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And the trade negotiations just stop. They just stop cold. The tall people insist on speaking to the man, they insist on talking to the lady dwarf about all sorts of irrelevant bullshit, like recipes and childrearing and perfume

so the dwarf goes back home, enraged

and is like “BTW guess what happened, we’re all just going to be men forever now as far as the tall ones are concerned”

and everyone is justly horrified at this barbarism but they all agree to do whatever  it takes to squeeze those tall bastards for all the resources they are worth

and the dwarves get surlier, and the trade agreements less generous

and the tall people are all “what a miserable and greedy race”

but really they’re just still nursing a grudge about how goddamn backwards and sexist the tall people are

But what if this too is a mistranslation? What if the dwarves were talking to the Men and when asked “where are all your women?” they hit a wall. They whisper amongst themselves, and eventually come back with a question, “What’s a woman?” The Men are incredulous.

“Why, the members of your race that bear children, of course!“ 

More dwarven whispering.

And the dwarves know that the human word for woman means “those who are currently bearing children” or “capable of bearing children.”

The oil industry needs to #RezpectOurWater and stop building the Dakota Access Pipeline

I am 13 years old, and I’ve spent my whole life drinking and fishing from the Missouri River in North Dakota. As members of the Standing Rock Tribe, my family has lived here for generations. Today our lives on the reservation are still defined by the river.

But now an oil company wants to build a pipeline that will cross the river a mile away from our reservation, carrying 570,000 barrels of crude oil across each day. We’re terrified that it could leak into our water, but the company doesn’t seem to care. We, the youth of the Standing Rock Tribe, refuse to let them risk our water and lives without a fight. So far over 130,000 people have signed our petition.

Watch: The Wonder Years made Danica McKellar famous, math made her mark on the world permanent.

Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People Episode 4 is here, with the legendary Kate Bornstein. (link)

1. It fails to direct critique towards any given aim. Postmodernism critiques with an ability unrivaled in other philosophical traditions, but loses sight of the entire point of criticism, which is not its own end but is rather to avoid reifying ideological categories which uphold material and structural systems of violence. Moreover, critique cannot be the end of the line. After we critique modernism, empiricism or univeralism, we cannot assume that we then have moved beyond them as the ideal theorists do, rather we need to recognize our situatedness within an imminent historical context which allows us to repair the flaws of those systems of thought. Deconstruction should not be a process of destroying, but of internally reconciling illusory binaries and contradictions.

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Mr. Vimes had told him never to get too excited about clues, because clues could lead you a dismal dance. They could become a habit. You ended up finding a wooden leg, a silk slipper and a feather at the scene of a crime and constructing an elegant theory involving a one-legged ballet dancer and a production of Chicken Lake.

-  Feet of Clay

I also really! love! how you’re telling an indigenous person that you’re shedding light unto a situation, while being non native, and trying to act like you’re teaching me something? if you find some factual information, then you can come for me sweetie.

until then, have this little bit of information rather than pictures: the United States governments used to kill our children with rocks, attacked us at night with no warning and no reason & knowing full well it wasn’t a fair fight, GO BACK on their promises to us through their treaties - just to be surprised when we fought back? If you’re going to tell me that I’m at fault for being angry at someone with a so-called “voice,” then maybe you should recognize who you’re talking to.

Also who the hell did the majority of the paintings? Western European folks, with the context of it being propaganda to demonize the native peoples they came into contact with, so it was easier on their souls to colonize them. If the images were made by native peoples, who knows the context- the people it came from know it. 

But okay, yeah sure, let’s go with folks using the images as whatever they believe in to (re)inforce this violent image of native peoples. 

i don’t know what this is

Star Trek Advent Calendar: Day 7 – favorite character who isn’t a member of starfleet 

Naomi Wildman

Obviously Naomi. She’s smart, curious and insistent. She knows what she wants and how to get it. Her following Seven around is the cutest thing ever, her reactions in Once Upon a Time are spot on and her presenting a plan to rescue Seven in Dark Frontier really shows not only her abilities to think about complicated matters but also that she can be very adamant when it comes to something or someone that is really important to her. 

Oh, and one of my favourite scenes ever is in Bliss, when she touches the forcefield and goes “forcefield?!?”

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