the fun part about having time stamps enabled is that I can see immediately that the original post was published in 2016 and the entirety of the bird conversation was four days ago
corporations trying to profit off of queer people by showing their support for only one month of the year is bad
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it’s fun to watch conservatives get pissed that they can’t shop at target anymore because the big bad rainbows will corrupt their children :(
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the existence of rainbow capitalism in the first place proves that society is now in a place where supporting queer people is the more profitable and thus more popular opinion and that means something
human b eings arent ‘evolved to compete with each other’ or ‘evolved to collaborate with each other’. we are evolved to not die of malaria. and we are not even very good at that.
Get your fucking ass up and go hunt some cryptids. It seems no one wants to hunt cryptids these days. Surround yourself with people who want to hunt cryptids
By hunt I mean spot. If u kill mothman I will get real upset
one reason why learning body respect is so powerful–and so discouraged by the mechanism of social control that is diet culture–is that when we learn to honor our bodies’ rights, needs, and wisdom, we become much more aware and less tolerant of violations in other areas of life.
when we are attuned to our body’s need for rest, we are much more aware of the violence of even the 40 hour work week (ofc work is far more violent than that)
when we carve out our own permission to accept our body’s natural weight set point, demands that we shrink our personality, our voice, or our emotions in order not to cause social offense feel like much less acceptable constrictions
when we learn to value our natural hair and skin, and give up harmful rituals like chemical straightening or lightening (or the beliefs that underlie them), other ways in which we are required to harm ourselves–from a coerced gender presentation to living with the consequences of environmental racism–come into clearer focus as specifically targeted violence
when we have compassion for our bodies and their vulnerability, we are more sensitive to mistreatment in personal relationships
the systems that make us sick and self-hating are political projects, enacted in ways that can be analyzed, understood, and changed. this movement is inward and outward, with the former supporting the latter (and vice versa). when our healing is rooted in wisdom and compassion and self respect, we inevitably turn those values outward, take them up against the structures which would strip them from us.
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