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Hi All, CALLING ALL BLACK + BROWN FOLKS & OUR ALLIES!

Please read + share to help Indigenous stewardship!

This week I am helping SOTS- Song of the Spirit- with the support needed to support their work into 2022 and beyond.

-What is Song of the Spirit?

“Song of the Spirit is a learning community dedicated to the preservation of indiginous culture and wisdom traditions around the globe. We have 3 core intentions for all our programming:

Create mutual symbiotic collective care economy (don’t take more than our own share)

To build relationships across indiginous diaspora

To support reconnecting descendants of cultural traditions back to their ancestral heritage.“

Song of the Spirit helps Black and Brown folks in the diaspora who are reconnecting with their Indigenous heritage– this is really important bc for the communities they support, our Indigenous cultures and populations often go hugely overlooked in terms recognition and access regarding ‘Indigenous Traditions’.

Song of the Spirit connects us DIRECTLY to our wisdom keepers so that we don’t have to rely on watered down or misappropriated info left behind after colonial genocides and the intentional destruction of our teachings. Doing this means they can also DIRECTLY SUPPORT our Indigenous wisdom keepers and their villages.

For this work to continue to be sustained and to grow in the ways it’s being called it will take a village of supporters to help the institute reach its goal. The end of the year fundraising goal of $25,000;

For all those capable, especially those in solidarity with us as Black and Brown Indigenous people, can you please assist us in strengthening our Indigenous communities?

>>>Any reparative support is appreciated, here is the donation link (and the site with more info) https://www.songofthespirit.org/contribute <<<<

PLEASE DONATE + BOOST and if you feel called to offer non-monetary support of your time or skills or maybe you know of organizations/coalitions that might be able to help us, feel free to send a message via the site!

Also please follow SotS on insta: @songofthespirit

[Image descriptions: A solid dark blue banner with a drawing of a red feather standing erect in the center. Large golden text reads: “Song of the Spirit” and smaller text beneath it says “Holding care of indigenous traditions with integrity and reverence”.

A neutral peach background with a drawing of two feathers in the center. Above the feathers reads: “Reclamation”. To the left of the feathers reads: “Preservation”. Beneath the feathers reads: “Stewardship”. To the right of the feathers reads: “Regeneration”.

Photo of 9 smiling dark skinned children from Nigeria crowding in and looking out of a window with open wooden shutters in a pale clay wall. One of the shutters has children’s drawings carved into it, it is suggested this is a school building. The children are all wearing button up shirts, most of them the same matching blue. Beneath the photo reads: “Preserving our tongue: Song of the Spirit has together designed a series of language courses from teachers across the world. Online courses currently are offered in Twi, a dialect of the Akan people. Yoruba, the language spoken across southwest Nigeria, Benin and Togo. And soon to be added is Nahuatl, the Indigenous language of the people of Mexico.”

Photo of three North American Native children dressed for ceremony with beaded medallion headbands, feathered headdresses, many colorful necklaces and embroidered clothing. Beneath the picture reads: “Preserving our Traditions: We are honored to host a community of tradition keepers offering inter-generational music lessons, spiritual science classes, and cultural history lectures throughout the year for Song of the Spirit. The Preserving Our Traditions online classes currently available are Mbira instrument lessons and African Thought as a Shared Cosmology workshop”.]

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They are scared

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☝️☝️☝️

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Calling all Supernatural blogs!

Where you at?!  Reblog this if you post anything Supernatural related!!  Doesnt matter if your blog is a fandom cluster-fuck, if you post SPN I wanna follow you.  My goal is to follow every Supernatural blog on Tumblr.  

Every.  Single.  One.

So reblog or like!  I will check the notes every now and then for new people to follow!!  I mean it guys, every SPN blog.  Even if you only reblog SPN stuff. 

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Dear Fanfic writers, I don’t care.

I don’t care if you’ve never written before or if you’ve written hundreds of fics.

I don’t care if your fic is 100 chapters or just one.

I don’t care if there’s too much dialogue, or not enough.

I don’t care if your character drinks “a hot cup of coffee” or “a steaming well of carefully brewed fair trade Ethiopian single origin organic beans, contained in an antique blue willow cup with one tiny chip on the edge and mild cracking in the glaze.”

I don’t care if you use the same pronoun over and over or if you use the word “persnickety” eleven times over the course of ten pages.

I don’t care if your historical references are accurate, or if the characters speak in a way that doesn’t fit their environment.

I don’t care if your romantic pairing makes love on a bed of roses at sunset or if they bang up against the wall in a changing room at Walmart.

I don’t care if your stories are nothing but fluff, or nothing but smut.

I am going to read your fics, and I am going to enjoy the hell out of them. So please keep writing, and ignore comments from assholes. We, the readers, love you.

Reblog if you agree!

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If you like a fic reblog it!

New Tumblr rules make it super difficult for creators. If we write smut even just once in a while like I do, we are forced to keep our blogs set as explicit if we don’t want them deleted. 

Having an explicit blog means no original posts show in the tags anymore. We are 100% depended on people spreading our work for us (reblogging) - so whatever your reasons are for not reblogging fics please reconsider. If you don’t help and support your authors there is a strong likelihood you’ll have to say goodbye to them since we no longer can reach an audience like we used too. 

So please. PLEASE! If you like a fic - reblog it!

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Reblog if you think NSFW artists and writers should still be allowed to show their content.

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Lmfao

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From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:

- don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.

- archive everything on your blog you want to keep

- tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.

- tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.

- go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.

- support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.

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A brilliant explanation of consent for anyone who STILL doesn’t get it. 

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Please reblog if you are a girl and have ever been made to feel ashamed of one or more of these things (wanting to prove a point to some asshole):

-your weight

-your clothing choice

-your amount of make up

-having sex

-not having sex

-breast size

-having your period

-saying no

-not appreciating catcalls 

-masturbating

-body hair

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Carry On My Wayward Son -Kansas

Number one rule of fandom: Thou shalt never not reblog this song if thou art a member of the Supernatural fandom.

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Call your reps or use Resistbot if texting is your thing, and MAKE THIS HAPPEN in your state!!

http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/393581-rhode-island-bill-would-keep-trump-off-2020-ballot-unless-he-filed-his

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“RA 21h 36m 27.82s D 13°6’ 34.06”, to be exact”. 

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Before vs After Adoption

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