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POC, our anger is valid. Tone-policing is yet another kind of oppression. Civility is the way of the colonizer. Don't be afraid to raise your voice, let your anger show when dismantling white privilege, white supremacy, white fragility. We don't have to be polite to those who oppress us. Women and girls, we are taught from very early on we need to take great care to be lady-like in everything we do. Fuck that. Don't ever let anyone, but especially not men, tone-police you. Don't let them police your voice. Fellow neurodivergents, we spend all of our lives trying, and often, failing to mask. No more. The world needs to make room for more than one normal. Smash the kyriarchy! #summersolsticemusings #theneurodivergentdiaries #smashthekyriarchy #donottonepoliceme
Powerful art by @juliusbadoni H/t to @decolonize ・・・ Title: Indian at the Museum Medium: Oil on board Painted this from a photo I took a few years ago at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYNY. #metropolitanmuseumofart #themet #americanindianart #nativeamericanart #indigenousart #indigenouspeoplesday #abolishcolumbusday #fuckcolumbus Abolish #columbusday
#Repost from @indigenousgoddessgang. H/t to @veganhiphopmovement ・・・ #transformationtuesday 🔥 by @alexiagalainga Suicide rate for Native American women is up 139% “The US suicide rate is up 33% since 1999, but for Native American women and men, the increase is even greater: 139% and 71%, respectively, according to an analysis according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. Suicide disproportionately affects American Indian and Alaska Natives, according to the CDC. A 2018 CDC report found their suicide rate was more than 3.5 times higher than those among racial and ethnic groups with the lowest rates. Experts who study Native American suicide blame higher rates of poverty, substance abuse and unemployment as well as geographical isolation, which can make it difficult for people to access mental health care. Also, American Indian and Alaska Native women experience higher levels of violence than other US women. Nearly 84% experience violence in their lifetime, according to a 2016 report from the National Institute of Justice. This includes 56% who have experienced sexual violence and roughly the same percentage who have experienced physical violence by an intimate partner. Research shows more than a third of women who have been raped have contemplated suicide, and 13% have attempted, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Native Americans and Alaska Natives also experience PTSD more than twice as often as the general population, according to SAMHSA. "You get this historical trauma, and people aren’t able to resolve it. It gets internalized and passed down to future generations," said Karen Hearod, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and regional administrator at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). A separate analysis published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found the suicide rate for all US teens and young adults increased in 2017 to its highest point since 2000. Of Native American suicide deaths, more than a third were between 10 and 24 years old, according to the CDC.” -USA TODAY
I don't know about you, but I'm so sick and tired of those inane "feel-good" memes telling people to dare to be different, to be themselves. People want you to be yourself... until that yourself doesn't conform to their idea of normal. Always be you! Oh, but you are gay? No, not like that. Oh, but you are non-gender conforming/gender fluid? No, not like that. Oh, but are neurodivergent? No, not like that. BE YOU, BUT LIKE US. PS: One of those rare crossposting moments. I think this one deserves it, though. Please forgive me if you follow me in more than one account; as you know, it doesn't happen too often. #neurodivergent #adhd #squirrel #actuallyautistic #inthespectrum #embraceneurodiversity #neurodiversity #loveislove #fuckthatshit #whatisnormalanyway
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