#tw roe vs wade

[hyacinthsgrimoire]

( @womenaremypriority for the text post; aesthetic meme is mine @hyacinthsgrimoire )

[rollerska8er]

they want to hurt our children

"they want to hurt our children," say the fascists.

"they want to hurt our children," say the fascists, while doctors in the United Kingdom turn a blind eye to the suffering and misery of children who just want to be girls, or boys, and are in so much pain because of that, but have now had their entire lives turned into political ammunition by adults who want them quietly legislated to death.

"they want to hurt our children," say the fascists, while bombing raids and armed men and women in the Gaza Strip kill over 11,000 children and counting, because these adults do not see them as fully human, just obstacles in the way of their righteous vengeance.

"they want to hurt our children," say the fascists, while a ten-year-old girl learns that she is pregnant and it is her stepfather's, and that the good churchgoing men in her government believe that terminating this pregnancy would be a far worse crime than the crime of raping a child, so she has the choice of fleeing everything she knows, or bringing a child she has neither the means nor ability to raise to term, while still a child herself.

"they want to hurt our children," say the fascists, while children regularly go through drills where they cower under desks in anticipation of the day that may one day come where they will be forced to text loved ones telling them they love them as shots ring out in the halls.

"they want to hurt our children," say the fascists, after a policeman shoots a twelve-year-old boy with a service weapon for carrying a toy gun, and never sees the inside of a prison cell, because of course, he was just trying to protect himself from a potential threat.

"they want to hurt our children," say the fascists.

[serendip8y]

I have strong opinions about abortion

I believe NO woman ever WANTS to have an abortion, but that sometimes circumstances make it the only viable alternative.

ALL women should have access to freely available, affordable effective contraception and freedom from sexual abuse and control.

Women must have the right to choose what happens to their bodies

This was an interesting read. Surprisingly nonpreachy given the subject; and well worth the time.

[dusk-the-cat]

TW: This post shows someone in favor of the abortion ban and also mentions Tr*mp

Please tell me this isn’t a common sentiment among fellow Americans.

[rae-nee-dai]

theres a tiktok trend thats women saying what they would have named their children but are choosing to not get pregnant because it is unsafe for them.

You can really feel the time and effort that each one of them put in the names and they lst exactly why they chose it as well. They talk about how they have had dreams of caring for a child and due to the terrifying reality they're presented with, they can no longer make it a reality safely.

I have thought about mine for years but the past 2 years I've become deadset on the name and the worst part is when family votes against you and you have to get them to understand that its not safe for me to be a woman. They couldnt understand that abortions arent only for rape

And like to those who want a good place to start for showing others about everything, I found this article that I think explains the horrors pretty well

While we cant change the outcome of the election vote to try and keep it on your ballot and use whatever methods necessary to keep people alive

[celestiastarshine]

Reblogging this because it's important to know. Knowledge is power in this case.

PSA to afab peeps in the US, especially those from red states. Uninstall your period tracker app, and you might have to delete the data off of there. Since Roe has been overturned, the app devs can sell your data to third parties.

I had to uninstall mine yesterday, after deleting the data off of it. I'm switching to pen and paper to track my periods/shark week.

(Amab peeps and those who can't get shark week can reblog this, but please don't derail this post)

[wildnya]

since things in america suck right now i think some good news would be nice to hear

TW: abortion, roe vs wade, wyoming

when roe vs. wade got overturned a lot of red states are pushing to make birth control illegal.

well wyoming also tried that, and when the bill or whatever it would be called was put in front of a judge it was immediately denied. and the reason behind this makes it funny.

back when obama was doing stuff with obama care wyoming made a law that stated the government could not intervene in any medical care choices a citizen made.

and since fetus deletus is considered health they can’t do shit. they played themselves and it’s hilarious.

thanks obama

[graymanbriefing]

