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I'm glad someone brought these difficulties to light, because here in Mongolia can get similarly xenophobic. A few teachers and some students in my school years have made snide remarks about me working to overtake the academic scores upon finding out my hafu lineage. Luckily, since my mother's Japanese, me & my siblings got off fairly lightly. But upon coming into Japan, although we were stared at from time to time, we never really experienced racism within or corresponding discrimination. They knew that we weren't full blooded, but few problems came by even in Japanese only areas. Here's what my worst experience was for discrimination:

 A girl I met back in grade 9 asked me out for dinner & a movie in Darkhad offered to hitch me a ride to my ger, & her dad came up the dark gravel road in a bright blue jeep, we got around to sharing more about our lives. When I shared that my mother was a shrine keeper's daughter, his mood lit up, until I revealed that she's Japanese. By then, a glint appeared in his left eye, & he revealed that he was part of Dayar Mongol, leaving me shivering under my hat. About midway to my home, he reached for my neck, & snarled at me in a chilling way in an already cold night. He warned me if I dare take his daughter as a permanent date, that he'll slit my stomach in cold blood. From then on, I rarely revealed my truth except with close friends & if I'm with the date girls often enough or are close enough.

By high school graduation, things more or less smoothed out even when I met who turned out nationalist since I looked enough the part to pass by without danger even in bars. Me & my brother took to the bars quite frequently before he moved to Japan.

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Zero Descrimination Day in India 1st March.

What I can’t believe

is that the supreme court passed a DISCRIMINATION LAW against the LGBTQ+ community

DURING PRIDE MONTH

ON THE LAST DAY

If we had universal healthcare do you think doctors would find a reason to not treat the poor and homeless?

#religious #freedom #moveforward #discrimination

This video was just a clip of someone going around a pride festival or some event like that, and asking what people identify as. It was all fine, everyone was happy. Until I opened the fucking comments. This entire app (newsbreak) is fucking stupid. The homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, literally everything-phobia is so widespread I'm fucking sick of it. Sorry if I sound angry or actually triggered, but this is the only social media app I can have (I'm using web Tumblr) and I have to deal with other people saying everyone different than them needs to fucking die. Plus they use religion as an excuse to hide behind their hate instead of just letting these people live their lives. Like Jesus fucking christ. Get over your critical selves. Goddamn.

Reblog (if u want) to share and show others how fucking ridiculous this is. This is why I'm leaving the goddamn church when I get out of the house.

Homeless People Read Mean Tweets About Themselves To End Stereotypes

When celebrities read mean tweets about themselves, it’s funny. When homeless people do it, it’s heartbreaking.

In a powerful PSA by Canadian advocacy group Raising the Roof, people who are dealing with homelessness read actual tweets written about those living without stable shelter. See all of the emotional reactions here. 

Watch the full video here. 

[PERPETUAL EMERGENCY]

Israel has forever been in a state of emergency, with the very first Proclamation of Emergency in 19th May 1948 never been revoked even after 76 years since Israel’s establishment

What happens when an emergency is declared?

When the government declares an emergency, the Legislative Branch would then lose their power to enact laws. 

Precedence would be given to the Executive Branch in enacting emergency laws as the country is in a “state of emergency”

What does this mean to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza?

This means that Israel can use Emergency Regulations, ie the Palestine Defence Emergency Regulations 1945 within Israel. This law has allowed detaining people without charge or trial, demolish homes, withhold corpses, expelling people and putting civilians in military courts.

Laws Imposed Outside of Israel

But the issue lies in why is Israel enforcing this law on Palestinians outside of Israel, ie the West Bank and Gaza. As stated in previous postings, Israel has no jurisdiction to impose their laws outside of Israel.

All arrests, orders and procedures made by Israel on the West Bank and Gaza are void and illegal from the start as Israel has no jurisdiction outside of their borders set by the United Nations Resolutions.

Israel must return all Palestinians, dead or alive from Israeli Prisons and Detention Centres. All orders including movement restriction orders, curfews, expulsion and home demolition are void and must be revoked.

Viewers can refer previous postings on jurisdiction on the matter

Petition can be found here

credit: borozaska @ instagram

I think tonight I want to tell you a story.

It's not exactly an unusual story, it's just one that has stuck with me. I'm sure this site is full of closet stories, underdog stories, social justice and bully victim stories. I'm not even sure where to start, with this, since it hits all four of those and more.

