ICHTHULTUSSY

i think in ten years we're going to look at all of this "i'm so autistic" stuff the same way we look at a person who says "i'm so OCD" when they just like to be tidy

That’s how I look at it rn

Stealing houses and committing genocide are not good for one’s mental health, apparently.

reblog to raise it higher.

together, we can raise colonizer suicide rates to 100%

"lesser evil"

this kwame ture quote becomes relevant again, encourage reading about him and listening to his advocacy re palestine

if this is your first reaction to a government conceding to protest demands you have terminal sinophobia brain fungus and it's incurable. what did you want, for xi jinping to deploy fucking tanks at them? jaw droppingly deranged tweet

Charleston, SC, Photo by Baldwin Lee, 1984

as much as people would like it to be, communication is not the end-all solution to relationship issues in every situation, and sometimes reconciliation isn’t worth attempting

communication is the go-to solution for two reasonable people who want the best for each other. pretending that this is the case in every single instance is only going to get victims of unfair and abusive situations re-manipulated into the same problem they’ve had continuously had, re-traumatizing them by forcing them to perpetually resuscitate their dying relationship with infinite dead-end loops of “communication”

not to mention that some abusers weaponize the “you’re not willing to communicate” line to guilt their partners about trying to leave or draw hard boundaries. as if it’s their fault that they didn’t say “hey make sure you don’t abuse me” or they’d somehow stop their abuse if their partner asked and said please.

not every relationship is worth communication in an attempt to save. sometimes you just need to leave as quickly and completely as you can

the notion of communication as fix-it-strategy par excellence is also a site of intense gaslighting, particularly for neurodivergent survivors.

a failure in fundamental compassion on the part of the abuser is transformed into a pathological failure on the part of the victim, and the ability to “correctly” communicate in a way that would apparently stop the abuse is perpetually, inevitably out of reach.

communication will not “cure” abuse.

A Tumblr shop? On my internet?

Why yes, it is a Tumblr Shop. Enter if ye dare, stock up on some hellsite swag, and share your allegiance with weird.

Lol

Clare Kramer & Nicole Bilderback as Courtney & Whitney in Bring It On (2000) [x]

Just found out that Tim Jacobus has high res versions of his nearly 100 goosebumps covers on his website! There's so many cool details in them I've never noticed before.

Check them out here!

Only 90s kids understand

So Crazy goat babies.

By visual artist Staiche Shitanda

Blackness to me is inherently gender nonconforming largely because we will never fit into binary white supremacist notions of manhood and womanhood.

Angela Davis actually touches on this in her novel Women, Race, and Class.

Essentially, she says that Black women may have been considered genderless because we did all the same work as men but then weren’t considered men when it came to sexual abuse, suddenly being forced into these feminine, submissive roles that we clearly didn’t fit into. Once the Atlantic Slave Trade was banned, Black women were then seen as breeders to provide for slaves since they couldn’t be imported. Despite this, Black women, even if we were pregnant, still had to work in the fields and suffer the same punishment as our male counterparts.

Angela Davis goes on further to say that since Black women were never seen as housewives, Black men were in turn never seen as family providers or heads of households. By this point, Black women had acquired an abundance of traits that didn’t fit into 19th century perception of what it meant to be a woman. Also, with the rise of industrialization, white women never experienced that same intensive labor which further pushed them into the housewife stereotype. Essentially, there was this white feminist movement to erase the housewife stereotype but it didn’t include the struggles of Black women because we were never seen as housewives to begin with.

All of this to say: We were genderless and outside of any gender norm within the white supremacist framework.

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i learned about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn’t stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive. (x)

i feel like this is selling her a bit short tbh.  It’s not like she was a random woman who decided to tape ‘whatever’ was on television.  She was a civil rights activist and archivist, who was extremely concerned about preserving history.  She believed that, by taping television, she would be preserving history EXACTLY as it was perceived at the time; she didn’t want the detail in the news to disappear with time.  And she was RIGHT.

Like I said, she didn’t just tape ‘whatever’ was on television.  It was extremely targeted towards news stations.  There were 8 VCRs running at all times in her home.  Her life—-and her family’s lives—-were centered around 6 hour blocks, since that was the amount of time that a tape would record for.  Her collections were also extremely organized. 

The Marion Stokes Movies and Video Collection may be found on the Internet Archive here.

Wikipedia’s article on Marion Stokes may be found here.

A documentary of her life, Recorder: the Marion Stokes Project, was released in 2019, and seems to have good reviews, though I have not yet seen it.

From archive.org (Internet Archive) - The Marion Stokes Papers contain documents related to the life and activism of Marion Stokes (1929-2012), civil rights activist, feminist, and news archivist. Stokes’ social activist career began in the 1950s, and encompassed many areas of left politics during a particularly transformative time in America. Her groundbreaking television show (co-produced with her husband John S Stokes Jr), Input, addressed many pressing issues, and much of it remains relevant today. Additionally, Stokes amassed a huge archive of videotaped television news, which is slowly being made available through the work of the Internet Archive.