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apihtawikosisan: shaunabrooke: »>The RCMP are looking for...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:55:33 -0500

shaunabrooke:

»>The RCMP are looking for any reason to arrested First Nations; who are trying to take a stand and put a stop to the testing that is going on as we speak!«<

“We’ve made our sacred fire. We’re going to stand our ground here.”

Seismic trucks won’t pass, says Elsipogtog war chief, calls for help from all Nations

BY MILES HOWE

ELSIPOGTOG, NEW BRUNSWICK – A sacred fire, which must burn continuously and be monitored for four days, has been lit by Mi’kmaq peoples from all corners of traditional Mi’kma’ki, who have gathered in the New Brunswick community of Elsipogtog. They, as well as non-Indigenous peoples from the local communities and beyond, have now begun to congregate in a field – with permission given by the owner – adjacent to the junction of highway 126 and highway 116 west.

The gathering, which now comprises about 40 people, is directly in the path of seismic testing trucks – or “thumpers” – that are conducting geological surveying on behalf of SWN Resources Canada. SWN is exploring for shale gas deposits. Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples worry that the seismic testing will lead to hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – of Kent County, much of which is under exploratory lease to SWN.

Elsipogotg war chief John Levi has noted that the gathering will remain peaceful, but that the seismic testing will not be allowed to continue past the sacred fire.

“We’re not going to let them pass. This is the reason why we’ve set up,” Levi told the Halifax Media Co-op. “We’ve made our sacred fire. We’re going to stand our ground here. This would be the spot here, so we’re asking for support from all non-Native and Native peoples.”

They WANT to stomp our asses, and have been pushing for a confrontation for over a year now. It started with Attawapiskat and has escalated since.

They will happily kill some of us to put us in our place.

This is real.

Hi everyone on tumblr! Do you love animals? Of course you...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:31:33 -0500

Hi everyone on tumblr!

Do you love animals? Of course you do.
These are my foster cats. I am fostering through an organization in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada called Craig Street Cats. They are currently responsible for 150+ cats IN the shelter, over 80 in foster homes and care for OVER 500 feral colonies in the city.

As you can probably imagine, this takes a lot of passion, funds, supplies and support. The shelter is struggling to get by, and almost no one working there is getting any money for their efforts.

They need help TODAY. Here are a few options for how you can help:

1. The shelter does $5.00 Fridays. (I’m pretty sure this link would work any day of the week though.) You can do 5.00 flat or maybe 5 bucks for every cat you’ve ever owned. Here is the paypal link: https://www.paypal.com/ca/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_flow&SESSION=tFdXoU1tK4D6BGjxv9ycf0_xDQja_rdrAaBVejEpYe5cHiLZeHNmdNlB_c0&dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8d4e181b3aff599f99e8c17bd6c7fe2f56
2. This wishlist is stuff that the shelter needs! Litter, Cat Food and Kitten Formula are the top needs of course, but all the other things make a difference too. There is a wide price range depending on what you are able to give.

http://www.amazon.com/registry/wishlist/LMV9HEA1DLN2/ref=cm_wl_sb_o?reveal=unpurchased&filter=all&sort=date-added&layout=standard&x=7&y=11

Please help, and if you can’t, please reblog this. Winnipeg is overrun with cats and it is a constant fight. We need all the help we can get. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.

A letter from a depressed student

Fri, 31 May 2013 23:15:00 -0500

Dear Education,

Hi there, you’re great, I mean.. the concept of you is great. Having professionals to guide us in our learning journey, plus the books and all that stuff, I love it! I’ve always loved the smell of school supplies, fresh books, the crinkly paper after soaking it in inky words. I love reading course listings and having big dreams of all the topics I could learn about. All the possibilities excite me, but they also paralyze me with fear.

Educational system? Hey. You weren’t set up for people like me. The system does a disservice to those of us who have mental disorders/illness, depression, anxiety, learning difficulties and disabilities. I can only speak on the conditions I have, I hope you’ll hear me out. Maybe this post can spark a conversation, maybe there’s a big one going on already that I haven’t found yet. Hear me out? Please?

This is my third attempt at post-secondary education. I got through high school just fine, hell, I was valedictorian (based on my speech, not my grades.) But, I pulled through with decent grades despite the beginnings of my struggle with mental illness. I took 3 courses my first year of university, and within 2 months of attending I had my first major depressive episode. I was 18 and I couldn’t leave my bed. I was ashamed and confused about this, I hid it from my parents the best that I could. When I did make it to class it actually felt like people’s lips were moving with no sound, everything was in slow motion. I felt alienated by my classmates, and I wasn’t even a blip on the radar in the eyes of the Professors.

