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fairydrowning · 2 years
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Zoë Lianne, "Erasure"
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Mary Oliver, "Felicity"
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Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights"
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scrambleseggy · 3 months
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I don’t think people realize that erasure within certain groups in queer communities directly affects peoples perceptions of the violence and abuse those people can face and why. Hypervisibility and invisibility are both two sides of the same coin. Neither is better or worse than the other, because while hypervisibility can glorify the violence a group faces and grossly sexualizes it, invisibility aims to turn the camera away from another group so that they don’t get any ideas that people like them exist in the first place — let alone face harm for their presentation and identity.
Erasure isn’t just “feeling invisible” — it’s also the general media and population purposefully trying to undermine issues certain groups can face and ignore them so those groups feel like they have no outlets or support — whether it’s from society or their own communities. It’s often because they want to avoid the idea of the very existence of those groups as well.
I don’t really think people know what erasure truly is. And I think when people try to act like “it’s not that bad” they don’t even realize how that does more harm than good and feeds right into it.
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Last thing I will say about all of this. Many Hbomb critics are pretending that plagiarism is just an academic or capitalist problem that has no ethical consequences outside those frameworks.
Those people clearly did not watch the video.
Plagiarism is bad because it often involves misinformation.
Plagiarism is bad because it often deprives its victims of the means they need to survive.
Plagiarism is bad because it erases people, their stories and history in general.
Plagiarism is bad because context matters and plagiarism deprives people of the means to understand the true meaning and value of expression or information.
Plagiarism is bad is because people have a right to be recognised for their work. For some dead, their contributions may be all that is left of them. Plagiarism robs people of their legacies, their identities, their histories.
If you don’t think that matters, you clearly don’t respect people who create very much. Or history. Or culture.
Some people don’t mind being erased, some people really don’t want to be known. That is a choice and to foist that upon anyone while leaching of their expression is deeply dehumanising and harmful.
The video was about that. People pretending like it was just focussing on James and why he was bad did not watch it. Stop spreading misinformation to suit your personal grudges.
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odinsblog · 1 year
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This is recent history. Ruby Bridges is 68yrs old and she is still alive.
Emily Conklin is thee definition of a racist Karen, and she is trying to whitewash the history white children learn by erasing a rated PG Disney movie that has already been shown for years in Pinellas County schools, usually as a part of Black History Month.
Two immediate thoughts that come to mind are:
“The people who threw rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school in 1960 now are upset their grandchildren might learn about them throwing rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school.”
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“IF BLACK CHILDREN ARE OLD ENOUGH TO EXPERIENCE RACISM, WHITE CHILDREN ARE OLD ENOUGH TO LEARN ABOUT IT”
Look, Ruby Bridges was six years old when racist white parents (men and women) threw rocks and hissy fits because she was trying to get an education. A full year younger than most of the white children who are now being “protected” from learning the truth about what their grandparents did.
I guess these delicate snowflakes are so triggered by the racism of their elders that they need to get the Republican governor to whitewash away the truth.
I’m almost 40yrs old and I used to wonder how it was that in college, white kids my age genuinely believed that Martin Luther King, Jr. died of old age. But somehow, every single Black person my age knew the truth. How does that happen?? This is how it happens. This is a prime example of precisely how that happened and still happens—because to “protect” them from the truth, white kids weren’t taught that he was assassinated. It’s literally no different than raising generations of white kids to believe that 2+2=5. There’s going to be serious problems when they hit the real world. But what can I say? Conservatives like ‘em dumb and ignorant.
Anyway, this is how you get generations of fully grown white adults who truly honestly believe foolishness like “racism is over,” or “Martin Luther King basically ended racism,” or, “we don’t need affirmative action because there is no more racism; if anything it’s white people who are more discriminated against now.” (The majority of white people polled said the same thing in the 1960s too, btw).
Keeping as many white people as possible ignorant of the truth does not happen by accident. It’s very intentional. And that’s not to say that ALL white people are ignorant of the truth. Some of them, like Emily Conklin, know the truth, but just do not care.
And make no mistake: The same white people who want to keep their white children “pure” and “innocent” have ZERO problems criminalizing and sending young Black children directly to jail for even the slightest misbehavior in a classroom.
Evil, racist cowards (redundant, I know).
