if you, as a disabled person, are ever told you are an “inconvenience” in the process of trying to assert your rights, you are not being an inconvenience, you are being oppressed. fight
also, being an “inconvenience” is a valued and effective method of disability activism. one reason the ADA got passed at all was the capitol crawl where disabled people crawled up the steps of the capitol building and “inconvenienced” lawmakers. being an “inconvenience” is direct action. being an “inconvenience” is activism. people who actively deny disabled people rights and dignity are deserving of inconvenience, because you have rights and deserve to do whatever it takes to keep them. your life is worth more than the comfort of your oppressors.
The NY post really be out there trying to body shame Zac Efron by saying he has a ‘Dad Bod’.
That is Zac Efron but with carbs. That is some premium beefcake. That is Zac Efron without having to dehydrate for 2 days, eat protein every 4 hours and work out 3 times a day. That is absolutely nothing to be ashamed of or shamed in any way.
(I’m looking through the archive and I cannot count on my fingers how many of these documents are ones that I learned were “lost to history” and that we “don’t have early manuscripts of” or are “missing the questions to the responsa” and we’re not! They’re not! The Vatican has them!)
I assumed this was going to be about the Menorah
But it was worse, somehow
Yeah, I mean there are the originals of Gaonic responsa literature, copies of rashi’s commentary dated to the century he lived in, Babylonian Talmud pages from before the 10th century, richly illustrated prayer books and tehillim that are dated and placed to inquisition-era Spain but sure as hell don’t mention the fact that they were looted off of the people the church murdered, a Sefer Torah from the 12TH CENTURY, just. So much. So much and they have no right to any of it.
no you know what I’m not done. We have been begging for hundreds of years, politely, academically, kindly, for the Vatican to return what it stole. Or if not that, to allow for Jewish scholars to have access to their archives (the number of questions and arguments that resulted from divergent manuscripts later in history that these documents could solve!) or if not that then at least acknowledge that fact that these documents were at best stolen, most likely looted, and at worst taken at swordpoint and killed for, and they refuse. They refuse to do even that.
can someone please explain how it’s possible that every single month this year ended as quickly as it started and yet this whole year has felt like an eternity
