Here are some diversified open-source syllabi and reading lists on race, gender, Kashmir, Palestine, caste, sexuality, colonialism and modernism, design and systems, feminism, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, data and tech, labour studies, African studies, disability studies, violence and it’s textures by some amazing educators and activists. Reblog, share and email [email protected] to include more in the list!

Decoloniszing Gender - khari jackson, Malcolm Shanks

Modernity and Coloniality - Ahmed Ansari

Design Thinking For Complex Systems- Ahmed Ansari

Feminist and Social Justice Studies- Dr. Alex Ketchum

Afrotectopia

Design + Anthropology - Shannon Mattern

“Shakespeare in the ‘Post'Colonies” -Amrita Dhar

At the Intersection of Critical Race and Disability Studies: A Bibliography - Amrita Dhar

Testimonials + local literature - Mountain Voices

Introduction to Critical Race Theory for 2017- Adrienne Keene

Mini Courses on Art and Culture - Asia Art Archive

Sound and Violence, Sound as Violence - Pedro Oliveira

Violence - Pedro Oliveira

Border thinking and Border as culture - Pedro Oliveira

Introduction to decolonial thinking and decolonising methodologies -Pedro Oliveira

The Kashmir Syllabus - Stand With Kashmir

Palestine Reading List - Danah Abdulla

A Bibliography of Caste Readings - Jyothi James

Decolonizing the Malabari Mind - Jyothi James

Labour and Tech Reading List - Alexandra Mateescu and Eve Zelickson

Diversifying your Design Syllabus: Recommended Readings by Women, Non-binary, and Culturally Diverse Authors - Hillary Carey

Between Scarcity and Excess: Capitalism, Population Control and the Climate Crisis - Luiza Prado

Decolonising Science Reading List - Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Everyday Orientalism - Katherine Blouin, Usama Ali Gad, Rachel Mairs

Also s/o to @fegeleh for compiling this amazing repository of essays, articles and books.

mmmmm percy jackson :3

tagging @mysterious-starlight @schadenrude hehe

tagged by @sircarolyn to complete this dnd alignment quiz, and this picrew which is so incredibly emcore

tagging: @supercantaloupe, @infinitelytheheartexpands, @polaraaace, @malusienki, and anyone else who wants to join in!

I’ve said this before but. if you’re dyadic you really do not need to bring up genital mutilation every time someone raises a different intersex issue. I understand that it’s one of the more drastic and shocking forms of intersexism, but those of us with medical trauma do not need it to be brought up when we’re talking about non-medical intersexism. please

The evacuation prep poster is done! This poster is designed primarily with wildfires in mind, but the tips can apply to preparing for any much any disaster.

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Evacuation Prep:

As the world changes, it is important to be prepared to safely and efficiently evacuate your home, potentially with little or no warning. Preparing ahead of time can help to reduce stress and anxiety, and help you evacuate safely if the time comes.

Red Level (No Warning): People | Pets | Keys. Human life matters most. If you can’t rescue your pets, let them out to give them their best chance. If evacuating by car, don’t forget your keys.

Orange Level (Less Than an Hour): Crucial Meds | Important Papers | Money | Paper Map | Pet Vaccination Records. Crucial meds and medical equipment. Papers including passports, birth certificates, medical records, etc.. Multiple forms of payment. Paper map with marked evac routes in case of signal loss. Phone. Most evac centers require vaccine records for pets to be allowed in.

Yellow Level (More Than an Hour): Photos | Hard Drives | Computers | Chargers | Irreplaceable Items | OTC Meds | Pet Supplies | Pet Food | Clothes | Weather Gear. Family photos. Hard drives and computers. Make digital backups ahead of time. Charging cords. Irreplaceable items such as collectibles and mementos. Over the counter medical supplies such as Aspirin and tampons. Pet supplies such as bowls, crates, toys, and litter. Pet food and treats. Clothes. If you are running out of time grab your laundry basket. Weather gear if needed.

Green Level (General Preparedness): Food | Water | Radio | N95 Masks | Multitool | Power Pack | Gas | Stove + Fuel | Flashlight | Toiletries | Emergency Contact Info | Bedding | First Aid | Can Opener. Easy prep, shelf-stable food. Water. Battery powered/rechargeable NOAA weather radio. N95 masks for smoke. A multitool. Rechargeable power pack for phones. Keep your car at least partially fueled at all times. Portable stove and fuel for cooking food without power. Flashlight and spare batteries. Toiletries including hair products, toothbrush and paste, etc.. Emergency contact info for friends and loved ones. Spare pillows and blankets. Dedicated first aid kit. Can opener.

Save yourself time and stress by preparing an evacuation bag ahead of time and keep it in an easy to access place. At the end of every season rotate out the perishable items within such as food, water, and medications. The more you can keep in the bag, the more time you’ll have to grab everything else. Remember, it is okay if you can’t do everything. Some preparation is better than no preparation.

If you are in the U.S.A. and experiencing disaster related anxiety call the Disaster Distress Hotline at 1-800-985-5990 for support and resources.

