Hey, I’m Luke, a trans boy. I had a very disappointing call from my gender clinic today. The waiting list that was a 2 years overall last month, has suddenly jumped up to 39 months. I can’t wait that long.
As a result, I’ve considered going private for hormones. But with trying to move out in the next year too, I’m going to struggle financially. To help fund this at least a little, I’m doing tarot readings through PayPal and etsy!
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Can someone please tell me this was a pair that was trying to do the death spiral that mating birds of prey do, and somehow in the process they ended up stuck on a road sign.
Because if it is, this is definitely one of the funniest “Okay, maybe we WERE a little bit over our head when we started this…” moments.
name one native american intellectual off the top of your head, name one native american actor or actress off the top of your head, name one native american senator, one native american news anchor, or an author or a tv personality or a singer or a poet or a comedian, name a single native american teacher you’ve had, can you? probably not
ok so now think of one native american cartoon character you know of or a sports team relating to native americans whether it’s their actual name or their team logo, or a town you live in or near with a “native” name bet a lot of these things came to you right away i bet you didn’t even have to think
needing native representation in media, education and government are not decoy issues, the commercialization and appropriation of native cultures are not decoy issues, the lack of native representation is institutional oppression at work
White people specifically need to reblog this, I don’t CARE if it makes you uncomfortable–that’s the point. Listen to Native voices about Native issues PLEASE
I particularly want more Native American voices in speculative fiction.
I can, however, name a Native American author: Rebecca Roanhorse. This year’s Campbell winner (best new author) and Hugo winner for best short story for “Welcome to your Authentic Indian Experience.”
White people?
Read that story. You might not enjoy it. But read it.
I need to get my hands on her novels. Roanhorse is deft and talented and deserves every accolade.
And while checking her out, I found this blog on Tor where she recommends more Native American authors. The blog highlights another problem.
The authors she mentions are: Cherie Dimaline, Stephen Graham Jones and Daniel Wilson. The editors she mentions are: Hope Nicholson, Elizabeth Lapensee and Weshoyot Alvitre.
From the names, I would only have guessed Weshoyot Alvitre was Native right off. Cherie Dimaline and Elizabeth Lapensee also kind of hint it, but I did not know Daniel Wilson wasn’t white. He’s Cherokee, and I had no idea…he’s a roboticist who writes robot stuff, and while I haven’t read it…I’ve heard so much, I just haven’t got around to it yet (I often have to be read shelves including stuff I need to re-read).
So, be aware that you may well know a Native American author, but simply not know they aren’t white. Dig a little!
You really can’t pinpoint the Famine as a specific genocidal event when the economic and legal policies of England had been setting up the conditions for 400 years at that point.
The British did something incredibly similar in Bengal during WWII, where a famine killed millions. They deliberately shifted the distribution of food toward Britain and away from India.
Both cases lack intent to wipe out an ethnic or religious group, but both cases show that a long history of colonization make a population completely disposable to the colonizer.
An Gorta Mór was doomed to happen the moment the Pope created the Kingdom of Ireland as a personal fief for the King of England. The Potato Blight was a match, while the English had been stacking kindling and pouring on lighter fluid for centuries.
Many intellectuals, economists, and politicians knew it was coming. The potato blight had burned through most of Europe, causing minor damage, before it reached the British Isles.
So when it struck and the English were like 🤷♀️ the population of Ireland was halved and the British definitely took advantage of that. The population still has not fully recovered. Ireland could support (and should have) 20 million people, but it barely has 5 million on the whole island. This is because the inherently violent political and economic system didn’t go away when the crisis ended. More and more people emigrated, decimating the cultural/linguistics strongholds of Ireland.
If we compare genocide to attempted murder, famine, being the economically and politically constructed tragedies that they are, should be compared to criminal negligence.
