scrumptiousangst:

ayeforscotland:

benevolentlys:

thebibliosphere:

ironicbabylawyer:

ayeforscotland:

bendyluna:

ayeforscotland:

The state of the union.

Westminster are demonising disabled people. This is sickening.

Or alternatively they have to ask about suicidal tendencies if there is any history of mental health or any detected mental health issue. It’s their duty of care, and yes if they asked something in that wording it would be horrible. People who claim PIP can also get it for mental health issues, so it is not in any way assuming that because someone is disabled they have to be mentally ill. These are medical professionals who have a duty of care.

There’s asking about suicidal tendencies and asking someone why they haven’t killed themselves yet.

That’s not a ‘duty of care’ line of questioning. To imply otherwise as some form of defence of asking people why they’ve not taken their own life is ridiculous.

During assessments, you’re made to re-live any trauma, to re-count any suicidal thoughts or self-harm in detail, you are asked to describe in great detail the most humiliating effects of your disability and after going through all that, your application is refused

👆👆👆👆👆

I’m 4000 miles away at present but my baby brother still calls me to cry about how he is treated by the people currently in control of whether or not he deserves PIP which is the only thing he has to live on apart from the help of my OAP parents who are also sick and struggling. 

He was disabled at birth through medical negligence, has been in a wheelchair ever since, has only one working hand, is considered legally blind, has epilepsy, asthma and a whole host of other chronic conditions including a non functioning bladder and most recently a decline in mental health from receiving no help with any of the above.

And the person asking him the questions at his appeal, with his medical records in hand, asked him in all seriousness why he felt justified in calling himself disabled which, Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me? 

He was later asked, by someone else, if his conditions were really as bad as he claimed, why he hadn’t attempted suicide yet. That was a real question, from someone in a position of authority, hired by the UK government to decide whether or not sick and disabled people qualify for financial help in order to live.

I’ve never considered violence an acceptable outlet for towering fury, but I’m one flight away from making an exception for a motherfucker.

These are the values of the current Westminster government. 

Local elections start around the country on May 4th 2017, followed by the general election a month later on 

8 June 2017. I’m begging you, I’m on my hands and knees pleading with you, vote. If you are old enough and eligible to do so, vote. I know May called for the snap election in the middle of exam time, this was not a coincidence. If you won’t be able to get to a polling station because of exams or other commitments, you can literally sign up to vote through postal vote by filling out a simple form found here, which incidentally is the same form you use to sign up if you are not yet registered at all either due to age or having moved recently or changed your name: 

 https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

It takes 5 minutes. I literally timed updating myself to vote through proxy as an absentee citizen.

Don’t let these people stay in power, don’t let them get away with eugenics masquerading as social reform. Please don’t stand on your pride, please don’t look at the other parties and think “well they’re all as bad as each other” because I’m telling you, as someone currently living in America under the Trump regime, they’re not all the same. Holy shit they are not the same. There’s corruption and then there’s making a pact with the Devil and wondering why everything is on fire. 

Vote. Help protect the most vulnerable people in our society and VOTE.

I’m mentally ill and I’m scared what will happen to me and others if May stays in power. PLEASE vote Labour.

(Unless you live in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland)

Then vote SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Fein.

P

canadian-marxist:

electoralcollege:

gayasscommie:

If there’s one thing we can see from American foreign policy it’s that bombing people doesn’t stop human rights violations but fuck if we won’t give it another go

Didn’t work in Korea but maybe it’ll work in Vietnam

Didn’t work in Vietnam but maybe it’ll work in Laos

Didn’t work in Laos but maybe it’ll work in Cambodia

Didn’t work in Cambodia but maybe it’ll work in Iraq

Didn’t work in Iraq but maybe it’ll work in Bosnia

Didn’t work in Bosnia but maybe it’ll work in Somalia

Didn’t work in Somalia but maybe it’ll work in Afghanistan

Didn’t work in Afghanistan but maybe it’ll work in Iraq this time

Didn’t work in  Iraq this time either but maybe it’ll work in Libya

Didn’t work in Libya but maybe it’ll work in Syria

I think the conclusion we need to draw here is that these military interventions were never *supposed* to “work” in the sense that they were not *actually* waged for humanitarian ends. That was a cover used to inspire the masses to support them. These were imperialist interventions meant to assert American control. 

Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.

vajeentambourine:

Shout out to people like me who have parents who are loving but are black holes of emotional labor… It took me a long time to realize that it’s okay to have mixed feelings about your parents, about your relationship with them.

Sometimes parents can love you but be somewhat toxic to you and your growth, and that’s a very hard realization to come to if you, like me, grew up extremely close to them.

Sometimes parents can love you genuinely but lack emotional maturity, forcing you to perform disproportionate amounts of emotional labor. Some parents manifest symptoms of their mental illness in ways that are toxic to your mental illness.

Some parents, like mine, try so hard to be good parents but fall back on habits of emotional manipulation because they haven’t processed their own traumas and are modeling behavior they grew up with. That doesn’t make their behavior acceptable, and it’s okay to feel exhausted and hurt when they betray you. You don’t have to forgive every mistake.

