Storyteller By Trade

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argella1300
moniquill: “i-add-sources: “spontaneoussagittarius: “jisdu-tsalagi: “ datarep: “ Time Lapse of the Land Taken From Native Americans ” I will reblog this EVERY GODDAMN TIME so people can understand how the US government taking more and more land from...
datarep

Time Lapse of the Land Taken From Native Americans

via reddit

jisdu-tsalagi

I will reblog this EVERY GODDAMN TIME so people can understand how the US government taking more and more land from Natives is nothing new (even the land originally promised after being kicked off their original, sacred lands) and they NEED to be fucking stopped. They need to be held accountable for the destruction of our people not just then but also now.

spontaneoussagittarius

@i-add-sources do you know where we can read more about this? (Please and thank you!)

i-add-sources
Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the U.S. Took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans
This interactive map, produced by University of Georgia historian Claudio Saunt to accompany his new book West of the Revolution: An Uncommo
Slate Magazine

Article linked in the source reddit post :)

Also in turn links to the individual maps used.

This is true

moniquill

Fact: The greyed out east coat was also taken from indigenous people. It just happened earlier than this time lapse starts.

/Wampanoag

/The apocalypse happened in 1620

argella1300
jesncin

my high school english teacher would often critique our literature analysis work by pointing out: "you're treating these characters like they're real people. They're not. They're characters". And it took me a long time to understand what he meant by that. Because I always thought "isn't that the point? That writers want to write characters to be so three dimensional that they act and feel like real people?" but that's not it.

Characters are tools a writer uses in service of a story. Of course characters can be written with depth to the point they feel real to us, but they exist in service of their narrative. Something real people aren't beholden to at all. When discussing characters, I think it's easy to accidentally see these characters as "real people" and not extensions of the author's beliefs. Tools for a narrative. Means of storytelling.

allidrawscomics
alivehouse

monoculture forests are deeply unsettling in a way that is hard to explain to people who do not spend a lot of time looking at forests

alivehouse

A tree farm, in which many trees are evenly spaced in row after row, all of equal size and shape. There is absolutely no vegetation on the ground surrounding them.ALT

this thing is alive in an undead hivemind kind of way and it wants to fucking kill me

allidrawscomics

Y'all this is a tree farm. You harvest trees from a place like this so that actual forests get left alone. This is the far side of some redneck's lot, not wilderness. It's not supposed to look natural. There's no need to be scared.

moniquill
creature-wizard

Folks have got to understand that they probably aren’t messed up by some Secret Big Trauma that they just can’t remember; but rather by a million tiny microtraumas that they do mostly remember but don’t even register as traumatic because nobody actually understood that these things would cause trauma, much less stack on each other over the years.

lost-estradiographer

Whether you’re carrying one big rock or a big ol’ bucket of sand, it’s going to weigh on you just as much.

ramshacklefey

This is why psychologists have started taking more of an interest in CPTSD in the last 10-15 years. What most people know as PTSD is a response to a single, intensely traumatic event (or even a series of events). However, CPTSD (chronic post-traumatic stress disorder) is caused by living for years in a situation where your nervous system cannot catch a break. Even if nothing huge ever happened to you, you always had to be on guard for a thousand little things that could and did happen.

After years and years of this, your nervous system gets “stuck” in an activated threat response. It never really lets you rest, and if this started when you were a kid, you may not develop a lot of neural pathways that you should have, because your brain was too focused on keeping you safe to bother with little things like “genuine human connection” and “interpersonal attachment.”

naamahdarling

No lie, Complex PTSD/CPTSD is HUGE.

If you are disabled, if you are queer, if you are chronically ill, if you are the survivor of a toxic but not abusive relationship, if you grew up or lived under the threat of harm but no “actual” harm (or “very little” harm) was done, you may have CPTSD that isn’t getting caught because CPTSD looks different from PTSD.

thenookienostradamus

At the risk of falling into a trivialization trap, a lot of things you may not perceive as traumatic actually are. I was embarrassed for a long time in both group and individual therapy to say anything in my childhood was traumatic, because I was sitting with people who had suffered horrible physical or sexual abuse. But here are some things that are, in fact, traumatic and - when they occur over a long period - can set you on a course of maladaptive coping for decades if not addressed:

  • Being told or shown that your emotions are not valid, that you have no safe place to express them
  • Parents or caregivers oversharing graphic trauma from their past with you
  • Threats of physical violence, even if not carried out
  • Being told or shown that affection or approval is contingent on competency or academic success
  • Prejudice from inside OR outside the family (homophobia, racism, body shame)
  • Mocking or dismissal of things that are meaningful to you

If you constantly feel unworthy, afraid, ashamed, or even flat and emotionless, it’s worth exploring why. And, because you’ve been so consistently undermined and minimized, you may feel like a fraud for being upset or functioning poorly. You’re not a fraud; it’s years of conditioning telling you “I should be able to handle this” or “lots of people are worse off than I am so I shouldn’t complain.” Your conditioned brain is lying to you; you won’t be able to open yourself to the joy of trusting relationships with others OR do meaningful things to help those who are worse off until you do the work to melt the block of ice surrounding you. All my love to you, friends.

lunahorizon

Pete Walker is a therapist that’s been on the cutting edge of this for many years, and he has a website here with plenty of free resources. (Just straight PDFs of parts of his books!)

