HOW TO DONATE TO BLM WHEN YOU HAVE NO MONEY

a black woman named zoe amira posted a video on youtube. this video is an hour long and filled with art and music from black creators. it has a ton of ads, and in result will rack up a ton of revenue. 100% of the ad revenue from the video will be dispersed between various blm organizations, including bail-out funds for protesters. it will be split between the following, dependent on necessity

please, please reblog. for people who don’t have money to spare, this is incredibly important information to have.

John Ruskin

The Aiguille Blaitiere

1856

When I explain cultural misappropriation to children, I use the example of The Nightmare Before Christmas.  

It’s effective because especially for children, who don’t have enough historical context to understand much of the concept, you can still fully grasp the idea.  

There was nothing wrong with Jack seeing the beauty and differences in Christmas town, it’s when he tried to take what is unique about Christmas town away from those it originally belonged to without understanding the full context of Christmas things is when everything went wrong.

When Jack tries to get the folk of Halloween town to make Christmas gifts for children, etc., children understand that the Halloween town folk do not have the full context for the objects they are making, and they are able to see that the direct repercussions and consequences are very harmful.

what i like about this is the implication that if jack had taken the time to understand christmas town, bringing christmas to halloween town would not have been harmful. that’s how it works, folks. cultural sharing is GOOD, it’s only misappropriation when it’s done in ignorance and disrespect.

There’s an interesting level here in that Jack tried to understand Christmas town. He could see the magic while he was there, and he did try to explain it that way to citizens of Halloween town.  But they weren’t interested in the kind of life he was describing, so he started “rebranding” Christmas so that it was not like Christmas but was like Halloween. The people of Halloween town, never having actually encountered Christmas, have no way of knowing that what they’re being told about Christmas and “Sandy Claws” is inaccurate. Jack also tried to study Christmas and its culture, though he couldn’t quite get it; eventually, he literally decides to take it for himself, even as he knows it’s not really for him.  He started out feeling sad the others in Halloween town didn’t ‘get it,’ but he then decided it’s not important to fully ‘get it’ but instead to have it.

So it’s not just accidentally removing things form their context; he has intentionally disregard the meaning of the rituals he purports to be recreating, making them more fun for the recreaters but not like what the rituals are supposed to be and without the related significance.

This is the best way to conceptualize the wrong way to share culture I have ever seen and I think I finally get where people are coming from when they talk about “cultural appropriation.”

This is an EXCELLENT explanation through example!

This is PERFECT. I’m using this in my classroom.

This is both the best analysis of TNBC and the best example of cultural appropriation I’ve ever seen.

And it’s true. Jack thought the only way anyone could understand Christmas was to have it. And while the sentiment is relatable and it’s not wrong to feel that way sometimes, it’s still untrue, and he ends up learning it the hard way.

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore - Holly Black

“Common edible or field mushroom.” The science of biology. 1952.

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i got shelves that look like mushrooms growing out from my wall!!!!!

i’m tired of the dark academia aesthetic being co-opted by the humanities students. where are the dark academia stem mayors? give me a group of physics kids going insane whilst trying discover the secrets of the universe, chemistry kids doing experiments with questionable substances in abandoned laboratories, biologists trying to discover the secret of life. there’re so many possiblilities

Noah fence but humanities majors live off this form of escapism and also if we let STEM take this they’ll go mad w power, this is exactly why we invented ethics

i’ve gotten a lot of humanity majors acting oppressed in my mentions but this is genuinely my favorite response cus it’s TRUE. stems would go mad with power, you’re right op

homeless people are part of your community!!!!! get with it!!!!!!!!!!!!! they’re not outside interlopers they’re not invaders they’re not vermin. homeless people = people deprived of homes, they are Victims and you should be angry on their behalf because people are being deprived of shelter in Your Community

“Ophélie” by Constantin Meunier, 1831-1905

David and Venus de Milo Art earrings

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Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to John Allan wr. c. January 1831, featured in “Letters,”