she has not realized

Passover: They enslaved us, God freed us. Remember this via a big ceremony/feast and then don’t eat bread for a week. This is a big one; you’re going to have to clean your house and host all your relatives.

Tu B'Shevat: It’s Earth Day, let’s eat some fruit.

Simchas Torah: We read the entire Torah every year, and we got to the end! Let’s have a dance party and then start all over again!

Tisha B'Av: They destroyed our temples. That sucked.

Rosh HaShanah: Happy New Year! It’s time to ask (and grant) forgiveness for the wrongs done in the past year, pledge to do better, and wish for a sweet new year. And go to synagogue for HOURS.

Yom Kippur: Rosh HaShanah’s somber counterpart. God decides on this day your fate for the next year. Repent your sins, hope for forgiveness, and fast. (And go to synagogue for HOURS.)

Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Sukkot: Harvest festival! Sleep in a hut under the stars.

Shemini Atzeret: Man, I don’t even know?

Shavuot: God gave us the Torah! That was pretty nice of him.

So from me your tired fucking Trans Lesbian some of the common ones are

Rad/Radical in their url especially paired with Feminism

“Gender Critical”

Any weird spelling of woman most commonly Womyn, and ESPECIALLY Womyn-born-Womyn

A downright freaky obsession with vagina’s

Checkmark flag in description (very common on twitter)

Talk about Men invading Women’s Spaces (ESPECIALLY Bathrooms)

Talk about Men pretending to be lesbians

Talk about Men getting resources devoted to women (The last three are SO important because that can certainly happen, but who do you think the “Men” they’re talking about are? It is VERY important to have some critical reading skills here)

These are all about TERFs specifically. As in the Trans Exclusionist Radical Feminists. NOT Common Transphobia/Transmisogyny (Which is different. They are not the same) And not something that I wanna talk about right now, if someone wants to add more feel free.

The one thing I want to add is that what you should get to make sure you aren’t following TERF rhetoric is to GET SHINIGAMIEYES. A Chrome and Firefox extension! It allows you to see both pro-trans and anti-trans links!

(I can't figure out how to embed it because I'm old)

but basically, the beautiful little kitten featured in this video, valkyrie, began showing multiple signs of an unknown illness, and between the costs of the visits to the emergency vet and the price of tests and medication, the financial burden is going to be too much on them

heres the gofundme that they show in the tiktok to cover the medical costs for valkyrie. please help them out if you can!

Excited cows enjoy their new brushes 

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.