I haven’t yet seen a tumblr post with these resources so I am making my own and hoping it shows up in the tags. I ASK EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS TO PLEASE REBLOG THIS.
THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT (ICWA) IS UNDER ATTACK. AND WE NEED HELP TO PROTECT IT USING THE RESOURCES BELOW.
I am not going to go into heavy detail on the bill, on its history, anything like that, the resources have a lot of information, but as a little bit of background:
It is a bill passed that forbids Native children from being adopted by non-Native families. This is for a good fucking reason, there have been historically large scoops of children taken from their Native families, at a much higher rate than white children (see the 60s scoop in Canada). These children are often abused in these homes, and their entire culture is taken from them (many end up not even knowing what tribe/nation they came from), hence the point of why they were taken in the first place (forced assimilation). Now, this does still happen through the foster care system, but this has protected in the case of adoption. It makes it that only Native families can adopt Native children.
White people hate this and have been smearing it for years (think of the whole Lexi Choctaw/Alexandria P. situation, which was so fucked how they used that little girl). Now, the state governments of Texas, Louisiana, and Indiana have taken it to the Supreme Court to be ruled unconstitutional. This case is called Haaland v. Brackeen. Because white people … really want to steal Native children. This is being heard by the court, oral arguments start WEDNESDAY. ICWA could be overturned in the matter of weeks or even days.
PLEASE USE ALL OF THESE TO PROTECT ICWA:
Petition that will involve you sending messages to your Congressional leaders through their text automated system, only available to those in the US (BUT NOTE YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A CITIZEN, OR ELIGIBLE TO VOTE TO SIGN, JUST NEED TO BE IN THE US):
https://resist.bot/petitions/PCCPGW
Petition to send a message to President Biden and leaders at the Department of Justice, this does have a place to put in your country so seems like it may be available for those outside of the US but I am unsure (consider also donating to the Lakota People’s Law Project if you are able to):
https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/protect-icwa
Petition to be sent to the Attorney General and Secretary of the Department of the Interior, since it is through change.org it likely can be signed from outside of the US:
https://www.change.org/p/protect-the-indian-child-welfare-act
PLEASE SIGN AS MANY AS YOU ARE ABLE TO. PLEASE REBLOG IF YOU SEE THIS. PLEASE HELP US PROTECT ICWA.
thank you
What a lovely way to ring in SPOOKY MONTH (or shortly upcoming day, rather) and support an independent artist! And the comic itself is excellent; thank you so much for bringing us so much joy and a new reading tradition to enjoy each year, OP!
It’s that time of the year again! I have Scaredy Cat mini books on my website (heatherfranzen.com/shop)
Thank you to those who already ordered!!
Some TTRPG characters I've played:
The Masked Phantom, dhampir rogue
Grossk, lizardfolk fighter
Moxie Tripfoot, halfling waitress turned clerif of Tymora (the goddess of luck)
Jenny Bennet, human rogue consulting detective!
Ulara Berbisa, Yuan-ti cleric of Jazirian, the Totally-Not-Dead god of Couatls
Ryoko Musashi, tiefling assassin
Henry & Scooter, a halfling summoner and his eidolon (I reused a lot of elements of Henry's design for My Childhood Wonder Grew Up)
Junpei Den, the Crooked playbook from MOTW
Shaw Dreyfuss, a wayfarer/guardian/arcanist in Fabula Ultima (and also a big fish man with a shark for a head)
Sid, a black mage from Interstitial (a Kingdom Hearts-like PBtA game)
Also a bonus drawing of Tymora in the style of the gods I've drawn for Midgaheim:
I think Faerun's gods could use more stylized depictions than "a human with nice clothes," which seems to be what they usually get.
I wanna gauge actual interest since it is a lot of work. Reminder the price of each pattern & instructions would maybe be £2 ish. Definitely less than £5
Hi, everyone, I'm really hoping if any of my posts can blow up again it's this one.