Civil Unrest / Societal Collapse / Citizen Actions Brief: National Summary In New York City, NY on November 15th; at Columbia University pro-Palestinian activists protested the suspension of 2 far-left groups. WOLPalestine (Within Our Lifetime) and CUNYPalestine led the "All Out for Gaza at Columbia University" rally. This comes after the sc...(CLASSIFIED) In CA/MA on November 16th; pro-Palestinian protestors associated with Arab Resource & Organizing Center and IfNotNow blocked traffic on the Boston Un...(CLASSIFIED) In San Francisco, CA; Chinese Communist Party supporters and Chinese diaspora "clashed" as the tw...(CLASSIFIED) In Chicago, IL; 15,000+ pro-Palestinian protestors rallied on Lake Shore Drive and b...(CLASSIFIED) Newly released videos of the events on January 6th at the U.S. Capitol show law enforcement using less lethal munitions on segments of peaceful protestors who were within public areas for lawful assembly. Vide...(CLASSIFIED) Nationwide, there have been 200+ attacks on Catholic churches in the U.S. following the leaked draft decision on Roe vs. Wade. The majo...(CLASSIFIED) In Portland, OR; on November 19th; Rose City Antifa allegedly pepper sprayed, punched, kicked, and threw items at a Women's Declaration International (WDI) event at a public library.  Vid...(CLASSIFIED) In Washington, D.C. on November 17th; PSL, Black Lives Matter DC, OurRightsDC, Palestinian Youth Movement prote...(CLASSIFIED) Washington, D.C.; the far-left, black-led abolitionist activist group, Harriet's Wildest Dreams, has launc...(CLASSIFIED) In New York City, NY; pro-Palestinian protestors and climate change activists disrupted the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The protestors affiliated with "Seven Circles" blocked progre... In Hollywood, CA; a group (7-10) black males assaulted a white male after commentators say he was observed near the Tru... In Los Angeles, CA on November 24th; 10,000 Black Lives Matter, pro-Palestinian, and pro-Hamas protestors marched at Pan Pacific Park. Citywi... In Raleigh, NC; on November 24th; pro-Palestinian protestors rallied inside a shopping mall and unfurled ba...(CLASSIFIED, see full brief at www.graymanbriefing.com)

[orcstricken]

notice.  if you are a trump supporter, racist, homophobe, transphobe, any of those things (and pretty much they are all synonymous with each other), get the fuck off of my blog. you are not welcome here. this will not be a safe space for you. i will not be kind to you for a sake of being kind. i am fucking sick of turning on the news and watching innocent people being murdered because of their race. i am sick of republicans stripping millions of people of their bodily autonomy. i am sick of watching my country become a fascist hellscape. i am angry. i was angry before but since the leaked info about roe vs wade and now, the buffalo shooting, i am literally sobbing because i am so fucking enraged. i am not going to be quiet. you are complicit with the downfall of my home. you are complicit in my rights as a queer woman being stripped from me. you are complicit in the murder of the innocent Black people whether it be by the racist pigs we call police or by racist domestic terrorists such as peyton grendon. get off of by blog. 

oh, and if you’re going to sit and tell me that i am wrong for demanding that people unfollow me and i should be kind with people with different opinions than me, feel free to block me too. i am done being kind about these things. i have given far too much patience than they deserve already and that was me being generous. 

to all of my Black, POC, queer, trans, and female friends, please stay strong. we are going to keep fighting. my dms and discord are always available to you if you need to talk. 

[rae-is-typing]

Please Read: Thoughts on Narrative Therapy and Anon Hate

Hello. 

I’m writing this post because I have some thoughts that I want to share. If you have any issues with this post, take it up with me. Leave Tiffany out of it. She did not ask me to write this. I asked her if it was okay, she said yes. They read it over and told me it was okay to post.

TL;DR at the bottom (I will be going to bed soon, so I may not respond as swiftly as you or I would like).

Content warning: swearing, talk of Roe v Wade being overturned and the implications that has for many other civil rights precedents, talk about triggers and content warnings, I got called some pretty creative albeit dehumanizing names, narrative therapy is discussed. Please let me know if I should add anything else. Screenshots at the bottom.

