This is art. A masterpiece, actually.
A true American hero
Iconic
Reminder this this absolute legend died under suspicious circumstances, just like a not-insignificant number of prominent black activists in the last few years: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/02/07/a-black-lives-matter-activist-who-once-tackled-a-confederate-flag-was-killed-in-new-orleans/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.67f9b0fca83f
😲😲😲😲😲😢
The fact that nobody is talking about Secret’s new commercials pisses me off
This makes me so happy ☺️
Yesssss😭 I damn near cried
I LOVE THIS OMFG
YOOOOOOOOOOO THATS AMAZING!!!!!
Can someone help me understand I wanna cry to ..I feel something went over my head
The woman in the bathroom is trans and is scared that if she comes out of the stall the women that walked in will insult or harass her. but when she comes out they compliment her on her dress instead. The add ends with saying “stress tested for women.” It means Secret is including trans women in their definition of women.
I have reblogged this three times now, each one mentioning the fact that Secret not only included a trans woman, but that they /had the other women compliment her dress and treat her with respect/. I will reblog this every time I see it because it’s so important. More companies should involve trans people in their marketing - we do exist. Props to Secret for getting in on this movement. It makes me really happy to see more of the trans community represented in daily television.
So, Article 13 just passed the second stage of voting in the European Parliament. Before everyone freaks out, the law has NOT banned memes, you will still be able to post content from your favourite TV shows/films/bands, it will very likely not affect you at all.
Article 13 is mainly designed to stop people from using copyrighted music on their websites, and from pirating entire episodes of TV shows. That means you can still post Doctor Who gifsets and be just fine, but linking to the entire episode on a dodgy pirate sight might get you in trouble.
It is true that Article 13 introduces the need for large websites to use ‘upload filters’ to screen content, but again, it will not screen out your memes. The only real problem with this is that song parodies are under fire if they’re too close to the original song, which is…not great, but not the devastating internet-ruining law I’ve seen people label it as.
Article 13, in essence, makes it harder for people to pirate content, but it will not actually limit your ability to post edited content about your favourite things, like gifs, video edits, fanart, or fanfiction. At the very worst, sites like Tumblr and Twitter will have to pay a licensing fee to allow their users to post content from copyrighted media, but that’s out of your hands as a user. It will not affect you personally.
So if you’re freaking out right now, my best advice to you is, don’t. You will be fine. If you still want the law to be stopped or changed, the European Parliament uses a ‘trilogue’ system of voting, meaning that there are three rounds of voting on new bills, and Article 13 has only just passed round 2. If you want to stop or change the law, call or email your MEP before the third round of voting.
But other than that, don’t worry. The EU isn’t taking away your memes, and I promise we will all be fine.
“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.” ― Alejandro Jodorowsky
[I don’t know the graphic source, if anyone does please comment or message me and I’ll update this post!]
Holy shit. Holy fuck. I got my little sister the book “sex is a funny word” because she’s at that age where she’s reading a lot of puberty books and I’d heard that this one was lgbtq+ friendly, but I was checking it over for accuracy and I gotta say, even with the totally gender neutral language they were using to talk about body parts and the really respectful way they talk about gender and their portrayals of same sex couples I was so fucking sure that I would have to mention that not everyone gets crushes or feels attraction separately. Because these books never talk about that. But here it is. The one thing I was so absolutely sure wouldn’t be included.
I honest to god dropped the book when I saw this I was so shocked. And I’m so fucking happy right now. I can’t exspress how much I wish this was mentioned in the books I read when I was a kid. It would have saved me so much confusion, and I’m so happy that kids today are gonna read this and know that it’s okay and normal to not get curses. I’m so so fucking happy you have no idea.
Yes it is! And like holy shit, I really had to set the book down so I wouldn’t start crying. I’m so happy, look at this.
I had? No expectation my exsperiances would be represented in this and here it is. Like I can’t even put my emotions around this into words.
You know what’s scary about this age? You can’t even enjoy your down time. You’re socially convinced that every moment you’re spending not doing anything is wasted time. That you always should be working towards something. We forget that it’s okay to have a breather and simply take time to yourself.
You have no idea how much I needed to see this. Thank you.
As someone who changed his name just for fun when I thought I was still cis, i promise most people are ok with accepting a new name, even if you lie and say it’s a nickname. I promise. It’s really easy to just casually go “hey I wanna go by Bob now, it’s an old nickname I wanna bring back” like. Just start introducing yourself to new ppl, no one knows better. and if someone accidentally deadnames you just go haha no I go by my nickname now.
It sucks that ppl treat nicknames as more sacred than trans ppls choice names but still.
If ur cis u can totally rb this to help ur fellow trans friends out thanks
Guys, this is really important. Until now, Google collected your data, but did not attach your name to it. Now, they can, and will. This new thing they’re doing will allow them to collect your data across searches, your email, Youtube, Maps, Google+, and all their affiliates, and build a complete profile of YOU.
If that doesn’t bother you, maybe this will: they own and can sell all that data, including anything you create and send (artists and writers, take note).
