Blue mountains by Mahin Fayaz
we need to protect him
His name is Kelvin Peña, and this is his website: www.everybodyeatsfoundation.org
He raises money for low income families to have enough food for holidays and their kids after school.
I spent 6 hours on this one day up at camp, when my ankle was hurting too much to walk >.<
Referenced from a photo I took in Italy in 2007.
“Why is it so important that the covering fire be provided by white French troops rather than North African and Middle Eastern ones? Those non-white faces I mentioned earlier – they were French troops scrabbling to board British boats to escape. The echoes of modern politics are easy to see in the British-first policy of the initial retreat that left French troops at the mercy of the Nazis. In reality, non-white troops were at the back of the queue for evacuation, and far more likely to be caught and murdered by Nazi soldiers than their white colleagues who were able to blend into the crowd.”
Anonymous asked:
Thank you for that sincere and empathetic response. I'm not sure what's going on here but I think it's alright to temper your response b/c these young girls are underage and still developing. Of course they didn't think it through, that's what being young is about. Thank goodness it ended safely. I hope that their parents or an adult they trust can talk them through it and help them understand why at 16, what they did, for a man they don't know, was not a good idea.
adultfansofonedirection answered:
right. I definitely don’t judge them too harshly because they’re young. that’s not to say young women are unintelligent but I don’t think that younger people are able to have perspective and see the consequences of their actions like someone older with more life experience.
Exploring your sexuality is an important part of growing up and young women should not be ashamed of their sexual urges and desires, but it does make them more vulnerable to predatory behavior (however anyone taking advantage of a young person would NOT be that young person’s fault regardless of what they were doing/wearing/saying etc that’s really important to remember).
anyway, this is long and rambling but I just want young women to know their worth and potential even when the world is constantly telling them otherwise.
We are appalled by President Trump’s tweets about banning transgender people from military service. There are an estimated 15,000 transgender people already working in the Department of Defense, putting their lives on the line to protect our nation and its values. Those values do not include the heartlessness exhibited by Mr. Trump this morning. Discrimination has no place in our government, in our workplaces, our schools, or anywhere else in our lives.
While it’s still unclear what the actual policy ramifications of these tweets will be, we recommend keeping up with (and, if you can, donating to) the ACLU and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund.
You can also directly tell the president how unacceptable his attack on American servicepersons is by using this form provided by the @transgenderfreedomproject.
We know there will be plenty of conversation about this on Tumblr in the coming days, and we urge you to take this moment to support and educate each other in whatever ways you can. And if you just need someone to talk to right now, there are people here to listen, 24 hours a day, seven days a week:
- Trans Lifeline: A crisis hotline by and for the transgender community. 877-565-8860
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- The Trevor Lifeline (@thetrevorproject): Confidential hotline for LGBTQ+ young people. 1-866-488-7386
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Broke af?
But still interested in feeding yourself?
What if I told you that there’s a person with a blog who had to feed both themselves and their young son…
on 10 British pounds ($15/14 Euro) per week?
Let me tell you a thing.
This individual (Jack Monroe) saved my life last year.
Actually saved my life.
I had a piggy bank full of change and that’s it.
Many people in my fandom might remember that dark time as when I had to hock my writing skills in exchange for donations.
I cried a lot then.
This is real talk, people:
I marked down exactly what I needed to buy,
totaled it,
counted out that exact change,
and then went to three different stores to buy what I needed
so I didn’t have to dump a load of change on just one person.
I was already embarrassed, but to feel people staring?
Utter shame suffused me.
The reasons behind that are another post all together.
AgirlcalledJack.com is run by a British person who was on benefits for years.
Things got desperate.
They had to find a way to feed themselves and their son using just the basics that could be found at the supermarket.
But the recipes they came up with are amazing.
You have to consider the differing costs of things between countries,
but if you just have three ingredients in your cupboard,
Jack Monroe will tell you what to do with it.
Check what you already have.
Chances are you have the basics of a filling meal already.
