i noticed this vintage postcard had a little music staff, so i decided to give it the musical accompaniment that was intended for it! you can now get the full experience
You know something? Cats just get it… they intrinsically know that if you get overwhelmed you should just pass out in a sunbeam in the middle of the floor because that’s how it be sometimes
This is a great article about how vegan PoC are far more numerous in our population than anyone realizes because veganism has been so whitewashed. I suggest giving it a read. I also suggest doing more to uplift the voices of vegans of color.
Saying that a disabled child or adult “will never live independently” is such a slap in the face. I think it’s unacceptable and I think it’s lazy. No one will ever live independently! No one is living independent of medical care, emotional support, and goods/services provided by others. Humans are a deeply interdependent species. Disabled people are sometimes rendered ~dependent~ specifically on a state or family apparatus in a way that makes them vulnerable to abuse or exploitation, but this isn’t the only way to experience “”dependency.”“
Some people are just told that they are “independent” because their lives and needs are normalized to such an extent that the enormous amount of support they receive is invisible.
SHORTLY AFTER THE close of this year’s International Women’s Day, China’s Twitter-like service Sina Weibo shut down Feminist Voices. With 180,000 followers, the group’s social media account was one of the most important advocacy channels for spreading information about women’s issues in China, but in an instant, it was gone. A few hours later, the private messaging app WeChat also shuttered an account for the group. The official reasons for the closures were vague, simply that the accounts had posted content that violated regulations, but the subtext was clear: the country’s highly-monitored media was trying to silence women’s advocates.
…The ban of Feminist Voices, which was founded in 2009 and had operated on Weibo since 2010, is just the latest attempt by the Chinese government—and the media companies that operate under it—to curtail the growing women’s movement, which has flourished in urban areas and on university campuses thanks to social media and online organizing. “The movement has the potential to become large-scale, which is one of the reasons why the government sees this group of young feminists as a threat to Communist rule,” Fincher says. But through its size and some symbological ingenuity, the young, active community has found a way to stay one step ahead of would-be censors.
Take, for example, Chinese feminists’ embracing of #MeToo. The movement, which sought to show the volume of sexual misconduct against women by sharing stories of harassment and assault accompanied by the hashtag, came to prominence in China after a former doctoral student named Luo Xixi shared a letter on Weibo about being sexually harassed by a former professor. The story quickly went viral, sparking a huge debate about sexual misconduct and leading Weibo to block the #MeToo hashtag. But Chinese feminists found a way around it—they began using #RiceBunny in its place along with the rice bowl and bunny face emoji. When spoken aloud the words for “rice bunny” are pronounced “mi tu,” a homophone that cleverly evades detection.
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