Day: July 25, 2018

Café Ohlone by Mak-‘amham gives a taste of the East Bay’s first, most local food

hrhthebirthdayprincess:

Café Ohlone by Mak-‘amham will be inside University Press Books, 2430 Bancroft Way (between Dana and Telegraph), Berkeley.

Café Ohlone will be open three days a week, most likely 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Thursday through Saturday. Part of the reason hours will be limited is because the two founders are committed to so many other community obligations, but also because ingredients take a full two days a week to gather. Medina said they may eventually expand hours, depending on the public’s response.

Café Ohlone by Mak-‘amham gives a taste of the East Bay’s first, most local food

madgastronomer:

drfitzmonster:

kropotkhristian:

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“But then Ocasio-Cortez spoke, followed by Bush, and I saw something
truly terrifying. I saw just how easy it would be, were I less involved
and less certain of our nation’s founding and its history, to fall for
the populist lines they were shouting from that stage.

I saw how easy it would be, as a parent, to accept the idea that my children deserve healthcare and education.

I
saw how easy it would be, as someone who has struggled to make ends
meet, to accept the idea that a “living wage” was a human right.

Above
all, I saw how easy it would be to accept the notion that it was the
government’s job to make sure that those things were provided.”

You guys, the Daily Caller just published the funniest thing I have ever read in my entire life. It is literally an article where a conservative is just terrified to death that they nearly felt empathy and love.

This article is like the biggest proof I have ever read that conservatives are just pathologically afraid of kindness. 

You guys, I shit you not, this is an actual factual article by an actual factual conservative saying that they are “terrified” by the idea that their children deserve healthcare and education.

As I said elsewhere, we have gone from, “I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people” to “I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about your own children”.

flyingpurplepizzaeater:

candidlyautistic:

Every week in sociology we read an essay or paper over the weekend, and we send a brief note to the professor stating what we think the thesis of the essay or paper is.

This week we are reading, On Being Sane in Insane Places by D.L. Rosenhan. Specifically, it address the problems that arise when you place people in an unusual environment with a label of psychological or psychiatric diagnosis. That is to say, psychiatric hospitals do not and cannot provide an a real-world environment, and that changes behavior.

How, then, can you label someone insane when you are applying models of behavior that exist only outside the environment you are in? How can you say a person is insane when the environment you put them in inherently forces them to act outside the norm of behavior because the environment is unique?

It’s an interesting piece, and I am so glad that we are talking about mental health as part of our course work.

How, then, can you label someone insane when you are applying models of behavior that exist only outside the environment you are in? How can you say a person is insane when the environment you put them in inherently forces them to act outside the norm of behavior because the environment is unique?

bittersnurr:

funereal-disease:

funereal-disease:

I feel like 90% of what gets called “allyship” is just, like, being a loving person and listening to people’s needs

like, my boyfriend is unequivocally not the type of person to reblog “10 ways to support autistics” types of posts. he would probably make fun of that, actually. but he sure did get me out of that restaurant in five seconds flat when I went into sensory overload. and held me in a compression hug as we walked. I am still nonverbal and he is just lying here next to me and texting me that he loves me.

and it all makes me think of that one Mel Baggs post – how sometimes the people who save your life are the same people purity-minded activists would have you discard. my boyfriend is Problematic as fuck and he is also so loving and caring and gentle I could weep. this is not a contradiction because he is a person and people are allowed to contain multitudes

Upon further reflection, I think this is one of the reasons – possibly the main reason – so many disabled and neurodivergent people have Issues with social justice dictums. Our advocacy needs tend to be more personal than political. There’s an intimacy there that doesn’t necessarily translate to lists of ways to support X. As such, we are often in a better position to engage with our allies as *human beings* rather than as avatars of social change. If you trust someone enough to ask them to lie on top of you when you go nonverbal, or to help you into your wheelchair, or to change your catheter, there’s an inherent engagement with shared humanity there.

At that point, I can’t bring myself to care if they’re “challenging media portrayals of disabled people” or any of the other things such lists contain. They are caring for me in a far more direct and personally salient way. And I think a lot of nondisabled activists, having never relied on other people for such care, underestimate the importance of that. Their idea of advocacy is more abstract.

Also there is the problem a lot of the people who are supposed to be allies… are really not good at accommodations outside of established norms. Like I would be uncomfortable telling strange allies my needs because they might label it “maladaptive coping” even if what they have decided “health coping” happens to be triggering to me.

I have been more at home in the presence of edgy troll types that happened to actually consider me a friend then allies who consider themself basically a chaperone or something. Accessiblity and purity don’t really mix well.