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“Our community was hit first. Asian restaurants were empty long before other restaurants. Even on the subway I could sense that racism was on the rise. On television one night there was a story about an elderly man who was collecting aluminum cans, just to survive. He was robbed and taunted. His bags were broken. His cans were strewn all over the street. And he didn’t speak English, so he couldn’t even ask for help. It broke me. Because in his face I could see the faces of all our grandparents. In our culture there is a tradition of: ‘Never speak out. Never ask for help.’ If our elders were suffering, would they even let us know? I decided to call a service organization focusing on Asian elderly, and I asked: ‘How many meals do you need?’ They replied: ‘As many as you can cook.’ We started preparing 200 meals per week in our little 300 square foot apartment. Moonlynn cooks beautifully and efficiently, so she lovingly banned me from the kitchen. But I still wanted to help in some way. So I found a black sharpie, and began to write on the plastic containers. Traditionally our elders are very reserved with their affection. I can still make my father blush just by kissing him on the cheek. But since I grew up in America, I have the privilege of being more direct. I found the traditional Chinese characters for ‘We are thinking of you’ and ‘We love you,’ and I wrote them on every container. I thought it was important to use the word ‘we.’ I never signed our own names. Because I wanted it to feel like a whole bunch of people, an entire community who cared. And before long that’s exactly what it was. We found ten restaurant partners within a half mile who helped us prepare culturally relevant foods. And over the past eighteen months Heart of Dinner has delivered 80,000 meals to our Asian elders. We weren’t able to personally write notes on each one. So we put out a call on Instagram, and 100,000 hand-written notes poured in from all over the world. We told people to go wild. Add as much character as you’d like. There were so many styles, and so many colors. But every note had two things, written in big, bold letters: ‘We are thinking of you.’ And ‘We love you.’”

BOOST!

you cannot tell if an author is straight or cis by whether they write “good representation.”

if you don’t want anyone to have to out themselves to defend their “right” to write about queerness, then when you encounter a queer narrative or character you dislike, you have to smack down assumptions that the person who wrote it wasn’t queer.

i keep talking about this because i think it’s important; and it’s certainly not the death of criticism. you can read a text critically without making assumptions about the author’s identity. you can talk about why you don’t find a piece of representation meaningful to you, why you think it’s badly written or even offensive. but if you say that it is any of those things because the author is straight or cis, no matter how obvious that may seem to you, you are out of bounds. i don’t have to go far to find examples of authors who have received that “feedback” and had to say “i’m sorry if i didn’t get this right, but i am a member of the lgbtq community.” sometimes they only realized they were queer because they wrote those stories. and this is also true for a lot of actors who have played queer roles, who have been accused of “stealing” those roles or not acting them convincingly and authentically.

i’ve seen the damage that causes and to me it’s not a game that’s worth playing.

I promise you any change you think you could be making by bitching that Ian Ousley "looks white" would be more easily accomplished by watching Reservation Dogs, talking about it, telling your friends amd neighbors about it, thereby helping to create a demand for media where Native folks are actually in charge of the story and not just a neat facet to add flavor.

Reservation Dogs is about Native teenagers trying to leave their community for the greater wide world and California specifically. They do what they can to save money, getting into trouble along the way as teenagers tend to, all while facing a "rival" gang. If Jet and his Freedom Fighters or Team Avatar's not-entirely-legal shenanegins were your favorite parts of the original series, you'll love Reservation Dogs. Check it out and help boost the ratings.

While we're at it, let's hype up the video game Never Alone, even though it's been out for a while now, because it was entirely informed by Inupiaq people sharing cultural knowledge and stories. It was narrated in Inupiatun!!! The narration is in a dialect of our dying language!! You collect little video lessons about the way of life, contemporary and traditional. They talk about King Island! A video game studio found my grandma's village interesting enough to depict and offer an explanation for! We never get that kind of attention in anything not strictly about us or Nome!

