Here’s to indigenous people who don’t ‘look native’ and are accused of being liars for it. Here’s to white coded indigenous people who worry that reconnecting with your heritage is somehow bad. Here’s to black and Asian coded indigenous people who get glossed over in discussions about your identity. Here’s to all native people, regardless of appearance, learning about their heritage and history. You all deserve to feel safe in learning about your history or even just acknowledging it at all.

If you find the military has left out pamphlets, you take them all and throw them away.

did this at a local comic book store once! Fuck that comic book store, it’s a creepy and bad place

this goes for if you see anything promoting the Shen Yun dance troup. That is a recruiting point for a cult called Falun Gong.

same goes for if you see anything promoting Mormonism or Scientology, although I haven’t seen materials for those things personally, I’m sure they exist

If you are invited to a Christian group that “doesn’t have a name”, something that holds meeting for outsiders in rec centers, “special meetings”- that’s a cult that is know to members only as “The Truth”, but is on Wikipedia as “two by twos”. Please reach out to me if you or anyone you love has been contacted by this group.

Institutions of abuse are everywhere. Do everything within your power to stop them whenever you see an opportunity. If you see a sign in your rec center that’s some sort of open call to a Christian church meeting but doesn’t have any real info on the church, maybe let me know. Don’t call the number, I can call the number. If you feel the need to do research on your own, all you need to check is whether they refuse to give you a straight answer about the name.

oh yeah, if you want context for “The Truth” being something I’m talking about that you have certainly never heard of, where I’m getting this information- the source is that I was raised in this cult. I know it sounds, almost fake or something, but it isn’t.

just want to say it’s decent as fuck of y’all to reblog this. it’s hard for me to talk about this stuff and harder if I feel like no one is listening. Thank you all for making me feel like someone hears this stuff sometimes.

“Usually, trauma is seen as something that needs to be healed. Something to be “processed” - to be dealt with privately, in therapy or among a circle of close friends, to be addressed as a problem and solved. To be neatly and tidily compartmentalized, separated from oneself, shrunk smaller and smaller until it no longer affects one directly, until it is altogether stored away. “Your trauma should not define you,” clinicians will say.

If an event or circumstance is harmful to or painful for a trauma victim or survivor, it is framed as “triggering.” It couldn’t possibly be that the event or circumstance is in of itself harmful, and that an individual’s trauma has provided them with insight into the event’s harmfulness. No, the issue is that the victim has not dealt with their trauma effectively enough, that their trauma is still affecting them.

In this sense, trauma is framed as a singular and isolated incident, as an exception to the rule. The world is a generally safe, just place, but victims and survivors have been falsely convinced by their traumatic incident that the world is unjust and unsafe. It is not possible that trauma could be an ever-present constant, perpetually occurring in every sphere of life.

Not only are experiences of victimization not seen as expertise, but they are seen as pathology. As something that causes victims to see the world less clearly, to think less rationally.

Yet for me personally, my victimhood has only allowed me to see the world more clearly. I grew up in a fairly conservative, capitalist family and shared and embodied those values for a large part of my life. I had been taught, and so it seemed to me, that the world was a fair place, and people who were economically marginalized (for example) were just not working hard enough. My victimhood fundamentally rattled my trust in the safety or justice of the world, and as a result I increasingly developed empathy for other victimized populations. My victimhood did not cloud my judgment or get in the way of my thinking clearly; rather, it radicalized me.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not advocating for victimization or attempting to justify victimizing people because it gives them expertise.

But I wonder how our communities and contexts might change if, instead of always asking people how they plan to treat or heal from their trauma, we gave them more opportunities to share what they have learned about the world, about the human condition, about power structures, about the impact of ongoing and pervasive systemic issues. What if, instead of asking, “What happened to you [as an individual]?” we gave victims more chances to situate their traumatic experiences within a broader framework of systemic injustice and contextual power imbalances that they now have insight into?”

Victimhood as Expertise by Emily S. Cutler

in case anyone needs these: 

pewdiepie got his entire Youtube start on rape jokes (google pewdiepie and “rape jokes” you’ll find plenty of sources), ableism, homophobia and racism. [x] He even produced a song titled “It’s Raping Time”. [x] He also made jokes about raping an 8-year-old character from TWD game.

Pewdiepie has hired multiple people to carry out antisemitic hate crimes; including hiring two men to hold a sign that says “Death to All Jews” and another to say “Hitler did nothing wrong”. These are both easily found on google; but this Vox article sums it up well. 

The Wall Street Journal studied his content since 2016 and found 9 videos (at the time of the study) tied with antisemitic language or nazi imagery. [x] He has compared himself to Hitler [x] and gave the Nazi salute himself [x]. In this video he is supposedly being ironic; but as we all know with irony, that’s not how it works. In another video, he plays audio clips of the Nazi party anthem while bowing over a swastika. This is not intended as ironic. [x] (also detailed in the above Vox article)

He has dropped the equivalent to the n-word in Swedish in a since-removed video [x] 

The white supremacist movement also does not hesitate in embracing his appearance and video trends as a sign he’s been “redpilled”. [x] (note: this link is an archived webpage of “The Daily Stormer”, a known nazi/white supremacist site). He also uses language and “humor” generally affiliated with alt-right circles, as noted in his antiblack racist bits regarding Leslie Jones  [x] and his heavily nazi influenced video on “cucks” like Buzzfeed [x]

His affiliates include:

notoriously racist and antisemitic Youtube channel E;R

Ben Shapiro - known racist, transphobe and “alt-right” face 

The Christchurch Shooter [x], who used his “subscribe to PewDiePie” shtick as a dogwhistle [x]

The Poway Synagogue Shooter [x], who mentioned “subscribe to Pewdiepie” as well

In summation, I’m glad this little bitch got robbed and I wish more had happened to him, he’s a nazi collaborator that touts this false ironic humor to almost 100 million people and it has gotten to the point that his very mention is a dogwhistle to white supremacists. 

The best character adaptation in Ducktales is turning Donald from a US navy soldier in the original material into a former goth kid that used to sing "eat the rich" songs in front of his billionare uncle