#raising awareness is important

[heymacy]

IAN GALLAGHER + his journey with bipolar disorder

╰┈➤ “At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you’re living with this illness and functioning at all, it’s something to be proud of, not ashamed of." - Carrie Fisher

#happy world bipolar day to all my bp babies #(more thoughts at the end of the tags) #shameless #shamelessnet #shamelessedit #ian gallagher #cameron monaghan #*macygifs #bipolar disorder #hello pals how are we doin #i made this gif set in july of 2023 and never posted it because 1) i was terrified to share it and potentially see Bad Takes in the tags #and 2) because my hyperfixation was waning. and while both of those things are still mostly true (the fixation comes and goes) #i feel like it's really important to share as ian's bipolar storyline was not only so vital to his character it was a bit of representation #that isn't often given to the disorder and those (like myself) who live with it every single day #world bipolar day is a day where we can both celebrate ourselves and our resilience and also raise awareness of the reality of the disorder #which is both terrifying and beautiful at its core. this disease is not a death sentence or a sentence to an unfulfilled and miserable life #while there are challenges galore when it comes to balancing life with this disorder it IS possible to live a full and productive life #and i think it's really important to have representation of that in media - and while shameless dropped the ball on a LOT of storylines #over the years THIS is the one they really fucking nailed and i am incredibly grateful #i first started watching shameless while in the midst of a major depressive episode and i was later (finally) diagnosed during an extended #hypo/manic episode - this show and ian's storyline got me through so much and made me feel so seen and validated in my struggles #world bipolar day is also vincent van gogh's birthday (happy birthday buddy) who was posthumously diagnosed with bipolar disorder #and who experienced both depressive and hypo/manic episodes during his lifetime (and was regularly institutionalized) #it takes a lot of help and support to keep us going. it takes the support of our family and friends and *most* of all #it takes patience and kindness and understanding - which is so so so easy to give if you are willing to love and listen #so please. be willing. listen to our stories. be patient with us. show us love without conditions. support us in any way you can. #we are worth it #i promise #anyway. that's really all i wanted to say. happy world bipolar day to those who celebrate (me) and may all of us living with this disorder #go on to live happy fulfilling beautiful magical lives

[mayrine]

#This is why its important for content creators to use their platforms to help raise awarness during a genocide #im not super familiar with dan and phil but in non the less super proud of them and wish more content creators acted like them #dan and phil #palestine #free gaza #free palestine #pcrf #danandphilgames #dan and phil games

[crabussy]

Happy Waitangi Day, if you celebrate!

thank you!!! I'd like to take this opportunity to make people aware that the current government of Aotearoa are attempting to change the treaty in a way that puts decades of work towards Māori rights at risk.

this article provides some excellent info on the situation. please notice how they're framing it- saying that "all new zealanders will be treated the same" is their way of saying "we don't think the oppressed indigenous people deserve special protection of their land and taonga". it is fucking nasty how they are reframing it as a positive thing for equality when they are simply destroying attempts at equity. it sssuuuuuucks and its bad and I would love for more people to know about it. the article also touches on the other shit things they're doing like forcing organisations to remove the te reo māori translation of their names, and withdrawing from the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous people.

basically!!!!! it sucks really really really bad and it goes so much deeper than this but I won't get into it here. happy waitangi day and let's hope future amendments of te tiriti o waitangi are made that support Māori rights!!!!

#waitangi day #māori rights #raising my hand. I am pākehā so if I have worded things wrong or my facts are off PLEASE let me know!!!! #it is important to amplify māori voices about this! #ask tag #thank you lovely tumblr user davtroc42! #ask to tag #I CAN VOTE NOW THANK FFFFUCK. I want these cunts GONE they are so vile. Act is spreading malicious rumours about māori people #by the way #talking about the 'māori elite'. saying they're not indigenous. #saying that the 'māori elite' (any māori person who engages with their culture proudly) must be eradicated #fucking disgusting! get hit by traffic now #rant #racism #ANYWAY. I DO APPRECIATE THIS ASK AND THANK YOU!!!! its important to use events like this to spread awareness!!!!! #everyone. I know there are a LOT of awful things happening across the world right now. thankyou for staying strong

[thenewgothictwice]

March 31, 2024. 𝐆𝐀𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐀 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 ‘𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭’ 𝐔𝐒-𝐑𝐏 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐱𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲

Manila, Philippines – GABRIELA strongly condemns the upcoming "largest" US-RP Balikatan Exercises scheduled for April 2024, where approximately 16,000 troops from the US and the Philippines are expected to participate, with more than two-thirds of them coming from the United States.

"𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗨𝗦 𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗽𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀' 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗨𝗦 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗗𝗖𝗔 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆, 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗼𝘀, 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻," says GABRIELA Secretary-General Clarice Palce.

GABRIELA asserts that increased military activities and the presence of foreign troops lead to the proliferation of militarized prostitution. This form of prostitution is exclusively geared towards servicing the military, as part of its rest and recreation (R&R), and can be seen in areas where US bases are located, such as Clark in Pampanga and Subic in Olongapo.

