#mom solidarity

[swaggypsyduck]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRT9hrBa/

I won’t be okay until he’s mine

i watched this while my mom was beside me and she was like "id hate to be whoever is driving him" so i told her it was his mom and she goes "god i already didnt like driving u around for that sport. u mean id have to stop and talk to ppl too?? that poor woman im gonna make dua for her." 💀💀

[f1ghtsoftly]

While, I don’t hate the women that express “doomer” ideology, I do think it’s Really Bad for a wide range of reasons. One of the most important of which is the all or nothing type of valuation it places on resistance, we either destroy all patriarchy, or we’re all doomed, and the way it negates our power as living breathing adult women to do anything at all the change our circumstances, because I can’t change all of it-I change nothing instead.

There are thousands of women on this website that are alive right now who want a better world-do you seriously believe none of our efforts, do you believe the efforts of all the women who’ve ever lived amount to nothing just because we haven’t achieved a post-patriarchal society? Think about all the ways women’s resistance, big and small, has nurtured you-even before feminism was a thought in your head. Did that not matter to you? Did it not help protect you? To warn you? To feed your soul? Not enough of course, but all of that effort was enough to make you brave enough to dig for answers, to not immediately give in to all that was expected of you, to find a place here on this website, surely. It did matter, even just hearing or seeing something that made you feel seen for the first time in your life-that does matter.

I think one of patriarchy’s most pernicious effects is the way it corrupts intimacy between women. We are trained to play act images of women that men create through media and social control we end up worrying if we’re successful in our impersonation of this being we call “woman” always trying to be nice enough, tidy enough, small enough etc…and disrupts our images of woman’s actual humanity and personhood. Remember how crazy you felt before you discovered feminism, imagine all the other women and girls who already do and will one day feel like you. You thought no other woman was like you, until one day you went to a secret place, somewhere men didn’t control, and discovered, it wasn’t true.

Women’s ability to resist patriarchy is a gift to us, it lets us know, even hundreds of years into the future, that we have never really been alone. Women who acted out to the point of being disciplined via religious, psychiatric or state institutions. Women who worked in secret as men to be able to write, create, make and live independently. Women who pushed politically for their rights. Even just women who survived and gained power for themselves in environments that were hostile to it. They all gave us a gift and that gift is the knowledge that they were alive, they mattered and they didn’t like it-they weren’t these images of women that men created-they were human, just like us. More than just giving us comfort, these big and small acts of resistance allow us to more fully understand not only the totality of what we’re up against-but also to appreciate the incredible fortitude of women who persisted against incredible odds. They didn’t know what their fates were going to be either and it probably felt as bleak, if not more, than it does right now. We can find women like this in the historical record, even if Big Patriarchy is still around.

It’s true that individually we don’t have a lot of control over the Really Big Historical Picture, but the good news is we don’t have to-we just need to control our slice of it. There are so many women just waiting to find women like us, there are girls growing up who need to see us to know that they’re not alone and that there is a community of women who feel like them and who are worth fighting for. Focus on making yourself visible as a human being to the women around you, on trying to make a mark big enough so that women in the future can find you. We are alive and we matter-and I really think this is enough. It’s a very worthy effort to live by and for other women and usefully it’s also a really critical step in building solidarity, so even if some of us get crazy ideas about doing something to change the Big Historical Picture, they’ll have a much better chance of achieving it.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

When I was a kid, I walked the picket line with my mom during teachers' strikes. Today, @misscecil and I took my mom down to Warners to walk the line. I brought home a sign (I asked if it was OK).

[synesthete-sylke]

quick goofy doodle page because tangolin (pangolin tango: he may be a flare but he is a pangolin in my Heart) is in my head and he Will Not Leave-

fic that inspired this stupid little thing (please go read it, it's actually really good)

also it is In My Brain now that zed and sometimes impulse go out of their way to spook tango and make him go all roly-poly; like, he's also a bit small so they can grab him and carry him around, but the hermits sometimes make him roll up and just bowl him.