So why bother?
There was no motivation to get out of bed anymore. I was already being called lazy by my closest friends and family. Irresponsible. Nobody took a moment to ask me if I was okay. I never saw any information at the school about depression or anxiety, although to be fair at this point I did not know what was happening to me. The only time I felt the University at all acknowledged such things was when I heard from several sources that Reading Week was being held in February because “it’s the month with the highest rate of suicide.”

Is that really how we address things like this?

I eventually missed so many classes that I all together stopped attending. I received an academic probation and never walked through those doors again.

The next few years I went through my personal battles, finally found some information on the things I was feeling, but in truth it didn’t make it easier for me.

I decided to attending night classes at the local college a few years after my first attempt at school. I was passionate about helping others going through problems so I began the Applied Counselling program 2-3 nights a week. This became an incredibly difficult process as the course requires you to delve deeply into your own personal problems in order to help address others. This became problematic for me because I felt like having to discuss my depression and anxieties was required for the course, and being put on the spot for things created an unsafe environment for me. My teacher put on the movie Wristcutters: A Love Story without any sort of trigger warning or preface that this deals with suicide and self harm. One of the first scenes involve self-harm and for the next two hours I had to fight off a panic attack. I felt absolutely sick. Not to mention that when we had a group discussion about self-harm the teacher asked why we thought people did it and the man behind me chirped up For the attention! I eventually left the program for a number of reasons (one of them being the aforementioned point) along with issues with the college itself.

Now I am attending an online university. I had hoped against hope that not having to physical go to class would eliminate at least one obstacle keeping me from my education. It’s true that it did, but the truth is, depression and anxiety do not just exist outside of my house. When I have a depressive episode or panic attack, nothing is going to get done. All I can do is grip the seat and try to make it through moment to moment, day to day. I’m sorry but how the fuck am I going to write an essay using correct sources, how am I going to take the time to carefully read pages and pages of complicated notes, have the cognitive ability to interpret them and then explain it in my own words? How? I am trying to fucking survive here. The school assigns tutors for each course you take, they essentially are the ones marking your papers and giving feedback. Nobody ever checks up on students. I’d be shocked to hear of any post-secondary educational facility that helped their students mentally and offered support besides grading papers.

I don’t know what to do at this point, I managed to complete one of four of my classes, and it took everything out of me to push through it. Now I’m looking at looming deadlines that I keep paying out the ass to extend, I haven’t finished an assignment in almost 2 months. I am dealing with layer upon layer of guilt, self-worth issues and anxiety.

The world has always told me that without education you are nothing, you are doomed to an unfulfilled life where money will always be a struggle. If I fail again I will meet the disappointment of all those around me and then what?

I know my suggestions sound idealistic but… whatever

Stop massive student debt. You tell kids that the only way up is through higher learning and then you make sure they have tens of thousands that they need to pay back. The thought of this stops in me in tracks and makes me wonder if it’s something I can live with. I want to learn, but I don’t want to spend the rest of my life paying for it.
I want every single educational facility to have a support system for students. Counselling, treatment information, info on mental issues in general, a safe place for people to come and talk about their issues. I want this to be readily available, and I want it advertised so that every student is aware of its existence.
I want to stop the pressure of deadlines. This isn’t about laziness and I can already hear the protests of “special treatment” being shouted at me. Explain to me why things need to be done in a certain amount of time for those who lose huge chunks of time to their mental illness. Does it fucking harm you as a person who has the ability to go out and do things without crippling depression and anxiety, for other people to hand in their stuff whenever the hell they finish them?
We put everyone on the same track and assume we all run the race the same way. When we acknowledge that this simply isn’t true, we can build an educational system that can serve it’s people, not take from them, and in return, the beneficiaries of this system will give back to society. That’s what I want. I’m not putting limitations on myself, I’m doing this the best way I can. You’re limiting me. When the course contract date comes nearer and you tell me “if it’s not done by this time, you’ve failed” You are trying to stop me from giving something back to this universe
I know maybe this whole thing sounds very group-hug like. If that’s what you’re thinking I guess I would challenge you to just try to be empathetic. If you got through the educational system just fine and you feel like you’ve got a good job or you feel like you EARNED it and other people who are struggling aren’t EARNING it like you did…. Can you maybe just try some empathy? Ever failed something in your life? That hurts right? Okay now imagine you’re trying to study for this test and the words aren’t in a language you recognized and everyone is looking at you telling you:”They are clearly in your language. Can’t you see it? Look, we can read it just fine. You’re just being lazy, work hard enough and you’ll see that it’s in this language that you know. If you don’t get your act together and realize that you know exactly what this says then you’ll never get where you want to go in life.” Does that make sense?
This isn’t about people just trying harder, getting their shit together, developing better habits, getting more exercise, eating healthier, turning off the tv, no Please. Listen. This is about mental illness. This is about a struggle that you do not have. I cannot think like you think no matter how hard I try. I’m just trying to find my passions in life, I’m trying to have a life that I deem worthy of living. I’m trying but it’s not set up for a mind like mine.

