#become an activist

[katcurio]

A tiny activism zine. Free digital download available on my ko-fi!

[foe-paw]

YOU THOUGHT THAT YOU COULD OUTSMART THE VERY THING THAT RUNS THE BLOOD OF YOUR KIND?

[fourgottencoast]

I’ve been having issues with this ‘it’s never too late to mask again’ rhetoric people have started using to try to get people to take covid precautions again because it’s a phrase that demands no accountability, no self reflection, no growth. Because unfortunately IT IS too late for MILLIONS of people who’ve been killed/disabled by covid and conditions triggered as a direct result of covid, and i think it’s disrespectful to those lives to allow people to just jump right back into pretending they care without acknowledging this enormous tragedy they actively participated in! Sorry but you don’t get to ignore a pandemic for 4 years and then wash your hands of the blood you helped spill through willful ignorance while claiming to care about social justice!

And it’s also aggravating because it’s SO OBVIOUS most of these people are only doing it because they’re afraid of how covid/bird flu/a trump health admin will personally affect THEM, not because they’ve evolved politically or actually care about their community. There’s no genuine solidarity with the disabled community, no self-reflection on their participation in eugenics and normalization of mass death/disability, no connecting the dots between disease mitigation (or lack thereof) and capitalism/imperialism/racism, etc. its just more individualism that ultimately does not help lead to collective liberation and will not prevent this from happening again.

[tswift]

I never doubted for one second that the reason she doesn’t speak up on all the world’s issues is due to safety. She isn’t perfect, she’s not some great political activist, but she has a heart and she has good intentions. It was baffling to see how easily people attacked her character (fans too, not just her typical haters) because she wasn’t speaking on things they expected or wanted her to. We may not know Taylor personally, but she’s shared so much with us over the years. Some of us grew up with her. The one thing that is clear as day is how genuine she is. Yes, she falls short. But some of these expectations placed on her are just simply unrealistic. And also, given the current state of the world, dangerous. I’m sure she will have plenty to say once the tour wraps.

[deancasforcutie]

still chasing the high of that halcyon age where Supernatural was my healthy safe escape from the horrors of US politics, and then

[arttsuka]

in the monster falls au mermando is a human and just named "mando"

multibear is also a human with 8 pet chow chows he takes everywhere with him

You're not fooling me into designing human multibear AND 8 chow chows.

You can have Mando

[oscar-fastri]

i feel like we don't talk about max and seb's respective arcs from grid terror to chill dude who smiles a lot and cracks jokes and is extremely passionate about the sport enough

[buttercup-bi]

Seen a couple people not knowing this so as a Jew I thought I’d clarify:

While it is also the name of the country, Israel is a word used to describe the Jewish people. It was Jacob’s name and the Jews are known as the people of Israel. The country didn’t exist before 1948 and any mention of Israel in the Torah or in prayers is not about it.

Am Yisrael Chai especially doesn’t mean the country it means the people of Israel live, meaning the Jewish People will survive its not in support of genocide and if it’s being used as such it’s a misunderstanding of the phrase.

On top of this before it was on the flag, the Star of David has always been a Jewish symbol. Before it was a national language, Hebrew was the language of the Torah. Please don’t confuse Jewish symbols with symbols of the nation of Israel.

[ominousvibez]

i know a lot of people tend to define dani/ellie's "obsession" as the ocean to go with danny's space obsession but tbh i feel like as dani gets older she's going to do a lot to separate herself from her identity as danny's "clone" and become her own person

like, that's why i love that the fandom has adopted the "ellie" nickname so much for her. i so wish the show went on for longer with more competent writers or the comic could expand on this maybe but i think finding her own identity and voice would be such a powerful narrative. you're made for one thing but you don't wanna do that, so now what do you do?

(tbh that kind of identity exploration is probably too anit-christian for b*tch h*rtman so i'm glad he didn't get to touch it)

it's canon that dani goes off and travels the world, so why not have her obsession be traveling? she's got a huge case of wanderlust. she likes the outdoors, she likes hiking and camping and is a huge granola girl. like, i think that kinda just fits her a bit more, in my opinion. traveling/exploration.

