nitanahkohe:

UGHHHHH saw this on my fb feed—i hate this problematic strand of traditionalism so much!!

• Native communities had some form of governance (i can’t think of a single one that had absolutely no governing community social structure set in place)
• the climate has been changing periodically over millennia and Native peoples have been adapting for millennia—Natives are not some prehistoric species that have remained static for 25,000 years, and neither are their lands! i get that they mean human-created global warming, but this whole idea of Natives as magically in touch w/the earth is hella old and hella racist—believe it or not white ppl were once “primitive” and weren’t destroying the climate either
• Native peoples definitely had markets?? as in they traded things routinely, and some cultures had concepts of cash?? 

Natives are not some prehistoric animal w/mental capacities of infants, and this kinda bullshit traditionalism (which btw is obvi created by non-Natives considering they wrote “they” to signify Natives—hella problematic that Natives are letting non-Natives tell them what their precolonial societies looked like and casting that as indigenous resistance) is really dangerous (note how it’s couched aesthetically in an Edward Curtis photo playing on the noble extinct Indian princess trope?? now let’s talk abt how traditionalism is often brought up to reinforce internalized colonial heteropatriarchy that isn’t actually reflective of Native cultural norms re: gender and sexuality).  this whole “let’s return to this romantic notion of premodern primitive simple life that btw totally only occurred in indigenous communities—white ppl were never primitive!!!” thing is just annoying and inaccurate and racist, and it makes me sad to see indigenous people regurgitate it in their activism.

hey, look at this affordable, trans, queer, cool housing in atlanta near GSU / AUC / turner field / downtown!

great people! cheap room! yay!

this is currently an all-trans* household and they’d love another trans roommate, but right now they really need another person to be paying rent and will gladly work with someone respectful and responsible regardless of trans status

c4sale:

misha-chaos:

beefbludd:

feministpizza:

feministpizza:

Any trans* people in Atlanta looking for a place to live?

My roommates and I are looking for a trans*/gender nonconforming individual to rent a room here in our big, lovely house. It’s located near Turner Field and is convenient to GA State, Cabbagetown, East Atlanta, Grant Park, I-20 and 75/85. There are five of us who live here already and we’d love to have someone (preferably in their 20s) move in ASAP. Message me for rent info and any other questions you may have.

Even if you’re not interested in moving in, I’d appreciate my Atlanta friends and followers reblogging this to spread the word!

Still looking for another roommate. We’re all really nice and sweet and fun! Most of us are activists and organizers and a couple of us are students. We strive to keep our home a welcoming, creative, and safe space. We share food and split up chores. It’s a wonderful environment and will be even more wonderful once our empty room is filled! 

Please please please reblog.

still my house; still a good place to live. still relatively cheap.

This is my home please reblog or contact me if your interested!!!!

Said it once before, but it bares repeating now.

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ourcatastrophe:

in this photo I am chewing gum and about to blow a bubble.  I’m also holding the copy of “Loud Hands: Autistic People, Speaking” that I got in the mail a couple days ago.  I got it initially because one of my favourite people on tumblr, daxsymbiont, has a (really great) piece in it — it’s about echolalia, dana scully, finding your voice even if it’s ugly, and being seen as a person.  but I was pleased to discover that the whole thing is really worth reading.  virtually all my friends are mad radical leftist activist types and a lot of them are interested in disability stuff/have disabilities, so it’s pretty depressing to me how few of them have any kind of interest in or understanding of autism or issues affecting autistic people.  like, it’s a hugely oppressed community, the members of which are regularly abused, silenced, and murdered with impunity.  that in itself should make you wanna check out a collection of autistic people’s writing about autism and their lives.  it’s got some historical context to the autistic self-advocacy movement, some classic articles and blog posts republished in a more permanent format, some more recent writing.  it’s a good volume to dip in and out of. 

the great majority of the contributions are from women, which I think is really important. something daxsymbiont has talked about a bit, as I understand it, is how autism is often described as “extreme male brain”, which both a) further marginalises autistic women and b) contributes to the dismissal by progressives of autistic people as just callous nerds.   it’s a p. serious issue that feminists should engage with; the categorisation of certain groups of women as “not real women” is a major factor in much of the violence we experience. 

also, the contributors have fresh (to me) takes on questions I’ve been wrestling with for a while.  one of the things I’ve been thinking a lot about over the past few years is cliquishness and social skills and how to make social movements maximally accessible while still being as safe as possible.  this is a discussion in which I think autistic people, who are often socially isolated by non-autistic people and misrepresented as threatening, are in a position to make important contributions. 

on another note, the themes of the collection are “simplicity” and “voice” and a great deal of the pieces are on communication and language.  the use of language by contributors is really interesting and alive and often different to what I’m used to.  for example, if you’re interested in Gertrude Stein-esque joy in language as possessed of texture and substance in addition to semantic content, or in literary use of the quotation or palimpsest or otherwise recontextualised words of others, you will be really interested in some of the pieces touching on echolalia. 

Also, for the past few years I’ve been thinking a lot about embodiment, different ways you feel in your body, different ways our bodies interact with the world, reading a lot of Sara Ahmed and Deleuze and Guattari.  many contributions touch on particular forms of autistic embodiment in ways that feel really relevant to this reading and thinking, and that I’m still digesting.

I don’t mean that non-autistic people should seek to mimic autistic patterns of speech or movement, or otherwise appropriate autistic traits, that seems rude and weird and bound to fail, but I think we should take them seriously as real ways of being that are part of the spectrum of human experience and therefore probably relevant to the things we’re thinking about in philosophy or literature, obvi.  basically it’s not just a collection you should read if you’re not autistic because you’ll be Doing The Right Thing.  you should read it because it’s really interesting. 

you can get an ebook or a hard copy.  if you know me irl contact me and I’ll be happy to lend out my copy as soon as I’ve finished it. 

thanks for blogging about this book and some of the lines of thought it’s brought up for you

i’m looking forward to reading it when i have a chance; i’ve been thinking over stuff in this area a lot recently (especially w/r/t the two paragraphs bolded above), and would really like to read more - especially from autistic folks, and also especially from folks outside of the, hmm, decidedly young and internety-activisty circles where i think i’ve gained most of my knowledge of autism and self-advocacy by autistic folks

to be sure, it’s not that being young and internety-activisty makes one a bad source, autistic(-spectrum) or not, but i do feel like there’s a whole lot of experiences and conversations i’m not aware of, and should be