I come from a small town in the southwestern United States, where the most interesting thing to do is either drink or comment on the weekly flood of stench from the beef packing plant. Nobody moves in, and slightly more than "nobody" moves away. The schools are small, and I later figured out that they're on the national shitlist of places to get an education. It doesn't surprise me too much. The teachers were good and tried their best, but. It still doesn't surprise me.

I was bookish, white in a Hispanic town, timid, and had all the mass of a particularly useless paperweight. I didn't hit puberty until we moved away, either, so I had several years of locker room talk and kiss-and-tell bragging to sit through, utterly confused by the pictures of half naked boyfriends and dick pics shoved in my face like I was supposed to give them a Yelp rating. I didn't have friends, really, but I did have books. The only thing I had over my bullies was better grades, so I clung to that and tried to turn the insults into badges of honor.

This was when AR testing was big. You had to fill out tests to prove you read books, and reading books earned you points. Most people read the bare minimum necessary, some people didn't. I devoured the library like it was a homemade brownie and didn't come up for air until I had to. I got actual complaints about the number of points I was earning. The teachers said I'd filled my quota, I could stop anytime, but honestly? I forgot to take the tests 30% of the time.

There was a leaderboard that listed the people with the most reading points. I knew my name was on there, and yeah I was a little proud, but mostly I was more concerned about surviving PE. After a certain amount of school assemblies though, even oblivious people pick up on patterns. I was neck-and-neck with another girl. For the sake of the narrative, let's call her Emma. I didn't pay her much mind, beyond maybe a little competitive streak.

I still recognized her when she came up to me at lunch and invited me to sit with her group.

Keep in mind, I was the stereotype. I was that one sheep booted from the herd and heckled by wolves on a daily basis. I honestly was shocked, and then for the rest of lunch I was shaking, but I sat with them and alternated between stilted mumbling or shivering silence. Thus began a beautiful friendship.

And, over the years of inside jokes and emotional support, thus began an utterly doomed crush.

Her religious and cultural background aside, I never actually planned to act on it. It never actually struck me that it was a crush until my last year in that town. Any gay stuff I'd ever been exposed to was either as a rare comedy stereotype, or in my dad's philosophy tapes. Romance wasn't really in the picture for me. Sex was some sort of strange cryptid sorcery that drove humanity mad, my parents seemed to have made a match based on attractiveness and professional standing. It's just part of being an adult, getting married, right? That's what you do, sort of a natural progression towards being a successful person. Girls date boys and make out in cornfields, get pregnant before they can get higher education, and they all live drunkenly ever after in ugly little houses. Nowhere in that picture did it account for blushing, emotional bonding, and finding someone beautifully entrancing without heavy cleavage or wide hips and a need to see their underwear.

I did get hit with the evils of hormones after we moved away, and that was enlightening. I did, eventually, email her. After I figured myself out, why I'd never seen boys as potential dates and that my type is apparently "pretty eyes and a waist dip". To make things more mortifying, I came out to her TWICE. The first time, I was confessing my doomed crush and she politely told me I would find a lovely girlfriend someday. The second time was years later, by which time I think she'd forgotten and it came up in conversation. It was terrible both times, except for the part where she accepted me no matter what.

I've been watching TED talks and various videos on coming out, because this is what I do when bored. I know my stance on the subject. I've run into several of the common fears, the strange language, rejections, the "tell your stepbrothers she's just a friend". I'm never telling my mom unless I get engaged. My dad knows, and doesn't really believe me because I don't ogle boobs on a regular basis. My stepmom knows, and seems fine with letting sleeping dragons lie so long as I don't mention the Gay Lifestyle near her kids. I'm not out to the rest of my family because I want their respect, I want my cousins to come to me if they need me, and I feel like they won't if they know.

So I sit in my car and read about gay people getting lynched in the next county over, and draw comparisons between the locks on my gay closet and my pagan "broom closet". I don't wear religious symbols. I don't wear rainbows. I job hunt and read the fine print on every application to be sure they legally can't fire me for being me, and I keep my mouth shut with a smile. I go to church with my mom in the morning, and I go to pagan meetings the same afternoon, and when I get home I light incense for the Dingir in an apartment that I share with my girlfriend, where I see confederate flag bumper stickers parked outside.

I live dangerously. Pepper spray can't really protect you from someone deciding not to allow the renewal of your apartment lease, unfortunately, but it's still nice to feel the weight of it in my purse.

How to be an ally.