There is a way you can opt out of this ridiculousness. It’s described in the link, but if you’re still not sure about it, please ask me and I’ll guide you through how to turn all this off.
This is my wake-up call. I’ll be locking down my devices and scaling back what I put through the big Google machine, which means you may see less of me across social media. I’m going to keep researching this, but it may mean in order to keep the rights to my creative work, I’ll have to keep it out of Google’s hands. And that may take some doing.
Duckduckgo is a nontracking search engine….may be worth a try.
So according to the article there is an opt out for this. Instructions are I the last paragraph. I’m on mobile so I’ll edit this more later. EDITED TO INCLUDE OPT OUT INSTRUCTIONS
To opt-out of Google’s identified tracking, visit the Activity controls on Google’s My Account page, and uncheck the box next to “Include Chrome browsing history and activity from websites and apps that use Google services.“ You can also delete past activity from your account.
FUCKING BOOST!!!!!
Okay, folks, I got some recs for y’all today. I’m a pretty unavoidably female-read NB, and I don’t really know any nice ways to make myself LOOK less so. However, SMELLS are a pretty easy way to make yourself feel more at home in the skin you’re in, and I have amassed a couple of good, gender neutral stinky things.
This scent is described as “melony, citrus, sandalwood, and cedarwood.” It really rides the line between being a perfume and being a cologne, which I dig. It has almost an incense-y kind of smell to it. Also, the smell changes as you wear it to go with your body chemistry, which I love. This is a year-round Lush product, so you can pop into a shop to sniff it anytime you want.
Rosemary-scented and sulfate-free, which means it will keep your cool queer dyed hair looking better longer. Rosemary is an excellently gender neutral scent. They also have a rosemary/mint one, which is pretty good.
This scent comes also as a body wash and some other products, but I just use the stick deodorant. It’s sandalwood and vanilla scented. Some products with sandalwood, that’s all you smell, but it’s really nicely balanced with the vanilla here so it’s just a little hint of spiciness.
Add on your own recs if you have any! Just thought I’d share these cool smells.
I would like to bring up an important point right now.
Autistics are literally forced to learn NT social skills, communication, and body language. Otherwise we will be openly discriminated against and mistreated. I was bullied so extensively when I was young that I cried myself to sleep until I learned how to pass as NT and the bullying effectively stopped.
But here’s the thing: we still have our own social skills, communication, and body language that is unique to autistics. Things like stimming, vocal repetition, and conveying meaning in an unusual way will still happen, particularly around people we can trust.
So if you have an autistic in your life, I want you to learn the same things they did. I want you to learn how to understand their unique social skills, communication, and body language. Learn how to read them as easily as you would an allistic. Return the favor. It’s the least you could do, and it will make the relationship easier for everyone.
Thank you, you may continue scrolling.
I also had to learn acting out the nt behavior thing ughhh
I’m reaching out mainly to the radfem community because you guys have been so empathetic towards me, so, hi, I know you guys don’t know me very well but my name is Thalia Gomez and a few months ago my gf started abusing me. To preface this, she’s got severe Anxiety and OCD. Once she graduated from college she spiraled into a depression where she couldn’t move from her couch and would just obsessively smoke weed. Her anxiety prevents her from getting and holding a job because she’ll have a panic attack, she’s currently switching medications too so her behavior towards me is worse now. Because of this I’ve had to hold down the household with some help from her mom who pays the rent (I take care of utilities, food, and Other expenses like our pets). I work only part time currently because I have to come home and essentially be my gf’s caretaker (make sure she takes her meds, is active, eats at least twice a day, isn’t harming herself, etc) as well as do most of the housework and cleaning and taking care of the cats she wanted to get which I also provide for. I’ve officially run out of money and I’m about to lose my job because we’re moving to a new apartment in less than a week. So this is where it gets bad. Her abuse has gotten worse and worse. She keeps pressuring me for drug money to the point of following me around the apartment, refusing to let me leave, hitting me, throwing things at my face, and verbally abusing/manipulating me by telling me I don’t pay rent so I owe her money. At one point she owed me $400 and we couldn’t afford to eat because she couldn’t get the money from her mom and she ended up selling half her things (she is still selling anything of value in order to buy weed). She will tell me to give her “her” money and to leave her house because she doesn’t want to be with me anymore and breaks up with me whenever I don’t give her what she wants or whenever I try to talk to her about my feelings towards her abusive behavior. This has happened at least once a week for the past 6 months. Most recently I tried to leave her and move out and she fought me and refused to let me go. I was trying to be civil until she poured bleach on me and the clothes I was packing up. She then, after asking if I was still leaving her, to Which I replied yes, grabbed a blunt glass object and told me to get out of her house before she seriously hurt me. After that I told her I did not want to see her anymore and she (knowing I had very little money) used my account to pay for a $200 electric bill. I have nowhere to go and now I’m actually broke and forced to live with her. I’m just trying to raise some money to get out. Even just $500 will help me go to a halfway house. If anyone could please help me out I’d really appreciate it. It’s gotten to the point where I feel like a hostage and I’m treated as one. I can’t even call her my gf anymore because she just treats me like shit and destroys my things and threatens to physically hurt me if I exercise any agency. I’m scared and I can’t do this by myself. If you guys could even just reblog this and get it out there to people I’d be more than appreciative. Here’s the link: https://www.youcaring.com/thaliagomez-1165048
Hey guys, I’m currently in the middle of moving into a new place with her. I’m trying to keep my things packed separately but I can’t do it for long and I had to pay for part of the move. I don’t get paid until Friday and I now have to look for a new job because I couldn’t transfer to another store. So far I’ve been keeping my distance from her and she has a concussion from a previous incident so she’s not really interactive which has helped since she’s just sleeping mostly. I pretty much had to pack the entire place by myself and work part time and take care of her because she can’t even move really without her head flaring up. I just want out. If you could please reblog this and help get the word out there. So many of you already have and I’ll forever be appreciative of it. Thank you so much.
