cardinal sin….? no…. they wouldn’t…. would they?
not a malicious bone in his body.
Think again..
oh you hate me? you see my big beautiful sad brown eyes and you’re gonna hate me?
don’t reblog this and add your eye color this is specifically for brown eyes ONLY
prev you are literally so right and you should say it
reminder this pride month that disabled people in the US on SSI and SSDI do not have the same marriage equality as people not on SSI and SSDI. its called the marriage penalty.
by getting married, a disabled person can lose their income, benefits, and health insurance.
if a disabled person marries an able bodied person, and combined their assets are $3000 or over they will lose all benefits, including medicaid (health insurance).
if a disabled person marries a disabled person, their assistance is lowered 25%.
we don’t have marriage equality until all disabled marriages are equal.
What I Read: DEI
My Rational Brain: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Rest of my Brain: ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♪
Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum
People love consuming the arts, but many hate the training required to create the arts. Not every art degree is created equal, but the connections you make and the experience you gain can be invaluable.
I'm not saying every artist needs a college degree for every aspect of creating art, but art is not always created solely by performers.
Perhaps there is an actor who was self taught and got a lucky break, but the cinematographer capturing that actor needed years of training. They are literally camera scientists AND visual artists.
Maybe that punk band you love only knows four chords and just screams into a microphone, but the sound engineer recording their music probably has a college degree.
Here is a video of the sound engineer for a Hamilton production.
He uses an amazing blend of technical and artistic skills to make sure the show sounds perfect during every performance.
Check out his college degree...
Any other theater nerds in the house?
And the thing is, a degree doesn’t even have to be relevant to worthwhile. In early ‘90s (33mhz computers were fast!) I was working on a BFA (fine arts) when I got into 3D rendering, figured out how to hijack school’s new Mac lab and turn it into a distributed render farm. 30 years later I’m running super computers at a major laboratory. (only paid off school loans in 2020)
I’m all for loan forgiveness so folks aren’t dragging around a fucking millstone for rest of lives. Actually, 4 yr college should be free but wtf do I know?
James: “HEEHEEHEE WE PUT THE THEY IN THEM!”
Jessie: “a”
we put the they in them thursday
this is one of my favorite english words. and what i aim to become.
can someone help me become an uxorious poster
by Gerard Donelan
For historical context, this is about making a panel for the AIDS quilt, a memorial project which began in San Francisco in 1985. Due to the stigma surrounding both homosexuality and AIDS during this time, victims of the epidemic were often cremated and disposed of or buried without ceremony, their bodies unclaimed by their families or origin or held by hospitals rather than released to same-sex partners.
Each panel in the AIDS quilt memorializes a life lost to the disease. Each panel is 3′ x 6′ (approximately 1 meter wide and 2 meters long), the approximate dimensions of a cemetery plot. The quilt, which then consisted of 1,920 panels representing 1,920 individuals lost to AIDS, was first displayed in Washington DC in 1987. The public response was immediate, positive, and overwhelming, and the quilt began taken around the country to be displayed in more cities. At each stop, the names of the dead were read out loud. At each stop, more panels were added.
By the time the quit returned to the US capital in 1988, it had more than 8,000 panels.
The quilt continues to grow. Today, it has over 50,000 panels memorializing over 100,000 of our dead. It’s too large now to physically display in its entirety, but you can view the entire thing online. There are also curated virtual displays of just panels which honor the Black and native people killed by the virus because in the US (and likely abroad, although I don’t know enough about public health elsewhere to say so with confidence), communities of color are disproportionately impacted by epidemics, as we have seen time and time again.
If you’re unable to access the quilt, here’s a zoomed in screenshot of the bottom left corner:
The quilt is made up of several panel, each panel itself consisting of 1 to 8 quilts.
Here’s a screenshot of the whole thing:
This is only about half of the people - our people - who were left to die because the government didn’t think “the gay disease” was a problem. This is why we march.
The heart-melting smile of a slender-legged tree frog - Osteocephalus verruciger
credit: Andreas Kay/flickr
Source: treehugger.com
I’m absolutely obsessed with the reddit side of the Tolkien fandom, in particular, this discussion regarding how Sauron fits the ring on his finger, as well as penal compensation a la Lord Farqaud style
Oh my GOD YOUR BRAIN IS AMAZING