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2020-07-08T09:25:31Z

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their names: Babu Sunuwar and Lakpa Tsering Sherpa

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2020-06-27T18:25:25Z

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texnessa:

“I want to tell a story about an invisible elephant.

Once upon a time, when I was in graduate school at UCSB, the department of religious studies held a symposium on diasporic religious communities in the United States. Our working definition for religious diaspora that day was, “religious groups from elsewhere now residing as large, cohesive communities in the US.” It was a round table symposium, so any current scholar at the UC who wanted to speak could have a seat at the table. A hunch based on hundreds of years of solid evidence compelled me to show up, in my Badass Academic Indigenous Warrior Auntie finery.

There were around 15-20 scholars at the table, and the audience was maybe fifty people. There was one Black scholar at the table, and two Latinx scholars, one of whom was one of my dissertation advisors. The other was a visiting scholar from Florida, who spoke about the diasporic Santería community in Miami. But everyone else at the table were white scholars, all progressively liberal in their politics, many of whom were my friends. Since there was no pre-written agenda, I listened until everyone else had presented. I learned a tremendous amount about the Jewish diaspora in the US, and about the Yoruba/Orisha/Voudou, Tibetan Buddhist, Muslim, and Hindu communities, and even about a small enclave of Zoroastrians.

As they went on, I realized my hunch had been correct, and I listened to them ignore the elephant, invisible and silent, at that table.

So I decided to help her speak the hell up. “Hello, my name is Julie Cordero. I’m working on my PhD in Ethnobotany, Native American Religious Traditions, and history of global medical traditions. I’d like to talk about the European Catholic and Protestant Christian religious diaspora in the United States, as these are the traditions that have had by far the greatest impact on both the converted and non-converted indigenous inhabitants of this land.”

Total silence. And then several “hot damns” from students and colleagues in the audience. I looked around the table at all the confused white faces. My Latinx advisor slapped his hand on the table and said, “Right!!?? Let’s talk about that, colleagues.”

The Black scholar, who was sitting next to me, started softly laughing. As I went on, detailing the myriad denominations of this European Christian Diaspora, including the Catholic diocese in which I’d been raised and educated, and the brutal and genocidal Catholic and Protestant boarding schools that had horribly traumatized generations of First Nations children, and especially as I touched on how Christians had twisted the message of Christ to try and force people stolen from Africa to accept that their biblically-ordained role was to serve the White Race, her laughs grew more and more bitter.

The Religious Studies department chair, who’d given a brilliant talk on the interplay between Jewish and Muslim communities in Michigan, stopped me at one point, and said, “Julie, I see the point you are so eloquently making, but you’re discussing American religions, not religious diasporic communities.” I referred to the definition of diaspora we had discussed at the start of the discussion, and then said, “No, Clark. If I were here to discuss religions that were not from elsewhere, I’d be discussing the Choctaw Green Corn ceremony, the Karuk Brush Dance, the Big Head ceremonial complex in Northern California, the Lakota Sun Dance, or the Chumash and Tongva Chingichnich ritual complex.”

It got a bit heated for a few moments, as several scholars-without-a-damn-clue tried to argue that we were here to discuss CURRENT religious traditions, not ancient.

Well. I’ll let you use your imagination as to the response from the POC present, which was vigorously backed by the three young First Nations students who were present in the audience (all of whom practice their CURRENT ceremonial traditions). It got the kind of ugly that only happens with people whose self-perception is that they, as liberal scholars of world cultures with lots of POC friends and colleagues, couldn’t possibly be racist.

Our Black colleague stood and left without a word. I very nearly did. But I stayed because of my Auntie role to the Native students in the audience.

I looked around at that circle of hostile faces, and waited for one single white scholar to see how unbelievably racist was this discursive erasure of entire peoples - including my people, on whose homeland UCSB is situated.

Finally, a friend spoke up. “If we are going to adhere to the definition of diaspora outlined here, she is technically correct.”

