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Having ADHD is like….I have to…work up the energy to watch…a new television show 😩

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Happy Lesbian day of visibility to all lesbians but especially trans/nonbinary lesbians and lesbians of colour ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* 

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happy pink super moon lesbian day of visibility

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27 January: International Holocaust Remembrance Day

On this day we honour and remember the approximately 22 million innocent souls who fell victims to hate racism and prejudice crimes, nearly 7.5 million of which were slaughtered for being who they were.

6 million Jews (1.5 million of which were children)

1.5 million Romani

270 000 People with disabilities (be it physical or mental)

55 000 gay people (approximately)

14 million civilians, caught in the crossfire, famine and ugliness of war from all over Europe.

This day is an important reminder of what once was and what should never be again.

May their rest be more peaceful than their life and may their memory be a blessing.

Never Forget.

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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. As a Holocaust Historian, I have specifically devoted myself to working on the history of women and gender in the Holocaust, and bringing those histories ever-closer to mainstream historical memory.

So, I’d like to link you all to a few pieces of writing I’ve done on the topic. An 11-part post series about Vladka Meed, a Jewish woman who smuggled explosives into the Warsaw Ghetto in preparation of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. A profile of Hannah Szenes, a Hungarian Jewish paratrooper who worked behind Nazi lines in services of the SOE (Special Operations Executive, same as Peggy Carter and Noor Khan).

A thinkpiece about how we misuse the memory of Anne Frank.

An assessment of how Holocaust memory is shaped by male experiences, and an analysis of what we miss through this centering of the male experience.

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You know what? Yes, aspec people are welcome in the LGBT community and that bears repeating, but it's more than that. Aspec people are a valuable and necessary part of the community. Aspec perspectives and experiences are an essential, important part of our community.

Aspec people belong in the LGBT community. Not as an allowance or an afterthought, but inherently. Not the way a kid who doesn't fit in gets invited to a party, like "oh, you heard that? I guess you can come too". Not in a way that is polite on the surface but still othering. They don't need an invitation, because they're just as intrinsic to the community as every other LGBT identity.

Aspec people have always belonged, and they always will. It's as simple as that.

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I’m losing it ya’ll

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YA literature? You mean books about Super Special White Girl and Her Mysterious Brooding Boyfriend?

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This is not for you.

This is a post aimed at me and other people who constantly fall into guilt spirals over all the things they can’t do, and feel they should somehow magically be able to do anyway.

For me, and for the others, this is a gentle reminder:

- Posts asking for monetary donations are speaking to people who have money. Not your broke ass, still worrying how to buy food next month.

- Posts asking you to care about [extreme injustice of the day] are speaking to people who have energy to care. Not you, hanging onto your sanity by the fingernails. 

And, most importantly: posts telling you that you are horrible/cheap/awful/rude/unworthy/unlikable if you don’t pay/reblog/signal boost/care? Those posts can fucking die in a fire.

TL;DR: Posts asking for shit you are not physically or mentally able to give? 

THOSE POSTS ARE NOT FOR YOU. 

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“we all know why” just say it’s because they’re white. say it out loud with your whole entire chest. trump supporters aren’t being stopped from storming government buildings because THEY! ARE! ALL! WHITE! that’s it. just say it.

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white terrorists with guns and confederate flags breaking into the highest government building in the entire country, congressmen going into hiding, a bomb threat called out, and the police does less than nothing. unarmed black activists get tracked down and dragged out of their own homes by police, they get shot and gassed in the street by police and white supremacist civilians alike for peacefully protesting their right to not get murdered, and the media and government treat them like unlawful, immoral savages. 

but when it’s your uncle chris and his beer buddies breaking the fence and climbing into the fucking capitol with guns, there’s no riot geer. there’s no gas. there’s no coverage calling them terrorists. no, it’s a peaceful protest by a bunch of passionate patriots. this country needs to be burned to the ground. 

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The whiplash of feeling excited and hopeful about Blue Georgia to the horror and anger over witnessing an actual live fascist coup. January 6th sure is a day.

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Please keep the homeless population of DC in your thoughts, and donate to the dccfh. Right now due to the curfew many of them are going to be unfairly detained. DC does not do cash bail. Any website saying they are a DC bail fund is a scam. Do not donate to them.

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[ID: At the top, text reads “Ace week: *arrives*”, and on the next line, “Me:”. Below is an image of Kermit the Frog, lying on a bed, surrounded by many heart emojis. End ID]

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i know vitamin c basically neutralizes adhd meds but lemonade good