#positionering

[peterpauldoodkorte]

Inzicht geeft Uitzicht

Inzicht geeft Uitzicht

Er is 1 sociaal domein, handel daar naar! In situaties waarin hulpverlening aangewezen is, is het van belang dat een kind/gezin/huishouden zo snel mogelijk kan beschikken over de juiste zorg. Daar ligt een essentiële rol voor de toegang. In de praktijk stellen we vast dat de toegang, vanwege onder meer een versnippering van verantwoordelijkheden en een kwaliteitsniveau dat ruimte laat voor…

[hgirasol-blog]

[aeide-thea]

thinking abt like. there's so much fiction out there that makes me feel bad! sometimes really deeply bad! and like, in many many cases i could present a whole argument abt how it makes me feel bad bc it's pressing on bruises inflicted by some systemic prejudice that has deeply wounded my psyche—and that argument would be true!—and still i don't want that fiction erased from existence, or modified to suit my taste, or anything else that enacts my will on it, rather than the artist's and the artist's alone; i don't even want the artist erasing it because my argument ultimately convinces them it's Bad! produce a revised edition of it, fine; stick an asterisk or other warning on it, fine; but i still want the original to be available somewhere, because i don't want to be responsible for blotting creation out of existence. even when it's a creation i hate, i don't think that should be my place (or indeed anyone's).

mind you, i absolutely do want to feel that i've got somewhere i can analyze/vent about fiction like that, and people who will take my analysis/venting both seriously and sympathetically;

and i want fiction to exist that doesn't make me feel bad;

and i definitely shouldn't have to put up with discussions around fiction in which fellow discussants further express a prejudice towards me, or justify it, or whatever;

but it just seems so obvious to me that a world where framing yr discomfort with a work of fiction in sufficiently sympathetic (victimized) terms leads to its deletion [not that i think this is what all leftists who complain abt offensive fiction are looking to have happen! but i do get the impression that at least some of them might be?] is a frightening world—

a world where, to choose a sufficiently sympathetic (victimized) example, authors who have themselves been harmed by prejudice become unable to explore the workings of that prejudice in their fiction, unless they're doing it in a way that's unambiguously, didactically condemnatory—isabel fall is the obvious example here, but i'm thinking also of all the women and transmasc authors who write fic that, quite frankly, eroticizes misogyny and abuse of power, and how sometimes i think stories like that are hot and sometimes i don't feel particularly strongly about them one way or the other and sometimes they leave me furious or fucked up or both! but like. even when i hate it, even when it offends me not as a matter of abstract principle or allyship but right in my own personal gut—i still do feel that people have to be allowed to write, and to publish, fiction that strikes me personally as being in bad taste!

because the minute you let anyone's taste dictate what's allowable to express, even if it's leftist taste, you're going down a bad road; it's like saying monarchy can be a good system as long as the monarch is a good person. no! because (a) no system that relies on good actors to be good is a good system; and also because (b) no one who's happy to have power over others is actually a good person! [that's an awfully strong statement and i'm open to the idea that it may have some asterisks, but like. as a general rule: cincinnatus or bust.]

and similarly i feel like. if you personally want not just to critique other people's fiction—valid and good and i do it all the time—but to crush it out of existence because it expresses an ideology you may not (i may not!) like? i don't trust you. i think you're trying to substitute pain for principles, and like. i have huge sympathy for pain! i live with a lot of my own! but pain doesn't actually, in itself, necessarily constitute good moral guidance—it can lead you towards valuable sensitivity that helps people we should care about, but it can also lead you towards impatient reactivity that harms people we should care about; and ultimately it's thinking abt our pain, imo, not the pain itself, that steers us towards the former outcome and away from the latter.

[nothorses]

im wanting to help give my cis friend who isn't internet poisoned a primer of whats going on re: current wave of anti trans masculinity and i was wondering if you knew of a few good posts to send them to start off with? or perhaps a compilation post of posts? there's a ton of posts made by us individually so it's kinda hard to gather all the info together by myself so im wishing to crowdsource it. they already know about baeddelism so i was hoping specifically for the most recent resurgence?

I don't have a ton on the current resurgence of baeddelism due to it's mostly on twitter and the bird app makes me actively miserable to be on.

the context I do have is amelia baeddelia (who you should be able to find on Twitter and Tumblr under that name; can't find my post talking about her right now but I'll look again in a bit) specifically, who, afaik, is the person who started said resurgence. I'd say most of the context needed to understand it is knowledge of the original movement, given it's literally just a rehash (but with even more gaslighting this time), but I think it's also largely backlash this time around- against transmascs speaking up in recent years- whereas the original movement sprung up with much less provocation, and seemed more like a natural next step in the radical feminism that had been growing in strength for a while by then. I could be wrong, though, I definitely was not clued into things myself at the time.

Which is just to say it's not the same now as it was then, though the fact that they want it to be makes it just as dangerous.

Idk! I don't have like a categorized list of posts for you on this, but maybe someone else knows of some good resources to start with?

