Dissolution and Creation

Not smoking weed before I use my forearm crutches so I'm not operating machinery under the influence

I know this is a joke post but some places write actual laws around mobility aids, treating them as separate from other pedestrians

like for example a friend of mine was hit by a car in a wheelchair, and the person driving was not charged or even warned because they “technically” didn’t hit a “pedestrian” , they hit their wheelchair (?????)

that friend is ok (thank god) but this just reminded me of how ableism is written into law, so treating mobility aid users (specifically wheelchair or powerchair) like they’re operating machinery isn’t that far off from the reality in car-centric places

this also reminded me that some OTs and ATPs will also deny blind people wheelchairs (usually powerchairs but sometimes manual wheelchairs as well) therefore denying them independent mobility because they believe that using a wheelchair blind is a "safety hazard" because they, theoretically, might run into someone. it's appalling.

Isolation from community is a bad thing and harms us mentally, that is what makes suburbs so bad for our health, that large green lawn you have is worthless when there is nobody to connect with in said lawn compared to a park. I grew up in the suburbs and let me tell you they are lonely isolating spaces that are lifeless and soul crushing.

People are scary and hard to approach sometimes, I get that, but that doesn't mean you should live your life hiding from the world. After a certain point, it goes from wanting to avoid people and enters a stage of paranoia. The fear of the outside world that we have in the suburbs is mostly fiction, you are doing yourself harm by thinking that you will be put in harms way by walking past a stranger on a busy street. Humans are social creatures and need to be around others to function. I am not saying you have to talk to strangers on the street, just that you should walk down the street

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This is the same thing over and over again. Palestinians die every day, but it gets a lukewarm headline from mainstream media because death and destruction is inherent to Arabness. Then an aid convoy with white workers is obliterated, and now both the president of the United States and the president of Israel are making statements apologizing for “the poor protection of aid workers.” At one point we were seeing multiple reports a day of paramedics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society dying, but nothing. Crickets. Because they don’t care. And even in these “remorseful statements” there is a strategic reminder that white lives hold more weight than brown lives.

Ukraine/Russia happened and the first thing European leaders said was, "Well, this isn't the Middle East. Things like this doesn't happen here."

I've been told by many people that they never realized how deep anti-Arab sentiment ran until now and like. Guys. I understand, I get it, but we said it. We told y'all. Again and again and again. 1 million Iraqis killed in the war, and people didn't care. Syria, and people didn't care. Yemen, and people didn't care.

Guys. I cannot stress this enough. America benefits SO MUCH from Arabs being violently killed. Killing us gets them oil, gets them land, gets them allies, gets them presence, gets them power. And America purposefully silences/suppresses us to keep you from noticing. Notice.

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It’s crazy how low self-worth fucks with peoples lives

“What will I be if I don’t graduate/don’t get a promotion/don’t get my shit together/don’t make this relationship work?” You would be a perfectly normal human being who is inherently valuable and who possesses many talents and good traits

“What if I fail even when I tried my very best?” The world keeps turning and you will find many other things you will succeed at.

Okay you know what you don’t get to find facial scars on fictional characters sexy until you treat real people with facial deformities with kindness and respect. You can’t drool all over a dude with a “tasteful” scar over one eye until you stop staring at/refusing to look at people with half a jaw, an asymmetrical nose, a missing eye, etc. and stop fucking tagging disabled bodies as “body horror” bitch I’m gonna kill you

The folks at Changing Faces made a campaign video around the time No Time to Die was released showing a future where people with visible differences are the hero, love interest or main character - and not just the villain.

You can learn more about their campaign for positive representation here!

Here is the accessible version of the video with audio description and captions, for those curious:

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I honestly cannot believe how far T(W)ERF rhetoric has spread on this site. They used to be the ONLY ones I saw openly mocking the concept of identifying as queer, the ONLY ones I saw referring to people as ‘kweer’ in a mocking way.

You all are so 100% certain you know how to identify radfem and T(W)ERF rhetoric and can’t possibly fall victim to it but guess what.

They are nowhere near above pulling this shit. And you all are falling for it.

And if you think that screenshot is an isolated incident, think again!

There are countless radfem and T(W)ERF blogs that I’ve blocked that said ‘secret radfem sideblog’ in the description.

Like, it’s great that we’ve made being a T(W)ERF so unaccepted on this site that they can only be open about the most toxic of their views in secret side blogs rather than on their main, but it’s time to accept that they’re taking advantage of that in a really fucking insidious way.

Just a tip on how to recognize these blogs. If you follow someone and you start getting suggested t*rf blogs that’s a good sign the person has sideblog for that stuff. There was some cowboy blog I followed a while ago and I used to get follow suggestions saying “this blog is similar to cowboy whatever” and it was a ton of t*rf shit and low and behold they ended up outing themselves

This is why we learn about what actual TERF ideology is. Saying “trans women are women” and “TERFS not allowed” and putting “TERF destroyer” or whatever in your bio is not enough. Learn how TERFs actually work, and what they believe, and where it stems from, and how they express diluted versions in order to warm up non-TERFs to their ideas.

Do the fucking work. Unfollow/block people who express TERF ideas even if they don’t label themselves as TERFs, challenge those ideas in your community, and you won’t have to worry about secret TERF blogs anymore.

Just in case you happen to be unaware, some of the “radfem lite” they post to warm you up to their rhetoric, just off the top of my head:

The following are some red flags I’ve seen:

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Phew. This one took, uh… a bit longer than expected due to other projects both irl and art-wise, but it’s finally here. The long-awaited domestic animal infographic! Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough space to cover every single domestic animal (I’m so sorry, reindeer and koi, my beloveds) but I tried to include as many of the “major ones” as possible.

I made this chart in response to a lot of the misunderstandings I hear concerning domestic animals, so I hope it’s helpful!

Further information I didn’t have any room to add or expand on:

I know "walkable cities" is considered a buzzword and urbanists are increasingly seen as preachy liberal wonks, but we're literally right. If you spend enough time in an American city outside the literal bubble of your car you will see people carrying groceries along the shoulders of freeways, running for their lives to cross a street, or waiting for an hour to catch a delayed bus. If you read local obituaries about pedestrian and cyclist fatalities, they're not white tech bros in spandex but people in redlined neighborhoods without proper sidewalks. You spend enough time trying to own the urbanist nerds and oops, you start condoning a status quo that is overtly cruel and racist.

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