tomasortega:

kayytx:

it doesn’t matter how old you are or what your sexuality is, everyone thirsts over robert downey jr.’s ass and that’s just how life is meant to be lived.

corazonyflores:

tuulinokameramblings:

dearnonnatives:

Spent the night emailing Elementary schools because I’m tired of this.

I’ll never forget the conversation I had with my niece when her kindergarten class said they were having a “powwow” to learn about Native Americans. She was so excited, thinking it was the same powwow she knew, so she put on her mocs and waited in excited anticipation for her favorite jingle dress dancers. When I spoke to her after, the sadness and disappointment in her voice as she described shitty craft stations and making paper feather headbands broke my heart into a thousand tiny pieces.

This was in 2017.

I really had high hopes that people would get their shit together and stop doing this in time to not traumatize the generation after me, but uh, turns out, nah.

I am a Mexican Native living in the area the the Lumbee and Coharie live. When I was a school teacher back in 04-07 the curriculum I had to teach at the private “chr*stian” school I was teaching at. Had teachers teaching that Natives no longer exsisted and we moved from our own land willingly. I ofc refused since out of a class of 20 16 of my kids were Native. So I junked that crap and used that day to invite parents and the kids if they cwlt comfortable. To share their culture,traditional wear and even regalia. I was written up all 3 times and was fired for my “inability to stick to school a sanctioned circulum and makeing a spectical of myself in Indian clothes.” I wore a simple Huipil and Tehuana with Chinantec to wear while it was my turn. Nothing grandiose or over the top. But yeah American schools are shit.

formergod:

dizzy-redhead:

catrinasl:

dresupi:

I spent Monday night and part of yesterday in the hospital.  Still not entirely sure what the cause was, but the doctor said it was bad vertigo. I had all the scans and such, so we know it isn’t a tumor, but that’s all we know.

I was so sick on Monday, I threw up so much I burst a blood vessel in my eye.  :/. I fell down in the shower after assuring the nurse I wouldn’t fall down in the shower, and now I have a huge bruise on my thigh and a bigger one to my ego.  I’m still dizzy and nauseated and until I can get those things under control, I can’t do stuff alone.  It’s a stupidly hard lesson to learn, unfortunately. 

And Andre’s had to miss a lot of work. Gonna have to miss more before this is over, I’m afraid.  And it’s because of that, that I’m asking for help again. He won’t lose his job because of the time lost, because we’ve got well-documented doctor’s visits and such, but he’s not getting paid for days he’s not at work.

I hate doing it, because I know that I won’t be able to repay any of the help any time soon. It’s hard to sit upright, so I can’t really write anything until the dizziness/vertigo clears up.

But if you have anything to spare, we would again be truly grateful. 

He’s already lost about $300 of income due to having to stay home/at the hospital with me.  And it’s $300 we unfortunately need desperately, especially with all these copays. 

Anyway, thank you so much if you’re able to help (even reblogging is helping) ❤

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Dresupi’s health issues are continuing, y’all. If you can help her family, please do so.

theinfiniteofthought:

imperiumsinefine:

animedads:

folks, I’m just gonna say it. I don’t think it rains for long enough periods of time. it rains hard, it sounds good, I’m comfortable inside, but within 5 minutes the jig is up. the dream is over. I think it should rain for longer periods of time than it presently does

comedownstairsandsayhello:

yidquotes:

To put it plainly, Jewish law allows for abortion. For the first 40 days of gestation, a fetus is considered “mere fluid” (Talmud Yevamot 69b), and the fetus is regarded as part of the mother for the duration of the pregnancy. It is not considered to have the status of personhood until birth; the Mishnah (Ohalot 7:6) teaches that if the mother’s life is in danger from the pregnancy, even in labor, the fetus may be sacrificed to save her life, unless the baby’s head has already emerged. Only then, according to Rashi (Talmud Sanhedrin 72b), is the fetus or baby considered to be a nefesh, a soul. Elsewhere, the Mishnah (Arachin 1:4) teaches that “If a [pregnant] woman is about to be executed, they do not wait for her until she gives birth. But if she had already sat on the birthstool, they wait for her until she gives birth.” Birth, not gestation, is the critical marker, here.

This body of literature, needless to say, comes in stark and striking contrast to arguments that life—and personhood—begins at conception.

Interestingly, many Christian communities derive their prooftexts against permitting abortion from the Hebrew Bible, like verses about God forming humans in the womb (Psalm 139:13, Jeremiah 1:5, Isaiah 44:24)—texts which don’t even register in the Jewish legal conversation on this topic. To put it simply, we don’t derive matters of Jewish law from Psalms. – Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

I’d like to point out too, since that thing about executing a pregnant woman sounds pretty brutal, that Jewish law places EXTREME limitations on the death penalty. The burden of proof is much higher than in many cases— you’d need 23 judges and two witnesses who could demonstrate that the defendant was explicitly warned that what they were doing was a capital offense, and proceeded anyway. If the verdict was too fast or was unanimous, it’d be taken as a sign of bias and they’d automatically acquit. The rabbis said that a court that executes more than one person in a generation would be considered a gang of murderers. Rabbis Akiva and Tarfon boasted that they if they had been on the court, being brilliant legal scholars, they could have found a way to acquit anyone.

tl;dr Judaism is really and truly pro-life in the sense of actually valuing life