Where Can I Donate Clothes That Won't Send Them To Sell Overseas?

Where can I donate clothes that won't send them to sell overseas?

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Can I talk about the ableism in LOK for a second? Korra doesn't character develop, she just gets broken over and over (like at the end of s3 where she ends up in a wheelchair) to "make her a nicer person" per the creators. It's really frustrating because I want to love Korrasami, and it's an important stepping stone for rep and many other wlw pairings in animation, but I just feel like the show hated its lead.

IT’S SO VILE! Korra is barely even an active character in her own show! She’s just a vessel that gets beaten and broken over and over again. She doesn’t actually get to LEARN from any mistakes that she makes, she’s just forced to recover from these external traumas that have literally nothing to do with her.

Ugh, tbh I feel NOTHING for korrasami. Korra and Asami don’t speak about anything except Mako for most of the show, and only really start actually TALKING to each other in the last half of season 4. None of Korra’s friends really spend that much time together throughout the runtime of the show tbh. 

But yeah, it’s frustrating that people tout LOK as this amazing show staring a queer WOC, but the people making the show HATED Korra and HATED developing her in a meaningful way.

tbh it takes a village

smeyer wrote the words. she stole the legends. it was her ideology that made it into print. but.

the publishers. senior editors. assistant editors. copyeditors. proofreaders. designers. production managers. literary agent. they ALL looked at these files and said “yep, looks great, steph.”

and this is what we mean when we say that white silence is complicity.

look, as an editor i’ve stumbled across some off-color stuff when working through an author’s files. i’ve changed language without telling anybody, without anybody noticing it in the final product. trust me, shit’s easy to get away with. & so the fact that not ONE person looked at NM & thought, “y’know what? i’m just gonna change this single word right here so we don’t describe leah as being ‘exotic’”,, the fact that not ONE person looked thru breaking dawn & thought, “hm, this internationally bestselling series probably shouldn’t describe the egyptian coven as ‘all looking the same,’” is unacceptable. but it’s a symptom.

stephenie meyer’s twilight is what happens when a person with ingrained racist beliefs writes a series.

twilight’s publication is what happens when a whole bunch of people see something racist and choose to do or say nothing.

twilight’s success is what happens when fans see something racist and ignore it for the sake of their own enjoyment.

my point is that at the end of the day, capitalists gonna capitalist. they go where the money goes. but your money does not have to go to smeyer’s midnight sun. check it out from the library. ”””look at””” a PDF online.

change starts with you, with us, & ends with everyone. vote with your dollars. they matter.

P.S. for those of you wondering, smeyer published her series with Little, Brown and Company, child company of Hachette Books.

Christians hate when a gay man goes “fuck it, I’ll gladly go to Hell if you want me to so bad” because it takes the edge away from their tools of fear. If they can’t scare you with threats of eternal damnation then one of their main weapons is taken away.

'Go away, Leah! I can take care of myself'

Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black

Booboo Stewart as Seth Clearwater

Julia Jones as Leah Clearwater

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)