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sillysecretwriting · 3 months
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Being somewhere on both aro and ace spectrums and having a partner is such an odd type of erasure. Like up until accidentally starting to date my current partner, I'd always just say "I don't really date" if people asked about my romantic life and just left it there. I knew that I was so rarely romantically attracted to people, it wasn't never, but the number of people I've been romantically attracted to in my entire life is maybe three? My partner is one of the three, so I ended up having this cute person that I'm romantically attracted to and now share large portions of my life with, but my identity hasn't changed. Our relationship is the rarity, not the normal for me, but now when people ask, and I tell them I have a partner, that larger portion of me that doesn't always understand why other people are so set on having a partner or why there's so much stigma around being single, is just erased in that person's eyes.
I was happy alone and didn't feel like anything was missing. I'm also happy with my partner. But I just hate that the aro (and ace) spectrum parts of my identity become invisible as soon as I mention my partner.
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notaplaceofhonour · 2 months
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transfaguette · 11 months
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i just lose my mind every time someone insinuates women or "women" wearing pants or w/e is a masculine thing. Like I would agree the acceptable range of fashion for ppl perceived as women is more lenient than of ppl perceived as men, but ultimately that just means those articles of clothing are acceptably feminine enough!!!! Most of the time that acceptability comes with cuts designed to fit feminine fashion standards; and like, a woman wearing a MEN'S suit is treated very differently than a woman wearing a suit designed for women's fashion.
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almostdefinitelydying · 11 months
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In case anyone ever wondered just how little trans mascs exist in people's minds, when I first came out (almost a decade ago now) people who didn't know me from before would assume I was a trans woman and would compliment me on how "feminine" I was. They only meant well ofc, but that didn't exactly feel great as a freshly out of the closet trans dude..
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lizzy-lue · 3 months
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Yeah, no. There is no way they can do a live action Murderbot correctly. A bunch of white corporate money money cishet show runners just do not have the emotional intelligence to make this. I do not trust this. It's going to erase all the queerness, all the anticapitalist, all the allegories to stories of native peoples and people of color. They absolutely won't create an agender expreience thats authentic, if they even try. I'd be shocked if they even made it aroace like it is in the books. I'd be shocked if they respected the character's pronouns. This show will become what murderbot is known for, and it will be a story about erasure. That's so awful.
Sorry about the negativity, but I'd be floored if this becomes a good faith adaptation and not just a white washed money grab. Handing MB over to the corpos is just not going to be a good thing for all the marginalized identities the books represent. MB is meant to be a story and a voice for the unheard.
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Let me get up on my soapbox rq.
STOP ERASING BLACK CHARACTERS FROM FANDOMS 👏👏👏👏
I see those goddamn writers replacing Gaz with Konig and I swear my blood turns hotter than the equator in July. KONIG AINT EVEN IN THE DAMN CAMPAIGN?!?! How ironic, the only black character gets erased and replaced with a white one. Also all the Gaz fics I’ve read always has him cheating or being a druggie. I smell stereotypes. Why do we as a society feel the need to erase black people from our culture? Not to mention, erasure of all POC’s. For example, in law and order SVU, every one of the damn Latino/latina characters get their fucking lives destroyed and go to jail and whatever, but the white girls commit felonies on girls trips and get their wrists slapped and go back to “desk duty”. How fucking blind are we as a society?? The erasure is actually wild to me.
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk
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goatpaste · 5 months
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Hey what's up, if you don't mind me asking what do some of your OC stands do?? I think they're all really cool and I'm curious! Btw wonderful art!!!
Honestly i dont have an awnser for all of them, and some of these I half ass made as i was going with these lol
im not very good at the power selecting part of creating stands lol
but I liked the excuse to draw them <3
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joumanadraws · 5 months
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Scene from the Short Trip story Erasure featuring everyone's (2nd? 3rd? 18th?) favourite Time Lord, narrated by Seán Carlsen.
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The Science behind Erasure
-it's actually ingenious!!
SO recently I wondered....if Aizawa does hero work after hours...does that mean he also has increased night vision?? Because it wouldn't makes sense for a hero who relies on his eyes to work at a time when he can't see....right?
(this led me on a scientific deep dive because I am a huge nerd.)
As we know, Aizawa's eyes light up (red) when he activates his quirk. It just so happens, red doesn't glare like other colors of light do. This means red light makes night vision easier. Why? Because your pupils don't need to re-adjust between the light source & the dark around you! This reduces eye strain & keeps your field of vision clear & consistent at night, while still illuminating your path!
Simultaneously, red light is difficult to see at a distance so it'll help keep your position safe from possible attackers. This is why military flash lights are usually red!
