Tumblr user nitewrighter:
I actually do feel like the "unemployed friend on a Tuesday" meme actually helps de-stigmatize unemployment because it frequently affirms that when you don't have a job you're more likely to be getting up to some weird shit rather than just lazing around. But I also feel like the unemployed friend is frequently up to some random shit because there's a whole pile of miscellaneous life tasks that full-time employment keeps people from. The unemployed friend is helping their cousin move, or babysitting, or checking in with a neighbor with mobility issues. The unemployed friend is a walking thesis on the inflexibility of our current labor landscape and just how much work exists outside of work. source
I actually do feel like the "unemployed friend on a Tuesday" meme actually helps de-stigmatize unemployment because it frequently affirms that when you don't have a job you're more likely to be getting up to some weird shit rather than just lazing around. But I also feel like the unemployed friend is frequently up to some random shit because there's a whole pile of miscellaneous life tasks that full-time employment keeps people from. The unemployed friend is helping their cousin move, or babysitting, or checking in with a neighbor with mobility issues. The unemployed friend is a walking thesis on the inflexibility of our current labor landscape and just how much work exists outside of work. source
Tumblr user clockways:
Happy Pride, my darlings.
I know it's so hard right now to have pride when so much of the world is telling us no: we don't get to exist, be seen, be heard, be who we want to be. I know it's so hard when for some of us, having pride is risking our jobs and livelihood. For some of us families. For some lives.
But have pride. Have pride in your heart if you can't on your chest. Have pride for the simple fact that you are you and your are wonderful for it. Have pride because because hope needs pride. It needs our lion bite and our beaten spite and our vicious might.
It needs you.
We're here and we're queer.
We always have been.
We always will be. source
Happy Pride, my darlings.
I know it's so hard right now to have pride when so much of the world is telling us no: we don't get to exist, be seen, be heard, be who we want to be. I know it's so hard when for some of us, having pride is risking our jobs and livelihood. For some of us families. For some lives.
But have pride. Have pride in your heart if you can't on your chest. Have pride for the simple fact that you are you and your are wonderful for it. Have pride because because hope needs pride. It needs our lion bite and our beaten spite and our vicious might.
It needs you.
We're here and we're queer.
We always have been.
We always will be. source
Tumblr user drdemonprince:
i really do believe that the answer to a lot of people's self hatred is not to try and reassure them that they are wonderful and okay and enough, but instead to remind them theyre a completely unremarkable regular ass person who is not the center of the universe or especially important so why would they expect themselves to be some superhuman savior. like there really is a kernel of out of control self importance at the heart of thinking youre an evil lazy piece of shit. because why would you expect you be anything but just like some guy. if you wouldnt expect the guy who works at the vape shop or your mailman or whatever to be able to do something then why would you expect yourself to? youre just some random ass person. its fine
Tumblr user ifiwereabotcouldidothis: source
i really do believe that the answer to a lot of people's self hatred is not to try and reassure them that they are wonderful and okay and enough, but instead to remind them theyre a completely unremarkable regular ass person who is not the center of the universe or especially important so why would they expect themselves to be some superhuman savior. like there really is a kernel of out of control self importance at the heart of thinking youre an evil lazy piece of shit. because why would you expect you be anything but just like some guy. if you wouldnt expect the guy who works at the vape shop or your mailman or whatever to be able to do something then why would you expect yourself to? youre just some random ass person. its fine
Tumblr user ifiwereabotcouldidothis: source