I received this while I was at work:

“You are the lowest subspecies of human for telling that anon that THEIR REAL LIFE FEELINGS ABOUT ACTIVELY HAVING THEIR RIGHTS STRIPPED AWAY is stupid because you like to romacticize our real life struggles with abortions and getting access to one with cute little anime boys. Stop protecting fictional writing when it’s actively harmful to the people effected by this law. You are actually the lowest scum beneath a womans shows if you think that’s an appropriate response - someone who actually aborted”

This was the catalyst for this post I guess. But before I move onto my response for that, I want to address a couple of things. 

First and foremost, I want to apologize about my harsh delivery on the reblog before this. There was a much better way to communicate my thoughts and I should have taken a step back before reacting. In the future, I will do my best to collect my thoughts and articulate them appropriately. With that being said, I stand by my message. This leads me to the larger issue and what I really want to talk about: using writing as a means of processing trauma, emotions, and current events. This is completely okay and healthy. It’s a form of narrative therapy and is incredibly beneficial to those who utilize it. Posting these works on one’s own blog is perfectly acceptable. If you don’t like it, you can block the blog and go. You are not obligated to stay on someone’s blog if you don’t like the content. Similarly, no one else is responsible for your triggers. As long as the art/post/whatever has proper content and trigger warnings before the potentially triggering content, then it is up to the viewer of said content to determine whether or not they wish to proceed. 

Going back to narrative therapy… plenty of writers, myself included, use writing as a means to process stressors, trauma, feelings, anything we need to process. We are allowed to post what we want when we want as long as we follow community guidelines. Given the recent decision by the supreme court, it isn’t unreasonable that writers process this awful news via writing. This is exactly what my good friend Tiffany did (She uses she/they pronouns by the way). They posted some headcanons that have since been privatized. She got some anons that were clearly unhappy with what they posted, which is what led me to reblog with such intensity. 

They claimed the post was tone deaf and asked what was wrong with her. After my reblog, I tried to see where they were coming from. Tiffany, someone who is impacted by the Supreme Court’s shitty ruling, posted headcanons about the Haikyuu characters supporting human rights with proper content warnings, a description, and a cut off with the “read more” option. I can see why folks would think her post odd if they haven’t been involved in spaces like fanfiction blogs. However, this was posted by someone who had been on Tumblr for a year and (as far as I know) has posted fanfiction for that entire year. The anon must have either sought it out or was sent it by someone that did, meaning they had some prior exposure to spaces in which fanfiction is shared and consumed. This is an assumption, of course, I don’t know this for a fact, but I think this is the most likely scenario. It is incredibly common for writers and other creators to post things related to their personal lives and current events. All of that to say, in no way was Tiffany’s post tone deaf. Colloquially, tone deaf means that someone lacks empathy, is out of touch with society, or oblivious or ignorant to challenges a group they aren’t part of face. In my opinion, the headcanons lacked no empathy, were very relevant, and lined up with the most recent injustice us uterus owners face. It’s also very frustrating that the anons automatically assumed that both Tiffany and I aren’t part of the group that is being subjugated. Both of us are, and neither of us are shy about it. 

Okay, now I’m finally moving on to the above message. I am going to go bit by bit because I can.

“You are the lowest subspecies of human”

Thank you

“You are the lowest subspecies of human for telling that anon that THEIR REAL LIFE FEELINGS ABOUT ACTIVELY HAVING THEIR RIGHTS STRIPPED AWAY is stupid”

I didn’t do this. The term “tone deaf” doesn't fit the situation and I don’t see how it does. 

“you like to romacticize our real life struggles”

I’m fairly certain that you don’t think I have a uterus. I do. This does impact me. 

The term “romanticize” implies that I’m making an undesirable (read: terrible, abusive, oppressive) situation desirable. Again, I didn’t do this; Tiffany didn’t either.

