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Even in the house it was LOUD.  Probably the loudest thing I have ever experienced but at a normal, predictable interval.  You would begin to time your sentences with little pauses with the rest of the lighthouse crew so you would talk like this while making your………..HORN…………. tea and then carry on talking because you knew when it would go off.  It rattled the walls and the dishes in our cabinet.

At least one girl had died there. They kept photos of her everywhere “in honor of her sacrifice” because she had decided to take the winter watch alone and died in a storm where bounders the size of mini vans had been lifted out of the ocean and left scattered across the island, to say nothing of the ice chunks.  People weren’t allowed to be alone on the watch after that.

One day a dead moose washed up on shore and it took my entire crew all day but we managed to rig up a line to hang it up to dry because we thought having a moose skeleton in the house would really spice the living room up a bit.  It did.  Weird shit happens when six of you are left alone, like ALONE ALONE, no cell reception, no wifi, just a radio to contact the real world and not a lot of reason to do that.  People don’t go on lighthouse jobs if they want to stay connected, I’ve found.

Japanese Jewel Beetle aka Tamamushi (Chrysochroa fulgidissima), family Buprestidae, Japan

ID: A youtube comment with 11 likes by Niceone, it says "I've lived 46 years without knowing this. How nice of life to save some of the best bites for later." End ID.

Wisteria Hysteria💜

Gardens at Iford Manor in Wiltshire, near Bath. Created by Edwardian designer Harold Peto when Iford was his home from 1899-1933.

📸Photo by @wordyelaine

📍Iford Manor Gardens, Wiltshire

Executive dysfunction comes from a lack of available dopamine. Common advice is wrong. You need to provide your own dopamine before you can start. Otherwise you're trying to run your car on empty.

"But what if I still don't do it" well you already weren't getting it done anyway. Now you have a little treat. Try again later.

You deserve kindness and care even when you aren't being productive.

This blog is a curated post collection to help white people learn about racism, imperialism, activism, and their role in systems of oppression. This post contains the tag system so you can look at posts by subject, as well as a list of helpful resources and other blogs to follow. Any non-bold words that are underlined are links to recommended reading!

This blog is intended mainly for browsing, not just following. I will not reblog single posts more than once so please take time to look through the archived posts!

Tag System

Basics: This tag contains a handful of short(ish) posts to get you started (also read the links in the next few bullets!)

White Guilt: Posts about white guilt

White Fragility: Posts about white fragility

Privilege: Posts about privilege

Appropriation: Posts about cultural appropriation

White Culture: Posts about what white culture looks like (yes, white people do have culture!). Subset of the culture tag.

Culture: Very broad tag for posts about different cultures and cultural racism

Allyship: Posts about what being a good ally looks like (or doesn't look like!)

Antiracism: Posts about the action of unlearning racism and/or teaching others to do so (lots of overlap with allyship)

History: Posts with information about historical events or figures connected to systemic racism

Current events: Posts about instances of modern-day racism and imperialism

Antiblackness: Posts about racism against Black people

Indigenous: Broad tag for posts about indigenous cultures worldwide

Orientalism: Posts about racism against people of Asian descent

Imperialism: Posts about imperialism

Antisemitism: Posts about bigotry against Jews

Dogwhistles: Posts about words, phrases, and symbols with plausible deniability used by bigots to signal one another

Conspiracy theories: Posts about conspiracy theories that are rooted in bigotry (spoiler: it's most of them)

Environmentalism: Posts about bigotry in environmentalist movements/ideals

Community: Posts about how racism appears in communities and/or how to combat it

Relationships: Posts about how racism appears (or doesn't!) in interpersonal relationships

Experiences: Personal accounts/stories about experiencing racism

Gender: Posts about the intersection of racism and gender

Incarceration: Posts about the prison system in the US (basically, it's modern slavery)

Media: Posts about racism in media

Humor: Posts about jokes & memes as a vessel for both outright and subtle bigotry (and when they're not)

Activism: Posts about activism

Recommended media: Things to watch or read!

Not every tag has a lot of posts in it (yet), many posts are cross-tagged, and posts may also be tagged with additional relevant terms.

Please be aware: your comfort is not a priority here. Due to the subject matter of this blog, some posts may mention triggering topics. Any posts that describe these actions with any detail will be trigger tagged, but I will not be tagging for keyword mentions (e.g. "women of color are often sexually assaulted"). Nobody is ever obligated to read a detailed account of something horrible, but if you're here to learn about racism you need to be willing to hear that horrible things happen. If you cannot tolerate thinking about these things at all you can use tumblr's content filtering feature for keywords, but please acknowledge that your ability to avoid this kind of information is a form of white privilege.

Resources & Blogs:

The recommended media tag!

Re: media, I highly recommend beginning your antiracism journey by watching this in full.

@creatingblackcharacters: Fantastic blog for learning about antiblack racism. I recommend reading all the lessons in her pinned post.

@insertspanishhere: Blog about Hispanic tropes & stereotypes

@checkyourasianbias: Blog about Orientalism & Asian cultures

@modelsofcolor: Follow to help diversify your tumblr feed and subconsciously unlearn eurocentric beauty standards

@folkfashion: Same as the above

@naturalhairhow101: Posts about Black hairstyles

@isuggestlandback: Posts mainly about indigenous cultures and social issues

@olowan-waphiya: Posts mainly about indigenous cultures and social issues

@blackcharacterpolls: Posts about Black characters in various media

@does-it-like-black-women: Poll blog about media. I recommend looking through the notes on finished polls.

@doberbutts: Posts a lot about queer intersectionality with race and other social issues

@directactionforhope: Posts about current events, social issues, and activism

Melanin Library: Database of books by Black authors

JSTOR Reading Library: Free Black liberation reading materials

Indigenous website & resource list

Masterlist of Black focused resources

In general, try to follow as many POC on social media as you can. Do not comment on posts that are not meant for you, but make a habit of filling your feed with posts by people in other demographics and cultures. Likewise, make a habit of deliberately seeking out media created by POC. Doing these things will allow you to learn new things without having to ask people, and to unlearn the gut reaction to see white people as "default".

It should go without saying but this is tumblr, so: me (the blog owner) reblogging a post or recommending a blog is not the same as me endorsing all opinions and content posted by that blog. The content I recommend here is intended to make you think and (hopefully) grow as a person, and reading and understanding differing opinions is part of that!

You are trying to explain the trajectory of research on trans issues, and how the informed consent model came about as a wildly successful alternative to the gatekeeping model because time and again, people with clinical experience who actually cared about their patients found that just letting trans people transition was easier and the fear that it would lead to something bad was unfounded.

The Principle Understander is shouting at you that the medicalization of trans people is inherently unjust, and even the informed consent provider is still a gatekeeper, just a more lenient one.

You are already aware of this.

You are talking to someone who, as a first priority, needs to know what the worse gatekeeping model looks like.

A guy came up to me to ask about it and said, "but this is to keep boys out of girls sports, right? "

I responded with, "that's what they're saying, but all girls who want to play school sports will be subject to this law."

The man asked for a flyer and i heard him discussing it with his wife afterwards.