I remember being in first grade and this white boy asked me why I wear “normal” clothes if I’m Indian and don’t Indians only wear feathers? So yes I do think first graders need more awareness about race
Also Sesame Street was made by a bunch of hippies that loved puppets and educators that were trying to reach in-city kids (particularly kids of color) who didn’t have access to good education resources.
Sesame Street has specifically addressed racism and other forms of socially oppressive orders since the beginning. Once again Rave Dubin is a moron.
I cannot stop laughing at the idea that socialism ignores humanity’s highest spiritual ideal: owning yachts.
I also love the idea that prisoners and slaves have perfectly fine lives where they basic needs are met, but they tragically lack yachts 😔
Also, the GOP is really just only focused on telling you that you can dream of owning a yacht, they don’t care about if you have shelter, food, or health care. But you’ve got that dream of a future yacht when you’re hungry and horribly ill!
This art, which has often been used as a meme template, was drawn by Kuro Itsuki (twitter), an artist who has previously drawn plenty of Love Live fanart and doujinshi such as this before, much of which can be seen on her pixiv profile.
She is also the author of the (notably NSFW) lesbian erotica manga Asumi-chan is Interested in Lesbian Brothels!, which is very quite good. So, anyone who did not know that the Love Live meme image was drawn by the Asumi-chan author, there you go.
On a related note, Asumi-chan is the source of that other wide-spreading tumblr meme image you may have seen, the one that says “Enough gay thoughts it’s time for gay actions”. I can’t find the edited image at the moment, but if memory serves, it’s this page, from the chapter where Asumi and her love interest, Nanao, go to an aquarium for a date (before later having sex in the following chapter)
So, that’s also that. If anyone was looking for that
prefacing this by saying that swapping “my therapist from hell” stories amongst other psychiatrised and formerly psychiatrised people is cathartic, solidarity-building, and sometimes a great starting point for a politics of mad liberation & i don’t resent it at all. however the fact that any criticism of therapy will be met by its defenders with responses that boil down to “find a different therapist :)” is deeply infuriating and missing the point. i am familiar with how wrong-headed and openly prejudiced individual therapists can be, but the bigger & more fundamental issue is that a ‘well-trained’ therapist, practicing according to best & most current professional norms, is explicitly a person whose job is to convert distressed people into 'functioning’, 'productive’ (read: profit-generating) members of 'society’ (read: hegemonic cultural norms & forms) & to shunt any 'patients’ who fail at this task of 'getting better’ into traumatising institutions where more authoritarian and coercive measures can be implemented. it does not actually matter if you, personally, had a super nice therapist who did not do this or believe these things. like, i’m happy for you but this is a structural critique of a profession & its relationship to state power.
Muriel Fahrion, the creator of Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears, was under a work for hire contract when she created them and as a result has received no residuals over the last 40+ years. If you like either of those properties, consider purchasing something from her website. She has art and cute jewelry!
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