If a man puts you down or sneers at your opinions, if he is rude to you in front of other people, if he is cutting or sarcastic, he is communicating a lack of respect. If these kinds of behaviors are a recurring problem, or if he defends them when you complain about how they affect you, control and abuse are likely to be in the offing.” - Lundy Bancroft

HOLY SHIT :)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/oct/31/brazil-election-live-lula-faces-bolsonaro-in-second-round-amid-fears-of-voter-suppression

https://restorativejustice.org/

#RestorativeJusticeNow

https://itsgoingdown.org/media-spreads-call-for-violence-as-protests-erupt-in-ohio-youth-prisons/

Today's vibe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsy5sJy5_34&list=RDGMEMJQXQAmqrnmK1SEjY_rKBGA&index=18

And on that hopeless little thought, I'm off to bed.

zzzzz

May you all have kind, soft dreams.

Here's the horror I imagine.

Musk buys Twitter - having already made previous arrangements with dictatorships to allow full access to resister account information so that they can be hunted down and murdered/detained. #politics

#politics

Tonight's vibe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1EnSCRVrEk

Submissives are not doormats. For me, the finest aspect of being submissive is feeling safe enough with a dominant to be able to give that dominant a trust so total that it's soul shaking - pleasurable and transformative for all parties involved.

Too many Doms don't get that. And it's horrifying.

"Emotional neglect leaves invisible scars: the inability to know what you feel, the confusion of if your feelings are valid, and the belief that no one cares about them, anyway." - Dr. Nicole LePera

One day our country will have come to terms with how abominable we have actively chosen to be when it comes to maintaining a grueling, agonizing caste system that steals the fullness of it's citizens lives from them for pennies on the dollar.

May I live to see this happen.

#politics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1hfLv2bhz0

“Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once. If he raises a fist; punches a hole in the wall; throws things at you; blocks your way; restrains you; grabs, pushes, or pokes you; or threatens to hurt you, that’s physical abuse. He is creating fear and using your need for physical freedom and safety as a way to control you.”
― Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

"Disrespect is the soil in which abuse grows." - Lundy Bancroft

I'm sure this is a shocker to everyone. #politics

https://news.yahoo.com/government-warns-heightened-threat-2022-214940485.html

I've been brewing my own mead for the last two years, and I haven't had a bad batch yet!

Thanks be to Óðinn! :)

Man, these screws are just being ornery on this rigid heddle loom I'm putting together. Imma have to pick this up again when I'm back in town on sunday.

I am QUITE EXCITED to start making larger weaving projects.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/27/life-surge-conference-evangelical-money-finance

This essay examines the ubiquitous presence of Venus in the archive of Atlantic slavery and wrestles with the impossibility of discovering anything about her that hasn't already been stated.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/article/12/2/1/32332/Venus-in-Two-Acts