#politicalization

[feminist-space]

The CDC says to protect your lungs from ash and dust and other pollutant particulates in the air, you should wear long sleeved shirts.

[random-illuminations]

Modern News Companies and Politicalization

Is it just me or is every news channel on Cable, satellite, and the internet focused on making every news broadcast political even when the subject is not? They show you the news and information they provide through their political lens. Many of them accuse the politicians of stoking the flames of the political divide when in truth some of the news outlets do more pushing on politicization and…

[zenosanalytic]

You know how bullshit rent is? Elon Musk hasn't paid rent on Twitter's main offices in, like, 6 months, and has Twitter been evicted? Of course not. Apparently, when you're rich or a company, you can just tell your landlords to fuck off and the gov won't do shit to you.

[uncanny-tranny]

The whole "breasts shouldn't be politicized because the primary purpose of breasts is to feed babies!" can be a fine jumping-off point, but I really wish people thought deeper than that when we talk about the ways in which bodies are politicized and restricted.

Like, why's it that when we talk about breasts, they must have some Higher Purpose? It's true that breasts aren't inherently sexual, but they aren't valuable solely because they can potentially feed a baby. A human body doesn't have to serve a Higher Purpose in order for it to not be legislated against or policed, and I just wish people would remember it isn't always about babies, about other people, about anything else other than the people who have that body.

[piizunn]

ᓂᑐᐦᑕᒧᐏᐣ nitohtamowin, the act of listening (red breasted merganser)

2024

hand quilted scrap fabric and seed beads

as i worked on this piece at my home on the colonially occupied land of my native ancestors i thought about the words of palestinian poet marwan makhoul;

In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political

I must listen to the birds

and in order to hear the birds

the warplanes must be silent.

—

the colonizing genocidal power that continues to lay waste to my people, keeping us poor, unhoused, and sick is the one of the powers contributing to the genocide of palestinians. Indigenous liberation is intertwined globally, land back for me means land back for us all.

Métis (Otipemisiwak) demand a free Palestine.

[ghelgheli]

languages, like people, have been made into the objects of politicized aesthetics—not only is this about the dichotomy between "melodious", "soft", "musical" &c. and "harsh", "guttural", "rough" &c. as generalizations applied to entire languages (even language families), but also (and more importantly) the fact that these descriptions track non-linguistic attributes like racialization and class at least as often as they track phonology. please think about who, historically and presently, is most likely to have their language(s) described in one vs. the other way.

[deancasforcutie]

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

[pissmoon]

Little or even teenage girls having a phase for hating pink isnt 'internalized misogyny', its a normal reaction to the fact everything for little girls is always pink and they're sick of it?? Imagine everyone tells you you are only allowed to like/wear 1 color ever. Some people just hate things that are enforced like that

[ilynpilled]

being loudly disappointed like “not my bestie :(” in celebs like megan or charli whatever endorsing kamala publicly is so embarrassing to me like pls who gaf they are literally lib celebrities 😭 like what did u even expect

[handweavers]

something that hindutva types (and north indian supremacists generally, which are overlapping but not quite the same categories) get really angry about is whenever you mention that the people of the indus valley civilization were very probably actually dravidian-speaking "south indians" rather than indo-aryan-speaking "north indians" because indo-aryan speakers didn't exist/half of our ancestors hadn't migrated from the central asian steppe yet. bc indo-aryan speakers are descended from native dravidian-speakers and these central asian steppe peoples and they don't arrive to the region until the time of the vedas which happens much later. north indian supremacists refuse to believe that dravidians could have built the oldest civilization in the region bc it entirely contradicts the hindutva line about north indian hindus being the indigenous people of south asia. anytime this is mentioned hindutvas go fucking crazy like frothing rage it's wild. when u see stuff about hindutvas changing the history books to be more in line with hindutva ideology this is part of that

[diosapate]

local sff convention should let me be part of their locked tomb panel on the grounds that i am tumblr user diosapate therefore my thoughts and ideas are worth listening to

[shattered-pieces]

Ok so I just emailed my congressman about Ukraine aid.

It's not hard. If you're in the US, please make your voice heard.

[zenosanalytic]

The problem with calls for Hamas to return the hostages is that the hostages are the only leverage Hamas has, and the only leverage it can/could ever POSSIBLY have, over Israel right now, cuz the people running Israel right now have made it more than clear that they care nothing for Palestinian lives and little for how the world sees them, because the US has for so long insulated them against punishment for their crimes.

So, returning the hostages for anything other than an end to the butchery in Gaza, guaranteed by a reliable third party with the capacity and willingness to ENFORCE an end to that butchery upon Israel(which: I don't even know is a thing that exists? Like: the US can smash the Israeli military but it won't, and I dont know if there's any other world power with both the military might and range to stop an Israeli offensive), is next to useless for them. It'd be handing Israel carte-blanche to just go right back to genocide once the hostages were handed over.

[thatneoncrisis]

truly one of the most agonizing parts of wanting to work in the general creative space whether it be as a writer or artist or some other field is like knowing for a fact i have to hack myself up as a person into little pieces and watch as they muse of the texture and flavor and ask if thats notes of rosemary or sage and i just go "its my fucking leg man"

[dilf-phoenix-rights]

I think more people should be aware of, and talking about, the uptick in anti-mask policies being proposed/passed (or that already existed but rarely enforced until more recently) that have been popping up lately in several states.

Both because of the public health risks it sets us up for and because it’s being used as a way to further punish protesters. Not to mention the encroachment on our right to privacy in the ever increasing surveillance state we live in.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

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