I grew up outside of Osawatomie, Kansas, a town that has both the John Brown Museum and the Adair Cabin, and whose newspaper has had a Dedicated column about John Brown for over 40 years. The schools I went to was in Paola, Kansas, about 10 minutes from Osawatomie, and was a public school, and when I say public school, this is in nowhere Kansas, there were no Asian kids and only one black girl in the whole 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades.
John Brown was a villain according to my school, a horrible, murderous, monster who deserved to be hanged. I was taught to hate him.
Now, as a 21 year old college student, who has become much more aware of the political climate and how shitty America is, I have learned more about John Brown and other similar people. I now see how fucked up my education was until 5th grade, when I started homeschooling. Its crazy to me how a town so close to his home and that he had such a huge impact on hates him so.
TLDR: Public schools where John Brown lived taught me, and countless others to hate him, despite him being one of the good guys.
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Sorry for the text wall, I normally don’t post this kind of things, but I though it was interesting, and just wanted to get my thoughts down.
I’m serious when I say the United States is actively hostile to children. Constant school shootings our leaders refuse to do anything about. Child Protective Services that overwhelmingly do nothing of the sort. No healthcare. Our education system is abysmal. Very few areas in the public that are safe for children to be in. Large swaths of states making gender affirming care for trans kids a felony. Child marriages are legal in a lot of states. Treating kids like property parents have every right to do whatever they want to, to the point where the U.S. is one of the very few countries that refused to ratify the U.N.’s Convention On The Rights Of The Child explicitly on the basis that treating children like people erodes the rights of American parents. And now states are enacting laws that overturn child labor laws like it’s the goddamn Victorian Age. And even before those laws were made, it turns out that migrant children have been working in factories for a lot of companies, including the supposedly socially-minded Ben and Jerry’s.
As complicated as adult life is, I would never want to be a kid again, with no say or agency in my life and completely helpless to the whims of the adults around me.
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diversity win! the person who reblogged keeps confusing doctors because they have so many different symptoms of so many different types of shit, no doctors have any idea what’s wrong with them! :D
nothing can break the bond between a friend who loves spoilers and a friend who just watched an amazing show and needs to tell someone the entire plot from start to finish
alternatively: nothing can break the bond between a friend who doesnt read and a friend who just read an amazing book and needs to tell someone the entire plot from start to finish
still alternatively: nothing can break the bond between someone who has just finished listening to 48 episodes of a podcast that’s rocked their whole world and someone who is absolutely not going to listen to 48 episodes of that podcast
Hear me out: Cross Stitch, Knitting and Crochet are literally the PERFECT hobbies for autistic people. It’s got texture, instructions to follow, codes and symbols to learn, grids to match. It’s repetitive, it makes soothing little noises. A lot of special interests have related patterns so it’s a 2 for 1 deal. Good starting conversation topic if you are feeling social but also doubles as a reason to ask to be left alone. Shit slaps.
Crochet is all over fashion again this spring. Reminder that crochet cannot be done by machine, so someone had to make it by hand. There is literally no fast fashion brand that is paying a fair wage to the artisans who are doing that work, even taking local wages in other countries into account. And you can tell that by the pricing. I crochet faster than most people I know, and a jacket always takes me at least 20 hours. And dresses take 30-50. The smaller the yarn, the more hours it’ll take to make something.
There are tons of crocheters on Etsy setting their own prices. Check there before you shop Target or Express or any other place selling on a rack.
Mobility aids and sensory aids aren’t a “worst case scenario”
Stop acting like it’s a tragedy when someone starts using a cane or wheelchair, and stop acting like it’s someone admitting defeat if they need ear defenders or stim toys.
Aids are a good thing. They allow us to live better than we could before, and that’s something to celebrate, not demean and be doom and gloom about.
As someone who has recently been diagnosed with EDS, THIS
thinking about the adorably human behavior of just thousands upon thousands of swifties handmaking bracelets to give to and exchange with one another, with their favorite fandom inside jokes and lyrics and song titles and references, at every single show across multiple cities and states, from the very first show, and how now, at every show you see people of all ages sporting friendship bracelets that were made with the intention of simply being part of something pure. am i getting emotional about cheap bead bracelets? absolutely
like every bracelet you see on someone’s wrist at the shows was once being handmade on somebody’s bedroom floor 🥹 someone lovingly picked out the colors and words for every bracelet and thought “i can’t wait to give this to another fan at the show” everyone stand back i need a minute
