“Pride month is over”
WRONG! Your pride month is over! Me and all the other disabled queers are having pride month two: disability edition
Reblogging this again bc people in the notes are asking a lot of “Am I included? Am I disabled if I have x?” and I just wanted to add the flag here to show people who the pride month is for.
This is the new flag, the old one was more vivid and in a z shape, but it’s been made more neutral to be inclusive of people with seizures or sensory issues.
Each stripe represents a different aspect of disability:
Red: Physical disabilities
Yellow: Cognitive & intellectual disabilities
White: (And this is the key one I think) Invisible AND undiagnosed disabilities
Blue: Mental illnesses
Green: Sensory disabilities
If you’re autistic or have ADHD? this is your pride month. If you have a mental illness, it’s your pride month. If you’re hard of hearing, this is your pride month. If you have an autoimmune disorder, this is your pride month. If you are not diagnosed with anything but you know something is up with you: THIS IS STILL YOUR PRIDE MONTH.
[ID: Diarra Jasmine doodled a colorful image of her wonderful fat body with a poem she wrote. The poem reads:
Would you hate your body if the world didn’t?
If you could go somewhere without society saying no in the form of chairs that are too small and clothes that don’t fit?
If you could eat without someone jumping down your throat to assign moral value to food
If you could move without the weight of the world adding to the weight of your body
Assuming they know the fate of your body
Would you hate your body
if you didn’t constantly hear death’s chorus with every swish of your hips
“I’d rather die than look like you”
“You’re gonna die soon”
They chant and they dig
a person sized hole based on what they think your heart looks like?
Your heart looks like
The heart of a person who deserves to feel at home
not at war
Simply because they are a person
At home
And not at war
Would you hate your body if the world didn’t? End ID.]
(Source) @diarrajasmineyoga
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I think people who consider aromanticism as “basically straight” underestimate how noticeable absence can be to those around you.
Whether you’re a kid in school with classmates who won’t take “no one” as an answer to who you have a crush on or an adult whose coworkers have picked up on the fact that you’ve never mentioned a romantic partner; after enough time, a lack or insufficient amount of romantic interest will raise the antennae of friends, family, coworkers, etc… They will notice and they will speculate and they will ask.
It is impossible to meet the societal bar for straightness through inaction.
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A snake in Thailand spent enough time sitting still in the water to grow moss and turn into a dragon, apparently.
While snakes can sit still a very long time, this is some kind of hair algae (not moss!) many species of which grow in n fast moving streams, so the snake could have been fairly active and still grow an algae coat, which it will lose next time it sheds or if environmental conditions (like seasonal temps) change too much for this algae’s liking :)
Quetzalcoatl time
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Poll: Let’s see how Troy’s voyage went
Learning about the world
Bonding with Levar
Captured by pirates
Charming pirates by being himself
Pining for Abed
Managing to contact his friends
Learning about himself
Proving immune to mermaids’ temptations
Finding gifts for his friends
Making new friends
Sailing problems
Bermuda triangle shenanigans
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Poll: pick a nice thing for Troy and Abed to do together (they will do everything that gets any votes, they will just do those with more votes for longer)
Hug
Kiss
Special best friend handshake
Watch TV and movies
Play in the dreamatorium
Build a blanket/pillow fort (with compromise and no fighting)
Troy and Abed in the morning!
Take cute pictures together
Make up spontaneous rap songs
Study
Hold hands
Do butt stuff
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♡ HAPPY DISABLED PRIDE MONTH!!!! ♡
Photo description: magemikoart’s poster for disabled pride month. It is a high contrast art piece on a black background with yellow, red, blue, and green flowers that surround the disabled pride flag with text that reads “disability pride month”
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As a mass comm major, IF THERE IS SOMETHING UNJUST OR IMMORAL BEING DONE CALL YOUR LOCAL NEWS STATION THEY WILL HELP MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE
Cities and government agencies HATE bad press. This story that was told to me by the journalist that covered this, and he showed us the piece:
There was a traffic light that was set up on the far side of an overpass, but it was improperly hung so you couldn’t see the light until it was too late. There were accidents there EVERY SINGLE DAY and calls to the city did NOTHING.
Someone had the idea to call the local news station and this dude went out to see. As he was interviewing someone, there was a wreck.
Guess what happened after that piece aired?
Suddenly the city had the time to lower the traffic light and the accidents stopped.
Journalists get a bad rep, and while big stations like Fox deserve it, I think more thought should be given to who you’re actually shitting on when you say “I hate journalists.” Because we’re overworked, underpaid, constantly shit on, but we still do the job because we want to help people. All professional, prestigious journalists that I’ve met hate the government and will do whatever they can to get the information and change that’s needed. Being a journalist is a dangerous profession: at every professional convention I’ve been at there’s a fund for the families of journalists that have been killed (there’s a lot!) and a long memoriam roll.
SUPPORT LOCAL NEWS STATIONS
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