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    refused: Public Universal Friend
 The Public Universal Friend
 (born Jemima Wilkinson;
 November 29, 1752 ā€“ July 1,
 1819), was born as an English-
 American to a Quaker family on
 Rhode Island, and was assigned
 female at birth. This person
 suffered a severe illness in 1776
 (age 24), and reported having died
 and been reanimated by the power
 of God as a genderless evangelist
 named the Public Universal Friend.
 The Friend refused to answer any
 A portrait of the Public Universal a
 longer to the previous name,
 Friend, from the Friend's biography
 Jemima Wilkinson, (1 quoted Luke
 written by David Hudson in 1821.
 23:3 ("thou sayest it") when visitors
 asked if it was the name of the
 person they were addressing, and ignored or chastised those who
 insisted on using it. The preacher shunned the name "Jemima"
 completely, having friends hold realty in trust rather than see the name
 on deeds and titles. Even when a lawyer insisted that the person's Will
 should identify its subject as having been born under the name Jemima,
 the preacher refused to sign that name, only making an X which others
 witnessed, even though the Friend could read and write.2)
 The Friend asked not to be referred to with gendered pronouns.
 Followers respected these wishes, avoiding gender-specific pronouns
 even in private diaries, and referring only to "the Public Universal
 Friend" or short forms such as "the Friend" or "P.U.F."3]
madnessofmen:only address me as The Friend from now on
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                refused: Public Universal Friend
 The Public Universal Friend
 (born Jemima Wilkinson;
 November 29, 1752 ā€“ July 1,
 1819), was born as an English-
 American to a Quaker family on
 Rhode Island, and was assigned
 female at birth. This person
 suffered a severe illness in 1776
 (age 24), and reported having died
 and been reanimated by the power
 of God as a genderless evangelist
 named the Public Universal Friend.
 The Friend refused to answer any
 A portrait of the Public Universal a
 longer to the previous name,
 Friend, from the Friend's biography
 Jemima Wilkinson, (1 quoted Luke
 written by David Hudson in 1821.
 23:3 ("thou sayest it") when visitors
 asked if it was the name of the
 person they were addressing, and ignored or chastised those who
 insisted on using it. The preacher shunned the name "Jemima"
 completely, having friends hold realty in trust rather than see the name
 on deeds and titles. Even when a lawyer insisted that the person's Will
 should identify its subject as having been born under the name Jemima,
 the preacher refused to sign that name, only making an X which others
 witnessed, even though the Friend could read and write.2)
 The Friend asked not to be referred to with gendered pronouns.
 Followers respected these wishes, avoiding gender-specific pronouns
 even in private diaries, and referring only to "the Public Universal
 Friend" or short forms such as "the Friend" or "P.U.F."3]
madnessofmen:only address me as The Friend from now on
                
            

            
            
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    refused: 21 hrs
 Dear People Older Than Me:
 Shut up about the fucking participation trophies. We didn't ask for them. We
 didn't want them. We didn't cherish them and polish them while thinking
 about what special, gifted children we are. They were annoying clutter on our
 shelves that we had to throw out in secret so we wouldn't hurt YOUR
 feelings. And if we knew back then that you were gonna bring it up every
 time you disagreed with someone under 40 for the rest of fucking time, we
 would have told you where to shove that cheap plastic statue.
 Sincerely,
 People Younger Than Me
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straightouttanarnia:

aproposthessaly:

pearlsthatwereeyes:

mihrsuri:

star-anise:


goshawke:

hannibal-and-dory:

pinkrocksugar:


adramofpoison:
children arenā€™t dumb. we knew that trophies meant nothing when everyone in the fucking class got one

Also who was giving out those fucking trophies? SPOILER ALERT IT WASNā€™T US. IT WAS YOU.


Who the fuck got trophies?? I got a piece of paper saying Participation on it with a cheap-ass shiny sticker in the corner!

Sometimes they were ribbons.

Sometimes they were just the gnawing awareness that you could never trust any praise an adult gave you.


^^^^

When I was in 7th grade, the administration at my middle school decided to make a bunch of changes to pep rallies, including changing the spirit award to the grade that showed the most school spirit to three spirit awards SO THAT EACH GRADE COULD HAVE ONE.
We decided in about 2.5 seconds that this was fucking stupid and that it was pointless to have a school-wide spirit contest IF NO ONE WAS ACTUALLY ABLE TO WIN. Our entire grade organized ourselves and boycotted the pep rally in protest. We still went to the pep rally, but the entire 7th grade sat quietly in the bleachers and refused to cheer or otherwise participate.
AND IT INFURIATED THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION. INFURIATED THEM.
They ended up giving one spirit award to the 8th grade and two spirit awards to the 6th grade. At which point, our entire grade stood up and cheered, and the principal screamed into her microphone that we needed to sit down and stop cheering.
Because we hadnā€™t broken any school rules, the administration realized they couldnā€™t punish us, and they changed back to one spirit award and got rid of the other unpopular pep rally changes. But they never forgave us. The principal saved up all of her anger for a year and a half and then called a specialĀ ā€œpromotion ceremony rehearsalā€ for our grade right before we graduated from middle school specifically so that she could spend an hour yelling at us about how THIS WAS NOT FOR US, THIS WAS FOR OUR PARENTS AND OUR TEACHERS AND THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE SCHOOL, AND IF WE FUCKED THE CEREMONY UP IN ANY WAY, SO HELP HER, SHE WOULD MAKE OUR LIVES A LIVING HELL.Ā 
So, yeah, tell me again about how my generation expects trophies for participating. I dare you.

Someone somewhere has a great post about how all Millennials learned from this ā€œeverybody gets a trophyā€ culture foisted on us was to distrust conventional feedback methods (if everybody gets one, the system must be wrong and someone who tells me Iā€™m good at something is probably lying). So the fact that weā€™re a generation filled with insecure overachievers with a well-documented lack of interest in conventional life markers is partly due to all those stupid participation trophies. 

Ruined a perfectly good kid thatā€™s what you did. Look at it. Itā€™s got anxiety

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                refused: 21 hrs
 Dear People Older Than Me:
 Shut up about the fucking participation trophies. We didn't ask for them. We
 didn't want them. We didn't cherish them and polish them while thinking
 about what special, gifted children we are. They were annoying clutter on our
 shelves that we had to throw out in secret so we wouldn't hurt YOUR
 feelings. And if we knew back then that you were gonna bring it up every
 time you disagreed with someone under 40 for the rest of fucking time, we
 would have told you where to shove that cheap plastic statue.
 Sincerely,
 People Younger Than Me
 Like -Comment ā†’Share
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 133 shares
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straightouttanarnia:

aproposthessaly:

pearlsthatwereeyes:

mihrsuri:

star-anise:


goshawke:

hannibal-and-dory:

pinkrocksugar:


adramofpoison:
children arenā€™t dumb. we knew that trophies meant nothing when everyone in the fucking class got one

Also who was giving out those fucking trophies? SPOILER ALERT IT WASNā€™T US. IT WAS YOU.


Who the fuck got trophies?? I got a piece of paper saying Participation on it with a cheap-ass shiny sticker in the corner!

Sometimes they were ribbons.

Sometimes they were just the gnawing awareness that you could never trust any praise an adult gave you.