Native people who aren't that weird crypto-terf that tried following me a while back: reblog this with a piece of Native media you think should get more love

AND a race one since the most affected regions will be Africa, Asia and Oceania

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

RESPECT BLACK SCHOLARSHIP

also it helps me walk or whatever

[ID: a digitally drawn two-panel comic. / Image 1: Text reads: “How I expected using a cane would feel:” Panel depicts a miserable person in tattered clothes, hunched over a cane and shaking as she walks. / Image 2: Text reads: “How it actually feels:” Panel depicts the same person, now standing tall and wearing flowing wizard robes and a long white beard. Her cane is at her side, glowing with magic, and she looks confident and powerful. /End ID]

im not a doctor, im just also a mess of shitty cartilage, and this is my experience, so like, dont quote me or anything lol

neoprene knee braces and ankle brace work pretty well, but i can never sleep in them, its just very uncomfortable, it gets really sweaty and kind sore. ive not yet tried elbow/shoulder/wrist braces, but i imagine its a similar experience. they do limit joint movement to an extent, but that means it can also be hard to go about your business. i think id recommend full on braces for liek, exercising, and particularly wobbly days. on better days, flex tape works pretty well

hope this helps!

dumb question but do those joint braces keep your joints in place and could i use them for subluxations

-taps mic- the whole MC going "no pain medication, I don't want to cloud my mind" trope is both ableist and shockingly popular for how plainly ableist it is

(protip: if you're at the point where you're being advised to take pain medication by people who don't want to give you pain medication then your mind is most certainly already clouded by pain)

im 17, and in the 2 years ive been traveling around from doctor to doctor, i have only been truly listened to about my pain and my experiences with hypermobility and comorbidities maybe three times. thats 3 times, 3 doctors, out of around 13 doctors.

ive been told, to my face, that a mobility aid would probably help with my pain and maybe even my fatigue, but that no one would want to prescribe me one or suggest one, because they "didnt want me to become dependent" and that im young so ill be fine if i just do my exercises.

i take 8 prescriptions just to stay afloat. i am only capable of doing things approximately 3 hours out of the 16 that im technically awake. im not about to do anything crazy anyways, i just want to have less pain.

being young should never be the reason to withhold some form of aid.

There is no age limit on chronic pain. Just because you do not like to think about children being in pain does not mean they do not exist. They deserve to be believed and they deserve access to pain management.

stop fucking using the word psychotic to describe bad behaviour and violence already god fucking damn it

gaud, its equally improbable that i end up at the cursed one all three times

tf is karma telling me??

let’s play link roulette (one’s cute, one’s cursed, one’s my ko-fi)

link 1  link 2  link 3

man, i literally teared up the first time my friend used they/them for me, in public. it amde me feel so warm and loved!

its all fun and games until you hear someone say it

it makes sense but i still feel attacked

took a quiz thing and it gave me my d&d stats. the question is now, is this good or bad

ppl w adhd and autism reblog and add what texture is so awful it haunts your dreams its okay if its incredibly specific ill go first: scratching my nails on a car

“How arw you paying for photoshop” im not LMAO

I know I said the December 2020 redemption arc was going to be poorly written, but Elliot Page (Juno, Umbrella Academy) just came out as transgender, so actually sometimes this fragile world can defy our expectations, and exceed our careful cautious hopes.

I read Watership Down way too early as a child and I feel like that’s noticeable. 

Gay Romani People are vital to our community.

Gay Jewish People are vital to our community. Gay, Jewish, and Romani people, particularly disabled women, suffer due to integral parts of their identity. Do not forget them. Opre Roma! Goyim, Gadjo, and non-gay individuals may of course reblog

i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because: 

i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live 

most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person 

im not a pissbaby

Times are troubling and hard right now-but never forget, your Beet loving Grandmother loves you very very much and wants you to be safe.

And for you to eat your vegetables.

much love to the Abenaki Nation!

FUCK COLUMBUS HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY

im a taurus and i love azula so much

okay atla fans reblog with your sign and your fav war criminal from the series! i’ll start, libra + ty lee

here's a random word generator--whatever word it gives you is now the thing you are the deity of

heyo i havent slept in two (2) days, and im so awake it fucking hurts. my heart rate hasnt been below 80 bpm for about 16 hours, i keep almost puking, and i have a migraine. fuckin.... what is my life and how do i stop

ADHD culture is overusing ( ) and — and ; and … in everything you write because you have so many side thoughts that just GO there and wouldn’t make sense anywhere else

New tag game: are you a Too Many (Parenthesis) ADHD, a Too Many — Hyphens — ADHD, a Too; Many; Semicolons; ADHD, or a Too…. Many…. Ellipses… ADHD…?