@MisuseCase Palestinians were actually, actively, celebrating. So while this is on point for some—idk if you meant to include the people who actually live there and were excited to have something to celebrate, whether or not they believed it would last.

@sauvageasqua @hannu_ikonen There's no better time to grow a conscience than when you appear powerless. If you never plan to take action, and you now have an easy excuse for why you can't, lip service is finally allowed.

@faithisleaping Yeah. They react to *accurate* labeling as if it's fear-mongering and conspiracy theories as if they're gospel.

Which makes sense given how they "interpret" their gospel to mean whatever they want it to.

Hard to converse with people to whom words are meaningless.

As I told her about my fears—whatever I said, I don't remember the specifics—she quickly answered "Well, you know, your dad has been scared of Obama for the past eight years."

As if those fears were the same as mine.

Some anxiety is just racism.

A lot of it, in fact.

Anyway, my parents haven't met my partner or my baby and they're probably never going to.

I remember sitting on the floor of the library stairwell in my grad school town, talking to my mom on the phone, crying. We hadn't been back in contact for long. It was November 8, 2016.

She wouldn't tell me who she'd voted for, and I knew what that meant.

I didn't yet know how the election would turn out. But it scared me that we'd have to contend with the Trump voters after all this.

Today's listening.

"I am light, I am light
I'm not the mistakes that I have made
Or any of the things that caused me pain
I am not the pieces of the dream I left behind
I am light"

#indiaarie #music

@stephaniepixie Thank you! This post was RIGHT below one that otherwise had good info, but then used "stupid" at the end.

@nightdream Yeahhh. Especially once you realize it's set THIS year, in OUR world.

@inherentlee oh I have but it's been a while! been meaning to go back, it's one of my favorite spots in the city.

@inherentlee aw hello there, nice to meet you! love your profile pic I lived in Tucson for a couple years and get very nostalgic for the southwest!

@bess oh hi! I'm chronically ill too! nice to meet you ️

@lowqualityfacts This is the way.

looking for more rad (as in radical) humans to follow who are into:

🩻 memes
nerdy parenting
️ anarchy
writing
️ community building
️ mental health
languages
books
🦚 somatic healing
tarot
enneagram
theater

introduce me to your fedi friends!

@Vincarsi @blogdiva @nullagent AND THIS IS WHY COMPASSIONATE & PRESENT PARENTING IS SUCH A RADICAL & NECESSARY ACT.

I have to remind myself of this when I feel like I'm not doing enough. Even though I literally sacrificed my autonomy & health to grow a whole entire human & I'm parenting full-time in ways that are truly nurturing.

God it's hard but it is so worth it.

@RodentRachel hugs!! I'm glad my skillset can make a difference too

@blogdiva @nullagent We have normalized traumatizing children at every step and blaming them for their needs, their trauma, and their trauma responses.

Having my own baby now makes it all the more heartbreaking to see childism everywhere in our culture.

@blogdiva YESSS, I was just saying this to @nullagent yesterday! so many people calling trump a "toddler" or a "man baby" and it is super disturbing. shows how we do not take the needs & demands of children seriously. they just want to be loved & held, & THAT IS WHAT THEY NEED!!

Adults need to be held accountable. When we call them children as a fucking *insult*, we are showing exactly what we think of children.

me, carressing baby's head as they sleep on me:

...why is your hair wet

OH, of course. I'm leaking milk. why wouldn't I be

...good thing today was already gonna be bath day.

#sappho #sapphic #gay #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #meme #memes #queer

#gay #gayest #lgbtq #lgbtqia