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The purity of Bowlcut Sara and porkpie-hatted Tegan

📸: Christina Mendenhall

Tegan and Sara, Miami, 4 Sept. 2010

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Is any body else just a little more smug than you should be when you create a new password and in big great letters the site says it’s “STRONG”?

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This response just seized my property for the TVA and busted my coal union

(It’s Dolly Parton lol)

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Also: most stereotypes people like to throw around (the incest jokes, the barefoot, with no teeth image, etc) are all from union busting propaganda from over a hundred years ago so every time someone makes a “hahaha why don’t you go cry to your mother-sister about it!” I 1) know that you hate women and rape victims because nearly all incest is rape and you think it’s funny and 2)you swallow capatalist propaganda without question and are no friend to the working class

i hate when someone says “don’t make jokes about rednecks and hillbillies” and some white 21 year old trying to be ‘woke’ says “haha… go ahead and cry your white tears sweatie (:”

no one thinks it’s a racial issue against white people. that’s not why people say to stop that shit. it’s an issue of classism. because the truth is that the majority of y’all who think you’re amazing activists just REALLY fucking hate appalachian people, and i know that because y’all think it’s funny to say “karma’s a bitch!” when something bad happens to an appalachian state.

you don’t care about the poverty in the appalachia and you don’t care about queer people and/or people of color who live in the appalachia. you don’t care about education in the appalachia and you don’t care that these low rates of education mean higher rates of poverty and child poverty, which persist over the years. rural children are twice as likely to live in areas with persistent poverty. you care that poverty stricken children are statistically less likely to not have timely immunizations, have higher delinquency rates, and have lower academic achievement — but only when we’re talking about urban areas outside of the appalachia.

people in our region die earlier than most. mortality rates are higher in the appalachia, and they’re even higher for people of color that live in the appalachia. suicide rates are higher than anywhere else in the country by 17% — it’s 31% higher in central appalachia, and in rural areas within the appalachia, it’s 27% higher than metro appalachia. cancer morality rate is 10% higher, and it’s 15% higher in rural appalachia than metro appalachia. COPD mortality rate is 27% higher, and 55% higher in rural appalachia than metro appalachia. injury mortality rate is 33% higher, and it’s 47% higher in rural appalachia than in metro appalachia. stroke mortality rate is 14% higher — and you guessed it’s, these rates are higher in rural areas vs metro areas by 8%. the rate of Years of Potential Life Lost, which measures premmature mortality from all causes of death, is 25% higher in appalachia, and 40% higher in rural vs metro areas.

the appalachia has an opioid epidemic. in 2015, our rate of death with drugs was 65% higher than the national average. 69% of those drug deaths were from opioids. these deaths have a connection to our poverty and education rates. the poorer you are, and the less educated you are, the more likely you are to die from an opioid death.

when i say “don’t make jokes about rednecks and hillbillies”, that doesn’t mean i think you’re being racist against white people (and again — the majority of people who claim this also happen to be white 🙄). i say that because you are perpetuating extremely toxic rhetoric about our region, you are promoting stigma, you are encouraging blatant classism, and you are furthering the idea that we somehow “deserve” it because our elected officials vote republican. it’s not cute. stop acting like none of us have the right to call you out on your classist bullshit. like i’m sorry if this comes off as too aggressive but i am sooooo sick of y’all thinking it’s funny that our region is suffering.

and before anyone asks me for resources and links: google exists. i did my research and you can do it too.

EDIT: https://www.arc.gov/assets/research_reports/Health_Disparities_in_Appalachia_Trends_in_Appalachian_Health.pdf here, since y’all are too fucking obnoxiously incapable of taking 2.3 seconds google and instead want to claim I pulled random numbers from my asshole

also here https://www.arc.gov/assets/research_reports/Health_Disparities_in_Appalachia_August_2017.pdf

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NASCAR literally started as competitive running from the cops so this shouldn’t be surprising lol

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Because OP asked if there was clarification on Cho’s race...I was in college the first time I heard the famous slam poetry by the Korean woman who took issue with the name Cho Chang, saying that they are both last names in Korean etc...I spoke often with a few of the Chinese and Thai international students so I brought it up with them. The Chinese students were confused because they said she was obviously Chinese and that her name was 張秋 (Zhang Qiu, with last name first as is standard there, and Qiu/Cho meaning Autumn and Zhang/Chang being and INCREDIBLY common family name in China). My mother in law was adopted by a Korean woman (and raised in Japan, so with a mix of cultures...I don’t think it matters but for transparency) and I asked her about it many years later and she agreed that the name sounded ridiculous as a Korean name and must be Chinese, which is what she assumed when she read it to my wife when she was a kid.

Also, something that I think many non-British people don’t realize, is that Harry Potter was written while Section 28 was active in the UK so it would not have been possible to publish the Harry Potter series if there had been a gay character. This is an important part of gay history, so I think it’s important to remember when we talk about it, and it’s why Dumbledore was only confirmed to be gay after the fact (though speaking as someone who was 18 at the release of the 7th book and who had been out for almost 5 years by that time...a lot of us knew)

before y’all buy into Joanne Karen Rowling’s feminist pro-lesbian redirection bullshit

please remember that something like two thirds of all harry potter characters are male. of that small percentage of main female characters, something like one third of them become romantic plot devices for the main male characters, another third are antagonistic, and the remaining third are maternal figures (and there’s lots of overlap in those categories!)

not a single hp character is openly queer, and there are certainly no lesbians in this series.

i think we could all excuse poorly written characters if it simply wasn’t jk’s strongpoint, but the sex and gender ideologies of the books are completely fucked and there’s no excuse for it:

she writes female characters to be attractive and then judges them for being narcissistic. there is literally a character called narcissa.

