Save him from Kabru’s wrath

LESS THAN TWO HOURS AGO: four cornell students have been suspended (and at least the one reporting was evicted, unknown about the others) for their involvement with their campus's gaza solidarity encampment. during a school year centering freedom of expression no less!

Friends, what is the best way to go about finding out what a piece of now-public land used to be?

My father says that part of the park across the street from my childhood home was a graveyard before it was a park.

I need to confirm whether this is true or not.

How do I most efficiently do that?

Thank all y'all for reminding me that public library researchers exist. I should have thought of that!

I just talked to the coolest woman at the library's research center.

Her mom did gravestone rubbings in old gold mining graveyards in California back in the day! She knew about the carnival worker graveyard in the south part of the state!

There's like 89 cemeteries/defunct cemeteries INSIDE MY CITY!

She was the first random person I reached!

The research department will look into it for me!

SUPPORT YOU LOCAL LIBRARY!

Man, I bet that librarian is vibrating in place she's so psyched to be asked about this.

You just made her day.

This is awesome! Also:

There's a former park in my nearest city that has between 800 and 2,000 unmarked graves in it, up to at least 1844 and maybe as late as the 1860s. It was transferred to the city in the 1870s as a park, with explicit instructions that nothing should ever be built on it.

The city built a library on it in 1951.

The point here: sooooo many parks are old cemeteries, and a lot of them get forgotten to the point that the dead are not respectfully treated (e.g. memorialized, properly moved, etc.) when someone decides to build something on that "open ground."

Thank you for taking the time to look into yours!

When my town were relocating the library into an old church, my grandma went along to the public meeting, and asked what they planned to do about the graves. The council staff told her that there were no graves on the site because it had never been licenced for burial. She insisted that she remembered burials at the church when she was a little girl, back in the 20s.

So when the builders found the first grave, they had to down tools for several weeks while archaeologists came in to catalogue them all, because apparently 100 years is short enough to lose a graveyard

I’m going to unlearn shame *bursts into tears and beats my head against a brick wall*

Concentration camp.

They built a concentration camp.

I don't think words can describe what this other than genocide.

oh and that gap in my resume is when i was digging my own grave

the dirt under my nails is - yeah. it won't wash out. although that's actually from when i dug myself out again. i suppose success and defeat can look the same in a mirror.

This is a picture of a cis woman, y’all are literally just racist

TERFS DID THIS TO ME ON TUMBLR. I got an anon telling me I passed terribly. like. I'm literally cis and by telling me I do not pass, you are showing that you view womanhood in ways that are not only regressive for trans folk but also regressive and harmful for the very cis women you claim to support and prioritize. They uphold the very beauty and gender performative standards they seek to diminish. Fuck terfs.

Daily reminder that TERFism has roots in both fascism (eugenics, patriarchal gender performance) and white supremacy (euronormative standards of beauty and biology) and is by no means a viable form of feminism.

abandonment issues are sooooo funny. "i'm scared people will leave me so i push them away first to avoid being hurt" girl the prophecy is self fulfilling!!! the sabotage is coming from within!!! you forgot about the cycle!!!!!!!!!

"if you tell people they should leave you alone then they'll leave you alone" ummm actually if they love me enough they'll stay. this time for sure.

When South Africa dismantled apartheid, it did not end with the expulsion of all white South Africans. They became part of the new South Africa, just without the criminal discriminatory oligarchic powers the apartheid goverment had. When Bolivia recognized its indigenous heritage and became a plurinational state, it did not mean that people of European descent were expelled in masse. It meant the recognition of the previously discriminated indigenous and mestizo people of Bolivia and the beginning of a path of integration and revalidation.

What I mean is that it's ridiculous to think that decolonization inherently means mass suffering and relocation, that's what colonization does. Decolonization is recognizing the crimes of colonization, but more importantly, material, political and social steps to give power and self-determination to the exploited native people who were victims of colonialism and imperialism.

In multicultural societies, you don't go like in that Peter Griffin meme with a skin tone chart and saying 'well, you go back to Europe, you go back to Africa, you stay here'. You build a new society on the paradigm of dignity for exploited people and equality under the law. People are acting like this is some sort of fantastic utopia instead of real initiatives that were done in living memory, with successes and failures, as all such initiatives have. One must ask why are some so insistent that multicultural societies can't thrive, especially when for most of history, societies were indeed like that. Consider why you think like that.

I could NOT be in feudal Japan. Here are some reasons why

*opens the oven after preheating to 400*

This is Margaret when she opens that email

The Underworld

Monster

whatever it is you need good luck for, i wish you good luck. tests, job, home life, social life, mental health, physical health, love life. you name it. this post is wishing you good luck on all of that.

yall know that post with all of those absolutely stunning crochet flowers? well i just bought a pattern from the shop those are from and Good Fucking Lord.

I was expecting a like a Chart or two, maybe some written instructions. not Seventy Seven full color pages for One type of rose.

this was like 8 bucks???? obviously i did some redacting but Good Lord. if you are even a little bit into crochet go throw money at this absolute Mad woman its Definitely worth it.

back at it almost an entire year later. and i can now confirm she's this insane in all of her patterns (there's over 84 of them????) (<compliment)

she has also made a website since the first post (link) the patterns are cheaper there and the payment is handled through PayPal (and I'm guessing she gets a Way bigger cut of the money than with her Etsy so maybe check out the site instead) of the Etsy listed above.

also quick faq below the cut bc idk, supporting small businesses ran by WOC is important and this lady is rad. I just genuinely love her products and want more people to know about them.

I was window shopping and well. If you were hesitant about trying a patty pattern bc money is Tight for everyone rn. Here's one that just straight up free because she discontinued the pattern collection it was a part of.

also she has a new website and it's just nice :)