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Burnout is honestly such a mild word for what people use it to mean. I'm not experiencing "burnout", which sounds so casual and routine that some face masks and a little rest is going to fix it.

My body and mind and even nervous system are stretched to the point that it's going to take a lot more than just a "break" or a few self care tips to recover, and even then, my recovery is just so that I can reenter the spaces that contributed to me being this way in the first place. I'm a little bit more than just burnt out by this.

Workplaces and educational institutions aggressively overwork us, expose us to all kinds of discrimination, which they overlook and gaslight us out of acknowledging, and then constantly ask us to ignore our mental, emotional, and physical needs so that we don't inconvenience them.

We're not burnt out. We're borderline traumatized. Burnout is always talked about like something transient and mild that a little rest and relaxation will fix.

But we're exhausted. We need deep rest and healing. We need new systems. We need new ways of being. The language around burnout just seems like a way of upholding these current violent systems and downplaying their impacts.

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170415/dandelion

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Delhi, New York

built in 1900

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i love this season 🥲🧡

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XANA as soon as they see William enter Lyoko

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Anyone else being recently followed by a bunch of bots 😳

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2009

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by saviourmifsud

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severinasutherland

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Feliz dia de las madres! to all of you who celebrate today as well.

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@p0vq_

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I want to talk about the "ugh men are useless" statement I constantly hear.

Men aren't useless. They can cook, they can clean and they can help with childcare (among many other things).

If a man can't, it's because he's made a decision not to.

"He just doesn't see it" (mess etc). Yes he does. He just excepts for someone else to do or fix it.

"He just lacks common sense". No he doesn't. Turning on a washing machine or hanging out the laundry is not hard, and if for some reason he doesn't know how to do it, he has a phone and access to the internet that can help him figure it out.

Your man is not useless. He's just lazy and entitled, whether that be consciously or not.

Men that are "useless" are raised with the exception that others will pick up after them or will do their job for them, and society continues to enable those attitudes.

Stop setting the bar so low.

Demand better; because he can do better.

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