By far the funniest transition timelines are the ones from trans men where the "before" picture is some teeny little guy with sad baby seal eyes and the "after" picture looks like Kratos
woop there it is
@thebibliosphere and I have spoke about this a fair bit on the @theayesphere with traditional publishers factoring in twitter/instagram followings into whether they take an author on or not.
At least once a month someone will write “anarchism isn’t about no hierarchies, anarchism is about no UNJUST hierarchies” and will then name the most extremely fucked up hierarchy as their example of a ‘just’ hierarchy.
Like, no, comrade, the doctor-patient relationship is NOT a just hierarchy. The power that doctors have to not just give advice but to decide for us which care we get and which care we don’t get is deeply fucked up. Speak to a woman and you will get on average like 4 stories about medical abuse by sexist doctors who didn’t want to google ‘endometriosis’. Then speak to trans people. Then speak to fat people. Then speak to people of color. Then speak to a disabled person. I promise you will be horrified by what marginalized people endure under the doctor-patient hierarchy. Our bodies should definitely be ours to control.
#sorry but like. no anarchism IS about no hierarchies actually #like yeah thats the whole. thing
Yeah this!
I don’t know where this weird ‘no unjust hierarchies’ mantra comes from but it sure as hell isn’t anarchist to me. Like, a core part of anarchism is the knowledge that the existence of hierarchy creates the injustice.
Part of me worries that this is mainly pushed by people who don’t want to question their own hierarchical power. They want to be a teacher with power over students
without questioning their own ability to abuse power and how having
someone in power impacts the dynamics of everything that happens.
They want to be a parent with power over children
without questioning their own ability to abuse power and how having
someone in power impacts the dynamics of everything that happens.
They want to be president/chair/head of their organization, they want to be a doctor or therapist or social worker with power over others…
Having a job or role under capitalism often involved having power and being trained to see that power as normal or even necessary, and so it’s tempting to try to justify that, to think “Well, this is a just hierarchy and I am rightly at the top of it” but that’s how we become capable of rationalizing our oppression of others.
Reminder that autistic childhood stimming doesn't always go away and become "acceptable" or calm.
So this is a loving shout out to adult Autistics who:
- Hand chew or suck
- Arm or hand flap
- Bang their heads and may require safety items such a helmet
- Spin
- Jump
- Toe walk
- Vocal stimming that isn't "socially acceptable"
- Hair pull or chew
- Skin pick
- Lip chew
And all the many ways that you regulate.
I love you so much. ❤️
having a favorite character from a piece of media you haven’t seen but one of your mutuals is unwell about is like. that’s my nepo blorbo from the gifsets,
some time ago i introduced the phrase "food pact" to my friends as a shorthand for "i'll go make and eat food if you also make and eat food" and ever since then ive just started incorporating more pacts into my life. stay hydrated pact. stretch break pact. stop doomscrolling and go to bed pact. we need to bring this back in vogue more people should be making pacts imo
free him!! 😢
What did he DO? Why must he be blindfolded? SIR!? What crimes have your eyes committed?
Oo I work next to that site :D
Here's a nice explanation I found on Reddit (have not fact checked myself)
softtdaisy