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avguis · 2 years

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PLS REBLOG IF YOU SEE | daily post of desperation from your’s truly but sleeping in the car in this awful nevada heat isn’t doing my sanity any favors.

if you could help a black gay girl and her family get rooms and not sleep in the hotel parking lot, that be swell. we’re approaching almost a year of being homeless and i would love to have at least the illusion of stability

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avguis · 2 years

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There’s a particular attitude I often see on the internet that goes something like “If you aren’t part of a particular marginalized group, then you could never understand their experience, so don’t pretend to relate.” And while obviously you’re never going to relate to every aspect of that identity unless you are also of that identity, I feel like this attitude really diminishes opportunities for finding kinship and bonding in similar experiences even if those experiences aren’t exactly the same and/or are the result of different identities.

For example, I’m white and neurodivergent, and I was talking to a Black neurotypical friend about masking, and how I feel like I have to change the entire way I present myself in order to not be considered weird in public. She responded with “Oh, some of that sounds kind of like code-switching— how I have to switch away from using AAVE in white-dominated settings in order to be accepted.” And then we bonded over how frustrating and ridiculous it is that AAVE and stimming are both considered unacceptable in “professional” settings.

Another time, a straight Jewish friend was telling me about a book she had just finished reading, which was written by a Jewish author and had a Jewish main character. She was saying that it was really nice to read a book written by a Jewish author, because even when gentile authors do their research and write a pretty accurate Jewish character, they never quite feel Jewish— you can always tell the author was a gentile. And I said “Oh that sounds kind of like when I read queer characters written by straight authors— you can always tell the author was straight even if they do their research and get things fairly right. So even though I’m happy when any book features queer characters, it’s really especially nice to read queer characters written by queer authors.” And we bonded over this similar experience, and we were both excited that the other understood even if we were coming to this experience from different angles, and then we swapped book recommendations. This conversation is also a great example of when that internet attitude DOES apply— when someone outside of a particular group is trying to understand that group’s entire experience well enough to accurately write the world as seen through their eyes. They’re never quite going to get it right, and that’s ok! It just means it’s important to also have Own Voices authors writing those types of stories also.

Sometimes it seems like people who have been in internet circles exhibiting this attitude for too long are afraid to ever try to relate to the experiences of anyone in any groups other than their own for fear of causing offense, which is honestly pretty counterproductive. Understanding each other and bonding across groups should be the goal! Relating to each other is not a bad thing!

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avguis · 2 years

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#leopika #kurapika #leorio #hunter x hunter #hxh #ghibli redraw #fanart

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avguis · 2 years

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"are human rights being compromised?"

they're killing wildlife for profit. who cares if they get shot out there? it's what they deserve.

Okay, so I don't want to go too deeply into this because this is just meant to be an animal media blog.

Poaching seems to conjure an image of a greedy villain, profiteering off of $90 000 per kilo of rhino horn*. Poaching is not *just* rhinos and leopards and tigers being killed - poaching is *any* illegal hunting or catching of animals or plants.

If your children are starving you aren't going to think 'oh but what about the poor animal it might go extinct', you're going to go and kill that giant sable antelope because it contains enough meat to feed your entire family for weeks. You will kill that rhino for $5 000 per kilo of horn* in order to send your kids to school so they at least have a chance of a better life than you. If you're living in a rural village and the nearest clinic is *several hours away*, for which there is only ONE doctor who tends to the ENTIRE AREA and the waiting line is SEVERAL DAYS LONG so you go to the local witch doctor who tells you that they can cure your dying spouse with crushed pangolin scales you will kill that pangolin. If your community relies on mealies for food but the elephants keep on trampling them, you and your village are going to do whatever you need to to drive off those elephants - even kill them.

If you can't find it in yourself to have sympathy for people in difficult situations with few options, then what about the people caught in the crossfire? What of that seven year old child the article mentioned, shot in the leg because they wandered too close? What of that disabled man shot dead because he didn't know he was in a restricted area? What of people who's communities are forcefully relocated several times over?

Sure, there are people who involved in poaching only because they are rich and greedy but those are not the people shoot to kill will affect (and even then, death penalty is inefficient in that it will cost more than a life imprisonment.) Shoot to kill also affects ability to find other poachers — if you shot five poachers, you've just shot five poachers. Arrest five poachers and you might uncover information on ten more — and perhaps even get enough information to dismantle an entire operation.

If the reason many people kill animals are because they are starving then the solution is simple: give them food. Give them housing. Give them clean water and education. Give them jobs.

You'll notice how the articles mention that shoot to kill doesn't reduce poaching. You know what does? Ecotourism.

'During the five years that the project was externally funded the community experienced a significant improvement in their standard of living. During each year of the project, more than 2,000 Japanese tourists visited the community generating sufficient income for the families involved to enable them to meet their monthly cost of food, and when operating at capacity the project employed a significant number of community members as drivers, cooks, gardeners, housekeepers, and in a few instances in managerial roles such as temporary wildlife rangers managing the forest around the villages.

Correspondingly, there was a decline in poaching. The community generally understood animals were a major tourism drawcard and needed to be protected to continue attracting tourists. This view was common throughout the kampongs (villages)... Noting that some members of the community continued to play an active role in many wildlife and forest conservation programs within the adjacent reserve ' (unfortunately this project did fail because the funding for professional managers was withdrawn and the people of the village were not taught adequately how to manage everything by themselves, which lead to a steep decline in visitors and thus they had to go back to poaching to survive.)

Ecotourism is wonderful and is a great help towards both people and animals.

Obviously, these are complex issues that need way more investigation and perspectives than I have the time for or can offer but I’m going to close it here; you can read the articles and hopefully they can give more information and a broader starting point to this issue.

This is all I'm going to be saying on this to anons. If anyone wants to discuss this further, you are welcome to message me, leave a comment in the notes or send an ask off anon. Anon hate will be blocked.

*notice the discrepancy between the earnings of the people who kill the poached animal and the people who sell the poached product to the final buyer.

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avguis · 2 years

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i feel like i could die right here

#hxh #hunter x hunter #killugon #gon #killua #killua x gon #fanart #hunter x hunter fanart

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avguis · 2 years

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I tumblr! My name is Elaine. You can see me in this picture! That is me holding the sign, HI! Well my hubby said that if this gets 1 MILLION notes, he will buy me a horse. I would love a horse I grew up on a farm where I rode and ate horses til i was 15 when I moved. I have not seen a horse since, not even a picture! Only one painting I painted in 7th grade. My husband obviously thinks this is going to be an impossible task thats why I am taking this on the interwebs where i can get likes. I have 5,000 on facebook so I am almost there. I want brown horse with some white. I will braid the hair. Thanks so much everyone! Please help me achieve this! :) God Bless

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avguis · 2 years

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