Stuff I Love

- it’s fun to be awake & in an upright position

- consciousness is a gift

Wood and Resin Birds

Despite not knowing anything else about me, tumblr users (often white, much younger users) regularly assume that I must not be queer, trans, mentally ill, disabled etc and that I must not be knowledgeable on these topics.

Why do you think that is?

This is the mentally ill queer autistic people website. STATISTICALLY I'm probably at least one of those things!

It’s a white fragility defence thing - “in saying that I’ve been racist you have been ableist and now the conversation is about what you’ve done to me!” It’s a thing where disability, vulnerability, the need for delicate treatment is all reserved for whiteness and never for racialised people. It’s a thing where the pain of racialised people is less real, less important, where people of colour can’t possibly be as knowledgeable or educated as a white person. As OP said in a reply to my comment on the ask they got that prompted this post, it’s “stay in your racialized box and don’t make us think”.

I find this particularly obnoxious considering the overlap between these sorts of people and the people (also white) who are very prone to taking theory that was originally designed to articulate things about race-based oppression and applying it sometimes very clumsily to transness or disability. I’m not saying theory can never be applicable to multiple things, but I am saying I see an astounding amount of white people misusing the concept of intersectionality to ignore the concerns of people of colour or drawing up insanely offensive “doing x thing is just like lynching someone” analogies.

The heat’s been brutal this summer but we still gotta eat! If you’re like me, heat might suppress your appetite, and the last thing any of us want is to sweat over a hot stove and oven when it’s already boiling outside. Here are some of my favorite hot-weather recipes to keep hydrated and fed with when the weather is unbearable! (All recipes should be un-paywalled).

NYT’s best gazpacho (lives up to its name!!)

Persian cold cucumber soup (if you like tzatziki you will like this!)

Eric Kim’s cold noodles with tomato (infinitely riffable Korean flavor profile — for a creamier and less brothy take, try these cold sesame noodles too)

Vietnamese chicken and herb salad (this is an excellent time to get a rotisserie chicken so you don’t have to turn the oven on)

Radish sandwiches with butter and salt (and in a similar vein, if you dig this flavor combo you should try this Polish cottage cheese dip on some good rye bread or even crackers)

It’s still a little early in the season, but you can never go wrong with a BLT (or, if you don’t eat bacon, try this tomato furikake sandwich in its place)

Infinite iterations of pasta salad! You can use anything you got but here is a template I like.

Assorted dense bean salads. This back pocket canned salad is a weird combo of jarred ingredients but it slaps, this hoagie-inspired one is super satisfying, and cowboy caviar is a classic for a reason.

Poke bowls! Canned tuna mixed with some kewpie mayo and sriracha is a budget-friendly riff on the usual ahi and makes everything taste like a spicy tuna roll, but use whatever proteins you like, this is more of a loose template.