Donna Gottschalk’s “Brave, Beautiful Outlaws” is opening at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art on Aug. 29. While Ms. Gottschalk doesn’t identify as a documentary photographer or a photojournalist, she has been making pictures since she was 17. Photos selected from her 50-year personal archive will be made public for the first time.
Her work documents her closeness with her working class family and her involvement with the radical lesbian, sometimes separatist, communities in the late ’60s and ’70s.
The photos are tinged with mourning and mystery. She’s been holding their memory for decades, “fiercely protective” and unwilling to “subject them to scrutiny, judgment and abuse” from the outside world.
”Understand, people didn’t care about them or my pictures of them back in the day,” she said. “These people were all very dear to me, and they were beautiful. These pictures are the only memorial some of these people will ever have.”
OKAY here we go. This is a list of folks with actual financial needs right now. If you have cash, distribute some. If you don’t please don’t wring your hands here and tell me you can’t do anything. Share. Use your social media for good. It is free.99 to boost the shit out of this link and try to get some folks funded.
If you missed my original call and have a need, reblog with your info. Please don’t delete the link to my list.
I’m Mallory and my links are Cash.me/$brownrecluse and https://www.paypal.me/brownrecluse. I need help paying for my move across country so I can get out of a toxic living situation.
I got you homie. You’re on my list.
Here is the updated list. Let’s keep reblogging for reach.
Look, if it’s a real ghost, the busters get custody. If it’s just a real estate developer in a costume it’s out of their jurisdiction so we gotta hand things off to these meddling kids and their dog.
“Nebraska may be one of the most conservative states in the country, but in November, the state’s voters could advance a liberal cause. On Friday, Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale confirmed that organizers had collected enough signatures to put Medicaid expansion on the general election ballot this fall, making it the fourth state to do so this year. Voters in Utah and Idaho will also consider an expansion in November, and Montana voters will decide whether to make permanent the state’s current expansion, which is due to expire next year. If it passes, the initiative would extend Medicaid to an estimated 90,000 low-income Nebraskans. Montana, Utah, Idaho, and Nebraska are all reliably Republican states, while Medicaid expansion, which is optional for states, is the product of Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Thirty-two states, plus the District of Columbia, have opted in; Virginia is the latest state to do so, after several Republican legislators defected and joined Democrats to pass expansion. But even these red-state voters seem open to the growth of government-subsidized health care—Medicaid is jointly funded by the federal government and individual states—and polling suggests they just might endorse it. A June poll put Utahns’ support for expansion at 63 percent. In Idaho, a June poll found 66 percent support in favor. These polls, if accurate, depict a voting population at odds with their states’ Republican legislative majorities. In each state, voters are preparing to sidestep officials who have either blocked Medicaid expansion entirely or passed it with significant restrictions.”
During World War II, 600,000 African-American women entered the wartime
workforce. Previously, black women’s work in the United States was
largely limited to domestic service and agricultural work, and wartime
industries meant new and better-paying opportunities – if they made it
through the hiring process, that is. White women were the targets of the
U.S. government’s propaganda efforts, as embodied in the lasting and
lauded image of Rosie the Riveter.Though largely ignored in America’s
popular history of World War II, black women’s important contributions
in World War II factories, which weren’t always so welcoming, are
stunningly captured in these comparably rare snapshots of black Rosie
the Riveters.
If you are a parent of a child with ADHD (or even for yourself). It is OKAY to give accommodations or modifications in your home life. It is okay to work with your child to create a schedule or ways in which things are done around the house.
For example. I always hated doing the dishes, the feeling of stuff floating around was super icky and I hated it. Instead of telling me as a child to suck it up, ask your child WHY they don’t like. Make the accommodation of giving them gloves to use or a different type of brush.
If your child struggles with time management. Buy some clocks, set extra reminders TAlk to your child, ask them how many reminders and when do they want them before you are ready to leave the house. I.e. we are leaving in two hours, go take a shower, we are leaving in half an hour and a half start getting dressed. We are leaving in 30 mins, five mins etc.
You should not get mad at your child when they struggle with something if you have not spoken to them about the issue and accommodations that they need to make it easier.
This is so important for two reasons.
1) it is showing the child that with interventions their symptoms can be managed. It also shows that if something doesn’t work, you can try different things to help. There won’t be an internalization of “ I am lazy, I am dumb, I am bad”. It will instead be “ I need to try something else to be successful”
2) it models how to A) put into words the problem and how they are feeling. The child is learning to express with words (written or otherwise) and their issues are taken seriously. This will not only make your life easier but it will make it easier in school for the child to have this skill to say “ I am struggling with this because”. they might not have those communication skills yet but it will be easier for them to say I don’t want to do this right now because I am angry. Then just letting them have an adhd meltdown.
B) IT TEACHES THEM HOW TO ASK FOR ACCOMMODATIONS. This is SO So SO important. Whether they are in k-12 or not, being self advocates is one of the most important skills that they will learn. The child being active in IEP meetings or having the ability to go to their case manager and saying “ this accommodation is not working or this teacher is not giving me what I need”. This skill is so important. (Of course have them talk to you first before they go in lol). It is teaching them that their accommodations are nothing to be embarrassed about and that they need to be taken seriously. Which will make all the difference in college.
It also makes the difference in the workforce as well. Being able, as an adult to ask for accommodation will be very different than in education and the way to go about that will be different. But your child will already have that groundwork of being a self advocate and be able to speak about what they need in order to be successful.. and even if their request isn’t granted, the y will know that their success and self worth is not wrapped in their ability to complete the task well.
So, recap: talk to your kids (and yourself) about why things are bothering them and what can be done to make the tasks easier. Set up a plan and teach them to communicate their needs and stand by them. Take them seriously.
Feel free to post things that either worked or didn’t work for you as a child or a parent around the topic. It would be great to see what everyone has gone through.
I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.
The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”
1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.
Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! Hewrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.
dude had guts, someone needs to update his Wikipedia page
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