a star made of elves. or an elf made of stars

My name is Elisha. I'm a fat, poor, white, queer, autistic, non-binary person in a polyamorous family. I'm a Unitarian-Universalist and I dislike atheist-supremacy. I eat meat. I have depression, chronic back and joint pain, and probably sleep apnea. When I am able to work, I babysit, particularly for kids with disabilities.

I blog about disability rights, body positivity, asexuality, gender, feminism, queer stuff, mental health, and random shit. I often reblog PoC discussing race. If you think "SJWs" suck you won't like my blog.

I live with my friend metapianycist and our mutual partner lunasspecto in Massachusetts. I am open to questions about what it's like being in an asexual, polyamorous relationship. I'm also really good friends with ohfuckitsoprah, tacobuffet, and hunglikearainbow.

I try to limit gifs and post trigger warnings, but I'm running on limited spoons and might slip up. Please let me know if there's something I should be tagging that I'm not.


Peer into my brainmeats  


I actually do think life begins at conception

Scientifically and spiritually speaking, I think embryos and certainly fetuses are alive. If single-celled organisms are alive I think it’s reasonable to consider a fetus alive. I don’t think it is independently alive, in that it cannot remain viable outside the uterus, but my gut flora cannot remain viable outside my gut, and they are alive.

I am also pro-choice.

I can hold both of these beliefs simultaneously because I don’t think the legality of abortion should hinge on whether the fetus is alive.

I am pro-choice because I think making abortion illegal will result in more deaths - of both fetuses and the people carrying them - than banning it. Making abortion illegal will not end abortion. It will result in people having unsafe abortions, pregnant people being abused because someone wants to forcibly end their pregnancy, unwanted children being born and subsequently abused/neglected, and people being forced to carry the child of their rapist.

None of these things have anything to do with the precise moment at which a fetus starts being alive. So I’m sick of both the “life begins at conception” argument and the “a fetus is a clump of cells” argument. You’re also a “clump of cells”. That’s not what this is about.



Reblogged from anneboleyns

nievie:

arachnis-deathicus:

Gonna quickly throw in an epic quote I found on this article.

KJKJ: Gene Roddenberry, with balls of brass, got up on national tv and said, “hey people, if a geneticist took all the best DNA from planet Earth and put it together to make the best human the world has ever seen - he wouldn’t be a white guy.”

This is why I find the casting of a white actor in this role to be so repugnant. They are not whitewashing an Asian role, they are saying that the best genetic material that the entirety of this world and it’s diversity has to offer….still comes from a white guy.

Reblogging again for that

not to derail but just as I was reading this “grade 9” by barenaked ladies came on and they mentioned watching Wrath of Khan and I was like FFFFFff

(Source: anneboleyns, via hidden-agender)


Reblogged from blackcosmonaut

blackcosmonaut:

the weird thing is that disco was the genre that ended up being mocked in pop culture when it definitely should have been classic rock

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Reblogged from royal-high

royal-high:

a kid from my school just got expelled today for pretending to be russian for 8 months. he pretended he couldn’t read, write or talk english  he did good in all his classes because he had all the teachers and principles convinced he just moved from russia, so they didn’t make him do any work

(via hidden-agender)



Reblogged from mommy-cuteella

mommy-cuteella:

I’m not a burden!

I lived alone!

James chose me!

*throws pink pencils at invisible people associating disability with being a burden*

I didn’t

*throws pencils*

make him

*throws pencils*

stay!

*throws one pencil*

He

*throws pencils*

actually

*throws pencils*

loves me!

*picks up pencils*

And

*puts pencils up nose and laughs*

I’m not going to

*takes pencils out of nose and looks serious again*

apologize for

*puts up pencils*

a lover caring more about me than my parents or whoever it is that’s “supposed” to take on burrrrrdens.



I read a lot of self-help books - not like The Secret or shit like that, but like Julia Cameron and Barbara Sher - and sometimes I’ll be on the verge of an emotional breakthrough and inevitably when that happens I take a nap or browse Tumblr because who wants to have an emotional breakthrough


Reblogged from intergalacticexplorer
“Uhura never had another name during the series. One of the fan writers wrote “Upenda” – which means “peace” in Swahili, I understand – not officially, but in some of their fan writings. And it sort of took hold. But when they were going to do the official history of Star Trek in a published book, the writer called Gene and asked him was “Uhura” her first name or her last name? Gene said, “Well, Nichelle and I never decided.” We always leaned towards it being her last name because it’s taken from the Swahili “uhuru” which means freedom. So it would sort of be like the same as “Freeman.” So he said, “You can make it her last name.” The writer said, “What about her first name? I’ve come up with one in Swahili. It’s Nyota.” Gene said, “I can’t give you that permission because Nichelle and I named her together, and she has rights to that, so you’ll have to call her and get her permission.” So he gave him my number, and he called me and I laughed and was delighted. He said, “I have a name and it’s Nyota.” I said, “That’s quite beautiful. What does it mean?” He said, “It means ‘star’.” I said, “You can have my permission!” So I have since said that her name is Nyota Upenda Uhura, which would mean a free-floating star: “star of freedom and peace”. I like that.”— NICHELLE NICHOLS

“Uhura never had another name during the series. One of the fan writers wrote “Upenda” – which means “peace” in Swahili, I understand – not officially, but in some of their fan writings. And it sort of took hold. But when they were going to do the official history of Star Trek in a published book, the writer called Gene and asked him was “Uhura” her first name or her last name? Gene said, “Well, Nichelle and I never decided.” We always leaned towards it being her last name because it’s taken from the Swahili “uhuru” which means freedom. So it would sort of be like the same as “Freeman.” So he said, “You can make it her last name.” The writer said, “What about her first name? I’ve come up with one in Swahili. It’s Nyota.” Gene said, “I can’t give you that permission because Nichelle and I named her together, and she has rights to that, so you’ll have to call her and get her permission.” So he gave him my number, and he called me and I laughed and was delighted. He said, “I have a name and it’s Nyota.” I said, “That’s quite beautiful. What does it mean?” He said, “It means ‘star’.” I said, “You can have my permission!” So I have since said that her name is Nyota Upenda Uhura, which would mean a free-floating star: “star of freedom and peace”. I like that.”
— NICHELLE NICHOLS

(Source: intergalacticexplorer, via scribblingface)


Reblogged from rosalarian

gailsimone:

rosalarian:

Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.

I have regained my faith.

(via nekobakaz)


Reblogged from albruce-jzcruzer-captainx
salticidae-dorkillius: hunglikearainbow: omgspiffy: CAN SOMEBODY FUCKING EXPLAIN THIS TO ME James likes to strip and show off his balls? a winner is you

salticidae-dorkillius:

hunglikearainbow:

omgspiffy:

CAN SOMEBODY FUCKING EXPLAIN THIS TO ME

James likes to strip and show off his balls?

a winner is you

(Source: albruce-jzcruzer-captainx)


Reblogged from michellehuxtable
“

“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?”
“No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal in prisons.”
I looked it up and sure enough, she was right. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution says:

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Well, that explained a lot of things. That explained why jails and prisons all over the country are filled to the brim with Black and Third World people, why so many Black people can’t find a job on the streets and are forced to survive the best way they know how. Once you’re in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don’t want to work, they beat you up and throw you in a hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions… Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren’t planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government’s genocidal war against Black and Third World people.

Assata (via michellehuxtable)

I tell my students this every single semester. 

(via notesofanativesister)

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