dumbledore was so traumatized by the ramifications of his homosexuality that he “lost his moral compass and turned asexual”

hermione was 14 years old and viktor krum was 18 when they had a relationship.

lycanthropy is a metaphor for AIDS/HIV within the gay community, and werewolves are considered evil creatures because their whole purpose is to intentionally spread lycanthropy.

it’s heavily implied that rita skeeter is a trans woman and she is judged for her “mannish” looks and portrayed with negative stereotypes.

many of the recurring female characters solely exist to perpetuate gossip and have no direct effect on the plot.

the hogwarts girls’ dorms are enchanted with a security system to automatically lock out any **male** student who tries to enter, but there is no reverse security system for the boys’ dorms. jk’s explanation is that boys are predatory but girls are trustworthy. i wonder what kind of situation could possibly cause a female student to be identified as a predatory male and forced to sleep in the boys dorms? hmmmmmm.

racial prejudices tie into intersectional feminism, so we should also acknowledge the female characters of color and how they’re treated:

cho chang has two last names and her entire purpose was to be a romantic interest to harry and eventually a plot device against him (her betrayal was due to narcissism btw).

i genuinely dont remember if cho’s race is anything other than General Asian but i cant seem to find any specification online. i really hope someone proves me wrong on this one.

nagini is the only other asian woman and she was enslaved by voldemort

we barely know anything about the patil sisters, i think they dated one of the main characters but ultimately had nothing to contribute to the plot

i literally can’t remember any other woc characters that actually matter, somebody add onto this if they know

you can keep loving these books, you can keep internalizing the message of acceptance, but you have to do so with the understanding that jkr’s brand of conditional equality is unacceptable. she is not a role model. she is not a lady boss. she’s an extremely bigoted individual, and being an victim of abuse does not negate that. she is an example of how we need to value self accountability and listen to minorities as she fails to.

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Some awesome examples of Native Americans that for the above for your research:

Intellectual: Vine Deloria Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux) - Read Custer Died for Your Sins, trust me. God is Red is also very good.

Actress: Irene Bedard (Cree and Inuit) - Best known for her role as the voice of Pocahontas, but also in dozens of other roles. My personal favorite has always been Smoke Signals, based on a book by Sherman Alexie.

Actor: Wes Studi (Cherokee) - I’m pretty sure he’s the most recognizable Native American actor? He’s been in pretty much every famous movie about Native Americans, for better or worse, since the late 80s.

Senator: Charles Curtis (Osage and Kaw) - He was a Kansas senator AND President Hoover’s VP!

News Anchor and Television Personality: These I don’t know off the top of my head, someone please let me know if you have someone! (Also I’m not 100% sure what a tv personality is but that’s my own bad :()

Author: Sherman Alexie (Coeur d'Alene and Spokane) - novelist One of my favorite authors of all time! Please read Flight and Reservation Blues and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and basically anything else you can find.

Poet: Joy Harjo (Muskogee Creek) - How We Became Human is a collection of her poetry and it’s so so beautiful. She also plays the saxophone!

Singer: Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree) - I have It’s My Way on vinyl and it is seriously so awesome. She is known for using the mouthbow in her songs, even playing one as a guest on Seseme Street!

Comedian: Dallas Goldtooth (Mdewakanton Dakota and Diné) - Part of a comedy group called the 1491s, he is also a huge activist and a good person to fallow either way. But look to the 1491s YouTube channel for their comedy sketches!

A few others - Wilma Mankiller (First woman elected as Chief of the Cherokee nation and Native activist. There was a 2013 movie called “The Cherokee Word for Water about her), Thomas King (Cherokee novelist, read Green Grass Running Water), Winona LaDuke (White Earth Ojibwe, ran as a Green Party VP twice in the 90s, and in 2016 was the first person from the Green Party to ever receive an electoral vote. She is also a well known environmental activist and author)

name one native american intellectual off the top of your head, name one native american actor or actress off the top of your head, name one native american senator, one native american news anchor, or an author or a tv personality or a singer or a poet or a comedian, name a single native american teacher you’ve had, can you? probably not 

ok so now think of one native american cartoon character you know of or a sports team relating to native americans whether it’s their actual name or their team logo, or a town you live in or near with a “native” name bet a lot of these things came to you right away i bet you didn’t even have to think 

needing native representation in media, education and government are not decoy issues, the commercialization and appropriation of native cultures are not decoy issues, the lack of native representation is institutional oppression at work 

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AND a lot of those “red” areas are only red because of voter suppression and gerrymandering. Georgia alone proves this, with Kemp OPENLY and blantantly stealing the election, and then continuing to suppress votes even for this years primaries. You don’t think he is going to continue to cheat Georgia out of fair elections? We would have had Stacy Abrams as our governor...she had support all over the state (YES even the rural areas) but republicans can’t win without cheating.

Maps matter. Map 1 over-represents territory. Map 2 is weighted by where people live … 

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And it worked. There’s now an autonomous zone in Seattle

Image taken in seattle 

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Boston PD breaking their own vehicles windows last night

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It is with total sadness I hear the news that the founder of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, and ACT-UP, writer and playwright Larry Kramer has died at the age of 84, we are surely poorer without him. Every gay person in America owes him our very lives. 

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This song never getting released is a tragedy and a crime. 

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Three butch friends of mine finishing the basement of my first house around 1996.   They worked for beer, and not even anything fancy. 

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Oh and the Central Park “hospital” is being ran by a Christian extremist group, and to work it (including as a doctor!) you have to sign this

Capitalism is a scam