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(via felonie)
i don’t know why it is so impossible for me to be in a public place without a man putting his hands on me i don’t want to stay in my house i want everyone else to stay in their house for once so i can go outside and feel comfortable and not have to put up with strangers putting their hands on me and then being told i am oversensitive when i start crying/shaking i am sick of having to pretend i am using my phone when i walk past groups of men because i don’t like being stared at like that by every single person i want everyone to stop staring at me and talking about me i want everyone to die or something leave me alone i don’t want people to look at me ever again it is unfair if i have to listen to one more person talk about how men are bullied for being men and their life is unfair i will hit someone i don’t care
“The reason I made this distinction between cultural syncretism in general and cultural appropriation specifically is that — you guessed it — cultural appropriation is about an exploitive power dynamic, whereas not all forms of cultural sycretism are. We see cultural syncretism everywhere in our mainstream culture because the US is an immigrant country and we really do meld a lot more than we give ourselves credit for. The power dynamic lies in the fact that the genuinely syncretic and layered culture of the mainstream is dominated by whites. That broad river of culture is considered — consciously by POC and unconsciously by whites — to be the home ground and domain of whites” —
However, it must be said that the USA as a nation-state was founded by colonizers, not immigrants. The difference is very stark, and is expressed primarily in the violent usurpation of indigenous birthright, a usurpation which continues in the appropriation of our expressions and our religious practices.
(via ayiman)
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this is where i am going to live
(via pearlgrowing)
stone fish by ckoukkos on Flickr.
“Synanceia is a genus of fish of the family Synanceiidae, the Stonefishes, whose members are venomous, dangerous, and even fatal to humans. It is the most venomous fish in the world. They are found in the coastal regions of Indo-Pacific oceans. They are primarily marine, though some species are known to live in rivers. Its species have potent neurotoxins secreted from glands at the base of their needle-like dorsal fin spines which stick up when disturbed or threatened.”
“Stonefish stings in Australia can cause poisoning and death if not treated. The stonefish is the most venomous fish in the world.”
-Wikipedia
