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Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.

Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture

People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.

I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.

This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.

-Dr. Monica J. Casper, quote in the New York Times, written by Barron H Lener, MD . Title: "If Biology Is Destiny, When Shouldn't It Be?"

"We don't think trans kids are normal, so feel free to withhold all care for them. And we don't think intersex kids are normal, so feel free to enforce whatever treatment you may want."

-Alicia Roth Weigel, on how anti-trans bills affect intersex people. Excerpt found In the new york times article "Power of Activism Shares the Frame With Intersex Lives: [The Arts/Cultural Desk]". written by Melena Ryzik

The rights and interests of trans and intersex children: considerations, conflicts and implications in relation to the UNCRC By Carrie Paechter (article linked)

‘We just want the best for this child’: contestations of intersex/DSD and transgender healthcare interventions By Marijke Naezera, Anke Oerlemansb, Gijs Hablousc, Hedi Claahsen –van der Grintend, Anna van der Vleutenc and Chris Verhaake (article linked)

The amount of charm bags and pouches i make from old ripped up shirts or scrab fabric is nuts. You don't need to be using big chunky martials or jars for everything when thrift stores have soooo much fabric waiting to be adopted and put to use.

im doing great

my teeth and claws are very sharp

i can kill ai with my mind

the professor is more scared of me than i am of them

theres no surprise test on friday

no one can tell i have a tumblr blog

my roommates dont hate me

About what "Protect the youth" has become. Idk what it was like in other countries and I know that it very likely could have been stricter than it was in my country back then. But generally:

He was like "When I was 16, there were two kinds of adult content: Horror movies and explicitly depicted sexual content. The first made me have nightmares, the latter (as in what you could get in video rental stores) generally wasn't of much interest to me because it wasn't something I, as a 16 year old, could relate to. And other sexual content that was interesting (and/or helpful) WAS freely accessible. So whenever I saw an "18+" label somewhere, I just completely ignored that content because I knew it wouldn't be interesting at all to me.

But NOW, what's declared 18+ is even an excessive amount of swear words in streams! NOW, when I see an "18+" label, I don't know if it's horror movies that'll give some 16 year olds nightmares, if it's completely unrelatable porn, OR if it's educational sex ed, a 20 year old talking about their really healthy relationship with their partner (that includes intimacy), education about consent in BDSM (which affects 16 year olds as well, there's no age limit to curiosity), a live stream of wholesome musicians who happen to drink a couple of beers during kind of therapeutic talks, or simply people who aren't puritans and say "fuck" a lot! An 18+ label isn't worth anything anymore!"

And yeah... That's just it.

People who talk about body changes during their (first!) puberty are even labelled adult content. Even though puberty very much happens BEFORE adulthood. It's helpful content for minors. And it's labelled "adult" to "protect the youth".

employee (completely blank expression): “No.”

partner (autistic) (socialscript.exe encountered an unhandled exception) : “…Uh. Um. Sorry?”

employee: “We don’t have that.”

partner (wondering if perhaps he put too much of the authentic accent on the word and that’s what’s throwing the guy): “You don’t have…(pronouncing it whiter) carnitas?”

employee (face still unreadable): “No.”

partner (looking at the near-full hotel pan of perfectly normal carnitas in its usual place on the other side of the glass) (noticing this employee looks unfamiliar) (maybe he’s a new guy that just started five minutes ago with no training?) : “The…pork?” (pointing at it)

employee: “We don’t have pork.”

partner (beginning to wonder if he’s the one that’s losing it) (desperately looks to the menu on the wall behind the employee) (the menu lists carnitas as a protein option) (the word “carnitas” is not crossed out or taped over or otherwise adulterated) (carnitas have been on the standard menu since at least 2016) : “Okay. Um. Are you…sure?”

other employee working the toppings part of the line (familiar) (have seen her before) (she has cool earrings): *gives the new guy a strange look, nudges him aside, and scoops the carnitas onto partner’s bowl before continuing with the other toppings*