Also, his books are not that expensive, well-written, and truly helped me process a lot of my trauma. I did a ton of it alone because I couldn’t find a therapist for years, and those books (complex ptsd: from surviving to thriving & the tao of fully feeling) really changed the trajectory of my life.

He talks about grieving, about changing our internal dialogue to one that’s positive instead of negative, talks about SEVERAL trauma typologies, and more.

As someone who has been diagnosed with the big trauma PTSD but most of their problems were coming from the little stuff that was CONSTANT and made me run on 2000% all day every day, this guy is a lifesaver. I’m so different from how I was before, especially with the help of some in-person therapy. Finding the right person makes all the difference, truly.

You can pick up his books on the website, but if you’re looking for resources on this and you have the space and support to be able to do some of your own work (please don’t do it completely alone unless you must) check out the sidebar over at pete-walker.com. He made this incredible resource that not everyone knows about and I try to share it where this comes up.

Thank you for informing people about this.

creature-wizard

Reblogging for the additional info and resources, and to emphasize that the C does indeed stand for “complex,” not “chronic.” (Understandable that people would get mixed up, though.)

alycat150

Hi, I want to add a little story a very silly trigger I’ve got. Because for real, it was due to the most minor ~trauma~ possible, but it still had very clear aftereffects. I hope that hearing this helps someone know that whatever their own thing is, no matter how trivial sounding even to yourself, it still counts as “bad enough”, whatever that means, for them to get help.

The sound of Velcro opening feels worse to hear than nails on a chalkboard. I genuinely thought everyone felt this way and was putting up with it in coats/shoes/etc for convenience, and the reason it wasn’t a saying is because it was a space age material, much younger than literal chalk, so why would it be used when we already had a literary device for this feeling? Turns out that was a trigger for me and literally no one else thinks of it like that!

Took a few months after we realized that I was perceiving the world differently than everyone on the planet for my mom to be the one who figured out why.

Some times, very rarely, as an infant my mother couldn’t get to me “fast enough” to comfort me. That’s it! That’s literally it! And the reason? She’s disabled, and wears hand braces at night to help support her wrists. But they also mean she can’t really use her hands, and when I was little her braces had like a thousand rows of velcro: so as an infant, all I knew was that the only times I cried out and was “ignored” were accompanied by the sound of my mother opening up her braces so she could come pick me up.

Seriously, you can have the best parents and childhood in the world and still come out with random trauma because of it! And guess what? Doesn’t matter how minor it was, it still registered as trauma to my tiny brain, and talking about it in therapy was so bizarre, like, worst crying I’ve ever done in therapy?? But it helped, and the sound of velcro is still nothing I like, but it’s way more tolerable now.

However small you think “it” was for you, whatever “it” is, or even if you have no idea what “it” could possibly be!, that was still enough and you should have support.

breelandwalker

There is nowhere NEAR enough discussion about how damaging constant/chronic lecturing, invalidation, mocking, dismissal, bodyshaming, and overblown expectations are to a kid, even when it’s low-level, even when it’s “for their own good,” even when it’s not accompanied by physical violence. That’s still emotional abuse. It’s a heart wound by a thousand tiny cuts and it still leaves scars. And it’s made all the worse by the perception that because things weren’t as bad as they COULD have been, that person has no grounds to be upset or have trauma from the events.

There’s shit my family has said to me that’s stuck in my head FOREVER and it pops up like a jumpscare whenever conditions are right to recall it. Things that make me doubt myself, things that make me doubt my competency and question my interactions with others. And it NEVER goes away. But they’ve forgotten about it. Doesn’t even register. Because to them, it was a throwaway comment about my appearance or my interests or my intelligence, while to me, it was like getting hit with a brick.

xekstrin
plenilunada

So saddened to learn that human being, author of Disability Visibility, activist, and friend Alice Wong has passed on.

The first image is the last photo of her posted in her Instagram (@disability_visibility) on November 3, with the caption:

"Just dropped my ballot in the ballot box in front of city hall to make sure it’s there in time! Vote YES on Prop 50! 🗳️

#ElectionDay image description: Asian American woman in a wheelchair wearing sunglasses and denim vest and pants. She is holding her mail in ballot and is next to a large ballot box at the corner of San Francisco City Hall"

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Second image alt text: black text on a yellow background : “This is Alice’s friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice’s wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing.

Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin.

We need more stories about us and our culture.

You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I’m honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

May her soul be forever liberated.

moniquill
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I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

aqueerkettleofish

Okayokayokayokaybut "My hand will wear out but the inscription will remain" is kind of a power line BEFORE you factor in that it is, in fact, over a thousand years old.

dduane

It’s always good to spend a few moments, on a quiet day, looking through the Family album.

rudywiser

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