(Over) thinking it all

This is a movie about a kid who leaves her birth family.

Not a kid who find that they have a secret lineage or something that allows them to find their ‘true family’ - this is a movie about a kid whose true birth family is made up of bad people. So she gets out. And that is played as the right thing to do. She isn’t punished for it or made to feel bad about ‘abandoning her family’. There isn’t an underlying ‘but they’re your family and you have to love them’ or ‘they’re your family and they love you even if they don’t show it well or do hurtful things’ message of the kind that I see OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER in media. Matilda gets out and lives happily ever after because of it.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

Stanley Almodovar III

Alejandro Barrios Martinez

Amanda Alvear

Brenda Lee Marquez McCool

Oscar A Aracena-Montero

Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez

Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala

Kimberly Morris

Antonio Davon Brown

Akyra Monet Murray

Darryl Roman Burt II

Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo

Angel L. Candelario-Padro

Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez

Juan Chavez-Martinez

Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera

Luis Daniel Conde

Joel Rayon Paniagua

Cory James Connell

Jean Carlos Mendez Perez

Tevin Eugene Crosby

Deonka Deidra Drayton

Enrique L. Rios, Jr.

Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez

Jean C. Nieves Rodriguez

Leroy Valentin Fernandez

Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado

Mercedez Marisol Flores

Christopher Joseph Sanfeliz

Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz

Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan

Juan Ramon Guerrero

Edward Sotomayor Jr.

Paul Terrell Henry

Shane Evan Tomlinson

Frank Hernandez

Martin Benitez Torres

Miguel Angel Honorato

Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega

Javier Jorge-Reyes

Juan P. Rivera Velazquez

Jason Benjamin Josaphat

Luis S. Vielma

Eddie Jamoldroy Justice

Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez

Anthony Luis Laureanodisla

Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon

Christopher Andrew Leinonen

Jerald Arthur Wright

This was only 55 years ago. You can understand a lot of what’s wrong with the US if you realize that the average age of our elected senators is about 63. “Good old days” is a dogwhistle.

“The couple is given a choice: flee or go to jail. After they were arrested, the Lovings were sentenced to a year in prison. Then, a judge offered them a choice: banishment from the state or prison. They chose to leave Virginia at the time, but after several years, the Lovings asked the American Civil Liberties Union to take their case.Bernard Cohen and Philip Hirschkop, two young ACLU lawyers at the time, did.”

My father just had his 70th birthday.

When my parents first met it'd been less than a decade since the ruling was official.

They were convinced it'd be overturned and did not want their children to have to suffer for it, so they did not get married and searched desperately for each other in their own races. They could not find the love they had together in anyone else. They did eventually get married.

Too late for them to have the amount of children they'd desired. They had two, adopted a third, and that was that.

It was near enough to now that I, my sisters, and my parents were directly affected by it.

The Watsonville riots of the 1930's where white mobs attached Filipino farmworkers for being seen in dancehalls with white women, are part of a very long history of whiteness violently asserting its need to "protect" the purity of it's women and future children. And these kinds of backlashes are not in the past, we've just moved to different battlegrounds, the same accusations, of defiling the purity of white womanhood and white childhood are now leveled at the dangerous "othering influences" through book bans and other right wing conservative censorship efforts.

According to PEN America’s Banned Book Index, 41% of banned books include LGBTQ+ themes. 40% feature characters of color and 21% address issues of race or racism.

Remember, if we don't keep standing up loudly for equality the biggots on the right will be louder and keep dragging us further backwards from every step towards equality we make.

That's why I write stories for mixed, brown, bi, folks to see ourselves and our loves reflected in.

Dad's family members still accused my parents of the crime, mind, when she married him in 1980. I've never met my Aunt Karen because of it (not that she'd have been interested in meeting a mongrel such as myself).

1) Figured this out.

14 years ago when I had recently moved to Alaska, I went hiking with an Aleut friend, and she pointed to a feather lying on the ground and said "hey that's a bald eagle tail feather, you should grab it!" and I was like "uhh I'm very white and that's very illegal" and she went "they're fuckin everywhere up here man. I have 20." so she grabs it off the ground and hands it to me and says "there, now it's a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person."

and I'm like, okay, cool, I guess this is how we do things in Alaska. nice.

so I keep this bald eagle tail feather around for years. display it in my home among other cherished memorabilia from places I've lived and visited, etc.

on a whim, I have just now looked it up. there is no exemption to that law for a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person. the last 7 years I lived in the US, I was technically a bald eagle poacher.

the law against 'picking feathers up off the ground' means that you can't go shoot an eagle then sell the feathers on etsy by saying you 'just found them'. you can't own them no matter where they came from, which makes sure that they're not going to come from any birds killed and then secretly disposed of.

Happy Pride Month!

Faust is back for the 5th time! If you want to use the flag of your choice as an avatar, they're under the cut. They're free to use as long as it's for personal use only.

pov: you're waking up and it's june 1st