- the employee keeps very strictly kosher/halal/vegan and refuses to handle pork (understandable, I respect that, but if you’re gonna work at a place that serves pork I do kinda feel like when someone orders it you’ve just gotta tap in a coworker to do it for you)

- someone did something gross to the carnitas and the employee is trying to warn people not to order it (??? throw it out then? also, three weeks in a row???)

partner (well aware of what he’s getting into with this guy now): “Hi. Could I please have a bowl with white rice, black beans, and pork?”

employee: “We don’t have pork.”

partner (demonstrating a level of patience only a public school teacher could have): *points at the pan of carnitas* “Could I please just have some of that?”

employee (after several slow, confused blinks): *points at the same pan* “That’s steak.”

partner (looking at the hotel pan they’re both pointing at) (it is filled with shredded meat of a pale beige color) (at the other end of the row of pans is another pan containing dark brown, lightly charred meat chopped into small pieces): “Okay.” *deciding he’s willing to play in this fantasy space if it gets the job done, he points at the first pan again* Then could I please have the steak?”

employee: *starts to reach for the pan at the other end containing the actual steak*

partner: "Oh—no, sorry, this one please?" *points at the first pan containing the carnitas*

employee: *blinks, then just walks away and starts helping the next customer in line, leaving partner's bowl unfinished*

other employee with cool earrings: *rolls her eyes at new employee, takes partner’s bowl, and fills it with carnitas herself*

new theories:

- the employee is a bridge troll who will only dole out his delectable carnitas to those who prove themselves worthy by correctly answering his riddles three

Me: yeah whatever. I don’t feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude I swear I just saw some steak in the hotel pan

i feel like the problem with this question is best illustrated by a conversation i had with a friend a while back, where i said something like, "i feel very safe with you because you don't do subtle hints and you are always very straight-up with me about what you are thinking and feeling."

Queer people are not your enemy.

Nonbinary people are not your enemy.

Intersex people are not your enemy.

Xenogender people are not your enemy.

Transmasc lesbians are not your enemy.

M-spec lesbians are not your enemy.

Transfem gays are not your enemy.

M-spec gays are not your enemy.

Multigender people are not your enemy.

Plurals who have varying experiences of gender and sexuality between system members are not your enemy.

Children who wish to transition are not your enemy.

Nonpassing transgender people are not your enemy.

Transgender people who do not wish to pass are not your enemy.

Gender nonconforming people are not your enemy.

Alterhumans are not your enemy.

Therians are not your enemy.

Plural systems that are not fully traumagenic are not your enemy.

Plural systems that are not traumagenic at all are not your enemy.

Introjects with "problematic" sources are not your enemy.

People who identify with labels in good faith are not your enemy.

People who use "contradictory" labels are not your enemy.

Drug addicts are not your enemy.

People experiencing homelessness are not your enemy.

Religious people who harbor no bigotry are not your enemy.

People with religions that are not abrahamic are not your enemy.

People who speak a different language than you are not your enemy.

People who are a different race than you are not your enemy.

People who may have been bigoted in the past, but are trying to change, are not your enemy.

Sex workers are not your enemy.

People who have been incarcerated are not your enemy.

Disabled people are not your enemy.

People who use accessibility tools when you don't think they need them are not your enemy.

Native people who have exclusive identities are not your enemy.

Polyamorous people are not your enemy.

People who have a fluid identity are not your enemy.

Aromantic and/or asexual people are not your enemy.

People with "scary" mental illnesses are not your enemy.

People who experience psychosis are not your enemy.

People with personality disorders are not your enemy.

People who have narcissistic personality disorder are not your enemy.

People who are on medication are not your enemy.

People who refuse treatment are not your enemy.

People with low, limited, or no empathy are not your enemy.

People who cope with trauma through fiction are not your enemy.

People who like dark topics in fiction are not your enemy.

People in recovery are not your enemy.