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tinierpurplefishes:

sapphiredoves:

moisemorancy:

niggod:

kevingetem:

a girl who really loves u gon start sounding like ya mom after a while cause she only wants the best for u b

facts

Real shit my nigga.

Wow. I actually do do this. 

“Did you eat yet? Why tf not??”

“Call them and tell them you’re not coming in because you have the flu. I don’t give a fuck what they say! I’ll call them myself and tell them if you need me to!”

“Don’t you buy that damn motorcycle, you gon go speeding everywhere and get hurt! Stay your ass in a car!”

No, but seriously, this is a big part of why single people have a lower life expectancy. Having someone looking out for you makes a difference.

For me, having someone I care about that much has changed some of my life decisions. I worry about her, and thus things I’d’ve considered okay before I now think are too risky.

tinierpurplefishes:

sapphiredoves:

moisemorancy:

niggod:

kevingetem:

a girl who really loves u gon start sounding like ya mom after a while cause she only wants the best for u b

facts

Real shit my nigga.

Wow. I actually do do this. 

“Did you eat yet? Why tf not??”

“Call them and tell them you’re not coming in because you have the flu. I don’t give a fuck what they say! I’ll call them myself and tell them if you need me to!”

“Don’t you buy that damn motorcycle, you gon go speeding everywhere and get hurt! Stay your ass in a car!”

No, but seriously, this is a big part of why single people have a lower life expectancy. Having someone looking out for you makes a difference.

trendyinternetname:

plaintexttheory:

I popped into 

#tdov 2016 and like, I really really want to people to analyze and understand why exactly it’s about 2/3 to ¾ full of white trans-masculine people, why its this exact phenotype the feels the most comfortable posting selfies today compared to others.

rememberwhenyoutried:

I don’t post selfies for stuff like tdov because I’m white, have enough money to survive, and pass 100% – my life these days is about as low-risk as it’s possible for a trans woman’s to get, absent suddenly becoming rich. I am phenomenally lucky, and don’t feel like my demographic is one that needs elevating.

Sometimes, like the one-time urge to run a trans youth support group, I feel like I should do more. Then I remember that I’m brown, have enough money, and pass 100%. Then I think I’ll stick with challenging people who say unpleasant things, and protesting in my polite, English, middle-class way. Which I admit is selfish, but also, I like not being out a lot of the time.

seattlish:

It’s impossible to ignore the racism of this year’s Presidential race; Donald Trump will say anything, it seems, to gain support from the many Americans who truly believe that we need to build a wall at the Mexican border and that deporting all Muslims would somehow end terrorism. It’s sickening and it’s rooted in a legacy of xenophobia.

Image: MOHAI

It’s also familiar as hell, particularly along Puget Sound, where, 74 years ago today, Japanese and Japanese-American residents of Bainbridge Island—some who had been there for six decades and many who were born there—were wrenched from their homes and send to an internment camp under Executive Order 9066. 

They were the first in the nation to be interred, due to Bainbridge’s proximity to a military base, and were given just six days to get their business and personal affairs in order. They had no idea how long they would be gone, or where they were going. Via the UW: 

The Bainbridge Islanders, both aliens and non-aliens (i.e., citizens), were given six days to register, pack, sell or somehow rent their homes, farms and equipment. On Monday, March 30 at 11:00 a.m. these Japanese Americans, under armed guard, were put on the ferry Keholoken to Seattle where they boarded a train to Manzanar in central California. They were not to return to Bainbridge Island for more than four years.

Executive Order 9066 was written to protect “against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material, national-defense premises, and national-defense utilities”—exactly the same reasons Presidential candidates like Trump give for the expulsion of Muslims—but what it really did was grant the U.S. government the authority to discriminate against American citizens and immigrants based on literally nothing but their race. It was an order that was the direct result of fear and intolerance. 

The majority—a full 2/3—of the residents interned were American citizens. 

