#politicalize

[feminist-space]

The CDC says to protect your lungs from ash and dust and other pollutant particulates in the air, you should wear long sleeved shirts.

[hya3rdxn3y]

Rebolando no banheiro do motel ao som de I will survive hot shemale fucks guy Alexis Adams throats cock Amateur milf young and massive tits step mom Chop Shop Owner Gets Gorillaz Fat mature mamas abuse the young pizza boy Leche para Cataleya Charley Chase and Asa Akira talk about anal play Sarah fucks gigantic dildos in her greedy pussy Trying Out My Mistress Selene Blowjob Toy

[zenosanalytic]

You know how bullshit rent is? Elon Musk hasn't paid rent on Twitter's main offices in, like, 6 months, and has Twitter been evicted? Of course not. Apparently, when you're rich or a company, you can just tell your landlords to fuck off and the gov won't do shit to you.

[uncanny-tranny]

The whole "breasts shouldn't be politicized because the primary purpose of breasts is to feed babies!" can be a fine jumping-off point, but I really wish people thought deeper than that when we talk about the ways in which bodies are politicized and restricted.

Like, why's it that when we talk about breasts, they must have some Higher Purpose? It's true that breasts aren't inherently sexual, but they aren't valuable solely because they can potentially feed a baby. A human body doesn't have to serve a Higher Purpose in order for it to not be legislated against or policed, and I just wish people would remember it isn't always about babies, about other people, about anything else other than the people who have that body.

[ghelgheli]

languages, like people, have been made into the objects of politicized aesthetics—not only is this about the dichotomy between "melodious", "soft", "musical" &c. and "harsh", "guttural", "rough" &c. as generalizations applied to entire languages (even language families), but also (and more importantly) the fact that these descriptions track non-linguistic attributes like racialization and class at least as often as they track phonology. please think about who, historically and presently, is most likely to have their language(s) described in one vs. the other way.

[piizunn]

ᓂᑐᐦᑕᒧᐏᐣ nitohtamowin, the act of listening (red breasted merganser)

2024

hand quilted scrap fabric and seed beads

as i worked on this piece at my home on the colonially occupied land of my native ancestors i thought about the words of palestinian poet marwan makhoul;

In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political

I must listen to the birds

and in order to hear the birds

the warplanes must be silent.

—

the colonizing genocidal power that continues to lay waste to my people, keeping us poor, unhoused, and sick is the one of the powers contributing to the genocide of palestinians. Indigenous liberation is intertwined globally, land back for me means land back for us all.

Métis (Otipemisiwak) demand a free Palestine.

[handweavers]

something that hindutva types (and north indian supremacists generally, which are overlapping but not quite the same categories) get really angry about is whenever you mention that the people of the indus valley civilization were very probably actually dravidian-speaking "south indians" rather than indo-aryan-speaking "north indians" because indo-aryan speakers didn't exist/half of our ancestors hadn't migrated from the central asian steppe yet. bc indo-aryan speakers are descended from native dravidian-speakers and these central asian steppe peoples and they don't arrive to the region until the time of the vedas which happens much later. north indian supremacists refuse to believe that dravidians could have built the oldest civilization in the region bc it entirely contradicts the hindutva line about north indian hindus being the indigenous people of south asia. anytime this is mentioned hindutvas go fucking crazy like frothing rage it's wild. when u see stuff about hindutvas changing the history books to be more in line with hindutva ideology this is part of that

[comradekatara]

You posted about LOK so now I’ve gotta mourn it again. It would be so GOOD if it were good, you know?

What if Korra took the side of the socialist and populist mass movements and realized that Maybe The Weird Privileges Of Benders Are Bad Actually

Korra would be So Good if it were good.

*Maybe The Weird Privileges Of The Neocolonial Capitalist Ruling Class Are Bad Actually. but yes

[shattered-pieces]

Ok so I just emailed my congressman about Ukraine aid.

It's not hard. If you're in the US, please make your voice heard.

[qui-qui-quee]

So I found out that a Christian author I had respected and who had shaped much of my Side B-related beliefs has become doggedly transphobic and somewhat unhinged in that weird “looks respectful” way over the past few years since I read his book, going as far as sharing a random fear-mongering story on Twitter without any evidence or context of the matter, or even a link; and calling the transgender issue an ideological war.

When a Side A gay pastor called him out on his lack of evidence, Yuan resorted to bad faith arguments and accused him of exaggerated bias.

My disappointment will never know its bounds, it seems.

[miyuecakes-moved]

So I heard you're from Hong Kong.

I'm writing about him right now and I really want to get it right. So if you don't mind can you answer some questions for me?

1. What would Hong Kong's relationship with China be, in the present day.

2. And what would his relationship with England be, present day and in the past?

Hey, dude. So these are loaded questions that are (1) extremely political and sensitive given the state of Hong Kong today; and (2) difficult to judge when such topics (particularly the 1st question) are still debated and argued over within Hong Konger families. I don't want to be rude, but this is honestly a lot of emotional labour given how politicized Hong Kong is. I'm only writing this just to get it out here.

Let’s start with England first, as that would be the easiest. Firstly, let’s consider canon for a second and read between the lines of what little information Himaruya has given about Hong Kong.

He was stolen from China as a child.

