But, unless that blogger is secretly Wyeth Ruthven slumming? It’s really not cool to snag someone else’s posts word for word without any sort of credit.
Less unusual than one would hope, of course. But, I recognized that one specifically after hunting down the source to add to a screenshot version of it going around. (See the previous link.)
A slightly shorter version also turned into a Twitter thread, which IIRC blew up more than on FB. Another case of something with enough exposure to get posted as screenshots over here, yet nobody is supposed to notice someone else without the same expertise presenting it as their own take on immigration law? 🤔
I found a cool interview with the singer/and songwriter of this punk band (Lauren Denitzio) and Laura Jane Grace (who produced this album and is all around AWESOME) and Lauren talked about this song particularly:
“The song really came out of the fact that I prefer gender-neutral
pronouns when meeting people. And even though people are much more
open-minded about things lately, and so the conversation goes towards
gender expression a lot more, I feel like there’s often a pressure to
define yourself in a very specific way — specifically as a queer person,
going beyond that and naming exactly what your gender identity is and
exactly where you are on the spectrum. And I don’t really have one. Or,
there’s not an easy answer to that for me.”
i think a lot of us, when we’re growing up, we learn kind of the opposite of self-care. a kind of self-disregard, if that makes any sense.
especially those of us who have invisible disabilities, we needed extra rest or extra help or something different from other kids, but not only did we not get it, we were made to feel greedy or lazy for needing it. so we internalized that, and we grew up with this feeling that having needs is weakness.
hands up if you were shocked to discover that not everyone goes through life being exhausted and hungry and strung out all the time. o/
for the longest time i just thought everyone else was better than me at hiding the fact that they were constantly in pain and sleep deprived.
Boozhoo (hello), my name is Ken, I am a disabled Ojibwe artist from northern Wisconsin. I am writing this post because I am having a hard time making ends meet and any donations I could possibly receive at this time would be greatly appreciated. Recent events have left my bank account depleted and my cupboards bare, I have some food but it will not last and I still do not know how I will cover all the utility bills.
I do have PayPal, that is really the best way to donate at this time, the email I use for that is: baapimakwa@gmail.com, or you can click here.
Okay semi-emergency, I have nothing in case of emergency, all the household “essentials” are tapped out, I had to duct tape and napkin a wound, and while thats handy it’s not good when I’m prone to infections, I keep putting it off because other things are a priority like lights and food but I also need bandages and cleaning supplies.
Still low on some supplies, really need to go food shopping, any help is greatly appreciated, miigwech (thank you).
We should be doing a whole lot more talking about the morality of economics in general. We’ve produced an army of faceless suits who think money and morals are completely separate things and it’s all some kind of logic game they’re playing with numbers. So somehow it doesn’t matter how many times they steer the economy into a wall with shady math, it’s all NUMBERS and RATIONAL and if you have qualms about the effects of their actions on actual human beings you just don’t understand logic and etc etc etc.
Like we’ve completely divorced finances from everything else into this other zone where emotions and ethics don’t apply, and that’s how you get these moral monsters who think they’re good people because they’re nice to their own kids and what they do at work doesn’t count.
As a culture we really need to sit ourselves down and relearn basic elementary school lessons like “human lives are more valuable than dollars” and “stealing is wrong even when accountants do it” and “impoverishing other people to make yourself rich makes you a bad person”. Real basic stuff. Then we can move on to “torturing children for profit is obviously wrong, you sick fucks”.
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