DIAL UP NOISES

NEW SONG!! this one’s been in the works for a few months now I’m stoked to have it done finally 🎃🎃🎃

also on youtube!

You’ve got to have an alternative. People need to eat and live and meet thier needs and the needs of the people they are responsible for. People have to come together and get each other taken care of and fed. Otherwise the only people who show up are the ones who can afford to. And since the group of people who both have resources-time, emotional, financial, transportation, etc and want to show up and change the system–is fairly small, and not growing fast…. That’s not enough people for a revolution.

Ella Baker

Very relevant wiki - Community Organizing 

“Community organizing is a process where people who live in proximity to each other[1] come together into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest.[citation needed]

Unlike those who promote more-consensual community building, community organizers generally assume that social change necessarily involves conflict and social struggle in order to generate collective power for the powerless. Community organizing has as a core goal the generation of durable power for an organization representing the community, allowing it to influence key decision-makers on a range of issues over time. In the ideal, for example, this can get community-organizing groups a place at the table before important decisions are made.[2] Community organizers work with and develop new local leaders, facilitating coalitions and assisting in the development of campaigns.”

Very relevant wiki - Community Building

“Community building is a field of practices directed toward the creation or enhancement of community among individuals within a regional area (such as a neighborhood) or with a common interest. It is sometimes encompassed under the field of community development.

A wide variety of practices can be utilized for community building, ranging from simple events like potlucks and small book clubs, to larger–scale efforts such as mass festivals and building construction projects that involve local participants rather than outside contractors.

Activists engaged in community building efforts in industrialized nations see the apparent loss of community in these societies as a key cause of social disintegration and the emergence of many harmful behaviors. They may see building community as a means to increase social justice, individual well-being and reduce negative impacts of otherwise disconnected individuals.”

Community-building and the Environment

“Community building efforts organize around toxic waste, environmental health, and environmental justice. Prior emphases on conservation, preservation, endangered species, rainforest destruction, ozone depletion, and other national global concerns often had no salience for local communities, and such emphases kept the environmental movement a largely middle class and upper middle class movement. (Brown) Groups may be as influential as the United Nations [10] or as small and local as neighborhoods. The Natural Resources Defense Council lists many publicly organized community-building groups created to decrease the ecological footprint and reduce the environmental impact that humans have.[11]”

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Basking Shark - Well-dressed and doesn’t say much. You sort of suspect he’s a secret republican but then when you have a conversation you find out he’s literally a card carrying socialist. You feel bad because they’re also almost inevitably non-binary masculine presenting and you were misgendering them by accident the whole time.

Blue Shark - Vegan, lives in a communal household, rides a bike, and makes a lot of lists. You have never, never seen them in any kind of relationship whatsoever. You aren’t really sure how they are living a maximally cruelty-free lifestyle because they have no income and don’t have a well-off family. Yet somehow there they are.

Bull Shark - Looks well-dressed like the basking shark, but somehow makes it look cheap. Is an actual republican, will talk to you about how democrats are the party of slavery and de-regulation helps protect queer people. Found at every single republican social event because he’s the only queer guy anyone knows.

Bullhead Sharks - Surprises no one at all when they come out of the closet, but were absolutely sure no one knew besides a few close friends. Iconic bad fashion sense, constantly pestered by lesbians who want to know where they shop, but has no idea what they’re doing. Non-queers are mystified how it is Bullhead Shark queers have the hottest significant others.

Carpet Shark - Butchest of the butch, yet low key. The “fix anything” queer, skill sets vary but there is a 100 percent chance no matter when or where you meet one, something of yours will end up repaired without your ever asking. Catch phrase “hang on a second” followed by pulling out a small toolkit from the car and fixing your broken dryer in ten minutes before you leave the house.

Cookiecutter Shark - Raver kids, roaming from one party to the next. Might not sleep, no one knows for sure. Trashy as a Bullhead Shark but everything is bedazzled. Will literally fuck anyone, but never seem to get permanently attached or hurt anyone for real.

Dogfish Shark - Iconic elder gay, usually considered “classy” by their peers until they come out at age 60+ at which point they are suddenly “flamboyant.” Sometimes strong allies for young queers, but also can hold dangerously outdated prejudices.

Frilled Shark - Goth as fuck, shitloads of tattoos, obnoxiously perfect and incredibly ostentatious makeup at all time. No one knows what kind of personality the Frilled Shark queers have because frankly they are too fucking intimidating to approach. Are they even queer? Fuck, we hope so, desperately.