[link: Here’s their list of kitchen basics.]
[link: Bake your own bread. It’s easier than you think.]
Here’s a list of many recipes, each using some variation of just plain flour, yeast, some oil, maybe water or lemon juice.
And kneading bread is therapeutic.
[link: Make your own pasta]–gluten free.
[link: Monroe gets it. They really do.] This is the article that started it all.
It’s called “Hunger Hurts”.
[link: They have vegan recipes.]
Including a chocolate/beetroot cake.
Yum.
A carrot, a can of kidney beans, and some cumin [link: will get you a really filling soup]…
or [link: throw in some flour for binding and you’ve got yourself a burger.]
[link: Don’t have an oven or the stove isn’t available? They cover that in their Microwave Cooking section.]
They have a book, but many recipes can be found on their blog for free.
They price their recipes down to the cent,
and every year they participate in a project called “Living Below the Line”
where they have to live on 1 BP per day of food for five days.
Things improved for me a little, but their website is my go to.
I learned how to bake bread
(using my crockpot, but that was my own twist),
and I have a little cart full of things that saved me back then,
just in case I need them again.
Jack Monroe gives you the tools to feed yourself, for very little money, and that’s a fabulous feeling.
Tip:
Whenever you have a little extra money, buy a 10 dollar/pound/euro giftcard from your discount grocer.
Stash it.
That’s your super emergency money.
Make sure they don’t charge by the month for lack of use, though.
I don’t care if it sounds like an advertisement–
you won’t be buying anything from the site.
What I do care about is your mental, emotional, and physical health–
and dammit, food’s right in the center of that.
If you don’t need this now, pass it on to someone who does.
Pass it on anyway, because do you really know which of the people in your life is in need?
Which follower might be staring at their own piggy bank?
Trust me: someone out there needs to see this.
Edit Dec 30, 2015:
Tumblr finally gave me back the ability to edit posts, so here it is.
1. Jack recently came out as genderfluid and requests that the pronouns they/their/them be used, so this post has been edited to reflect that.
2. Their blog title has been changed to [link: http://cookingonabootstrap.com/]
[bold and caps removed and spaces and link clarity added for accessibility]
I second what was posted here. This person is the reason I was able to eat for most of last year.
-Mod Alaska
White feminists:
When you discuss the wage gap, here are a few things to keep in mind:
- Only white women make $0.77 to a man’s dollar.
- Black women make about $0.68 to a man’s dollar.
- Latina women make about $0.58 to a man’s dollar.
Intersectionality matters.
I will keep reblogging this to point out that disabled people, including men, make 22 cents on the dollar. Mostly because it is legal to pay us below minimum wage, but whatevs.
All facts.
If sex is so important to you that you don’t think you could be in a relationship with someone without it, that's… something to bring up before even getting involved with someone. Y'know, so the other person knows what they’re getting into. If you assume that sex is important to everyone’s relationships and end up dating someone who doesn’t want to have sex ever, that’s not your partner’s fault. They have every right to say no. You’re the one who walked into this with expectations and didn’t tell them what those were.
And before someone tells me people who don’t want sex should mention that too, that’s true! But typically, they do. They don’t make that a surprise. Unless they just didn’t know sex wasn’t for them and thought they’d like it if they just tried it, which they tend to hear from others. In which case, you can’t tell people something you don’t know. That’s not their fault. Likewise, if you think you can be in a relationship without sex and find that you can’t after you try it, that’s also not your fault nor is it theirs.
Basically, people with different needs shouldn’t hide said needs from each other if they plan to be in a relationship.
Straight culture normalises this idea that sex is just what everyone wants and needs, but also sex is icky and ew, why would you ever want to talk about your sexual needs or consent, you weirdo! You should just instinctively know what your partner wants and when they want it!
This isn’t just harmful to people with sex repulsion, it’s harmful to everyone. Sex is one of those things that’s kind of important to bring up. Just like whether or not you want children, for instance. I don’t understand why this is contraversial statement in any way.