And then my dear friend, a white scholar of Buddhism: “In Buddhist tradition, the Second Form of Ignorance is the superimposition of that which is false over that which is true. In this case, all of us white scholars are assuming that every people but white Americans are ‘other,’ and that we have no culture, when the underlying fact is that our culture is so dominant that we’ve deluded ourselves into thinking it’s the neutral state of human culture against which all others are foreign. Even the Black people our ancestors abducted and enslaved we treat as somehow more foreign than ourselves. And, most absurdly, the peoples who are indigenous to this land are told that we belong here more than they do.”

People stared at their hands and doodled. The audience was dead quiet.

And you know what happened then? The elephant was no longer invisible, and my colleagues and I were able to have a conversation based on the truths about colonialism and diaspora. We were THEN able to name and discuss the distinctions between colonial settlements and immigrant settlements, and how colonial religious projects have sought to overtake, control, and own land, people, and resources, while immigrant and especially refugee diasporic communities simply seek a home free from persecution.

As we continue this national discussion, it is absolutely key to never, ever let that elephant be invisible or silent. You are on Native Land. Black descendants of human beings abducted from their African homelands are not immigrants. European cultures are just human cultures, among many. And the assignation of moral, cultural, racial superiority of European world views over all non-Euro human cultures is a profound delusion, one that continues to threaten and exterminate all people who oppose it, and even nature itself.

I hope that this story has comforted the afflicted and afflicted the comfortable.”

- Julie Cordero-Lamb, herbalist & ethnobotanist from the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation

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2020-06-27T18:25:18Z

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jadelyn:

naamahdarling:

naamahdarling:

peach-tea-rose:

No matter how many times you fail to meet your own expectations, you have to forgive yourself. Despite contrary belief, dwelling on and badgering yourself over your faults doesn’t ever help you grow into who you want to be.

It’s like gardening: if your flower isn’t blossoming like you want it to, you don’t rip out its leaves as punishment for failing to satisfy you. You recognize the problem and figure out what’s going wrong with its environment so you can modify it, giving the flower a chance to bloom in its own time.

Accept your shortcoming or setback, forgive yourself, and figure out what’s going wrong so that you can plan for how to prevent it from repeating in the future. Thank your past self for trying in the first place and then give your future self the love needed to flourish.

I am almost affronted at how good and forgiving this advice is.

Flawless positivity.

Listen.

I read once, don’t remembet where or know if it’s true, that in order to train an animal and to remain good friends with it, you need a 5/1 ratio of positive vs. negative interactions. So for every interaction that the animal considers negative - pilling a cat, for example - you need FIVE positive interactions, such as treats, cuddles, play, or praise if you want to remain on the best possible terms with it.

This applies to your relationship with yourself.

If you aren’t positively interacting with yourself but are instead consistently berating, punishing, or being disgusted with yourself, you are 100% going to have a lot of emotional pain.

You aren’t perfect. Nobody is and nobody should feel like they have to be. You will make mistakes. And contrary to what a lot of folks, self included, seem to believe, being mean to yourself because you think you “deserve” it won’t actually help you learn or becone a better person.

All it does is teach you not to trust yourself, and teach you that you will always disappoint yourself. You take on a toxic relationship with yourself where you play both parts. It’s terrible.

So yes, you HAVE to learn to forgive yourself. You actually cannot grow effectively in the confines of a toxic relationship. Including one you have with yourself.

I know it isn’t easy, I have a hard time too, but it is so, so necessary.

You can’t hate yourself into being happy.

I don’t remember where I read this but it literally changed my life and how I approach growth and personal development. It can be hard to keep in mind sometimes, but it puts it in a way that’s hard to argue with.

Cat, who plays Boblem on nyxrising ‘s Life of the Party D&D show put this beautifully into words, and I cry each time I read these words:

“You know, people are kinda like trees, kinda like a plant. So here’s how I see it: when a plant is not really growing, or if it’s decaying, you don’t get angry at the plant and go ‘why don’t you grow?!’ You try to feed it back into health, you know? And I think it’s the same with people. Instead of getting angry at yourself for things you might not like about you, you should try to nourish yourself. Back into health. Does that make sense?”

