In two days about a quarter of a million people will be made stateless. They will have no homes, no passports, and no civil rights. There are several reasons for this, but the primary reason is racism.
At issue is a ruling by the Constitutional Court in the Dominican Republic to strip away the citizenship of several generations of Dominicans:
According to the decision, Dominicans born after 1929 to parents who are not of Dominican ancestry are to have their citizenship revoked. The ruling affects an estimated 250,000 Dominican people of Haitian descent, including many who have had no personal connection with Haiti for several generations.
Dominican Republic has always had a longstanding hatred towards Haiti for years but what they’re doing is literally taking anyone who’s family lineage cannot be traced back to 1929, and putting them on a one-way bus back to Haiti, whether they were born in the DR or not. They don’t care.
The US State Department has denounced the Dominican government for this plan, and pointed out that it is a gross violation of human rights according to the U.N. charter.
Below are 5 things you need to know about what is happening in the Dominican Republic:
The DR government has revoked the citizenship of more than 100,000 Dominicans born in the country of Haitian parents.
Many of the Dominican-born Haitians facing the looming threat of deportation have never visited Haiti or know anyone there.
The criteria the government will use in deciding who is to be bussed out of the country is “dark-skinned Dominicans with Haitian facial features.”
The DR government claims to have established a legalization process for Dominican-Haitians wishing to remain in the country, but the system is close-to-impossible, according to sources on the ground.
Even though currently the deportation of Dominic-Haitians persists as only a possibility, all evidence points to it happening.
straight men repress their feelings so severely with their friends and family, and then they come across a girl (whos been socialized to be Empathetic and Nurturing) and they find that they can tell this girl about their Feelings ! everythings great she’s The One ! in reality they just have a normal human bond but actually connecting with anyone is so foreign to men and their emotionally barren male relationships that it seems like something great and wonderful. so now girl is put on a pedestal that she’ll eventually fall from bc she’s human and not just a Male Feelings Receptacle and everyone loses all bc fathers refuse to cry in front of their sons
Mike Huckabee’s comments about transgender bathroom laws have recently gained attention on social media. I have avoided making a formal video about transgender bathrooms, but I decided that I would discuss it in light of his comments
In this video I discuss Mike Huckabee’s comments, my experience as a trans woman using the women’s restroom and how transphobia/queerphobia is taught to children who of course become adults like Mike Huckabee who believe that trans women are predators.
I wish I knew who first picked up on the queer-coded Disney villain thing, because that person deserves so many citations by now. I know I’ve been seeing it for at least 15 years around the internet on various social media.
Here’s an interesting blog about the complex visual coding of Disney villains.
Well to be fair, queer coding is something that I’ve known about before examining Disney Villians closely. A lot of this exists outside of Disney. a lot of literature written about vampires, for example, includes queer coding.
Well yeah but I think we should be more critical of it in children’s media because the effect is more harmful when we get it earlier. Disney however is by no means the only one that aims it at children; Him from Powerpuff Girls is a particularly blatant example, but even the English dub of Frieza from Dragonball Z is pretty clearly queer coded.
i’m really sick of people pushing the narrative that we owe joss whedon something? i am not going to sit here and pretend the buffyverse and firefly are not important to me. they were huge formative influences on me as a teen and they will always have a special place in my heart. i am not going to sit here and pretend they didn’t have a big influence on pop culture. but he did not invent female centric shows. he is not The Best at writing women (how can a man be the best at writing women come on)
Kimchi and Justice 