@copperbadge Feels like an “RDJ Advises… “ coming up.
“It’s nice to be perfect, Chris, but it takes a lot of work.”
“Is this meant to be an illustration of your perfection?”
“It’s an illustration of the work it takes! See, I didn’t make a mistake. I had a different artistic vision. But then, like an actor, I took direction like a champ.”
“I…I really wish I could find a way to poke a hole in that, but I can’t.”
“Because I’m perfect!”
This Black History Month, we’re featuring quotes from contributors from the AWN anthology All the Weight of Our Dreams: on living racialized autism (editors Lydia X.Z. Brown, E. Ashkenazy, and Morénike Giwa-Onaiwu)
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“Claiming a heritage and culture is not only about color. It’s about lived experience, attachment, feelings, tradition, home, and love.”
-E. Ashkenazy, “Foreword: On Autism and Race,” All the Weight of Our Dreams: on living racialized autism, an AWN anthology available now on Amazon
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[Second image text:
“I came to understand that autism was not something tragic or shameful…. I was born right the first time.”
-Finn Gardiner, "Letter to People At the Intersection Of Autism and Race,”
All the Weight of Our Dreams: on living racialized autism, an AWN anthology now available on AmazonBackground photo of a blooming flower in purple hues]
[Third image text is
“We who exist anyway,
Our selves proof of a
revolutionary survival power.
We who must keep breathing and
breaking bleeding recreating.”-Mikael Lee, “Revelation,” All The Weight of Our Dreams: on living racialized autism, an AWN anthology now available on Amazon
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[Fourth image text:
“Yeah, I notice.
I notice that I’m different from other blacks
because I’m autistic.
I notice that I’m different from other autistics
because I’m black
I notice
Do you?“-COBRA, “Confessions of a Black Rhapsodic Aspie,” All the Weight of Our Dreams: on living racialized autism, an AWN anthology available now on Amazon
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[Fifth image text:
“If I had a time machine and could go back to my school days, I wouldn’t try so hard to mold myself into a person whom I was not meant to be.”
-Kristy Y., “Burnout in Recovery,” All the Weight of Our Dreams: on living racialized autism, an AWN anthology available now on Amazon
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[Sixth image text:
“I’m Black. I’m a woman. I’m the child of immigrants. I’m a mother. I’m autistic. And I know there are more people like me somewhere.”
-Dee Phair, "Unpacking the Diagnostic TARDIS,” All the Weight of Our Dreams: on living racialized autism, an AWN anthology available now on Amazon
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Fidget Spinner in Space! 🌌
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MARVEL
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Okay I’ll admit this the was really awesome and a really well matched to the song and edited
That’s fucking tight.
mind: blown.
this is some of the best editing i have ever seen!
those people should work in the industry, someone hire them asap.
Random Giveaway!
I have two items to giveaway today and both were made and donated by the wonderful Aukquill.
The first item, shown in the top photo, is a bracelet made of metal barrel shaped beads in copper, gold and silver colors. The beads have a repeating raised “S” pattern and a light covering of black finish in the indented areas. The internal circumference (distance around the wrist) is about 7.5 inches.
The second item, shown in the lower photo, is a pair of earrings for pierced ears. They have a flat round silver colored outer bead with a pearl suspended in the center and silver color hooks. (I have two identical pairs of these to give away.)
These items are not likely safe for people with metal allergies.
To enter, please reblog or answer and tell me two things:
- Which item you’d like to receive if you win.
- A random fact that you find interesting. The more obscure, the better. 🙂
I’ll draw winners tomorrow, Feb. 10th, around noon ET. Open to followers worldwide.
I’d like the bracelet, since I don’t have pierced ears.
During World War Two, Girl Guides in the UK were tasked with collecting thousands of empty wooden thread spools, and until recently, no one in the general public knew why. The recycled spools were used to pass information to POWs. The core had a thin piece of paper wrapped around it with the messsages on it, then the spools were refilled with thread. The thread was then included in care packages to imprisoned servicemen. Source: Jambusters by Julie Summers
This is one of the best interactions I’ve ever had.
Two school age kids: “Oh look at the big white puppy!”
Their mother: “Come here, let me explain something to you. That dog is a Service Dog. Whenever you see a dog in a store like this you can’t distract it cause it’s working.”
Two kids: “What do you mean he’s working?”
Mom: “He helps that girl. You know how at school your teacher tells you to be quite so you don’t get distracted doing your work? It’s the same thing with that dog. You can’t distract him.”
Two kids: “What does he help her with?”
Mom: “That’s her business. Your business is to not distract him so he can work.”
If children can understand so can you.
This is so sweet.
This is how you educate, destigmatise and support people with service dogs in a way that isn’t othering or ‘inspirational’. It’s giving able people a useful role, which is often where they struggle with interactions with disabled people. Your business is to let service dogs do their job. Why they need the dog is not your business.
Trying to balance the grim textbookiness of Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth with Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire, The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman, season six of Castle, and Avengers Academy 2.0 and I think I’m getting whiplash. I mean, we need more feminism and magic and less patriarchy and captialism and variety is the spice of life, and The Beauty Myth is too hardcore to read without breaks, but going from that to magical doors and back again is kinda wild.
Bathroom complete! What is fairly subtle but essential is the grab rails – one over the bath, two in the shower, one by the toilet and the grip handles in the bath itself. Future-proofing for @kath-ballantyne . She loves the one over the bath already. Makes it safe for her to climb in and out of the bath herself. And an Intergalactic bath bomb to celebrate. After over a month without even a half-broken bath, it was amazing.
corny teenage
sitcom lesbians are valid
no gifs can do this scene justice
omg i don’t even know what this show is but the idea that we have this on tv is kind of amazing to me. There was nothing like this when I was a kid. At all. Ever.
knitting in the dark 