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“i can’t do this anymore” says a girl who is not only going to do it but do it well

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photographer: Sugar McD // model: Jordan Underwood (they/he)

#fat art

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Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post

#grandmas #I mean my grandma was a chain smoking bitter catholic bitch #but in general yes #don't get me wrong I loved my grandma #but she let her bitterness rule the last 40 years of her life #and even though my mom says she was an amazing and kind and funny woman when she was younger #the moment my grandfather left her she turned into a cranky bitter bitch #and that's the woman I grew up knowing #but her best friend did teach me to knit and crochet sooooo

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Palestinian journalists in Northern Ghazzah asked a local, Abou Salah, for water. He returned with a full meal for them.

Every day I fall in love with my people all over again.

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delighted by the fact that this staff favorites table just holds all of the locked tomb books. emily, you’re a real one.

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googling ‘jobs for autistic people’ and realising that everyone still thinks autistic people are either sheldon cooper or really tall toddlers

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"A cishet person must have made this, no queer person would ever portray queerness in this way."

"This artist must be white."

"No SA victim would ever handle the subject in this way."

"No woman would ever write women like this."

"This creator is obviously neurotypical. Everyone with autism/ADHD/depression understands-"

Nope.

People who make these blanket statements are very frequently proven wrong when the creator comes out as a member of that group. And even when they aren't proven wrong, even in cases where the creator isn't from the group in question, actual members of the group who don't fit whatever arbitrary criteria are being expressed will see these statements and feel excluded and erased.

Not everyone in your group is going to share your experiences. No single individual gets to personally decide what does or doesn't count as a "valid" expression of trauma or being part of a particular group, and creators are also not obligated to out themselves in order to "prove" their validity.

If something doesn't resonate with you, all that means is that it doesn't resonate with you. You don't have to like it. But you don't get to decide what it means to someone else.

#representation

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"I cant draw" then do it bad who gives a fuck.....

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#I voted Inuyasha #but you forgot sailor moon #and ranma 1/2

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Conversation between me, and another high educated Jewish women whose opinions I respect

Her: What's missing here are the facts. If we stuck to the facts there wouldn't be so much intensity surrounding this issue. Me: But you and I are both highly educated Jewish women, and we can't even agree on the facts regarding the history of Palestine as a place name, ethnic identifier, and nation. If we can't even agree on those facts, how on earth can facts help anyone move forward?

There's the question. Not just for Jews, but for everyone involved in, or concerned with this conflict. How do we move forward if multiple sides of the room dispute the veracity of such basic statements as:

-Jews are a globally oppressed minority ethnic group, the hatred of which is deeply embedded in Western thought and rhetoric.

-The Naqba was a period of ethnic cleansing in which the government and military of the new State of Israel expelled Palestinian Arabs from their homes and property; a dispossession and a series of events which continue to traumatize and negatively impact the lives and livelihoods of Palestinians.

-The Holocaust was a traumatic event in the history of the Jewish people, the legacy of which is embedded in the psyches, world views, and collective trauma of the Jewish people, and invariably impacts how this group views global issues.

-Palestinian Arabs had a full developed sense of identity and statehood before the British Empire fucked off, and made their discomfort with increasing Jewish emigration clear to the British before the outbreak of the Second World War.

-Jews had nowhere to go before, during, or really, after the Holocaust; and the governments of many Arab States ethnically cleaned their own ancient Jewish communities in retribution for the creation of the State of Israel.

-The State of Israel does not exist because the Holocaust happened, or as an "apology" for said event.

THIS POST COMPRISES A SERIES OF RHETORICAL QUESTIONS MEANT TO MAKE US APPRECIATE THE DEPTHS OF THE DISCURSIVE PROBLEMS HERE; NOT A POST FOR "DISCOURSE" AND HATEFUL, AGGRESSIVE SHIT.

If you feel you have to do that, copy & paste into your own separate post.

#this is also why I largely stay quiet about it #it's complex and not my circus #I have private opinions #and I also see how there's no clear 'right' or 'wrong' answer #with the exception that killing is wrong #I have friends on other social media sites who think I take one side or another #or worse have no side #and I'm just here like #I'm a waspy-ish person #None of this is my lane #I just want everyone I love to be safe #and all of their loved ones to be safe #and killing people is the opposite of that

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Do you keep a list of changes you would make if you were made responsible for a remake of Buffy the Vampire Slayer or are you weird?

#less misogyny #less punishing sexuality #especially female sexuality

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goat fight. non-negotiable.

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Do u ever read a friend’s fic and it’s like holy shit how do you consider me qualified to talk to you?

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Shocking how many people don���t know that hens lay non-fertilized eggs and think the yolk they’re eating is a baby chicken