Palce also stresses that militarization perpetuates a culture of impunity, where crimes committed by foreign military often go unpunished due to the unfair treaties such as VFA and EDCA.

With the AFP’s announcement of testing the Israeli-made air defense system in their US-RP military drills, Palce states, “The Marcos Jr government has remained complicit through its silence on the Palestinian genocide. Yet, it is now welcoming the same type of bombs that have killed thousands of Palestinian women and children into our land.”

This year's Balikatan Exercises, frequently conducted in Central Luzon, will expand to "key locations" in western Palawan, an area experiencing heightened Chinese naval activity. Additionally, the military drills will include Mavulis Island, the outermost island in Batanes province, situated just 200 nautical miles from Taiwan's Orchid Island.

GABRIELA emphasizes that the Balikatan exercises blatantly disregard the Philippines' national sovereignty by effectively transforming the country into a "huge US base" with unrestricted movement of US troops.

"𝗪𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝘂𝗹𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗨𝗦 𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗽𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗼-𝗨𝗦 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗙𝗔 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗗𝗖𝗔!” says Palce.

GABRIELA calls on all patriotic women to unite and defend the motherland from foreign military intervention that could inevitably drag the people into wars and conflicts.

#USTroopsOutNow.

#the philippines #death to the usa #ustroopsoutnow #important #please amplify to raise awareness #palestine

[72stars]

“Burning Bright” costume/character rough (very rough) design ideas for Sunfire & Wolverine, because I didn’t have much in the way of ideas for them (outside of “okay but it’d be fun if Wolverine showed a lot of skin? and okay I guess here’s some less tits-out ideas” and “I’m just… not going with an imperial flag motif for Sunfire this version has been with the X-Men since he was a teenager it doesn’t make sense for him anyway”) and decided to get their roughs out of the way first (next up for roughs: Rogue & Storm)

#I tagged the Cyclops ones but I’m not sure I want to inflict these on the tags lol maybe later #“Rabbit did you look through old X-Men lineups while deciding who you wanted to be on the team and immediately latch on the angry red guy #raised to fight?” shhhhhh anyway it was a mistake every time I turn my back on him Shiro becomes more important it’s becoming a problem #I don’t remember what it feels like to be happy with my designs adventures #also it’s been so long since I regularly drew humans that I’m increasingly aware my grasp of anatomy has gone haywire RIP #I’m just going to have a mental breakdown over my art in the tags because I don’t want to redo these but also looking at them makes me #increasingly angry at myself lol don’t mind me hauls out all my fuckin’ anatomy books again

[do-you-know-this-adhd-character]

Do you know this (canon) ADHD character?

Proof: Confirmed within the show to be diagnosed with ADHD (and autism!)

#poll #canon adhd character #young royals #sara eriksson #young royals sara eriksson #according to the wiki literally the second episode involves someone trying to buy her adhd meds #not something you see depicted often but i do think thats an important thing to raise awareness of so neat #maybe ill check this show out never heard of it before this

[russell-63]

Ah I love him, this is so important 😭😭

#george russell #f1 #he said so often its important and its nice that he does raise awareness for it #means a lot honestly 🥺🥺

[toothlespoggers]

Raz’s PSA.. I feel like hardly anyone talks about Aroace people. And it’s important to raise awareness and point this out since I get so angry as an aroace person having sex and romance shoved in my face constantly, and how little aroace characters there are.. even when there are aroace characters their identity is completely ignored and erased.

#psa #small psa #fresh!sans #tagging this as utmv so my audience sees this #aroace #asexual #aromantic #lgbtq positivity #important information #raising awareness

[angelnumber27]

“For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told and become upset if they are exposed to any different view”

-Michael Crichton, Lost World (1995)

#this is insanely true #aka kids who are raised as racist animal killing homophobic lgbt hating republicans and never question it #DO BETTER #as an adult or even a teen you should be able to begin to form your own views and beliefs. don’t just go with what you’re told #by age 18 i became aware of how wrong some of the things I was taught were. and adjusted my values and views accordingly. #people don’t like to think for themselves because it is uncomfortable #but it’s important to push through that discomfort and be genuine to who you are and what you believe #as long as it does not harm anyone #lost world #Michael Crichton #conformity #think for yourself

[moodr1ng]

idc how cutesy and feel good your tumblr post is if you paid real money to put it on my dash i am blocking you.

