Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.
Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.
Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.
Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.
Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.
Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.
i feel like a lot of discourse around identities could just be boiled down to “you could not pay me to care about this”
can you draw louie having a nice time? everyone is too mean to him :’[
a connoisseur of not only tasty snacks, but cozy napping spots as well
If you all really hate Assigned Sex/Gender At Birth as much as you say you do, can we start putting the acronym AFTER a subject? Like, ignoring how some dummies like using them as nouns ("AFABs"/"AMABs"), "AFAB nonbinary people"—just for example— could sound so much better as "Nonbinary people (who were) AFAB".
It's an event. In the past. By a doctor(s) who made a guess, possibly multiple times if your intersexuality affected that experience, and may or may not have been wrong. Start treating it like one, instead of an immutable trait that sticks with you for life and dictates X Y and Z about you— you know, like bioessentialists do.
Reblog with the highest mountain in your state or country and whether or not you’ve at least attempted to climb it.
Happy new year!
Felt right to say goodbye to 2024 with these guys ><
Thank you all for everything this past year!! It feels like so much has changed, and I’m still hoping to do a lot of growing and learning in the future. Hope everyone has a healthy and happy 2025 ahead!
The grind never stops even if the sky is RED and it is thundering outside