This is the most genius thing i’ve seen in years. Thank you happytoast.co.uk ????
The internet can be a marvellous place.
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Did you photoshop him with baby hands? Because he’s strangely defensive that his hands are Big and Strong.
Category: Tumblr crossposts
Crossposts from tumblr (for posterity)
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OH SNAP.
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What do undocumented immigrants contribute to the economy? A lot, it turns out. Gabe will fill you in:
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Remember Emma Yang’s name — she has a bright future ahead of her (x)
follow @the-future-now
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New comic! (link to good version)
This comic was originally posted on Everyday Feminism.
When we talk about consent, we don’t talk a lot about how consent changes in a relationship. People who have been partnered for 20 years sure as heck don’t negotiate sex and intimacy the same way that people who have met just do, and it would be ridiculous to suggest that they should. As our relationships change, we can use consent activities to build a structure that lets us make assumptions about what the other person wants.
So consent castles are pretty much my favourite thing. It’s how I talk about consent as being the root of a stable, trusting relationship. I like consent castles because they make consent a collaborative exercise – you have to build it together, and then you can live in a giant, beautiful (kinky/cuddly/furry/whatever) castle together. Who doesn’t want a great castle?
I love this! I wanna add that the foundation of your consent castle is everyone feeling/being safe enough to say “no”. The reason long-together people can skip some parts of consent conversations before engaging is that they’ve already made it okay for somone to initiate an ordinary routine and then be told, “nah, I don’t want to today” without it being A Big Scary Deal for everyone.
Even if you’ve gotten pretty good at knowing what your partner likes, there will be times when you think they’re interested but they’re not, and while asking if you’re unsure is still always the best way, in a well-built consent castle your partner can say “nah” and you can both go about your day without either of you falling apart.
This is beautiful and perfect and I’m going to use this metaphor forever for consent. Eeee.
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8 Year old Mari gives a few facts about the Flint Water Crisis
Please don’t forget #Flint. Spread the word! #Love it!
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They’re children of the great recession. And they are living in their parents’ basement, they feel that they got their education and the jobs that are available to them are not at all what they envisioned for themselves, and they don’t see much of a future.
If you’re feeling that you’re consigned to being a barista or some other job that doesn’t pay a lot and doesn’t have much of a ladder of opportunity attached to it, then the idea that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is pretty appealing. So I think we all should be really understanding of that, and we should try to do the best we can not to be a wet blanket on idealism.
Hillary Clinton’s ~secret insults~ about Sanders supporters, at a private fundraiser in February 2016.
This is what Trump and the GOP want you to be outraged about, y’all. The fact that Clinton accurately identified young people’s economic concerns & desire to be part of a revolutionary change, and was sympathetic about it.
She’s not making an argument for pragmatism, she’s not minimizing anything they experience or believe. Quite the opposite:
“We all should be really understanding of that, and we should try to do the best we can not to be a wet blanket on idealism.” – HRC
You know the only way – the ONLY fucking way – that this completely innocuous, sympathetic statement can be spun against her? If people don’t even listen to fifteen seconds of audio and just get mad.
That’s what they’re counting on, and the sad part is they’re right. Folks are gonna get pissy about “Hillary insulting Bernie supporters” even though she did precisely the opposite, because it works in Trump’s favor if he can alienate Bernie supporters from Hillary. Because people don’t even TRY to check the shit they see on twitter and facebook.
You’re already on the damn internet, people. CHECK YOUR FACTS.
(via broadlybrazen)
Another thing to remember is that Hillary was born in 1947. When she was 20, it was 1967, and that was a time of some serious upheaval. If anybody would be sympathetic to people in their 20s nowadays, I’m thinking it would be her and Bernie.
(via songscloset)
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Love and solidarity to the millions of Polish women who will take strike action today against medieval restrictions on abortion. This isn’t just an anachronistic attempt to victimise and imprison women who exercise their basic human rights – it’s also an attack on women’s healthcare and obstetric medicine in general.
If the ultra-conservative misogynists in the Sejm are going to take away our right to control our bodies, then we’re going to take away their right to control our labour.
