carrie fisher isn’t just princess leia. carrie fisher isn’t just an actress we all admire from a famous series of movies made a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. carrie fisher isn’t just another name on the list of shitty things 2016 has done to people i admire.
carrie fisher is a woman who struggled with addiction and mental illness and never sugar coated it – she spoke honestly, openly, about every ugly truth, and made me so much less ashamed of the things i struggle with in my daily life.
carrie fisher is a woman who fought back against body shaming and misogyny, against agesim, who looked at critics and said “yes, i am a woman who has aged, and had children, and struggled with depression and addiction and my body has changed, so you can just shut the fuck up and deal with it”, and it was absolutely beautiful.
carrie fisher is a woman who was placed in the role of “princess” but didn’t conform to the typical hollywood idea of what a princess should be. she’s loud, brash, crass, and unapologetic for being so.
she’s an idol and an inspiration and she’s a woman who saved my life many times just by being who she was and never shying away from it or feeling the need to say sorry. carrie fisher is so much and more and i cannot begin to stomach the thought of 2016 taking her away from me, from her family, from the rest of the world and those of us who love her so dearly.
i love you, space momma. we all do. keep fighting the good fight.
On December 4, hundreds of veterans plan to “deploy” to Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota to join in protest against the planned Dakota Access Pipeline.
The event, Veterans Stand for Standing Rock, is a call for veterans to “assemble as a peaceful, unarmed militia” to “defend the water protectors from assault and intimidation at the hands of the militarized police force and DAPL security.“
A beautiful example of solidarity and courage! These veterans who have known the horrors of war and the sufferings of minorities understand the stakes of these historical events that are happening in Standing Rock, events that are a worldwide symbol for the legitimate defense of peoples against the oppressor. #Love it!
Amazing
currently at 2,100 veterans headed there this weekend, additional “shifts” of veterans are already filling up for upcoming missions
This is the second occurrence of DAPL security pointing guns threatening water protectors. In the first there were no charges pressed after a Dakota Access security worker threatened water protectors with an AR-15. (And yes it has been proven he was a worker a they found paper work and an id identifying him as such despite the fact he attempted to cover his identity with arm warmers and a bandanna). The next gunman didn’t even bother to hide his face because he knows he will get away with this without consequence. The privilege of being white in a settler state. I just want to point out, what you are witnessing with Kelcy Warren’s rhetoric is an attempt to invalidate Tribal sovereignty, erasure. Despite the fact that thousands of Natives are protesting, despite the fact that hundreds of Tribes have organized and are at the front lines of the camp resisting. The colonizers still refuse to see Indigenous people’s existence, try to invalidate Tribal governance and histories that have been existing since before this country was even established. This is exactly like I broke down in my post about the Bundy acquittal when they attempted to argue the same thing in the context of discourse around their occupation of Paiute land. The fact that settlers can just claim Native treaties are invalid reiterates the existence of the settler state. The fact that settlers can claim that Natives are lying while they continue to spread lies in the media is proof of how the media is systemic erasure by the settler state. The fact that I can provide endless receipts of militarized violence, state sanctioned violence on peaceful water protectors (Native people, including women and elders dragged out of sweatlodges and tipis, tear gassed for prayer. Native people were arrested, marked with numbers and kept in dog kennels. Water protectors faces covered and reportedly water boarding torture techniques used. Dakota Access was the one who hired private security to sicc dogs on women and children. They’re the ones pointing guns in water protectors faces and surveillance them with helicopters and bright lights around the camp 24/7. This isnt the first time that Native water protectors have been called terrorist by pro Dapl corporate giants. Look at the pictures for yourself and answer me this by definition who really are the “terrorist here?” Because all i see is that water protectors have been completely peaceful in efforts of protecting millions of people’s right to clean water. Yet the state of ND continues to use unnecessary use of militarized force to the point they have thown away $6 million dollars of emergency funds to do so. They are still requesting more help from other states law enforcement. Please continue to help Native people not only on boosting #NoDAPL, donating, signing petitions, but also shame corporate leaders of greed like Kelcy Warren . Its these rich white men who are only worried about money. Billions upon billions, mansions upon mansions, and none of it is ever good enough. They continue to threaten everyone’s resources and uphold paradigms of Indigenous genocide for their own wealth.
I think my biggest “huh” moment with respect to gender roles is when it was pointed out to me that your typical “geek” is just as hypermasculine as your typical “jock” when you look at it from the right angle.
As male geeks, a great deal of our identity is built on the notion that male geeks are, in some sense, gender-nonconformant, insofar as we’re unwilling or unable to live up to certain physical ideals about what a man “should” be. Indeed, many of us take pride in how putatively unmanly we are.
