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@romesagentofchaos

Trans ace lesbian, she/they, Anarcho-communist. Frequent f/f shipper.
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“Most of what you think you know about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is wrong.

This is the model that we all learned in psych 101 is wrong [image of Maslow’s pyramid is shown] where our basic physiological needs are at the bottom of the pyramid and achieving one’s full individual potential is at the apex.

What you may not have known is that Maslow spent 6 weeks with the Blackfoot First Nation in the summer of 1938. He learned about their worldview and the Blackfoot Tipi, appropriated and misrepresented their perspective to establish his own Maslow’s hierarchy, and then didn’t give them credit.

[Image of Maslow’s pyramid and Blackfoot tipi shown, described below]

According to the Blackfoot Tipi, self-actualization is at the bottom of the pyramid. In the middle we have belonging and community actualization, where people take care of each other and help each other with their basic needs. And at the top, we have cultural perpetuity, which is teaching each other how to live in harmony with the land and achieve community actualization through generations.

It makes so much sense, right? Taking care of oneself is not enough. We need to take care of each other and our community.

This is why we need to decolonize psychology.”

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If anyone wants to learn more about this I suggest watching the late Narcisse Blood's interviews on Maslow and the influence of Blackfoot worldviews on his work thru the Blackfoot Digital Library, they're very in-depth

Eldon Yellowhorn also discusses Maslow and Blackfoot ways of knowing but I forget which interview it's in

The picture at the start of the next paper shows Maslow at the reserve, btw.

Also this is good if you're interested in a very short introduction to tipi construction and their use as homes and visual records of important knowledge:

I much prefer the Siksika model to Maslow's. It places the individual at the base of the tipi, and the existential objective in that model is literally cosmic in scale. A self-actualized individual can better contribute to the community, and a self-actualized community and culture can perpetuate itself through time. The goal is so much larger than the realization of your own self, it's about being a part of a greater whole and ensuring it lasts into perpetuity.

in every workplace there should be a secret button you can press and if everyone presses it the workweek immediately ends and you can go outside and play instead of sending email

ok i made this post and this afternoon our server locked us out and i spent the rest of the day shooting the shit with my coworkers outside in perfect spring weather. i do believe in magic but mostly i believe in the secret button

shouldve made this post yesterday but i ended up in the er and that sapped me of all my energy 💔 my storage bill is two days late! i know i just made a post about my storage bill but i actually have two units due to a bad bedbug issue (one of them is untouched until i can be sure the bugs have all died out). i also need groceries/food!

storage bill is $98 so if i could get $100 for that to cover the transfer fee itd be great. and then like? $150 for groceries? im basically out of everything and would like to be able to order food today

got ummn $50 but its gone now. storage is now 3 days late

5 days late.

can i please get $20 for my last afterpay payment? its gonna be late if i dont get it in within two hours

actually while I think about it, I want to give a shout out to every congenitally disabled person whose disability was not discovered until they were a teenager or adult, and spent their entire lives up to that point being told they were lazy, stupid, uncoordinated, or not trying hard enough

shout out to all of us who should have been helped from the day we were born, and instead were just made to feel like we were worthless for not being able to perform like our abled peers

According to Cobb, “You have to build the new society within the shell of the old,” and Dishgamu Humboldt can provide a blueprint for what a better world—the one being born—might look like. As parts of the world flood and burn, perhaps projects like this can show us how the land and the people can heal from the wounds of the past, and grow a better future, together.

My favorite dudes in hellraiser are the people like "perhaps the torture demons will grant my wish in a way that doesn't involve torture!"

people trying to seek meaningful justice or healing through the criminal justice system

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I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"

TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE

Ok, unless something's going on I'm not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term "Pet Play" is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.

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Yeah, I'm not mad about using the term "pet play". That's a perfectly fine term. I'm mad because they didn't use that term: they used "pet p!ay", a censored version

Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.

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To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 

Colonizers kill, displace, ignore, traumatize, exploit and oppress the indigenous people who have taken care of the land they lived on for THOUSANDS of years, and then when they see the land degrading around them have the fucking GALL to have all their environmental messaging be like "Wahh humans bad and evil and greedy :("

Like no you dumb motherfuckers you just uprooted the people who knew what they were doing, and when stuff starts to go to shit you decide it must be that humans are inherently awful because it's easier than admitting that YOU LOT fucked up.

What is happening?

The Sami are an indigenous people who live in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, who has historically faced discrimination and cultural genocide and still do today. Sami activists are currently trying to shut down the Norwegian government to protest Human Rights violations that are happening at Fosen, where a windmill farm is hindering their traditional reindeer herding.

How to help:

my mother taught me to crochet when i was young. she was left handed, so she taught me how in the bathroom mirror so her hands would be in the right position.

she learned to crochet from her grandmother, who was right handed. her grandma was the one that originally used the bathroom mirror to teach her granddaughter properly.

i find something poetic about that. here in this bathroom mirror, through generations, we adapt to our young who have a different way of learning and interacting with the world

I love it when I tell doctors that I'm a LARPer and an endurance hiker and one of the most frustrating things about chronic pain is how hard it is to go to the park and do my favorite physical activites, and they'll look at me like a dog that's just been shown a card trick and ask, "Have you tried exercising?"

Brother, you don't even know how bad I wish we could try exercising rn

Chronic illness patients: so I really like to do [physical activity] but it's gotten like, physically hard to do lately

Genius doctors: have you tried increasing your physical activity?