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jessica rabbit is literally a sex symbol though she can't be asexual?

2020-06-27T18:25:15Z

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she is in romo with a rabbit because he makes her laugh and aside from using her looks to get things out of people she literally never once shows interest in anything or anyone sexually through the entire movie and is clearly appalled when anyone makes advances towards her like there is canonical evidence that jessica rabbit from the classic motion picture who framed rogger rabbit is an asexual character

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2020-06-27T18:25:11Z

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ginger-s-n-a-p:

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a-common-haitian-name:

rainbow-rebel:

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cartoonnetworkhistory:

cartoon network commercial from 2004

lol so anyway it’s basically canon. Johnny and Jack said so.

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Why is this really cute? (◕ヮ◕ヽ) their aesthetics compliment each other so well

This is the forbidden reboot couple we deserved

Honestly love this

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mapsontheweb: The Jewish diaspora across the Roman Empire

2020-06-27T13:25:15Z

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The Jewish diaspora across the Roman Empire

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2020-06-25T10:25:34Z

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2020-06-11T18:25:16Z

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jupitersmusings:

good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

THIS ONE FUCKING WORKS. REBLOG IT.

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2020-06-10T20:25:31Z

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naamahdarling:And calling anyone who would resist fascis

2020-06-10T14:25:45Z

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naamahdarling:

And calling anyone who would resist fascism a terrorist. Nice.

thx-a-latke:

a sitting senator is calling for the military to be deployed against protesters

wondering what “no quarter” means?

it’s military-speak for “take no prisoners.” but is that legal?

but what about in the u.s.?

but there’s a more casual meaning of the phrase, too, that just means to treat prisoners harshly (which is also unacceptable). maybe tom cotton meant it in the more colloquial sense. why would we assume he meant it in the military sense?

so, correction: a sitting senator and former army captain is calling for the military to be deployed against protesters without taking prisoners in direction opposition to american law and international law knowing it’s a war crime because he’s a former army captain

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the nyt remains a beacon of democracy in these turbulent times huh

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storiesofimagination:browntiger15:Yep. Dam burst cause

2020-06-10T14:25:45Z

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browntiger15:

Yep. Dam burst cause the jackass who owns them didn’t pay to keep up maintenance, or so I’ve heard. It’s as likely a story as any.

But I’m sure that this has nothing at all to do with the govt not keeping up on infrastructure and not imposing regulations.

b-obbs:

I couldnt tell if this was one of those “this is year is getting dramatically worse” memes or if something else actually happened so I looked it up.

Turns out Michigan is actually flooding.

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2020-06-10T14:25:33Z

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everythingfox: slurp slurp (via)

2020-06-10T14:25:23Z

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everythingfox:

slurp slurp

(via)

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uselessmachine: and the two side by side….. love

2020-06-10T13:26:02Z

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and the two side by side….. love some good sun and moon imagery

print shop here

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2020-06-10T13:25:51Z

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everythingfox:❤❤

2020-06-10T13:25:45Z

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everythingfox:

❤❤

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justcatposts:kittens make everything better

2020-06-10T13:25:38Z

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justcatposts:

kittens make everything better

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everythingfox: This fox knows what you’re up to

2020-06-10T13:25:34Z

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everythingfox:

This fox knows what you’re up to

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everythingfox:#Judging u

2020-06-10T13:25:31Z

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everythingfox:

#Judging u

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aggienes: ohpenmikephotos: THE COCOAPUFF GIRLS So about this...

