Celebrating these wins for increasing the diversity of representation in government! đ
Sarah McBride became the USâs first openly trans state senator and the countryâs highest ranking openly trans legislator, as well as Delawareâs first out LGBTQ+ person elected to the stateâs legislature.
Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres, both in New York, became the firstly openly gay Black men elected to Congress.
Cori Bush became the first Black woman elected to Congress in Missouriâs history. She is a community organizer and activist who became involved with politics after Ferguson.
Iman Jodeh, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, became Coloradoâs first Muslim lawmaker.
Shevrin Jones became the first out LGBTQ+ person to be elected to Floridaâs state senate.
Michele Rayner-Goolsby became the first openly queer Black woman elected to the Florida House of Representatives.
Jabari Brisport became New Yorkâs first openly queer state senator of color.
Kim Jackson became Georgiaâs first openly LGBTQ+ state senator, and Torrey Harris became the first out LGBTQ+ member of Tennesseeâs state legislature.
Taylor Small became the first openly trans member of the Vermont State Legislature.
Stephanie Byers became the first openly trans lawmaker ever elected in Kansas and the first trans person of Native American heritage ever elected to any state legislature. Sheâs a member of the Chikasaw Nation.
Hereâs to progress being made at any level, and hereâs to hoping that those elected tonight are only the first of many. â¤ď¸
No! She said she canât get a ânormalâ job and almost every man knowing her face. Are you fucking kidding me? Itâs not because of 'controlâ its because she black listed essentially.
@wavesbecomewings
âDecisions have consequencesâ she has literally talked about being groomed and coerced into the industry. The industry that is inherently abusive and coercive. She is a victim. Victims should not be blamed.
This is also incredibly ignorant to the fact that sheâs basically been blacklisted from every job because of her porn history. It doesnât matter if she gets these qualifications or not because it doesnât mean that anyoneâs going to hire her anyway.
What other job would prevent you from any other employment if you had it?
Doesnât sound very empowering to me.
Exactly! Y'all say that porn is âempoweringâ but when it blacklists women so all they can do is porn itâs all about how âactions have consequencesâ.
I didnât know Mr. T pityed foolâs that werenât woke, but thatâs awesome. #respect
âI think about my father being called âboyâ, my uncle being called âboyâ, my brother, coming back from Vietnam and being called âboyâ. So I questioned myself:âWhat does a black man have to do before heâs given the respect as a man?â So when I was 18 years old, when I was old enough to fight and die for my country, old enough to drink, old enough to vote, I said I was old enough to be called a man. I self-ordained myself Mr. T so the first word out of everybodyâs mouth is âMr.â Thatâs a sign of respect that my father didnât get, that my brother didnât get, that my mother didnât get.â
-Mr. T on the subject of his name
I had no idea he put this much thought into this wow
I wonder why we dont hear about thisâŚ
Mr. Tâs raw power vaporizing the guy in the last gif
Oh my god they did NOT put the Challenger disaster in an American Girl doll advertisementâŚ
Why are people always shocked to find out that American Girl deals with depressing and dark topics? One of the girls, Addy, was born into slavery and gets out of it w her mother. Their entire brand is making young girls aware of other peopleâs struggles and tragedies.
Because they thought American Girl dolls were just dolls and have never even seen one of the books to know they exist.
For the record Iâve actually read the books (including Addyâs) but the reason I find this one really fucked up is that itâs literally ABOUT to happen in this photo. Like⌠dude. The TV is ON. They showed traumatic things in the books, sure, but not in the ADVERTISEMENTS. You know how Samantha visits a sweatshop in one of her books and sees the horrible conditions in there? Imagine if they had an advertisement where they showed that. Putting something in a book and putting something in a cutesy ad is different and youâve GOTTA see that, right?
In 2054 theyâre going to release an American girl from 2001 and sheâs going to be in an ad with the WTC in the background with a calendar that says âSEPTEMBER 11 <3â stamped on it in glitter letters
I get what youâre saying, I do. But my brain is over here exploding because January 1986 I had just turned one. What I loved about American Girl when I was a little girl was that the stories took place forever ago and gave me a personal peek into what life was like A LONG TIME AGO. But, like, this American Girlâs story takes place IN MY LIFE TIMEÂ
Iâm just⌠Iâm not quite sure what to do with this information.Â
Meet Molly was published in 1986, set in 1944. The children in the target demographic wouldnât have a solid grasp of what was going on, but their parents are old enough to remember or at least alive when it happened.