“Stop protecting fictional writing when it’s actively harmful to the people effected by this law”

Again, I am affected by this law. I don’t see how this post is harmful. Someone please explain or elaborate so I can understand. Some of your other asks make it seem like you believe only women are impacted. This isn’t the case. Anyone with a uterus is impacted. The overturning of Roe vs Wade poses a serious threat to Obergefell vs Hodges, Lawrence vs Texas, Loving vs Virginia, hell, one of the senators from Texas wanted to go after Brown vs Board of Education. 

“You are actually the lowest scum beneath a womans shows if you think that’s an appropriate response”

Thank you

This is the comment I was referring to, as well as others from Tiffany’s page that I’ll provide screenshots from. “...REAL LIFE women…”

“-someone who actually aborted”

From the bottom of my heart, I am sorry that you had to go through this. I can only imagine the stress and pain you had to go through, and I hope that you find the healing and peace you deserve.

Now, I want to take a look at the other asks. In one of them, you say “I wish you well” which is interesting because you also said “Get some fucking professional psychiatric help, your brain is clearly rotted…” and “you’re all fucking morons.” I find it disgusting that you are so willingly using needing psychiatric help as a way to discredit and insult someone who did nothing wrong. That’s really fucked up. Do better.

Something I found especially frustrating was the lack of elaboration in all of the asks. If examples were given about how I romanticize the situation, how they were harmful, the consequences of the headcanons Tiffany posted, and the message behind your words, I would be more than happy to reflect on a new perspective and grow as a person. As of now, to me, it seems like you just want to yell at someone. That’s valid as fuck, I need to yell at someone or something too sometimes. However, this isn’t the place to do it. Especially to someone as kind and as supportive as Tiffany.

It’s also very frustrating that you aren’t even trying to understand where Tiffany or I are coming from when you demand that we see your side while insulting and dehumanizing us. Expecting us to be willing to hear someone out that tells us we’re scum, we have no brain, we aren’t fully human, we’re morons, etc is utterly ridiculous. 

Some other thoughts: critiquing and criticizing art is fine and often encouraged. What isn’t encouraged, or shouldn’t be, is insulting people then getting angry when they respond in kind and shitting on people using narrative therapy when it's not causing harm. (Again, I’ve tried very hard to see their side, but I haven’t been able to. If this is an issue, please explain how they were causing harm and I will gladly reevaluate and grow). If you have a personal issue, then block and delete, baby. It’s free and will make both of us happier.

TL;DR: Narrative therapy is valid as fuck. If you don’t like someone’s content, then just fucking leave. Don’t demand understanding while calling people morons… just don’t. Please elaborate further whenever you leave an ask claiming something. 

Screenshots:

[6stronghands]

ok, I guess today is the day I talk (and talk) about my political activism:

I have been pretty much the same person my whole life, politically. I’ve made Dems and GOP people in my life mad or uncomfortable, equally, since I was young. I’ve been told I’m radical or too political, but again, I’ve just been the same person with the same basic ideas about how people should be treated and how they should treat each other. I’m a lot smarter now about a lot of things; when you are raised by religiously insane apocalyptic cultists in the West, you are gonna have problematic opinions and ideas about race and gender and so on. So I’m smarter and wiser but essentially the same. I am very, very social but I also have always had a ton of anxiety. You know the Kenny kid in South Park? With the coat? I wore a coat through the entire school year of third grade, with the hood up, natch. Very. Anxious. So the idea of being an activist has always seemed nightmarish to me. You know the crazy guy who warns people in a horror movie? Like the old weird farmer or the impassioned old lady or whoever? Or the scientist in a movie warning about stuff? Even watching that kind of thing gave me severe second-hand embarrassment, I’d forward it if I could. There was a guy on our little main street who was a hemp activist; he’d stand on a busy corner on the weekends, dressed all in white, with a giant hemp lei around his neck, and he’d hold his Legalize Hemp sign and wave to people and cars. He did it every weekend for years. I hated seeing him when I first moved to Lawrence, he embarrassed me. I’m telling you this stuff so you understand that when I say I hate activism, I’m just not kidding. I hate it. I was like, if you’re smart enough and articulate enough and work hard enough and support smart, articulate, good people, then that’s all a good citizen can do and it’s all they should HAVE to do. 

