DIY self-watering seed starters from plastic bottles.
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We have a quantum shift in energy this week… it is about time! Venus shifts out of Aries and stops being so darned mean, bitchy and angry. She takes Saturn and Jupiter with her. The big guys gain clarity and calm down as they answer to Venus in Taurus, her favorite, kind, gentle, passionate and loving sign. Happy days are here again! Well almost. At least we aren’t going to want to eviscerate everything and everyone that irritates us. Venus in warrior mode IS a harsh energy. Having her responsible for other planets in the sky who like to sit on our head and make us behave or do stuff was tough. Over the last few weeks, the desire to eat comfort food and snuggle in our beds with the covers over our heads crying or feeling exhausted was amplified by Neptune’s entry into Pisces and Mercury in Pisces, ruling Mars the planet of taking action. Last week Mercury entered Aries with a bang. Now Mars is answering to an energy system that he is much happier and more productive in. You’ll find you have more energy and get up and go over the next few weeks as the energy shifts from Water to Fire.
Of interest is Mercury’s upcoming cha-cha-cha between water -fire – water –fire. Mercury entered his shadow, which means he passed the degree of his upcoming retrograde motion, on February 26, last Sunday. Your upcoming Mercury retrograde journey and the tasks before you was described by the events of last week. You will be doing this project until April 23 when Mercury passes the degree of his station at 6:49 Aries. However, there is a deeper message in the way the planets are rolling about in the heavens. Mercury is in charge of Mars. Mars is currently going retrograde, backwards to early November 2011′ s actions, decisions and ideas. Now Mercury is going to go retrograde himself and swap HIS AND MARS’ functional energy back and forth between Aries Pisces and Aries. While that swapping is going on Mars is going to stop and turn to go forward. Essentially that means the period between last week and April 23 is going to be full of double reverses and switch ups and tricks and turns.
so - making a good place to be; spending time with myself
Much of the [weekend’s] astrology is asking us, through squares and oppositions, to become conscious of when we tend to locate our personal ‘stuff’ in someone else or in a relationship, versus when we are clear that it is all ours – and that we can follow that ‘stuff’ to its roots in our lives. Even Juno, which is making a conjunction to the North Node in early Sagittarius, wants us to look at cause and effect in our relationships. Where do our jealousy and tendencies to control really come from? Are you able to see the ways in which they may be keeping you from connecting with your purpose in this life? Try asking yourself this weekend how much your focus on ‘fairness’ and your ‘place’ in relationships may be a distraction from finding your place in your own life.
What is cultural appropriation « The Long Way Home
O hai! I finally finished writing this! After starting it more than two years ago {facepalm}. There is more to come that I’ve worked on & researched. Hopefully responses to this won’t be so faily that I’m unmotivated to finish the rest.
Excerpt:
There are a number of issues around cultural appropriation which I see continuously bog down discussion. I think they revolve around some crucial issues undergirding the whole concept of cultural appropriation, so I think we need to “get back to basics” somewhat.
Before I go on, I’d like to acknowledge the work of Andrea Smith, particularly her article ‘Spiritual Appropriation as Sexual Violence’, printed in her book Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide as being very influential to my thinking about these issues.
I disagree with a lot of the common definitions of cultural appropriation around. Cultural appropriation isn’t simply the “taking or borrowing of some aspects of another culture from someone outside that culture”. Cultures throughout time have traded, adapted, and borrowed artefacts, symbols, technologies and narratives from one another. The issue isn’t the aesthetic and material mingling of cultures, hybridity, or that human creativity crosses cultural boundaries. Those are aesthetic and perhaps moral issues, separate from the real political issue of cultural appropriation.
A lot of the time cultural appropriation is also called ‘cultural theft’. But cultures aren’t tangible things that can only be possessed by one person. Culture is made up of shared ideas, skills, traditions, styles, images, that circulate through a particular society. Cultures are heterogeneous — people who are part of the same society can be part of different cultures, which influence each other — and they change over time.