^^^^

When I was in 7th grade, the administration at my middle school decided to make a bunch of changes to pep rallies, including changing the spirit award to the grade that showed the most school spirit to three spirit awards SO THAT EACH GRADE COULD HAVE ONE.
We decided in about 2.5 seconds that this was fucking stupid and that it was pointless to have a school-wide spirit contest IF NO ONE WAS ACTUALLY ABLE TO WIN. Our entire grade organized ourselves and boycotted the pep rally in protest. We still went to the pep rally, but the entire 7th grade sat quietly in the bleachers and refused to cheer or otherwise participate.
AND IT INFURIATED THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION. INFURIATED THEM.
They ended up giving one spirit award to the 8th grade and two spirit awards to the 6th grade. At which point, our entire grade stood up and cheered, and the principal screamed into her microphone that we needed to sit down and stop cheering.
Because we hadnā€™t broken any school rules, the administration realized they couldnā€™t punish us, and they changed back to one spirit award and got rid of the other unpopular pep rally changes. But they never forgave us. The principal saved up all of her anger for a year and a half and then called a specialĀ ā€œpromotion ceremony rehearsalā€ for our grade right before we graduated from middle school specifically so that she could spend an hour yelling at us about how THIS WAS NOT FOR US, THIS WAS FOR OUR PARENTS AND OUR TEACHERS AND THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE SCHOOL, AND IF WE FUCKED THE CEREMONY UP IN ANY WAY, SO HELP HER, SHE WOULD MAKE OUR LIVES A LIVING HELL.Ā 
So, yeah, tell me again about how my generation expects trophies for participating. I dare you.

Someone somewhere has a great post about how all Millennials learned from this ā€œeverybody gets a trophyā€ culture foisted on us was to distrust conventional feedback methods (if everybody gets one, the system must be wrong and someone who tells me Iā€™m good at something is probably lying). So the fact that weā€™re a generation filled with insecure overachievers with a well-documented lack of interest in conventional life markers is partly due to all those stupid participation trophies. 

Ruined a perfectly good kid thatā€™s what you did. Look at it. Itā€™s got anxiety

                
            

            
            
straightouttanarnia:

aproposthessaly:

pearlsthatwereeyes:

mihrsuri:

star-anise:


goshawke:

hannibal-and-dory:

pinkrocksugar:


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    refused: Burger King Worker
 DENMARK UNITED STATES
 S20 an hour
 5Weeks paid vacation
 Pension Plarn
 Doesn't have to struggle
 to get by.
 $9an hour
 No paid vacation
 No Pension Plan
 Has to choose between
 buying food or clothes.
 fightfor15.org fb.com/fightfor151@fightfor15
iopele:

queerspeculativefiction:

heidiblack:

pillowswithboners:

luchagcaileag:

This isnā€™t because Burger King is nicer in Denmark. Itā€™s the law, and the US is actually the only so-called ā€œdevelopedā€ country thatĀ doesnā€™t mandate jobs provide a minimum amount of paid vacation, sick leave, or both.

kinda debunks that claim that they canā€™t afford to pay their workers those sort of wages and still make a profit

Its corporate greed, plain and simple.

It is the same in Sweden. It is so funny every time an american company opens up offices here and then tries to do it the american way and all the unions go ā€œI donā€™t think soā€.
Like when Toys ā€˜r Us opened in sweden 1995.
They refused to sign on to the union deals that govern such things as pay/pension and vacation in Sweden. Most of our rights are not mandated by law (we donā€™t have a minimum wage for example) but are made in voluntary agreements between the unions and the companies.
But they refused, saying that they had never negotiated with any unions anywhere else in the world and werenā€™t planning to do it in Sweden either.Ā 
Of course a lot of people thought it was useless fighting against an international giant, but Handels (the store workerā€™s union) said that they could not budge, because that might mean that the whole Swedish model might crumble. So they went on strike in the three stores that the company had opened so far.
Cue a shitstorm from the press, and from right wing politicians. But the members were all for it, and other unions started doing sympathy actions. The teamsters refused to deliver goods to their stores, the financial unions blockaded all economical transactions regarding Toys ā€˜r Us and the strike got strong international support as well, especially in the US.
In the end, Toys ā€˜r Us caved in, signed the union deal, and thus their employees got the same treatment as Swedish store workers everywhere.
The right to be treated as bloody human beings and not disposable cogs in a machine.


and that story right there? is exactly why Republicans in the US work so hard to bust unions. itā€™s because unionizing WORKS and theyā€™re terrified of workers actually having some power.

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                refused: Burger King Worker
 DENMARK UNITED STATES
 S20 an hour
 5Weeks paid vacation
 Pension Plarn
 Doesn't have to struggle
 to get by.
 $9an hour
 No paid vacation
 No Pension Plan
 Has to choose between
 buying food or clothes.
 fightfor15.org fb.com/fightfor151@fightfor15
iopele:

queerspeculativefiction:

heidiblack:

pillowswithboners:

luchagcaileag:

This isnā€™t because Burger King is nicer in Denmark. Itā€™s the law, and the US is actually the only so-called ā€œdevelopedā€ country thatĀ doesnā€™t mandate jobs provide a minimum amount of paid vacation, sick leave, or both.

kinda debunks that claim that they canā€™t afford to pay their workers those sort of wages and still make a profit

Its corporate greed, plain and simple.

It is the same in Sweden. It is so funny every time an american company opens up offices here and then tries to do it the american way and all the unions go ā€œI donā€™t think soā€.
Like when Toys ā€˜r Us opened in sweden 1995.
They refused to sign on to the union deals that govern such things as pay/pension and vacation in Sweden. Most of our rights are not mandated by law (we donā€™t have a minimum wage for example) but are made in voluntary agreements between the unions and the companies.
But they refused, saying that they had never negotiated with any unions anywhere else in the world and werenā€™t planning to do it in Sweden either.Ā 
Of course a lot of people thought it was useless fighting against an international giant, but Handels (the store workerā€™s union) said that they could not budge, because that might mean that the whole Swedish model might crumble. So they went on strike in the three stores that the company had opened so far.
Cue a shitstorm from the press, and from right wing politicians. But the members were all for it, and other unions started doing sympathy actions. The teamsters refused to deliver goods to their stores, the financial unions blockaded all economical transactions regarding Toys ā€˜r Us and the strike got strong international support as well, especially in the US.
In the end, Toys ā€˜r Us caved in, signed the union deal, and thus their employees got the same treatment as Swedish store workers everywhere.
The right to be treated as bloody human beings and not disposable cogs in a machine.


and that story right there? is exactly why Republicans in the US work so hard to bust unions. itā€™s because unionizing WORKS and theyā€™re terrified of workers actually having some power.

