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“What we forget is that Gay Pride began not as a parade, not as a celebration with alcohol and metallic body paint, but as a riot. A riot ignited by individuals from what remain the most marginalized and in-need groups in the United States today: queer and trans people of color.”

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Honestly though, I think this highlights a major problem with white people in the theatre community. There’s this enormous sense of entitlement. Since most of the existing canon and the field is tailored for white people, white people are used to getting their way all of the time and so when a good show comes along that’s written for people of color, white people just can’t stomach the idea that there’s something shiny that they can’t have and so they make excuses and disrespectfully appropriate the few works created with actors of color in mind.

The entire central plot of Once On This Island is that Ti Moune, because of her dark skin, can’t be with the light skin boy that she loves. It takes place in the Caribbean, the characters have names like “Asaka” And “Agwe,” they sing calypso music and speak with accents, there’s a whole song about colonialism and the dynamics of colorism and classism, yet a version of the show exists where all references to race are removed so white people can do the show. It’s a very clear cut example of appropriation. White people like the superficial aspects of the show (the music, the story) but it’s fundamentally unsuitable for an all white cast, so instead of respectfully understanding that this isn’t their place, they sanitize the show to make it palatable. It’s borderline disrespectful. 

The Wiz never specifically mentions the race of its characters, but everything about the show indicates that it needs an all black cast. The characters speak ebonics. The score features r&b, gospel, and soul. The entire original Broadway cast and the entire cast of the film were black. The entire concept of the show is centered around the idea that it’s an African American retelling of The Wiz. And yet white people do the show all the time, and in the process, miss the entire point. The Wiz was born out of the idea that for children, even broad fantasy that was supposed to be universal and not bound by the conventions of the real world, was still predominately white, so the point of The Wiz was to express the universality of these stories by taking a story usually thought of as being a white story (The Wizard of Oz) and giving it new context to make it a parable for black audiences. A white production of The Wiz misses this entire point because a white production of The Wiz is unnecessary because there’s already The Wizard of Oz.

Even Dreamgirls, which is in no uncertain terms about the struggles of African-Americans in the music industry, is often appropriated and whitewashed. Every white person who can kind of belt thinks the world needs them to sing something from Dreamgirls. This is especially ironic because a major plot point in Dreamgirls is that black culture creates beautiful music that white culture appropriates and sanitizes to its detriment. I don’t understand how anyone who genuinely watches Dreamgirls would think it’s okay for a white person to sing a song from the show when there’s literally a scene in the show where a white person steals one of their songs and it devastates the characters who originated it. For a white person to sing a song from Dreamgirls is to fundamentally misunderstand the entire point that the show itself makes.

I hear “but the song doesn’t mention race there’s no reason a white person couldn’t sing it” and I hear “I can’t understand the history of racism in the world that’s created a system where actors of color have been historically marginalized and I choose to ignore that due to the original context of this song it would be disrespectful and tone deaf of me to sing it because it’s pretty and I’m white so I deserve everything pretty.” I was in a class once where a white girl sang a song from In the Heights, and when she was done the teacher told her to find a different song because even if the song didn’t specifically mention race, everyone in the room still knew the context and knew she was too white to be singing it. No matter how good these songs are, you should in all good conscience know that it’s not your place to be singing them.

A white girl once said to me “I can’t wait until the day when I just wake up black and I can sing all of these amazing songs” and if that’s not entitled tone deaf and insensitive I don’t know what is.

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Fascinating story about a woman who finds out  her seemingly normal husband is a vicious online troll.

And yes, this guy is really willing to refuse therapy and sacrifice HIS MARRIAGE AND FUTURE CHILD simply so he can continue to harass people.

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Today’s Gender of the Day is: Sun

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Today, I saw a post online of a mother describing how her son always says please when making requests on his AAC (speech) device.

“We even move the please button around, purposely not putting it in the same place so that he has to scan for it.”

How about I move your keyboard keys around daily so you have to scan to type please? How about I make your mouth muscles different so you have to try harder?

MOTOR PLANNING SHOULD NOT BE A RADICAL CONCEPT.

Those who use their mouth parts to speak have the privilege of not having to learn different muscle paths just to say the same. exact. word. just because their parent or therapist decides to be “shrewd” and switch things up. This mother would not expect a neurotypical, able bodied child learning to type to learn a different keyboard arrangement daily, or to use different mouth muscles daily.

This is especially heinous because people who don’t speak with their mouth parts often are apraxic or have other motor planning disabilities, making consistent motor planning even more important.

And if you argue that learning the symbols and written words are important? Yes, sure they are. But when able bodied and neurotypical children learn to read, WE DO NOT EXPECT THEM TO LEARN DIFFERENT MOTOR PATHWAYS TO SPEAK THE WORDS. We do not require people who speak with their mouth parts to prove their competency by jumping through ten more hoops each day just to say “I want a cookie, please”. Why the hell do we expect it of people who don’t speak with their mouth parts?

For more info on motor planning and AAC- http://niederfamily.blogspot.com/2013/10/motor-planning-language-learning-with.html is a good place to start.

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lahore pigeons are some of the most visually appealing birds out there. like in terms of visual design. very minimalist, good contrast.

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Do you believe in bisexuals?

Yes, they can do anything they put their mind and heart to as long as they work hard and persevere

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Don't be mean to fat disabled people

Some disabled people are fat.

Some fat disabled people have mobility impairments, and need to use wheelchairs and scooters.

Some fat disabled people need to sit down a lot.

Some fat disabled people need to park in handicapped parking.

Some fat disabled people need to sit in the disabled seating on busses.

Some fat disabled people need to use the bathroom stall that has grab bars.

Some people act like fat people are somehow “not really disabled, just fat” as though the two are somehow mutually exclusive. They’re not. Fat is not a cure for disability. Fat disabled people are as disabled as thin disabled people. Fat people have every right to exist in public and use mobility aids and other adaptations.

Some people act like being mean to disabled fat people will somehow force them to stop being fat and disabled. It won’t. Being mean is not a cure. If you yell at a fat disabled person for needing to park close to the building, it won’t give them the ability to walk further safely. It will just mean that their day got worse because someone decided to be pointlessly cruel to them.

tl;dr Fat disabled people exist, and have a legitimate need for access and accommodations. Being mean to fat disabled people for having access needs doesn’t cure their disability. It just makes the world a crueler place. Don’t be a jerk.

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This is for people whose loved ones are suicidal. Do NOT blame them. They can’t help it, they are ill and need help. So be there for them.

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konari are small dragons, usually 8-16lb. they come in a wide variety of colours and eat mostly small vertebrates, along with a notorious sweet toothed love for fruit and honey. also theyre really cute

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The cast of ‘Orange is the New Black’ for Essence Magazine

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Can you explain why many people think Harry Potter is desi? Not hating just curious! That's so lovely!!

Tbh because there’s no good reason not to.

All the blood status in the hp universe is a metaphor for racism but you know what’s boring? Metaphors for racism that only involve white people. Harry is often described as “dark” and like if James Potter’s family was desi and Lily Evans’s was white, that would enhance Harry’s feelings of otherness while growing up with the Dursleys because lbr Vernon was probs a flaming racist.

“Potter” could easily be an anglicized version of a south Asian last name like Potdar or Potluri, and you could make an argument for a pure blood family like the Potters engaging in and profiting from cultural exchange through the British colonization of India so there was an opportunity to establish generational wealth there.

Also on the night he died, James was making pretty-colored lights for Harry. That was October 31st. In 1981, Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, started on October 27th. It lasts five days.

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carmilla karnstein + protecting laura

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in the tags, put 

- where u live

- ur first language 

- what u call this: