At least eight islands in the Pacific have already disappeared because of rising sea levels. Over the next century many communities, including my family, will be displaced and lose their ancestral lands and foundation of their cultural practices. Trump removing the US from the Paris Agreement, taking climate change off the National Security Strategy, and repealing the Clean Power Plan is a slap in the face and to me, intensely personal. PLEASE contact your representatives regarding climate change and taking steps to counteract the potentially irreversible harm Trump is doing to our planet.
I am working on setting up an online store in the next month or so and it will include all of my Disney Resists prints! 10% of everything in my shop will go to the ACLU and other civil rights groups putting in the time this past year đ
This is an issue very close to my heart guys – my family and our descendants are almost guaranteed to lose our islands and the current administration just doesnât care.
Tara Abernathy (from Max Gladstoneâs Craft Sequence) for the first prompt of Month of Love 2018, âBlack.â
Iâve been wanting to do a piece for the Craft Sequence books, which I discovered and fell in love with maybe a year ago, and this was the perfect push.
Modeled for by the lovely @labillustration, a great artist in her own right.
I didn’t know this series, so I now have something new to read, thanks to this gorgeous art!
The Burnum Burnum Declaration England, 26th January, 1988
I, Burnum Burnum, being a nobleman of ancient Australia do hereby take posession of England on behalf of the Aboriginal people. In claiming this colonial outpost, we wish no harm to you natives, but assure you that we are here to bring you good manners, refinement and an opportunity to make a Koompartoo – âa fresh startâ. Henceforth, an Aboriginal face shall appear on your coins and stamps to signify our sovreignty over this domain. For the more advanced, bring the complex language of the Pitjantjajara; we will teach you how to have a spiritual relationship with the Earth and show you how to get bush tucker.
We do not intend to souvenir, pickle and preserve the heads of your 2000 of your people, nor to publicly display the skeletal remains of your Royal Highness, as was done to our Queen Truganninni for 80 years. Neither do we intend to poison your water holes, lace your flour with strychnine or introduce you to highly toxic drugs. Based on our 50,000 year heritage, we acknowledge the need to preserve the Caucasian race as of interest to antiquity, although we may be inclined to conduct experiments by measuring the size of your skulls for levels of intelligence. We pledge not to sterilise your women, nor to separate your children from their families. We give an absolute undertaking that you shall not be placed onto the mentality of government handouts for the next five generations but you will enjoy the full benefits of Aboriginal equality. At the end of two hundred years, we will make a treaty to validate occupation by peaceful means and not by conquest.
Finally, we solemnly promise not to make a quarry of England and export your valuable minerals back to the old country Australia, and we vow never to destroy three-quarters of your trees, but to encourage Earth Repair Action to unite people, communities, religions and nations in a common, productive, peaceful purpose.
They are two months old and they do not give a single solitary shit about me at all, all they want to do is hang out underneath the sofa and chase each other down the hallway. Such disrespectful children.Â
I see that theyâre both named after streets but I kind of hoped after seeing Polk that they would both be They Might Be Giants references. Super cute kitties tho. I am very envious
I suppose I could have called the other one âIstanbulâ đ (âWell, she WAS Constantinople, butâŚâ)
Taking place in England the owners of the yard slowly kept adding sections to the contraption so when the squirrel learned one section and got the nuts, theyâd add another section. It took over 2 weeks to get to the final product you see in the video.
I love how it pushed itself along in the red cart. FASTER FASTER!
âYou are too young to be disabled,â they say. You age. âYou are too young to be disabled,â they say. You age. âYou are too young to be disabled,â they say. You have changed. They have not.
You see a flight of stairs. Your friend insists there are only a few. You donât see an end. You are tired. There are too many stairs. You donât see an end.
The door has an accessible entrance sticker. It is not accessible. You tell them so. They insist it is. You try to explain. They point to the sticker wordlessly.
You tell people there is no cute for your disability. They whisper. Soon everyone is whispering. You do not know what they are saying but you hear the word âyogaâ.
You need an ice pack. You get one. You immediately need another. This has been happening all day. Or was it all year? You try to remember and you cannot think of a time you did not need an ice pack.
You stand up from your wheelchair. People gasp. Your disability has magically disappeared. You sit back down. Your disability returns.
You never notice people using canes. You get a cane. Suddenly you notice them. Theyâre everywhere. The number of canes grows. You chalk it up to your imagination, but you wonder if it really is growing. Soon, everyone will use canes.
You do not see yourself in magazines. You do not see yourself in movies. You do not see yourself on tv. You do not see yourself in books. You start to fear that you do not exist.
A person asks you what your disability is. âI donât know,â you whisper, âno one knows.â They stare at you confused. You have never known.
You sleep. You are more tired. You donât sleep. You are more tired. You go out. You are more tired. You stay in. You are more tired. The moon waxes. You are more tired. The moon wanes. You are more tired. You think about whether these things are related. You are more tired.
[disclaimer: you donât have to identify with all of these in order to reblog (in fact I donât expect most people will) but please do identify with the cripple punk movement as a whole! or if youâre reblogging for a friend tag that you are and youâre able bodied. Also please tag for unreality and depersonalization if you can! Feel free to add on]
knitting in the dark 