The night T*ump was elected, my gnc kid was devastated. Like DEVASTATED. This kid is so goddam smart, they’re the type of person who reads about the French and Russian revolutions for FUN. They came out of the womb that way, with an incredible brain and a knack for connecting the dots for pattern recognition, and a brilliant grasp of psychology and the humanities. They’re really really nice, a hell of a lot nicer than me, they used to be so cheerful and hopeful, like they’re everything you hope the future generation will be. And they were in such a bad way on election night. It broke me to witness that. I promised both my kids that night that I’d fight for a different world. I have had lupus for two decades now, so I don’t make promises lightly. I say things like: I’ll try, or maybe. I’ve broken too many promises because of shit health, so promises are a big deal for me.

The pictures of immigrants in camps broke me some more. There was this one pic of a toddler wearing nothing but a saggy diaper. Someone had cut up one of those gold thermal blankets and had wrapped them around their baby feet, for shoes. The pic broke me, like I literally felt something in me change after I saw it. There were and are so many horrible things, historically and currently, I don’t know why that pic killed me, but it did.

I went to my first anti-concentration camp protest with some experienced activist friends. I felt really uncomfortable with the crowd and the noise and the chanting. There were a lot of aggressive cops. My friends talked me through it on the drive home, talked about how activism was a marathon, not a sprint, how going outside your comfort zone was a learning experience, how to keep trying to find my version of activism, how it was a lifestyle, a philosophy, how there are a lot of ways to be part of the resistance.

That’s all backstory. Here’s what I need you to know, why I’m blathering on someone else’s post. I’m a double dropout (high school and college). I’m a broke, sick single mom with no impressive connections. I’m a middle-aged metalhead who works odd jobs for shit pay. I’ve also been a decent writer (wish this wasn’t steam-of-conscious brain-puke type writing, uggh) and thinker and reader and I’ve always adored science and in particular, I’ve always, for decades now, been obsessed with Climate Science and the Climate Catastrophe. I got involved in local environmental issues and movements, but was frustrated by all the gatekeeping and snobbery, and especially frustrated by the lack of power building and utter lack of accomplishments by all the local and state politicians and non-profit orgs. I have really learned to detest NGO’s. Don’t give environmental orgs your money, please. Give it to grassroots movements that will actually support real people and help real suffering. 

Anyway. I supported a lot of movements and orgs and causes and finally was like, geeeez, it’s all politics, so I’m gonna focus on that. So I applied for and was weirdly accepted onto the local Sustainability Board. Some of the board members are lawyers or university professors or architects or heads of NGO’s. I’m the only (double) dropout. You would think that these people would all be smart enough to understand politics or solidarity or movement building or climate science but they’re literally not. It has been STUNNING to see, up close and personal, how goddamm stupid some of these people are. I worked my way up and I’m now the Chair of the Board, which is hilarious to me, like oh my god. Hilarious. And these professional people are so mad about it, which is even funnier. They’d rather die than be an activist but they sure as fuck spend a lot of time canvassing and campaigning against me. (for real, you cannot believe how much snobbery and gatekeeping is in environmentalism. it’s one of the reasons we’re so fucked. like all the anger that everyone is starting to have about Dems? that’s gonna happen soon to career environmentalists, and they don’t have a clue. one of the main and first things I have to do with climate outreach is to apologize to people because so many environmentalists have shamed or gatekept them; these snobby fuckers have made so many messes like omg). 

