a dude came into the library stoned out of his mind and was like, “do I need a library card to look at books?” And I said, “to take books home, yes. To look at them, no” and he looked so relieved. bro was staring at a fish encyclopedia for like an hour and then just left.
scrolling twitter today and then coming over here is like walking out of a burning building and then walking into the calm remains of a building that burnt down 5 years ago and has been reclaimed by nature.
I know I already made a post about this. But ICWA is LITERALLY being challenged by a white couple that wants to adopt indigenous children to Christianize them. The tribe, whom has a say in who can take their children, is like “Nah, we don’t want our youth Christianized like you tride last time”
And the lawyer that’s helping the white couple try to overturn ICWA (so that they can convert indigenous children) is doing it pro-bono (which means he’s not charging the couple anything).
AND that lawyer is a big time lawyer whose clients are usually oil and gas industries. He’s literally fighting for indigenous children to be ripped from their tribes and culture so there’s less indigenous people to protest big oil destroying their sacred land.
this is cultural genocide. it happened when jewish children were stolen from their families during ww2 and given to christian families to raise as christian, it happened with residential schools where american indigenous children were stolen to have their culture beaten out of them, it happened to australian aboriginal children when their government literally tried to breed indigenous australians out of existence. we cannot let this keep happening. we cannot allow white christians to continue to steal our children and rob them of their culture and family and community.
!!!SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!!!
All of this is horrifying. This Land is covering the ICWA challenge throughout their entire 2nd season, and they provide high-quality transcripts for all of their episodes. They’re doing amazing (and heartbreaking) reporting about this case, please check it out.
Didn’t anticipate one of the bonuses of going to a drag show in a smaller more conservative town would be getting to see a bro who clearly wandered into the wrong part of the bar by mistake experience what looked to be a transcendent awakening upon seeing his first drag show.
On of the queens halfway through the show, “Honey, are you straight?”
