Post No. 2,863 - Some interesting reading/viewing [Note: Content Warning - links to distressing reports on some topics. Reader discretion is advised]

Note: CONTENT WARNING - some of this content is about upsetting, disturbing or triggering events & attitudes. Seek competent help - including professional - if you need it. READER CAUTION IS RECOMMENDED! For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/. 

Here are some llinks that might of interest or value:

• “Why TERFs shouldn’t be Witches - Starhawk Maiden Mother Crone Ecofascism White Feminism JK Rowling”   https://youtu.be/tKHdon3HSys   This has outstanding analysis - including historical , social, human rights, and political. The following are also relevant to this:  
  
• “Why so many Witches are TERFs? - The Transmisogynoir of JK Rowling against Imane Khelif”   https://youtu.be/aniVXrBYnHA      
• “The Transphobes are Coming for All of Us”   https://youtu.be/woREx-DJeRE      
  
• “Albanese's Broken Promise To Enact Religious Discrimination Legislation, Rodney Croome, Just Equal”   https://www.3cr.org.au/inyaface/episode/albaneses-broken-promise-enact-religious-discrimination-legislation-rodney-croome    
  
• “Elon's Dumbest Suit Yet (Suing Advertisers)”   https://youtu.be/_IUHMuBH788      

• apparently plate tectonics contributes to the development of more biologically complex lifeforms - see “Is There a Reason Earth is The Only [currently “officially” known] Planet With Both Plate Tectonics & Life? GEO GIRL”   https://youtu.be/Mj2MRqAhAjs      

• “The Liberation of Letting Go: How to Give Up Your Dreams”   https://joanwestenberg.com/the-liberation-of-letting-go-how-to-give-up-your-dreams   This is not giving up everything, but being ... realistic      

• This book looks quite promising - and I know Amy Blackthorn authored an outstanding book on protection:   “Social Media Spellbook: 366 Ways to Get Witchy on the Web” by  Amy Blackthorn and Natalie Zaman;   pub. Sterling Ethos, 20 August 2024, ISBN 978-1-4549-5385-2;   Union Square/Sterling Ethos,   Barnes & Noble,   Kobo,   Apple Books,   Amazon;
  

• This US-based channel (of a US lawyer) looks promising:   
• “How The Right Rebranded Eugenics”   https://youtu.be/QsXE-Amu7cA      
• “We Need To Talk About Cop Cities: They're Everywhere”   https://youtu.be/NJrxVZyp1SI     
  
• “You Are Not Media Literate. Stop Sharing Fake News.”   https://youtu.be/6OvKUEsT074        
  

• this week’s “afterlife report” by the  Zammits:  
     https://www.victorzammit.com/August23rd2024/  
  

• my   candle magick for the world  and   candles in the service of life incl human rights & democracy & caring for the world; 

• my recent posts on my political blog:  
• “Another trans right activism email”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/another-trans-right-activism-email.html      “A poem to bad managers”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-poem-to-bad-managers.html      “On living with “invisible” (non-apparent) disabilities”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/on-living-with-invisible-disabilities.html      “Australia’s national ALP government’s re-election campaign as compared to the Harris-Walz campaign for the US Presidency”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/australias-national-alp-governments-re.html      “A major win for trans+ rights”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-major-win-for-trans-rights.html      “Some news links on history”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/some-news-links-on-history.html     
  
  
• also from YouTube:
  

• from YouTube and elsewhere on neurodivergence: 
• “"High Functioning" Autism EXPOSED”   https://youtu.be/-2t39w-KZQU     
  
  
• [Content Warning: discusses abusive practices, including against children]   “Episode 36: Bad Autism Diagnoses - Special Episode”   https://youtu.be/wAdjDrwiFyI   In part, this episode discusses conversion abuses such as ABA. It also covers ableism.     
  
  
• “Autistic Centered Therapy (Episode 47)”   https://youtu.be/FpKfJfelwSU     
  
  
• “On living with invisible disabilities”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/on-living-with-invisible-disabilities.html     
  

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Remember: we generally need to be more human being rather than human doing, to mind our Mӕgan, and to acknowledge that all misgendering is an act of active transphobia/transmisia that puts trans+ lives at risk & accept that all insistence on the use of “trans” as a descriptor comes with commensurate use of “cis” as a descriptor to prevent “othering” (just as binary gendered [men’s and women’s] sporting teams are either both given the gender descriptor, or neither).

 

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