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Why will the trans community as a whole never actually learn about intersex history and intersex current issues? Why are we so heavily erased and stepped on and talked over even by yall? It's fucking exhausting living in a world that wants to crush you out of existence to the point that intersex people are why yall even have access to a lot of the procedures you do but then divide the world as cis vs trans, tme vs tma, masc vs femme, binary binary binary that we dont exist in, and never ever acknowledge that you are a perisex person participating in the erasure and oppression of intersex people. You are not immune to hurting us just bc you're trans. We are not a safe or privileged group over trans people. Yall won't even acknowledge us, how do you think mainstream society treats us? The same as it treats you! But it doesn't matter AT ALL to literally the majority of you! Why! Lmfao!!! I feel so fuckjng insane every day bc of this!

been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will

THE TRANSSEXUAL

You see, I was born into an ASL-speaking family. ASL was the first language that I spoke. But I could never make ASL poems. This had grieved me for years. Why was I able to write poems in English, my second language, which I had learned much later, and not in my native language? It turns out that the reason was simple: ASL may have been my first language but it wasn’t truly my native language, and it could never be, because I was DeafBlind. It told me a great deal that I began to compose poems in Protactile. It may be, technically, my third language, but it is my native language. Your native language, it turns out, doesn’t have to be the first one you absorbed. Isn’t that wonderful? Your native language is the one that goes deepest.

--John Lee Clark, DeafBlind poet and author of How to Communicate, from an interview with Rachel Kolb

normalise disabled eyes. normalise crossed eyes, normalise lazy eyes, normalise nystagmus, normalise how disabled eyes look and move. stop being shitty to vision impaired people and others with eye conditions about our fucking eyes. our eyes tell you fuck all about how "smart" we are (stop being intellectually ableist anyway), they don't tell you if we're listening, they just tell you that we have an eye condition.

(OA) my hair got greedy and robbed my eyes at gunpoint

@ other blind/VI people, why are you blind? wrong answers only

Going to start saying "flying into a sighted rage " whenever I get angry now

You should draw that girl with missing teeth. You should draw that girl with a crooked nose. You should draw that girl with a double chin. You should draw that girl with fat on her body. You should draw that girl with a buzz cut. You should draw that girl with large eyebrows. You should draw that girl with a lazy eye. You should draw that girl with large nostrils. You should draw that girl smiling with gums. You should draw that girl with body hair. It's enrichment for her, treat her right

I see a lot of people questioning why blind people with borderline-mild hearing loss or deaf people with borderline-mild vision loss are considered deafblind and I want to give my perspective on that. I have severe vision loss and mild hearing loss - I'm not deaf (yet!) but I am deafblind and that is because of the way hearing and vision loss intersect. The effects of vision or hearing loss are very very exaggerated if you already have one or the other. It can be very hard to relate to our own communities and cultures when so much of them have an emphasis on being able to hear or see well in the absence of a sense . Mild vision loss can severely impair a deaf person's ability to communicate and mild hearing loss can severely impair a blind person's ability to get around safely among other things. Being able to make out small details or having good directional hearing may not matter that much in someone that is otherwise hearing/ sighted, but it matters a heck of a lot more when you're not. Many deafblind people go through so much grief over feeling like we don't exactly fit into the deaf, hearing, blind *or* sighted communities but we also feel like our vision/ hearing isn't "bad enough " to be deafblind. The truth is that any amount of sensory loss is "bad enough ", and our struggles are valid. If you have vision and hearing loss you do not need permission to call yourself deafblind (which is something I still have to remind myself of haha). I would like hearing blind/low vision people and sighted deaf/hard of hearing people to understand that we may have a different relationship to our blindness/ deafness than you , but we are still important parts of the community and we are worth accommodating.

me every time people only ever mention mobility aids when they talk about visible disability. me when people seem to think having a mobility aid is the only way you can be visibly disabled, somehow! me when i wish i saw more acceptance for people whose disabilities show in their faces and bodies. me when everyone forgets about congenital neuromuscular disorders and chromosomal disorders and spine conditions and growth hormone disorders

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yes using medical devices and aids make you visibly disabled, it is a visible disability, but also my face is lop sided and i am cross eyed hollow cheeks sunken eyes blah blah blah what about people with facial and limb differences what about people with scoliosis kyphosis lordosis, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, down syndrome, turner syndrome, noonan syndrome, conditions that affect growth hormones, what about people with amblyopia, strabismus, bell's palsy, people with atrophied muscles. hypotonia. hypertonia. dystonia

are attractive, clean people who use mobility aids the only visibly disabled people you can think of? are mobility aid users who get told "but you're too pretty to be disabled" the only visibly disabled people you can accept and include and support?

people who use mobility aids but have no other signs of visible disability are still visibly disabled. i just want some fucking acknowledgement and support for the fact that there are a lot of people who, even though they don't even use an aid, are immediately recognized as disabled by the way their face and eyes look, the way their body moves, the way they talk and laugh and swallow, people who are always with carers because they can't be overachieving accomplished and independent, people with moderate or severe congenital disabilities who have intellectual and/or developmental disabilities, who are excluded and ostracized EVEN FROM DISABILITY COMMUNITIES because of it.

if you, as a disabled person, are ever told you are an "inconvenience" in the process of trying to assert your rights, you are not being an inconvenience, you are being oppressed. fight

is there a name for the prejudice that is the reason for both intersexism/phobia and transphobia? like the idea of only 2 sexes, sex = gender, cannot ever be wrong or changed