The power of naming is the oldest magic.
In Rumplestiltskin, the girl’s life, her child, her very future are bound by an impossible contract — but the key to breaking it is this: she must learn his name.
The twisted little man who spins straw into gold, has power only as long as he stays unnamed.Once she utters his name aloud, she cracks the spell. She unmakes the shadow’s hold. She names what was hidden — and by doing so, she reclaims her life.
Naming is spell-breaking. Naming is sovereignty. Naming is witness.
There are things to name that many in the world do not want us to name. Naming matters when we talk about genocide. If we don’t name what is happening in Palestine as genocide, as the calculated destruction of a people, we participate in the spell of concealment. We participate in Rumplestiltskin’s dark game. source
In Rumplestiltskin, the girl’s life, her child, her very future are bound by an impossible contract — but the key to breaking it is this: she must learn his name.
The twisted little man who spins straw into gold, has power only as long as he stays unnamed.Once she utters his name aloud, she cracks the spell. She unmakes the shadow’s hold. She names what was hidden — and by doing so, she reclaims her life.
Naming is spell-breaking. Naming is sovereignty. Naming is witness.
There are things to name that many in the world do not want us to name. Naming matters when we talk about genocide. If we don’t name what is happening in Palestine as genocide, as the calculated destruction of a people, we participate in the spell of concealment. We participate in Rumplestiltskin’s dark game. source
Thank you, @gendersauce 🥹🐸 Today, I am giving a 3-hour Reparenting círculo this morning to a group of 30 or so Latine diaspora Spanish-speaking childcare providers and parents and this is the message. Children in colonized cultures are often treated less respectfully because our parents were operating from survival strategies that were adapted from colonial oppression. Their needs were not met, and because of that they could not meet ours. Healing our Inner Niñes is resistance and justice for our lineage.
Beyond grateful that I get to do this work and remind people of their sacredness and their worthiness, as my teachers have taught me to do and to live. (Bring the work to your comunidad 🩷)
“You’re not the exception. When I say all children, you are included. 🐸”
#AllChildrenAreOurChildren source
Beyond grateful that I get to do this work and remind people of their sacredness and their worthiness, as my teachers have taught me to do and to live. (Bring the work to your comunidad 🩷)
“You’re not the exception. When I say all children, you are included. 🐸”
#AllChildrenAreOurChildren source
Ruth Madeley stars as disability rights icon Judy Heumann in Being Heumann, a new Apple Original Film from Academy Award-winning CODA writer and director Siân Heder.
Being Heumann — Coming to Apple TV+
#BeingHeumann #SiânHeder #RuthMadeley #AppleTV #AppleTVPlus source
Being Heumann — Coming to Apple TV+
#BeingHeumann #SiânHeder #RuthMadeley #AppleTV #AppleTVPlus source
Tumblr user crabussy:
"live every day like it's your last": scary. weirdly foreboding. not a good thought process if you get anxious easily. stressful. so much pressure that it loops back around to making you do nothing.
"live every day like it's your FIRST": everything becomes fascinating. renews the excitement of discovering things for the first time again. makes you feel like exploring stuff. #mywisdom source
"live every day like it's your last": scary. weirdly foreboding. not a good thought process if you get anxious easily. stressful. so much pressure that it loops back around to making you do nothing.
"live every day like it's your FIRST": everything becomes fascinating. renews the excitement of discovering things for the first time again. makes you feel like exploring stuff. #mywisdom source
Tumblr user petewentzisblack1312:
we seriously need to stop conceding to the personhood trap when it comes to abortion rights. is a fetus a person? thats a spiritual question. i dont care about the answer. should another person dictate what someone can do with their body? simple answer: no.
Tumblr user petewentzisblack1312:
like if a fetus isnt a person it has no right to my body and if a fetus IS a peson it also has no right to my body because there is no other context in which we are required to put ourselves at risk of physical harm to preserve another persons safety or even life.
you dont have to save someone from drowning even if youre a strong swimmer. even in death youre not required to donate organs and that could save several people. you can kill someone if you truly believe your safety is at risk. we dont mandate preservation of life over autonomy in any of these circumstances.
Tumblr user roach-works: source
we seriously need to stop conceding to the personhood trap when it comes to abortion rights. is a fetus a person? thats a spiritual question. i dont care about the answer. should another person dictate what someone can do with their body? simple answer: no.
Tumblr user petewentzisblack1312:
like if a fetus isnt a person it has no right to my body and if a fetus IS a peson it also has no right to my body because there is no other context in which we are required to put ourselves at risk of physical harm to preserve another persons safety or even life.
you dont have to save someone from drowning even if youre a strong swimmer. even in death youre not required to donate organs and that could save several people. you can kill someone if you truly believe your safety is at risk. we dont mandate preservation of life over autonomy in any of these circumstances.
Tumblr user roach-works: source
Tweet 1/2: Jack Schaat (@NormWeaver3):
How did humans survive for the last 100,000's years without vaccines and modern hygiene? It's either a bloody miracle or the human body's immune system is perfectly fine and naturally effective.
Tweet 2/2: Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett):
The kids died.
That's what happened.
People had more kids because half of them died.
Tumblr user orcboxer:
Global child mortality rates hovered around 40-50% throughout most of human history, right up until the introduction of hygiene and vaccines, both products of medical science. Now the global child mortality rate is 4%. source
How did humans survive for the last 100,000's years without vaccines and modern hygiene? It's either a bloody miracle or the human body's immune system is perfectly fine and naturally effective.
Tweet 2/2: Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett):
The kids died.
That's what happened.
People had more kids because half of them died.
Tumblr user orcboxer:
Global child mortality rates hovered around 40-50% throughout most of human history, right up until the introduction of hygiene and vaccines, both products of medical science. Now the global child mortality rate is 4%. source