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MeansofCorrection
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forever a crush of mine
Oh my god, I love this so hard. (Click the link if you need a bigger version!)
Reblogged from Fancy as Fuck
Tom Waits, be my bride.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you Tom.
I love this man so much. I want to be Tom Waits when I’m an old man.
Reblogged from .:Queer and Pregnant Danger:.
how to not be a White Savior when in Africa
- Don’t assume those you intend to help even wanted your help.
- You are not there to ‘help’ anyone. Help assumes you are in authority and they depend on you.
- You are there to work with people.
- Those people are not charity cases: they are human beings with feelings history and personal identities. Like you. Treat them as such.
- That means stop thinking its so goddamn ’beautiful’ to hold a black child’s hand or ‘inspiring’ when you wear their clothes and practice their customs or ‘amazing’ when you see a person wear western clothes.
- You’re exotifying people based on racist and ignorant ideas you had of them. Go back to no. 4
- The people you work with don’t exist to make you/your life look better.
- Don’t assume you know what’s best for them. Ask. Listen.
- Listen to them more than those you view as your ‘equals’ (fellow volunteers/white ppl)
- Don’t expect those you work with to be thankful to you. They didn’t ask you to work with them in the first place.
- You are not there to ‘save the day’.
- Treat them the way you treat your friends; be there for them when they want/need you, offer advice but don’t act butthurt if they don’t take it.
- You do not have all the answers. Nobody does. So don’t act like you do. It shows.
- Don’t describe those you work with as ‘underprivileged’ or other demeaning eurocentric words. What you are doing is comparing your own life to theirs and assuming everyone wants the type of life you have. Go back to no. 6 & 7
(this also goes for working with kids, women’s groups, people with disabilities etc. whether in your own country or abroad. Feel free to add more points that hasn’t been covered and reblog. End the White Saviour Complex)
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K: and people who are actually in the LGBTQ community argue that trans* people don’t completely need and deserve the support of the rest of the LGBTQ community more than any other part of it?
This is horrible…….. : (
Signal boost. Wake up, world. Stop erasing trans* people.
I wonder how race plays into these numbers?
Reblogged from Plastic Crow
Reblogged from .:Queer and Pregnant Danger:.
Cool video, it’s part of a campaign on AIDS. Check out the website too, it’s good fun!
Reblogged from The Anarcho-Feminist
Bitter Youth: mybelovedcheshire: Things I have learned about depression over the...
Things I have learned about depression over the years
- it can absolutely be inherited from your parents, and the more severe the depression, the more likely it is that your offspring will have it
- it can manifest as anger, rather than sadness
- people who have it can seem…
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This is a thought dump for activist activity, why the state is fucked up, how our educational system is in shambles and what we can do to fix it, and for observations on living in a world which claims to be tolerant of diversity but continually produces hate in popular media and casual conversation. I'll also post random fun things I come across whether they're pretty, funny, disgusting, horrid, sexy, cute, unbelievable or whatever. NSFW