Goblin Shark - Openly into serious kink, and would be as intimidating as Frilled Shark queers except they’re just too damn outgoing. Will run right up to you and demand you become friends. Knows literally everyone in every walk of queerdom yet has the most mundane orientation in their peer group. Still identifies as queer because for example they don’t want to say “cisgender allosexual lesbian woman.”

Great White Shark - Mom friend shark, who either is over six feet tall or somehow always feels like it. Intimidation factor off the chart but has the personality of an actual marshmallow. Most prepared of all queers, has literally anything you need in their bag. Despite intimidating looks, not necessarily keen on fighting, but you are unshakably certain they could flat out kill a dude, and possibly have done so before.

Hammerhead Sharks - The actual iconic queer sharks, best looking, best dressed, bleeding edge of fashion every time you see them. How? No one knows. Like Goblin Shark queers, seems like they know everyone, but unlike Goblins no one seems to know or be friends with them. Unexpectedly reveal they are good at something at the weirdest moments, the queer version of defusing a bomb with one second on the clock. Impossible. Absurd.

Mako Shark - An unholy combination of the Goblin Shark and Cookiecutter Shark queers, with none of the charisma. Desperately trying to be liked, flitting from person to person, never finding acceptance. Tragically, they are not bad sharks or even malicious sharks - they just have a a hard time connecting with other people’s personalities. Get unfairly maligned and deserve a chance if you can get one to stick around for longer than a week.

Nurse Shark - Lazy as fuck but reliable for any time you need a night with one or two friends spent in, watching movies and eating ice cream. Always has a couch free in their comfortable apartment, literally never seen working. Somehow never for you but the rumor is they are the best lay anyone has ever had.

Reef Sharks - The generic gay, 20-35 year old white middle-class cis male who votes democrat and has nice bumper stickers and is super kind. But has literally never met a single black person, trans person, non-xian person, etc. Nice enough but… well, they just don’t know.

Sawnose Sharks - Second most butch, but very high key. Not quite as good at fixing stuff as the Carpet Shark queer, but can literally fix anything with duct tape. More intimidating than Great White Shark queers, usually no taller than 5'8" at best. Will absolutely fight you - don’t start anything unless you’re looking to get damaged. Otherwise the sweetest and kindest of queers.

Sevengill Sharks - The “wait, he’s gay?” queer shark. Looks so, so, so very straight but apparently isn’t. You have never gotten “straight vibes” so strong from actual straights. You could be having kinky wild queer sex with the Sevengill Shark queer and feel like you’re having heterosexual missionary position sex. No one knows where these queers come from.

Thresher Shark - Extra. So very extra. And so very hot. But so, so stupid. I’m sorry. I know, you’re desperately in love. We’re all desperately in love with these bold, beautiful morons. Would be more iconic and stylish than Hammerhead queers, but such magnificent idiots that it radiates an aura negating roughly 5% of their cool-factor. We love them though, madly and hopelessly.

Tiger Shark - Loves trash, some kind of nerd, the hardest of hard femmes. Drunk aunt and will fight you like a Sawnose queer but way, way worse. Don’t even show up with a bad attitude because Tiger Shark queer will actually cut you up and leave you to bleed out. Not secretly gentle, but will drive across state lines at midnight to help you if you call them when you’re in trouble.

On Saturday, November 17th, the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) party voted to pass a resolution that would deny recognizing gender identity theory, during a three-day convention in Toronto.

PC Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Tanya Granic Allen proposed the resolution, which reads, “Be it resolved that an Ontario PC Party recognizes “gender identity theory” for what it is, namely, a highly controversial, unscientific “liberal ideology”; and, as such, that an Ontario PC Government will remove the teaching and promotion of “gender identity theory” from Ontario schools and its curriculum.”

The motion follows the PC’s decision to rescind the updated 2015 sexual education curriculum introduced under the former Liberal government, and reinstate the curriculum from 1998, which excludes topics such as gender identity and online safety.

Since the passing of this vote, numerous members of the transgender community have spoken out to condemn the PC’s decision, advocating for policies that protect the rights and safety of trans and gender diverse peoples.

Participate in Trans Day Remembrance:

https://www.facebook.com/events/706212626416236/

Donate to some charities:

http://kindspace.ca/

http://www.tenoaksproject.org/

https://www.facebook.com/pg/FoundPathOttawa/about/?ref=page_internal

http://www.saeftyottawa.ca/

Let people know about the Trans Lifeline for suicide prevention:  1-877-330-6366

You know Google has data centers and all kinds of other shit all over the world that should prevent this from happening.

Today’s work outfit is very “14 year old boy” or as @botbook put it: