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Shifty🤍
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Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.
We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.
Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker
This is also, btw, how the US drastically reduced drunk driving in the US. Telling people they shouldn’t drive when intoxicated made absolutely zero difference. A slogan-and-ad-campaign for “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk!” changed drinking culture. Going after the bystanders is quite often the most effective thing to do in any social change.
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Which cat matches your mood today? Pick a number! 🐾
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Ok, to prove to my husband that this is more a European device than a U.S. device I am going to need more non-US people to reblog this.
Do not reblog for science. No science will be happening. Reblog to help me prove a point!
(If I am right I will show him this poll. If I am wrong he will never know this happened)
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Like we weren't fucking romanticising it as Millenials????
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please don't kill me for this, based on my own experiences but, I wish marginalized white people would listen to the voices of BIPOC especially if they're ALSO marginalized too.
I'm getting tired of dealing with and seeing constant tokenism and microagressions or straight up racism especially from white people. I'm tired of people also speaking over us. I hate how queer spaces especially on this fuckass website feel so white usamerican centered. guhhh
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the statements "clothes don't have gender" and "clothes can and do invoke gender dysphoria and euphoria for many people" can and should coexist.
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Queer 👏 people 👏 are 👏 not 👏 all 👏 fucking 👏 activists 👏
Stop quizzing us on queer history and asking us questions we aren’t qualified to answer about the world and about politics and about our identities
Stop trying to back us into a corner so you can justify your discrimination on the basis that we don’t know what we’re talking about or can’t “defend” ourselves to you
Stop treating every queer person that stands up and says “I want to be treated like a person” as if they’re an activist
Cut that bullshit out
Marginalised people just want to exist and be happy
I don’t know everything, and that doesn’t make me undeserving of your respect or my human rights you fucker
I don’t even owe you the stuff I do know- I still am entitled to basic fucking respect
TLDR; Queer people shouldn’t have to be historians or scientists for you to not be a fucking dick
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Hey, thanks fpr the follow! Sup?
Course~! Nothing too much. Getting through work and also working on art Comms off to the side when work slows down. :) You my friend?
Eh, doing the best we can. The world's kinda losing it and I feel like that dog sipping coffee. Also, tech college admissions. Whee!
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I normally don't post my sketch commissions, but this was a sketch piece I was commissioned to do, of a Noble Ishgardian Elezen.
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Please, if you are a self-publishing author an indie author, learn the basics of book formatting.
Please.
The standards are in place for a reason. Margins are the size they are so that your thumb can rest comfortably on the sides of the book without blocking any text, and so you can read the text along the middle without tilting the book back and forth to see around the bend. Bleeds are so your margins don't get cut down too much when the text block is trimmed, you need them even if you don't have images in your book. Spaces between paragraphs are an internet convention and do not belong in books unless you are indicating a scene break.
Please. These rules aren't there to be mean. They are there for FUNCTIONALITY.
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A cute purple baby Octopus
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The mysterious "Pyramid Head" ―S I L E N T H I L L 2 REMAKE (08.10.2024)
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And another one
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i love videos where people help animals but i do have to wonder what the hell the animal thinks about it. a predator takes you down, you're poisoned or something you're all woozy and sleepy, and the predator pokes and prods and does something to that festering injury you've had for a while and stabs you a few times in your haunch. then they leave. and you wake up and walk away. and the festering injury feels weird but there's less pressure and it starts to heal the next week or so.
like. what the fuck does this animal think just happened to it
At the same time, how often do animals specifically come to us for help with something, to?
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Was looking through my photos and found this jean patch I did a couple years ago :)