It is implied that his hair was cut off shortly after colonization. Hair in Chinese culture historically was considered a fundamental part of your body like an organ is (and thus a gift to you by your parents). You weren’t supposed to cut it. It’s precious. (Which is why there was strong resistance against the queue)

So right off the bat, we know that Hong Kong was a kidnapped Chinese child who was forced to commit a great act of what would technically be considered self-harm. Canonically, we know he’s traumatized by this; there’s a drawing of him crying to sleep while England just looks off uncomfortably. But is this accurate and how was colonial rule actually like for Hong Kong? Arguably, it’s fairly accurate to depict Hong Kong as a stolen child. Hong Kong was a spoil from a war that was caused by British traders in Guangzhou who refused to follow Chinese trade laws, got caught, punished, and then started lobbying for war to Mainland Britain. Now let’s consider colonial rule itself and its treatment of Chinese people. I don’t want to cover everything here because I think there’s an onus on you to research if you want to write about him, but simply put: there’s a history of segregative residential/geographical zoning, unequal punishments/rights, and deportations (though to be fair, it’s not like there was much difference in treatment under Manchu rule lol – but that’s another can of worms and we should consider the legacies of power). But that’s not all to the story, and some of the benefits we gained under Britain should be looked with nuance. We also need to emphasize that the fondness Hong Kongers have for Britain is also chronological; we no longer have to deal with their authority, and the Golden Age of Hong Kong was a time where British control was fairly lenient and eclipsing.

As for China… The only thing I can say is that Hong Kongers have differing opinions on it. We have a fondness for the Mainland on a cultural level (almost all of us came from the Mainland at some point and likely still have family there) and the handover for some Hong Kongers especially in the older generation who participated in 67 was a symbol of decolonization. However, the Mainland has been cracking down on our right to self-government and many young Hong Kongers have protested to demand that right to control their own destinies. But unfortunately a lot of the rhetoric within the protests is stained with colonial apologia and Sinophobia; it makes being a Hong Konger feel like navigating through a landmine of accidentally promoting either British apologia or Chinese apologia.

I cannot give you an answer for this when Hong Kongers themselves struggle to grapple with this hybridity.

[iirulancorrino]

When Americans used to imagine life post-Roe, many seemed to believe that at the very least the country would agree on one thing: the need for an exception to save a woman’s life. These exceptions enjoy sweeping public support; a recent Pew Research Center poll found that 73 percent of Americans favored legal abortion if a woman’s life or health was at risk. Only 8 percent of respondents favored no exception whatsoever to criminal abortion laws.

Life-of-the-patient exceptions do not even require anti-abortion-rights Americans to change their minds about fetal personhood. Even if someone believes that a fetus enjoys the same rights as an adult, abortion could be justified much in the same way that people who are anti-violence can understand the need in certain situations for self-defense. Support for the so-called life-of-the-mother exception seemed unshakable.

Not anymore. Anti-abortion-rights groups, like Wisconsin Right to Life, have described the “life of the mother” exception as unnecessary and wrong. The Idaho GOP just approved a platform with no lifesaving exception. Republican candidates like Matthew DePerno, the Republican running to be Michigan’s attorney general, oppose all exceptions to abortion bans, and that includes to save a mother’s life. Conservative states are rushing to eliminate or narrow existing exceptions to their laws. Powerful groups like Students for Life, Feminists for Life, and the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) argue that “abortion is never medically necessary” and that doctors should always be punished for intentionally taking a fetal life.

Why has what was once unthinkable suddenly become a legal reality, despite its extreme unpopularity? Recent changes in both the GOP and the anti-abortion-rights movement have something to do with it, but the problem runs deeper: a twin skepticism of women and the medical establishment. Even though activists of the anti-abortion-rights movement and the politicians who support them sometimes argued that women must be protected in certain cases, they question the honesty of people—both doctors and patients—who invoke emergency exceptions. These dual suspicions have produced a new definition of abortion—as the intentional, criminal taking of a life—and a growing consensus that abortion bans should have no exceptions.

[zenosanalytic]

The problem with calls for Hamas to return the hostages is that the hostages are the only leverage Hamas has, and the only leverage it can/could ever POSSIBLY have, over Israel right now, cuz the people running Israel right now have made it more than clear that they care nothing for Palestinian lives and little for how the world sees them, because the US has for so long insulated them against punishment for their crimes.

So, returning the hostages for anything other than an end to the butchery in Gaza, guaranteed by a reliable third party with the capacity and willingness to ENFORCE an end to that butchery upon Israel(which: I don't even know is a thing that exists? Like: the US can smash the Israeli military but it won't, and I dont know if there's any other world power with both the military might and range to stop an Israeli offensive), is next to useless for them. It'd be handing Israel carte-blanche to just go right back to genocide once the hostages were handed over.

[eudaiii-mo]

What triggered your mental illness?

What contributed to the trauma underlying it?

What caused the circumstances such that you couldn’t get better?

It’s capitalism, baby.

[sparcuswhiz]

politicize, 3d render, illustration, fashion, anime

[pissmoon]

I know how gone girl midsommar girl n Maria Callas in pasolinis medea felt and if u call these 'white karen feminism' ur probably insufferable. These arent even 'feminist' movies in any political way, theyre even all directed by men actually, theyre just about the heartbreak of realizing that a man you sacrificed your entire sense of self for, moved to a shithole town for, walked around eggshells for to not seem needy and 'annoying' right after ur entire family died or killed a family member for and commited blasphemy that you were kicked out of your kingdom and lost your witch powers never gave a shit and just cheated first opportunity possible