Euler's Fever Dream

Anyway-

The Far Side Trix

Oh, so you think they should just go to jail? That addicts deserve to suffer?

This.

I got this from a former therapist, no less. I had been working from a coffee shop and a man came in, yelling about *bitches* and swearing at the girls behind the counter. He had a walking stick that he was pounding on the floor and at one point started hitting the counter with it.

He was between me and the door, it was stressful, and when he moved, I got myself out of there.

And I was talking to my therapist about it (I was seeing her for some pretty intense anxiety and PTSD (as in my doctor was like ‘your cortisol levels are at like active-combat-deployment levels, we gotta get those down’)), about how a day later I was still jittery about it.

And she gave me the “don’t be judgmental, most mentally ill people are harmless,” and I was like “lady, this one was ranting about women and BRANDISHING A WEAPON, I’m not going to stick around and wait to find out whether he’s actually harmless.”

And I think there’s a key component there that we don’t know how to talk about:

- most mentally ill people are harmless and more likely to be victims of harm

AND

- some forms of mental illness can cause people to behave in ways that seem threatening because they resemble what a person who doesn’t have that form of mental illness might do if they were in the grip of the sort of overwhelming anger that has a significant chance of becoming violence

checks notes

"reacting swiftly and effectively to the problems brought to their attention.

huh, I didn't see this one coming."

Guild: -chilly silence-

President: so the challenge to you all is a quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current “democracy”

Guild: 👏👏👏

How I spent my July 4th.

At the start I thought stitching “fuck you I won’t do what you tell me” for the last quarter would be therapeutic

I was correct.

I have one more line of embroidery and I think it needs to be bolder and messier than I started it.

Hard to tell in this light, and without ironing it, that the embroidery does get gradually bolder as it goes. Two strands at the top versus 5 at the bottom (6 for the started to be redone final line).

Not bad for first time doing appliqué.

Ousmane Sembène, Senegalese director and father of African cinema

"It is good to be at Cannes, but I wish Africa would create something of its own. We should not be eternal guests. It is up to us to create our own values. To recognize them and to carry them throughout the world." —Sembene! (2015)

it effects everything.

being trans is easier when youre white.

being gay is easier when youre white.

being disabled is easier when youre white.

being a woman is easier when youre white.

being autistic is easier when youre white.

oppression is eased when you are white, as you get extra privileges, and your whiteness is seen as a positive characteristic that in some ways counter-balances your other forms of being a minority. whiteness controls everything.

you are automatically way more innocent in your own oppression as a gay, trans, disabled person because of your whiteness.

three things:

1. it’s true

2. white people get pissed when i bring this up/wear this shirt

BEES