“I teach a class called ‘Decolonize Your Diet,’ and I talk about the Spaniards arriving in Mesoamerica. One of the first things they tried to change—in addition to religion— was the way people ate. They introduced wheat and tried to make eating bread something that was seen as more valuable than eating corn. They outlawed amaranth, and in South America they outlawed quinoa. I tell my students to think about how the dominant powers are invested in controlling what their subjects eat, and then to take that concept from the 1500s to our contemporary era and ask themselves, ‘What are the powers that be wanting us to eat right now? Where are all the food subsidies going? How is that influencing what we’re eating? Who’s benefiting and who’s suffering because of that?’ For students, drawing those connections is really powerful, and it gives them a tangible way to analyze relations of power.”
the distinction between “crafts” and “fine art” is probably driven by misogyny and the devaluation of women’s labor
art forms that have traditionally been practiced by women like embroidery are devalued and called just “crafts” while art forms that women historically were mostly barred from (painting, sculpture) are “fine art”
can confirm!! i work at a craft store & the sheer number of women i’ve met who devalue the incredible creations they’ve made (ex: beautiful elaborate needlepoint that took years to do, or a massive art quilt) & call them “just a little craft” is wild. crafts are art. 100% fuck anyone who says otherwise.
embroidery is art. knitting is art. crocheting is art. sewing is art. fashion is art. china painting is art. doll-making is art.
(I bring up doll-making because it’s close to my heart and historically it’s a field where male company owners have taken credit for the work of female artists)
Knitting is art and I do not get when people devalue it. Shit is hard af and women that have been knitting for decades still go into yarn shop asking for guidance. That’s not a casual craft.
Once the talk of conspiracy theorists — the rich ingesting the blood of the young to foster longevity — is now a reality and an actual business in the United States. Not only is it a business but billionaires are actually admitting their interest in it. Now, even the mainstream media is reporting it.
Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal and adviser to Donald Trump told Inc. magazine:
“I’m looking into parabiosis stuff, which I think is really interesting. This is where they did the young blood into older mice and they found that had a massive rejuvenating effect. I think there are a lot of these things that have been strangely under-explored.”
As Vanity Fair reports, Ambrosia, which buys its blood from blood banks, now has about 100 paying customers. Some are Silicon Valley technologists, like Thiel, though Karmazin stressed that tech types aren’t Ambrosia’s only clients and that anyone over 35 is eligible for its transfusions.
Aside from the gruesome historical and occult background of such practices, there is literally NO DATA that suggests the process even works.
“There‘s just no clinical evidence [that the treatment will be beneficial], and you‘re basically abusing people‘s trust and the public excitement around this,” Stanford University neuroscientist Tony Wyss-Coray, who conducted a 2014 study of young blood plasma in mice, told Science magazinelast summer, as reported by Vanity Fair.
my teeth were smashed out in a transphobic assault and i’m so ridiculously close to being able to get a heavy piece of dental work done, i’m only about 375 dollars away from being able to make an appointment that’s going to give me more than one tooth that i can actually chew with and eating won’t be nearly as much of an agonizing struggle, if anyone can contribute anything it would be so fucking incredible, if multiple throw in five or ten bucks i’ll be there in no time and can schedule the appointment, please please please if anyone can contribute it will be appreciated so much and i will be grateful beyond words 🖤
and i have a venmo and cashapp, both of those are LyrafromtheInternet, again i’m so fucking grateful for any help with this, i’m working full-time and i have medicaid but i’m just not able to afford it myself with my pay and my insurance will only cover extractions right now which will only hurt me at this point and leave me without the few teeth i have to be able to chew with. begging sucks, but i’m fucking desperate and hopeful. thank you 💜
just 325 to go!!!
250 away!!!!!!!
225 to go, if anyone is feeling in the christmas spirit i might be able to get this done shortly after the new year!!
Let’s be real. If little girls’ knees, shoulders, and clavicles are a problem for male teachers, you don’t have a dress code issue. You have a pedophile issue.
