Let me put yall on something real quick! This app lets you scan and search products to see if they are on the BDS boycott list or not!
This is what it looks like in the app store.
When you open the app you will be given this screen where you can search for brands and products.
After scanning the barcode or searching for a brand you will be shown one of two popups.
The app will tell you if the product or brand is part of the boycott. For this example I used Kraft and Snyder's.
The app also has a link to donate directly to Palestinian organizations at the bottom of these screens as well as further information about the BDS Boycott.
Please share this resource and use it to double check any purchases.
I know many of us are taking part in a massive strike and are trying to stop/limit spending as much as possible, but this is a great resource to double check where the money you spend on necessities goes.
I want to show off a project I did for my tech class. Basically we just had to make a spinning display so I decided to feature Michael and Helen from The Magnus Archives!
I’m probably only going to be active again when I get on summer break, which is about 2 weeks time
new kinds of homophobia/transphobia to add to your worldbuilding:
if you want your fictional society is to be less just world, but in new ways.
Sexist society that believes men are better; thus, views transmen as extremely valid, as unlike women, they have seen the light.
Gay men are honored, as with polygamy there is a continual shortage of women, and gay men means more women to go around. Lesbianism is seen as just something wives do sometimes. Transwomen are controversial because, on one hand, more women, but, on the other, some people suspect it is a scheme by fathers to have more daughters to get a bride price for.
Lesbians are controversial but only because they are seen as appropriating Amazonian culture. If you are over 6ft tall and strong, then it is okay.
Gay men are seen as too manly. That they are somehow stealing the manliness from the straight men. If woman are around them, they will somehow turn into men.
Society that "solved sexism" by dividing the world into short people and tall people and then assigning the short people to the former women's roles, and the tall people, to the men's. Now people are homophobic about two short people getting married.
people are afraid of people born in the same country as them. i.e. the opposite of xenophobia. This is homophobia. (this is what I thought homophobia was when I first saw the word)
people assume that men are gay because they have never seen a women before. People react very sympathetically to a gay man coming out because they assume it means they were locked away from society as a child.
sexist society loves trans-women because it means one less man vying political power.