*Doctor Who Theme plays*

The PANC movement is a latin-american based botanical movement (started out in Brazil) focused on researching and cataloguing non-conventional edible plants, and man. There are so many straight up ornamental plants that just. are edible. you can eat them. you can grab a daylily and eat it. You can grab a begonia and eat it. Hibiscus, lavender, dandelions. And those are just the flowers. So many little herbs out there that are fully edible (Shout out to lamb's ear, that one tastes really nice imo).

Like straight up there is free food out there. foraging is so cool but it's so hard to find actual sources not made by either some AI fucker that's gonna end up killing you or by some crunchy "eating grass will cure your cancer" influencer. PANC is made by actual scientists that specialized in botany that have fully researched and found out that These Plants Are Fully Safe to Eat.

And not only that, but they're legitimizing native knowledge. They're taking the plants that our native populations have been eating for centuries and are proving, in a lab, that yeah, these plants ARE safe to eat - which is incredible. It might sound stupid (like ooo NOW you're willing to believe the native people) but this is so, so important, because having ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC PROOF of their knowledge is a way to combat the still pervasive idea that natives are "stupid savages", or that their traditions are just "wacky spirituality nonsense".

No one:

If you donate $50, you can pick a pride flag, or even just your favorite colors, and a style of hat, and I will crochet a hat in those color and I will give it away for free to my local community. (Cuz I can't ship things, especially if you live on a different continent)

If anybody else would like to join me in this offer to make art for people, let me know and I can add you to this post for people to send you requests!

So, we're still reading Medical Apartheid (how's that been going for everyone, btw??) but I just wanted to give you the next three books for the rotation:

1. Beloved- Toni Morrison

2. Hiding in Plain Sight- Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic

3. Black Skin, White Masks- Frantz Fanon

LINKS TO PDFS OF THE BOOKS!

Every few months ao3 shows it's racist ass, and I come closer to doing this:

Something seemed to be wrong in the chicken house, and when Dorothy looked through the slats in the door she saw a group of hens and roosters huddled in one corner and watching what appeared to be a whirling ball of feathers. It bounded here and there about the chicken house, and at first Dorothy could not tell what it was, while the screeching of the chickens nearly deafened her.

But suddenly the bunch of feathers stopped whirling, and then, to her amazement, the girl saw Bill crouching upon the prostrate form of a speckled rooster. For an instant they both remained motionless, and then the yellow hen shook her wings to settle the feathers and walked toward the door with a strut of proud defiance and a cluck of victory, while the speckled rooster limped away to the group of other chickens, trailing his crumpled plumage in the dust as he went.

"Why, Billina!" cried Dorothy, in a shocked voice; "have you been fighting?"

"I really think I have," retorted Bill. "Do you think I'd let that speckled villain of a rooster lord it over me, and claim to run this chicken house, as long as I'm able to peck and scratch? Not if my name is Bill!"

"It isn't Bill, it's Billina; and you're talking slang, which is very undig'n'fied," said Dorothy, reprovingly. "Come here, Billina, and I'll let you out; for Ozma of Oz is here, and has set us free."

So the yellow hen came to the door, which Dorothy unlatched for her to pass through, and the other chickens silently watched them from their corner without offering to approach nearer.

The girl lifted her friend in her arms and exclaimed:

"Oh, Billina! how dreadful you look. You've lost a lot of feathers, and one of your eyes is nearly pecked out, and your comb is bleeding!"

"That's nothing," said Bill. "Just look at the speckled rooster! Didn't I do him up brown?"

[ID: A painted illustration from the book Ozma of Oz (1907), showing Dorothy Gale kneeling on the ground reproachfully in front of Bill the Yellow Hen, whose feathers are all out of place from fighting a rooster. Dorothy is scolding her, and wears a white knee-length dress with little black polka dots, and a large red ribbon in her hair. Bill the chicken is almost solid golden yellow, except for her red comb and wattle. Behind them is a brown stone castle rising out of the side of a mountain, with windy blue skies above. End ID.]

Not saying your takes aren’t something to think about, but it’s just something that stands out when reading your posts.

reverse racism isn't real.

I keep mentioning that she lives in Texas because I only just recently found that out, and that supplies literally all of the necessary context for her specific brands of white supremacy.

