#systematic oppression

How many people need to die at the hands of police before we realize promising to give police total immunity is a dangerous idea? (warning: distressing)

It's comparing apples to oranges.

A trans white woman with a prosthethic limb living in the United States wont experience the same as a developmentally disabled blind black agender person living in Pakistan. And there isn't really a point trying to make these people compete with eachother to figure out who suffers the most. It's also entirely dependent on the community a person lives in and whether someone has access to acceptance, accomodations, protection, love, food, shelter, peace, autonomy, healthcare, job opportunities, etc.

Pasa la página y ya sigue tu vida, con tu blog y cosas no molestes a los demás. Enfermo

Spanish Version: El Postureo de la Falsa Academia y las Cuentas Fantasma

El anónimo que ha llegado a mi bandeja de entrada no es más que el reflejo perfecto de lo que son estas dos comunidades: un intento desesperado de aparentar una superioridad intelectual que, en realidad, nadie tiene. Da bastante pena ver cómo intentan insultar la inteligencia de todo el mundo en Tumblr cuando sus propios espacios se están cayendo a pedazos. No estamos hablando de que sean comunidades un poco flojas o que tengan malas raras; la realidad es que son lo peor que hay ahora mismo en la plataforma en todos los sentidos, empezando por una administración nefasta cuyos niveles académicos dan bastante vergüenza y no cumplen ni de lejos con lo que prometen en sus descripciones.

Si uno rasca un poco la superficie de esos blogs, lo único que encuentra es puro humo y una obsesión enfermiza por los números de cara a la galería. Mantienen una cantidad ridícula de blogs fantasma completamente inactivos solo para hacer bulto en la lista de miembros y fingir que son una comunidad viva. Por si eso no fuera suficiente ridículo, meten a gente de fuera que ni siquiera habla español en comunidades que supuestamente nacieron para hablar de literatura hispánica. Todo esto lo hacen con el único objetivo de inflar las estadísticas y hacer que parezca que hay movimiento en los dashboards con publicaciones vacías que no aportan absolutamente nada. Han perdido por completo el norte y la verdadera razón de ser de estos espacios: crear una comunidad real, apasionada y seria en nombre de la literatura en español.

Tanto que se llenan la boca con la palabra "internacional" para justificar este desastre de organización, cuando lo único que demuestran es que no saben gestionar un espacio cultural. Si lo que tanto les emociona es ver banderas de diferentes países juntas, ver números fluctuar en una pantalla y pretender que forman parte de un evento global sin tener que usar una sola neurona, lo tienen muy fácil. En lugar de arruinar los espacios de literatura con su incompetencia y su falso bulto, lo que deberían hacer es apagarse la pantalla, salir a la calle, tocar un poco de hierba y ponerse a ver el Mundial de fútbol. Ahí tienen toda la internacionalidad que sus cuerpos necesitan, con transmisiones tanto en español como en inglés para que nadie se pierda. En el fútbol la masa y el ruido son la norma, y no hace falta fingir un nivel académico que claramente les queda demasiado grande.

English Version: The Flop Eras of Digital Fandoms and Ghost Blogs

The anonymous ask sitting in my inbox is honestly embarrassing, mostly because whoever sent it is trying to insult everyone’s intelligence on this platform while defending absolute clownery. Let’s be real for a second: the two communities being defended here aren't just hitting a rough patch—they are in their ultimate flop era. From the ground up, they are the absolute worst spaces on Tumblr right now. The administrative team claims to hold these incredibly high academic and literary standards, but in reality, their actual output doesn’t even hit the bare minimum of what anyone would expect from a basic high school book club.

The entire setup is a massive illusion built on inflated metrics and desperate clout-chasing. The dashboard is filled with ghost blogs that the mods keep on life support just to make the member count look impressive. To make matters even funnier, they are actively pulling in random foreign accounts who don't even speak the language into spaces that are strictly branded as Spanish literature communities. They are doing all of this just to artificially trigger the algorithm and manufacture fake activity. In doing so, they have completely abandoned the actual plot: building a genuine, meaningful community centered around a shared passion for Hispanic texts.

It's only been 10 years since every transgender person in Norway had to undergo forced sterilisation in order to change their gender marker,

and till this day neither the state nor the singular hospital with a state sanctioned monopoly on all gender affirming care - the same ones who once tore organs out of trans people - (NBTK) have acknowledged or apologised for the systematic modern day eugenic practice which only ended in 2016? In fact the NBTK still lies on record about this not being forced or obligatory.

Norway continues to be one of the worst countries in Europe in regards to gender affirming care. While trans people are (still) free to use whichever bathroom they like, it takes on average over a decade for a trans person to get the gender affirming care they need, and only if they are:

Willing to lie about themselves and their identity at every corner

Presenting as binary as possible (makeup and skirts are mandatory for trans women, as an example)

Expressing bioessentialist views

Not suffering any mental illness such as depression or neurodivergencies

Willing to go through invasive and humiliating interviews*

As well as trials which can quite literally cost them their job, family and network**.

