another season

“Our house was small, and when you grow up with domestic violence in a confined space you learn to gauge, very precisely, the temperature of situations. I knew exactly when the shouting was done and a hand was about to be raised – I also knew exactly when to insert a small body between the fist and her face, a skill no child should ever have to learn. Curiously, I never felt fear for myself and he never struck me, an odd moral imposition that would not allow him to strike a child. The situation was barely tolerable: I witnessed terrible things, which I knew were wrong, but there was nowhere to go for help. Worse, there were those who condoned the abuse. I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, “She must have provoked him,” or, “Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.” They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.”

Patrick Stewart: the legacy of domestic violence

(Source: robotvoices)

fuckyeahtattoos:

This is the handmade brooch that my husband wore in our wedding. Done by Sammy Jo Jessie at Soul Stained Tattoos, Glasgow, KY.

newwavefeminism:

TW - fatphobia

What I find most hilarious about this campaign is that they’re justifying the fact that they’re taking pictures of sad looking children and super-imposing rude anti-fat statements on them with the mantra “stop sugarcoating” the issue of childhood obesity in Geogria

FIRST of all, who is actually sugarcoating anything? Have you been inside of a school? or anywhere in society? All we see everywhere we go is anti-fat sentiment. Subliminally in TV and posters everwhere, and literally through teasing and fat-shaming. But now we’re actually taking a bigger step at codifying and sending mass messages of literal fat-shaming because we don’t think overweight people “get it” enough.

but SECOND why this upsets me, and why all these type of ad campaigns bother me, is that these funds would be better spent actually providing low income communities with ACTUAL HEALTHIER OPTIONS. Ironically right before I ran across this shitty picture I was reading this short article: 3 reasons why the poor can’t eat healthy. We close the poor off of actual cheap and healthy food options and then send out hateful billboards when we notice obesity becoming a “problem”.

like, didn’t congress just classify pizza as a vegetable so some company that supplies schools food wont lose money? gtfo

This is what happens when people buy into the idea that people are just poor, in need & not healthy because of some pathological, cultural “we’s just ignant!” type of reason. No, if you want to actually make a difference start with acknowledging how we leave people without resources first before you talk down to people who are just trying to live life & survive…

nom-chompsky:

super-eklectic1:

alwaysaurora:

If they explained to you it means you asked.

Also, I am assuming that if immigrants do pick the vegetables I eat they aren’t being forced to do it, tortured and killed. Are they?

“if immigrants do pick the vegetables I eat they aren’t being forced to do it, tortured and killed. Are they?”

i pray that this is a legit question and not sarcasm. I really hope so….

seriously. jfc.

from the state department’s trafficking in persons report, 2011:

The United States is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor, debt bondage, document servitude, and sex trafficking. Trafficking occurs for commercial sexual exploitation in street prostitution, massage parlors, and brothels, and for labor in domestic service, agriculture, manufacturing, janitorial services, hotel services, hospitality industries, construction, health and elder care, and strip club dancing. Vulnerabilities are increasingly found in visa programs for legally documented students and temporary workers who typically fill labor needs in the hospitality, landscaping, construction, food service, and agricultural industries. There are allegations of domestic workers, foreign nationals on A-3 and G-5 visas, subjected to forced labor by foreign diplomatic or consular personnel posted to the United States. Combined federal and state human trafficking information indicates more sex trafficking than labor trafficking investigations and prosecutions, but law enforcement identified a comparatively higher number of labor trafficking victims as such cases uncovered recently have involved more victims. U.S. citizen victims, both adults and children, are predominantly found in sex trafficking; U.S. citizen child victims are often runaways, troubled, and homeless youth. Foreign victims are more often found in labor trafficking than sex trafficking. In 2010, the number of female foreign victims of labor trafficking served through victim services programs increased compared with 2009. The top countries of origin for foreign victims in FY 2010 were Thailand, India, Mexico, Philippines, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic.

There’s one for every country you get your veggies from, not just the US.

(Source: luckyduky)