#calling in

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Breaking the Silence: Creating Safe Spaces for All

[shrinkrants]

Huey Newton gave a speech in 1970 addressing the Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Networks. I think about that speech nearly every day. In it, he says: 

Friends are allowed to make mistakes. The enemy is not allowed to make mistakes because his whole existence is a mistake, and we suffer from it. But the women’s liberation front and gay liberation front are our friends, they are our potential allies, and we need as many allies as possible.

Newton and other members of the Black Power struggle recognized that movements need allies and that the way you treat a friend who has made a mistake should be fundamentally different from how you treat an enemy. 

I would extend this to say that we need to understand that within our own movements, individual groups have different roles to play. The most successful social movements often have radical, progressive, and moderate flanks. We need to recognize our own strategic advantages – where are you best suited to fight? To the streets or to the workplace or local office? Find your work, do it, and do not fight your enemies in other flanks. Yes, we should hold each other accountable and try to have democratic forms of disagreement. However, the way to do that is not through public cancellations or social media pile-ons. The way to do that is through conversation and good faith engagement, one that starts from recognizing that we have some of the same goals.

-- Eman Abdelhadi, in an interview with Kelly Hayes, here

[amagicdoctor]

Ok so the Dr. Strange fans got some scraps in Immortal X-Men this week like yess Marvel knows he exists and is here to help ✌🏾😭✌🏾

[sarahthecoat]

"we don't do that here."

"did you just say that with the same mouth you eat with?"

and don't laugh at not-funny "jokes".

[just-french-me-up]

'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

[homunculus-argument]

This counts as vent art.

[ispyspookymansion]

post this long cat.

[time-to-leave-machine]

people will say "why cant the eldritch gods just be nice to humans :((" and then kill a bug for existing near them

[willowcrowned]

if you're feeling powerless right now—and god knows I am—here's a reminder you can donate to the National Network of Abortion Funds, the Trans Law Center, Gaza Soup Kitchen, the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, and hundreds of other charities that will work to mitigate the damage that has been and will continue to be inflicted

life continues. we still have the capacity to do good, important work. that matters

[threeicedcreams]

Waht if we kissed on the pokemon legends z-a anti homeless architecture bench,

[blabberoo]

Idk what au im cooking.. but Im cooking..

[hawkpartys]

this image came to me in a dream

[pukicho]

ohg

[estrogenaut]

Something came over me and suddenly I'd made this :3

[drawingwithdonnie]

Has this one been done yet?