Compulsive blog-reader.I reblog things that I obviously like.
Mostly things about books, reading, fashion, music, writing, and art. Oh, and food. I really like food.....
This is happening now. This image has to reach the rest of the world. The Kayapo being expelled from their homes for the construction of the Belo Monte Dam, which will flood 400.000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil.
(via lord-kitschener)
People are more likely to cry at night because lack of sleep makes emotions harder to control.
Explanation of my life.
I’ve mentioned before that I had a miscarriage several years ago. Emotionally, the scars lasted for years and years. My poor sister, pregnant again after two recent miscarriages, is holding her breath, hoping that this pregnancy goes all the way to term. For someone hoping for a child, a miscarriage can be a devastating thing.
And now in Utah, un-fricking-believably, it can now be a criminal thing too.
Utah is not a state known for its legislative sanity. This, after all, is a state that recently made headlines for proposing to honor gun manufacturers on Martin Luther King Day and for considering the elimination of 12th grade to cut back on education spending.
Well, it just got a whole lot worse.
Utah just became the first state in the U.S. to criminalize miscarriage and punish women for having or seeking an illegal abortion. Utah’s “Criminal Miscarriage” law:
- expands the definition of illegal abortion to include miscarriages
- removes immunity protections for women who have or seek illegal abortions
- treats women as presumptive criminals and leaves them open to criminal prosecution
But even among states that punish illegal abortions, this “Criminal Miscarriage” law is unique. It not only punishes individuals who perform illegal procedures; it punishes women.
This legislation was prompted by the case of a 7 month pregnant 17 year old girl who paid a man $150 to beat her until it caused a miscarriage, but make no mistake, this is all about making it impossible to have an abortion, and controlling women through their reproductive options. But don’t write off that prosecuting women for miscarriages is some fantastical dystopian ravings of an ultra-liberal, think again:
So, after making it near impossible and mostly illegal for undocumented (and even documented) women to buy their own health insurance that covers abortions, after making it impossible to get free or reduced cost health insurance that covers abortions–the state of Utah feels it’s important to then criminalize women who don’t have “legal” abortions.
But…what is a “legal” abortion? Is getting advice on what herbs to take from a midwife “legal?” Is taking various medications that many Latinas can get from Mexico and other Latin American countries “legal?” Is a coat hanger “legal?”
Because there seems to be no definition of what equates “legal” written into this legislation, that means any woman anywhere who for whatever reason miscarries–will be subject to criminal charges. And lest you think that prosecutors have ever shown restraint when it comes to pressing criminal charges against women who are making their own *often times very LEGAL* choices about their bodies, please, surf around the National Advocates for Pregnant Women website for a while. This organization of lawyers that defend pregnant women from criminal prosecution, has worked to defend women who have done such things as being pregnant and addicted to various drugs to refusing c-sections to being “uppity” in the birthing room.
Unbelievable. The legislation is written so loosely that any district attorney could prosecute any woman for “reckless behavior” that results in losing a pregnancy. Drinking too much, maybe. How about not wearing a seatbelt? Or not taking pre-natal vitamins/getting pre-natal care? Where does it end? I gotta ask: when will we ever stop treating everyone else except rich, white men as second class citizens?
There goes the last shred of my ability to can
(via lord-kitschener)
Here’s my iTunes Sales/Spotify Stream record for the past year and a half.
I made $.70 on every song purchased.
I made $.002 on every song streamed. That’s a penny cut 5 ways.
Please buy music that you like listening to. It helps. So much. Independent artists (like myself) don’t see much from Spotify and other streaming sites. Don’t get me wrong, it’s great to have your music out there for people to listen to for free. Accessibility has it’s importance, but the purchase is where the artist can visibly see and understand that you value their music. If you love the music, buy the music.
On that note:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/claslan/id439403336
Bandcamp: http://claslan.bandcamp.com/album/claslan
Physical: http://www.claslan.com/Claslan/CLASLAN_MERCH_STORE.html
Thank you!
