Person with housemates can study.
Person who has spent all their cash on rent and food still has a place to get out of the house and do something interesting.
Cool community classes and community art shows.
ESL tutoring.
Tax prep and forms.
tbh fuck anyone who says a single bad thing about libraries
Not content I normally reblog but libraries are super important and our world would be diminished without them.
This is what a real, qualified OBGYN will tell you about what women feel when they get an abortion
Dr. Willie Parker, who is trained as a gynecologist and OBGYN, is a hero for the pro-choice movement because he’s honest about the undiscussed aspects of getting (or not getting) an abortion. Watch how he gives a consultation.
That last statement about regret is so important, because so many people don’t understand what it is or what causes it. Anti-choicers exploit this by manipulating pregnant people and creating doubt, which only increases the likelihood of regret, no matter what decision the pregnant person makes. You know what is best for you, even if it takes some time to figure it out.
none of your faves are unproblematic. none of your friends or family are unproblematic. you are not unproblematic. there is literally no point during the process of learning about social justice type stuff and unlearning internalized bullshit and dismantling power systems at which you magically become enlightened and unproblematic. it does not exist. there is no tangible finish line, there is only endless, arduous work and it’s hard but it needs to be done.
Saw this today at the local bookstore
Ow ow ow ow ow
Written by Tyler Ford.
I looked it up… So I could print it off.. And tape it to my door… To read every. freakin’. morning.@prasiolit @yandere-hinata-shoyo @lorklandandcrew @ruza-chan
Donald Trump attempted to woo supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders during his Republican National Committee acceptance speech Thursday night — pointing to Sanders’ past criticisms of Hillary Clinton and reminding voters that the primary was “rigged” against the Vermont Senator. Sanders was having none of it.
Things White Folks( Who Keep Asking What To Do) Can Do
1. Open your mouth. When you’re with your family, your friends, your coworkers, do not let racist statements slide without *at the very least* saying you disagree. Yes, I know it’s uncomfortable. Yes, I know you don’t want to stir up trouble. Yes, I know your cousin/uncle/friend is a police officer. Yes, I know your grandma is from a different era. Do it anyway. Consistently.
2. Attend a rally or vigil. Especially if you’re middle aged. White, middle aged folks get more respect from police, and can make rallies safer just by being in attendance. It also shows city officials that it’s not just black folks and college kids that care about this. When you’re there, don’t center yourself. Listen respectfully.
Oh, and bring your kids.
Yes, I know it’s hot/boring/time consuming/scary/overwhelming. Make them go anyway. Guess what? My kids don’t like going either, but showing up is important.3. And while we’re talking about your kids, let them know what’s up. Teach your white kids how to behave if they ever encounter the police with my kids. Frankly, tell them to keep their authority issues and the liberal indignation in check, and just, “Yes Sir” and “No Ma'am” the situation until it’s over and my kids are safe.
4.If you see a black person pulled over by the police, keep an eye on the situation if you can. We live near a street where police have started pulling folks over more often. When I see it happen I put a leash on one of the dogs, walk down there, and let the dog sniff around while I watch the interaction. It’s a pain in the ass. I’ve already had a police officer ask me about it. It’s awkward. Do it anyway.
5. Email your police department, your city council, or your mayor. Call them. Ask them about police oversight in your city. Let them know you care and you vote.
You can google their email addresses or telephone numbers *right now* and dash off a quick email or leave a voice mail.6. Think twice before you call the police. I’m not saying don’t call if you or someone else is in imminent danger, but be aware that the police coming does not make everyone safer.
7. Don’t expect black folks to jump at the chance to educate you on how to help or congratulate you for caring.
This is everything. Especially the last part. Thank you sista.
Good advice on what to do when you find yourself near a racist mouthy twat who is spouting out their crap at some unfortunate person.
NEVER engage the perpetrator. He (and it is usually he) is looking for confrontation. Instead speak to the person he is abusing. Say hello. Introduce yourself. Shake his or her hand. And just stand with them. Keep talking. About anything. Weather. Bus schedules. Football. This kind of bullying never works against a group of people having a conversation. Usually a single person travelling or a mom with a kid or maximum, two women are targeted.
Form a group of people with and around them if you can. Don’t tell them they are not alone. Just don’t let them be alone. I speak from experience. Once, I encountered a young girl wearing a hijab being abused as a terrorist by a drunk man on a train. I just went and sat beside her and started a conversation with her. After a while, the dude lost interest. I had a lovely chat with a young student from Qatar. She wanted to study literature while her dad was only prepared to pay for engineering or commerce as he wanted her to join the family business. It helped her feel safe and it expanded my horizons.
This is known in behavioral psychology as “non-complimentary behavior”; by not fueling the aggression of another person and you can flip the whole script of all their expectations, and without any footholds for their aggression (like direct provocation and confrontation/conflict) to launch into further tirades against, the aggressor can’t continue their angry scene-building. The more people who participate in script-flipping, the more successful it gets, as in this post you see with the advice to form a protective group between the bigot and their target for that very purpose.
There’s an NPR podcast called Invisibilia which goes into detail about how it works and what sort of people rely on it everyday professionally and for survival alike, in their Flipping the Script episode.
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elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS ONLY ONE PART OF THE PUZZLE!
Summer means poor children are not getting 2 free meals a day at school so if you’re able, please consider donating to your local food bank.
This is so helpful for anyone that needs it!
here is a website where you can find similar programs based on your location.
These links are so helpful and I’m glad to spread them!
But for those of you in a position I still urge you to donate to your local food bank. Their supplies run low in summer as not everyone has access to or knows about programs like these.
Friendly reminder that 1200 calories is the recommended amount for a 5 year old
this hit me.
another fact is that 500 calories isn’t even enough for a new born.
why did I go so long convinced that going over 500 in a day was the end of the world?
Another friendly reminder that the United States used 1,000 calorie diets as torture for political prisoners and justified it using the diet industry.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/bush-torture-memos-commer_n_188190.html
In a footnote to a May 10, 2005, memorandum from the Office of Legal Council, the Bush attorney general’s office argued that restricting the caloric intake of terrorist suspects to 1000 calories a day was medically safe because people in the United States were dieting along those lines voluntarily.
“While detainees subject to dietary manipulation are obviously situated differently from individuals who voluntarily engage in commercial weight-loss programs, we note that widely available commercial weight-loss programs in the United States employ diets of 1000 kcal/day for sustain periods of weeks or longer without requiring medical supervision,” read the footnote. “While we do not equate commercial weight loss programs and this interrogation technique, the fact that these calorie levels are used in the weight-loss programs, in our view, is instructive in evaluating the medical safety of the interrogation technique.”
Another another friendly reminder that the Minnesota Starvation Experiment subjected adult men who were VOLUNTEERS to 1,560 calorie diets and the psychological effects were so profound that one volunteer cut three of his own fingers off and could not remember why.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment
These men were volunteers who knew exactly what they would be going through and when it would end, and who believed they were doing it for a good and moral reason (the research was used to help rehabilitate victims of starvation and famine at the end of WWII).
And these are the things we are expected to engage in FOREVER to stay at a “healthy” weight.
Reading about the Minnesota Starvation experiment was my wake-up call. It was what kicked me out of my eating disorder. The guy missing three fingers, whatever his name was, he was the last straw for me.
Scared me so fucking bad I stopped restricting my food that day, and never went back to it.