I'm not generalizing white people who live in Texas as racist, reverse racism doesn't exist. That's not how this works. Park rangers in the South literally have to make it a fucking point when they are doing historical lectures to make it very clear that slavery is actually fucking inhumane and evil specifically to combat the level of education and propaganda about slavery down here.

If you think me pointing out very necessary context for Martha Wells's particular forms of racism means I'm doing reverse racism and I'm generalizing everybody from Texas as being racist I don't know what to tell you. There's very specific forms of racism that exist in Texas and in the southern US among white people. If you can't handle these facts I don't know what the fuck to tell you.

There are literal gated communities down here that proudly call themselves plantations. I don't know what to tell you.

I am telling everybody that she is a white woman from Texas because that literally provides the fucking catalyst for people to actually finally put together all of the little fucking things that had been fucking with their minds while reading this books and that is the catalyst of information to go oh. Oh. Yeah that explains literally everything.

Because it quite literally fucking does.

If you if you if you cannot handle just dealing with the fucking politics of racism in the US and especially in the southern US from white people specific brands of white supremacy that go on down here I don't know what the fuck to tell you but you probably shouldn't be sending people asks like this. If you are literally not ready to just deal with the fact that yes, white people from Texas tend to have very specific and extreme forms of fucking white supremacy even when they think they're progressive, I don't know what to tell you. Did I mention there are gated communities down here that proudly call themselves plantations? Did I mention that? Do you think that that sort of thing isn't completely and utterly relevant to discussing the racism of a white woman from Texas who has been writing slavery apologism in her science fiction and fantasy stories for over a decade now?

Pointing out that a very fucking racist white person is from Texas isn't saying that all white people from Texas are racist. Actual anti-racist white people from Texas are gonna be the first ones to fucking tell you to shut the fuck up. Reverse racism isn't real. Pointing out that Martha Wells is a white woman from Texas isn't reverse racism it's literally supplying necessary context for the exact kinds of bullshit she has been romanticizing for over a fucking decade now in her writing.

If you've never walked past a gated community for rich white people that's literally called a plantation, kindly stop sending people things like this

I made an observation and you have provided context for why you keep bringing particular information up, which is great. What my ask DIDN’T do was make any allusions to the idea that I can’t “handle” the politics of racism in different locations.

You want me to not make assumptions, then provide more information.

99% of people sending me asks about this are raging bigots.

I'm not going to give people who are imply I'm doing ~reverse racism~ the benefit of the doubt when you give me no reason to assume your intentions are actually good when you literally sent an ask *implying I'm doing reverse racism* by pointing out that the racist white woman is in fact a white woman.

You literally sent an ask implying I'm doing reverse racism. That's not going to make *anyone* assume you're ready to handle this kind of conversation. You want the benefit of the doubt?

Then don't send people asks saying they're doing reverse racism, it's really not difficult.

Yes, it's possible to educate and clarify without assuming that people are acting in bad faith. But there's no fucking interpretation of "you're doing reverse racism" where that's good faith.

Reverse racism is not real. You decided to send an ask implying it was. Don't do that if you want people to think you're serious about this conversation.

Literally just don't do that if you want people to think you're ready for this kind of conversation. I don't know what to tell you.

Literally what else do you think people can possibly assume about your ability to handle conversations about racism when your very first interaction is to imply that reverse racism is real. Just don't tell people you think it's reverse racism to point out that the racist white woman is a white woman and people will take you more seriously.

Timbuktu, an outdoor clothing brand based in northern England, filed to trademark the word “Yoruba”.

They are not the only one,hoever.

Some examples of it being registered,or attempted to be registered

Do you know what AAVE \ AAE is? Here are a few questions:

If you are aware of what AAVE is, can you point out AAVE words if you saw them in the wild?

What is AAVE? Is it slang or dialect?

The word "woke" is an AAVE word originally intended to mean what?

When you hear or see AAVE, do you default to associating it with improper English or less intelligence? Or sounding it "incorrect"?

Do you find yourself copying or using AAVE even though you didn't grow up using it? Do you understand why this is harmful?

Can you name three AAVE words, their incorrect usage by nonblack people, and the actual original meaning?

For Black users to answer only: What is something you find frustrating about how AAVE is treated? if your not American but also are Black, do you experience similar struggles with nonblack people misusing or degrading your language \ dialect where you live?