that Georgia is planning a whole slew of “catch immigrant” road blocks for tomorrow (where ID’s will be checked etc). Pass the word on and especially let people in Georgia know!!! People are also being encouraged to let other people know where the road blocks are if they run across them!!!
Signal boosting.
Signal-boosting, also.
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Little Light is coming to my school!!!!! And participating in a roundtable with Julia Serano!!!! oh man I’m not missing this for n. e. thang. will take notes like a freakin note-taking machine.
HOLY CRAP AWESOME. Your school is the best school.
BEST. SCHOOL. EVAR.
Like they say, the issue is not with the depiction of something that actually happens in the real world. The issue is with what surrounds the depiction. Glee has this tendency to present hate speech and stereotypes without any commentary, usually in a positive light, and then it acts like it is doing something superprogressive by doing so. Ryan Murphy seems to have missed the memo that it is possible to depict oppression in a way that adds to the body of criticism surrounding that oppression, as opposed to just casually reinforcing it.
Trigger warning for discussion of TV show violence.
I don’t watch Glee, but I did watch Ryan Murphy’s Nip/Tuck, which was known for its frank depictions of various things (violence, plastic surgery, drug use) It was the first show I remember where characters regularly used “shit” unbleeped. It was “progressive” in the sense that it did a lot of things most primetime shows on cable didn’t get away with at the time. (In the first show I saw, Dr. MacNamara’s teenage son tried to circumcise himself). But it just presented them without real commentary. I didn’t watch Nip/Tuck because I liked the characters (everyone’s a jerk, a clueless doofus, or some combination) or because it had anything interesting to say. I watched it to see what shocking, bizarre thing they’d come up with next. (The shock value wore off for me, and I quit watching it
Of course creators can make art in different styles or that tackles different themes or can mature as artists. (Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butthead and King of the Hill are very different, for instance). But from what I’ve read (take this with a grain of salt), it sounds like Glee is just a more family/FCC-friendly version of Nip/Tuck. And that’s…not progressive at all. At least, not in an engaging, meaningful way.
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Driving her kids to school, a South Carolina woman, Amy Lynn Stewart, encountered a group of teens walking in the middle of the road. She honked but they would not get out of the way, so she plowed into them, hitting four. They were 12, 13, 13, and 14-years-old. “I wanted to knock some sense into them,” she would tell the police. Four victims were treated at the scene. One was taken to a hospital.
At that intersection, there are no sidewalks. All over America, there are many roads without sidewalks. Many communities are built just for the car. Lawns, often vast, encroach right to the curbs. 307 million Americans own about 150 million cars. Entire blocks are reserved for parking garages. Walking on a road shoulders, one can feel like a vagrant or a prowling criminal.
My parents grew up in Beaumont, Texas, a town of no sidewalks and plenty of strip malls. As a kid, visiting, I found the lack of sidewalks extremely strange. Where are people supposed to walk? On the street?
The rest of the linked post has some ableism going on and other things that gave me pause, so warning for that if you click through. But I’m always really grateful for the sidewalks in Milwaukee. We might be just a mid-size city without an Ikea, but dammit, we have sidewalks and a city bus system.
It’s really too bad that the post has that random “people want to be disabled so they can get better parking!!!” in the middle (I stopped reading then). When I was making the Record of the Dead, it was disturbing how often in the US I’d read cases of people who were using a wheelchair struck by a car while trying to get around because there were just no sidewalks. In one case two women were killed in the same intersection over the course of a month.
I cannot cope in areas without sidewalks. :(
Yes to all of this.
A related problem: there’s a school near my house. Sometimes, people speed through like bats out of Hell (it is a SCHOOL ZONE, you bastards), get caught by surprise by the stop sign, and are going so fast that they STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF MY EFFING CROSSWALK. Then I have to use my amazing spatial skills (which are not amazing) to figure out how to get around their stupid car. (Which wouldn’t be so bad, except I don’t have the cognitive bandwidth to flip them off).
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Hi TOSD community!
We need your help raising $2,000 for a lift and a sling!! This is the lift that Stacey will use to lift her in and out of bed, to go to the bathroom and take a shower. It makes a HUGE difference and means that more people can do PA (personal attendant) work and more folks can sign up for careshift slots regardless of their physical abilities. It is a safer way for Stacey to move around and reduces risk and strain (all around) of Stacey and her PAs.
*Since we shot this video we were able to talk the woman selling the lift down from $2,200 to $1,800! But then realized that we will need to buy a new sling for Stacey to be able to use the lift, which will cost $600. sigh.
We had to move fast because to buy the kind of lift Stacey needed would be SO much more than $1,800 and without it, Stacey needed two people to lift her out of bed. (Special thanks to Steph, Elaine, Rhea, Yvonne, Io, and Evan for filling last-minute careshift slots to help Stacey get out of bed before she had the lift!! Go, team community!)