                
            

            
            
iopele:

queerspeculativefiction:

heidiblack:

pillowswithboners:

luchagcaileag:

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    refused: Nibel
 @Nibellion
 Bethesda announces Fallout 1st, a premium
 membership for Fallout 76
 1 month: $12.99
 1 year: $99.99
 fallout.bethesda.net/en/article/3r1..
 Fallaut 1st
 1s MEMBER

 Fallaut 1st
 MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
 Play in a Private World exclusively for you and up to
 seven friends
 PRIVATE WORLDS
 Unlimited storage for crafting components in your own new
 Scrapbox container.
 SCRAPBOX
 A new placeable fast travel point with a Stash, Sleeping Bag,
 and more for your basic needs.
 SURVIVAL TENT
 Receive 1,650 Atoms per month to use in the Atomic Shop
 ATOMS
 An iconic Fallout outfit, exclusively for members
 RANGER ARMOR OUTFIT
 Unique icons and emates, available only to members.
 ICONS & EMOTES PACK
vaporwavevocap:

armsnotsigns:
datanazush:

metalbatteryzone:

metalbatteryzone:
Todd please
Bethesda really looked at the Ranger Armor and went ā€œwow cool suit!ā€ and will give it to you for $13/mo

Remember the ranger armor only exists because Bethesda refused to let Obsidian make new power armor designs for New Vegas, and now theyā€™re stealing it because itā€™sĀ ā€˜iconicā€™ (Read: better than anything they could make)


But they did make new power armor designs for new Vegasā€¦

They had different versions of older designs and NPC armor in some cases but I canā€™t think of much else.

Iā€™ve honestly never seen a company with as much contempt for its users as Bethesda..ļæ¼
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                refused: Nibel
 @Nibellion
 Bethesda announces Fallout 1st, a premium
 membership for Fallout 76
 1 month: $12.99
 1 year: $99.99
 fallout.bethesda.net/en/article/3r1..
 Fallaut 1st
 1s MEMBER

 Fallaut 1st
 MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
 Play in a Private World exclusively for you and up to
 seven friends
 PRIVATE WORLDS
 Unlimited storage for crafting components in your own new
 Scrapbox container.
 SCRAPBOX
 A new placeable fast travel point with a Stash, Sleeping Bag,
 and more for your basic needs.
 SURVIVAL TENT
 Receive 1,650 Atoms per month to use in the Atomic Shop
 ATOMS
 An iconic Fallout outfit, exclusively for members
 RANGER ARMOR OUTFIT
 Unique icons and emates, available only to members.
 ICONS & EMOTES PACK
vaporwavevocap:

armsnotsigns:
datanazush:

metalbatteryzone:

metalbatteryzone:
Todd please
Bethesda really looked at the Ranger Armor and went ā€œwow cool suit!ā€ and will give it to you for $13/mo

Remember the ranger armor only exists because Bethesda refused to let Obsidian make new power armor designs for New Vegas, and now theyā€™re stealing it because itā€™sĀ ā€˜iconicā€™ (Read: better than anything they could make)


But they did make new power armor designs for new Vegasā€¦

They had different versions of older designs and NPC armor in some cases but I canā€™t think of much else.

Iā€™ve honestly never seen a company with as much contempt for its users as Bethesda..ļæ¼
                
            

            
            
vaporwavevocap:

armsnotsigns:
datanazush:

metalbatteryzone:

metalbatteryzone:
Todd please
Bethesda really looked at the Ranger Armor a...

            
            
        

    



        

        
        

            







    refused: You're the mother, he's
 That's not what l've
 been told but...
 the father. He has as
 much right to take that
 child as you do.
 ns

 Well, if you've gotten
 different advice, you
 Okay.
 were mistaken.

 ..including judges and
 probation officers, who
 still don't get that
 message...
 In this country, fathers
 are not second-class
 citizens. I know there
 are a lot of people out
 there...

 ...but fathers are not
 Not always. Sometimes
 second-class citizens.
 it's 50-50 but it's a
 Sometimes they're
 actually better parents.
 case-by-case basis.

 But anybody that says.it's not yours. It's both
 to me 'he can't take my of yours. You made her
 daughter with him...
 together.
gaylibertariansc:
queer-anna:

matriarchyforeveryone:


michaelam1978:
I love this! Judge Judy schools a naĆÆve

 and obviously disappointed mom who thinks dad doesnā€™t have any right to their child.
The mother carried that girl nine months in her stomach and then pushed her out of her body. No, the father does NOT have even remotely the same rights to the child as the mother!


My mother carried me for nine months in her stomach and then pushed me out of her body. 
My mother also got drunk and refused to feed me or my three siblings and forced my oldest brother to cook for us while she was passed-out drunk on the couch. 
My father has fought for us for as long as I can remember, while my mother was busy getting drinking straight-vodka and brainwashing us to think my father was the evil one. 
I nearly starved at age 6 because my mother was too drunk to cook half of the time. I had to dress my 4 year old sister for school, at age six. I had to walk in heavy snow at age 6 with my 4 year old sister to a bus stop to ride to school. 
My father has fought a long, long time to get custody of us. He deeply loves us. My mother has never, ever done anything like that. She has never nursed me when I had the flu, or kissed me goodnight, or told me she loved me. She has never taught me how to tie my shoes, or how to brush my hair, or how to take care of myself. 
Yes, my mother carried me, and three other kids, to term and successfully gave birth, but only has my father put 100% of his life into something that should require two people to do. 


Still a good one

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                refused: You're the mother, he's
 That's not what l've
 been told but...
 the father. He has as
 much right to take that
 child as you do.
 ns

 Well, if you've gotten
 different advice, you
 Okay.
 were mistaken.

 ..including judges and
 probation officers, who
 still don't get that
 message...
 In this country, fathers
 are not second-class
 citizens. I know there
 are a lot of people out
 there...

 ...but fathers are not
 Not always. Sometimes
 second-class citizens.
 it's 50-50 but it's a
 Sometimes they're
 actually better parents.
 case-by-case basis.

 But anybody that says.it's not yours. It's both
 to me 'he can't take my of yours. You made her
 daughter with him...
 together.
gaylibertariansc:
queer-anna:

matriarchyforeveryone:


michaelam1978:
I love this! Judge Judy schools a naĆÆve

 and obviously disappointed mom who thinks dad doesnā€™t have any right to their child.
The mother carried that girl nine months in her stomach and then pushed her out of her body. No, the father does NOT have even remotely the same rights to the child as the mother!


My mother carried me for nine months in her stomach and then pushed me out of her body. 
My mother also got drunk and refused to feed me or my three siblings and forced my oldest brother to cook for us while she was passed-out drunk on the couch. 
My father has fought for us for as long as I can remember, while my mother was busy getting drinking straight-vodka and brainwashing us to think my father was the evil one. 
I nearly starved at age 6 because my mother was too drunk to cook half of the time. I had to dress my 4 year old sister for school, at age six. I had to walk in heavy snow at age 6 with my 4 year old sister to a bus stop to ride to school. 
My father has fought a long, long time to get custody of us. He deeply loves us. My mother has never, ever done anything like that. She has never nursed me when I had the flu, or kissed me goodnight, or told me she loved me. She has never taught me how to tie my shoes, or how to brush my hair, or how to take care of myself. 
Yes, my mother carried me, and three other kids, to term and successfully gave birth, but only has my father put 100% of his life into something that should require two people to do. 


Still a good one

                
            

            
            
gaylibertariansc:
queer-anna:

matriarchyforeveryone:


michaelam1978:
I love this! Judge Judy schools a naĆÆve

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    refused: Mira Jacob
 @mirajacob
 Two things I didn't know until I was
 yesterday years old:
 1) Memorial Day was started by
 African Americans honoring fallen
 Union solders
 2) The Statue of Liberty was gifted to
 America to celebrate freed slaves, not
 immigrants.
 Erasure is real, you all. But that part
 we knew.
 7:28 AM May 27, 2019 Twitter for iPhone
 37.2K Likes
 12.2K Retweets
valquainton:

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

the-barista-who-became-a-rabbit:

meganphntmgrl:

panic-boy-21:

blckrapunzel:

laughingacademy:

interficio-vos:

thatpettyblackgirl:


The White Wash is real.



