[goosegoblin]

[ID: two tweets from ‘King of horny on main’ / @snepblep from 25 December 2018. The first tweet shows two pictures of a Raggedy Anne doll. In the first picture it has shorter hair and is wearing pants; the second is a close-up of a stitched heart saying ‘I love Gabe’. The tweet reads:

‘So when I was a kid I, I had a raggedy Ann doll given to me by my grandmother. It had my birth name embroidered into a heart on it’s chest. 

This Christmas my Grandmother borrowed it and gave it back, now with pants, shorter hair, and my new name sewn in place. Hes trans, like me ‘

The second tweet reads ‘Other name-based gifts I got from my grandmother include: an engraved pocketknife, and this sick t-shirt I’m never taking off’. Again, there are two photos. The first shows a pocketknife with ‘Gabe’ engraved on wood, and the second is a t-shirt with white text on black reading ‘I’m Gabe doing Gabe things’]

[vaspider]

For those of you who don’t know, this is Raggedy Ann:

And this is her brother, Raggedy Andy:

So Grandma:

Made a hat

Gave Andy a haircut

Made a new shirt/overalls combo

And fixed the heart.

This isn’t just a case of Grandma putting pants on a doll. She went specifically to Raggedy Andy’s clothing, INCLUDING THE HAT and the buttons and all. This was a super deliberate creation of Raggedy Andy’s whole look.

(I had both Ann and Andy as a kid, so I instantly realized what she was doing, but I realized not everyone would understand the full meaning of the gesture. She is specially making the boy doll and not just “the girl doll with pants on and a haircut.”)

[mmmmiilk]

There are 4 things I learned when I was 25:

You do not have to be affectionate all the time to care for someone, in fact, caring can also mean a couple of texts or silence for a few days while you both live your lives happily and separately.

People do not care for you less when they’re busy with their own lives. It’s your reaction to them being their own person - and your ability to make yourself happy - that determines how they feel about you.

Not everyone reciprocates to your actions the same way. If you want someone to acknowledge, be interested in, or treat you a certain way for your efforts, all you have to do is let them know. They will try their personal best to accommodate that within their personal spectrum of feelings.

No one owes you 100% of them, not even after 30 years, because someone having a percentage of themselves is what keeps them sane at the end of the day and that’s okay.

[c86]

Duane Kearns Puryear holding his own AIDS panel at ‘Display on Ellipse’ in Washington, D.C., 1989

In creating this (panel) with needle and thread, Puryear completed the most significant reidentification possible. He identified himself as dead

[frigid-mirth]

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

Fields where men get paid millions to do the exact same thing as women who get paid… fewer millions, are a nice illustration of how blatant misogyny can be, but uh… I don’t actually want those women to get paid more to match the unconscionable wealth of those men.

It’s not one of my feminist goals for a few incredibly privileged women to join their incredibly privileged male peers in hoarding ridiculous amounts of wealth for status and fun while people are dying for want of food and appropriate medical care and housing.

I’m more interested in building a world where it’s unthinkable to selfishly hoard the resources others are dying for. My feminist goal is for no woman anywhere to be trapped in an abusive home because she can’t afford to leave, for no woman anywhere to be imprisoned for crimes of poverty, for no woman anywhere to slowly die from malnutrition or exposure or treatable illness.

The women who receive far more money than they need and do not distribute the excess to those who desperately need it, the women who choose status and power and luxury over solidarity and mutual aid – those women do not need or deserve my help in hoarding even more wealth. They are not my feminist sisters; they are oppressors of poor women everywhere.

The resources our society as a whole has created are being funnelled year by year into a smaller and smaller pool of hyperrich people who do nothing to counteract the injustice of their wealth. My goal is not to make that tiny pool of resource-hoarders half women.

It’s to find ways to change the society that allows and even encourages the hoarding of the tools people need to survive. My other goal in the meantime is to contribute to systems of mutual aid and engage in other forms of activism to help protect actually vulnerable women from misogyny and all other intersecting forms of oppression.

[art-nimals]

Edwin Landseer (1802 - 1873), Miss Ellen Power, circa 1840 - 1841, pastel on paper, Wallace Collection.

[fleetwoodbrak]

Aliens are the least of our worries right now but listen to me. Aliens don’t want to hurt us but the government is gonna convince us they do and incite worldwide panic and start a real space war to avoid advancing technology for the general population because efficient non oil based energy that the aliens have will crush the capitalist industries that need it to thrive welcome to my ted talk

[lnalovegd]

this post so confidently and sincerely made it’s point that i had to stop myself checking the news to find out if first contact had happened this morning

[blackthornwren]

“Popular conceptions of witches, the Devil, and fairies before the Reformation were a lot less terrifying than they subsequently became. Traditionally Scottish witches had been regarded as members of the community, as had the fairies their respected neighbours. Though believed to be capable of harm, the witch and the fairy provided a bridge between this world and the supernatural world. The witch was often a consultant on all matters supernatural as well as a healer, dispensing medicines and charms, while even the most reputedly malignant of witches could be extremely powerful figures in the community. As the worldviews of the learned and the peasantry became increasingly polarised, large areas of what had once been accepted belief were stigmatised under the catch-all phrase of ‘superstition’, so contaminating and blurring the distinctive roles of witches and fairies.”

— Lizanne Henderson, Scottish Fairy Belief, pg. 120

[floreashelby]

anyone can be a witch, just remember to do so responsibly in a way that honors closed practices, ancient traditions and contemporary racial/ethnic disparities.

anyone can tap into their power, as everyone should be able to and we are all deserving of healing so long as we honor the power and autonomy of others.

treat others the way you want to be treated, that is showing them love and compassion and honoring the other unique ways they prefer to be treated.

there is always more to the story, we are forgetting accountability and consideration when we try to make these “spiritual” and magical accessible to everyone. it is already accessible. what is missing are reminders that we can’t be reckless with energy anymore.

[nemfrog]

Fig. 483. The meteor storm of 9 October 1933. All the meteors appear to diverge from the same point - the so-called “radiant.” Larousse Encyclopaedia of Astronomy. 1962.