#redwrenwalking

a moment of silence for all the poor pets stressed out of their minds by assholes setting of fireworks

yess!!! tennessee is def at the top of my list! i def want to see you guys!

so the conversation started with my mom saying that she’d like to believe that something like that would never happen again and that stuff like the muslim registry wouldn’t happen and then i went off about how the only that’s not gonna happen is if we actively fight against and use our safer position as upper-middle class white women to help boost the conversation rather than ignore issues because they don’t affect us and things kind of went downhill from there. she mentioned how there are some crazy muslims that are bad and i said that there are way more christians that are scary bad than there are muslims and no tries to make every christian responsible for what one bad christian did and it just was a huge mess. but i might have addressed the “you only see things one way” claim better than i did previously so go me? i don’t know. i’m just so sick of the brick wall that is talking racism or sexism or islamophobia or what the fuck ever with my mom.

i don’t know if you’ve read the library bill of rights or ala’s freedom to read and freedom to view statements but they can be so frustrating. like in practice yes good make sure everyone has access to information but in practice it often means you’re giving just as much weight or more to bigots as you are to the people they’re attacking, especially when you’re feeding off of a western canon. plus this is on top of the racism and white christian focus of the library of congress and dewey decimal classification systems (which is the subject of the essay i’m writing for my organization of knowledge class because it fucking pisses me the hell off) which makes it easier to find racist shit than it is to find diverse material. libraries still have a LOT of systematic inequalities that need to be addressed and like half of the assignments i’ve been doing have been me complaining about that. 

THERE’S A PIRATE CAT!!!! this update was made for me

omg so that means not only is it on my mom’s feed, but also on MY feed and everyone else who is tagged’s feed??? jfc i’m glad i untagged myself. like i said i have no issue with people knowing i’m not straight, but it’s not something i like to publicise or have revealed without my knowledge - especially in the wake of lgbt people being MURDERED