Person: Hey Jessica I know a guy you would really like. I showed me a picture of your tattoo and he...

Wed, 29 May 2013 22:09:05 -0500

Person: Hey Jessica I know a guy you would really like. I showed me a picture of your tattoo and he wants to talk to you. Here’s his number
Me: kay.

*later*

Me: Oh hey what’s up dude?
Guy: Not much, just buying some camo shorts. I love Camo shorts.

aurorasundergarments: firearmsandfisticuffs: IF I EVER MISGENDER YOU FEEL FREE TO CORRECT ME!!!...

Wed, 29 May 2013 01:46:41 -0500

aurorasundergarments:

firearmsandfisticuffs:

IF I EVER MISGENDER YOU FEEL FREE TO CORRECT ME!!! YOUR GENDER IDENTITY IS NOT SOMETHING THAT YOU SHOULD REMAIN QUIET ABOUT AND I APOLOGIZE FOR ANY SCREW UPS I MAY HAVE DONE/MAY DO IN THE FUTURE

I WANT YOU TO BE COMFORTABLE TALKING TO ME

Always reblog.

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Tue, 28 May 2013 02:19:51 -0500

misandry-mermaid: xoxox Misandry xoxox

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:21:16 -0500

misandry-mermaid:

xoxox Misandry xoxox

Cuddle buddy application

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:18:14 -0500

lucidlymiaou:

forever-a-bunn:

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pls fill this out and leave in inbox preferably if you can deliver thx

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When my depression stops me from doing something I had planned to do:What I think will happen: Oh my...

Wed, 08 May 2013 22:42:15 -0500

When my depression stops me from doing something I had planned to do:

What I think will happen: Oh my god I am a fucking failure, I need to go over every mistake I’ve made and re-punish myself for them. I may as well just lay here and cry because that’s all I’m good for. Why bother trying?Why bother living anymore? Quit school, quit relationships, die unhappy and unfulfilled.

What usually ends up happening: Just fucking try again tomorrow.

christopherpoindexter: “The universe and her, and I” poem #10...

Sun, 05 May 2013 02:20:46 -0500

christopherpoindexter:

“The universe and her, and I” poem #10 #poetry #poem #art #artist #inspire #inspiration #typewriter #vintage #words #writing #write #romance

"Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other..."

Wed, 01 May 2013 02:18:18 -0500

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”

- Barbara Kingsolver (via writingbox)

"Loving me will not be easy. Some days I will be a stuttering apology and you won’t know how to..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:35:39 -0500

“Loving me will not be easy. Some days I will be a stuttering apology and you won’t know how to handle all the things I’ve done wrong.”

- writingsforwinter (via following7)

"she is beautiful now / but gaze into her eyes where she suspects rejection from anyone who dares..."

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 02:17:10 -0500

“she is beautiful now / but gaze into
her eyes where she suspects rejection
from anyone who dares to love her”

- Ntozake Shange (via wretchedoftheearth)

makeuploversunite: Giveaway! Just an I love my followers...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:21:04 -0500

makeuploversunite:

Giveaway!

Just an I love my followers giveaway! This is a mixture of my favorite products and summer products :)

Products included

Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray - Great for keeping your makeup on all day, prevents your makeup from looking cakey/powdery, can be sprayed before and after makeup.

Too Faced Natural Eye Palette - Great every day palette with a mixture of matte and shimmery shades.

