World’s Smallest Cat: Rusty Spotted Cat |  “He may look like a kitten, he’d still fit in the palm of your hand - but this little male is very nearly fully grown. [..] What he lacks in size… he makes up for in daring.”

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She QUIT two huge companies to do sex work & she give THE BEST advice. She keeps it honest and real & we all need that.

i still dont really get how ‘debate’ with fascists play out in the minds of liberals. do they just imagine themselves scratching their chins pensively as they are intellectually stimulated by their opponent spewing out some xenophobic/antisemetic propaganda framed with 18th century scientific racism before calling everything else on the contrary a conspiracy

i think they think it goes something like the conversion scenes in chick tracts

liberal: have you heard about liberalism fascist: no oh my god thank you i’m a liberal now

they apply the same logic to pretty much all power structures. liberals invest enormous faith (or at least pretend to) in the ability of logic/reason/science/argument to change people’s minds and fix societal problems. thus police brutality can be solved through sensitivity training, and sexism and racism by speaking with individuals about privilege and through diversity seminars. capitalism’s most brutal elements are not a sign of the inherent brutality of the system but the excess of “irrational” and mean-spirited CEOS that can be curbed by empowering better CEOs and supporting ‘better’ companies.

liberals think they can successfully debate fascism for the same reasons they think they can convince capitalists to stop exploiting and polluting, and police to stop killing black and brown and poor folk. they have no material understanding of power structures, and see everything through the lens of ideas.

On Why I Hate #BellLetsTalk (And Why I Do It Every Year)

It’s #BellLetsTalk tomorrow, and every year I go through a bit of a struggle. For a mental health advocate, someone who makes a living talking about mental health, this might seem weird. It feels weird to me. But there’s an icky feeling that I just can’t shake about #BellLetsTalk.

Partly, let’s start with the obvious. Bell is a company. Capitalism tells us that the company wouldn’t be doing this if it wasn’t the equivalent of one (1) metric shit ton of free advertising. But let’s skim past that for a second, because we’re supposed to be happy that a company is deigning to be charitable at all, and I’m not here to talk about the hellhole of capitalism we live in – that’s a post for another day.

Let’s start with the obvious. #BellLetsTalk is huge, it provides a huge platform for people to discuss mental health. Awesome. But unfortunately, it also provides a huge platform for big companies and organizations and institutions and, oh lord, politicians, to flex their hypocrisy muscle. Programs like #BellLetsTalk, or even programs like the poster campaign that I run, #MyDefinition, allow big companies and organizations and institutions the opportunity to say “Look! We put up a poster, we sent tweet, we are doing Everything in Our Power to Help” while not making any structural or financial contributions to actually improve the mental health conditions of their students/staff/citizens. The hypocrisy is nauseating, and I see it every year, companies and schools and organizations and politicians who emerge from the woodwork, send a tweet, pat themselves on the back, and go right back to not providing mental health services, stigmatizing mental illness, etc.

But hey, it’s not #BLT’s fault that their platform gets misused by big orgs every year. I get that. So let’s talk about the campaign itself. #BellLetsTalk is a huge platform. They have the opportunity, every year, to start conversations about all sorts of mental health issues. But the focus, every year, is predominantly on depression. Which, don’t get me wrong – depression is a hell of a disease. But there is a hierarchy of mental health issues – it sucks to say, but it’s true, and someone’s gotta just come out and say it. There’s a hierarchy in terms of how people perceive mental health issues, how they’re treated by doctors and counsellors, and in how comfortable people are even mentioning the words. The difference in how I was treated when I was diagnosed with depression versus when I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder is staggering. I was giving a presentation about mental health issues at a school in Alberta and a student said to me, “I’m all for destigmatizing things like self harm and depression and stuff, but what about ones where people are dangerous, like schizophrenia?” And fortunately, once that question was asked, I had the opportunity to educate 1100 high school students that people with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders are in no way more dangerous than the general population. #BellLetsTalk has a much bigger platform than I do, and the opportunity to educate thousands, if not millions, of Canadians about a multitude of mental health issues. Or to talk about the mental health of people of colour, or the mental health of trans people, or the mental health of Indigenous people. They could use this platform to talk about how we are failing people living with mental health issues in so many ways. But they don’t.

Lastly, it’s right there in the name – Let’s Talk. I talk about mental health. I encourage other people to talk about mental health. Talking about mental health is important, and I get that – I get that big time. But talking can only bring us so far. Talking lets people realize they need help, so they can begin to access the help they need, whatever that may be. And so, so, SO often that help is not there. That second half of the puzzle isn’t there. But there’s no second half to #BellLetsTalk – there’s no #BellLetsAct, no #BellLetsCallOurPoliticians, no #BellLetsLookAtSocialIndicatorsOfHealth, no #BellLetsFundMoreMentalHealthServices, no #BellLetsInvestInPeerSupport. There’s just talking.

