criedwolves:

you don’t want to see posts about ferguson? well me neither. i don’t want to see unarmed black people being murdered, i don’t want to see kids being shot by the people they were taught to trust, i don’t want to see white cops being rewarded for it all. but it’s real. it’s happening. just because we don’t want to see it doesn’t mean we can ignore it. ignoring it won’t make it go away.

micdotcom:

Potent minimalist art sends a strong message about police and vigilante brutality in America

Journalist and artist Shirin Barghi has created a gripping, thought-provoking series of graphics that not only examines racial prejudice in today’s America, but also captures the sense of humanity that often gets lost in news coverage. Titled “Last Words,” the graphics illustrate the last recorded words by Brown and other young black people — Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and others — who have been killed by police in recent years.

Let us not forget their voices

Jillian McCabe Accused of Throwing Autistic Son Off Oregon Bridge – NBC News

lopunnykin:

mawilekin:

autisticfandomthings:

maswartz:

An Oregon mother who blogged about the struggle to care for her autistic son allegedly threw the 6-year-old off a bridge and then called police to tell them,…

JESUS!

I think the fact that she and Kelli Stapleton were both “autism mom” bloggers is not a coincidence. I think there’s something very very scary and dangerous about the way most of that community talks about their children. And it’s past the point where it’s just harmful, it’s actually resulted in two separate parents trying to kill their children, and one succeeding.

This wasn’t even a murder-suicide. It was just a murder. She decided her son was too difficult, so she murdered him. I hope she spends the rest of her life in prison.

hey if you’re allistic you absolutely need to reblog this. this needs to get out there. just saying

hey how about allistics not fucking ignore this like every other murder of autistic children, dont ignore how the media is painting the mother as stressed and on edge as an excuse, dont ignore how she’s not being fully blamed and how this was an “understandable” response because her child was too much of a “burden.” dont fucking ignore this. the media is victim blaming a dead six year old do not ignore this