2 NYX lipglosses in Beautiful (medium pink) and Nude Peach (peachy coral)

2 NYX blushes in Mauve (dusty rose) and Summer Peach (peachy pink)

Real Technique’s Blush Brush - Great for powder, blush & bronzer.

Deluxe Mini Benefit Porefessional Primer

Rules

Giveaway ends Friday May 3rd, 2013

Must be following Makeup Lovers Unite

Likes do not count as entries

Reblogs count as one entry, can reblog up to 10 times total

International, all countries can enter!

Good luck :)

depressedproblems: it like gets in your way and makes it...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:13:54 -0500

depressedproblems:

it like gets in your way and makes it impossible to concentrate and get out of bed in the morning and it eats all your motivation to do work but then makes you stress about how you’re not doing work and it makes you forget stuff and makes you super tired and makes you have breakdowns instead of studying and just fuck that’s not fair.

Things that don’t help me “get over” my depression and anxiety and will not entice...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:31:00 -0500

Things that don’t help me “get over” my depression and anxiety and will not entice me to leave the house:

Yelling at me
Holding me really tightly so I can’t get away
Begging
Telling me bible verses
Not respecting me when I say “no”
Telling me how much everyone wants me there
… any sort of guilt tripping, for that matter
Telling me about how you got through the saddest part of your life in an effort to convince me that I just need to “deal with it.”
Recommending treatment that I did not ask about
Unsolicited advice
Telling me that if I just try harder it will be easier for me
Attempting to use your authority (Age, expertise, education, status, etc.) over me to get your way.

the beggar and the king: Medusa wasn't always a monster.

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:22:59 -0500

the beggar and the king: Medusa wasn't always a monster.:

thebeggarandtheking:

queennubian:

She was once the a beautiful virgin shadow maiden of Athean. After Poseidon rapes Medusa in Athena’s temple, Athena punishes Medusa….making her the embodiement of death and damning her to a life of solitude.

What does this say about society then, and now?

Well, the myth that tells Medusa’s metamorphosis into a monster as a punishment by Athena is the patriarchal Roman version. The ancient Greek myth, which has closer ties to its progenitor, the Egyptian tale of Wadjet, tells us that Athena gifted Medusa with ugliness and the power to turn men to stone as a way of protecting her from further violations of her person. Even so, her ugliness was emphasized in the Roman retelling as a way to further demonize and disenfranchise Medusa (i.e. she only lashed out on men because she was too ugly to be loved by them, her ugliness forced her into seclusion from men, ugly women are bad, etc. ((I am ironically using abbreviations for Latin words here yes)).). As the original myth tells it, she lived in solitude because she did not wish to be around men after what Poseidon had done. And Athena gave her the power to never be at the mercy of a male again. So originally, Athena was pissed at Poseidon, not Medusa. And then, of course, the Romans took it one step further and had Perseus behead her (yay the vindictive old hag is dead) and give it to Athena for her shield.

But yeah, renderings of Medusa’s head appeared in the doorways of many women’s shelters in ancient Greece because she was a symbol of female empowerment, not a monster feared by men and women alike.

This brings me to my awkward segue into a cool essay on the subject: The Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous actually touches on the system of misogynistic fear behind the Romanized version, but most importantly why women need to write their stories because this is the shit that happens when dudebros get ahold of them. It’s also an awesome overture to queer theories of writing. If you can read French, I highly suggest getting your hands on the essay as it was originally written, because Cixous’ voice is just incredibly inspiring when you read it as she intended it to be read. Also, the essay itself is worthy of criticism as it is not as intersectional as it absolutely needs to be. I feel I should add that before someone thinks I advocate the problematic things she says.

But now that I’ve totally digressed from my original point: It’s important that we’re always mindful to question the credibility of those telling us not only history, but also legend.

(I became absolutely exhausted halfway through this so forgive me if the connection I’m making between the original post and this essay is more arbitrary than I think it is at the moment)

This post made me sob.

My tattoo means so much more to me than it did before I read this (and I didn’t think it was possible.) Thank you for educating me on the history, I thought I knew the story but I didn’t.

Thank you thank you thank you.

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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:47:42 -0500

Sometimes all you accomplish in a day is changing your bed sheets. but sometimes that’s enough

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:50:36 -0500

Sometimes all you accomplish in a day is changing your bed sheets.

but sometimes that’s enough

Housing for those displaced by explosion in West, Texas

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:50:30 -0500

Housing for those displaced by explosion in West, Texas :

thefemcritique:

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