In ur academia, bein a feminist

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

Followed by: "You'll be lucky if he doesn't sue you."

I’m 37.

This damage was preventable if doctors had just fucking LISTENED TO ME instead of telling me to lose weight. Now I’m a wheelchair user on 40mg of oxycodone and 1000mg of naproxen daily. I get bloodwork every 3 months because I’m on hepatotoxic immunosuppressant therapy. I need a hip replacement. My ankles may need to be fused.

If you're finding yourself drawn to political philosophies that rely on the idea that things have to get worse before they get better - especially if they encourage martyrdom or don't really seem to have an idea of what the "get better" part looks like despite having a clear idea of what the "get worse" part looks like - check in with yourself. Are you doing okay? If you're in a position to - it'd probably be best to revisit the political thought after taking a moment to ground yourself.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

This is what "Punching up" looks like. The hero of the movie is called a slur the whole way through, because it's a comedy about racism. Who is the movie poking fun at?

White settlers. Greedy politicians. Opportunistic rich guys. The "Salt of the earth, the common clay of the new west. Y'know. Morons."

What I mean by that is that you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today bc the thing it is parodying - spaghetti westerns - was completely ubiquitous at the time and it's now just... gone.

And it's gone in part bc Blazing Saddles skewered it so entirely.

Mel Brooks continues to have a career - History of the World Part II just came out last year - and he continues to make the same kind of work. He's just skewering entirely different types of media - "prestige TV" was a big one for HotWp2 - and continuing to punch up.

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Gumroad - photoshop brushes (and more)

StockSnap.io - stock photos

Canva - needs login but has lots of templates

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Creative Commons - all kinds of stuff, homie

Even Adobe has some free images

There are so many ways to make moodboards, bookcovers, and icons without plagiarizing! As artists, authors, and other creatives, we need to be especially careful not to use someone else’s work and pass it off as our own.