P.S. Thank you so much to everyone who has purchased my records! It means the world. Your support by coming to shows, buying the records, sharing with your friends…Every little interaction is the greatest encouragement to me. 2013 is gonna be a great year. More music/videos/live performances coming your way! And on behalf of all other independent artists, THANK YOU!!! (for like, the millionth time).
It’s very interesting to see this broken down and from a musician’s perspective.
(via yahighway)
As the Obama Administration continues to impose broader sanctions on Iran, the official focus is on how much less oil Iran is able to export. Yet the sanctions have done huge damage to civilian industry, including medicine.
With trade never all that easy for Iran since the Revolution, the nation manufactures most of its own medications. But while the US has nominally relaxed sanctions on medicine sales, the inability to pay for mass imports of completed drugs, and difficulty at importing the raw materials for the domestic plants, has caused major shortages.
Its terrifying for Iranians whose lives depend on drugs which may not be available much longer, while Iranian-Americans are doing their best to get the medicine in the US and import it directly to family back home.
That’s not so easy, as even though the US “exempts” medicines from their sanctions banking sanctions keep Iranians from buying them outright. Families in the US often struggle to find doctors willing to ignore the law and sell them medicine for a patient on the other side of the planet, who they’ve never seen and whose symptoms they can’t directly confirm. Individual shipments of prescriptions is far from an efficient way of doing things, but as a matter of life and death the process will continue so long as people can get away with it.
(via lord-kitschener)
![rebelion-silenciosa:
thisisrapeculture:
[TW: racism]
kodilaneracism:
That’s right! Put you energy in positive things instead of complaining about what you don’t like? Uhhh…
Let’s help spam his social networking sites:
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Tumblr
He likes to make comments like these and then delete them:
Kodi Lane is a racist, sexist, entitled harasser shit-bag who can’t take one iota of criticism of his “precious and prized” work because he’s just *that* special u guise. This is the childish and continuing response to being called out for making money off of a photo of yet another thin white woman in a cheap mockery of Native American regalia. This is the response you get from demanding humanity in the face of a nation overripe with colonialism. Turning the Native regalia of the survivors of genocide into fashion accessories promotes the fetishization, erasure and continual violence and sexual violence against Native people, wholeheartedly and completely, by reducing vast cultures into one homogenous stereotype.
This assface is still harassing and throwing a tantrum. Let’s no longer allow this type of transgression to go without consequences. Please check kodilaneracism for screengrabs and evidence, and please take this post as an opportunity to educate yourself on colonialism and Native genocide. (trigger warnings in the link for even more problematic bullshit.)
That is the fastest I’ve ever seen Tumblr take something down. Either way, the evidence is still here. We’ve kept it and we’re not the only one’s who’ve got it saved.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e12dd38ee64c9b35a3df5ce5a69a7f64/tumblr_mgfzqigSha1s32tbgo1_500.jpg)
[TW: racism]
Kodi Lane is a racist, sexist, entitled harasser shit-bag who can’t take one iota of criticism of his “precious and prized” work because he’s just *that* special u guise. This is the childish and continuing response to being called out for making money off of a photo of yet another thin white woman in a cheap mockery of Native American regalia. This is the response you get from demanding humanity in the face of a nation overripe with colonialism. Turning the Native regalia of the survivors of genocide into fashion accessories promotes the fetishization, erasure and continual violence and sexual violence against Native people, wholeheartedly and completely, by reducing vast cultures into one homogenous stereotype.
This assface is still harassing and throwing a tantrum. Let’s no longer allow this type of transgression to go without consequences. Please check kodilaneracism for screengrabs and evidence, and please take this post as an opportunity to educate yourself on colonialism and Native genocide. (trigger warnings in the link for even more problematic bullshit.)
That is the fastest I’ve ever seen Tumblr take something down. Either way, the evidence is still here. We’ve kept it and we’re not the only one’s who’ve got it saved.
(via stfuhatemongers)