2020-06-05T19:25:07Z

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THE COCOAPUFF GIRLS

So about this project. For awhile now I’ve noticed almost every single time I see a darker skinned black woman “going viral”, she’s half naked, oiled up, and/or sexualized in some way shape or form. It’s very rarely ever “Look at this amazing dark skinned woman who accomplished this thing.” Or “Look at her smile, she’s gorgeous”. Please don’t misinterpret what I’m saying. There is nothing wrong with darker women and black women in general being free and expressive about their sexuality and provocative features. BUT that is NOT ALL they are. They are so much more than sexual beings, but for some reason, that seems to be almost the only thing that grabs viral appreciation. So here’s my attempt to have darker skinned black women go viral for just being cute, creative, stylish, bubbly, beautiful, and black. Aside from the videographer EVERYONE involved in this project IS A BLACK WOMAN. I hope you guys like it. I ask that if you enjoyed this and agree with my objective, share it with a few people please.

A special thank you to aggienes, I couldn’t have done this without her.

INSTAGRAM PAGES OF THOSE INVOLVED
Photographer & Creative Director: ohpenmike ohpenmikephotos
Stylist: ohpenmikephotos & aggie_hair
Hair-Stylist: aggie_nes aggie_hair
Graphic Designer: pepitapepper
MUA: [Bad username or site: chidi @ mma]
Models: kristiatolode misskellykel chiepodeu yanjusofine_

I worked on this project with ohpenmike and other talented black artists. Enjoy 😊

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2020-06-05T07:25:13Z

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Reblog In 5 seconds for good luck

this worked last night lets go for round two

I really need some good luck rn

Aye

I really need this luck right now

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Save Uncle Hugo's

2020-06-04T16:25:23Z

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mostlysignssomeportents:

Uncle Hugo’s is a beloved science fiction bookselling institution, a Minneapolis bookstore of the sort you hardly see any longer, crammed with new and used books and magazines, a palace of endless browsing pleasure.

http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/index.shtml

It burned down in this week’s uprising, along with its adjacent sister-store, Uncle Edgar’s (a mystery bookstore) and while it sounds like the owners will get something from their insurers, independent bookselling has been on the ropes for years.

It’s unlikely that insurance alone will suffice to save the store, especially when you consider how the pandemic lockdown has emptied the reserves and piled up the debt of every business.

That’s why Uncle Hugos’ fans have raised more than $41,000 for the stores on a Gofundme. But there’s a lot more needed - they’re less than 10% of the way to their goal.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/let-us-help-save-uncle-hugo039s

I donated.

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2020-06-04T14:25:20Z

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mooching off the government is a good thing actually. what the fuck else are they gonna do with the money? buy more bombs?

If you are paying taxes it’s impossible to “mooch” off of the government. It’s just going “hey, remember that money I gave you? It’s your turn to help me out now.”

It is always impossible to mooch off the government. It is the government’s job to look after its people.

Literally why even have a fucking government if not to take care of people.

I would argue that there is such a thing as mooching off the government.

Like when Amazon steals fucking 129 million dollars in tax rebates despite making 11 billion dollars in profit and not paying one fucking penny of tax.

That’s what ‘mooching off the government’ looks like.

Everything the rich accuse the poor of is another thing they actually do themselves.

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lupin5th @ 2020-06-04T14:25:00

2020-06-04T14:25:19Z

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“for profitting from your labor, you’re using one. tumblr makes money from everything you post, because they sell their memberbase as a product to advertisers. ao3 doesn’t do this, which is why they need donations in the first place. ao3 isn’t actually benefitting from anything–they are an archive. essentially an online library, except they don’t get government funding, so they need donations to survive. -done-”

But tumblr’s honest about the fact that they’re a business and are here for profit. Tumblr is a garbage corporation, but also they’re not trying to make it seem like they’re the poor downtrodden either. They also don’t prevent me from hosting things on their site while trying to get compensated for my time. Also, no one is coming at me on anon on tumblr trying to claim tumblr just desperately needs to do those things to survive. No is coming at me making excuses for tumblr. They are bending over backward to defend AO3 and claim not only that I can’t value my own labor, but that I shouldn’t.

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2020-06-04T14:25:19Z

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gingerhastoomanyobsessions:

I can’t breathe

Best wishes to these people obviously but I’m WHEEZING at the concept of a standard horror plot starter but the stranded travelers are an entire fully equipped orchestra.

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