On the show #OITNB I play Sophia Burset, a trans woman of color who experiences violence from corrupt individuals and a corrupt prison system.
In the documentary film #FreeCeCe and through the story of #CeCeMcDonald we’re exploring in depth this culture of violence that far too many trans folks particularly trans folks of color experience everyday.
We need your help to complete this film. Please contribute whatever dollar amount you can to our #Indiegogo campaign and share our campaign in social media. I have experienced the power of truthful storytelling can have to ignite social change. Help us tell this story.
Mohanis fishermen catch herons in the Indus River. They sneak up on unsuspecting birds by wearing headgear made of heron as a decoy. Birds are caught for food, as well as for sale and to be trained. Pakistan, Randy Olson.
being called “racist” isn’t an insult or something mean that people are saying to you because they want to bring you down. if you’re being called racist you shouldn’t be brushing it off because you “can’t see the haters” you should be assessing your behaviour, your language, and mindset for signs of prejudice, discrimination, and sympathy/support for unfair and violent treatment towards racially persecuted people in your country
Ok, but sometimes people do label others as racist when they haven’t done anything actually racist. Not everyone who calls you racist is right to do so.
being called “racist” isn’t an insult or something mean that people are saying to you because they want to bring you down. if you’re being called racist you shouldn’t be brushing it off because you “can’t see the haters” you should be assessing your behaviour, your language, and mindset for signs of prejudice, discrimination, and sympathy/support for unfair and violent treatment towards racially persecuted people in your country
In addition to what’s mentioned in this link, we have some info to help folks make a plan to stay safe when leaving an abusive relationship, and when they can’t leave just yet: The Scarleteen Safety Plan
Seriously, I’ve only been able to skim this article so far, but I definitely plan on reading the whole thing later
If you’re being abused by your partner, and you’re reading this right now, then you have awe-inspiring strength.
You’re suffering, but you have the courage to seek out ideas on how to take care of yourself.
I’m guessing you haven’t come across many tips like these. When I was being abused, the only advice I found was about how to leave an abusive partner, or how to heal after you’ve left.
In this society we sometimes talk about abuse victims being strong after they leave, but frame them as weak before hand. I think that is so wrong. Living in an abusive relationship takes a strength that most people cannot even comprehend. you’re not weak because you stay. there are a million reasons why we stay because, frankly, abusers actively work to keep their victims trapped.
So know that if you’re in an abusive relationship right now as you read this, I think you are strong as fuck, and I am rooting hard as hell for you.
Honestly, if people feel even a little inclined to reblog this, I would appreciate it. I am not trying to guilt anyone, if you don’t reblog I won’t think you’re a horrible person, that’s totally your prerogative… But if these words can help even just one current victim of domestic violence… I would be so happy.
So many people can’t leave. So many. Please be safe.
I’m going to take a break from my usual fandom stuff and talk about the Gag Law aproved yesterday in Spain.
Despite 82% of Spaniards being against this law, and all opposition parties being also against it, the goverment pass this bill yesterday. The #GagLaw criminalize non-violent protests and activist movements, give police inmense power, and virtually legalize human rights abuses. Let me explain some points of the act:
Sanction for RECORDING OR TAKING PHOTOS OF THE POLICE between 600 and 30.000€ (= 745 - 37000 USDollars, or 475 - 24000 GBPounds). Example: The police is kicking a person in front of you, you take your cell phone and film or take photos of the agression. Youare the one committing an offense.
Sanction for NON-VIOLENT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE between 600 and 30.000€ (= 745 - 37000 USDollars, or 475 - 24000 GBPounds).
Sanctions for MASS MEETINGS OR DEMONSTRATIONS IN FRONT OF THE CONGRESS, SENATE OR SIMILAR ADMINISTRATIONS, between 600 and 30.000€ (= 745 - 37000 USDollars, or 475 - 24000 GBPounds).
Sanction for pacefully occupy a bank as a protest, between 600 and 30.000€ (= 745 - 37000 USDollars, or 475 - 24000 GBPounds).
Sanction for not ending a protest or demonstration when the police says so, between 600 and 30.000€ (= 745 - 37000 USDollars, or 475 - 24000 GBPounds).
Sanction for an assembly or a mass meeting in a public space, between 100 and 600€ (=125 - 745 USDollars, or 80 - 475 GBPounds).
Sanction for eviction resistance between 600 and 30.000€ (= 745 - 37000 USDollars, or 475 - 24000 GBPounds). Eviction resistance is a very common practice in Spain since the crisis started, just in 2012 around 40,000 families were evicted from their homes.
This law legalizes too they so-called “HOT” OR IMMEDIATE REPATRIATION OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS on the bordersof Spain with Morocco. These inmediate repatration break European and international laws and infringe Human rights. The inmigrants taken by the border’s police are returned to Morocco without being identified (they can be politic or war refugees) and sometimes while they are injured and without medical assistance.
This bill legalizes black list of activists, protesters and alternative press. Lists we all know existed but were denied by public forces and the goverment.
The Gag Law legalizes arbitrary police controls BASED ON ETHNIC PROFILES.
This act also legalizes pre-emptive raids without any requirement at all, or any disrupt of the public security. It also allows police to performance external body searches at their discretion.
These are just the highlights of the Gag Law, it was passed yesterday at the Congress, it will be effective by 2015, Spain will be back to the times of Franco dictatorship in matter of civil and human rights, please SPREAD THE WORD.
“Richmond, Ind., now furnishes a story of a woman’s strange infatuation for a woman. Charles Worrell and wife separated because of Mrs. Worrell’s unnatural love for her sister-in-law, Mrs. Marion Worrell, a widow. The women were heretofore highly esteemed in the community. Mrs. Charles Worrell is a woman of fine attainments, at one time a teacher in Eartham college. Charles Worrell remonstrated with his wife, and tried in every possible way to break off the unnatural alliance between the women, but without effect, and finally an amicable division of property was made and the husband and wife separated. The two women have gone to Lorain, Ohio, to live together. Both are handsome and about twenty-five years of age. They say they cannot live apart.”
A woman who doesn’t work here anymore brought this weird smurf toy into work a couple of months ago and set it on top of the computer because apparently her kids wouldn’t stop fighting over it and I hate it every day. It sits up there taunting me with its apparent lack of spine or any normal smurf anatomy. Anyway I found out a few weeks ago her kids are about 15-17 and now I’m certain this is a highly cursed object.
Today in Spain, a new law enters into force: “ la ley Mordaza” (the gag law) wich was made and decided in silence by our government.
This new law makes illegal to speak about politics via social media, makes illegal to any kind of manifestation on the streets, you can’t take photos at any cops, practically it invalidates any kind of free speech.
And I’m kinda mad I haven’t seen nothing about this on my dash, so I had to signal boost this in my wacky english.
