My mind is a prison, but like the ones in sweden

Welcome to the stage: Shawn Spenstar and Gus “T.T.” Showbiz!

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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.

Note that the post and the article are from 2021.

[Note: Pope Francis did later travel to Canada and issue a formal apology for the Catholic Church's involvement in 2022.]

• some seemingly unassuming accident that ends up being a murder

• lassiter 1st crashout (we're just 5 minutes in)

• chief vick serving face

• jules being beautiful and kind

• shawn being a pathetic freaky loser for both jules AND lassie

• gus running away somewhere

• buzz being there for coffee and to make everyone's day better

• gus making a reasonable financial decision, which eventually ends up in flames because his best friend is human disaster himself

• gus and lassie having a diva off

• henry doing something to remind me why shawn is the way he is

• lassie 2nd crashout

• shawn and gus make some obscure 80s reference and probably dance to the macarena

• gus makes THAT one face but goes along because of course

• lassie 3rd crashout

• shawn figures it out and does another exaggerated bit and everyone loves it

text in images:

hello everyone! i'm a queer black woman living in the west coast, and i have been struggling with my housing for quite a bit of time. where i live, the heat can get especially intense, and with me and my family mostly living out of our car, trying to sleep during these hot nights proves to be a huge problem when the heat can reach the 100's. we're lucky to get any sleep at all sometimes what i'm asking for is a bit of cash so that me and my family can sometimes afford to spend the night in air-conditioned hotels, even if it's just for the coming days hotels in my town tend to cost anywhere between $150-$200 per night, and any extra funds can go towards us affording food, clothes, and other necessities i'm only asking people who can help out, i know a lot of people are struggling, but if you see this post, please spread it around. surviving the summer in my position is nothing short of absolute hell and if you can help me make a difference, i'd appreciate it. thanks for reading

TL;DR: it's approaching the summertime (it may as well be summer at this point) and getting sleep when you don't have a home is hard enough. i'd love some help so i can afford to sleep indoors instead of my hot car

donation links:

paypal

cashapp

please help out if you can—i don’t wanna be burnt to a crisp if it can be avoided 😭