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Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2026-03-29 · 03:07 UTC

Slideshow from today

Punk rock version is on YouTube.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ntxcELf-sHA

#VictoriaBC #Antifascist #Decolonization #CommunityConnecting #CommunityCare #CommunityBuilding #PeopleHelpingPeople #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #CommunityBuilders #nonprofits #Anarchists #AntiRacism #AntiAbleism #CollectiveAction #CommunityCollectives #VancouverIsland #diversity #inclusion #CovidSafety #MasksSolidarity

#victoriabc #antifascist #decolonization #communityconnecting #communitycare #communitybuilding

:autism: Aurin (ki, ki, kis) @[email protected] · 2025-11-13 · 14:46 UTC

CW: How to safely talk about and process trauma? For trauma survivors and everyone else

This came up in a conversation and I edited it and made this rebloggable version.

I think the first and most important point is to learn how to spot abusive and manipulative behaviour and how to stay safe, set boundaries or get away.
I can't recommend Lundy Bancroft's book Why Does He Do That enough for this purpose! He leaked the abusers' playbooks. You'll gain invaluable insight even if your abuse didn't take place in the male-on-female domestic violence scenario that he is an expert on.

For mutual support that doesn't need experts but has some structure to it, I'm currently on a co-counseling kick, I love that method. Though I'm sure it's not the only one.

Whether there's structure or it's spontaneous, whether experts are present or not: What's important are boundaries and consent and that consent needs to apply to situations where you deal with triggering material or trauma - with everyone involved. So that includes people who just happen to be within earshot, their consent matters.

Talk about ways to check in with your body, to make sure you're as connected as you can be and that the conversation brings you closer to yourself, not further away. This also goes for everyone involved, including counselors.

Challenge ableism: No judgement or shaming for expressing emotions, feelings or thoughts, for fears or for laughing without a reason or yawning or crying or even raging/tantrums, or for channeling inner children or for switching (plural systems). Only when ppl do harm to selves or others should they be stopped, but even then in a respectful way.

If it's a setting with professional staff around, make sure they're safe to talk to in cases where such conversations went wrong or left someone feeling overwhelmed or having boundaries disrespected or needing additional support. Meaning, don't tell them they shouldn't have tried to talk about the thing. If it was a bad idea, they might come to that conclusion on their own.

For all my trauma therapy (individual and groups), I have had most of my best healing conversations when no therapists were around. It really works when ppl respect consent.

#trauma #TraumaRecovery #recovery #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #AbuseRecovery #ableism #AntiAbleism

#trauma #traumarecovery #recovery #abuseculture #abusesurvivor #abuserecovery

Ezme @[email protected] · 2024-05-15 · 21:00 UTC

If your anti-ableist, still coviding activism isn’t centering disabled children then you are doing a shitty job. Disabled children who have chronic, complex medical conditions cannot mask, and need safe access to care, support and community. Yet, still coviding folx continue to exclude and censor this community, essentially committing the same eugenics and ableism they purport to be against. #ableism #AbledSupremacy #eugenics #covid #AntiAbleism #MaskUp #stillcoviding2024 #COVID19 #disabled #DisabledParenting

#ableism #abledsupremacy #eugenics #covid #antiableism #maskup

Ezme @[email protected] · 2024-02-26 · 02:49 UTC

Everytime, I walk out the door, I put on my anti-ableist activist hat. Abled supremacy is an active form of exclusionary hate. It’s easier to stay indoors isolated for eternity. #AntiAbleism #cripfamily #AbledSupremacy #disability #DisabilityJustice #MaskUp

#antiableism #cripfamily #abledsupremacy #disability #disabilityjustice #maskup

Michael John Smith @[email protected] · 2023-06-12 · 22:02 UTC

#introduction @buddhism
@vegan

Mahayana Refuge:
I go for refuge until I am enlightened
to the Buddha, the Dharma and the Supreme Assembly.
Through the merit of practising generosity and so on,
May I become a Buddha for the benefit of all beings

Bodhicitta:
May all sentient beings have happiness and its causes, may all sentient beings be free of suffering and its causes, may they be inseparable from the sublime happiness which is beyond sorrow, may all sentient beings abide in equanimity, free of bias, attachment and anger.

Shantideva Prayer:
May I become at all times, both now and forever
A protector of those without protection
A guide for those who have lost their way
A ship for those with oceans to cross
A bridge for those with rivers to cross
A sanctuary for those in danger
A lamp for those without light
A place of refuge for those who lack shelter
And a servant to all in need
For as long as space endures,
And for as long as living beings remain,
Until then may I, too, abide
To dispel the misery of the world.

Biography:
I am a happily married English Buddhist, 68 years old, living these past 38 years in Slovenia. I was raised a Catholic and attended a Jesuit school but lost my faith in God when I was 15. After graduating in Industrial Engineering I traveled overland along the old hippie trail to India in search of answers to the pain I felt in the world. I encountered Buddhism in Dharamsala, home-in-exile of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Back in London I joined Sogyal Rinpoche's Rigpa group in 1981 and started practicing the Dharma.

I have been a production assistant in London, bartender in Hong Kong, English teacher in South Korea, planning engineer in London and Fife, Scotland, and a development engineer, planner, import-export agent and translator in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Besides being interested in living mindfully and preserving the Buddha Dharma, I am also an advocate of democracy, peace, non-violence, human and animal rights, a free Tibet, a democratic Burma, the right of Palestinians to a homeland, the prevention of human trafficking, gender equality, LGBTQI rights worldwide, veganism, the abolition of capital punishment, amnesty to prisoners of conscience, etc. I am also interested in supporting poverty alleviation and humanitarian work of any kind as well as sustainable development, education, protection of the environment and mental health and other health issues.

My Dharma practice comprises keeping the five precepts (mind trainings) for a lay Buddhist and practicing the six perfections (far-reaching practices) of Mahayana Buddhism - generosity, ethical conduct, forbearance, perseverance, concentration and, wisdom - as an aspiring Bodhisattva. I also like to consider myself a "socially engaged Buddhist" with my principle outlet being a keyboard campaigner for human, animal and environmental causes on social media and a vegan/animal rights activist locally.

As a part of keeping the five precepts, I practice veganism to the best of my ability and to the forefront of my practice I try to generate beginner's mind (don't know mind) as well as loving kindness and compassion both towards self and others.

Besides my favourite practice tonglen, my meditation these days is primarily of the analytical kind but always includes understanding that firstly, everyone wants to be be happy and avoid suffering and secondly, everyone has shown kindness to me in this life and past lives.

Politically I support The Green Party of England and Wales, the European Greens, American Democratic Socialists and the Levica (Left) Party in Slovenia

I am a vegan and don't smoke, drink alcohol or do drugs.

With my Slovene wife, Mojca, we have a son, Tom, now aged 37.

#buddhism #veganism #meditation #mahayana #humanrights #animalrights #socialjustice #environment #sustainability #climatechange #vegan #lgbtq ally #metoo #feminism #blm #refugeeswelcome #love #straightedge #buddhist #prointersectional #mindfulness #compassion #kindness #ecosocialism #green #progressive #community #refugees #migrants #left #levica #slovenia #ljubljana #socialmedia #bodhisattva #lojong #tonglen #bodhicitta #solarpunk #antifa #mentalhealth #health #sortition #directdemocracy #tibetanbuddhism #zen #animals #peoplesassembly #antiracism #antiableism #antispeciesism #rewilding #degrowth #climate #climateemergency

I would like to share with you my vegan story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOlKvg0NbT4

#introduction #buddhism #veganism #meditation #mahayana #humanrights