One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed Slaves
The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts



Just wait until you google what the original Statue of Liberty(that got refused by America)looked like


For those of you who donā€™t want to look it up yourselves:
Lady Liberty is a black woman.

Guys, this has been thoroughly debunkedĀ sinceĀ 2000, and it does the statue on the left there a huge disservice to treat her as an unwanted copy. Thatā€™s Lady Liberty of St. Maarten, an homage from 2007 (post-dating the debunking, even) that was dedicated to the anniversary of the ending of slavery there:
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a representation of Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, with bonus American iconography:
HOWEVER: Lady Liberty in New York is not based on a white woman, either.Ā 
Sheā€™s a Muslim Arab woman, at least in terms of the modeling of her face. Her face was reused from an abandoned project to build a colossal statue of a modern Egyptian Arab peasant woman near the Suez Canal (as verified by the Smithsonian, no less).
While she wasnā€™t originally dedicated specifically for immigrants, the poemĀ ā€œThe New Colossusā€ was added specifically because of the position she occupied in the harbor and the symbolic visual power she would have to immigrants coming in. The author, Emma Lazarus, was Jewish.
Itā€™s important to fight back on the whitewashing of history, because it happens left and right, but it shouldnā€™t happen at the cost of misinformation that treats Lady Liberty of St. Maarten as an unwanted prototype rather than a powerful monument in her own right and, ironically, claims that sheā€™s now a white woman when sheā€™s not while also ignoring the powerful influence of the Jewish-American community on the final version.

Geez, Iā€™m really tired of people trying to spout false shit all over tumblr. Like, this post has 37K notes, But I assure you, that like many other false posts, Ā¾ of the notes are from people who saw the false bit and prefered to reblog it that way and be mad, instead of just making a simple google search

Hi Darling Friends of Tumblr.
Iā€™ve been taking too long to do data entry and Iā€™m not good at actually doing analysis so itā€™s time to start naming and shaming.
@thatpettyblackgirl is a blog that Iā€™ve been observing for a while that has a really interesting pattern of behavior. 
Namely, posting a bunch of shit like this. 
Remember that tweet about Olive Garden supporting Donald Trump that was debunked? Well when it circulated on tumblr two weeks ago it was because of @thatpettyblackgirl
You know the misreported post about the school lunch program that refused donations from a local businessman? That was a different blogger but thatpettyblackgirl has circulated another version of it. 
That other blogger has a posting history thatā€™s full of the same kinds of things thatpettyblackgirl posts - lots of reposts from twitter, lots of screenshots from other sites, not a lot of commentary, and things that are decontextualized enough to make them seem worse than they are or to totally misrepresent the actions depicted (like this reposted video and tweets indignant about a man being arrested when the very specific purpose of his protest was to get arrested).
It reminds me of that post about coconut husks as a wood alternative thatā€™s been circulating recently - a screenshot of a white man above a news article is posted with the complaint that white people ā€œdiscoveringā€ coconuts after disregarding them as useless when the article is about a new method of processing coconut husks that allows them to be put to new uses. 
That blog is fascinating. And has a lot in common with thatpettyblackgirl - both of them reblog their own posts at a rate thatā€™s higher than Iā€™ve seen on most tumblrs (btw, you should know that a while back I asked for volunteers who would let me explore their tumblrs and while my research sample isnā€™t random it is a collection of small and large blogs and none of them have *checks notes* reblogged their own post of a bunch of screencaps of a tweet storm five times in the last couple of days). Both of them tend to post screencaps, neither one really writes much. They reblog a lot of memes, and both have some pretty big textposts that are just straight rip-offs of tweets (ā€bi folks have you eaten today? answer quick and iced coffee doesnā€™t countā€ is one of thatpettyblackgirlā€™s recent popular textposts and itā€™s ripped off from twitter.) They also reblog eachother a fair amount - along with @whyyoustabbedme and @endangered-justice-seeker, who ALSO have really weird posting patterns.
Also all four of those blogs are part of a group of nine blogs that were created in a three-week period of 2017 that Iā€™ve been watching that donā€™t seem to follow a pattern of normal tumblr behavior and that also post an awful lot of incorrect viral posts and are staggeringly popular (for clarity: blackqueerblog is not one of the nine created in that time period). 

ANYWAY this is all reminding me very strongly of bellygangstaboo and lagonegirl. 
I know I probably sound like this image:
But there are excellent, thoughtful bloggers who discuss police brutality, racism in the US, class warefare, and institutional bias who arenā€™t ALSO unflaggingly committed to having their own dedicated Snopes pages. @odinsblog, Franchesca Ramsey, @antifainternational, and @mostlysignssomeportents might be a good place to start. 
My dudes, I donā€™t want to be depressing so Iā€™ll let Vanity Fair do it for me:

That Russian operatives could so effectively engage Americans with 
tactics as simple as Facebook ads, fake-news postings, and Twitter 
trolls, shows how dangerous misinformation is in the social-media age, 
when propaganda can be so easily amplified. More important, it 
highlights how primed Americans already were for manipulation. 
When the ICE raids started up again a few months ago thatpettyblackgirl was posting about how shameful it was that there was nothing that could be done. A lot of these blogs are writing about how itā€™s impossible for black people to succeed in America, theyā€™re writing about how voting is always rigged and you canā€™t fight the system.
And you know what that goes against every fucking principle of my cold little anarchist heart. These blogs are full of despair - they look like theyā€™re full of cute memes and fresh news but theyā€™re a poisoned pill telling you not to bother because you canā€™t fight the system. Theyā€™re not offering help, theyā€™re training you not to bother fighting for your rights (there was a popular post about how the Hong Kong protesters are light years ahead of US protesters - that post didnā€™t talk about mutual aid or sharing tactics, it just said ā€œpeople in the US would neverā€ and left it at that, like we canā€™t learn from each other and share information across borders)
Fucking. Anyway. Iā€™ve been fairly quiet about this because Iā€™ve been trying to be all good and data sciencey about it but Iā€™ve seen this post on my dash fifty times this week. 
Keep your eye out for @thatpettyblackgirlĀ  @uncommonbish @whyyoustabbedme and @blackqueerblog - all of them have large followings and are known to post tweets and news articles out of context and if youā€™re considering reblogging information from one of their blogs please make a point to fact-check the post yourself. 
Not everything they post is wrong. I donā€™t know if these are real bloggers who donā€™t care about the potential negative impact of their tweet thievery or if theyā€™re weird psyops blogs that are intended to make you feel hopeless about your place in the political process. Whatever they are it doesnā€™t matter when they continually post misinformation and donā€™t seem to care about stopping so please be cautious.
Anyway, Iā€™m cataloguing these sorts of posts at @psyops-redux so if you want to keep an eye out for stuff thatā€™s debunked Iā€™ll tag by originating blogger over there.
Stay safe, buds. 