The problem isn’t that cultures intermingle, it’s the terms on which they do so and the part that plays in the power relations between cultures. The problem isn’t “taking” or “borrowing”, the problem is racism, imperialism, white supremacy, and colonialism. The problem is how elements of culture get taken up in disempowering, unequal ways that deny oppressed people autonomy and dignity. Cultural appropriation only occurs in the context of the domination of one society over another, otherwise known as imperialism. Cultural appropriation is an act of domination, which is distinct from ‘borrowing’, syncretism, hybrid cultures, the cultures of assimilated/integrated populations, and the reappropriation of dominant cultures by oppressed peoples.
What’s being appropriated in *cultural appropriation* isn’t the things themselves — the images, stories, artefacts, themes, etc. — it’s the capacity of people of oppressed groups to determine the meaning, scope, usage, and future of those things. Cultural appropriation involves taking over peoples’ control over representations of themselves. Cultural appropriation is an attack on cultural autonomy and self-determination, backed up by historically constructed domination.
Look, it’s ardhra being awesome.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie @ Narratives for Europe - Stories that Matter (by labforculture)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks about European erasure of its colonial past
gosh she is marvellous
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He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you. We however, are being fed every day and every year. We say, “Down with imperialism!” yet we can’t ignore our bellies. Even though as revolutionaries we do not want our speech to reflect forms of domination, our stomachs are still there, pushing us to the right, onto the path of reaction and peaceful coexistence with the help of all those who oppress us by means of the grain they pour into the country. Let us consume only what we ourselves control!
Many people ask, “Where is imperialism?” Look at your plates when you eat. These imported grains of rice, corn, and millet—that is imperialism. You need look no further. So, comrades, we must organise to produce here at home and we can produce more than we need.
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He who does not feed you can demand nothing of you. We however, are being fed every day and every year. We say, “Down with imperialism!” yet we can’t ignore our bellies. Even though as revolutionaries we do not want our speech to reflect forms of domination, our stomachs are still there, pushing us to the right, onto the path of reaction and peaceful coexistence with the help of all those who oppress us by means of the grain they pour into the country. Let us consume only what we ourselves control!
Many people ask, “Where is imperialism?” Look at your plates when you eat. These imported grains of rice, corn, and millet—that is imperialism. You need look no further. So, comrades, we must organise to produce here at home and we can produce more than we need.
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Gentrification is when a neighborhood is considered to be getting better because it becomes dangerous for those who live there. The point of view shifts from the inhabitors to the invaders. It is a colonial paradigm.
content warning: description of rape and abuse
HEY! So this guy? That’s the person who kept fucking me after I said ‘no, please stop. You’re really hurting me. I mean it! Get off me!’ over and over until I faked coming just so he’d finish. That’s the guy who choked me until I nearly passed out on the side of the road, who hit me and threatened to hurt my mama, my pets. That guy wanted a free pass on any consequences, that guy was complicit in a laughable ‘accountability’ process.
His name is Nino Ormiston, and he went to high school in Brisbane. He’s previously studied at QUT, and currently works at Bunnings. I’m putting that there so any future employers,lovers or friends can find it through google.
I’m not the only woman he’s raped, I’m not the only lover he’s hit by his own admission. This has been going on for years, and each time he’s gotten away with it for various reasons.
I’m going to talk about it here and now because it’s the only power I have left. I can’t go to the pigs. I know lots of people who don’t like me very much read this, and follow me, and talk about me in the city I come from. So now talk about this.
If you’re friends with this guy, if your friends are his friends, if you want to date him - you can’t say you care about women, or consent, or domestic violence. You need to put on your big-girl knickers and have some real talk with yourself and others. There is no compromise on this shit. And I’m not gong to shut up about it. Ever.
this fucking guy also got her previous picture post about him taken down over copyright. so let’s reblog and help her out now.
spread this shit
This post is really fucking brave. If you rape someone, this public shaming is what you deserve. OP, you should consider making a Facebook page if you really want to Google bomb this guy.
reblogging while I can, don’t know if tumblr restored it. HERE WE GO AGAIN.
respect to the OP
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