magical-flying-moron:

atmospher-ca:

jplachowski:

turquoiseheart:

“the gay community was never racist”

shit y’all still are to this day

:/

I’m glad my post got around.. ppl need to see some history

In 1984, both African American and Asian American groups fought discriminatory door policies at bars across the city. Henry Chappell reported a double-carding incident at theWatering Hole on Folsom. Wearing a dress, heels, and a shawl, Chappell, an African-American self-identified transvestite, was asked for two forms of picture IDs as a means of excluding him from attendance. BWMT hoped that San Francisco would adopt a regulatory model for admittance based on Atlanta’s carding ordinance, which mandated that no bar could demand more than one valid ID per person.3 In part due to pressure from such actions, the City eventually passed a similar ordinance.

Around the same time, the Asian Lesbian and Gay Alliance (ALGA) conducted an informal study of various S.F. gay bars. One of the organizers later recalled, “White guys could sail through with no restrictions, but once color was added to the mix, the barriers went up.” The Midnight Sun and Castro Station were Castro bars particularly notable for their anti-Asian discriminatory practices. When confronted, the owners rationalized their multiple ID policies by claiming that it was difficult to visually discern Asian men’s age.ALGA picketed the Midnight Sun, attracting media coverage with placards such as“Discrimination in the Gay Community Demeans Us All.” During a KPFA radio debate,one participant recalled a bar owner claiming, “Your people don’t drink,” and “It’s a cruise bar; we would lose other clientele because they don’t want to cruise your type.”

-”Racism and Reaction in the Castro: A Brief, Incomplete History”

animatedamerican:

babydollbucky:

thegreynightsky:

diaryofakanemem:

Have you ever seen a violinist going APESHIT?!

Be sure to check out IAmDSharp!

GO OFFF

Ok so I’ve been playing for 18 years and i’m a string teacher. Can i just say how IMPORTANT it is for young kids to see a BLACK, MALE-PRESENTING PERSON playing, nae, SHREDDING on a violin? I’ve know maybe 5 black people who played stringed instruments throughout my schooling and teaching (predumably because i’m an upper middle class white woman). In districts where the population is predominantly black, funding is always low, so the instruments are crappy. Kids quit, or the program is dismantled. I’ve seen very few professional string players who are black.

Obviously there are black string players. We just don’t see them because they “don’t look like” string players.

This person is the real deal. They were clearly trained, and seems to have some fiddle training as well. How cool is that?

a) this guy is musically AMAZING and also kudos to whoever shot and edited this video

b) everything @babydollbucky says about the

representational

importance of this is roughly 1000% true

c) if I had the skills I would be drawing a bard character design inspired by this look right now

korrasera:

geekandmisandry:

f1rstperson:

geekandmisandry:

chironsgate:

caviria:

dear tweens and teens: please dont equate “self care” with buying a bunch of useless shit because some shill account on instagram told you to. any type of “self care” that involves consumerism is snake oil and a better way to care for yourself and build your personal self worth is through self actualizing activities i.e. go make art, go plant trees, go volunteer for a food bank, go organize!!!

Or you could not be ableist and realize that self care is what you need for you. 

Capitalism is bad, but we often all like… Things. Being poor and disabled often means you don’t ever get to prioritise what you want to have.

Self care is self care. Whatever gives you a boost to the self. Sometimes it can be as small as buying yourself a coffee or having a nice shower.

Art stresses me, plant trees…where? These things involve leaving my house, getting on busses, getting on trains, talking to people on phones and spending many days worth of spoons.

They are all worthy activities and to some people they would be a form of self care, and that’s cool.

But telling everyone that consumerism is bad like it is their fault that we live in a shitty system and telling people that self care is an external force upon the world that many people can’t take part is some ugliness.

I get we are all racing to be the wokest with the hottest takes but damn.

Doing art costs monies.

Planting trees also costs monies.

We live in a society etc etc.

Spend your money not spending money you snake oil consumerist scum!

To expand on what gam said, if you think about it, planting trees, volunteering for a food bank, and organizing are actually you caring for other people. They’re about giving to others, not about taking care of yourself. Like was said above for some of us they can be renewing and they can be part of self-care, but by and large they aren’t about that.

My suspicion is that people tend to equate doing things to care for other people with self-care because we tend to teach that our individual lives aren’t as important as what we can do for society around us.

Only, that’s the thing, isn’t it? Society *is* us. If you’re trying to do good in the world, part of that good is taking care of yourself so that when time comes for you to step up and do your part you are healthy and able to do that. There’s no shame in needing to take care of one’s own needs, because honestly most of the time life isn’t like an episode of Star Trek and you’re not going to be forced to make a decision between self-care and helping other people.

You’re just going to run into a lot of people who are really invested in making you feel guilty for caring about yourself at all, and even those of us that don’t think you should feel guilty? We still manage to push some of those unhealthy attitudes forward when we try to help.

Everything takes work. Make sure you learn what work you need to do to take care of yourself.

Or, if you want the pithier version:

Remember to put on your own oxygen mask before helping the people around you, because you’re no good to anyone if you pass out.

bogleech:

sorry-ipanicked:

Some dude bro on the internet talking about the new She-Ra reboot: Ugh SJWs are taking over cartoons and making them all preachy. I hate it when shows try to push an agenda on kids. Why can’t they be like they used to be, you know?

Original He-Man, looking straight at the audience: We had a lot of fun here today, but you know what isn’t fun? Judging others based on how they look. Not liking a person because he or she is a different race or religion is wrong. Also, plant a tree, and don’t do drugs.

Lou Scheimer was born to a German Jewish family and believed that his cartoons had a responsibility to teach children kindness and respect for everybody.

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Back then there were also MILITANT divides between “boy’s” and “girl’s” entertainment but when he found out He-Man had at least a small following of little girls he pitched the concept of He-Man’s sister She-Ra and was insistent she be as tough a warrior as her brother. He saw that girls actually did like “scary” sword and sorcery and had a WHOLE NEW FUCKING SHOW made so they could feel acknowledged and have a heroine to look up to with her very own series.

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Later he would help design a whole new sci-fi fantasy setting with the most creative control he ever had, Bravestarr, and was adamant that the hero be a Native American man, the first ever in a starring role on a kid’s action show. He also wanted Bravestarr to be a positive role model by being a patient, gentle, soft spoken man who abhors violence and avoids using guns at all costs.

These cartoons are remembered as schlocky toy commercials and they ARE entertaining that way but real love went into them by a guy who wanted kids to grow up more sensitive and caring. Some of these same geeks crying about THE SJW’S were raised by even more bluntly progressive media than we’ve almost ever had and they didn’t even know it.