Ahhh I’m so glad that was intelligible even with all the phone typos :) good luck! You can totally do it.

It definitely is! Body-positive tumblr reakly helped me for a while and this is cheesy but was an exercise that I did for about a month. Every day I would look at myself in the mirror for 5? 10? Minutes. I’m not sure, I didn’t time it. And I named the things I like about myself. Not my personality, not my face if I…

For real, though, I’m pretty sure this is where we’re headed. Fifty bucks says that presidential candidates will be from or will go on a reality TV show prior to election.

Big Bird has something to say to you.

So, this is what I mean by it depending on the conversation. If your children are being demoralized by some race-related comments or attitudes, that’s not a good thing. But I would worry about labeling it “racism” as it can serve to be immediately invalidating.

Wait who is saying that PoC can’t discriminate against each other? Because anti-blackness is or has been a prominent feature in a lot of non-black PoC rhetoric in the US.

Well... I don’t think that it’s that “all racism is defined as systemic.” Words do different things in different conversations. I think that we’re having more conversations where it doesn’t make sense to use “racism” to only mean “saying mean things to someone on the basis of race regardless of power asymmetries.”

bless :’)

I’m gonna have to read more about this, thanks! Honestly I don’t know any names for any of these things, I just call it “why do we think that a dead dude’s intent matters every single time that we talk about a text”

Well but “unrequested” is kind of not how this works. I don’t think that Pope Francis is like “I hereby forgive all women who don’t want or need forgiveness”

“death of the author” === yesssss

Okay I have NO problem believing that there are lots of assholes who are using tinder to cheat/lead people on/whatevs.

for a cheap manicure that hopefully comes with slightly more reasonable and less illegal worker treatment: the walgreens flagship in Chicago does $10 manicures and they are the shit, I don’t know if that’s a thing in NYC

holy crap

“transplained”

you asserting your value as a human being and as a woman is erasing my cis womanhood!!!!!

Probably stuff like this

I looked at the study and found the part about “any crime” and “violent crime” but not the part where trans women are just as likely to rape as cis men?

Good riddance.

I think you’re kind of right, but I think it’s less that people aren’t counter-culturally queer and more that many people have moved on to other less-white queer spaces. I don’t think it’s that all people left the radical movement and moved into the suburbs with their “same-sex” partner, kids and a dog. I think that…