This is worse. Looking at these you can tell they have no significant monetary value. They were confiscated as a fear tactic. Nothing more.
This picture breaks my heart everytime it appears in my dash. It’s a fear tactic, alright but—
The first one in the left corner: It’s a first communion rosary, and it’s not cheap.
The black one in the first line: That’s a widow rosary and it’s old.
The white one in the second line: is a commemoration rosary. It has a miniature picture in the round part. I haven’t seen that since the 70′s.
In the third line, multicolor one: It’s an Anima mundi, I have only seen those in the hands of Rosary ministery’s old ladies. The oldest ones are from the 80′s after Juan Pablo II came to Mexico for the first time. It’s one of the old ones, I know because the crucifixes are different.
The third one on the fourth line: Red and gold. The style is old, the metal is dark, that’s a 50′s rosary, probably a quinceañera one (or it’s maybe older, from the 40′s when the brides carried red roses with their offerings).
The fifth one on the fourth line: It’s a quinceañera rosary with Ignatius’s tear. The style is old and in my part of Mexico is orphan girls who used it. At least it was when I was young.
The third one of the fifth line: the blue one with the anchor. That one I have only seen in Veracruz and it doesn’t look new.
The fifth one on the fifth line: That’s a 90′s wedding rosary. Black and white patterns were popular on that date.
The fourth one on the last line: That’s a first communion rosary from the 30′s. It’s delicate and most probably silver.
The rest wrench my heart too, the humble everyday rosaries with wooden beads and knots. Those are cheap and bear the wear and tear of their user handling. But those I described are much more.
Those are mother’s rosaries.
Those are not just rosaries. Those are mementos, that’s the proof of their families stories. They are taking from them the only portable things they can carry to feel the connection to their families.
It’s not a fear tactic. Call it like by its name.
It’s dehumanization.
I’m having decidedly unChristian thoughts about this entire administration.
since pride month is coming up, that also means we’re getting closer to the month when there’ll be 10000 posts reminding us that all the gay pride merch is just a corporate cash-in, that these corporations don’t care about us, that the world isn’t really any better, that none of the pride merch and ads actually mean anything, that it isn’t really progressive, blah blah blah
let me just say
i know. most people on here know. you are not the sole thinking person in a world of sheep. i promise you that the person you’re making all these points to has heard it 100 times 100 ways from 100 other people. we know, tumblr. we know.
but dammit, one month a year i get rainbow everything, and that’s a breath of fresh air after eleven months of straight nonsense. i LOVE seeing pride everywhere, even if it is just a corporate cash-grab. and it’s not like i can just opt out of this capitalist society, so fuck it, imma buy all the rainbow, pride-themed, gay merch i can get my hands on.
the world is a capitalist hellhole and there is no escape, so we may as well have what fun we can with it while we try and make things better.
happy pride, folks.
As an added point, a lot of sponsorships and merch go a long way toward funding local LGBT agency operations, some of them for the full year. It’s not the system we want, but tanking sales of rainbow merch at pride events really only hurts local agencies! Support your local community centers and social service centers working for LGBTQ people!
I’m just going to leave this thread here from my own Twitter account last June.
Look. Here’s thing about “just a corporate cashgrab” Discourse.
Yes, the corporations just want our money. We know.
That is because they are corporations, andthat is what corporations do. That is the sole purpose of their existence, to try to get their grubby hands on your money, my money, literally all of everyone’s money.
It’s not that they think the queer community is uniquely susceptible to being bamboozled into trusting them. What the hell do you think regular advertising is? They do this to literally everyone because that is the nature of corporate behavior: see opportunity to sell more stuff, jump on it, ???, profit.
The only difference is that with Pride-related cashgrabs, they are saying publicly that they acknowledge queer folks as a demographic and that yes in fact they would like to stick their hands into our wallets just like they do to the str8s.
Also like… They’re normalizing being lgbt+
Changing some ads and adding rainbows to things for June. It’s turning Pride into another part of the seasonal merch cycle.
We have Valentine’s day, easter, christmas, holloween, memorial day, labor day, vetrans day, st Patrick’s day, the fourth of july, back to school, star of summer, new years, sinco de mayo, this weekend only!, black Friday, thanksgiving, columbus day like… when have corporations not used something as an excuse to sell more stuff and make more money? Like i only remember most of these things exist because i see commercials for sales for them.
But hey if a company wants to plasters rainbows over all their shit and be supportive of the community – which let’s be real, acknowledging pride month and selling merch for it is about as big an endorsement as a company can give in terms of being visibly supportive because every customer that walks by it is going to know what it’s for- well let them add another holiday to their calendar. Let them make it completely normal for june to be a month of rainbows and normalizing our community as a thing.
Like when we see national ad campaigns for pride month merch, for sales going on, that’s when I’ll be satisfied with corporations trying to get my money. Until then, they’re still working on it.
before talkin shit on straight men maybe try talking to some for a period of more than five minutes at a time cause all y’all treat straight men on this website like incels treat women
Kung pow penis
What did that add to the convo.
i’m going to block everyone that reblogs this version of this post from snoopingasusualisee that i find, fyi
Back in 1984, when the mere mention of aids induced panic, Poltergeist actress Zelda Rubinstein did something truly brave by lending her face to one of the first state-funded safe-sex campaigns directed at gay men.
Posters depicting Rubinstein as a caring mom urging her “sons” to play safe were plastered all over Los Angeles’ buses and buildings before going national and then international. (They were spotted on phone booths as far away as Madrid.)
“I paid a very big price career-wise,” Rubinstein says of the attention, which predated Elizabeth Taylor’s and Madonna’s AIDS involvement by at least a year.
A quarter-century after their debut, Rubinstein’s posters have found a second life — no séances required. Physician Irene Adams, an AIDS specialist in Brazil, is bringing Mother’s lessons to her nation as part of a new youth outreach initiative.
The 76-year-old Rubinstein is ready to help once again: “I would do a fund-raiser for this cause anywhere in the world.“