Iâm sure there were grandparents alive during the events featured in Meet Samantha or Kit or Julie in the years they were published.
When looking at these books, you have to take into account who the target audience is. Seeing the Challenger launch may be jarring to adults now. Any of these previous series may have had the same effect on our parents or grandparents when we were reading these as little kids.
I was not alive when the Challenger was launched. But I do have a frame of reference for witnessing a national tragedy on tv. I was old enough to remember watching the WTC buildings go down.
The children this new book is written for are not old enough to have this frame of reference. While this is about the Challenger, it also works though trauma viewed on a live and national scale, which I think is healthy to discuss, especially now that kids are growing up in a time when they are seeing tragedies and disasters on a global scale in real time.
While it may seem harsh to us as adults to think of children reading fictionalized accounts of things we were directly influenced by, itâs important to remember that⌠thatâs the point. We may remember, but they donât. They werenât there. No matter how deep the cultural memory is, they werenât there.
1986 is âa long time agoâ to the readers. Itâs a long time ago to me. But the things they/we can learn about healing as a country and a culture when faced with trauma on such a widespread scale could be invaluable.
That being said, I also understand that adult readers wonât be able to read the books the same way they read the others. And while it is sad to lose that, itâs so important to remember that these books are still doing what theyâve always done.
A friend of mine posted this and tagged my old instagram account, asking me to share it. I figured sharing it here where I actually have a following, would be far better.
Please remember that just because the government is giving into pressure and greed, that doesnât mean that any of this is getting any better, in a lot of ways itâs getting worse. And even if you yourself arenât being as heavily affected anymore, there are people and communities that are.
Stay safe Darling ones, and help others remain safe too.
it was a fucking house phone that i was so stoked to have because it was mine that i kept in my own room and i cannot believe technology has progressed at the speed of FUCKING light to the point where this is a hilarious artifact to have had in like 6th grade and now theres kindergarteners with iphones
How did you know if you dialed the right number
each button made a different tone so the numbers you dialed a lot became a subconscious melody in your head and if you hit the wrong button by accident it would sound like a wrong note in a song you know by heart
i canât beleive that is a legitimate question in my lifetime
Other acceptable answer: the wrong person answers on the other end.
People that get invested in fiction and examine fictional lore need to learn how to tell the difference between which lore is actually important to the series and which lore is an excuse for something.
If Dwarven women are capable of growing beards, but have cultural reasons not to, that is an excuse that they made not to give them beards.
If a female character can only wear skimpy clothing for some given reason, that is an excuse to sexualize her.
If an organization can only be populated men, that is often an excuse to not have to create female characters.
Its all made up. It isnât a foundation of the universe that they canât control. They wrote it to be like that.
âI know the women are treated poorly, but its set in an era when women werenât respectedâ its an entirely fictional world, not a historical documentary. They didnt have to have it set up so women are treated poorly in that culture. Thatâs a decision they made.
i havenât seen this talked about on tumblr a lot but iâve seen it all over twitter so please spread this:
there is a new sex trafficking method of sending women these texts (and these arenât other peopleâs screenshots, these are texts that were sent to ME):
if you receive this kind of text, block the number immediately and do NOT click on the link. it leads to websites that give you the ability to âtrack your package,â when in reality, it is YOUR location being tracked.
i myself almost fell for this and i luckily called my apartmentâs leasing office to check if i had any packages i never picked up and they said no.
spread this please because iâve seen a LOT of others say theyâve received these kinds of texts, so thereâs likely to be more who are unaware itâs a scam.
BOOST
HOLD UP.
THATS WHAT THOSE ARE.
IVE BEEN GETTING THESE AND DELETING THEM FOR WEEKS.
Iâve made a few posts about this but they may have been a bit confusing, so after a few days of tourmoil of emotions and stress, Iâve decided to take some time to talk a little more in-depth about whatâs been going on with the PataxĂł people in Brazil and how we can help them prevent an immense injustice thatâs just about to unfold
First off, an introduction!
The PataxĂł inhabit the areas of the Brazilian states of Bahia and Minas Gerais, and nowadays have a population of about 13.000 people. The PataxĂł were one of the first peoples in Brazil to come in contact with the Portuguese settlers, along with the Tupinakyâia, Potiâwara, TupinambĂĄ, Tabajara and others, and have been resisting colonization and genocide for over 500 years.
