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.... i have never felt so seen
These past three days have been extremely difficult. Yesterday my dad passed away - my dad who was an asshole, difficult to love, collector of cars and cats, lover of Roadrunner cartoons, occasionally hilarious, always stubborn. Our relationship had been toxic all my life. I've had to work so hard to keep my distance because of it. Even so, I was so scared I wouldn't make it to him before it was done. The guilt over choosing to not do CPR again will undoubtably pop up for the rest of my life.
My heart is so confused and conflicted and hurt but at least I held his hand and he wasn't alone. Even if he worked very hard to be completely alone. He was cared for with as much compassion and gentelness as I could manage, as much love as I could give.
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♡ MERMAY! Part 2 ♡ I had a great time exploring negative shapes this Mermay. All originals are up for sale on my new site: ♡ JIJI.storenvy.com ♡ { Tattoo Policy! }
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you know its been a hot minute when you can’t remember how to post
but then you realize you never really left because you posted it to the wrong blog
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A partial lunar eclipse. The round shape of the shadow demonstrates that the earth is round. An introduction to astronomy. 1868.
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some main vocals 💖
Visiting Tom Nook on his coffee break
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the dream that woke me up last night always fill me with fear
for anon (cancer sun, pisces moon, libra rising)
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SPOT THE DIFFERENCE
You can’t.
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the human stress response seems so maladaptive!
To be fair 99% of our evolutionary stress response was meant to deal with far more immediately conclusive scenarios than the tedious bullshit we put up with these days.
very very slow tigers are chasing me
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Guardo il sole di morte estati
Pier Paolo Pasolini poetry
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I think the major difference between a social justice and a white/colonial lens on trauma is the assumption that trauma recovery is the reclamation of safety—that safety is a resource that is simply “out there” for the taking and all we need to do is work hard enough at therapy
I was once at a training seminar in Toronto led by a famous (among therapists) & beloved somatic psychologist. She spoke brilliantly. I asked her how healing from trauma was possible for ppl for whom violence & danger are part of everyday life. She said it was not.
Colonial psychology & psychiatry reveal their allegiance to the status quo in their approach to trauma: That resourcing must come from within oneself rather than from the collective. That trauma recovery is feeling safe in society, when in fact society is the source of trauma
Colonial somatics & psychotherapies teach that the body must relearn to perceive safety. But the bodies of the oppressed are rightly interpreting danger. Our triggers & explosive rage, our dissociation & perfect submission are in fact skills that have kept us alive
the somatics of social justice cannot (i believe) be a somatics rooted in the colonial frameworks of psychology, psychiatry, or other models linked to the dominance of the nation-state (psychology was not always this way, but has become increasingly so over time)
the somatics of social justice cannot be aimed at restoring the body to a state of homeostasis/neutrality. we must be careful of popular languaging such as the “regulation” of nervous system & emotion, which implies the control and domination of mind over emotion & sensation
bc we are not, in the end, preparing the body to “return” to the general safety of society (this would be gaslighting). we are preparing the body, essentially for struggle—training for better survival & the ability to experience joy in the midst of great danger
in the cauldron of social justice healing praxis, we must aim for relationality that has the potential to generate social change, to generate insurrection. we must be prepared to challenge norms. acknowledge danger. embrace struggle. take risks.
& above all, we must not overemphasize the importance of individual work (which is important indeed) to the detriment of a somatics that also prepares us, essentially, for war. somatics that allow us to organize together. fight together. live together. love each other.
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Our triggers & explosive rage, our dissociation & perfect submission are in fact skills that have kept us alive
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(200712) sunmi - pporappippam
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“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”
a hero emerges
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And just like in the novels, grown men and women are going out of their way to destroy her. Support our hero.
And it’s not even like it doesn’t happen regularly.
Teenage girls are amazing.
Sometimes they’re not even teenagers
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Reblog every time a girl is discredited/ignored
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Who they are:
Emma Gonzalez
Malala Yousafzai
Ruby Bridges
Greta Thunberg
Mari Copeny
Autumn Peltier
Afreen Khan
Sophie Cruz
Charlottesville Black Students Union
Naomi Wadler
DAPL protestors (names not found)
Ahed Tamimi
This isn’t a coincidence. Revolutions almost always happen when the population of a country is at its youngest and that’s a lot more true nowadays with social media.
Claudette Colvin was actually the first one to refuse her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. The movement chose to promote Rosa Parks as the figure for that form of protest because Claudette was a pregnant 15-year-old girl.
Barbara Rose Johns was a 16-year-old who organized a student strike protesting segregated schools. This strike, after gaining support of the NAACP, became a lawsuit that turned into Brown vs. The Board of Education and resulted in the desegregation of U.S schools nationally.
7th-grader Mary Beth Tinker, disturbed by the Vietnam War, decided to wear an arm band with a peace sign on it in protest. Her school suspended her. Her family filed a suit, Tinker vs. Des Moines, which reached the Supreme Court and ruled in her favor, ensuring that students and teachers maintain their right to free speech while in school.
Freddie & Truus Oversteegen were sisters who joined a Dutch resistance movement in WWII in their teens. They lured, ambushed, and assassinated Nazis and Dutch collaborators. They also blew up a railway line, transported Jewish refugees to new hiding places, and worked in an emergency hospital.
Our history books may like to showcase male figures, but behind every movement is a young girl ready to make a change. It was true then, it’s true now, and future generations of teenage girls will go on to inspire progress, whether they’re credited or not.
this post gave me goosebumps all over