Financial Systems
This economic system has given us classic myths such as "trickle-down" economics, the "invisible hand of the free market", and the "white picket fence American Dream"(lololololol).
What is capitalism?
This method of removing paint or other coatings from surfaces is similar in many ways to powerwashing.
What is sandblasting?
This ritual involves burning sacred herbs such as white sage. Not just sage though, please stop overharvesting the sage for your new apartment.
What is smudging?
During the Stonewall Inn raid in 1969 that sparked 5 days of riots, queer activists found these items at a nearby construction site and threw them at cops.
What are bricks?
Pluto is no longer our 9th official planet because it has been categorized as this.
What is a dwarf planet?
Banking conglomerates often invest in rental complexes, reaping the financial windfall of long-term rentals, while denying those renters this type of loan that might allow them to own their own home.
What is a mortgage?
The presence of this mineral in sand on the planet Mars is what gives it its iconic red hue.
What is iron?
This ancient Gaelic holiday is seen as the basis for the modern Halloween, as it is the day that the boundary between this world and the Otherworld can more easily be crossed. It is actively celebrated by Wiccans and Pagans to this day.
What is Samhain (pronounced sow-wen)?
Originally created in 1980 to support "pro-fairness" candidates, this organization expanded and rebranded in 1995 with a yellow equal sign on a blue background that can be seen on laptops and water bottles everywhere.
What is the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)?
This creative-thinking party game by Milton Bradly was published in 1988 and features a 20 sided die that has letters instead of numbers
What is Scattergories?
This type of financial institution is often a more ethical place to store your money than a bank, as it is a not for profit organization run by a member-controlled board of directors, not by corporate shareholders.
What is a credit union?
The Praia do Cassino Beach is the worlds longest beach, stretching for 158 miles along the coast of this country in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is Brazil?
Loa are spirits of earth, air, water, and fire, and along with ancestors are part of this major religion from Haiti.
What is Voodoo?
Founded in 1973(!!!) by a mother and her queer son, this organization has been the face of family support and allyship in the fight for queer rights for over 50 years.
PFLAG
This type of noun is used to refer to a group of something.
What is a collective noun?
This social movement, centered around economic inequality, corporate greed, and the influence of money in politics, got its start in September of 2011. (Only blocks away from Coral's college in NYC!)
What is Occupy Wall Street?
While making glass, you will be constantly using this high powered furnace to reheat your creation and keep it pliable.
What is a glory hole?
Traditional Chinese medicine recognizes over 400 acupuncture points. Also used in crystal healing, Reiki, and other practices - these points are mostly located along one of this many primary meridians.
What is 12?
This Queer Liberation activist was co-founder of The Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) with Marsha P. Johnson.
Who is Sylvia Rivera?
Per the national hurricane center and central pacific hurricane center, the Saffir-Simpson wind scale includes this many categories with the final category being sustained winds above 157 mph (or 252 km/h).
What is 5?
These three credit bureaus sadly control many aspects of modern human existence.
What are Equifax, Experian, and TRANSUnion?
This type of sand, though plentiful, is useless as an element in concrete due to its smooth round shape.
What is desert sand?
This classic "gold standard of tarot" style deck is the one most often depicted in media such as films or TV shows.
What is a Rider-Waite deck?
Making their first appearance on Easter Sunday in San Francisco in 1979, this 501(c)(3) charity uses their humor and irreverent parodies of Catholic iconography to promote human rights and diversity.
What is The Sisterhood of Perpetual Indulgence?
In his essay "Categories" this ancient Greek philosopher chose to classify the natural world based on 10 categories such as substance, quality, action, time, and place.
Who is Aristotle?