Dammit, I got all fired up and I forgot to add:

THEREā€™S A GAME THAT HELPS YOU RECOGNIZE WHEN PEOPLE ARE POSTING MISINFORMATION AND MAKES YOU LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THIS KIND OF PROPAGANDA AND YOU SHOULD ALL GO PLAY IT.


Ah.  The number reposts from their own blogs had puzzled me in the past.  I assumed it was something to do with the way Tumblr runs that I wasnā€™t tech-savvy enough to understand.  But this makes a lot of sense.  Unless someone tells me otherwise, Iā€™m gonna go ahead and unfollow the blogs listed.  Any recommendations for actual historical/current affairs poc blogs to follow instead?

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                refused: Mira Jacob
 @mirajacob
 Two things I didn't know until I was
 yesterday years old:
 1) Memorial Day was started by
 African Americans honoring fallen
 Union solders
 2) The Statue of Liberty was gifted to
 America to celebrate freed slaves, not
 immigrants.
 Erasure is real, you all. But that part
 we knew.
 7:28 AM May 27, 2019 Twitter for iPhone
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thatpettyblackgirl:


The White Wash is real.



One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed Slaves
The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts



Just wait until you google what the original Statue of Liberty(that got refused by America)looked like


For those of you who donā€™t want to look it up yourselves:
Lady Liberty is a black woman.

Guys, this has been thoroughly debunkedĀ sinceĀ 2000, and it does the statue on the left there a huge disservice to treat her as an unwanted copy. Thatā€™s Lady Liberty of St. Maarten, an homage from 2007 (post-dating the debunking, even) that was dedicated to the anniversary of the ending of slavery there:
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a representation of Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, with bonus American iconography:
HOWEVER: Lady Liberty in New York is not based on a white woman, either.Ā 
Sheā€™s a Muslim Arab woman, at least in terms of the modeling of her face. Her face was reused from an abandoned project to build a colossal statue of a modern Egyptian Arab peasant woman near the Suez Canal (as verified by the Smithsonian, no less).
While she wasnā€™t originally dedicated specifically for immigrants, the poemĀ ā€œThe New Colossusā€ was added specifically because of the position she occupied in the harbor and the symbolic visual power she would have to immigrants coming in. The author, Emma Lazarus, was Jewish.
Itā€™s important to fight back on the whitewashing of history, because it happens left and right, but it shouldnā€™t happen at the cost of misinformation that treats Lady Liberty of St. Maarten as an unwanted prototype rather than a powerful monument in her own right and, ironically, claims that sheā€™s now a white woman when sheā€™s not while also ignoring the powerful influence of the Jewish-American community on the final version.

Geez, Iā€™m really tired of people trying to spout false shit all over tumblr. Like, this post has 37K notes, But I assure you, that like many other false posts, Ā¾ of the notes are from people who saw the false bit and prefered to reblog it that way and be mad, instead of just making a simple google search

Hi Darling Friends of Tumblr.
Iā€™ve been taking too long to do data entry and Iā€™m not good at actually doing analysis so itā€™s time to start naming and shaming.
@thatpettyblackgirl is a blog that Iā€™ve been observing for a while that has a really interesting pattern of behavior. 
Namely, posting a bunch of shit like this. 
Remember that tweet about Olive Garden supporting Donald Trump that was debunked? Well when it circulated on tumblr two weeks ago it was because of @thatpettyblackgirl
You know the misreported post about the school lunch program that refused donations from a local businessman? That was a different blogger but thatpettyblackgirl has circulated another version of it. 
That other blogger has a posting history thatā€™s full of the same kinds of things thatpettyblackgirl posts - lots of reposts from twitter, lots of screenshots from other sites, not a lot of commentary, and things that are decontextualized enough to make them seem worse than they are or to totally misrepresent the actions depicted (like this reposted video and tweets indignant about a man being arrested when the very specific purpose of his protest was to get arrested).
It reminds me of that post about coconut husks as a wood alternative thatā€™s been circulating recently - a screenshot of a white man above a news article is posted with the complaint that white people ā€œdiscoveringā€ coconuts after disregarding them as useless when the article is about a new method of processing coconut husks that allows them to be put to new uses. 
That blog is fascinating. And has a lot in common with thatpettyblackgirl - both of them reblog their own posts at a rate thatā€™s higher than Iā€™ve seen on most tumblrs (btw, you should know that a while back I asked for volunteers who would let me explore their tumblrs and while my research sample isnā€™t random it is a collection of small and large blogs and none of them have *checks notes* reblogged their own post of a bunch of screencaps of a tweet storm five times in the last couple of days). Both of them tend to post screencaps, neither one really writes much. They reblog a lot of memes, and both have some pretty big textposts that are just straight rip-offs of tweets (ā€bi folks have you eaten today? answer quick and iced coffee doesnā€™t countā€ is one of thatpettyblackgirlā€™s recent popular textposts and itā€™s ripped off from twitter.) They also reblog eachother a fair amount - along with @whyyoustabbedme and @endangered-justice-seeker, who ALSO have really weird posting patterns.
Also all four of those blogs are part of a group of nine blogs that were created in a three-week period of 2017 that Iā€™ve been watching that donā€™t seem to follow a pattern of normal tumblr behavior and that also post an awful lot of incorrect viral posts and are staggeringly popular (for clarity: blackqueerblog is not one of the nine created in that time period). 

ANYWAY this is all reminding me very strongly of bellygangstaboo and lagonegirl. 
I know I probably sound like this image:
But there are excellent, thoughtful bloggers who discuss police brutality, racism in the US, class warefare, and institutional bias who arenā€™t ALSO unflaggingly committed to having their own dedicated Snopes pages. @odinsblog, Franchesca Ramsey, @antifainternational, and @mostlysignssomeportents might be a good place to start. 
My dudes, I donā€™t want to be depressing so Iā€™ll let Vanity Fair do it for me:

That Russian operatives could so effectively engage Americans with 
tactics as simple as Facebook ads, fake-news postings, and Twitter 
trolls, shows how dangerous misinformation is in the social-media age, 
when propaganda can be so easily amplified. More important, it 
highlights how primed Americans already were for manipulation. 
When the ICE raids started up again a few months ago thatpettyblackgirl was posting about how shameful it was that there was nothing that could be done. A lot of these blogs are writing about how itā€™s impossible for black people to succeed in America, theyā€™re writing about how voting is always rigged and you canā€™t fight the system.
And you know what that goes against every fucking principle of my cold little anarchist heart. These blogs are full of despair - they look like theyā€™re full of cute memes and fresh news but theyā€™re a poisoned pill telling you not to bother because you canā€™t fight the system. Theyā€™re not offering help, theyā€™re training you not to bother fighting for your rights (there was a popular post about how the Hong Kong protesters are light years ahead of US protesters - that post didnā€™t talk about mutual aid or sharing tactics, it just said ā€œpeople in the US would neverā€ and left it at that, like we canā€™t learn from each other and share information across borders)
Fucking. Anyway. Iā€™ve been fairly quiet about this because Iā€™ve been trying to be all good and data sciencey about it but Iā€™ve seen this post on my dash fifty times this week. 
Keep your eye out for @thatpettyblackgirlĀ  @uncommonbish @whyyoustabbedme and @blackqueerblog - all of them have large followings and are known to post tweets and news articles out of context and if youā€™re considering reblogging information from one of their blogs please make a point to fact-check the post yourself. 
Not everything they post is wrong. I donā€™t know if these are real bloggers who donā€™t care about the potential negative impact of their tweet thievery or if theyā€™re weird psyops blogs that are intended to make you feel hopeless about your place in the political process. Whatever they are it doesnā€™t matter when they continually post misinformation and donā€™t seem to care about stopping so please be cautious.
Anyway, Iā€™m cataloguing these sorts of posts at @psyops-redux so if you want to keep an eye out for stuff thatā€™s debunked Iā€™ll tag by originating blogger over there.
Stay safe, buds. 