[blondeling]

My mom tried to tell me the other day that I like Minecraft a "normal amount"

I had to explain to her what liking something a normal amount meant (watching something, going "I enjoyed that," and moving on)

I said "mother, I got so excited I was damn near hyperventilating explaining to you lore that doesn't exist" (the Canary Curse)

[cutencaffeinated-blog]

I may be too old to be part of the campus protests going on now, but I have the utmost respect for these students and supporters.

The kids in their first years of college? They were born in 2004-6. They were kindergarten age when Sandy Hook happened. They were in junior high when covid hit. They are struggling to choose a path to education that doesn't put their own lives or entire vulnerable populations at risk.

I was born in 1990. The first instance of school violence I knew of was Columbine, and I was 9. The first instance of terrorism or threat to my "normal" was 9/11, and I was 11. My first indication that the US might not be the altruistic big brother of the world was the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I was 13. The first time I realized that family financial situations can change unpredictably, was 2005 (parental medical issues, followed by 08 crash), and I was 15. My first experience being the victim of police brutality was in 2007, I was 17. The first currently-happening protests I knew of were Occupy Wall Street in 2011, I was 21. The first ongoing attempts at revolution I was aware of were Arab Spring in 2012, I was 22. I was in my 30s when I learned colleges support genocide and the military industrial complex. For the first three decades of my life, I was able to convince myself the system was working and progress was happening, at a snail's pace, but nonetheless.

These kids have NEVER existed in a world that felt safe, have never had a future that seemed secure, have never even lived the illusion of the American Dream. The kids who are trying to choose a college that doesn't support genocide were the first kindergartners to do active shooter drills, how do they choose which university to allow to point guns at them? These were the first kids to have to live through, and study the historical impact of Covid, and they saw that the economy is valued above all else. These kids lost their virginity or came out of the closet in a world that was getting safer only to have healthcare taken from them. The world has failed this generation so intensely, and I can only hope y'all hold society accountable.

I have a child now, a true Gen Alpha Honey badger, and I am so hopeful that gen z can lead the charge to making sure my child doesn't have to face these same choices. Go forth, we got your backs, I'm too old and disabled to be front lines anymore, but I'll show up with snacks and do the jail release runs. I'll babysit and cook for when y'all get back from your actions.

[redjennies]

final update to this week's work drama: the bitch got fired and I had to be escorted into another room like I was in the witness protection program because she was MAD. also on top of everything else she's done, she got caught on camera stealing diapers from a pregnant mom of four (soon to be five) the VERY same day she illegally recorded me to try to get me fired. this is by far one of the wildest things that's ever happened to me at a job and I've been full ball flashed in a drive through and contaminated by radioactive material at work.

[talea456]

Smut mom!!!!!!!! NOoooooooo!!!!!

[punkeropercyjackson]

I think Hunter Noceda-Deamonne is the only character where there's really an equal measure of transmasc and transfem interpretations and tmascs aren't weird about it.I could be wrong though because i avoid Hunter/Edric shippers and only care about Huntlow when it comes to romo Hunter tbh

[sorrymomband]

first week being a full time musician 😌💅🤭

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from the river to the sea palestine will be free 🇵🇸

[nyrarachelle-plays]

Can We Help You?!

A new year has begun, but the same routine prevails. Krystle starts her morning with a premeditated pump, so Kei has something before he even opens his eyes. Something new, though, is Aiko coming in closer to keep her company for this morning's session (LOL)!

Previously. (One More Surprise!) | Next. (Taking On the Day!)

[cjskribblez]

I head canon that Jimmy has the dead anime mom hair of death

And that is the reason he always dies first

This made me laugh so hard I HAD to draw it

[mirasays]

JAMBLR USERS REBLOG AND PUT IN THE TAGS THE FUNNIEST REASONS YOU'VE GOTTEN SUSPENDED. PLEASE

[metalotaku-da]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53856142

part of my danny as selina's son series but he's not in this one, but just a little solidarity between spoiler and selina about putting kids up for adoption and the feelings around that. also discussion of harley doing the same. so i thought i might share if that is something someone would want to see. it is short.

[narutos-sloppy-pussy]

How wonderful to live in a world where I am so loved

[antiyourwokehomophobia2]

God nerfed my misandry by making all the trauma in my life come from women