#97 #ill accept seeing a blaze if its to raise awareness abt something important or MAYBE if its to boost an art project #otherwise i am blocking everyone who blazes shit onto my dash ❤️

[autistic-beshelar]

rebecca ferguson and alyosha... christ that was an incredible performance

#like that was so emotive and powerful #and so good to see solidarity and to raise awareness of the horrific things happening in ukraine #but also so tonally jarring from a competition that also has israel in it. #but also thats just how living in england is #can't say a WORD against israel or ur an antisemite #(bc antisemite is a fun buzzword that's specifically used to delegitimise the left) #(see: what happened to corbyn) #hmm i wonder what the difference is between ukraine and palestine... hmmmmmm..... #the double standards are gross #even grosser to silence protests against israel by using antisemitism as a buzzword #without actually giving a fuck about jewish ppl #including the jewish ppl IN PALESTINE #anyway. that's a rant #this was a very important and powerful performance but to me it's just really overshadowed by how fake it all is #esc judgeblog #not main tagging this one sorry lads

[cherenkovs]

every body say HIIIII MIMI

#reblog to raise awareness of this important issue

[rebellum]

Ugh I was enjoying the Scott pilgrim tag because I just finished the series and apparently someone decided it'd be good to post a horrific bloody video of people dying in the tag

#look raising awareness for gaza is very important but maybe you can do that without those videos enjoy being reported for spam asshole

[g-a-r-f-i-l-e-d]

I was thinking since I'm still new to radical feminism, as well as just centering women more actively in my life. That I don't know a whole lot of historical women or women who were significant or even are beyond pop culture. Women who were/are breaking barriers or who have made significant change or discoveries in their fields.

In one of my art history classes, the teacher who kept gloating about being feminist rarely if ever mentioned female artists throughout history, and I remember being really frustrated when she mentioned two female artists who against all odds were allowed into the best school in the world at the time of the neoclassical era, and all she did was show us the paintings these women did AS TEENAGERS! Not even the height of their career, nothing about how women at the time weren't allowed in for excuse that they'd faint if they saw a naked male model since female nude models weren't allowed at the academy due to female models being lesser and the lack of prestige that came with hiring them (many were also prostitutes as well) or how my brother in his history of mathematics class got glossed over the female mathematician Hypatia, who recovered and held onto the last remaining knowledge of the Library of Alexandria, and reformed and improved upon astronomy during her time, and the only thing they discussed of her was how she was ripped apart by a mob of men claiming she was a witch, even then she gave her son that knowledge to bring back to the people. My brother was also frustrated that her life was glossed over to instead quickly say "man men suck, glad to know feminism fixed everything" and just move on.

One of my favourite things that being involved in radical feminism online for me has been getting to actually know these women beyond footnotes in a history overflowing with male accomplishment and biography. That there's a focus on women, and what we can do and have done. And, after seeing a lot of that, I really realised that I haven't done much to actively learn about history or the significant women within it, and being exposed to it made me excited to do so.

So in a mark to improve my knowledge and a step to more actively centering and supporting women which I'm still new to any activism, I'm going to be dedicating every Wednesday to posting about one woman or a group of women in the past or present (but mostly past historical figures, even recent past) who have been historically significant, made change in their community or world at large, and made waves for women to propel forward. I'm calling it Women's Wednesday, and am excited to start learning! If anyone who sees this post has an amazing woman in history, from any country, any history, anywhere they'd like to tell me about I'd love to look them up and dedicate my time to learn about them!

#women's wednesday #radfem #radblr #baby radfem #women #history #women's history #i do struggle with periodic posting #but im going to try my best and make this a goal to help get better with daily or weekly scheduled things as well #if i learn about a woman from another radfem post ill add that in #im thinking i will anyways #i think its important to credit at least where i initially heard it from #i know a lot fo radfems here do already post about historical women on here to raise awareness #i just wanted to have a fun little day dedicated to it #i apppreciate what the community has done for me

[npskudlu]

National Public School Kudlu is proud to announce the successful completion of our Republic Day Walkathon! Our students, parents, and teachers came together to promote fitness, well-being, and patriotism on this special occasion. We walked for a cause and raised awareness about the importance of physical activity and healthy habits. Our school community enjoyed the fresh air, beautiful scenery, and the sense of accomplishment that comes with accomplishing a shared goal. We are grateful to everyone who participated and supported this event. Let's continue to prioritize our health and the health of our nation. Jai Hind!

#walkathon #successful #completion #republicday #special #together #promote #fitness #patriotism #occasion #walk #awareness #important #raise #physical #healthy #habit #community #enjoy #activity #fresh #air #beautiful #share #goal #participate #nation #knowledge #schools #parents

[saetoru]

what is it with people and roping in other minorities when addressing disrespect to their own community like i rly don’t understand

#𑁍 — tee talks. #comparing a minority’s struggles w the response to ur struggles in order to validate the importance of urs minimizes the importance of the #other group #when you say things like #‘‘people don’t hate ___ but they seem to hate ___’’ #knowing full well the first example is a MINORITY is invalidating to the struggles they might have #when you can easily just say #‘‘people don’t seem to talk about / care about this issue but it’s important’’ #all of this can happen and be talked about and have awareness raised #without dragging an entire demographic of ppl into it #and low key guilting ppl for caring about that minority #bc they SHOULD be cared about #the lack of awareness for ur community IS an issue but it can be raised without dragging another group of ppl is all i’m saying