Viewed from an historical perspective, however, the virtues of the ideal geek are essentially those of the ideal aristocrat: a cultured polymath with expertise in a vast array of subjects; rarefied or eccentric taste in food, clothing, music, etc.; identity politics that revolve around one’s hobbies or pastimes; open disdain for physical labour and those who perform it; a sense of natural entitlement to positions of authority (“you should be flipping my burgers!”); and so forth.
And the thing about that aristocratic ideal? It’s intensely masculine. It may seem more welcoming to women on the surface, but – as recent events will readily illustrate – this is a facade: we pretend to be egalitarian because it suits our refined self-image, but that affectation falls away in a heartbeat when challenged.
Basically, the whole “geeks versus jocks” thing that gets drilled into us by media and the educational system isn’t about degrees of masculinity at all. It’s just two different flavours of the same toxic bullshit: the ideal geek is the alpha-male-as-philosopher-king, as opposed to the ideal jock’s alpha-male-as-warrior-king. It’s still a big dick-measuring contest – we’re just using different rulers.
It’s just two different flavours of the same toxic bullshit: the ideal
geek is the alpha-male-as-philosopher-king, as opposed to the ideal
jock’s alpha-male-as-warrior-king.
I’d hate to be a party pooper, but as a Native woman, this all makes me seriously uncomfortable.
If the Hogwarts mascots were a lion, a snake, a badger, and a raven, all real animals, why do these new ones have to be religious creatures? Also, the Hogwarts houses all had fanciful made up names but these are legitimate names of creatures Indigenous peoples believed in. Doesn’t that seem a little ethnocentric to anyone?
And the whole “indigenous magic but i can’t say which tribe” bullshit? Seriously? No, it’s not like we aren’t all thrown into a cultural stereotype by white people all the damn time.
So glad I never got into Harry Potter, or this could have been heartbreaking.
If you ever wondered what cultural appropriation looks like, it looks kinda like this.
I don’t have any energy left to rant more about this entire shitbundle of “no, leave your hands outta my culture” that is Rowling’s new venture. So I’ll just second what other Native folks are saying.
WWII Gay G.I.s recounts tale of losing their Lovers
Excerpt from the book Coming out under fire The history of gay Men and Women in World War Two: Combat soldiersoftenresponded to each other’s personal losses with the deepest respect and understanding, allowing gay GIs to express openly their grief over the death of boyfriends or lovers.
Jim Warren’s boyfriend was hit while trying to knock out a machine-gun nest on Saipan. “They brought him back,” Warren recalled, “and he was at the point of death. He was bleeding. He had been hit about three or four times. I stood there and he looked up at me and I looked down at him and he said, ‘Well, Jim, we didn’t make it, did we.’ And tears were just rolling down my cheeks. I don’t know when I’ve ever felt such a lump and such a waste. And he kind of gave me a boyish crooked grin and just said, ‘Well, maybe next time.’ And I said, ‘I’m going to miss you. And I’ll see your mother.’ There were people standing around, maybe seven or eight people standing there, and I was there touching his hand and we were talking. Somebody said later, ‘You were pretty good friends,’ because I had been openly crying and most people don’t do this. I said, ‘Yes, we were quite good friends.’ And nobody ever said anything. I guess as long as I supposedly upheld my end of the bargain, everything was all right.”
Ben Small was even less able to control himself when his boyfriend was killed in the Philippines. But he, too, was surprised by the other men’s compassion towards him. “We had a funny freak attack of a Japanese kamikaze plane,” he recalled, “and I guess he was getting rid of his last load of these baby cutter bomb, these little bombs that explode at about three feet high so if they went off through a tent they exploded at bed level. I had just been in the tent of a guy I had been going with at the time. He crawled into bed, and I said goodnight and walked out the tent. And this plane came overhead and all we heard was explosions and we fell to the ground. When I got up too see if he was all right, the trust of the bomb had gone through his tent and he was not there. I went into a three-day period of hysterics. I was treated with such kindness by the guys that I worked with, who were all totally aware of why I had gone hysterical. It wasn’t because we were bombed. It was because my boyfriend had been killed. And one guy in the tent came up to me and said, ‘Why didn’t you tell me you were gay? You could have talked to me.’ I said, ‘Well, I was afraid to.’ This big straight, macho guy. There was a sort of compassion then.”
After a raid in the Philippines, Ben Small remembered, a lieutenant who had been injured was being shipped back to the States, so the men “all went to the plane to see him off that night. It was an amazingly touching moment, when he and his lover said goodbye, because they embraced and kissed in front of all these straight guys and everyone dealt with it so well. I think it was just this basic thing about separation of someone you cared for, regardless of sex.” Small described this tender parting as “a little distilled moment out of time” when men’s “prejudices were suspended” and gay soldiers “could be a part of what this meant.”
My grandpa almost died today and I was the only one here to call the hospital and Steve Rogers is a fucking nazi… May 25th can just go fuck itself honestly
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