After centuries of colonization, the PataxĂł, like many of the other first contact nations previously mentioned, have suffered many losses to their culture, including land sovereignty, language fluency, the right to practice their religion, the right to name their babies with traditional names, and many others.Â
But like the aforementioned nations, the PataxĂł have been doing an amazing job going back their traditional lands, getting to teach their children their traditional language, the PatxohĂŁ (pah- tsho-han) language, strengthening their ties to their spirituality, culture and land.
this a video of the IX PataxĂł games, featuring competitions of traditional sports and practices
The most difficult part about fighting for their land when youâre a first contact nation in Brazil though, is that, as you can see torwards the end of the video, our traditional land is the coast, the beaches and the forests that sorround them (Mata Atlântica). And the thing with the Brazilian coast, is that it is heavilly disputed by multimilionaire hotel companies and construction companies, gringos and rich Brazilians wanting to build summer houses and buy private beaches, basically EVERYONE has their eyes on this land. Because having a hotel in the brazilian tropical coast, or building summer houses by the beach to rent is pretty much guaranteed to bring in a LOT of money. Itâs all about money.
this is a traditional build (kijeme) destroyed last year in results of a conflict with white land owners. many other builds were destroyed in the occasion. The criminals destroyed them in the middle of the night and no one even saw them. Picture posted on
the village leadership
Thyara PataxĂłâs twitter account
So there are enormous and lengthy legal conflicts between the PataxĂł people and the big business owners and private land owners (because of course the Brazilian government doesnât give a shit) over the land. And of course, like all indigenous people, the land is SACRED and fundamental for the PataxĂłâs lives. But sometimes the PataxĂł are able to kick out invaders and rebuild villages* on their regained land.Â
in this video, PataxĂł youtuber TukumĂŁ PataxĂł shows us traditional body paint done by artist JanarĂ´ NuhayÂ
SO HEREâS WHAT HAPPENED A FEW DAYS AGO
An aviation club owner (we still dont know his name) claimed that the entirety of the PataxĂł village Novos Guerreiros, which is a part of the Red Crown reservation to be his, somehow arguing that he owned the land before the PataxĂł reoccupied the area. This process is called Land Repossession.
The village were notified out of the blue that there had been an judicial ruling against them and that they will be FORCED TO LEGALLY AGREE LEAVE THEIR LAND IN FIVE DAYS. So of course everyone is absolutely angered and has started a big campain to fight against this judicial ruling.
Today (27/08/2020) was the deadline the federal police gave them to peacefully leave the land. But of course they resisted and said they werenât going anywhere. After an entire day of arguments between the caciques (chiefs) and village leaderships and the police, the PataxĂł were given a week to leave their land, under the threat to face police brutality. But obviously they still arenât going anywhere.
Pictures of federal police on PataxĂł land earlier today
OVER 2.500 FAMILIES LIVE IN THAT AREA. CHILDREN, ELDERS, PREGNANT WOMEN, PEOPLE WHO WERE BACK TO THRIVING ON THEIR TRADITIONAL LAND. THEYâRE ALL GOING TO BE HOMELESS AND HAVING TO BEG FOR FOOD BECAUSE THEY WONâT BE ABLE TO HUNT FOR FOOD OR HAVE ACCESS TO THE FOOD THEY CULTIVATE. LAND LOSS IS AN IMMENSE LOSS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.
âPataxĂł people againt land repossesion! Land Sovereignty NOWâ picture taken today, posted on Thyara PataxĂłâs twitter account
AND WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP??
There are a few things that the caciques and village leaderships have asked us (who are not PataxĂł) to do:
First, spread the news so that everyone knows whatâs going on, cause the traditional Brazilian media doesnât care to notify this
Fourth, and this is optional, you can donate to their gofundme (originally created to help fight covid-19 related issues). Keep in mind that dollars and euro are worth A LOT in Brazil, so donating 2 dollars is SOMETHING lol:Â https://gogetfunding.com/pataxoyouth/Â .Â
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP AND TIME! PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THIS!
*village is a rough translation of the portuguese âaldeiaâ, which is pretty much our equivalent to what you call in North America a âtribeâ. But the direct translation of tribe (tribo) is considered offensive to us. Anyway, just clarifying.
