the amount of times i’ve asked for help from doctors/psychologist/hospitals and been turned down is fucking ridiculous
and it happens every day to someone who can see they need help and is just trying to get it
health care system business doesn’t work unless you have time and money
two things of which people rarely have especially in times of crisis
We shall be back, and the lives of all the children of Salem will be mine!
I love the the term “witches”, because when you examine the history if its use it refers to women of power, both social and sexual, who challenged or upset patriarchal power systems, and thus were vilified and destroyed to maintain the status quo. I love reclaiming the term, because all I want to do is be a powerful woman who upsets patriarchal systems of power. I also love Hocus Pocus, and am fascinated by the way these “bad women” to whom we are first introduced in a historical context are reinterpreted in the modern setting of the majority of the movie.
There’s a lot here I still have to think about, but something that struck me recently was Winnie’s threat, and the very crux of what evil these women are wrecking: they aren’t just attacking the city, they are attacking the children, and in doing so going against the “biological imperative” of every woman: motherhood. Not only are they evil, they are un-motherly. They can’t just be bad to be scary; they have to be bad at being women. Classic witch-shaming.
Note 1: I know, I know, I missed the last two days. The way this works is that I’m allowed to miss or skip days, but for every day I miss I have to watch it once more on Halloween. So far we’re up to 3x. Wish me luck.
Note 2: What is going on with Kathy Najimy’s bustle in this picture idek.these posts have been really important to my mental health
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 1 cup raw sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Grease and flour a cookie tray.
- In a large bowl, mix all ingredients. Form the dough into small doughnuts and place on your cookie tray.
- Bake in preheated oven for 10 - 15 minutes.
A pdf I uncovered from the usual anthropologist rag: the Guardian about all the skills you can get as an anthropology graduate.
Choose anthropology!
BEIJING, China — As the rest of the world waxes nostalgic with tributes and accolades for Apple’s retiring CEO Steve Jobs, the factory workers in China who got sick while making Apple’s touchscreens remain unmoved.
Six months ago, factory workers in Suzhou poisoned two years ago by toxic chemicals at the factory wrote to Jobs directly, asking for his help in getting medical care and compensation for their illnesses and lost work time.
They never got an answer from Jobs. Two years after the chemical exposure and many months of medical treatment later, they still say they’ve never heard from anyone at Apple directly.
“Steve Jobs was indifferent to our poisoning and evaded his responsibility,” Jia said in a separate statement released by the Hong Kong labor group Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavoir (SACOM), which called on the new Apple CEO to address the situation.
“What kind of relationship you have is your choice, and one choice isn’t better than another. What’s important is that you make a choice. That even if you’re monogamous, vanilla, and heterosexual—you’re doing it because it’s what you want and because you and your partner have agreed to it, not because that’s what people do. What’s important isn’t what path you take, but that you know there are paths. Paths? Fuck, there’s an entire open world out there once you get past “man buys dinner, woman agrees to missionary PIV until he ejaculates. (Or rather, a world including “man buys dinner, woman agrees to missionary PIV until he ejaculates,” because, hey, if that’s your thing.) There’s a million goddamn ways to love, a billion things “partner” or “lover” or “fuckbuddy” or “spouse” can mean to you, and you get to decide.”—