This should probably be the part where you’re looking at me going, “Okay, you bitter old hag. Then why are you clogging up my Twitter feed every #BellLetsTalk day? You’re the real hypocrite here.” And you might be right. I might be a huge hypocrite.

Because #BellLetsTalk has its flaws, but I am tweeting up a storm every year. And there is one simple reason.

And that reason is me. Not me now, but me eleven years ago. The young person who was always on a diet, secretly bingeing and purging, who felt that she couldn’t control her brain, who felt like she was crazy, who didn’t know the words “mental illness” or “mental health”. The young person who felt like she was alone in her experiences, who felt like she was one in a hundred million billion, when really she was one in five.

That twelve year old version of me is still out there. Maybe in a rural Alberta town like I was, or maybe in downtown Toronto. It doesn’t matter. They’re out there, and they’re probably on Facebook or Twitter. And if even one message gets through to them tomorrow that makes them feel less alone, then it’s worth it.

That’s why I do what I do. And that’s why I’ll be tweeting tomorrow.

On the Women’s March ‘Guiding Vision’ and its inclusion of Sex Workers

I am proud of the work I’ve done as part of the Women’s March policy table – a collection of women and folk engaged in crucial feminist, racial and social justice work across various intersections in our country. I helped draft the vision and I wrote the line “…and we stand in solidarity with sex workers’ rights movements.” It is not a statement that is controversial to me because as a trans woman of color who grew up in low-income communities and who advocates, resists, dreams and writes alongside these communities, I know that underground economies are essential parts of the lived realities of women and folk. I know sex work to be work. It’s not something I need to tiptoe around. It’s not a radical statement. It’s a fact. My work and my feminism rejects respectability politics, whorephobia, slut-shaming and the misconception that sex workers, or folks engaged in the sex trades by choice or circumstance, need to be saved, that they are colluding with the patriarchy by “selling their bodies.” I reject the continual erasure of sex workers from our feminisms because we continue to conflate sex work with the brutal reality of coercion and trafficking. I reject the policing within and outside women’s movements that shames, scapegoats, rejects, erases and shuns sex workers. I cannot speak to the internal conflicts at the Women’s March that have led to the erasure of the line I wrote for our collective vision but I have been assured that the line will remain in OUR document. The conflicts that may have led to its temporary editing will not leave until we, as feminists, respect THE rights of every woman and person to do what they want with their body and their lives. We will not be free until those most marginalized, most policed, most ridiculed, pushed out and judged are centered. There are no throwaway people, and I hope every sex worker who has felt shamed by this momentarily erasure shows up to their local March and holds the collective accountable to our vast, diverse, complicated realities.

Sex workers deserve to be free from violence, abuse, and all the forms of direct and indirect criminilisation we face. 

Happy International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. 

rabbits only flop over like that if they feel completely safe btw

to elaborate: bunnies are prey animals and almost never have their guard down– even when they’re resting they’ll usually have their back legs in a position that allows them to quickly run away. if they’re jumping around it means they’re extremely happy!! and if they flop down w/o a care that means they feel very very comfortable and safe to the point of not having to worry about their surroundings. ^__^

This is just the happiest video IMO. 

“PLAY! FUN!  Happy!  Play?”  *looks at dog*  “No, no play?  Naps?  Okay.  Naps.”  *flop*

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@odditii LOOK A BUNNY

@thesylverlining bun flopped. I hope that u can have a chance to flop as well.

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Donald Trump’s team is considering plans for a registry of Muslim immigrants.

when you hate clinton but you hate trump even more so you give your vote to hillary like

Feeling like people should know that everydayfeminism.com is founded by and run by the same 2 people that founded polaris project, and one of them still sits on the board at PP. If you don’t know, Polaris Project is pretty much one of the most influential orgs, if not The Most Influential org that pushes end demand policies in the US. They offer ‘evidence’ and testimony at congressional hearings and they craft sample legislation and send it out to all the US states so they can know how to format their own end demand laws. They’ve gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars from the government and have used much of it to basically spread sex trafficking hysteria and discredit the sex workers rights movement. They are the worst. And now the founders have this super social justicey site  where they publish shit like this http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/11/myths-people-sex-industry/ which is co-written by a non-sex worker and one of the founders of PP and OF COURSE the one myth they make sure to NOT mention is the myth that end demand policies are good for sex workers.

The ignored my application to write for them when I disclosed I was a former sex worker. Curious how many others out there have also been declined to write for them.

I just finished scream (yep I’m late) but like nobody can tell me they weren’t on a date here

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Note Gustavo how to support and admire Brooke.