[rraskolnikov]

“shiv broke the cycle” you cannot actually think that i refuse to believe it

[finelythreadedsky]

ovid’s nymphs should unionize

[somebodylovesyougcv]

what your favorite glee character says about you (this is a joke (kind of))

kurt: you’re annoying or gay. or both

blaine: you’re in love with darren criss or mentally ill. or both

mercedes: you are just genuinely such a nice person and always deserve better than what you get. sending u a cheek kiss mwah

santana: either you’re soft spoken and wish you could be as bold and fearless as her or you’re just a bitch

finn: you’re a male apologist

quinn: either you’re a lesbian (like quinn!) or you have some sort of entangled relationship with religion

brittany: your favorite friends character is definitely phoebe. also you are probably just a little bit unhinged.

sebastian: (gay) male apologist. you love a little drama

tina: your favorite song off of folklore is probably mirrorball or this is me trying

puck: you’re not straight idk that’s all ive got

sue: you’re just crazy point blank period. probably a fire sign

rachel: you were not popular in high school

mike: not sure any of u guys exist but you are just a lowkey person. there to catch a vibe

marley: you are just a nice person to be around. and you definitely listen to taylor swift

sam: ur gay. and have a soft spot for silly goofy men

artie: you just think kevin mchale is extremely talented (which he is)

the warblers: you have read Dalton that’s all i have to say

[zinjanthropusboisei]

I've spent like 8 hours today working on my dissertation........we've just breached the 200 page barrier

[carebearcody]

Six Liverpool players are named in the PFA PL Team of the Year!

[peterpauldoodkorte]

Minacht de positie van de Toegang niet!

Minacht de positie van de Toegang niet!

Je kunt alleen mennen met teugels die je vasthoudt Waarom sturen gemeenten medewerkers van de Toegang naar de keukentafel die niet het mandaat hebben om een besluit te nemen? Waarom zitten medewerkers van de Toegang niet in het inkoopteam van (samenwerkende) gemeenten? Waarom erkennen zorgaanbieders de inwoners en/of medewerkers van de Toegang niet als de regisseur (verkeersleider) van de…

[vampk1ss]

the state of feminist discourse is heartbreaking. both libfems and gcs refuse to commit to the obvious materialist truth that women are a political class

[aefensteorrra]

Kind of funny but kind of strange and also sad to realise my accent has become so standardised over the past few years that people cannot pinpoint where I’m from in England and actually usually opt for the south east

[reg1ment]

i should write an essay on corporatism and then post it as if it were a gush

[ceabu]

you hear purring and soft humming 

[quincytical]

yaknow i mostly ignore the superiority complex alot of tumblr users have about tiktok because a lot of the stuff is true but the video format does lend itself to good fairly dense videos making points within a couple of minutes that isnt a massive wall of text that very few people will actually read. and because of that ive seen discussions about race and gender reaching people they absolutely would not reach on here and to good effect

[t4twolfstar]

[screenshot reads: @sourcedecays ok but i do not think that the existence of azkaban is in anyway indicative of jkr's support for cruel and unusual punishment? am i missing something?]

good question. i think, as it's been pointed out by many of my smart mutuals, that jkr subconsciously injects really harmful ideas into every facet of the series without realizing at all that they're harmful bc they're so engrained in her own psyche.

jkr elected to make azkaban the way she did. she did not have to create a prison system, much less a prison system so corrupt and so counter to what research suggests as fruitful for incarcerated people. (I'm not saying there's prison systems that are fruitful but acknowledging the research of people who do)

of course we don't get a super clear image of what azkaban was like, but based on the movies we see dirt floors, no outdoor space, it's one building perched precariously in the middle of an ocean. In the US, people incarcerated under maximum surveillance get a minimum of two hours outside at least. and she's made a prison where they cannot leave the building.

based on the books we see that most people, if not all of them, are in solitary confinement for the duration of their stay. solitary confinement for even a day can result in a laundry list of mental health problems as well as a considerable amount of serious physical health complications. along with the expected depression/anxiety etc, theres are distinct possibility for developing alzheimers and dementia, and loneliness has been linked to development of heart disease and cancer. lack of ability to exercise can worsen conditions like heart disease and diabetes.

lack of enrichment like community meals, recreation time, classes and restorative justice initiatives breeds loneliness, despair, doesn’t allow for positive, constructive outlets for destructive behaviours or thoughts patterns, and lack of socialization makes reentering the real world extremely difficult which often leads to recitivism (going back to prison)

lack of visitation also leads to the things stated above, the lack of tangible connection to the outside world leads to feeling forgotten and unneeded and again leads to despair, loneliness, depression, suicidal ideation, and recitivism. in the US research has shown that one visit to an incarcerated person decreases recitivism by 13% !!!!!!

and then on top of ALL of this, she has dementors skulking around to MAKE SURE the incarcerated people are miserable, unable to conjure a happy thought. as if solitary confinement, freezing their balls off in the middle of the ocean and being constantly in wet air on a dirt floor with no community or outreach isn't enough to dampen their spirits, she writes in an entity to ensure the people who break the law are treated like vermin.

even if she didn't think about this much or at all and just wrote it (which of course she did bc she wouldn't think about it) the way she flippantly constructs an institution that abuses people incarcerated for any reason so heinously is indicative of her support of cruel and unusual punishment. Because she wrote this world she is giving it her stamp of approval. the fact that this is the world she envisions when she isn't thinking critically is the red flag.

I don’t care that sirius was innocent and that there are murders in there etc. i do not care who is incarcerated in that prison there is no excuse for human beings to be treated the way that she wrote and that she does not see a problem with that is a huge massive repulsive red flag.