safe as life

fancyfade:

along the lines of my last reblog

disability activism is Shit ™ if the argument is “well we’re just like you”

if you argue “disabled people have value because we can contribute to capitalism” you put down people who cannot work or contribute to capitalism (and there were always be disabled people who cannot work)

You can’t say “we autistics are good because we can experience empathy” because low or no empathy people (autistic and allistic) exist and deserve respect. You can’t say “Respect me because i have a mental illness but i’m not like, cr*zy or anything I don’t hear voice lol” because people who hallucinate and people w/ psychosis exist and deserve respect

you can’t say “disabled people are good because we are just like abled people except (blank)” because there will always be disabled people who are not like abled people, who cannot do the things abled people can do. Respect for disabled people should not be based on meeting an abled standard. It should be given because we’re people, not because we act a certain way.

utheneran:

mental illness is a spectrum of experiences which are constructed and categorized by social institutions as diagnoses

diagnoses aren’t sacred, essential, platonic entities floating in space somewhere, they’re descriptions of patterns of experiences

if your self-described experiences correspond with a a particular pattern, then congratulations, that’s how the process of diagnosis works

you may note that this is kind of fuzzy and ambiguous: that’s because that’s how mental illness works and why your medical metaphors are incoherent. there is no chemical/physical test for mental illness because it is entirely descriptive of self-reported symptoms, so stop acting like there’s some hoop people have to jump through to be Really Mentally Ill other than “having corresponding experiences” (which is really loose anyway because mental illness isn’t clearly delineated, because, again, it is not an a priori category that inherently exists)

augustinesycamore:

white people are racist by default (in the united states as well as other countries). are you white? congrats, you’re racist, and here’s the explanation:

you grew up in a racist society -> you were socialized to be racist thanks to racism being a dominant ideology -> you benefit from racism -> you’re racist no matter how much u think you’re not.

unlearning it is going to be a constant battle and u will never unlearn it fully. accept this. it is ingrained in you as a result of your upbringing and the media you’ve consumed. the sooner you come to terms with your own racism, the sooner u can better yourself. recognize the problem in yourself instead of setting yourself apart from those “other” white people.

ai-firestarter:

love-order-chaos-repeat:

officialcommanderlexa:

i can’t read or watch anything that isn’t gay anymore and it’s really frustrating because like 1% of media is gay

And within that 1% the lesbians are dying. The bisexuals are unhappy. The transgender people are dying and unhappy. The aces are non existent.

And, though it’s not quite as big a problem as the above, a lot of the gay guys are boring and/or diversity space fillers.

look i love hamilton as much as the next guy but ,, i mean ,,,, yall gotta chill and remember that theres a huge difference then the CHARACTER a.ham and the ACTUAL PERSON a.ham,,,,, for example, character!jefferson is Quirky and real person!jefferson Literally Owned Hundreds Of Slaves ,,, u kno ?? just,, recognize the divide n stop glorifying these ppl jfc

p.s. pls stop calling the founding fathers ‘daddy’ 

I guess tumblr really doesn’t care if it isn’t about the US

creztas:

There’s a migration crisis going on right now in Europe, about 350.000 people from Syria, Afghanistan, etc have come to Europe through rubber boats (which aren’t safe at all) because there is war going on in their countries. About two thousand people have already died at sea. The governments all over Europe don’t know what to do and are basically fighting about who gets more refugees and who doesn’t. These people, they need help. They are camping at the borders (Calais - between France and the UK and Greece p.ex.) and they need help - clothes, food, everything that’s useful they need it, and most importantly, they need a new home.

Here are some websites to raise donations:

Donate to help the children of Syria - Unicef 

Aylan Kurdi

Child Refugee Crisis 

If You Want to Volunteer to Help 

Refugee Council 

Donate to Save the Children 

Médecins Sans Frontieres

theunitofcaring:

dystopian novel premise:

A high flying Silicon Valley startup has invented Good Dollars, debit cards which can be restricted so that the money can only be spent “ethically” - that is, on products that have been whitelisted by the person who set up the card. Employers start paying their employees in Good Dollars instead of regular dollars so they can control how their workers spend their paychecks. 

Most employers blacklist alcohol and cigarettes, because they don’t feel it’s appropriate for you to spend your paycheck on those. Some employers, being especially socially conscious, blacklist movie theatres and swimming pools, while others make it impossible to spend your money on potato chips or soda. The CEO of Walmart really hates lobsters so Walmart paychecks are restricted so you can’t buy lobster. The CEO of Amazon has a beef with steak, so if you work for Amazon your Good Dollars won’t let you buy any.

Plot twist: like all great dystopian novels, this one is just “what if we treated everyone the way we treat poor people”. Kansas lawmakers have banned welfare recipients from spending their money on movies and swimming pools. Missouri tried to ban food stamps recipients from spending the food stamps on steak, seafood, and cookies. Wisconsin is debating a ban on buying “unhealthy” food with food stamps.

So if you’re in the mood to be a brave teenage protagonist, boy have I got a system for you to take on.