Why is no one talking about the rainbow flag that got shown at the love fest in brasil?

I mean,, all the original colours are there (plus a inclusive white stripe with a very lovely meaning!)

Isn’t it beautiful? look at it hanging there, representing all these lovely people! It’s so colourful, it only can spread positive vibes!

And since I couldn’t find the flag in a good size, I made one quick!

Like I know some Anime Kids in school were invariably dicks but you still can’t ultimately use odd or “cringy” behavior to justify the cruel choices of other people to mock and torment others. So many of these kids have tons of trauma from being mocked just for having a particular interest or sense of style. Was a kid wearing a raccoon tail to school because they thought it was fun and cute really worth mocking them to the point of self-hatred? If kids were getting bullied to the point of tears in this year because they liked to do Fornite Dances in the lunchroom would you think it’s funny and that the kids deserve bullying for being weird? 

And it doesn’t help that we have a hard time understanding what is or isn’t socially acceptable, the social isolation that comes from bullying at an early age only makes it way harder to understand social cues through time because we have no one to learn from that wouldn’t want us to drink bleach, especially when if we’re LUCKY our only other company is kids in the exact same situation as us with the same difficulties.

I would get bullied for talking to my inanimate belongings because of autistic hyperempathy. May I add, I wasn’t loud, I was a very quiet kid and I mostly sat alone.

Let’s also not act like people don’t actually bully you for simply liking something odd. They absolutely do. I was bullied heavily for still liking dolls past an age my peers deemed appropriate, even though I never once brought one to school and I made sure to never remind them of it.

This can be especially true if you are around a lot of people who are bothered when you won’t “just have a little bit” or who say “you can cheat just this once” when they’re offering you the food that they made that is dangerous to you.

Building your own food-based rituals and communities is a form of self-care for people with food allergies. If you can find a group of people who will cook with you and accommodate you never let them go.

I have a particular kind of cupcakes that I always bake for myself to take along in my purse to weddings so I can share in the fun of having the dessert. I bake gluten-free holiday treats to share with friends and family. Once a week I go to my parents’ house and we cook a meal together that I can eat and we all can share.

It’s important, it’s worthwhile to make the time for. And people who refuse to let you form your own rituals to be closer to them aren’t acting with your best interests at heart.

- Stop saying “off the reservation”. It’s a reference to the pass system that was in place restricting Native people from leaving without permission.

- Stop making “1/16th”, “great-great grandmother”, etc. jokes. All of these reference blood quantum, a system designed to “breed out the Natives”. Indigeneity isn’t defined by a percentage, fraction, etc. Quit policing Indigenous identities and quit joking about genocidal tactics.

- Stop calling things your “spirit animal”. You don’t have one. Only Indigenous people from specific nations have spirit animals.

- Stop making dreamcatchers. They are sacred Anishinaabe culture and are not cute trinkets, crafts, etc. Buy them from Anishinaabe artists.

- Stop buying those little cloth “teepees” for your kids/pets/whatever. Also stuff with tipi prints

- Quit referring to your “tribe”. Enough with the “bride tribe” nonsense and all the rest. Stop trivializing tribal affiliations.

- Don’t wear “war paint”. Don’t put a feather in your hair. Don’t dress up as Native people or characters.

- Stop referring to your meetings/side discussions/parties as a “pow wow”.

- Stop supporting sports teams that use racist terms and logos and caricatures of Indigenous people.

- Stop using white sage. It is sacred and overharvested. There are lots of types of sage you can use instead.

- Stop “smudging”. Smoke cleansing exists in many forms in many cultures, use that. Non-Natives can’t smudge.

- Stop tokenizing your Native friends, classmates, in-laws, half siblings, etc.

The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) was just reformed so that disabled people can’t sue public businesses for discrimination because it would be discrimination against that business.

50% of all US murder victims by police officers are disabled

Bathrooms, entryways, seating, parking, and other public spaces are segregated for disabled people

Disabled children are required to go to segregated schools

Disabled people can't…

Get married without losing their health insurance which is a death sentence

Have savings accounts

Have more than $2000 at any given time

Own or inherent property

Own jewelry worth more than $100 or other items worth more than $500 without reporting them to the government

It is legal for a parent to murder a disabled child if they consider that child an undue burden

This is an extremely short list of things you are leaving out of your social justice