Wait What's A Buildings Fire Evacuation Plan If You Aren't Supposed To Use The Elevator To Get Down

Wait what's a buildings fire evacuation plan if you aren't supposed to use the elevator to get down

When I was younger and more abled, I was so fucking on board with the fantasy genre’s subversion of traditional femininity. We weren’t just fainting maidens locked up in towers; we could do anything men could do, be as strong or as physical or as violent. I got into western martial arts and learned to fight with a rapier, fell in love with the longsword.

But since I’ve gotten too disabled to fight anymore, I… find myself coming back to that maiden in a tower. It’s that funny thing, where subverting femininity is powerful for the people who have always been forced into it… but for the people who have always been excluded, the powerful thing can be embracing it.

As I’m disabled, as I say to groups of friends, “I can’t walk that far,” as I’m in too much pain to keep partying, I find myself worrying: I’m boring, too quiet, too stationary, irrelevant. The message sent to the disabled is: You’re out of the narrative, you’re secondary, you’re a burden.

The remarkable thing about the maiden in her tower is not her immobility; it’s common for disabled people to be abandoned, set adrift, waiting at bus stops or watching out the windows, forgotten in institutions or stranded in our houses. The remarkable thing is that she’s like a beacon, turning her tower into a lighthouse; people want to come to her, she’s important, she inspires through her appearance and words and craftwork.  In medieval romances she gives gifts, write letters, sends messengers, and summons lovers; she plays chess, commissions ballads, composes music, commands knights. She is her household’s moral centre in a castle under siege. She is a castle unto herself, and the integrity of her body matters.

That can be so revolutionary to those of us stuck in our towers who fall prey to thinking: Nobody would want to visit; nobody would want to listen; nobody would want to stay.

Tiktok by oodhamboiii(they/he)

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A masculine person wearing a teal shirt with pictures on the front sits in a tan room with a picture behind him and a door to his right. He is Native-American with long brown un-braided hair. His hair is split evenly and sits on his chest. He has a mustache and a short beard.

Their facial expression is upset, and they sit close to the camera. Above them are the following words:

"In 4 days, the United States Gov't will end protections against Indigenous youth."

And then, "The Indian Child Welfare Act(ICWA) prevents Native children from being stolen & forced into residential schools."

Followed by, "Opposition deems Native Americans growing up with their culture, "racist & unconstitutional."

Lastly, "Enacted for only 45 years, it has only taken 1 generation for it to be repealed."

The video ends after this statement is shown.

The video has Little Dark Age by MGMT playing. Lyrics heard in the video are "I know that if you hide, it doesn't go away/If you get out of bed and find me standing all alone/Open-eyed, burn the page, my little dark age"

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This video was posted 17 hours ago as of this reposting. That means that there is only 3 days. Support the indigenous community as they fight this.

#saveICWA

Since birds are basically dinosaurs...what about a t-rex or theropod pegasus?

this might be the best ask ever???

I like them.

~ Larn

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Happy Disability Pride Month. I fall in the blue category.

I know I already made a post about this. But ICWA is LITERALLY being challenged by a white couple that wants to adopt indigenous children to erase their culture and Christianize them. The tribe, whom has a say in who can take their children, is like "Nah, we don't want our youth Christianized like you tride last time"

And the lawyer that's helping the white couple try to overturn ICWA (so that they can erase the cultures of indigenous children) is doing it pro-bono (which means he's not charging the couple anything).

AND that lawyer is a big time lawyer whose clients are usually oil and gas industries. He's literally fighting for indigenous children to be ripped from their tribes and culture so there's less indigenous people to protest big oil destroying their sacred land.

-fae