Trans rights are getting worse and worse in the U. S.
Currently, several states are moving to completely ban trans healthcare for minors, limit trans healthcare for adults 26 and younger, ban public drag, place limitations on trans participation in sports, and a lot of other horrific shit.
My only other post that really blew up was about discourse, and so is this one.
I need you all to listen to me. Please.
We don't have a place for discourse right now.
Please, regardless of your stance on queer/LGBTQIA+ topics and the inter-community discourse, remember that we can't win anything divided.
That means, regardless of your view on that one controversial subset of the community, you need to work with us. That means regardless of your views on dysphoria, you need to work with us. We can't afford to get divided on the million different flavors of queer discourse running rampant through the community.
Those laws I mentioned earlier? Their endgame is to make trans existence illegal.
They will keep pushing the age for transitioning back further and further until it's basically inaccessible. They will make performative drag illegal, then all drag, and drag will include trans people in their eyes. They will keep going until we are forced to detransition and go into the closet.
This is really fucking scary and we need, above all else, to be a united community right now.
So please. Fucking please. Set aside your hot takes and discourse. We all live and die by what rights we can get in an allocishet society.
This means stand with each other. Stand with aces, with aros, with enbies, with pan people, poly people, stand with mspec gays and lesbians, stand with kinksters and furries too, because we have our differences but if we get caught up fighting each other then the people that want us all dead will take advantage of that distraction and criminalize us all.
Discourse is a fucking psyop and we need to wise up to it really, really fast.
Please boost this. And please don't argue with me on this post.
You can donate to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund for as little as $1.00.
There is a fee you can choose to apply to cover processing.
Which if you choose to do leaves you with a total of ~$1.35 (USD) depending on the type of card you have.
PCRF has a score of 97% on Charity Navigator.
Adults and children alike are currently dying in Palestine due to starvation. (World Health Organization Link)
The Gaza Strip is one of two places in the entire world that is categorized as Phase 5 (the highest phase) on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification scale.
Do you see that? Looks like a joke image, right? Well, it isn’t.
This happens in Venezuela. It looks like nobody knows how is our crisis, because I’ve talked with a lot of people (Americans, French, Canadian and even Mexican people) who really don’t know what is happening.
I’ll explain the imagen.
In Venezuela, we haven’t medicines, even in the hospitals. This is because a patient with hypoglycemia is being attended in this way, because the hospital don’t have dextrose for the people. This is happening in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. But not only in Caracas, is confirmed that in Maracaibo too, and who know where too.
Another cases:
“I take prednisone for animals because I can’t found it anywhere and it helps me, isn’t logic, but our health can’t wait”
“Confirmed, I’m medic performing in so many decadency. We even’t have privates places for dextrose for decompensated diabetics and believe me I could write for hours about so many that I’ve lived in the middle of this catastrophic crisis, where personally I’ve take with me a hurted pacient behind of a 350 because we haven’t ambulances, where we haven’t gloves for protect ourselves and a lot of things like that, this is the reality…. It must be give “ORALLY” because the drink is rich in glucose (Sugar) for these pacients this imagen showes [She means the soda imagen] how is conected to a micromanager where it doesn’t looks very good… But it’s valid by an OROGASTRIC probe. As a heroic way, becase like we know “It’s incorrect”.
I even can give my own testomony. My mom is sick, and she must work everyday, I can’t help her because my leg is broken, and my brother must help his own family. She’s in pain everyday, and the money is too hard to found. If there’s money, but there’s no medicine. And, if there’s medicine, there’s no money, because all the treatments are very expensive, like everything, for our inflation on the 1600%.
Please, help us.
Geemu (Do Not Play) is said to be the unofficial remake of a 00s browser horror game that was wiped off the face of the internet, achieving urban legend status. This is the first I hear of it, but I must say I'm rather persuaded. This was, after all, the heyday of the genre in Japan.
Fortunately, the development team at SCRAP has pledged to publish an English version on Steam.