So tonight things got a lot worse when I tried to break up with her. She came after me and hit me, punched me, and bit me and pretty much everything you can think of happened. I was trying to be civil and again it didn’t work. I had to leave and go to an old coworkers place who said I can stay for a couple of days. Other than that I have nothing. I couldn’t grab my clothes or any of my possessions and idk what she’s gonna do to them. Im begging you guys as pathetic as this is rn I need help I’m trying Togo to a women’s shelter or something after this but I pretty much just lost everything. If you guys can just reblog and help spread the word on this I’d really appreciate it.
Please read this and help Thalia guys
Create love,
Not hatred.
Create kindness,
Not cruelty.
It is easy to become jealous, to envy or to hate. It’s easy to jump to conclusions or judgmental-ness.
It’s a lot harder to create something that isn’t a negative reaction. But that’s why it’s so beautiful.
It’s amazing to see kindness, and true happiness in someone because it can become contagious, in a good way.
Personally I find it that if someone say something nice, or kind or sweet to me, about me or my work, I just feel this fuzzy warm feeling in my chest.
We are naturally inclined to look for support and love and kindness, so when someone tells you something positive, you’re like, wow. It feels wonderful.
Which is why we should create kindness, care and love. It makes not only others feel better but also ourselves.
We should be happy, love and care for one another because we don’t know who went through what. But if we all just say something nice, or positive, that person will probably remember it for the next while.
Which!
Which can begin to build positive self-esteem, can help this self-love build and just overall can be wonderful!
Which is why I ask, don’t hate, love. Don’t be greedy, but give.
Be kind, not only to others but yourselves as well. We should create a happy life, filled with good people and kindness. Not a life filled with hate and cruelty.
But I know we can do it.
So why don’t I start, you look amazing today, doesn’t matter if you just woke up, just got home or if your just after crying. You look amazing, and that sparkle in your eye is something amazing. Smile, see there’s that beautiful smile that I adore. That’s it, smile, even if it’s just for you and me.
Remember when Disney treated emotional trauma as an actual physical ailment and not the stupid “just stop being upset” thing?
Big Hero 6 was a great movie
Reply with any celebrity, fictional character who’s autistic, orTV series, movies, videogames, etc. That touches the topic, even if it’s in a awful way (like Atypical)
X/Y, or “A Brilliant Young Mind” as it’s known in the USA
Spencer Reid is mostly confirmed in canon in Criminal Minds and Penelope Garcia is extremely autistic coded
OH THIS TOO I JUST REMEMBERED
In Netflix’s edition of Daredevil, Wilson Fisk / “Kingpin” is played by an autistic actor (Vincent D’Onofrio)
There’s also the Blue Ranger in the most recent Power Rangers movie
Touch is another Netflix series about a nonverbal autistic kid who can predict events before they happen, I didn’t watch all of it but what I can remember of it was actually pretty good
The Good Doctor is really good too
The Blue Rangers name is Billy Cranston
Josh Sauchak from Watch Dogs 2 is autistic
Carl from Arthur
Gil Grissom from CSI
Reed Richards from Fantasic Four
Uh. Not to be that guy. But I really need some help. Recently I moved out of an emotionally abusive situation. I live in an apartment and work two jobs but the apartment is still really expensive so I can stay close to both places. I make about 1400 dollars a month but my rent is $1200 not including utilities and food, and DEFINITELY not my medication. I don’t have a lot of money left over for anything and I can’t afford to lose this place because I can’t move back into guardians place.
Listen if you could donate even two bucks Itd be helpful but I just need an extra hundred for food this month. Because I can by things that will last me awhile.
Anyone who donates can make an art request and I’ll totally fill it for them.
Even if you could just reblog that’d be great!! I really need help Guuys!
Small Update!!
I’m going to be a hundred dollars short for rent this month!!! I need that money by the end of the month or else I’ll be EVICTED. Please help anyway you can. Signal boost please!
I have two more weeks!!!
My disdain for cops is institutional, not individual. Just because you may have a positive personal relationship with someone who is a cop doesn’t change the fact that the law enforcement system in this country is rooted in white supremacy and is used to repress and control the working class while protecting the elite.
All cops have signed up to enforce a system which is oppressing marginalized people in this country on a daily basis. Your personal relationship with an agent of oppression does not change this fact.