Dammit, I got all fired up and I forgot to add:

THEREā€™S A GAME THAT HELPS YOU RECOGNIZE WHEN PEOPLE ARE POSTING MISINFORMATION AND MAKES YOU LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THIS KIND OF PROPAGANDA AND YOU SHOULD ALL GO PLAY IT.


Ah.  The number reposts from their own blogs had puzzled me in the past.  I assumed it was something to do with the way Tumblr runs that I wasnā€™t tech-savvy enough to understand.  But this makes a lot of sense.  Unless someone tells me otherwise, Iā€™m gonna go ahead and unfollow the blogs listed.  Any recommendations for actual historical/current affairs poc blogs to follow instead?

                
            

            
            
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    refused: did you know?
 did-you-kno.tumblr.com
 Michael the gorilla was taught sign language
 by Koko, the first signing gorilla. He began
 signing "Squash meat gorilla. Mouth tooth
 Cry sharp-noise loud. Bad think-trouble look-
 face. Cut/neck lip (girl) hole." Researchers
 believed this was a description of the
 poaching death of his mother.
 did-you-kno.tumblr.com
 didyouknowblog.com
 Cohen Gi n facebook.com/didyouknowblog
death-limes:

venipede:

osteophagy:

endcetaceanexploitation:

Washoe was a chimp who was taught sign language.
One of Washoeā€™s caretakers was pregnant and missed work for many weeks after she miscarried. Roger Fouts recounts the following situation:
ā€œPeople who should be there for her and arenā€™t are often given the cold shoulderā€”her way of informing them that sheā€™s miffed at them. Washoe greeted Kat [the caretaker] in just this way when she finally returned to work with the chimps. Kat made her apologies to Washoe, then decided to tell her the truth, signing ā€œMY BABY DIED.ā€ Washoe stared at her, then looked down. She finally peered into Katā€™s eyes again and carefully signed ā€œCRYā€, touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human (Chimpanzees donā€™t shed tears). Kat later remarked that one sign told her more about Washoe and her mental capabilities than all her longer, grammatically perfect sentences.ā€œ [23]
Washoe herself lost two children; one baby died shortly after birth of a heart defect, the other baby, Sequoyah, died of a staph infection at two months of age.

more about Washoe:
after the death of her children, researchers were determined to have Washoe raise a baby and brought in a ten month chimpanzee named Loulis. one of the caretakers went to Washoeā€™s enclosure and signed ā€œi have a baby for you.ā€ Washoe became incredibly excited, yelling and swaying from side to side, signing ā€œbabyā€ over and over again. then she signed ā€œmy baby.ā€
the caretaker came back with Loulis, and Washoeā€™s excitement disappeared entirely. she refused to pick Loulis up, instead signing ā€œbabyā€ apathetically; it was clear that the baby she thought she was getting was going to be Sequoyah. eventually Washoe did approach Loulis, and by the next day the two had bonded and from then on she was utterly devoted to him.
*information shamelessly paraphrased from When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Masson.

Even more interestingly, after Washoe and Loulis bonded, she started teaching him American Sign Language the same way that human parents teach their children language. It only took Loulis eight days to learn his first sign from Washoe, and aside from the seven that his human handlers learned around him, he learned to speak in ASL just as fluently as Washoe and was able to communicate with humans in the same way she could.

now if y'all donā€™t think this is the tightest shit you can get outta my face

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                refused: did you know?
 did-you-kno.tumblr.com
 Michael the gorilla was taught sign language
 by Koko, the first signing gorilla. He began
 signing "Squash meat gorilla. Mouth tooth
 Cry sharp-noise loud. Bad think-trouble look-
 face. Cut/neck lip (girl) hole." Researchers
 believed this was a description of the
 poaching death of his mother.
 did-you-kno.tumblr.com
 didyouknowblog.com
 Cohen Gi n facebook.com/didyouknowblog
death-limes:

venipede:

osteophagy:

endcetaceanexploitation:

Washoe was a chimp who was taught sign language.
One of Washoeā€™s caretakers was pregnant and missed work for many weeks after she miscarried. Roger Fouts recounts the following situation:
ā€œPeople who should be there for her and arenā€™t are often given the cold shoulderā€”her way of informing them that sheā€™s miffed at them. Washoe greeted Kat [the caretaker] in just this way when she finally returned to work with the chimps. Kat made her apologies to Washoe, then decided to tell her the truth, signing ā€œMY BABY DIED.ā€ Washoe stared at her, then looked down. She finally peered into Katā€™s eyes again and carefully signed ā€œCRYā€, touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human (Chimpanzees donā€™t shed tears). Kat later remarked that one sign told her more about Washoe and her mental capabilities than all her longer, grammatically perfect sentences.ā€œ [23]
Washoe herself lost two children; one baby died shortly after birth of a heart defect, the other baby, Sequoyah, died of a staph infection at two months of age.

more about Washoe:
after the death of her children, researchers were determined to have Washoe raise a baby and brought in a ten month chimpanzee named Loulis. one of the caretakers went to Washoeā€™s enclosure and signed ā€œi have a baby for you.ā€ Washoe became incredibly excited, yelling and swaying from side to side, signing ā€œbabyā€ over and over again. then she signed ā€œmy baby.ā€
the caretaker came back with Loulis, and Washoeā€™s excitement disappeared entirely. she refused to pick Loulis up, instead signing ā€œbabyā€ apathetically; it was clear that the baby she thought she was getting was going to be Sequoyah. eventually Washoe did approach Loulis, and by the next day the two had bonded and from then on she was utterly devoted to him.
*information shamelessly paraphrased from When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Masson.

Even more interestingly, after Washoe and Loulis bonded, she started teaching him American Sign Language the same way that human parents teach their children language. It only took Loulis eight days to learn his first sign from Washoe, and aside from the seven that his human handlers learned around him, he learned to speak in ASL just as fluently as Washoe and was able to communicate with humans in the same way she could.

now if y'all donā€™t think this is the tightest shit you can get outta my face

                
            

            
            
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    refused: did you know?
 Photographer Diana Kim, whose
 father abandoned her when she
 was 5, wanted to document the
 lives of the homeless. Searching
 for subjects on the streets, she
 came upon a thin and distant man
 in rags who looked somewhat familiar.
 It was her father. By fate or by chance,
 she'd found him after 25 years.
 PHOTO: DIANA KIM
 DIDYOUKNOWBLOG.COM
did-you-know:


He had schizophrenia. He didnā€™t recognize her. She did everything she could to connect with him, but he refused treatment, medication, food, or new clothing.


