Day: August 14, 2018

Concerns mount over federal government’s Indigenous housing contest

wetwareproblem:

allthecanadianpolitics:

The Canadian government will launch a contest this fall for First Nations communities to win $30 million toward innovative housing projects on reserve.

The Indigenous Homes Innovation Challenge has been billed by the federal government as a national competition designed to help close the housing gap for First Nations people on reserves.

But the concept is drawing some negative attention from the public — it’s been referred to as the “Hunger Games of on-reserve housing,” by advocate Arnell Tailfeathers.

“This issue of housing and poverty is not to be relegated to something as demeaning as a contest in order to win prize money,” said Mary Teegee, chair of the Delegated Aboriginal Agencies Provincial Forum.

“I do believe that, while however well-intentioned it may be, it absolutely misses the mark of dealing with the issues, which is really that housing issues within First Nations communities, they’re at a crisis point.”

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“I mean, sure, $30 mil is only a drop in the bucket and doesn’t even begin to touch the constructive neglect we’ve treated you with for centuries, but dance for your scraps or we’ll let you starve.”

Concerns mount over federal government’s Indigenous housing contest

because apparently this needs to be said AGAIN

jkthinkythoughts:

vampireapologist:

marzipanandminutiae:

in the most general aesthetic terms possible

1600s: most witch-hunts ended in this century. no witches were burned in North America; they were hanged or in one case pressed to death

1700s: the American Revolution. Marie Antoinette. the French Revolution. the crazy King George. most pirate movies

1800-1830: Jane Austen! Pride and Prejudice! those dresses where the waist is right under one’s boobs and men have a crapton of facial hair inside high collars

1830-1900: Victorian. Les Miserables is at the beginning, the Civil War is in the middle, and Dracula is at the end

1900-1920: Edwardian. Titanic, World War I, the Samantha books from American Girl, Art Nouveau

1920s: Great Gatsby. Jazz Age. Flappers and all that. most people get this right but IT IS NOT VICTORIAN. STUFF FROM THIS ERA IS NOT VICTORIAN. DO NOT CALL IT VICTORIAN OR LIST IT ON EBAY AS VICTORIAN. THAT HAPPENS SURPRISINGLY OFTEN GIVEN HOW STAGGERING THE VISUAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ERAS IS. also not 100 years ago yet, glamour.com “100 years of X” videos. you’re lazy, glamour.com. you’re lazy and I demand my late Edwardian styles

I just saw people referencing witch burning and Marie Antoinette on a post about something happening in 1878. 1878. when there were like trains and flush toilets and early plastic and stuff. if you guys learn nothing else about history, you should at least have vague mental images for each era

“Les Miserables is at the beginning, the Civil War is in the middle, and Dracula is at the end” sounds like the longest weirdest worst movie I’d pay to see in theatres five times.

It’s also a really good way to sum up exactly how much the “victorian era” actually covers. Like, 80% of the freaking industrial revolution. All of the US “wild west” era, plus 20 years before and 20 years after.

autasticanna:

butterflyinthewell:

Autistic people NEED to stim.

Neurotypicals DON’T NEED to bully us for stimming.

Don’t teach autistic people to refrain from stimming because it might attract bullies.

Teach the neurotypicals about what autism is, why autistic people stim and then you fucking teach them not to bully autistic people.

To put this in perspective, teaching autistic people not to stim is like teaching allistic people not to make facial expressions.

eggspert:

viktor-zhjarnek:

viktor-zhjarnek:

The Angel of Death

FISTS YOU

And then you Die

Context: my teacher translated the verb “to grasp with one’s hand” as “to fist” since that’s kinda what it literally means, but you can’t translate it like that into English because “to fist” means something ENTIRELY different, but she doesn’t know that.

So she was explaining how they use the verb to describe the angel of death taking your soul — he rips your soul out of you with his fist. Now that’s pretty damn metal, but she said word for word “the angel of death fists you, and then you die” which is the single most terrifying and powerful sentence to ever grace my ears

God I wish that were me