And only if you're a binary trans person, as the NBTK claims there's no scientific basis for providing non-binary people gender affirming care.

This has resulted in half of all Norwegian trans people paying out of pocket for their transition - often abroad - which makes transitioning a privilege reserved for the rich and those willing to put themselves in lifelong debt, and it especially hurts people in need of testosterone, as it is nearly impossible to DIY.

A fresh audit by an independent legal firm just concluded that the rights of transgender citizens are not upheld by the Norwegian healthcare system. The NBTK has yet to respond.

This while they've been in hot water for years already as the NBTK has already been found guilty of illegal and unethical research on transgender people and the misuse of their personal data without consent - or by blackmailing trans people by making them belive they will forfeit their access to healthcare if they decline. The case is still under works.

One of the leaders at NBTK, dr. Anne Wæhre, not only has a long history of lying to the public about all of this, but she has published works especially criticising the "epidemic" of AFAB trans people - calling them 'the nation's daughters' - even though the number of AFAB trans people is still far lower than AMAB trans people in their system. To make matters worse, she's known to associate with the anti-trans hate group SEGM, going so far as to attend their meetings and be a part of their panels, with Norwegian tax payers footing the bill.

The NBKT has stated on record that they are aware that they aren't following neither international nor national Standards of Care, claiming that their more conservative approach is better.

Universal healthcare does not fix systematic transphobia, or regrow the reproductive organs which were torn out. The EU's disapproval is meaningless, as we well know from various ongoing genocides.

When you fight for trans rights, keep Norwegian trans folks in mind too.

*it's not uncommon for healthcare providers at the NBTK to ask you invasive and irrelevant questions such as how distressed you are by your own body hair, and whether or not you fantasise about your parents while you masturbate.

this is something i've been thinking about for awhile

everybody loves our town, mark yarm (p385)

DIRT tour schedule.

very intense back to back shows.

NO REST IN BETWEEN.

no mental health breaks, no supervision.

we need to hold music corporate entities and management of these systems accountable. they obviously knew the kind of behavior that was going on, drugs and partying. this was not substantially discouraged.

in this environment, the only way to ensure the artists' health, and long term stability within the career, is to (at the very least) give adequate rest time beneath shows.

time to slow down, rest, get bored, balance with life again.

I was incredibly overstimulated, in pain from an RA and fibro flare up, hungry, having an allergic reaction from inhaling vapors from shrimp frying, and was promised a break only to be given work that made me skip it and unable to even order food because there were just so many customers that the register was never empty. I would likely end up spending my entire break waiting for food with no time to eat and the dining area where I was supposed to eat was filled with loud people taking up every single booth, leaving only tables that are incredibly small and painful for me to sit on.

Apparently I was being argumentative because I couldn’t think well enough to articulate why I was upset, and being a baby because my only method of dealing with severe stress and overstimulation is either hitting something or grabbing my face

So to them I guess it looked like I was having an argument and threw a tantrum when I couldn’t “win” or something?

This is infantilization of disabled people and systematic ableism.

You had a flare up, you weren't provided food in time, you coped with it as best as you could without harming anyone else. For then to treat you like a baby and then was systemically discriminated for it by it by giving you less work therefore making you losemoney, which with you being disabled could've left you homeless/without money for medical care/etc. As disabled people are much more susceptible of poverty. I'm so sorry this happened to you. If you're able and it wouldn't impact your source of income I'd suggest reporting it (I don't really know where as I'm not in the workplace, but this looks like a violation of your rights, at minimum the fact that they didn't warn you.)

People have begun the narrative of “veganism is racist/white supremacist” when in reality the issue isn’t veganism, it’s White Vegans.

White privilege is exhibited the same regardless of whether a white person is vegan or not.

The factory farming industry, and every other trillion dollar industry, has NO interest in protecting people of color (and actually actively exploits them), NO interest in people with disabilities, and NO interest in culture.

The solution to white vegans being racist is NOT to denounce everything they stand for and portray the factory farming industry as anti-racist simply because some racist and ignorant people don’t support it. There’s a lot of things racist people don’t support that aren’t themselves anti-racist.

It’s also telling that it’s predominately white non-vegans saying this.

It’s baffling this is even a problem.

I’ve never seen an instance where LGBTQ White people are racist and people begin portraying conversion therapy as racial diversity.

There’s a difference between correlation and causation in regards to racism being found in certain subsections and in just about every instance the issue is Eurocentric mindsets that exist outside of those subsections and white people being racist.

ADDITIONAL: I’d like to emphasize that being vegan or anti-factory farming does NOT make you marginalized.