There was a great gathering of white friends at Eagledale before the evacuation was completed. These friends, as well as soldiers, gave the departing Japanese every help.

It was a pathetic exodus.

There were mothers with babies in arms, aged patriarchs with faltering steps, high school boys and girls, and some children, too young to realize the full import of the occasion. The youngsters frolicked about, treating the evacuation as a happy excursion.

“Tears, Smiles Mingle as Japs Bid Bainbridge Farewell.” Seattle Times, March 30, 1942, pg. 1.

On Bainbridge Island—and up and down the West Coast—this action ravaged communities, separated families and friends, and financially ruined many individuals and businesses. 

In 1983, it was estimated that the total economic fallout was something like $2 billion. 

At the time, racism was rampant locally—but there were still some voices in support of the residents of Bainbridge Island, of Seattle, and of surrounding areas who were being threatened with internment.

After the first announcement of the executive order in February 1942, the only West Coast newspaper editors to write against internment were Walt and Milly Woodward of the Bainbridge Review. In their editorial they wrote that they “hope that the order will not mean the removal of American-Japanese citizens, for it [the Review] still believes they have the right of every citizen: to be held innocent and loyal until proven guilty” (“Not Another Arcadia”).

In total, 277 residents were forcibly removed from the island, sent to camps in California and Idaho, for the duration of World War II. Just 150 returned to Bainbridge when, years later, they were permitted to go home. 

On the memorial that now stands near where the residents of Bainbridge were walked down a pier toward the ship that would carry them away, visitors can clearly read the words “Nidoto Nai Yoni.”

“Let It Not Happen Again.”

Despite the cutting of checks and an apology from Ronald Reagan, it’s evident that simply acknowledging our history isn’t enough to keep from repeating it. 

Here in the Seattle area and throughout the nation, we are precariously permissive of rhetoric that not only condones but supports letting it happen again.

There are actively discriminatory groups putting in work across the county, including here at home.

Let it not happen again. Let it not happen again. Be part of the reason that it won’t happen again. 

bisexualmindylahiri:

supernatasha:

The United States of America is only one of two countries that has not approved and accepted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The other is South Sudan, which has already begun the ratification process. 

Among other things, the CRC ensures children under the age of 18 have the right to life, identity and name, education, freedom of expression, equal opportunity, healthcare, psychological recovery, cultural sensitivities for minority/indigenous groups, and access to information [x].

The lack of the CRC in the USA is part of the reason why it is okay to send children to abusive “camps” that attack their identity as LGBTQ+ minorities, enroll them in private schools that intentionally deny students opportunities to learn about science (particularly anatomy and sexuality), and sign away their children’s rights to the state.

It is also why juveniles in the USA can be sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole, a legal implications that particularly affects people of color, especially Black and Latinx children. 

The CRC also specifies that children should not be disciplined in a manner that is considered abusive, and the USA therefore does not regulate the “discipline” occurring in homes of at-risk children, even when it qualifies as mental or emotional abuse. 

Due to the lack of the CRC, children can be relocated against their will (eg, deportation/trafficking) to potentially dangerous and life-threatening places, can be separated from their parents, or can be kept in isolation. 

Basically, the United States, which claims to be a great champion of human rights, has consistently refused to ratify or even introduce the bill to ratify the Convention of the Rights of the Child.

Update on this (2016): USA is now the only country not to ratify the CRC. [x]

Over half of public school students are poor enough to qualify for lunch subsidies, and almost half of black children under the age of six are living in poverty. [x]

The US is one of two “developed” country with the lowest standards for child well-being (Romania is the other). [x]

16 million kids live in poverty and 138 thousand kids are homeless (2013-2015). [x]

Homelessness in children has increased by 60% in the past 6 years. [x]

In 2001, 325,000 children were at risk for becoming victims of sexual exploitation in the United States. [x]

Of all sex trafficking victims in the USA: 17% are underage girls and 10% are underage boys. [x]