I want you to know that it’s okay to protect yourself, to need some space apart from them. The love you have for your parents is still valid, and you are making the right decision.

Placing a safe emotional distance between myself and my parents has been one of the most difficult, heartbreaking processes I’ve ever gone through… it hurts to try to curb the strength of your own natural empathy around people you love. It feels disingenuous to your heart’s natural state.

But I promise you, you are not hard-hearted or ungrateful, and you are not abandoning them. You are making a decision about your own emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

I know what it’s like in that confusing grey area of love mixed with guilt and anxiety, of exhaustion and quasi-manipulation and unreciprocated emotional labor, and I promise you, you are not alone.

Your mixed feelings about your parents are valid.

lyriumghosting:

hey so i got accepted to university of massachusetts amherst to begin my ba program in english but they’re asking me for $500 as a required deposit. i’m currently homeless, having ran away from my abusive transphobic parents, and unemployed. the deadline for the deposit is june 1st

please donate if you can, my cash.me is $Victablook and my paypal is vannerho@gmail.com.

i’m currently very miserable in my current university and major, and transferring to this college and doing the major i want will really help my deteriorating mental health

share if you can as well

cantinaband:

I’m in the movie, what are you going to do about it? You either enjoy it or you don’t. I’m not saying get used to the future, but what is already happening. People of color and women are increasingly being shown on-screen. For things to be whitewashed just doesn’t make sense. All the films I’ve done have had a secret commentary on stereotypical mentalities. It’s about getting people to drop a prejudiced state of mind and realize, Oh shit we’re just watching normal people.

vampireapologist:

prokopetz:

Why are characters like Lestat
de Lioncourt

and Dorian Gray held up as cautionary tales about the personal cost of immortality, anyway? In both stories, it’s an explicit plot point that they were already insufferable wankers before they became immortal.

The cautionary tale is if your dick friend somehow becomes immortal don’t stick around waiting for it to enlighten them bc they’re just gonna get way more into murder than they were before and not much else

cornchipmeteor:

geekandmisandry:

theprofessor86:

reyesgabriel:

theprofessor86:

racheloddment:

I keep thinking about that straight girls in gay bars post and so here’s a list of things that straight people have done to me or around me in gay bars

  • I ask a pretty girl if she wants to dance. She looks at me with disgust and says, “I’m not gay” in the snottiest valley girl voice I’ve ever heard. 
  • A short greasy dude will not leave me the fuck alone at the bar. I tell him multiple times “I am a lesbian.” He says, “me too” and in the same breath tells me I’ll like it if I try it. When the guy steps away to talk to his friend, three gay men surround me and buy me a drink and swear to keep him away from me for the rest of the night.
  • 2am, drunk, cheering on my favorite local drag queen on stage. A contestant from Dr*g R*ce is in the audience, hanging out, supporting her friends. The straight girls next to me spot her and start shrieking at the top of their lungs and trying to get to her. Security escorts the contestant elsewhere so no one could get near her. Not a single straight person in the audience tips any of the performing queens. 
  • I’m by myself on the dance floor, feeling myself to Bey, as you do. A man comes up to me and starts dancing. After a minute, he starts grinding on me and tries to kiss me. I put my hand in his face and tell him I’m a lesbian. He says something very vulgar that I don’t completely remember because I was drunk af. I tell him to fuck off and I leave the dance floor completely. I end up on the patio with a beautiful butch girl and when I tell her what just happened, she offers to beat him up for me. 
  • A girl with a bachelorette party, telling me, with complete seriousness, that she was just discriminated against at the bar for being straight. What happened? The bartender didn’t pay attention to her immediately and she had to wait “forever” for her drink. 
  • Related: Almost every negative review of my favorite gay bar is by a straight person. At least half of them claim that the bartenders or bouncers discriminated against them. 

And then this one isn’t bad, it just made me laugh when it happened 

  • Guy: hey can you ask the bartender for a drink for me? They usually pay more attention to girls
    Me: oh baby not here they don’t lol
    Guy: ??
    Me: This is a gay bar, sweetheart
    Guy: I… oh… *looks at the shirtless male bartenders, the go go boys, the rainbow flags, the drag queen behind me, the glitter everywhere* *walks away in a daze*

Okay first of all, you’re heterophobic if you think straight people are the cause of all of the problems in a gay bar.

Second, just, fuck off.

“heterophobic”

Yep, heterophobic, like homophobic but against straight people.

I am not against straight people! I can’t be heterophobic and I have like bunches of straight friends. They are great, we get together and do straight people stuff like mini golf and yelling outside of abortion clinics.

I can’t be heterophobic when I have at least three straight friends and I don’t judge them! Like, as long as they aren’t being straight in front of me because no one needs to see that lol. But no, I love the straights!

news flash: asking straights to be Decent Human Beings in queer spaces is now heterophobic

kingdaume:

If you want non-monogamy to be more normalized, clap your hands.

If you want monogamy to be taught as a conscious commitment rather than a default, clap your hands.

If you want jealousy and possessiveness to stop being viewed as healthy characteristics of passionate, loving relationships, and you /really/ want to show it…

If you support polyamory and you know it, clap your hands.