Just because someone is super trained in a super specialized way, it doesn’t make them smart. Just because someone is booksmart, it doesn’t mean they’re street smart or smart about politics or people or power. The board members are bad at pattern recognition, bad at trends, bad at risk analysis, bad at connecting with regular people, because they’re insulated. When you work the jobs I work, you see everything, like EVERYTHING. It makes me good at the political and environmental stuff. It’s easier to talk to a co-worker who’s selling hot dogs at a football game with me about the Climate Crisis than it is to talk to some of the board members about it, because a lot of them are bound in arrogance and it blinds them to a lot of obvious realities. They don’t want to listen to a metalhead dropout, even though in this specific realm, I’m always right. You don’t get to where I am if you’re not, I’m just stating a fact. I’m sad and scared and outraged about all of this, I take no joy in being right. It breaks my heart. 

To conclude: please get involved in your local Climate Action Plans. Please get involved in local politics and boards. I PROMISE YOU that you’re smart enough. The bad actors on schoolboards aren’t there to be the smartest one in the room, they’re there to disrupt stuff. We need people like you to fight them. Whatever talents you have, whatever wit or insights or resources you can give to the resistance, OFFER THEM UP NOW. If you have good fighters on your boards, ask them what you can do to support them, and go to the meetings to keep them safe and uplifted. 

I can do a lot of things as an activist now that I NEVER thought I could do. You can and do build tolerance for anxiety, and you can use it as a lever, or motivation. I’m still not thrilled with activism and I still have a hard time with public speaking, but I’ve learned that I CAN do it, it’s not gonna kill me. You should get involved while you can, you should get out of your comfort zone while you can. You’re as smart as they are, for real, YOU ARE. 

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[mysharona1987]

[blessedarethequeer]

Speaking as a Catholic: banning abortion is not pro-life, by pure measure of statistics.

Banning or restricting abortion does not stop abortions, nor does it significantly reduce the rates at which people seek it. What it does do is ensure more people die, whether from pregnancy related complications or from seeking out unregulated, unsafe methods of abortion or from any number of related factors. Not to mention the many grieving parents who will be wrongfully imprisoned for miscarriages and birth complications.

The solution to abortion, if that is what we supposedly seek, is not spending millions on self-congratulatory "marches for life" or lobbying for bans or political campaigning, but to invest in a society that actively addresses poverty, roots out racism and ableism, supports young parents, provides appropriate and comprehensive sex ed, makes medical care accessible, and ultimately addresses the root causes that motivate many parents to terminate a pregnancy. Suggesting anything less is often smug, self-serving bullshit.

[fuckboyzuko]

Once when I was in college, my period was late. While I wasn't too worried I was pregnant (I'd recently had protected sex), I definitely didn't want to risk it. I googled some home remedies for how to induce a period, and someone recommended parsley tea.

A lot of the medical literature about said parsley tea is mixed. Some say it's highly nutritious, but it's definitely bad in large quantities (kidney failure is a possible side effect.)

But, uh. It worked. The instructions told me to drink it twice a day for three days, and on the third day, it induced my period, exactly as I was told. No baby for me. No negative side effects beyond the fact that it tastes like ass, and I was too scared to add honey or anything that might make it palatable.

I'm 100% not suggesting this for everyone, and again, KIDNEY FAILURE IS A POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECT IN LARGE QUANTITIES, let's not under-emphasize that!

But. I would rather be dead than be forced to carry a pregnancy I don't want, and I know a lot of people with uteruses who feel the same way. So, for $6, here's how you induce your period at home:

Boil water.

Add in parsley. It doesn't matter if it's Italian or curly. You can buy it for like $2 at the store. I bought three bunches and used half in each batch of tea for three days.

Kill the heat and let steep for a minimum of 30 minutes.

Drink.

That's it. If our laws are going to come from the dark ages, then we're going back to the solutions our ancestors have been using for centuries.

[shamebats]

Why am I not surprised that the country that makes you pay out of pocket to give birth at a hospital and where poor people have to join the army for public housing and free healthcare is trying to force people into having children against their will...

That's how you make sure you don't run out of soldiers, prisoners and worker drones to exploit. It's not just about religion, it's the entire system, and the ideology behind it is a threat to all countries, not just the US, as birth rates fall but capitalism continues to demand exponential growth. That's what truly scares me.

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]