clatterbane:
ritavonbees:
01018000:
bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”
I have come to think of the suicidal impulse as the brain waving a flag to say three things:
- something needs to change here
- this is urgent
- I don’t know how to do it
death is the ultimate metaphor for drastic change. it’s a general specific. whatever your problems are, it is very likely that dead people don’t have to deal with them. a real solution to your problems may demand a very narrow range of action that’s likely to be out of reach at this moment, but death is sold on every street corner, so it feels like a more realistic fantasy than happiness.
you don’t really want to die per se but it’s also not completely random chemicals swamping your brain for no reason. you want the pain to stop, you want to be somewhere else, you want to be someone else. it’s urgent. you don’t know how to do it. the end is not the end but a means that feels within your reach right now.
this is the wisdom of bell hooks: daily rituals of meaning and resistance and solidarity are part of slowly building a future where you can make the change you really need. and only alive people can do that. every step you take towards change and power is another step away from death.
A very similar approach is also the main focus of Kate Bernstein’s Hello, Cruel World. Besides the free “lite” version she put out (linked there), the whole book is available to borrow on archive.org.
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12:41 am • 24 April 2023 • 76,044 notes
emblematik:
metamatar:
chelonates:
chelonates:
btw most universities to my knowledge keep their reading lists behind access barriers (ie. only students enrolled at the institution on the course in question can see them) so i thought i’d just let you all know that durham university has all of its reading lists available online for free without needing student access. do with this information what you will.
the lists are downloadable btw - i haven’t gone through and checked every single one but the ones i’ve looked at seem to be at least
MIT’s courseware is available using OpenCourse Ware, completely downloadable without registration and can be remixed under very permissive licenses. some courses have full videos of lectures, notes, slides and problem sets, others may have only have syllabi, reading lists and exams. before edx and coursera were the big names in for profit online education we had khan academy and ocw.
these are unfortunately a little hit and miss when it comes to degree of organization and level of detail, so they all require a little patience and willingness to poke around:
Tau Beta Pi UC Berkeley syllabus archive
UC San Diego syllabus archive
San Jose State University department of english and comparative literature syllabus archive
San Diego State University syllabus archive
University of Colorado Boulder syllabus archive
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill history department syllabus archive
University of North Carolina Greensboro history department syllabus archive
Florida Gulf Coast University course/syllabus archive
University of Wisconsin-Madison sociology department syllabus archive
Pratt Institute school of information syllabus archive
West Virginia University english department syllabus archive
tho tbh it terms of finding pure reading lists i’ve had much better luck just searching “[topic] + phd reading list” have founds lots and lots of juicy juicy reading lists that way. too many to post 😈
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12:27 am • 24 April 2023 • 26,845 notes
scavengedluxury:
Orient Espresso, Eger, Hungary, 1971. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
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10:07 pm • 23 April 2023 • 291 notes
toastpotent:
terfs be like. i am going to tell you how to spot a trans woman. okay so if you think a woman is ugly you should harass them. this is beneficial to women
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9:04 pm • 23 April 2023 • 56,459 notes
prokopetz:
Fact: The earliest reliably dated use of the phrase “fucked up” appears in the court records of a US Navy court-martial case from 1863; the way the phrase is used suggests that its meaning was already well known at the time, but this is the first known printed record of it that we can confidently put a date to.
Additional fact: Bram Stoker’s Dracula is set in 1897.
Conclusion: It would not anachronistic for your Dracula fanfic to have a character describe the Count as a fucked up old man.
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9:00 pm • 23 April 2023 • 66,652 notes
queeranarchism:
hater-of-terfs:
Online advertising uses over 100 TWh of electricity per year, about 1/10th the consumption of the entire internet, and produces about 60 megatons of CO2 as of 2016
Junk mail destroys over 100 million trees every year in the US alone. 44% of junk mail is discarded without even being opened, and only about 22% is recycled
Each digital billboard consumes about 30 times more energy than the average American household, and there are almost 9,000 just in the US
All of this for an industry that objectively makes people’s lives worse, that everyone openly hates, whose only goal is to manipulate people to buy things that they by definition do not need. And this isn’t even including TV and radio ads, conventional billboards, posters, construction, maintenance, design, all the countless hours of labor spent polluting our public spaces and our minds with the sole purpose of making the rich richer
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
In the light of global warming, the struggle against advertising really is the struggle for the survival of humanity.
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8:59 pm • 23 April 2023 • 58,231 notes
that-house:
that-house:
I had to mentally send myself a reaction image the other day. I ran up the stairs on all fours, said to myself “i’m such a locationpilled scampercel” and then perfectly envisioned this image
please i’ve already hurt so much
8:37 pm • 23 April 2023 • 157,878 notes
8bitskey:
came2slide:
Anxiety (pixelart study 2021)
the height of what’s possible in pixel art
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8:30 pm • 23 April 2023 • 20,167 notes
ivyontheweb:
football-in-tuxedos:
radiofreederry:
Someday I’m gonna need to actually write about this conservative tactic of demanding we basically turn off the part of our brain that interprets words and finds meaning when we talk to them. If they don’t specifically say some exact words, well you can’t respond to those words. You can’t assume JK Rowling is saying she’s a victim of a witch hunt by trans people because she never said those exact words in that exact order.
It’s a fascinating form of intellectual cowardice, where they want to essentially say something without ever being held responsible for saying that thing.
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8:21 pm • 23 April 2023 • 108,841 notes