"I'm so fucking good at health."

I once had to patiently tell a doctor "I don't really think it's ethical to ask me to exercise my way out of a pain spike?" and she looked like it was the first time she'd ever really thought about it.

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fountain in italy

This is what I tried to explain to US platforms like Patreon when they suspended my account for having a nude statue as the background image: I live in Europe, I can go and see a nude statue within a 5 minutes walk. Children can see them, they're not in some 18+ container. I will never understand those policies.

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As an American, the times I’ve gone abroad I’ve felt free and open in a way that made coming back to the US extremely jarring in a way I couldn’t fully describe. This is an aspect of it—a sanitized, dead culture entirely composed of constant advertisements and guns.

I'm confused how art with genitals in it can even get hand wringing? that's just in every gallery? How do you even sanitise that without carving out some really significant parts of art history?

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correct. now you're catching on.

anyway this is really what America is like. the right wing is currently weaponizing this against gay and trans people by accusing them of "grooming". it's really interesting to me to watch Europeans discover the reasons WHY Americans are all insane. like we didn't get this way by accident there are extremely powerful stressors acting on us from before the moment of birth that causes epigenetic syndromes, chronic illness and derangement lol

Germans for example are very open about sex in a way that loops it back to being banal, unsexy, a fact of life. That man in a gimp suit is just dressed kinda fun, he’s not hurting you or ‘grooming’ you.

Anyway, everyone above is correct. See a naked statue and maybe you won’t be so neurotic

Nationwide Protest & Boycott JUNE 1ST in Solidarity with the Queer Community

First off, who the hell am I, right?

We can fight back.

We can do this

Repost and use the tag #WrathWithPride2023

put the graphics on tik tok, insta, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

(you may have seen these already, I just wanted them to have their own post so it's neater & easier to find/track/reference)

just saw a post where someone put “detrans dni” and like… hey we should be supporting detransitioned people bc if we don’t terfs will

sometimes you’re wrong about your identity and that’s ok like i used to think i was bi but it turns out i was wrong and i know ppl who thought they were trans but it turns out they were wrong and it should be ok and accepted that sometimes people don’t get it right on the first try

@shadowknight1224 this is an excellent way of putting it thank you

This touches on something I have felt for a long time, which is that one of the reasons rigid queer labels and gatekeeping is so dangerous is because if you want to encourage people to explore their gender/sexuality, there has to be a safe "Actually I was wrong" option.

I went through so very much anxiety coming out, and when I really think about it it was squarely from the fear of being wrong about it all. That I was, at heart, a cishet woman, and therefore I was appropriating a label that didn't 'belong' to me, and I would (somehow) be harming other people by doing so. There's so much more unnecessary pressure if the sword hanging over your head is "But you do have to be right about this, you can't back out once you've even asked the question."

I think that is Bad. I think it makes fewer people ask the question. I think that includes those who need to ask, and would be much happier for it.

to summarize: one of the things the Q stands for is QUESTIONING

and that is as it should be

I’d like to also submit the possibility that some people may be more prone to shifts in their gender identity than others, and that it’s not necessarily even a case of being “wrong,” so much as it’s a case of just changing over time. I know the predominant narrative we see in discourse is that a person who transitions was never their agab—and I’m sure that’s true for a lot of people! But… it’s not true everyone? I remember reading an interview with Danny Lavery after he came out, and he said something along the lines of “One day, I went to bed a woman and woke up not a woman anymore.” So if a person can change once, who’s to say that can’t change again? For example, I know Eddie Izzard (whose labels have shifted a lot over the decades, as terminology and options for gender identities identity have changed many times over since the 1980s) has said she goes through long block periods of being a particular gender, so right now she’s “based in girl mode,” (her words) but she’s previously had blocks of time being based in “boy mode,” too. So like, whose to say other people don’t have block periods like that? Maybe somebody really was non-binary for ten years and now they’re not anymore, y’know? Not feeling something about yourself forever doesn’t have to mean you were wrong the whole time. Of course, being wrong is okay too! But I’d make room for both.

i LOVE this addition, especially because it helps us move away from the "ive always known" narrative that dominates so much trans space. sometimes your gender literally changes, and it's not helpful or healthy of us to act like that means everything that came before was false or mistaken.

Gender Fluid Vibes… Nice!

Oh look, it’s me! Like, my gender has definitely changed over time and while it seems to have settled as queer/indefinable for a decade now, it might change again one day and I could end up identifying with a binary gender again. 

And can I get a shout out for the people who transition more than once and still identify as trans even though the pronouns/gender they ended up in might be somewhat similar to the one that were assigned at birth? Y’all are beautiful. Keep on being great.

Urgent: Help Our Camp Raise $50 to Get Groceries And Hygiene Products

May 14th 2023

I am a trans girl who lives in a queer camp in Slab City, a homeless squatter town in the Sonoran desert in southern California.

Our camp is dedicated to helping our neighbors and community.

We need food for our pantry, which not only goes to feeding our camp, but feeds many of our neighbors as well.

We need $30 to get to the store to use our food stamps and $20 to get hygiene supplies.

None of us have a regular income but we're all involved in a project to improve our community.

Please help us raise $50 to get food and hygiene supplies for our camp and our neighbors.

CashApp: $ThistleDD

Paypal: paypal.me/ThistleDD

Venmo: @ThistleDD

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