Photograph by Tim Walker for Vogue December 2011

In northern Mongolia, reindeer territory, 13-year-old Puje fearlessly explores the wild landscape

💯 but its 000 for when something's fuckall

Shout out to the people who never had a safe place. Who didn’t have a before trauma. Who were loved but not protected. Who were collateral damage in someone else’s breakdown. Who got fucked up so young that they’ll never know who they could have been.

Shout out to people who’ve never felt safe. I hope you do someday.

girl something good has to happen at some point

I know a bunch of people are into this as a kink thing, but as a person who is really into survivalism, this is so cool.

Strap them on like backpack

writers take note if you have a scene where a character needs to move someone

Waking up feeling like shit and giving myself grace like

Honestly not being a killjoy, but do we have photos on what the protests were like in Republican territory? That seems more significant than the numbers in liberal zones like DC/NYC/Boston/Portland/Philly/etc.

This is a photo from the protest I attended at the KS Capitol building in Topeka as well as estimates from a local group as to the size of protests around the state.

Kansans were OUT

Never walk into a cage willingly. If you're already in one: break out.

Digital faux linocut.

prev ur so right. the One of Leeks

Not an invitation to cocoon yourself in a self-care bubble for four years, but a reminder to the 24/7 worriers that you can literally write "To Do on Monday: Worry about ________" on a post-it note and stop worrying about it for one day while you recharge.

Another point: Both your mental health and your ability to resist will be improved by finding a community. A sorrow shared is a sorrow halved. And apes together strong.

Highlighting connecting to the land here, too. It's not woo woo bullshit that being in nature has incredibly positive, tangible, well-documented impacts on your body and mind (that link is a meta analysis of research from 2011-2021).

But more than that, connecting to the land you are on is an essential part of building a sense of community, connection, and a will to resist. Being sensitive to the natural world- by which I mean literally building up your familiarity with it to better understand your environment and what's happening in & to it, as well as your emotional connection to it- is a fundamental part of protecting and building up your own emotional depth & sensitivity.

Fascism, authoritarianism, and white supremacy all rely on shutting you down emotionally & numbing you to increasing terror, horrors, and cruelty. Joy is resistance. Community is resistance. Love is resistance. Grief is resistance. Sensitivity is resistance.

Don't just touch grass because the internet is toxic and out of touch. Do it because they are actively trying to take your connection to the land away because doing so makes you vulnerable, fearful, numb, disconnected, and easier to control.

not being productive or relaxing but a secret third thing

The crux of the anti trans movement is a war on bodily autonomy. They don't want you to have any agency over what you look like, how you dress, who you date, whether to have kids, etc.

They want total control over you. Not just trans people. Not just queer people. You. Everyone.

Trans people are just a scapegoat. They want total control over everyone's self expression. They want the right to mold you into their perfect little cog in their dehumanizing machine.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility. Our rights are your rights. Our destruction is your destruction.

More Democrats need to be like Sen Brian Schatz [D-HI]. Stand up. Have courage.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT] steps up.

Block. Everything.

Call your reps, tell them to GET THEIR ASSES ON BOARD.

Midterms are coming up.