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I guess I will be taken to prison by Chinese government one day, because of this art I drew, or the things I said.

I am from Hong Kong. As you may not know, this is a special administration region of China. We (still) have our own legal system, and freedom of speech, that’s why I can access to everywhere in the internet without censorship (I get ask a lot). Recently, over a million of people are protesting against the Extradition Law. It was an extremely-almost-impossible fight and many students are injured horribly by the police force. I WAS THERE.

If the extradition law is passed, which means that China can “took” anyone from Hong Kong back to China as “prisoners”. Oh you don’t wanna know what China will do to those innocent people …

The government is forcing the law on us. We couldn’t do this on our own. We need more attention from other countries. Please spread this message out.

Indigenous people domesticated and planted certain trees. They bred the cocoa tree and the Brazil nut tree as designed crops, and their plantations are still visible.

Slash and burn agriculture changed the composition of the soil.

It was collective farming and aquaculture on a truly massive scale and much more efficient that European farming practices which were forced on Indigenous peoples despite white agricultural scientists declaring, for example, the Makah nation’s soil to be “useless except for maybe potatoes.” 

Although Salish nations have been talking about how they managed the entire fucking environment and settlers fucking ruined it, scientists recently “discovered” this to be true when they were trying to figure out why shellfish were so abundant in the PNW. Go figure! 

If I remember right, certain species of trees in the PNW were more or less artificially selected/encouraged to grow in a certain way by Coast Salish nations. 

Part of what caused the “Little Ice Age” at the start of the colonial period in the Americas was the massive deaths of Indigenous peoples in North America. Turns out many nations had been doing massive slash-and-burn farming/environmental management. The deaths from disease and genocide meant not as many people were doing that anymore and then forests started regrowing and taking in a lot more carbon dioxide. It wasn’t until white settlers started to horrifically mismanage America’s old growth forests on a massive scale that the trend reversed. 

Seeing a lot of misinformation flying around regarding lesbian flags this year, particularly the pink one, so here’s my attempt to set the record straight!

FAQ/Common Misconceptions and Sources are listed below the cut - if anything in this post contradicts what you’ve heard, I’d encourage you to read through them before responding.

Please DO NOT promote flag redesigns on this post :)

being a lesbian is about loving women–even if those womens bodies have penises, or flat chests, or deep voices, or adams apples, or facial hair.

claiming that being a lesbian is about hating penises, or liking vaginas, or breasts, or anything other than loving women regardless of what their bodies are like, is disrespectful not just to trans lesbians everywhere, but to all lesbians whose bodies dont fit what society tells us women have to be, regardless of whats in their pants.

netflix just released the film ‘ek ladki ko dekha toh aisa laga’ which is an indian movie about a girl who’s into girls and how she gets the courage to come out and face her family and be with the woman she loves. sound familiar? yeah, i know it’s the basic plot of most hollywood lgbtq movies but that’s not the point. 

this is literally the first indian movie i’ve seen on a famous platform, accessible by anyone, that actually represents the lgbtq community in all its beauty and love and affection, rather that scorning or mocking it. 

the movie is beautiful and the scenes and the fluff and the cute couple and the emotions just make it so worth watching, and that’s not all.

i’m an indian bisexual teenager and i would’ve been so happy to have been exposed to a movie like this when i was younger. if i had seen this kind of portrayal in the film industry, i doubt that i would’ve been the afraid young girl i was and i would’ve had the courage to do what the main characters did and just BE MYSELF. 

all i hope is that someone sees this movie, some little girl out there sees it and knows that she is not alone, that she is not abnormal. with a topic such as this, which has been treated as taboo for decades now in my country (still is kinda), when it is actually being represented and being represented well, i can’t help but wanna scream about it from the rooftops. 

also just look at this adorableness:

When he asked me what I did with my days at the moment, I explained the current situation (which is that I’m unemployed, out of education, and mostly housebound), and told him that I really wasn’t busy at all. I tried to play it off as a joke, like I always do, but he seemed to take it seriously. 

He said: “It sounds to me like you’re very busy, you’re just busy taking care of things that most people don’t have to worry about.” 

And that’s true. I don’t really get to think about it like that, because I’ve been told over and over again by people in my life that I just need to “try harder, do more, be busy” until everything just sort of… works itself out. But I am busy - I have to keep myself distracted to deal with psychotic symptoms that I currently don’t have any medication for, I have to spend a lot of time resting so I’m not in as much pain and have the energy to do what I need to do, it takes me significantly longer (and more effort) to do basic self-care tasks and chores… The list goes on. 

1. Never cross a picket line of striking workers.

2. Never purchase or take free goods from a company who’s workers are striking

3. Honk to support strikers if you drive by a picket line.

4. Join strikers on the picket line even if it’s not your strike, but follow their directions and defer to them while there.

Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare is one of the best LGBTQ+ Manga

It is from an excellent LGBTQ+ author, Yuhki Kamatani, who is non-binary (gender X) and contains so much excellent LGBTQ+ representation

Married Lesbians

A gay man coming to terms with his identity

A child struggling with their gender identity

A transitioned transgender man

An asexual person

Gay men in a relationship

That deal with real-world LGBTQ+ issues including

Coming out to one’s family

Feeling isolated

Lashing out because of insecurity with one’s own identity 

But… they support each other through it all

Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare is being in North America and I cannot suggest strongly enough that you support it!!