And yeah, women want white collar jobs too. Go figure – A diverse population of women, with different abilities, interests and levels of education, are all fighting for the right to seek diverse forms of employment. Fighting for equality in one sphere doesn’t mean that we’ve forgotten about the others.
Just because you aren’t paying attention to the feminist movement doesn’t mean that the feminist movement is nonexistent.
there’s actually a hell of a lot more examples of the opposite happening. as soon as a field becomes prestigious and good-paying, women are pushed out of it. see: programming, novelwriting, etc.
I love this. Learning about feminist history and movements makes me happy. Also seeing anti-feminists being proven wrong.
the woman with the blonde hair looks straight out of star wars
The thing is, these are the same people who would scoff at the idea of better working conditions and wages for them as well. They only bring it up to make feminists look bad.
a lot of the time it can seem like all of the nonbinary people out there are teens/kids but older nonbinary people exist and it’s important that we recognize that being nonbinary is not just a kid thing that people grow out of!! nonbinary adults exist!
I’m 26 and my partner is 27. We’re both nonbinary. 🙂
Thirty-year-old genderflux person here who only figured it out last year; being nonbinary is something I grew into.
Not nonbinary myself, but I wanted to say that none of these states of being re: gender (trans, nonbinary, genderfluid, genderflux, etc.) are new.
The terms may be, but news flash, living languages change all the fucking time. When I graduated from high school in 1993, if someone had used the term “online friend,” we’d have been like “WTF?!?!” because the internet was in its infancy (in terms of use by the general public, anyway), and back then you basically told nobody online anything that might identify you, so developing friendship because of the internet was an utterly foreign concept. We learn and develop new things and ideas all the time, and we thus invent new words to encapsulate their meanings.
Being a gender that isn’t cis has been A Thing as long as humans have existed (and there’s a good bit of evidence in nature for gender fluidity/nonbinary gender/transgender-ness in other living beings).
So yeah. None of this is some new thing the young’uns have made up; it’s just that the terms used to describe states of being that have been around basically forever are new.
What happens when ICE wrongly detains a U.S. citizen for almost three and a half years? Well, a whole lot of nothing. Take the case of Davino Watson, who was held in ICE detention facilities for 1,273 days faced with the improbable task of proving his American citizenship without access to a lawyer. According to two United States Court of Appeals judges, his detention was simply business as usual…
Watson has been a U.S. citizen since 2002. ICE had no legal authority to hold Watson, or any other U.S. citizen. Watson, born in Jamaica, became a citizen under the Child Citizenship Act of 2000, which allows children under the age of 18 to automatically join their parents in citizenship if they are lawful permanent residents…
Unable to afford a lawyer, Watson had no access to counsel—as most deportations are regarded as civil matters—until May 2011, when the case reached the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals and required the Board of Immigration Appeals hear his case.
Though after 1,273 days Watson won his freedom, his series of unfortunate events did not end there. ICE released him 1,000 miles from his home with no money. And it took 450 days to terminate the removal proceedings, which hindered his ability to find a job.
Recently I’ve been listening to some great podcasts and to my surprise, there are a lot of First Nations related ones! This is so inspiring to me, as I myself have a radio show on my Reserve and I think these are great topics to mention. Also one day, when I get my own website/blog up and running, I hope to make my own podcasts too! If you’re interested in listening to some that are Native-related, here are 7 that I recommend.
1. CBC’s New Fire by Lisa Charleyboy
Lisa is a blogger and social media trailblazer for young Native women. Also known as Urban Native Girl, Lisa talks about a wide variety of issues Natives face in a urban, modern day society. This is also a CBC Radio podcast so it’s great quality.
2. CBC’s Unreserved by Rosanna Deerchild
Unreserved touches on history, current issues and reconciliation in her CBC podcasts. She also celebrates successful and inspiring First Nations authors, educators, athletes, and musicians.
