do you ever look at Successful™ people your age and feel like you’re just floating your way thru life like a very bewildered and directionless bumblebee

TESSA THOMPSON & BRIE LARSON ACE Comic Con Panel, 2019

This made me so fucking angry I have to inflict it on all of you.

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I reblogged one of these but this one is even better.

Here’s your reminder that the US doesn’t have an official language.

This is such a fascinating concept that writers can apply to their world-building.

This is also an interesting look at which immigrant groups settled where

mutuals do this it's really fun

give your pets a kiss from me

@tinygay-haught Rey (left age 5) & Chanel (age 14) are sending you all the love right back!

2020 AND LGBT MEDIA

#captain sass

carol is such a sarcastic bastard

PLEASE let me love you

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This is THE most important vote

Things aren’t over quite yet: Both Georgia Senate races are headed to a January 2021 runoff that could decide Senate control.

This is where we are: Democrats (including the 2 independent senators Sanders and King) currently hold 48 seats. Republicans currently hold 50 seats.

If Democrats gain the 2 seats from the runoffs (Ossoff and Warnock) we will be able to TIE the Senate 50-50. In which case, Kamala Harris, the VP, will tie-break votes in favor of the Democrats, therefore giving us a “majority” in the Senate.

I cannot stress enough how important this is for Democrats. We need to get both Ossoff and Warnock in, otherwise Biden will have a very difficult time getting anything done in office over the next 4 years.

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More good sources of volunteering opportunities, including opportunities to volunteer directly with/for Ossoff’s and Warnock’s teams can be found at the Read More at the bottom of this post.

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We can do this. We can flip the Senate and take back the next 4 years.

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I don’t even think Christmas shouldn’t be all over the public space like it is. Clearly it does make a lot of people happy and I lowkey I actually kind of like it too! (Sort of. But I also don’t.) So, continue covering your town square or wherever with trees and lights, I’m not saying not to. What I *am* asking for is:

- Acknowledge that Christmas is not a universal holiday and that some people either feel negatively about it or just don’t celebrate it. Stop being offended by this.

- Stop forcing people to participate. Don’t make your Jewish employees wear Christmas outfits, don’t make schoolkids be part of Christmas plays, etc.

- Stop pushing back when Jews are honest with you about how they feel about it.

- Stop deflecting to talk about how Christmas traditions are actually pagan in origin. We know, and also it’s fully irrelevant to our issues with Christmas.

- Recognize things from other cultures. Or at very least don’t *prevent* members of other cultures from expressing them. If your employee wants to put up a menorah, let them. If your coworker wants to add a Chanukah decoration to your office don’t take it down when they’re not looking because it “messes up the Christmas spirit” or whatever.

- Recognize things from different cultures at other times of the year too. Let your Jewish students and employees take days off for the fall holidays. Maybe even consider merchandise or decorations for those holidays too!

- Stop with the double standards. You don’t get to say that a menorah is religious and a Christmas tree isn’t. Either both of them are or neither of them are. A menorah actually is a ritual object but a) plenty of secular Jews use them and b) I don’t think most Christians know that, they just think of Judaism (and therefore Jewish culture) as “a religion” and Christian culture as normal. When people claim to object to Chanukah (the holiday most widely — and often exclusively — celebrated by secular Jews) because it’s “religious,” they’re actually objecting because it’s non-normative.

- Listen when someone is telling you about their experiences with and thoughts about hegemonic culture. Don’t argue that actually it’s fine becaude Christmas is secular or pagan or whatever. Trust people about the experiences they’ve had and how things impact them.

(Yes, non-Jews can reblog this.)

I wholeheartedly agree with this, but I feel like I should add an experience I had overseas in connection with Christmas.

I was in Hong Kong a few years back with my grandparents for Christmas and every night since we’d arrived at the hotel we were staying at, they would hold big Christmas dinner parties. Only people who stayed at the hotel were invited.

Anyways, so this hotel went above and beyond for Christmas. Decorations, entertainment. You name it. All different types of people had gathered for these dinners. All ethnicities, religions, etc. Halfway through the dinner everyone was chanting Christmas carols and laughing and mingling.

When people say Christmas brings out the magic and goodness in the world they don’t joke. Even as an atheist I can see that. I find that nowadays most people don’t celebrate Christmas for the religious part of it, but more so for family and friends. Of course I’m sure religion plays a big part for some people though.

But anyways, that’s just a small story on my part.

I think it’s good you bring this up, because the “Christmas brings magic and goodness into the world” so often goes hand in hand with “and look at those miserly Jews who won’t join us in the spirit of Christmas, they must lack joy and magic and cheer and goodwill and generosity.”

I’m not saying that you’re saying this. I don’t think you are. But the “Christmas as universal time of joy and goodwill” absolutely has a flip side and absolutely has been a concept that has operated as part of antisemism.