I don’t call the Famine a genocide. It’s just yet another relic of how damaging English colonial rule was to the island and to my ancestors. You can’t isolate the Famine from the rest of Irish history. Just my onion.
given that this event wasn’t the only time that the english used a famine to deliberately cut ‘undesirable’ populations down in their colonies, i don’t think there’s anything wrong with calling it a genocide. yes, the existence of famine alone is usually attributable to poor administration, but when purposeful malicious intent enters the picture the event becomes both a famine and a genocide.
population death caused by poor food distribution by the administration during times of weak harvest: famine
population death caused by purposeful withholding of food or other forms of purposeful food mismanagement by the administration to affect specific areas during times of weak harvest: famine & genocide
Is this heterosexual culture? It seems like it tbh
It means nothing. One of the things I’ve learned since I started working with a print-on-demand provider is that there are a PLETHORA of people out there who do the following:
Buy a bunch of rando shirt templates, many of which include unlicensed fonts/stolen art/etc
Combine those rando shirt templates with rando pop culture or identity-related items (I guarantee you that this same store sells something like this that says ‘I am a Texas/Oklahoma/Jersey/Oogie Boogie/Panic at the Disco/Country Music girl’ with the exact same following text, maybe slightly different fonts, and an appropriate graphic for the [X] that the ‘girl’ is supposed to be.
Post them on generated Shopify sites
Spam the fuck out of Facebook, Instagram and Pintrest with ads like these.
Profit. And some of them actually do profit, which makes me really irritated, because it’s the pop culture equivalent of the ‘Daddy’s Little [Occupation clearly taken from a list of archaic occupations]’ onesies that there was a post going around about for a while.
Because I have been doing research on print-on-demand providers, looking for new items and expanded sizing, I am constantly inundated with Facebook and Google ads from companies offering to ‘set me up with a shirt-a-day campaign’ for which I have to do no work. All of these ‘shirt-a-day’ campaigns are exactly the same, or variations on a theme. Other companies offer to sell bulk templates (again, like these) so that people with absolutely no graphic design experience can do little to no work, set up a shop full of shirts like this, and work the fuck out of SEO and social media to make the quickest buck for the least work possible.
(I also get Facebook ads telling me about ‘seminars in my area’ to learn how to ‘profit from online arbitrage,’ which, incidentally, is exactly what people who sell half-yards of nerdy, in-stock fabric on Etsy for four times what you’d pay just buying it from fucking Joann are doing. It’s so disgusting to me to see that. Please, please, before you ever buy fabric or jewelry supplies from Etsy, do a bit more googling. Some people are truly selling unique things, and I respect those folx – a lot of people are selling stuff you can buy from Joann and Michael’s at disgusting markups.)
If you do a little Googling on it, you can find a lot of YouTube videos and seminars and e-books telling you how you, too, can set up your own t-shirt business just like this!! It’s like… the new real estate scheme. Lots of people will try it, very few will make appreciable money at it, because they’re not creating anything new, and the only people who make money are the people who make money off of the ones hoping to make a quick buck without creating their own damn designs. The ones putting together the ‘shirt a day’ campaigns and selling them. The ones selling seminars and e-books on how to run an online business.
Do I sound bitter and angry? A little, but probably not for the reasons people would think. This kind of thing isn’t competition to NerdyKeppie. The people who want our stuff want our stuff. One of the nice things about serving a niche is that the people who buy from us, boy, they really want what we have got, and they know it’s original. We are the water-gun snipers of the backyard water battle, whereas these providers are a bunch of people running around with the hose, hoping they’ll be able to hit somebody by flailing around with lots of volume.
No, what makes me bitter and sad and angry about this is that there’s an entire industry preying on people whose jobs aren’t paying them enough, so they’re looking for an alternate income stream – and they see this and think – this looks like something I could do in my spare time. I think I could do this.
It’s like Uber in that way. It’s not gonna make you the money they say it’s gonna make you, and the only ones who make good money in the end are the ones selling people the program. I’ve seen enough predatory programs in my time, people who fell prey to scams and MLMs and ‘employment opportunities’ that promised far more than they delivered. G-d knows I closed enough checking accounts and opened new ones to prevent those predatory companies from continuing to steal ‘membership fees’ after people begged to cancel, while I was working in banking.
Anyway, this is probably a much longer and more in-detail answer than you wanted, but this sort of thing is sort of a plague on my life, and it hurts my heart.
And it’s definitely Straight Culture, inasmuch as Straight Culture makes out with the worst parts of capitalism all the time.
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