3. Kanata Pod by Indian & Cowboy
Kanata Pod is a new series that features activists and creators focused on the next 150 years of Canada. They also talk about Native representation in the community and in major media
4. Stories From the Land
Stories from the land is a wide collection of stories from different individuals from different First Nations communities across Canada. With these stories, they aim to connect all tribes with teachings and philosophy
5. Red Man Laughing by Ryan McMahon
Ryan McMahon shows the importance of Native humour in his podcasts. It’s something we Natives can all connect with and learn from. While being humorous, Ryan also tackles important issues such as reconciliation, youth, and families.
6. Media Indigena by Rick Harp
Media Indigena is a weekly program where a roundtable of Indigenous people talk about current issues in society. They talk about huge issues the mainstream media is too afraid to talk about and they keep it very current.
7. Missing and Murdered: Who Killed Alberta Williams?
Also a CBC podcast, this podcast is important as it goes in depth into one of the cases of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Canada. It shows first hand of the ignorance and tragedy towards the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women cases. In this case, Alberta Williams was found dead along the “Highway of tears” (A highway in BC where many, many other Indigenous women were found murdered) in 1989 and they’ve never found her killer. Nearly thirty years later, the family and a retired cop find new evidence into solving this heartbreaking case.
There you have it, that’s what I’ve been listening to lately! I haven’t listened to every single episode yet but that’s what I’ll be doing for the next week or two lol. If you’ve listened to these as well let me know what you think! Also if you have any suggestions let me know 🙂
i walked out of my apartment this morning and a five year old kid was playing outside and immediately he pointed at my aparment and was like “some chinese people used to live there. now someone else does”
and i was like… you mean that one? and pointed at my apartment, the one i literally just walked out of
and he was like “yeah”
and i was like……….. yeah…
the other day I was coming back from work and as I’m walking up to my apartment, he runs up to me with two fistfuls of grass and yells DON’T STEP ON THIS GRASS IT’S FOR THE BUNNIES and drops it in the middle of the sidewalk and i’m just like okay!! 😀
this morning I left for work and I heard a tapping noise, so I looked up and he was in the second floor window waving goodbye
today I was walking to my door and he ran up to me and yelled DID YOU KNOW SOMEONE IS COMING and i was like WHOA NO WHO’S COMING
and he tells the girl beside him YOU TELL HIM so she tells me “there’s a guide coming! and he’s invisible!” and ofc i’m like WHOA THAT’S SO COOL and the boy tells me that he’s arriving by helicopter. and the helicopter is also invisible and you can’t hear it either! so I ask why he’s coming and they tell me it’s because it’s his birthday and he’ll be here at exactly 6:00
they’re gonna ring my doorbell at 6 so I can tell the invisible man in the invisible helicopter happy birthday before he flies away
so i said happy birthday to him and they showed me his invisible helicopter and then informed me that I misheard them and that the invisible man was, in fact, God
okay so TODAY i came home from work and he came up to me and was like “i rang your doorbell earlier” and so I told him I wasn’t home and asked what he needed me for and he was like
“i had a question”
so I was like alright what was your question
and he goes “do you have a kitchen?” and I was like… uhh yeah I’ve got a kitchen
This design was a real test of how well I can paint using a mouse when my graphics tablet decided to give up the ghost halfway through! The answer? Well, I think the results speak for themselves. This one took a little longer than most of my designs usually do; it’s another of my foxes, and perhaps she was feeling a little shy.
I’d just finished painting the dancing fox and had barely gotten started on shading the knotwork when my graphics tablet just quit on me, so I had to complete the painting using my mouse. It could have been worse – at least I didn’t have to resort to using my laptop trackpad!
This design was inspired by the idea of the Hunter’s Moon (the full moon following September’s Harvest Moon), and it’s available now in my Redbubble and Spreadshirt stores now – just in time for the chillier Autumn weather!
Sponsor me on Patreon from as little as $1 a month – or why not buy me a coffee? I’m going to need a lot of coffee to keep me fueled through the cold weather – and you’ll be helping me buy a new graphics tablet too, so I can keep painting!
My graphics tablet has died! Buy a t-shirt and you can help me buy a replacement and you’ll have a cool new shirt to keep you warm now the weather’s getting colder! Or buy me a coffee which will help keep me fueled and going whilst I toil over my mouse….
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