Hey So Protip If You Have Abusive Parents And Need To Get Around The House As Quietly As Possible, Stay

hey so protip if you have abusive parents and need to get around the house as quietly as possible, stay close to furniture and other heavy stuff because the floor is settled there and it’s less likely to creak

The American Ballet Theatre is debuting its first same-sex pas de deux tonight, performed by Calvin Royal III and João Menegussi. A snippet of the performance has been circulating on TikTok (above), and it’s so beautiful, I was moved to tears. I tried to capture the tenderness of these thirty seconds in charcoal and pencil as best as I could. (Below.)

for autistic (and suspecting) adults

here are some resources on autism that have helped me since my diagnosis at 25(!!) years old. hope these help (:

General

Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN)

Welcome to the Autistic Community

Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism

Autistic Science Person

What is Autism?

Que es el Autismo? (What is Autism? For Spanish speakers)

Asperger’s vs Autism

Hans Asperger

Functioning Labels

The Problems with Functioning Labels

I am Joe’s Functioning Label

Why ABA is Harmful to Autistic People

But What About the Good ABA Therapists?

Autism Speaks (why NOT to support them)

Autism’s Race Problem

Autism and the Pathology Paradigm

Psycopathy: Racism and Ableism from the Medical-Industrial Complex

Use of the term “Differently Abled”

Autism and Gender

Autistic, Non-Speaking and Intelligent

Sensory

Sensory Processing Disorder (4 part series)

Interoception

Proprioception

How to Reduce Sensory Overload

Shutdowns

Shutdowns (2)

Meltdowns

Study on Senses in Autistic People

Audio Processing Disorder

Pain Sensitivity

Sensory Differences

Sensory Pain

Traits & Co-Ocurring Conditions

Inclusive List of Traits

Traits (2)

Revised Traits, by an Autistic Person

Executive Dysfunction (4 part series)

Body Language

Insomnia

Fatigue

Fatigue (2)

Fatigue (3)

Communication Differences

Anxiety

Autistic Strengths

Echolalia

Alexithymia

Alexithymia (2)

Autistic Talents

“Regression”

Prospopagnosia

Catastrophizing

Dissociation

Double Standard of Empathy

The Empathy Conundrum

The Benefit of Special Interests

Special Interests

Eye Contact

In Defense of Stimming

More in Defense of Stimming

Scripting

Professional/Self-Diagnosis

Quizzes

More Quizzes

Self-Diagnosis and the Issues with Formal Diagnosis

Issues in Accuracy and Speed of Formal Diagnosis

Difficulties Getting an Adult Diagnosis

Diagnosis in Adults

Adult Diagnosis (Pros and Cons, etc)

Getting a Diagnosis as an Adult

How to Start Pursuing an Diagnosis

The Evaluation Process

Misdiagnosis (pls ignore the unnecessary gendering)

An Article on Late Diagnosis

“Acting More Autistic” After Diagnosis

Adults Need an Easier Path to Diagnosis

Racial Disparities in Diagnosis and Treatment

Structural Racism and Autism

Traditional chinese craftsmanship for architecture and furniture 榫卯 sǔn mǎo 

The mortise and tenon technique does not use glues or nails and creates furniture that is usually very strong and durable. 

This is carpenter Grandpa Amu making a Luban stool out of a whole piece of wood using traditional chinese joinery technique 榫卯 sǔn mǎo.

Mark Ashton died on this day, the 11th of February, in 1987.

Mark was born on the 19th of May, 1960 in Oldham, but grew up in Portrush, Northern Ireland. He moved to London in 1978, where he worked in a bar in King’s Cross, in drag as a barmaid with a blonde beehive.

In the 1980s, he volunteered for London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard, campaigned for CND and joined the Communist Party, becoming the first gay secretary of the Young Communist League. Though Mark transformed the Party’s approach to LGBT rights, he and Mike Jackson, who he’d met through Switchboard, wanted to be active as openly gay people. They formed Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) when they collected donations for miners on strike at 1984 Gay Pride.

In the evening of 1984 Pride, a miner spoke at a rally, and they were struck by the similarities between the two struggle, of LGBT rights and the Miners’ Strike. Having collected about £150, they advertised a meeting in Capital Gay. 11 people turned up and from the meeting they made a leaflet to launch LGSM - the leaflet was accepted except with an amendment to ‘one in ten miners is gay.’

As LGSM, they supported the miners as lesbian and gay people. At the second meeting, they decided to focus on one community, of the Dulais Valley, as one of the members, Hugh Williams, was from there. They then met David (Dai) Donovan, who also had thought through the similarities of their struggles and how LGSM could help. A month later, 27 lesbians and gay men, arrived at Onllwyn village in Dulais Valley.

Other than some hostility (and confusion towards vegetarianism), they experienced warmth, friendship and solidarity. LGSM raised £20,000 for families of miners on strike, and based on The Sun writing that “a group of perverts” were “supporting the pits,” they organised the Pits and Perverts concert in December, 1984, headlined by Bronski Beat. The miners marched with LGSM at Gay Pride in 1985.

Mark was admitted to hospital on 30th January, 1987, and died 12 days later from pneumonia, aged 26. At his memorial, there were banners from the Communist Party, Anti-Apartheid, anti-nuclear, Caribbean and community groups, as well as from LGSM. The Mark Ashton Trust was created to support individuals diagnosed with Aids; Mark is also remembered on the UK Aids Memorial Quilt and by Terrence Higgins Trust, with the Mark Ashton Red Ribbon Fund and a plaque at their London headquarters. In 2017, on what would have been his 57th birthday, he was honoured with a blue plaque above Gay’s The Word bookshop.

[Images: 1. Mark Ashton at Gay Pride 1981. 2. Mark Ashton at Gay Pride 1985, wearing a LGSM t-shirt and holding a pink “Communist Party” banner with the words “pinko commie queers.” 3. Blue plaque reading: “Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners. Mark Ashton 1960-1987. Political and Community Activist. LGSM met at Gay’s the Word bookship on this site 1984/5.”]

This could be the most important post I’ve ever shared. Please Share it with anyone who is or might be going through this terrible disease.

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