So, now we have the lift, but still need to fundraise the money it costs as well as buy the sling Stacey needs to be able to use it.
We are asking folks, if you’re able to, to help us pay for the lift and sling. Please use the chipIn link to the right to give or email totheothersideofdreaming@gmail.com to send a check.
Any amount is so appreciated, because the very act of giving is more powerful than the amount of money. And we know that there are many ways to give; that giving money is no more valuable than the folks who have given their time, support, love and care.
We wished we lived in a world where we didn’t have to pay for access, where ableism and capitalism weren’t so intertwined. Where we could all be able to use the bathroom and visit our loved ones, wherever they may be. You all give us faith that that world is possible. It is. The support we have received from people (around the world) for TOSD has been astounding, proving what we already know is true, even as we trudge through the tedium and exhaustion of daily access: collective access is possible and we aren’t alone.
with love and appreciation,
Mia and Stacey
PS: This is the first of many videos to come from TOSD! Stay tuned for our next one, the adventure to get the lift, soon!
SOOO SO SO happy for STACEY AND MIA!!!!!!! Support them if you can!!!!! XOXOXO
I am bored. If you want, ask me things! Sexuality questions are the only kind of questions that won’t get you very far, just because I…am not familiar with it.
X. is watching A:TLA now. She says:
LOLOLOL SOKKA STUCK WITH HIPPIES(2x02, “The Cave of Two Lovers”. Previously.)
don’t let the cave in get you dowwwwwwwwwn, sooooooookkkkkaaaaaaa
Sokka, why is your forehead all red?
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twitchylittlenoses:
If you can find the black dot in this picture, you suffer from clinical depression. The part of your brain that produces the chemical needed for happiness is damaged, so the other parts of your brain work harder to solve problems. Most people with clinical depression are actually highly intelligent.
If you find the black dot, you may want to consult a psychologist promptly.
#totally accurate science
LOL. i can’t believe all this ~psychological fact bullshit.
I see like fourteen black dots! I must be THE MOST DEPRESSED PERSON WHO EVER LIVED.
Oh wait, never mind, I just really need to clean my computer screen.
[img: A white field with, apparently, a black dot somewhere on it]
I think I found the black dot—although, like Dorian, I could just need to clean my computer screen.
I have depression, but I also have nonverbal learning disability. NLD experts say that we often “miss the forest for the trees”—and I certainly notice random details without fitting them into a whole. It comes in handy for reading (it was easy for me to see that p, b, q, d are all different things), and…not so much for recognizing, say, buildings. If I come at a building from an unusual angle, I’ll think it’s a different building. This is just a way of processing. It doesn’t mean I’m more or less intelligent than other people.*
*I had/have several language-related skills that are commonly associated with “intelligence,” but that’s because society chooses to put those skills on a pedestal.](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfjylkaKHK1qehd71o1_500.png)
If you can find the black dot in this picture, you suffer from clinical depression. The part of your brain that produces the chemical needed for happiness is damaged, so the other parts of your brain work harder to solve problems. Most people with clinical depression are actually highly intelligent.
If you find the black dot, you may want to consult a psychologist promptly.
#totally accurate science
LOL. i can’t believe all this ~psychological fact bullshit.
I see like fourteen black dots! I must be THE MOST DEPRESSED PERSON WHO EVER LIVED.
Oh wait, never mind, I just really need to clean my computer screen.
[img: A white field with, apparently, a black dot somewhere on it]
I think I found the black dot—although, like Dorian, I could just need to clean my computer screen.
I have depression, but I also have nonverbal learning disability. NLD experts say that we often “miss the forest for the trees”—and I certainly notice random details without fitting them into a whole. It comes in handy for reading (it was easy for me to see that p, b, q, d are all different things), and…not so much for recognizing, say, buildings. If I come at a building from an unusual angle, I’ll think it’s a different building. This is just a way of processing. It doesn’t mean I’m more or less intelligent than other people.*
*I had/have several language-related skills that are commonly associated with “intelligence,” but that’s because society chooses to put those skills on a pedestal.
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And I still feel really small and incapable compared to, well, just about all the people I read.
I was gonna make this a whole big post but then I realized it’d just be a restatement of my other one. What can I say? I’m tired.
I can SO relate to this. I often feel like everyone else knows what they’re doing, and I’m just faking it and they’ll all find out eventually. It has a lot in common with imposter syndrome, although most of “everyone else” isn’t men—though some of it is disability-related, since throughout my childhood adults were like: “But you can [do Skill A]! You should obviously be able to [do Skill B, which isn’t related to Skill A at all]! Therefore, you are a faker!”
FWIW, while I love everything you say, the push to start following you was your awesome questions for Dorian :D (i.e. I think you’re cool because you’re you—not just because you do a particular kind of work).
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