Space Cats by Bronwyn Schuster on inprnt
All cats the same
Little Duck Feeding The Fish.
this is amazing
Happy Easter
The problem with Newt Scamander and J.K. Rowling’s HIV metaphor
I think what is intensely hypocritical about J.K. Rowling’s assertion that all of the heroes in her writings are “set apart, stigmatized, or othered,” is not only the fact that they’re always white, straight, and usually men, but that fact that her “hero” Newt Scamander created the Werewolf Register.
J.K. Rowling has said in interviews that werewolves and Remus Lupin were metaphors for stigmatized illnesses like HIV, and it is clear in the Harry Potter series that werewolves are extremely marginalized and discriminated against. Lupin is unable to find work after he is outed and forced to isolate himself from society. When making a connection between lycanthropy and HIV, it is impossible not to make a connection to the AIDS epidemic and the way it disproportionately affected gay men due to homophobic assumptions, misinformation, and the lack of medical and political action from people in power. When interviewed, David Thewlis, the actor who plays Remus Lupin in the films, said that director Alfonso Cuarón instructed him to play the character as if he were a gay man (“gay junkie” were the words used by Cuarón, but we’ll ignore the problematic implications of that for now.)
So when J.K. Rowling refers to Newt Scamander as “stigmatized” and “othered”, while ignoring the fact that he created the Werewolf Register, a government list that documents every identified werewolf, she is disregarding the long term consequences that Newt has had on werewolves like Remus Lupin. Newt is not oppressed or marginalized, but he is very concretely responsible for much of the prejudice and legal discrimination that werewolves face in the Wizarding World. To put things into context, Newt Scamander creating the Werewolf Register would be similar to someone in the muggle world creating a government mandated list of every person with HIV/AIDS in order to discriminate against them. And you can bet that homophobic perceptions about HIV would make gay men the biggest target for discriminatory laws.
Newt Scamander is not “set apart, stigmatized, or othered,” but instead is responsible for setting others apart, stigmatizing, and othering them.
This has been a Newt Scamander call out post.
I truly love this campaign. Spotted near my home on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, NY.
hey ted cruz now is time to use those zodiac killer skills you’ve been hiding all this time
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important ❤️
THANK YOU.
white people this morning: good morning!
me:
I would like to say white men not just white people as a whole.
don’t try it
1st Latina senator in US history. I like her already
#NotMyPresident
The electoral college does not vote until December 19th. We have 40 days.
What does this mean?
Right now, the presidential election results are only a PROJECTION of the election outcome. They are PRELIMINARY RESULTS. A candidate still needs to earn 270 electoral votes to win. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, which means that more than 50% of the voters wanted her for president. The electoral college shouldn’t guarantee an override of the public’s opinion– and it doesn’t have to.
There are 21 states that do NOT restrict which candidate the electors vote for. Out of these 21, Hillary lost the following:
As you can see, these states are worth 166 electoral votes. As it currently stands, Hillary Clinton is projected to receive 232 votes. Trump is projected to win 306. This means that 37 votes need to be taken away from Trump to bring him down to 269. Hillary Clinton needs 38 votes ADDED to win 270. These electoral voters can also abstain, which means that they can refuse to vote for either candidate. If 37 of the voters within these states abstain then no candidate will have reached the required 270. In this case, the vote would be taken to the House.
Trump won Pennsylvania, a state that typically votes blue, by less than 100,000 votes. While it is highly unlikely to get all 20 electoral voters to cross party lines and vote democrat, it also isn’t impossible to convince a few of them to be “faithless electors.” We only need to convince 38 out of the 166. That is 23%. There are SIXTEEN states we need to focus our attention on.
A move like this would be unprecedented. However, as we all saw on November 8th, odds don’t guarantee reality. Trump had a less than 20% winning, yet given the circumstances, enough people came together and made it happen. We can make this happen.
Ask yourself this: What do we have left to lose? We can stay complacent and accept that this country will be run by a racist, sexist, islamophobic, homophobic, ablest bigot, or we can at least try.
How?
SPREAD THE WORD. Trend #NotMyPresident to let people know that we do not accept being led by a man who does not care about our wellbeing. Email your professors, email the dean of your colleges. The last thing a university wants is negative press. Millenials can take a stand, but that doesn’t mean we have to be the only ones. Church-led events helped bring a lot of disillusioned voters to the polls. Spread the word in any way possible, whether it be on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or even in person. Stage a peaceful protest. Hand out flyers. Let the people around you know that you don’t accept this man as your leader when he won’t even accept you as a citizen with your designated rights.
These 166 people need to face the consequences of electing this man.
Do this for the people who couldn’t vote. Do this for the people who live in the very real fear of being deported. Do this for the people who will have to face the rise in hate crimes. Do this for the people who have a very real possibility of losing their rights. Do this for the people who will no longer afford necessities.
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I riffed on a comic by theycantalk.com