i dont know what trans girl needs to hear this but i like you better as a girl <3 im so glad you're a girl. it makes you cuter and prettier and cooler for you to be a girl, actually.
thinking about how much the world doesn't want us to be girls and how easy it is to internalize that.
anyway yeah i think its soooo cute and fun and GOOD for you to be a girl!!! youre not alone in wanting you to be a girl <3
โ Kiera Lyons, โThe Neurodiversity Paradigm and Abolition of Psychiatric Incarcerationโ (2023)
TL;DR it restricts our right to hold them accountable and get justice for illegal things they do.
California just made them pay for sexual harassment and hiring discriminationย through a class action suit. A lot of women who were affected (myself included) could only be compensated for damages because it was class action and California initiated it. I can't afford private arbitration or would even know where to begin with that.
I was hopeful that with all their cute skins lately that they were finally recognizing and centering the women who play their games, but as usual with companies, it's all marketing. They still do things like this to silence any people they'll exploit in the future.
So heads up - if you agree to this, you waive your right to benefit from a class action settlement for something Riot does that violates laws and impacts you. (Plus - content creators beware, if you agree to this: Riot will have the right to use your Riot games-related content whenever and however they want without notice or compensation. They don't normally have this right.)
Classic company L. I've been playing Valorant for 4 years and now I have to refuse this. Just not play until this changes.
you're all absolutely valid.
don't ever feel like you're "not nonbinary enough" because you absolutely are! ๐
We live today in a world of silence, a heavy silence that is slowly killing us. I see my younger siblings, their ages ranging from 3 to 7 years old, passing by with innocent eyes filled with questions I cannot answer. They hide behind me when they see a stranger, afraid of the unknown. My mother, who suffers from chronic illnesses, cannot even stand without help. She has not found anyone to extend a hand, and each time her condition worsens, I feel helpless.
My father, who was once a symbol of strength, is now a shadow of a man, broken and unable to bear the burdens after losing everything. He worked his whole life to provide us with a decent life, but today, we have nothing but rubble and the camps we move between, with memories that grow darker each day.
What I ask for is not money, nor material help, but something simpler. I just want someone to feel our existence, to remember us with even a word, a small gesture that revives hope in us that we are still a part of this world. Our messages are met with silence, as if we no longer exist, as if we are no longer part of life.
Every day, we live in the shadow of devastation, inside a room in a school that has turned into a shelter, its walls insufficient to provide privacy and fresh air to breathe life into us. We now share this space with other families, each carrying their own pain and worries. As for the children, they do not know what it means to have a home, nor do they understand what loss is. Whenever they look at my mother, they run to her, asking her to tell them a story about the future, not realizing that all my mother has left to tell them is sorrow.
Friends, our pain is not in the loss of things, but in the loss of existence, in becoming unheard. Sometimes, I stop to wonder: Are we still alive? Are we still part of this world? Our messages are met with silence, and our dreams have faded along with the ruins of the homes that no longer exist.
I no longer ask for anything except for someone to feel our presence, to ask about us, to remember us, even with a word. If our words touch your hearts, all we need is for you to share with us, to show the world that we are still here.
We ask for nothing except for you to raise our voices, to bring hope back to us, and to be a part of our story that we are trying to write with our trembling hands and souls still holding on to a thread of hope.
If you help spread our story, you will be giving us hope to survive, hope for life amidst all this destruction. Weโre not asking for more than to be remembered, to be reminded that weโre still here.
Thank you for your attention, and for being the hope that could bring us back to life.
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many such cases
this tweet has the same effect on me as like a sylvia plath quote
zutara week 2024 | #7 sweet
a lil adult zutara doodle to end the week (using this lovely chibi pose from @snuffysbox)
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I was nervous because this week has been my first time posting in years, but this community is so welcoming that now idek what I was worried about :) love to see everyone's art and headcannons, thanks for keeping the ship alive ๐
Coca-Cola (and Dixie Cup) pioneered the recycling movement in the 40โs to get people to return valuable glass bottles by charging almost half of the cost of the drink in a returnable fee. Nearly everyone returned their bottles; it was a huge success. When they switched to plastic in the 50โs it became more profitable to just toss bottles away so they used shell organizations to secretly lobby congress and senates to kill recycling bills while simultaneously creating massive ad campaigns to convince the public that recycling was all the consumerโs responsibility. This isnโt a conspiracy theory, itโs public knowledge that gets drowned out in the noise made by their PR firms.
Last year Coca-Cola was still up to the same environmental villainry. More recycling advertising campaigns and killed bottle-fee bills which have been long proven to massively boost recycling rates but also push the cost of recycling from the consumer onto the manufacturer. Thatโs also detailed in the previous link.
Donโt ever make the mistake of thinking that large corporations care about this world or anything in it other than profit. Theyโll engage in charity as an investment if the campaign offers good return for their brand value and public image, but donโt think for a second we can get capitalists to behave ethically through any other means than forcing them to do it.
