gotta be honest, this idea that polyam ppl never feel jealousy has been really toxic to me. in my case, I was feeling like my partner was spending more time with her other partner, but I couldn't actually talk to her about it because that would be trying to exert unfair/abusive control about how she wants to spend HER time and how dare I even think of doing such a thing. turns out that my perception was right, and my partner was aware of the issue but she was unable to address it for various reasons outside of our control. but I spent months mentally beating myself up about it and just hiding my emotions because I thought even revealing them would prove I'm unworthy of love in the first place. hell, I thought I couldn't even talk to my polyam friends about it because I thought they would immediately shun me. turns out? this is totally normal and I really should've just talked to my partner a long time ago, rather than letting strangers online make me feel ashamed and afraid to speak up. so uh, in conclusion, if you've made those posts I kinda hate you lol.
platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine
Dispatches from the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University
https://crimethinc.com/Columbia2024
In this in-depth report, participants offer a blow-by-blow account of the events at Columbia, appraising the tactics that the demonstrators have employed and the challenges that they face.
emily gwen, the creator of the sunset lesbian flag that we’ve come to commonly use, still continues to live in poverty.
multi-billion dollar companies have used their design and made profit from it, and yet they have not seen a cent for their creation.
i’ve been friends with emily for years, and i have not once seen them be financially stable the entire time. i’ve seen them homeless, unemployed, starving. right now, they need our help more than ever.
please consider donating to emily’s ko-fi, especially if you’ve used their design to create something and profited from it.
"crochet can't be made by machines" went from being a cool fun fact to being a call to action of "so if you see mass manufactured crochet in Target, that was made by a person and they were underpaid and you should boycott it" which is true, it was made by a person, but EVERY item of clothing you own (that you did not purchase from a company using ethical labor) was made by a person being underpaid (at *best*.)
Sewing machines are operated by *people*. Knitting machines are operated by *people*. Yes lots of the process is automated but you cannot tell a machine "make me a t-shirt" or "make me a knit cardigan".
Higher awareness of fast fashion, and the true human labor and abuse behind it, is GREAT, but let's not pretend that the crochet hat in target is THE problem. Every article of clothing in target is the problem. "All clothes are made by people" is the jumping off point here into understanding this issue it's not just crochet it's the whole thing ahhhhHHHHHHHHHH
a cornucopia of slugcats to bill wurtz quotes. ill do more of these i think, until my stores and stores of good quotes are exhausted. or maybe until i myself am exhausted......... bill wurtz.