So YES!... Aizawa's quirk can improve his night vision... By acting like a red flashlight! But that's not all!
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Then I started thinking of HOW his quirk works...He stares at someone, his eyes glow red, his hair floats...and somehow the enemy's power stops working??
As we know, Erasure deactivates the enemy's quirk gene. This happens when Aizawa glares at them. But HOW can he deactivate a gene by only seeing the outside of the body? Especially since Erasure doesn't erase physical mutations??
Turns out, red light has a longer wave length than other colors, allowing it to penetrate the body more easily! In fact red & Infrared light (invisible to humans) is often used in medical imaging to detect things like veins and blood vessels beneath the skin.
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Simply put Aizawa's quirk penetrates the body kind of like an x-ray. The reason we can see his eyes light up, and NOT the target being illuminated( like the picture on the left below)?? It's because he likely also emits red light that crosses over into infrared spectrum. So the red light that actually enters the body is invisible to the naked eye.
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However real x-rays fall on the opposite side of the light spectrum under Ultra violet light. They not only enter but pass through their target, So to be clear Aizawa probably does not have x-ray vision. You may have also heard of Infrared in terms of night vision goggles. Aizawa likely does not have thermal/night vision either. His eyes only EMIT visible red light which allows him to see better in the dark & Infrared which enters the body.
So while Aizawa's glowing red eyes may at first seem like a meaningless, but cool, feature of his quirk, it's really the tell into how erasure works!
However, glowing red eyes only tell us how aizawa's quirk REACHES the gene, not how he switches it off! So how does he do it?? With an electromagnetic field! The light spectrum is a small part of the larger electromagnetic spectrum & the only part of it visible to the human eye!
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So, how do y'all know I'm not just making this up?
Because his hair floats!
What's the most familiar electromagnetic force humans encounter on a daily basis?--- STATIC ELECTRICITY! When aizawa switches on his quirk he essentially becomes a cat being rubbed with a balloon! The carbon nanofibers in his capture weapon conduct static electricity so that floats too!
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Aizawa's Erasure works by emitting an electromagnetic field, which like the infrared light, penetrates the body of his target! Now that we know how his quirk reaches the inside of the body, the question is how does it disrupt the quirk function?
As it turns out, electricity can be fired at DNA to switch Genes on and off in real life! So Erasure specifically targets the quirk gene and immobilizes it temporarily with electricity!!!! That's crazy!!!
Since we know Aizawa can't erase the quirks of heteromorphic types it's safe to assume it's because physical mutations effect more than one gene & Erasure specifically targets a single quirk gene.
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If Erasure got into the hands of AFO it could easily mean the end of the world, or any one who apposes AFO for that matter. Sure AFO could use Erasure as Aizawa does, but he could also scientifically manipulate it to target genes OTHER than the quirk gene. Meaning he could kill you, or even make your body fall apart, with just a look.
Congrats you made to the end! You now have a PHD is Shota Aizawa.
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aroaceconfessions · 1 year
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I'm so sick of people saying stuff like "oh well aroaces can still date/have sex!!!" and "oriented aroace people and queerplatonic relationships exist!!!" when people say to stop being aphobic towards canon sex and romo repulsed aroaces.
I'm specifically talking about lilith clawthorne from the owl house here. she's canon aroace and is literally confirmed to be sex and romo repulsed.
I'm so sick of people saying "she's an aroace lesbian" and stuff. not every aroace person has to have another orientation and experience tertiary attraction. and I'm saying this as an oriented aroace person!! I'm so sick of fandoms being so aphobic towards aroace characters. we barely get any aroace characters yet people have to complain so fucking much because they can't ship one fucking character
Submitted March 14, 2023
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odinsblog · 2 months
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Russia has already erased Ukraine from its textbooks and history books. Now they’re doing this. It’s textbook propaganda + imperialism. It is quite literally cultural appropriation. It’s erasure.
👉🏿 https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/met-museum-relabels-ukrainian-artists-arkhyp-kuindzhi-ilya-repin-1234657129/
👉🏿 https://huri.harvard.edu/news/ilya-repins-ukrainian-heritage-svitlana-shiells
👉🏿 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/19333
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jakeromanoart · 2 years
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always, I wanna be with you and make believe with you 🦄 available as a print in my shop ✨ painted live on twitch ⚡ find my art on instagram, twitter, twitch, inprnt: @jakeromanoart)
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