[Image: A picture of a Black woman with some gray hair, seated, hands together holding a pen as she wipes her eye.]
Over a period of 45 years, North Carolina forcibly sterilized 7,600 people it deemed mentally or socially unfit. Now, 39 years since the state’s eugenics program ended in 1974, it will finally make reparations, with lawmakers earmarking $10…
LISTEN: IF YOU KNOW ANYONE IS IS A VICTIM OF B.C. EUGENICS OR WAS IMMEDIATELY EFFECTED BY IT THEN YOU NEED TO APPLY FOR THESE REPARATIONS.
YOU NEED TO APPLY
THERE IS AN INCREDIBLY SMALL AMOUNT OF APPLICANTS AND THE DEADLINE IS IN JUNE
my aromanticism is about abandoning the expectation that my love and care must some in a certain form. it’s about exploring all of the other possibilities. it’s about creating space and value for those.
my aromanticism is about centering friendships. it’s about building community. it about about redefining systems of care.
my aromanticism is anti-captialist. it’s about care not being limited. it’s about mutual aid. it’s about imagining new possible futures.
my aromanticism is about asserting to myself and the world that building a life and a world that cares for me and everyone else is possible
This guy said “Im 18, I’m old enough to buy a hooker” and I said “oh yikes” and this girl said “what? They have to make their money somehow” and I was like “sis if they HAVE to resort to that then it isn’t a choice” and everyone went off on me. Even my butch friend who id thought would agree with me like wtffff its been a day
One of the hardest lessons I’ve had to learn is never doubt the extent women will go to defend men. Female socialization is highly effective, and that makes it uncannily powerful.
“‘they have to make their money somehow’”… every time i heard rhetoric like that i think about this:
