boys and men will try to convince you that humans are intrinsically selfish and egotistical because they can’t cope with the fact that women are actually taught from birth to put their community, their friends, their family, everyone on equal (sometimes even higher) footing.
male individualism is completely dependent on the emotional labour of women, and whenever you try to point this out they act like you’re denying basic human facts
Down under, in the remote village of Lajamanu located in Australia’s Northern Territory, recent generations of Indigenous Australian Warlpiri people have created a language. Light Warlpiri, a mixed language no more than 40 years old, is spoken almost exclusively by people aged 35 and younger.
The village of Lajamanu is located on the very edge of a band of tropical savanna and on the periphery of the Tanami Desert, near the border of Northern Territory and Western Australia’s Kimberley.
This National Geographic map might help communicate how remote this area is, and also how many aboriginal communities are located along the Northern Territory, Western Australia border:
A pretty comprehensive map depicting almost all recorded aboriginal cultural regions, using data from The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia (Aboriginal Studies Press of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1994) available through Museums and Galleries of New South Wales:
mother nature stepped in on this too because just the other week a tourist died climbing Uluru. leave it alone.
This is off-topic for my blog but here are three reasons why you shouldn’t climb Uluru:
it’s dangerous, people have died climbing it and many more have been injured.
it damages the rock, you can see where the trail is because of all the wear and because there’s obviously no bathrooms on top there’s a whole lot of rubbish, used toilet paper and tampons on top further ruining the environment for future generations.
THE TRADITIONAL OWNERS HAVE ASKED YOU NOT TOO. Imagine if people were climbing, shitting on and leaving used tampons on a site significant to you (a church, war memorial, a place of cultural significance i.e. the Louvre.
I will also add that there’s plenty of other stuff to do around there: a tour about the cultural significance of Uluru and the surrounding area, a walk around the rock and watching sunrise and sunset on the rock.
Also btw it’s called Uluru not Ayer’s Rock now.
Aboriginal elders in conjunction with the Australian government are taking away the rope that allows people to free climb and starting guided tours around the region telling people about the origin stories that make Uluru so sacred to them. They want your tourism! They want to share their stories! They do NOT want you to clamber over and damage their ancestors.
we are always shut down and completely left out of posts about discrimination
we face issues with body hair, ableism, reproductive rights and abilities, genital mutilation, fetishization, violence, bathroom bills, coercive/forced gendering + plenty of other crap
but yet, where are those support posts? where are those awareness posts? where is the literal discussion because we really feel like we’re speaking into a void
there is a community out here but non-intersex people love to look the other way it seems