[laz-kay]

If you take gif requests could you please gif Karen talking about her ex-girlfriend (karen is gay we won!!!) in Outnumbered? 😊

~ 30 episodes later ~

Been meaning to post these ones all day, nonnie. Saved me a job <3

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

wait i thought i’d seen the full extent of the silm fandom’s misogyny but i guess the silm fandom can always hate female characters more because apparently?? people believe indis the manipulative malicious bitch came onto and cajoled and stalked finwe until he relented and married her all while specifically aiming to make it so that miriel could never come back and she could have finwe's dick for all of eternity and abuse poor helpless feanor to her black shriveled heart’s content??? apparently that is a take that exists and has shooters??? yall are truly smoking that good stuff

[local-redhead-bookworm]

If you somehow managed to watch any of Mobile Suit Gundam and think it was apolitical, I am going to tape your eyes open and force you to rewatch it

[angelsaxis]

"...[W]e must continue to challenge the societal arrangements that leads to preventable pain and suffering. Marriage can be quite beautiful and sacred, for example. Marriage can also privatize dependence: it encourages people to enter relationships for resources and benefits, like health care, savings, and tax deductions. I was nineteen years old when I got married, mostly informed by my faith tradition. I was also in love, but very poor, and marriage offered me a stability that I never had as a child. I was so lucky that the person I married was kind, thoughtful, and also very much trying to figure out his relationship to Christianity and his evolving manhood.

When we divorced nine years later and became friends and co-parents, I realized how the marital benefits I once aspire dot have did not make sense. I could remove him from my health insurance to account for the divorce, but I couldn't add any of my uninsured siblings, whom I would be related to forever. And our children had two options for insurance because they had parents who went to college and worked jobs that offered it, but independent contractors in my family did not have an option that wasn't a financial sacrifice.

If we focused on meeting the healthcare, employment, educational, and housing needs of people in society, then those who want to marry could more freely enter those relationships in their terms, and people who needed to escape because of violence could more easily leave without worrying what will happen if they get sick and need to see a doctor.

We should heed to calls for investment in the programs, opportunities, and laws that make everyone free and safe. Here too, universal basic income can help, allowing people to meet their basic needs and not rely on potentially sexually exploitative intimate relationships for income. Removing benefits from marriage accomplishes this, too. With universal health care, and other programs like free and quality childhood education, people vulnerable to violence have more free range to move, live, and practice healthy lifestyles."

-- Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

[rozecrest]

office is so quiet today… barely seen a coworker… don’t have anything urgent to do…. perfect fic writing setting gonna lock in

[liquidstar]

This is such a tangent btw but on the topic of guilt tripping and reblogs... I remember a few years back there were some terrible fires in Greece (and again this year, entire island villages are gone now) and at that time I had family who were caught in them. I can't describe the desperation I felt with these horrible things happening to my family and loved ones in my country. And I remember being frustrated and desperate with how no one around me in America really seemed to give a shit. I remember blogging asking people to PLEASE care please share something please reblog this link for mutual aid please think about the stories and fires etc etc etc. And the thing is I was very much in a state of grief myself, maybe not every word or action was perfectly reasonable, because I don't realistically expect everyone everywhere to care about every tragedy in the world. You can't. Emotionally it's just not possible, especially with all the stuff going on in the states rn too. Yeah it's a lot. It's not like I blog about every tragedy that ever happens either. I understand.

HOWEVER what I also remember was at this time there were a couple mutuals very clearly making vagueposts along the lines of "remember not everyone has the energy to care about everything in the world uwu" while I was posting about family who died and family who were drifting in the ocean for hours as their homes and loved ones burned. Listen. You have to understand sometimes that when a person in grief and frustration with things going on in their countries and communities impacts them very personally beg you to care... It's coming from a place of needing to see that care in the world in general. They're not holding a gun to your head Specifically saying you have to reblog the posts, if you don't have the energy just ignore it.

You don't have to go out of your way saying "um actually I can't care about the horrible stuff you and your family and your country are experiencing rn. I'm too busy focusing on my own stuff so can you be quiet or more reasonable with your grief thanks." Like. Just keep it to yourself then??? Have some fucking sympathy for other people and understand that maybe it's not always logical. The same way you don't have the emotional energy to think about every tragedy in the world, people who've been impacted by them often don't have the emotional energy to handle that alone and may seek somekinda community or solidarity. Idk. It's not about forcing shit on you sometimes it's not about you

[remembertheplunge]

When you become an activist, you make history

November 25, 2024

I was listening to KPFA radio on the drive home from work in Stockton this evening and heard Delores Huerta talking on a show called Flash Points. Huerta was a co-founder of the United Farm workers along with Ceasar Chavez.

When asked what her message was to young people in these troubled times about how to get involved, she said the following “When Ceasar Chavez talked with students, he wad say that in school, you talk about history, you read about history and you write about history. But, when you become an activist, you make history. The times we are living in now are history making moments. She talked about forming human chains around immigrants so that they cannot be forcibly put in camps to be deported after Trump is sworn in as a  possible example of activism that may be required in the coming days.

To hear the entire interview with Delores Huerta, go to the KPFA web site. Then go to archives. Type in Flash Points in the search bar, and then November in the month search bar that comes up for the November 25, 2024 show.