Eventually, he said to her: ā€œDiana, I am so sorry for not being in your life. I am so happy that you have a family of your own now. Do better for themā€¦
ā€¦ Donā€™t worry about me or what everyone says about me. If you want to make me proud and happy, be there for your family the way your mom and I never were. Stop trying to save everyoneā€¦just worry about yourself and your family. And donā€™t forget why I named you Diana, you are the light within the darkness.ā€ So she refused to give up.
After suffering a heart attack, he agreed to get help and slowly took control of his own life.
One day he suddenly called her to invite her out for coffee. Later that afternoon, she wrote on her blog: ā€œI feel like I just met my father for the first time today.ā€
ā€œI struggled to reconcile my feelings toward my fatherā€™s absence in my life, while continuing to care deeply for him and other homeless individuals.ā€
ā€œOver time, I learned to navigate through my feelings of desperation and became more vocal in my community about my fatherā€™s condition and what itā€™s like to watch a loved one battle mental illness.ā€
He is now doing very well, and they are rebuilding their relationship from the ground up. ā€œSo long as we are alive in this world, every day is an opportunity to take hold of that ā€˜second chance.ā€™ There is no failure unless you give up, and he never gave up. And I havenā€™t given up on him.ā€
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                refused: did you know?
 Photographer Diana Kim, whose
 father abandoned her when she
 was 5, wanted to document the
 lives of the homeless. Searching
 for subjects on the streets, she
 came upon a thin and distant man
 in rags who looked somewhat familiar.
 It was her father. By fate or by chance,
 she'd found him after 25 years.
 PHOTO: DIANA KIM
 DIDYOUKNOWBLOG.COM
did-you-know:


He had schizophrenia. He didnā€™t recognize her. She did everything she could to connect with him, but he refused treatment, medication, food, or new clothing.


Eventually, he said to her: ā€œDiana, I am so sorry for not being in your life. I am so happy that you have a family of your own now. Do better for themā€¦
ā€¦ Donā€™t worry about me or what everyone says about me. If you want to make me proud and happy, be there for your family the way your mom and I never were. Stop trying to save everyoneā€¦just worry about yourself and your family. And donā€™t forget why I named you Diana, you are the light within the darkness.ā€ So she refused to give up.
After suffering a heart attack, he agreed to get help and slowly took control of his own life.
One day he suddenly called her to invite her out for coffee. Later that afternoon, she wrote on her blog: ā€œI feel like I just met my father for the first time today.ā€
ā€œI struggled to reconcile my feelings toward my fatherā€™s absence in my life, while continuing to care deeply for him and other homeless individuals.ā€
ā€œOver time, I learned to navigate through my feelings of desperation and became more vocal in my community about my fatherā€™s condition and what itā€™s like to watch a loved one battle mental illness.ā€
He is now doing very well, and they are rebuilding their relationship from the ground up. ā€œSo long as we are alive in this world, every day is an opportunity to take hold of that ā€˜second chance.ā€™ There is no failure unless you give up, and he never gave up. And I havenā€™t given up on him.ā€
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    refused: did you know?
 Photographer Diana Kim, whose
 father abandoned her when she
 was 5, wanted to document the
 lives of the homeless. Searching
 for subjects on the streets, she
 came upon a thin and distant man
 in rags who looked somewhat familiar.
 It was her father. By fate or by chance,
 she'd found him after 25 years.
 PHOTO: DIANA KIM
 DIDYOUKNOWBLOG.COM
did-you-know:



He had schizophrenia. He didnā€™t recognize her. She did everything she could to connect with him, but he refused treatment, medication, food, or new clothing.

Eventually, he said to her: ā€œDiana, I am so sorry for not being in your life. I am so happy that you have a family of your own now. Do better for themā€¦ā€¦ Donā€™t worry about me or what everyone says about me. If you want to make me proud and happy, be there for your family the way your mom and I never were. Stop trying to save everyoneā€¦just worry about yourself and your family. And donā€™t forget why I named you Diana, you are the light within the darkness.ā€ So she refused to give up.After suffering a heart attack, he agreed to get help and slowly took control of his own life.One day he suddenly called her to invite her out for coffee. Later that afternoon, she wrote on her blog: ā€œI feel like I just met my father for the first time today.ā€ā€œI struggled to reconcile my feelings toward my fatherā€™s absence in my life, while continuing to care deeply for him and other homeless individuals.ā€ā€œOver time, I learned to navigate through my feelings of desperation and became more vocal in my community about my fatherā€™s condition and what itā€™s like to watch a loved one battle mental illness.ā€He is now doing very well, and they are rebuilding their relationship from the ground up. ā€œSo long as we are alive in this world, every day is an opportunity to take hold of that ā€˜second chance.ā€™ There is no failure unless you give up, and he never gave up. And I havenā€™t given up on him.ā€Source
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                refused: did you know?
 Photographer Diana Kim, whose
 father abandoned her when she
 was 5, wanted to document the
 lives of the homeless. Searching
 for subjects on the streets, she
 came upon a thin and distant man
 in rags who looked somewhat familiar.
 It was her father. By fate or by chance,
 she'd found him after 25 years.
 PHOTO: DIANA KIM
 DIDYOUKNOWBLOG.COM
did-you-know:



He had schizophrenia. He didnā€™t recognize her. She did everything she could to connect with him, but he refused treatment, medication, food, or new clothing.

Eventually, he said to her: ā€œDiana, I am so sorry for not being in your life. I am so happy that you have a family of your own now. Do better for themā€¦ā€¦ Donā€™t worry about me or what everyone says about me. If you want to make me proud and happy, be there for your family the way your mom and I never were. Stop trying to save everyoneā€¦just worry about yourself and your family. And donā€™t forget why I named you Diana, you are the light within the darkness.ā€ So she refused to give up.After suffering a heart attack, he agreed to get help and slowly took control of his own life.One day he suddenly called her to invite her out for coffee. Later that afternoon, she wrote on her blog: ā€œI feel like I just met my father for the first time today.ā€ā€œI struggled to reconcile my feelings toward my fatherā€™s absence in my life, while continuing to care deeply for him and other homeless individuals.ā€ā€œOver time, I learned to navigate through my feelings of desperation and became more vocal in my community about my fatherā€™s condition and what itā€™s like to watch a loved one battle mental illness.ā€He is now doing very well, and they are rebuilding their relationship from the ground up. ā€œSo long as we are alive in this world, every day is an opportunity to take hold of that ā€˜second chance.ā€™ There is no failure unless you give up, and he never gave up. And I havenā€™t given up on him.ā€Source
                
            

            
            
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yokhakidfiasco:

stacyfaheyart:

Illustration about Native American boys who have to cut off their braids to follow school dress codes.

And black people have the same issue when it comes to finding jobs/careers.

