After two days of buses, arrived in Bulgaria as planned in time to not have to cross any borders around brex- oh they moved it again. To correspond exactly with my next UK visit. Again.
brexit (7 out of 7)
I accidentally read the comments on an article about how British media is being racist against refugee children and now I'm depressed. From out here it looks like the people living on the piece of rock I was born on are just spiralling into intolerance, facism, inhumanity. How can your reaction to anyone who just escaped from a warzone and now, thousands of miles from home, is trying to find their family, some familiarity... be "oh they're big, they can look after themselves, they don't need our sympathy or aid." This is what the comments say. Why does how tall someone is and if they have facial hair - let alone their age - affect their ability to cope with trauma, or their need for their mum? Have none of these people ever been sad? Ever felt vulnerable? Ever had a shit day and needed a hug? Certainly none of them have fled a war.
Maybe they're not real. They're just internet words. But... what if they're real? What if for 25 years of my life I was surrounded by monsters, and now they've been given permission to speak?
Reading @RealAvocadoFact to attempt to rebalance.
I should be writing.
Amy added https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/24/jack-monroe-i-want-to-be-treated-as-a-person-not-a-woman-or-a-man-interview-transgender-identity to https://rhiaro.co.uk/bookmarks/
SO much good stuff in one story, woah.
Hey American friends who ask where I'm from and think it's funny that it's Boston, my hometown is so racist it made it into the New York Times
Last night a USAmerican told me brexit is fair because it's okay if people want to have their own little towns for their own people and keep others out.
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My jaw dropped and I only picked it up enough to write this about 12 hours later.
Someone needs to turn British politics off and on again.
Oh hah actually if brexit means the UK will be forced into Schengen (as a result of having nothing else to negotiate trade deals with) maybe it's worth destroying the economy and human rights regulation. More scary foreigners will be able to come in and fix the place up, and the xenophobic Brits won't be able to afford to leave and make other places look untidy