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Susan Sotang, from "As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks"

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there is no way to demand power that does not read as 'violent' to those who already have power and enforce it with violence. there is no way to ask nicely for the wealthy to give up their wealth, for the cops to get their boots off necks, for the government to stop deporting people.

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Change

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"this thing is rare and only affects 1% of the population" dude that's 80 million people can you shut up

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couldn't stop thinking about this build by @jjoert so I had to draw it 🪻

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forever grateful i was simply too lazy to let the makeup industrial complex get its hooks in me. I was just like im not doing all of that. in fact. im doing none of that

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I am my own. I get to choose. I get to live my life on my terms and not based on the expectations of others who don’t have my best interest at heart. I may not be in control of a lot of things, but that is okay, because I am my own, no one will ever own me.

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happy pride month!! trans women are women and if u don't agree you're WEIRD!!!! this is a print :3

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hot lesbian summer

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In 2005, a group of artists in Italy built a giant 200-foot-long plushie rabbit in the countryside, and just left it there. It’s been there ever since. 

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People talk abt the erasure of high support needs autistic people among autism communities on here and that's extremely important but also it honestly feels like people have straight up forgotten that autistic people have Needs. Like needs of literally any kind. I have literally watched people pooh-pooh the idea that autism is a disability (calling it a "metaphorical disability" as opposed to physical disabilities which are "real"), have seen countless memes where the punchline is "autistic person has a common symptom or trait of autism", and you just see a bunch of people talk about how they're super autistic but conveniently are never seen as weird or unlikable and never have meltdowns or lash out and have zero trouble understanding sarcasm or jokes or social cues and hit all their life milestones at appropriate times and aren't lame loser virgins like the rest of you shut-ins. Like it is just extremely common to mock and harass autistic people for displaying very typical autistic traits. There's a point where "dismantling stereotypes" becomes "not actually recognizing the things that make autism autism" and we've really reached it it feels like. As always just a stunning lack of compassion for people who are disabled in ways that disable them and not disabled in ways that are cool to you

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i want a mysterious source of income

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"teens are prone to tantrums and are emotionally unstable" - okay, yeah, puberty is real, and emotional regulation is a difficult skill to learn. but also. any adult person would be pissed if their opinions were disregarded, they had no say in what happens to them, their emotions and feelings were downplayed and their privacy were intruded on.

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Richard Cartwright (British, 1951) - The Railway Line in Spring (2023)