^^^^ yes but it ainā€™t about us right now

this is actually really important and pardon me for doing the cliche reblogging with a caption thing but i want to talk about braids and just how significant they are
to native people (and of course i canā€™t talk about every native tribe as there are very specific sects and i only really am coming from the perspective of seneca) hair is extremely important as it represents the walking of the Sacred Path as the physical extension of thought and self, and holy men, women and two-spirits are identified through specific styles of dress and even if not holy, the hair shows what a person has participated in, their feelings, their age, whether they are married or not, whether they are in mourning and their tribe
my grandfather is seneca and he had to remove his braids at a very young age and it was an act of assimilation because his mother knew they had to try to be white in order to proceed and itā€™s a tool of oppression and humiliation to cut (or force to cut) a native american personā€™s hair for both religious and cultural preservationist reasons
my mom is half-seneca and her choice for me to not cut my hair until i was 13 and for it to be worn in traditional manner was because of this and when i cut my hair then, i cut it off at the base of my head for also this reason; i was diagnosed with depression and was going through therapy, i wanted my hair and my treatment to signify that i was becoming a new, better personā€“ eventually i started dying my hair but that is for separate reasons of colour symbolism and itā€™s still an important thing to me
please do not invalidate the struggles of other POC, i understand that this happens and itā€™s horrific to not be able to wear your natural hair, these are also children whose culture and religion is being stripped away from them and they canā€™t even participate in something so important within their culture simply because of white patriarchal ideas of masculinity

^^THIS
American Indian children (especially plains ndns) were forced to attend boarding schools where they were forbidden to speak their own language and had to cut off their hair and choose a ā€œwhiteā€ name from the bible. If you refused, the teacher would often ridicule you by ignoring you anytime you attempted to speak or participate in class, to the point of saying offensive, false things about your people to rile you up enough that you gave in and picked a white name so the teacher would let you speak and tell the truth. (This is shown in bury my heart at wounded knee). In fact, it is hard to trace records before the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries bc the govt considered the way native peoples often have several different names that they go by in different context and by different people to be too annoying to record them in a census, another reason they were forced to choose white names. 
Being oppressed for your natural hair and the names you choose is a real thing other poc face and itā€™s wrong and itā€™s racist, but this specific post is about what it means to American Indians, and for them it was not only racist stereotyping, but forced assimilation and genocide of their cultures. 

dude holy shit being ridiculed for not assimilating was the least of your worries in a residential school. i know people who were forced to kneel on sharp rocks in a corner for speaking a single word in their native language
some fun facts abt residential schools:
 ā€¢ people who went to residential schools were abused physically, sexually, verbally, and emotionally. my mushum went through all of these until he turned 18 and was allowed to leave
 ā€¢ boys were not allowed to wear their braids. period. the point of the residential schools was to ā€˜kill the indian in the childā€™ and you can google literal before-and-after images of students that the schools would distribute as a source of PRIDE
 ā€¢ the government would experiment on the students, starving them to see how long they could go without food before it seriously affected them. officially, over 6,000 native children died in residential schools. our government admits the number was likely much higher
 ā€¢ residential schools were literally hitlerā€™s source of inspiration for concentration camps during world war II
 ā€¢ where im working right now, there are people in their 30s who were forced to attend residential schools
 ā€¢ the last residential school closed in 1996, one year after i was born, two hours away from where i live, twenty minutes from my familyā€™s reserve
native assimilation has been the goal from the very start


Residential schools may have officially been shut down, but native kids are still disproportionately removed from their homes and while ICWA (the Indian Child Welfare Act) was designed with the intent of ensuring theyā€™re still placed within their community, ICWA was just recently overturned in the courts, which means that these children are being overwhelmingly placed with white families. This hasnā€™t stopped. Theyā€™ve just gotten less overt about it. 

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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jyuu-chan:

something-in-the-way-she-knows:

freakishfrollic:

psalmsofraven:

yokhakidfiasco:

stacyfaheyart:

Illustration about Native American boys who have to cut off their braids to follow school dress codes.

And black people have the same issue when it comes to finding jobs/careers.

^^^^ yes but it ainā€™t about us right now

this is actually really important and pardon me for doing the cliche reblogging with a caption thing but i want to talk about braids and just how significant they are
to native people (and of course i canā€™t talk about every native tribe as there are very specific sects and i only really am coming from the perspective of seneca) hair is extremely important as it represents the walking of the Sacred Path as the physical extension of thought and self, and holy men, women and two-spirits are identified through specific styles of dress and even if not holy, the hair shows what a person has participated in, their feelings, their age, whether they are married or not, whether they are in mourning and their tribe
my grandfather is seneca and he had to remove his braids at a very young age and it was an act of assimilation because his mother knew they had to try to be white in order to proceed and itā€™s a tool of oppression and humiliation to cut (or force to cut) a native american personā€™s hair for both religious and cultural preservationist reasons
my mom is half-seneca and her choice for me to not cut my hair until i was 13 and for it to be worn in traditional manner was because of this and when i cut my hair then, i cut it off at the base of my head for also this reason; i was diagnosed with depression and was going through therapy, i wanted my hair and my treatment to signify that i was becoming a new, better personā€“ eventually i started dying my hair but that is for separate reasons of colour symbolism and itā€™s still an important thing to me
please do not invalidate the struggles of other POC, i understand that this happens and itā€™s horrific to not be able to wear your natural hair, these are also children whose culture and religion is being stripped away from them and they canā€™t even participate in something so important within their culture simply because of white patriarchal ideas of masculinity

^^THIS
American Indian children (especially plains ndns) were forced to attend boarding schools where they were forbidden to speak their own language and had to cut off their hair and choose a ā€œwhiteā€ name from the bible. If you refused, the teacher would often ridicule you by ignoring you anytime you attempted to speak or participate in class, to the point of saying offensive, false things about your people to rile you up enough that you gave in and picked a white name so the teacher would let you speak and tell the truth. (This is shown in bury my heart at wounded knee). In fact, it is hard to trace records before the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries bc the govt considered the way native peoples often have several different names that they go by in different context and by different people to be too annoying to record them in a census, another reason they were forced to choose white names. 
Being oppressed for your natural hair and the names you choose is a real thing other poc face and itā€™s wrong and itā€™s racist, but this specific post is about what it means to American Indians, and for them it was not only racist stereotyping, but forced assimilation and genocide of their cultures. 

dude holy shit being ridiculed for not assimilating was the least of your worries in a residential school. i know people who were forced to kneel on sharp rocks in a corner for speaking a single word in their native language
some fun facts abt residential schools:
 ā€¢ people who went to residential schools were abused physically, sexually, verbally, and emotionally. my mushum went through all of these until he turned 18 and was allowed to leave
 ā€¢ boys were not allowed to wear their braids. period. the point of the residential schools was to ā€˜kill the indian in the childā€™ and you can google literal before-and-after images of students that the schools would distribute as a source of PRIDE
 ā€¢ the government would experiment on the students, starving them to see how long they could go without food before it seriously affected them. officially, over 6,000 native children died in residential schools. our government admits the number was likely much higher
 ā€¢ residential schools were literally hitlerā€™s source of inspiration for concentration camps during world war II
 ā€¢ where im working right now, there are people in their 30s who were forced to attend residential schools
 ā€¢ the last residential school closed in 1996, one year after i was born, two hours away from where i live, twenty minutes from my familyā€™s reserve
native assimilation has been the goal from the very start


Residential schools may have officially been shut down, but native kids are still disproportionately removed from their homes and while ICWA (the Indian Child Welfare Act) was designed with the intent of ensuring theyā€™re still placed within their community, ICWA was just recently overturned in the courts, which means that these children are being overwhelmingly placed with white families. This hasnā€™t stopped. Theyā€™ve just gotten less overt about it. 

                
            

            
            
61below:
jyuu-chan:

something-in-the-way-she-knows:

freakishfrollic:

psalmsofraven:

yokhakidfiasco:

stacyfaheyart:

Illustration abo...