Literally this ^^ so many people will excuse their bigotry towards marginalized groups because they are part of a marginalized group themselves. You can see this with a lot of white queers who are racist.

looks like we need to have a talk about how marginalized groups are not excused from bigotry again because of kanye! 

it is not abelist, nor is it anti-black to call kanye out for being antisemitic. he was in fact, WRONG AS HELL. just because he is black and has mental health struggles does not excuse him from saying horrible shit about jewish people. 

If I find any of y’all being rascist or homophobic or shitty in general , I’m gonna find out where you live and eat your peice by peice whilst you’re in sleep paralysis ;)

And btw you can't be an X-Men fan but be racist, homophobic or in general discriminate any social minority. I mean, bro you are literally the villain of the story💀

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Something I really feel the need to rant about is society’s pathological hatred of fat people. Somehow it’s ok to bully people for being fat, but it’s also ok to bully fat people for trying to change their weight, so, like, WTF are fat people supposed to do? If you get bullied for being fat, and you also get bullied when you go to the gym/any form of exercise class, you’re gonna feel like you’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

And don’t get me started on the bullies who claim to be concerned for the health of fat people. If you actually cared, you’d show some goddamn compassion. You wouldn’t laugh at the fat person who gets out of breath after a jog, or make snide remarks at the fat person struggling with an elliptical at the gym. Just say you hate fat people and go.

My high school is so fucked up. I was looking at healing crystals in the library, and apparently, it’s blocked for ‘non traditional religions’. Further investigation showed that all religious websites aside from christian ones are blocked for this reason. Keep in mind, I go to a public school, not a christian one. And not to mention, me, and most of my friends are lgbt and/or follow different religions, and we’ve gotten so much shit for this, and our shcool just turns a blind eye. We tried to start a support club for lgbt, non christian, and poc students, and our principal threatened to let hate groups (he used the kkk as an example) into the school, and it’d be our fault. This is the same man who full on screamed at my girlfriend and I for giving each other a quick kiss before we went to class. We were also in the news because a student wore a confederate flag as a cape to school. I fucking hate this backwater mormon town.

was in a youtube comment section (aka hell) and I'm genuinely concerned by the amount of people that think diversity in media (regarding race and skin tones) is ‘woke’???? Like. I swear to god. Have these people never seen a person of color before in their life?? How have we gotten to the point that more than two shades of skin tones in games and media is WOKE?? “Go woke go broke” and it’s just more than two black/darker skinned poc chars. Also the colorism is SO crazy. They all fine with poc and their culture until their skin is darker than a paper bag ☠️

every time i start thinking about the Cagots i go a little insane

NBC News

Survey of over 90,000 trans people shows vast improvement in life satisfaction after transition

The National Center for Transgender Equality released early insights from its 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey, the largest survey of trans peop

A survey of more than 90,000 transgender people in the U.S. — the largest nationwide survey of the community ever — found that trans people continue to experience workplace and medical discrimination. However, the overwhelming majority of them still report more life satisfaction after having transitioned.  The National Center for Transgender Equality, or NCTE, one of the country’s largest trans rights organizations, released its 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey Early Insights report Wednesday after a yearslong delay due, in part, to the pandemic. The survey, the most comprehensive look to date at life for transgender people in the U.S., comes as hundreds of bills in the last three years have attempted to roll back trans rights, most often by restricting trans people’s access to transition-related health care and trans students’ abilities to play school sports.

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More than one-third of adult respondents, or 34%, were experiencing poverty at the time of the survey, and 18% were unemployed. More than 1 in 10, or 11%, of respondents who had ever held jobs said they had been fired or forced to resign or had lost jobs or been laid off because of their gender identities or expressions. And, in line with previous survey findings, 30% of respondents had experienced homelessness in their lifetimes.  Of adult respondents who saw health care providers in the previous 12 months, 48% reported having had at least one negative experience because they were transgender, including being refused health care, having staff members use the incorrect pronouns for them or having providers use abusive language or be physically rough or abusive while treating them. Fear of mistreatment prevented 24% of respondents from seeing doctors when they needed it in the 12 months before the survey.  Many respondents also reported past mistreatment in school. Of adult respondents, 80% who were out or perceived as trans in K-12 experienced one or more forms of mistreatment, including verbal harassment, physical attacks, online bullying or being denied use of the restrooms or locker rooms that matched their gender identities. Of the 8,159 respondents who were 16 and 17, 60% reported such mistreatment. Despite those negative experiences, the vast majority of adult respondents, 79%, who lived at least some of the time in different genders from the ones they were assigned at birth reported that they were “a lot more satisfied” with their lives. An additional 15% reported they were “a little more satisfied.”